This is a condensed revision pack that covers all of the key material needed to succeed in the prose portion of the A-Level exam (tailored to Edexcel, but the information is widely applicable).
This pack will walk students step-by-step through what they need to do to revise for their Beloved and Dracula exam.
This pack includes:
Understanding the Novels
Plot Summaries: Of each novel
Points of Connection: Connections between Dracula and Beloved that explore their thematic similarities and differences
Exploration of Themes and Symbols: Repeated symbols that crossover in both Dracula and Beloved, exploring how to connect the texts through imagery. Full analysis of the themes provided.
Form, Context, Craft
Form and How To Apply It: The different forms of Dracula and Beloved and how these represent the themes of the novels
Context and Writer’s Intent: Dual coded context for each novel, connected to the writer’s intent in regards to the time. How do they react to this context?
Each Writer’s Craft: Sentence starters that show how to productively discuss Stoker and Morrison’s unique craft, as well as how to connect this to the supernatural and the Gothic
Exam Technique
How to Approach a Question: A simple mnemonic to breakdown the approach to exam questions, with examples given
Example Plans and Introductions: Fully planned essay responses to past exam questions, as well as introductory paragraphs to show how these look written out
NOW UPDATED FOR 2025 EXAMS!
This pack contains five key scenes that have not previously been set for the Edexcel English Literature exam. Alongside each scene, there are predicted questions given for Question A and Question B of the exam. Each scene includes:
An introduction to each scene to explain what is occurring
Predicted questions for Question A and Question B
Scaffolded guiding questions to help you understand the most important parts of the scene for Question A
A key information grid to help you plan an answer for Question B
Predicted mark schemes for both Question A and Question B to help you mark your answers
It is very important to note that these are meant to supplement your revision. Any scene from Macbeth could come up and it is important to revise widely.
Due to this, you also gain access to a Macbeth Revision Pack when purchasing these papers
How to Use the Papers
Read the introduction slide that explain what is occurring in the scene. Read the practice questions
Read the scene with the scaffolded questions attached. Answer all the questions to help you understand the scene before moving on to Question A. This will help guide your thinking
Write an answer for Question A. Afterwards, check the mark scheme to see how your answer fits with what the mark scheme might ask for
Read the vocabulary pack for Question B. This will help guide your thinking. Plan an answer to Question B
Write an answer for Question B. Afterwards, check the mark scheme to see how your answer fits with what the mark scheme might ask for
This pack contains key scenes that have not previously been set for the Edexcel English Literature exam. Alongside each scene, there are predicted questions given for Question A and Question B of the exam. Each scene includes:
An introduction to each scene to explain what is occurring
Predicted questions for Question A and Question B
Scaffolded guiding questions to help you understand the most important parts of the scene for Question A
A key information grid to help you plan an answer for Question B
Predicted mark schemes for both Question A and Question B to help you mark your answers
It is very important to note that these are meant to supplement your revision. Any scene from Jekyll and Hyde could come up and it is important to revise widely.
Due to this, you also gain access to a Jekyll and Hyde Revision Pack when purchasing these papers
How to Use the Papers
Read the introduction slide that explain what is occurring in the scene. Read the practice questions
Read the scene with the scaffolded questions attached. Answer all the questions to help you understand the scene before moving on to Question A. This will help guide your thinking
Write an answer for Question A. Afterwards, check the mark scheme to see how your answer fits with what the mark scheme might ask for
Read the vocabulary pack for Question B. This will help guide your thinking. Plan an answer to Question B
Write an answer for Question B. Afterwards, check the mark scheme to see how your answer fits with what the mark scheme might ask for
Welcome to The Empress Predicted and Practice Papers pack for 2025. This pack contains three key question sets that have not previously been set for the Edexcel English Literature exam. It is very important to note that these are meant to supplement your revision. Any character or theme from The Empress could come up and it is important to revise widely. Due to this, you also gain access to a The Empress Revision Pack when purchasing these papers.
Read the introduction slide that explain how to structure an answer
Read the practice questions and choose which you think is easiest
Use the grids and information tables provided to help you plan an answer. Make sure to read the vocabulary pack, this will help guide your thinking
Write a model answer to your chosen question. Afterwards, check the mark scheme to see how your answer fits with what the mark scheme might ask for
Are you revising for Refugee Boy at GCSE? Are you teaching the text?
This is a comprehensive, dual coded quote deck that will allow students to revise all the most important quotes for the play
The quote deck contains:
Quotes for Alem, Mr Kelo, Mustaphah, Sweeney, The Fitzgeralds and Ruth
Matching pictures with each quote to help students memorise them
Blank and filled in versions of each quote to help student revise
Character maps for Alem, Mr Kelo, Mustaphah, Sweeney, and Ruthto show how they progress over the play, using the key quotes
Are you revising for Macbeth at GCSE? Are you teaching the text?
This is a comprehensive, dual coded quote deck that will allow students to revise all the most important quotes for the play. There are two decks included here, a standard version for easy revision and an expanded version for top level revision.
Each quote deck contains:
Quotes for Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Banquo, Macduff, The Witches
Matching pictures with each quote to help students memorise them
Blank and filled in versions of each quote to help students revise
This is a condensed revision pack that covers all of the key material needed to succeed in Keats portion of the A-Level exam (tailored to Edexcel, but the information is widely applicable).
This pack will walk students step-by-step through what they need to do to revise for their Keats exam.
This pack includes:
Key Vocabulary
• A list of key vocabulary that can be used to dissect the poems, broken down by theme and covering the breadth of Keats’ work. Allows students to enhance their essay writing with higher level language.
Understanding the Poems
• Poem Groupings: Poems grouped by theme and date.
• Essential Arguments: A breakdown of Keats’ essential arguments put forward in regards to solitude, loneliness, and introspection; rest and recovery; death and the afterlife; the beauty of nature; time and transience; the power of art; and the place of mythology.
Argument and Style
• Literary Influences: A breakdown of all his major allusions and intertexts.
• What is Keats’ point? Sentence stems organised by argument, breaks down his key arguments and how they are posed.
• Craft: Sentence stems organised by theme that allow for in depth exploration of Keats’ craft, compares to their wider body of work and the Romantic movement.
• Key Context: All of the overarching key context that relates Keats’ poetry, dual coded and organised into a grid.
Exam Technique
• How to Approach an Exam-Style Question
• What if I Need Support? How to Break Down a Poem
This is a condensed revision pack that covers all of the key material needed to succeed in the Rossetti portion of the A-Level exam (tailored to Edexcel, but the information is widely applicable).
This pack will walk students step-by-step through what they need to do to revise for their Rossetti exam.
This pack includes:
Key Vocabulary
• A list of key vocabulary that can be used to dissect the poems, broken down by theme and covering the breadth of Rossetti’s work. Allows students to enhance their essay writing with higher level language.
Understanding the Poems
• Poem Groupings: Poems grouped by theme and date.
• Essential Arguments: A breakdown of Rossetti’s essential arguments put forward in regards to love and romance; friendship and sisterhood; memory and nostalgia; women; social justice; Victorian society; Christian morality; faith and redemption; corruption and evil.
Argument and Style
• Literary Influences: A breakdown of all her major allusions and intertexts.
• What is Rossetti’s point? Sentence stems organised by argument, breaks down her key arguments and how they are posed.
• Craft: Sentence stems organised by theme that allow for in depth exploration of Rossetti’s craft, compares to their wider body of work and the Victorian era.
• Key Context: All of the overarching key context that relates Rossetti’s poetry, dual coded and organised into a grid.
Exam Technique
• How to Approach an Exam-Style Question
• What if I Need Support? How to Break Down a Poem
This is a condensed revision pack that covers all of the key material needed to succeed in The Metaphysical Poets portion of the A-Level exam (tailored to Edexcel, but the information is widely applicable).
This pack will walk students step-by-step through what they need to do to revise for their The Metaphysical Poets exam.
This pack includes:
Key Vocabulary
• A list of key vocabulary that can be used to dissect the poems, broken down by theme and covering the breadth of The Metaphysical Poets’ work. Allows students to enhance their essay writing with higher level language.
Understanding the Poems
• Poem Groupings: Poems grouped by theme and date.
• Essential Arguments: A breakdown of The Metaphysical Poets’ essential arguments put forward in regards to love, romance, women, gender, the physical vs the spiritual, grief, death, religion, God, and the afterlife.
Argument and Style
• Literary Influences: A breakdown of all his major allusions and intertexts, including the Metaphysicals, Plato, Petrarch, and the Bible.
• What is The Metaphysical Poets’ point? Sentence stems organised by argument, breaks down their key arguments and how they are posed.
• Craft: Sentence stems organised by theme that allow for in depth exploration of The Metaphysical Poets’ craft, compares to their wider body of work and the metaphysical movement.
• Key Context: All of the overarching key context that relates to The Metaphysical Poets’ poetry, dual coded and organised into a grid.
Exam Technique
• How to Approach an Exam-Style Question
• What if I Need Support? How to Break Down a Poem
This is a condensed revision pack that covers all of the key material needed to succeed in the T. S. Eliot portion of the A-Level exam (tailored to Edexcel, but the information is widely applicable).
This pack will walk students step-by-step through what they need to do to revise for their Eliot exam.
This pack includes:
Key Vocabulary
• A list of key vocabulary that can be used to dissect the poems, broken down by theme and covering the breadth of Eliot’s work. Allows students to enhance their essay writing with higher level language.
Understanding the Poems
• Poem Groupings: Poems grouped by theme and date.
• Essential Arguments: A breakdown of Eliot’s essential arguments put forward in regards to futility and meaninglessness, war and conflict, duty, agency, and repetition, the body, the city and the urban, moral decline, spirituality and alienation, faith and redemption, journeys and quests
• Argument and Style
• Literary Influences: A breakdown of all his major allusions and intertexts.
• What is Eliot’s point? Sentence stems organised by argument, breaks down his key arguments and how they are posed.
• Craft: Sentence stems organised by theme that allow for in depth exploration of Eliot’s craft, compares to their wider body of work and the Modernist era.
• Key Context: All of the overarching key context that relates Eliot’s poetry, dual coded and organised into a grid.
Exam Technique
• How to Approach an Exam-Style Question
• What if I Need Support? How to Break Down a Poem