Essay writing tips for a level english literature students

Imagine your examiner sitting at home in the middle of the summer months, marking your examination paper. Does this give you nightmares?

It certainly gives some of the examiners nightmares as they wade through script after script. The weather outside is warm and sunny and they are inside marking. Many examiners have up to 500 scripts to mark and yours will mean absolutely nothing to them except the fact that they are one script closer to the completion of all their marking.

You need to make a positive impression upon that examiner and your responses need to stand out from other answers.

There are many things that you can do to achieve this and help yourselves get higher marks.

Choosing the right question – this will be the one where you have most material and most to say.

The tips below should help gain higher marks and allow your work to stand out.