Very to happy to hear you’re finding these articles helpful :)
Next Tuesday, I will publish a GCSE style essay on Romeo and Juliet which focusses on the presentation of Romeo and his contrasting relationships with Rosaline and Juliet.
I plan to cover all of the literature questions for AQA as well, but let me know if there are any specific papers or questions you would like me to cover and I’ll add them to my list.
These are absolutely wonderful! I really appreciate your dedication and hard work! Would you be able to add stuff for the November 2023 Papers too please as I can't find them online?
thank you, these are very helpful. looking forward to more content from you. i particularly like your advice about time chunking too, hoping to start doing that from next week! I like the point methods for questions 2 and 3 but i'm just not used to writing in that format. if you were to make it a paragraphed response how many evaluative points should i make?
Thank you, I really appreciate you taking the time to leave this lovely comment. I would recommend you try both methods and see which one produces better results. Either way I would recommend trying to make the same number of comments, but it's really best to specify the exact questions you have in mind. Remember there are two papers each with 5 questions, and each question has its own specific criteria and requires a slightly different approach.
On the whole points method, it will feel uncomfortable at first but will start to feel more natural after several attempts. Also I was thinking you don't actually have to bullet point the list because I know that does feel a bit too informal, so I would recommend instead simply having line breaks. Effectively you then just have lots of short paragraphs.
Hi Laura, my model answers are not AI generated. I'll take it as a compliment but it's a little sad to see a string of critical comments from you accusing me of using AI generated answers.
I've put a lot of time and effort into sitting down and completing the papers myself and then sharing how I approached writing each piece. I'm sure that will come across to most who read through my articles. Where I don't think my answers are reflective of what is achievable in an exam, I've made that clear.
In regard to the number of points I recommend making, this is advice I have taken from Mr Salles and while the number of recommended comments might not be achievable for many students it's still a good idea to aim high. I would advise students to time-chunk, noting how long they will spend on each question and just move on when time is up.
For total transparency because I believe it's important, I have used AI to refine some model answers but not to draft any pieces. For example, for the Latymer paper, I wrote the short story but realised it wasn't very appealing to my target audience, so asked Chat GPT to revise the story so it was in the tone of a children's novel. But then I still edited it further. Like the ending, I thought that was quite touching and it was my idea. I thought about how to give my story a circular structure and came up with the sweeping motif.
But except for little revisions here and there, proofreading, it really is all my own writing and I think my voice and style shines through.
Hi, These are so helpful, Do you have any model answers for the any other year or the literature papers?
Hi Nina,
Very to happy to hear you’re finding these articles helpful :)
Next Tuesday, I will publish a GCSE style essay on Romeo and Juliet which focusses on the presentation of Romeo and his contrasting relationships with Rosaline and Juliet.
I plan to cover all of the literature questions for AQA as well, but let me know if there are any specific papers or questions you would like me to cover and I’ll add them to my list.
Best,
Morgan
These are absolutely wonderful! I really appreciate your dedication and hard work! Would you be able to add stuff for the November 2023 Papers too please as I can't find them online?
thank you, these are very helpful. looking forward to more content from you. i particularly like your advice about time chunking too, hoping to start doing that from next week! I like the point methods for questions 2 and 3 but i'm just not used to writing in that format. if you were to make it a paragraphed response how many evaluative points should i make?
Thank you, I really appreciate you taking the time to leave this lovely comment. I would recommend you try both methods and see which one produces better results. Either way I would recommend trying to make the same number of comments, but it's really best to specify the exact questions you have in mind. Remember there are two papers each with 5 questions, and each question has its own specific criteria and requires a slightly different approach.
On the whole points method, it will feel uncomfortable at first but will start to feel more natural after several attempts. Also I was thinking you don't actually have to bullet point the list because I know that does feel a bit too informal, so I would recommend instead simply having line breaks. Effectively you then just have lots of short paragraphs.
Hi Laura, my model answers are not AI generated. I'll take it as a compliment but it's a little sad to see a string of critical comments from you accusing me of using AI generated answers.
I've put a lot of time and effort into sitting down and completing the papers myself and then sharing how I approached writing each piece. I'm sure that will come across to most who read through my articles. Where I don't think my answers are reflective of what is achievable in an exam, I've made that clear.
In regard to the number of points I recommend making, this is advice I have taken from Mr Salles and while the number of recommended comments might not be achievable for many students it's still a good idea to aim high. I would advise students to time-chunk, noting how long they will spend on each question and just move on when time is up.
For total transparency because I believe it's important, I have used AI to refine some model answers but not to draft any pieces. For example, for the Latymer paper, I wrote the short story but realised it wasn't very appealing to my target audience, so asked Chat GPT to revise the story so it was in the tone of a children's novel. But then I still edited it further. Like the ending, I thought that was quite touching and it was my idea. I thought about how to give my story a circular structure and came up with the sweeping motif.
But except for little revisions here and there, proofreading, it really is all my own writing and I think my voice and style shines through.