As GCSE exam season approaches, Kitty Harris offers her simple advice on how to tackle last minute English revision and the importance of regular breaks By Kitty Harris 19 April 2015 • 7:00am ...

This page provides tailored tips based on GCSE English language past papers to help ... Revise common language and structural techniques so that you can easily spot them and understand their effect.

Suitable for teaching English language at KS3 and GCSE. BBC Homepage. ... Writers use a variety of literary techniques to add depth and colour to their ... think about the effects these words ...

Tens of thousands more 16-year-olds than last year will need to resit their English and maths GCSE exams. More than 167,000 students in England received grade 3 or lower on their maths paper ...

For this reason, a GCSE grade 4 is the minimum students need to get in English and maths. Otherwise, they need to continue studying these subjects as part of their post-16 education. READ MORE: ...

GCSE English pupils will be allowed to type up their exam answers on a computer under new plans - but experts warn it must not spell the end for children's handwriting ...

Head teacher Dr Andrew Richardson was on hand to congratulate students collecting their GCSE results at Sheringham High School, where top performers included head boy Peter Awad and head girl ...

Ahead of GCSE results day this week, Prof Smithers said: “It must be soul-destroying to continually have to re-take English and/or maths. Surely, there is an urgent need for a policy rethink.” ...