Frankenstein: AS and A Level Edexcel Exam Preparation Pack
Shelley’s novel of human arrogance and science gone awry is a powerful, challenging read that offers students a real opportunity to understand the relevance of literature to their own lives and societies.
Apply understanding and refine exam technique with key revision activities, detailed exam advice, essay-building activities, exam-style questions and model answers. A thorough and supportive pack for the AS and A Level Edexcel Component 2 comparative exam questions on the complex and elaborate novel Frankenstein.
- Student-friendly revision notes and activities on key elements of Frankenstein , including:
- Recap notes, discussion points and questions to revise knowledge of themes, setting, context and more!
- ‘Exam Skills’ section containing:
- Sample essay plans and activities to provide a supportive framework for any exam-style question
- Tasks on writing introductions to ensure students make a great first impression
- Guidance on writing clearly and accurately for clarity
- 12 AS and 16 A Level exam-style questions and 3 AS and 4 A Level original sample essays with original sample essays, detailed AO commentary and reflective student activities – familiarise students with examiner thinking and demonstrate how to improve grades
- Student-friendly mark schemes – perfect for easy marking and self-assessment
- Plus! Indicative content for all exam-style questions
Ready to embed into your revision programme in class or as homework.
What do teachers say about this resource? (12765)
This is an excellent resource - very thorough and comprehensive. Content is superb - great to see such depth in a resource. Impressive range of tasks - lots of focus on exam readiness and development of skills and key elements to include, and also some extended modelled answers at different levels to clearly show how to develop answers. The guidance for an essay looks very useful and will help students pulling all their thoughts together - clear sense of what is important and how to sequence. Goes beyond teaching about Frankenstein - focuses on how to critically write and analyse the text. Use of peer or self-mark scheme is very useful, and empowers student to know exactly what is needed. Lots of really useful revision activities. Good to see development of essays and how to improve. Very focused on developing skills. Great range of tasks. Lots of challenge too. Layout is engaging - annotations and thinking points work well. An excellent resource. Very thorough and well-developed. Layout ensures both scaffold and challenge - which increases as you go beyond the revision activities into extended writing tasks. This links comprehensively into the Edexcel A Level specification. A superb and well-focused resource. Very detailed and thoughtfully developed. Focuses on the AOs and how to hit, and a breadth of questions which could be asked and how to tackle them. Gives students ownership of the mark scheme and how to develop ideas.
Some good elements – it’s always helpful to show students examples of responses and commentaries... It would be good for engaging in discussion about analysis of texts, and different levels of analysis of this text.