Toolkits
Deep dives on the ideas that show up everywhere. Each one starts with why the idea exists at all — the problem it was invented to solve, what it actually does, and where it turns up outside a classroom — and then goes through it properly: the full explanation, the table you actually need, worked examples, and the mistakes that cost marks.
Both assignments
Quotations and evidence
Choosing evidence, embedding a quotation in your own sentence, the analysis sentence that follows it, and the punctuation conventions markers check.
Open the toolkit
Written response
The correctness checklist
The sentence errors markers see most, the punctuation that carries meaning, what Matters of Choice rewards, and a five-minute proofread that finds the cheap marks.
Open the toolkit
Reading and writing
Words for analysis
Tone words grouped by family and intensity, verbs for what a text does, the terms for naming a structure — and how to use them without overreaching.
Open the toolkit
How to use these
- Wondering why any of this is a thing? Read the opening section. It is the part a textbook usually skips.
- Stuck on a question type? Open the toolkit for that idea and find the worked example closest to it.
- Revising? Read the tables and try the checks, then go to practice questions to see whether it stuck.
- Writing the diploma? The toolkits cover what the formula sheet and data pages do not give you — see diploma prep.