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IGCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE B

I wish there was one exact book or website or anything telling me how to prep for English. But I
guess that’s the challenge and freedom English brings you, ’cause you just never know how
you’ve done till you have your grades before you! Throughout my IGCSE course, I’ve wondered
time and again, ‘Will the examiners like what I’ve written? Is my style of writing acceptable? Is it A*
worthy?’

Honestly, there’s no correct answer to this. But what I’ve seen helped me throughout was reading
lots of storybooks. If you’re not a reader, but IGCSE English Language B is compulsory for you,
don’t worry. Just give the English A&B book a read if you have time, note down several important
points from (at least that’s what I did, and I’ll add pictures of them soon), read BBC bitesize to get
an idea of the formats for Section B. Also remember that although you’re supposed to pick as
many points as you find appropriate to the topic from the texts given, you’re also free to add a
pinch of your own creativity which will definitely give you an edge over others who don’t. Practice
past papers for section A and Essay? Honestly, I don’t have many tips. Just write what comes to
you, because, from experience, exam conditions might not be the best place for many creative
geniuses.

Overall, my prep for English included going through the English specification, practicing exactly 4
past papers and then matching my answers with those on the markscheme, followed by the
Examiner’s Reports. Honestly, Examiner’s Reports help most, along with Exemplar materials
available on the Edexcel website.

I also found it helpful to read my own essays and writings (whichever I liked most), because when I
was out of practice, these helped me recall exactly how I write and should write, basically showed
me where I stood. It might be school assignments or something I’d written for pleasure, but either
ways, it was helpful. I also found it helpful to read a book of short stories if I lacked inspiration.

One thing which was disappointing was that I noticed how IGCSE essay topics sometimes
coincide with GCE ones. I mean, if we have practiced those essays before then where does that
creativity come from? Anyhow, some important points to keep in mind is to:

Paragraph
Use a variety of punctuation marks (and appropriately, if I may add)
Use good vocabulary (but ensure that you’re not unnecessarily verbose/wordy)
Don’t forget to cross the box next to the essay you’ll be writing on
Try to make your content bulky by having a variety of points, without repeating any

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JUNE 22, 2015 BY NAMIRA1610

TAGS: DIRECTED WRITING, ENG, ENGLISH, ENGLISH IGCSE, ENGLISH LANGUAGE B, ENGLISH SECTION B, ESSAY, IGCSE ENGLISH,
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GENERAL GUIDELINES ON IGCSES

Firstly, check how much time you have till your IGCSEs. Have you? Great.

If you have around 2 years left, go to the pearson edexcel igcse website.

Now go to the subject you chose to take, and download the specification. Move on to the Course
Materials section, go to the Teaching and learning materials, and download the Scheme of Work
and Teacher Guide. Remember, just because it says Teacher guide, doesn’t mean it can’t help you
as a student! The Scheme of Work and Teacher Guide has a general outline of the topics you
should study/cover in a week, and the extra details you might need to cover. Besides the obvious,
the Specification lists a number of reference books, websites etc which might come in handy!

Now that you have all the Edexcel materials covered, you can move on to other sources of
learning. Remember that although the Edexcel book may seem plain, uninteresting or
uninformative, you won’t realise its true importance till your final year. What I am trying to say is,
Edexcel books are cleverly crafted and require you to read between the lines.Reference books will
surely aid you along the way to fill in those blanks. But right before your IGCSEs, make sure you
read the Edexcel books cover to cover, every single line and even those pictures which you think
are not important. Trust me, they are!

After you’re thoroughly done with a chapter (or at least you feel you are), try buying those
chapterwise question papers for as many subjects you can find and doing atleast 5 questions from
each. If you finish the whole chapter-related question paper, you’ll finally get the trend of the
questions set. This is especially helpful for Chemistry, Physics, Maths and Pmaths.
For Maths and Pmaths, here in Bangladesh we have Unique Coaching question papers which are
absolute life saviors. For Phys and Chem we have Momentum question papers. I haven’t found
any for Biology or Econ.

Some good websites for most subjects in general (as in, question papers, markschemes, notes,
revision guides etc) are:

Shawon Notes
Past Papers.net
NZKhan
BBC Bitesize
Bilal Ahmed Blog (has all the latest igcse papers)

Also, if you’re into using iOS/Android applications for learning, try Guru App for various IGCSE
subjects, which has MCQs that you might want to practice when you don’t feel like studying.

JUNE 22, 2015 BY NAMIRA1610

TAGS: BENG, BENGALI, BIO, BIOLOGY, CHEM, CHEMISTRY, ECO, ECON, ECONOMICS, EDEXCEL, EDEXCEL IGCSE, ENG, ENGLISH,
ENGLISH LANGUAGE B, FURTHER PURE MATHEMATICS, HELPFUL, IGCSE, IGCSE EDEXCEL, LINKS, MATH B, MATHEMATICS B,
MATHS B, OLEVEL, PDF, PDFS, PHYS, PHYSICS, PURE MATH, PURE MATHS, RESOURCES, REVISION, WEBSITE, WEBSITES

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Hello Edexcel IGCSE Examinees!

To tell you a bit about myself, I am Namira, a May 2015 candidate. I have always been this
confused individual, who felt school notes and textbooks were never enough. I scouted through
the Web, I went to seniors and asked whether we need tutors at home. At the end of the day, I
never really knew whom to trust, or what to believe. I never came across one thing that
would answer me, is doing this going to be enough to get me those A*s?

Regardless of all that, I did eventually get past my IGCSEs, and hopefully, so will all of you, and
with very good results, if I may add! To help you along the way, I decided to make a compilation of
the materials which really did help me, or I found helpful, even if it were too late to study them.

In each blog post, I’ll add links and files relating to one IGCSE subject. I had eight IGCSE subjects,
listed below:

English Language B
Bengali
Mathematics B
Further Pure Mathematics
Physics
Biology
Chemistry
Economics

JUNE 22, 2015 BY NAMIRA1610

TAGS: BENG, BENGALI, BIO, BIOLOGY, CHEM, CHEMISTRY, ECO, ECON, ECONOMICS, EDEXCEL, ENG, ENGLISH, ENGLISH
LANGUAGE B, FURTHER PURE MATHEMATICS, HELPFUL, IGCSE, LINKS, MATH B, MATHEMATICS B, MATHS B, OLEVEL, PDF, PDFS,
PHYS, PHYSICS, PURE MATH, PURE MATHS, RESOURCES

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