About this course
Don’t know where to start when it comes to GCSE revision?
‘Glow Up Your Grades’ is the antidote to boring revision guides. Hosted by teacher, GCSE examiner and presenter Mehreen Baig, this education-meets-entertainment series will give you all of the tools you need to smash your English GCSEs.
From creative writing to Shakespeare and a full analysis of thirty different poems, we’ll be dropping fresh episodes every week, with everything you need to know to get that Grade 9.
Exams are never easy, and we all know the last few years have been especially tough on education, but it’s never too late to give your grades the glow up they need, for the future you deserve.
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All the language devices you need to know for your English Language and Literature GCSEs!
Watch this to identify your similes from your metaphors and learn about devices like polysyndeton and chremamorphism that will help you get a grade 9.
How to analyse Unseen Poetry and write a grade 9 essay.
Don't panic! In this episode, we'll be looking at Alfred Lord Tennyson's 'The Eagle' and I'll tell you exactly how to select juicy quotations, analyse language AND structure.
How to answer AQA Language Paper 1 Question 1 and Question 2, looking at selecting information and language analysis.
In this episode, you'll learn top tips for pacing and time management, and I'll give you a template to answer both questions to a grade 9 standard.
How to answer AQA Language Paper 1 Question 3 - the structure question!
Failed this question in your mocks? Not any more. In this episode, learn how to identify structural techniques and analyse their effect to a grade 9 standard.
How to answer AQA Language Paper 1 Question 4.
In this episode, you'll learn all the techniques to tackle the big 20 mark question to a grade 9 standard.
How to answer AQA Language Paper 1 Question 5.
It's time for creative writing! In this episode, I'll give you all the ingredients the
examiner is looking for in your creative writing, and we'll go through sophisticated punctuation and paragraphing to a grade 9 standard.
How to answer AQA Language Paper 1 Question 5. In this episode, you'll learn some posh vocabulary, and how to use language devices and sentence structure to get a grade 9.
In this episode, we will learn the SHOCKING truth about war as we deep dive into 'Exposure' by Wilfred Owen.
We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
Warning: Owen's life was really, really sad... I don't know if you're ready.
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'Ozymandias' by Percy Shelley
from the AQA Power and Conflict poetry cluster.
We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you can tell the examiner to LOOK ON YOUR WORKS YE MIGHTY AND GIVE YOU A GRADE 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into one of my FAVOURITE POEMS OF ALL TIME, 'Checking Out Me History' by John Agard.
We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
Feminists, are you ready?
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning from the AQA Power and Conflict poetry cluster.
We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'London' by William Blake from the AQA Power and Conflict poetry cluster.
We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
(Extra points for anyone who can spot similarities between Blake's message and London today...)
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred Lord Tennyson from the AQA Power and Conflict poetry cluster.
We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
What could possibly go wrong when a child steals a boat one evening and rows into the middle of a lake? Well, you're about to find out!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'The Prelude' by William Wordsworth
from the AQA Power and Conflict poetry cluster.
We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'War Photographer' by Carol Ann Duffy.
We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'The Emigree' by Carol Rumens from the AQA Power and Conflict poetry cluster.
A poem with a political message that still resonates today.
We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'Remains' by Simon Armitage, a dramatic monologue based on the experiences of a soldier in Iraq.
We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'Poppies' by Jane Weir from the AQA Power and Conflict poetry cluster. We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'Storm On The Island' by Seamus Heaney, a poem that can be read as an allegory of the Irish Troubles. We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'Bayonet Charge' by Ted Hughes, the famous war poet and former Poet Laureate. We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'Mother Any Distance' by Simon Armitage, a poem that can be read as an allegory of the bond between parents and children. We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'When We Two Parted' by Lord Byron, a leading poet of the Romantic Movement whose notorious womanising has definitely not aged well! We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'Sonnet 29' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the wife of Robert Browning and an accomplished poet in her own right. We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language, structure, and context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'Love's Philosophy' by Percy Bysshe Shelley - that's right, the same poet who wrote 'Ozymandius'! We'll analyse key quotatations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
Get your tissues ready because this one's a real tear jerker. In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'Neutral Tones' by Thomas Hardy from the AQA Love and Relationships poetry cluster. We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
You might want to make sure you have a box of tissues at the ready because this poem is so sad! (tears emoji) In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'The Farmer's Bride' by Charlotte Mew from the AQA Love and Relationships poetry cluster. We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'Kamikaze' by Beatrice Garland, a narrative poem in which a daughter reflects on her relationship with her father, who was a kamikaze pilot in WW2. We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'Follower' by Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet. We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'Tissue' by Imtiaz Dharker from the AQA Power and Conflict poetry cluster. We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'Climbing My Grandfather' by Andrew Waterhouse, a poem that could be read an extended metaphor for self-discovery. We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure, AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'Singh Song!' by Daljit Nagra, a dramatic monologue told from the perspective of a young British-Indian man.
We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'Winter Swans' by Owen Sheers from the AQA Love and Relationships poetry cluster.
We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
How to answer AQA Language Paper 2 Question 1 and Question 2, looking at the reading section.
In this episode, you'll learn top tips for summarising the extracts, pacing and time management, and I'll give you a template to answer both questions to a grade 9 standard.
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'Before You Were Mine" by Carol Ann Duffy - that's right, the same poet who wrote 'War Photographer'!
We'll analyse key quotatations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'Letters from Yorkshire' by Maura Dooley, an apparently autobiographical poem describing the relationship between a journalist and an agricultural worker who stay in touch by writing letters.
We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
Now this one's a bit dark, no spoilers but #gross (vomit emoji)! In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'Porphyria's Lover' by Robert Browning from the AQA Love and Relationships poetry cluster. We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure, AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
In this episode, we'll deep dive into 'Eden Rock' by Charles Causley from the AQA Love and Relationships poetry cluster. We'll analyse key quotations, looking at language and structure AND context, so you have ALL the information you need to get a Grade 9!
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