Form 5 English reuses earlier skills in longer tasks. This page gives a revision order and shows how one weakness can spread across three tasks.
Schools decide when each topic is taught, so use your teacher’s scheme of work for timing. For the earlier skills, see the Form 4 route.
What is a sensible revision order?
- Extended reading: evidence, inference, references and attitude.
- Extended writing: article, review, report and story.
- Cloze and language use: tenses, connectors and collocations.
- Gapped text and information transfer.
- Literature and interpretation, for the text your school prescribes.
Your school decides the prescribed text, so confirm it with your teacher.
Example: one weakness, three tasks
This is an original example. A student often writes unclear pronouns, such as “She told her that she was late”.
In extended reading, the student misreads who is meant in a reference question. In extended writing, the reader cannot tell who is late. In gapped text, the student places a sentence in the wrong gap because the pronoun link was missed.
Fixing references once helps all three tasks, so repair this first, before more practice on each task.
Who should start where?
Take a recent piece of marked work and list where you lost marks. Begin with the topic that matches most of them. Use the English revision page for a plan, and the mistake log and paper-error review to see patterns.
If you are unsure of the paper format, read the English assessment guide and check the official sources. For a teacher to work on your weak skills, see online one-to-one English tuition.