I've just realised this will be the last time I ever watch one of your videos. On one side, I'm happy that I've got English out of the way, but on the other, I won't ever watch a great teacher like yourself. It's a bittersweet experience. Thanks Mr Salles for all the advice!
Mr Salles, I doubt you will read this comment but I just want you to know you have helped me and many other students. Me and my friend always talk about how funny it is you teach with a spatula, and we have decided to buy our English teacher a spatula too! I will also buy some of your books to give my cousins an unfair advantage over others. Thanks, so much!
Mr Salles is cooking, but we're all cooked. Good luck for tomorrow everybody!! Thank you so much Mr Salles, you're the only reason im surviving english right now.
Sir, I’d like to give you heartfelt thanks for helping me on this great GCSE English journey of mine. Through every video, every publication, every guide, I have felt inspired to conquer a subject when 2 years ago I felt nervous just having to read something in class. To my fellow students reading this, I think I speak on behalf of you all when I say Mr Salles deserves praise. Here’s to all the English exams so far, and to triumphing our final one!
Sad to say this is the last time watching one of your videos before an exam. Bittersweet. Trust though that I'm gonna keep subscribing and watching and liking no matter what. MR SALLES FOREVAAAA!!!
@@angelar9759 it was so good I loved it tbh and you lost 8 marks omg 😭😭 I was rushing but I managed to finish just in time I did Q5 first then 3 then 4,2,1 I quickly ticked the correct answers for number one then the invigilator said time is up 😩😩
Because this may be the last time watching your videos, I want to say THANK YOU your videos are amazing and have helped me so much in Language (hopefully for tmrw) and Literature over the past year and many other students over the years! Thank you, once again :)
Thank you so much mr sallesss on behalf of all year 11 2024, you and your spatula have got us through exam season and we all gettin those high grades hopefully because of you. I wish you the best in lifeee and 200K SUBSCRIBERS BY THE END OF THE YEAR!
I got a five in my February 2024 AQA English Language Paper 2 Mock (2023 Paper - 43/80 - Passed Q1 - 4/4 -Flopped Q2 - 3/8 - Passed Q3 - 8/12 - Flopped Q4 - 2/16 - Passed Q5 - 26/40)
You and Mr Everything English pulled my English Literature grade up from a U to a four+ (two marks off a five) in about a month. I am REALLY grateful because I went into the exams and smashed it💗 Thank-you!
Mr Salles I've been watching your videos throughout the whole of year 11, I have to admit that you are the best English teacher I've come across. Thank you so much for all of your videos and for making English so easy. I've suffered with depression and anxiety since my school teacher would make seem English as a immensely difficult subject which require immensely great skills to master at GCSE levels this impacted me greately and I could not even get a pass after hours and hours of revision and writing a lot. The first time I got a 7 was after i gave up un the subject and watched only half of one of your 50min videos about macbeth, I was overjoyed thank you so much for eveything. wish you many more years of cooking GCSE english lit and lang exams
So sad I won’t be watching any of your videos anymore :( I was going to take A-Level lit and lang but I’ve been accepted into a specialised college instead. Thank you for all your help over the past 2 years!!
thank you for still helping us even though you are ill, we really appreciate it! i cant believe this is the last time im watching your videos, i hope those year 10s appreciate this amazing teacher as much as we have
Hey Mr Salles, I just wanted to say I watched this video and the acronym my fathers croch and by using that and a few other videos I think I totally cooked that exam. I did q5 then 1234 and it went really well and I wrote so much on my q4! Thanks so much for the tips!
I have just realised that this is the last video i will ever be watching of Mr Salles, i am really grateful sir, as in y11 November mocks I got a 4 and after constantly watching your videos I achieved an 8 in my march mocks and I'm aiming for a 9 in the real gcse exam tomorrow, all thanks to you sir, I appreciate all the efforts you make.
mr salles this will be the last time i watch one of your videos, and while you won’t see this i want you to know you’ve made my gcse years all the more enjoyable. seeing you talk about duality in jekyll and hyde with a contagious enthusiasm is the reason i ever got through that book hahaha. you’re a kind man, and clearly love what you do and do it well. see you soon
MASSIVE shout out to Mr Salles and his great guides! Without him, I'd fail. (Grade 3 in November mocks and nearly a grade 7 in a past paper last month after i started watching his videos and reading his guides this Feb) I feel a sense of melancholy as I probably watch Mr Salles' videos for the last time. 😢 Truly Bittersweet.
Same. I got a 3 in my mocks, 1 for lit but back then I had no clue what I was doing. I left the other 3 exams with a (mostly) smiling face. I'm quite happy.
You Sir, are saving my English Language GCSE so hard lol (and saved my Literature too) Thank you so much for these videos, idk what I'd do without them tbh Good luck everyone taking the exam tomorrow!!!!
Mr Salles, this is probably the last of your videos I'll watch. But I just wanted to say a massive thank you for helping myself and many other students; English has been one of my weakest subjects but you've managed to teach this extremely well and made it interesting in the process. Thank you for making such a positive change in our lives and I wish you the best in helping others too. I'll also keep the spatula in my lifelong memory.
Mr salles, tomorrow is my last GCSE English paper, I thank you with all my heart the support and confidence you have given me for my GCSE's this year, I cannot begin to say just how brilliant you are :)
Mr Salles - I cannot thank you enough for all the knowledge you have given me over the past 5 years, to help me ace my GCSE English Exams - words cannot describe my gratitude for you Sir. I hope to get that high 8 or 9 and make you proud. You deserve all the love and happiness in the world for everything... literally everything you have ever done!! You are the best! And I mean it! It is sad to think this will indeed be the last video of yours I watch, but it was fun whilst it lasted. Thanks Mr Salles.
Can’t thank enough for helping my grades so much. I had no issue when I was doing English lit papers and English language paper 1, it went so smooth I was actually surprised. Thank you.
it genuinely will be a shame not watching your videos anymore - thank you very much. Would be crazy to hear how people in one or two years will be watching this same video in the exact same situation as us! Good luck!!!!
Hi Sir, just finished my last GCSE English paper! Thank you very much for your detailed videos and help over the course- genuinely don’t think I could have survived English without them. You’re a reason I’m taking English Literature for A-levels (wish you did A levels too 😞) and I’m planning on tutoring lower years in English as well, using your videos as a guide. Once again, thank you ☺️
sir, I just wanted to thank you so much for all the help you provided me with in english, if i get a good grade, a vast amount of it will be due to you, so sad that this is my last time watching your videos, THANK YOU SOOO MUCH! and God bless you!
Just got my GCSE results last week, and i would like to thank you for your help during GCSE season, and helping me develop my grades. I got an 8 in Literature and a 9 in Language.
maybe the last video i’ll watch from you!! thank you so much for everything Mr Salles, you are absolutely wonderful and I’m so grateful for all of the help you have given to us in our exam journeys - you’ve helped countless struggling students. you deserve all the subscribers in the world, plus a knighthood!
thank you so so much sir, thanks to your videos i went from a 4 to a 9 in lit and a 5 to a 9 in lang, i really couldn’t have got it without your videos and i will be recommending your channel to every single person doing their gcses
To Mr Salles, me and my friends would like to thank you for the non - stop content that your provide everyday so that we may strive for excellence. You and Mr Everything English are the key players in which we have been able to do well in. You have taught me so much more than I have ever learnt in the past year or two. Anyways thanks for the hardwork! Thanks, The Gaming Crew
Sir, the exam was amazing. I'm so grateful i found your channel when I did and you've been so helpful to me and my friends! I'm doing English for my A-levels because your videos rekindled my love for the subject. You're the best!!!!
I know everyone says this but I just wanted to say a massive thank you to you for your amazing vidoes throughout my english GCSES. I am going on to do A level english literature and cannot wait to use your videos again. Your a real hero and we all appreciate u! (And ur spatula)
Hey Mr Salles, Just got my results yesterday. I got a 9 in both literature and language getting 157/160 for AQA Literature. I want to thank you immensely for all the help you've given me throughout this GCSE period. The way you teach, continuously gave me inspiration and motivation to revise, rearing a passion for a subject I never knew existed. Id be honoured to give you my papers once I get them back as a thank you.
I would be honoured to receive them, thank you! Awesome results. Would you be able to share 3-5 top tips about how you did it? I'll share these with next year's year 11.
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish 😂Yes of course. This feels surreal as it was only 4 months ago I was on the receiving end of all this advice. 1 - Memorise analysis of quotes. Work on this analysis in isolation and ensure it is top quality and befitting of "level 6" standard incorporating sophisticated literary technique. Ensure also that this is versatile analysis so that it can fit in any essay matching any question possible. During your examination, alter words/phrases slightly to match the question. This worked seamlessly in my literature essays. This was so effective that one of my entire essays was just my memorised analysis with only the thesis and the conclusion slightly altered to directly answer the question (THIS IS SO KEY - MAKE SURE TO ANSWER THE QUESTION). I can only assume based on the fact I got 157/160 that this essay scored a 30/30 or at the very least 27/30. 2 - For poetry, choose 3 or 4 poems and memorise a half essays worth of analysis for each of them. The poems you choose must fit all themes so you are prepared for any poem that comes up. Here however, analysis doesn't have to be versatile and can be generic -- (AS LONG AS YOU LINK IT EFFECTIVLEY AND SENSICALLY TO THE OTHER POEM). Despite this, if you want top marks, you want analysis to be detailed and include both advanced vocabulary and language techniques (Although I know you claim using sophisticated vocabulary doesn't add to your mark.) 3 - If you have loose change, or parents are willing to pay, get TILF (AI marking software). It is a monthly subscription so if like me, you struggled to pay for more than a month, get it a month before GCSE's around Mid April). It helped target my weaknesses and praised the strengths of my essays. Please don't let a bad mark demotivate you - as it did me - but learn from your errors. 4 - Top Marks requires dedication and Hard Work. From Christmas to the start of GCSE's, I must've written around 50 practise essays on all sorts of questions and on all 3 of my books/plays (ACC, AIC and The Merchant of Venice )and occasionally a poem question. Doing 1 a night -or even 1 every 2 nights- is key for developing essay writing skills which benefits all subjects. If you can and are not too tired, do these before sleep as it is scientifically proven to improve consolidation both the analysis you've inserted into an essay (which you must be attempting to memorise) but also general essay technique. 5 - Get good sleep, Eat well and exercise regularly. I cannot stress these 3 enough. I don't mean to brag, but throughout years 10 and 11, I always had the best memory out of my friends. I attribute this completely to my ample sleep and consistent sleep schedule as opposed to their ubiquitous terrible and inconsistent sleep patterns. I must also stress having fun is important. It is always necessary to break this once in a while to have fun with friends. I also had a mind hack during time before and during GCSE's: when I was feeling demotivated or I felt like revision was too laborious, I'd just go on a run. Preferably it should be over 8 minutes but just exercise. It works like magic. After my run, I'd shower, have a glass of water and there it was! My motivated always reappeared. I hope this helps any upcoming students to achieve the grades they want. I also want to thank you again. I would not have been able to even dream of getting the grades I got without you, Mr Salles. Ill send my Essays when I get them. I would love for you to publish the Merchant of Venice essay as it is the piece of literature I struggled on most and there was no good student essays I could get inspiration from on this play. Thank you.
This was an incredible level of hard work for you! 5 is also fascinating. Yes, I would love your Merchant of Venice essay and any other you want to send over, via my Substack, or the 'About' section of my channel.
Im going to miss you my King, you will forever hold a place in my heart for providing a more blunt (and exciting) approach to English that made me enjoy even a tiny bit my King.
Just completed the last exam. I'm glad that it's over, thanks for all the help revising :) I'll probably still watch your videos in the future just for the sake of it. Such a fun teacher.
hi sir, sad to say that this’ll be the last time i’m on your channel. i always had big issues with timing and planning answers out but with your help i somehow completely finished 3 of 4 of my english papers in time. i also managed to use a lot of your higher level ideas in lit especially and i think ive done really well in both overall. thanks for helping me through my gcses!!
Thanks for all you do, now in y13 hoping to do Literature and Philosphy at Uni after A level i wouldnt have gotten my 9 in eng lang and 7 in Lit without you! hope others benefit from you as much as i did! 😊
Thank you mr salles for all your work!! Such a bittersweet feeling of this being the last time I watch your videos. Your lessons have helped us and will continue to help students. 💛
Thanks for the video, and all of your help this year. Adding on to (and almost repeating) what others have commented, I must say that parting is such sweet sorrow. Whether I shall see your content again, I know not. With that said, I hope that this parting was well made. Farewell Mr Salles. and thanks again! 👨🍳
Mr Salles, I really hope you will read this comment because I just wanted you to know how brilliant of a teacher you have been. I got a 5 in literature and a 6 in language in our y10 mocks and I'm now looking at getting an 8 in lit and a 9 in language in my actual GCSEs. This was all down to your incredible videos so thank you so much. :)
I achieved 6 grade 9s and 2 of them being English Language and English Literature! I wanted to thank you a lot!! You are a legend! Good luck to everyone! Keep motivated you can do it!!
just wanted to give my words of thanks for everything, Sir. you’re videos have been amazing, and it’s quite sad that I’ll never be using them ever again. but i wish you all the best, and thank you!
I just want to thank you Mr Salles for all of your videos. I honestly wouldn't have been able to do as well as I have done without them. It's a shame that I will never need one of your videos ever again but what a relief that it is now over. Thank you again for everything, keep up the great work, you have helped so many students and we are all very grateful. ☺
These videos helped me sm! Although I did just sit paper2 and made the mistake of not leaving enough time for q5 and only wrote a page, without any ambitions punctuation or techniques i was plan on using, don’t make that mistake! But a massive thanks to mr sables as i have felt much more confident in my answers due to his teaching and want to thank him as much as my teachers in school:) !! Thank you !!!!!
Thank you sm Mr Salles!! I don't know what I would've done if it wasn't for your amazing videos saving my grades tremendously, your dedication and enthusiasm has made me enjoy studying English :) I hope many more get to improve from your videos and guides!
I can't believe all of us came this far, from the autumn mock in year 10 to my real exams. Although my teachers at school undoubtedly supported me, it was here watching TH-cam videos that barely pushed me over the boundaries of grade 9 English. Thank you for all these resources especially since I can't afford tuition🙏.
The return of the spatula 😂 Thank you for uploading. Your videos have been invaluable to so many people. Please keep up loading. I hope you are feeling better. If you can answer one question, another youtuber said that you don't need to argue another point in question 5 is this correct? I have always been told to argue both sides. Please advise if you can. Thank you so much Mr Salles.
Thank you so much, the amount of students you've helped jump grades and prove their teachers wrong, it's so sad that i'll never click on another one of your videos (hopefully i don't fail😂) i wish you all the best Mr Salles and again thank you for never failing to COOK WITH YOUR SPATULA.
Hey sir, thank you so much for your vids! This year, I managed to get a grade 9 with your videos and your tips and lots of effort!! Please continue what you’re doing!
Hi sir, I'm sure you get this a lot, but I just wanted to tell you how thankful I am for all the help you've been putting out on TH-cam for free (and for so long!) I feel as though I've got a good chance of getting a nine on both GCSEs after watching lots of your videos, so thank you very much for helping all of us at every step! I'll be sending next year's yr 11s your way Mr. Salles. Hope you get better soon!
Thank you so much for everything, honestly you've saved my GCSEs and have been the most wonderful teacher. Also, hope you are feeling well (I'm subscribed to your substack and saw you were unwell!)
Hi Sir! I just wanted to say a massive thankyou to you. I got an 8 an English language after being predicted a 6 and getting 6s and 5s throughout. Your videos helped me improve massively specifically my favourite tip of your for paper 1 especially which is to keep writing as much as I can and believe me I did! I also got a 7 in literature sort of wish I got an 8 but it's still an improvement since I got a 5 in the mocks before and I'm still thankful regardless and once again your predictions and videos were perfect for last minute revision and really helped. Thankyou so so much your your help Mr Salles I truly appreciate your channel so much 💗
I'm really pleased! If you have the time, I'm going to give tips from students who have made great progress to next year's year 11. What are the top 3-5 things you did?
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish ofcourse! For language : 1. I would say to learn how to write fast especially for paper 1 since the faster and more you right the more marks you get! 2. PRE PLAN A VERY BASIC STORY. This story should be one which can be adjusted to fit any question and learn some generic ambitious words which you can fit in ang chosen scenario of yours (eg intense, calm etc). My story was literally about my physics teacher turning into a werewolf after an argument. 3. For literature keep on linking your ideas to the question (even if it sounds repetitive!) because that's what the examiner is looking for. 4. I would encourage people to give their own interpretations to quotes and analyse them in their own way since it makes you standout a bit more. 5. Just relax after you are done! Don't stress and i assure you that you will be fine.
Mr Salles the goat ‼️‼️ Just received my results back and I went from a predicted 5 to a 9 in english language! Couldn’t have done it without you, thank you so much I never expected to have improved to this extent. I also got an 8 in English Literature which i’m also happy about aswell!
I'm very happy about that too! Congratulations. If you have 3-5 pieces of advice, post them here and I will publish them for year 10s in my newsletter.
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglishOh my goodness I did NOT expect to get a reply back. Yes I do have some advice which taught me to achieve such a boost in my grade in so little time away from the mocks. Ranking them in order from importance ( with 1 being most helpful ) and again this is just what personally helped me 5. Definitely prioritize q5 & q4 in your language papers and spend around 5-10 minutes in your planning for q5. 4. For Language Paper 2, Q5, if possible absolutely try to implement some of your own personal experiences into the answer. Anecdotes seem to work really well on the examiners as that has seemed to get me into that higher band for approaching a more complex idea. It doesn’t even have to even be completely true. Half lie, half truth is a good mix between the two and makes you sound more convincing. 3. Write. Honestly just write as fast as you can and pray you had enough sleep for your brain to come up with those sweet new ideas that’ll impress the examiner. For example, in the unseen poetry section prioritize answering all two questions even if the first one doesn’t seem to be completely well made. In other words, you need to distinguish when it’s the right time to move on to the next question in order to complete all the questions in time. To do this you need a good understanding of your ability and how fast you can write, which can ofcourse be done through past papers. 2. Make sure you get a good sleep the night before exam. Seriously. I know a bunch of people who spent all night cramming to take in as much information as possible but that only pushed them back as when the dreaded hour came, not one of them had the ability to think straight to analyze the extracts ( or the unseen poem ) Sure they may have done well to prepare a story for q5, but what about those 60 other marks? So please make sure you have the capacity to think and be creative because that’ll do you a lot more good than burning yourself out the day before. Honorable Mention: Read Mr Salles’ books on kindle because they certainly helped me out a bunch ‼️ 1. Definitely reach out to someone with consistently high grades in english and request them to take a look at your essays and such as this was the main game changer for me. It helped me improve in so many ways and widened my vocabulary through implementing their language techniques into your own work, soon it’ll become as natural as breathing. To be honest talent plays a MAJOR role in deciding what grade you get in english. I tried REALLY hard for the mocks and I still couldn’t reach anything higher than a 5. Sometimes you need to take a look at someone who’s talented and mix their talents alongside hard work to really achieve that grade you want PS: I scored higher than the person who I asked to mark my essays 😄
Hey Sir! I just wanted to say thank you soo much for your help. You litterally saved me this GCSE as im going through alot rn and your advice was spot on especially in language paper 1 and lit paper two (also i am horrible at english) . Even your use of a cultural figure (which i didnt know till last week) was great as it helped my answer flow well without much waffle and i got 33/40 on a practice one But again thx and i wish i had know this channel sooner :) HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!
this is probably the last time i will watch you mr salles so thank you so much for literally saving me - i use to hate english in year 10 and struggle with it so much, but then when i found your videos i started getting 7s and before the exam was getting nines in my essays. even if i don't do well in my actual exam thank you very much for how helpful you've been, please keep going because i know thousands of people will feel the same way
Hi Mr Salles, THANK YOU SO MUCH! I used all your videos from y10 for both english language and literature! I got a 8 in literature and a 7 in language. All credit goes to you!!!!
I don't know, it takes a lot of effort to sit through so many videos! You did the work. If you have 3-5 pieces of advice, post them here and I will publish them for year 10s in my newsletter.
Mr salles you're the goat This is probably the last time I'll watch your video but thank you so much for all the amazing advice and help me through all my English GCSEs
icl you and mr everything english got me from 4s to 7s and 9s i cant express the amount of gratitude i have for you guys so cheers for being amazing mr salles and mr everything english god bless
i just wanted to say thank you. this has really helped me with English!!! i think i got more makes from watching your videos and suggestions than i ever did in my mocks! so....thank you Mr Salles.. home you can continue to Spatula another day XD :)
Just wanted to come by and say i got a band 7 for both english and english lit and missed band 8 by 1 mark in both, thank you! Suprising to see you not posting! But really Thank you!
This comment may be a bit late but nevertheless I wanted to thank you for these videos. I went from being predicted 6/7s all year around to in my actual gcse receiving not only a grade 9 but a mark of 157/160 in English lit!! I struggled so much with liking this subject and revising for it and your videos helped tremendously. If anyone in yr 10/11 is reading this then please subscribe to this hero because his videos are like magic. Once again thank you and keep making these amazing videos!
Just want to say thank you for the video. My lang p2 went really well. I cooked so hard :) I even had time to go back through and add more to q3 and q 4. Once again thx
I've just realised this will be the last time I ever watch one of your videos. On one side, I'm happy that I've got English out of the way, but on the other, I won't ever watch a great teacher like yourself. It's a bittersweet experience. Thanks Mr Salles for all the advice!
nice oxymoron bro (bittersweet) but its kinda recycled though
@@INeedGooderGrades It's just a lexical choice, bruh
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Mr Salles,
I doubt you will read this comment but I just want you to know you have helped me and many other students. Me and my friend always talk about how funny it is you teach with a spatula, and we have decided to buy our English teacher a spatula too! I will also buy some of your books to give my cousins an unfair advantage over others.
Thanks, so much!
My friend and I*
@@RTXCobra-k9y shut up bro 💀
no
@@RTXCobra-k9y it was a statement full of sentiment. u cant go fixing grammar like that 😭😭😭😭🙏🙏
Mr Salles is cooking, but we're all cooked.
Good luck for tomorrow everybody!!
Thank you so much Mr Salles, you're the only reason im surviving english right now.
Im gonna be thinking about that spatula in my exam tmr :P
Fair play to Mr Salles man went from getting deported from Canada to being the reason we all do well. Genuinely sound geeza aswell.
why did he get deported from canada?
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@@user-ye9bc7nw2c nah
@@Mo-2024 do you know what manslaughter is lol?
explain to me how you purposefully try to accidentally kill someone
Sir, I’d like to give you heartfelt thanks for helping me on this great GCSE English journey of mine. Through every video, every publication, every guide, I have felt inspired to conquer a subject when 2 years ago I felt nervous just having to read something in class. To my fellow students reading this, I think I speak on behalf of you all when I say Mr Salles deserves praise. Here’s to all the English exams so far, and to triumphing our final one!
Thanks for your hard work and belief!
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE, MAY THE POWER OF THE SPATULA BE WITH YOU!💗
Sir you’re back from the dead 😂 time to cook again. Mr salles I think you should also wear a chef’s hat in your vids because you cook so hard
aint got time for any more videos tho
Glaze
@@teamsupers9046you know what I can’t deny it but to be honest it’s true he is cooking
That’s why he has the spatula
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Sad to say this is the last time watching one of your videos before an exam. Bittersweet. Trust though that I'm gonna keep subscribing and watching and liking no matter what. MR SALLES FOREVAAAA!!!
Thanks for the sub!
it rly is bittersweet
Give it 3 years and ur gonna forget everything
On June 6, 2024, at 1:07 a.m., I am watching this. Just hours before my GCSE.
Same and its 1:05
Same. I'm watching this at around a quarter to six in the morning, just woken up.
yall, sleep is important 😭 best of luck to you all, you'll smash it
how do you guys think it went? i didn’t get to question 2 in time
@@angelar9759 it was so good I loved it tbh and you lost 8 marks omg 😭😭 I was rushing but I managed to finish just in time I did Q5 first then 3 then 4,2,1 I quickly ticked the correct answers for number one then the invigilator said time is up 😩😩
Because this may be the last time watching your videos, I want to say THANK YOU your videos are amazing and have helped me so much in Language (hopefully for tmrw) and Literature over the past year and many other students over the years! Thank you, once again :)
I'm so glad!
Thank you so much mr sallesss on behalf of all year 11 2024, you and your spatula have got us through exam season and we all gettin those high grades hopefully because of you. I wish you the best in lifeee and 200K SUBSCRIBERS BY THE END OF THE YEAR!
I got a five in my February 2024 AQA English Language Paper 2 Mock (2023 Paper - 43/80 - Passed Q1 - 4/4 -Flopped Q2 - 3/8 - Passed Q3 - 8/12 - Flopped Q4 - 2/16 - Passed Q5 - 26/40)
rn just do as much as u can on Q4
I got the samee in mockk too 😵
You and Mr Everything English pulled my English Literature grade up from a U to a four+ (two marks off a five) in about a month. I am REALLY grateful because I went into the exams and smashed it💗 Thank-you!
Finally last english paper tomorrow but im gonna miss watching him. He's the reason I'm passing english, hes lit the best
who said we're gonna stop watching him
You can tell he's a bit sick bless you Mr Salles we appreciate your dedication ☺
Mr Salles I've been watching your videos throughout the whole of year 11, I have to admit that you are the best English teacher I've come across. Thank you so much for all of your videos and for making English so easy. I've suffered with depression and anxiety since my school teacher would make seem English as a immensely difficult subject which require immensely great skills to master at GCSE levels this impacted me greately and I could not even get a pass after hours and hours of revision and writing a lot. The first time I got a 7 was after i gave up un the subject and watched only half of one of your 50min videos about macbeth, I was overjoyed thank you so much for eveything. wish you many more years of cooking GCSE english lit and lang exams
This hits different on 2x speed the night before the exam.
Literally 😂
Even better 30 mins before
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So sad I won’t be watching any of your videos anymore :( I was going to take A-Level lit and lang but I’ve been accepted into a specialised college instead. Thank you for all your help over the past 2 years!!
thank you for still helping us even though you are ill, we really appreciate it! i cant believe this is the last time im watching your videos, i hope those year 10s appreciate this amazing teacher as much as we have
Hey Mr Salles, I just wanted to say I watched this video and the acronym my fathers croch and by using that and a few other videos I think I totally cooked that exam. I did q5 then 1234 and it went really well and I wrote so much on my q4! Thanks so much for the tips!
This may be the last video of yours i ever watch. Thanks for all the help, keep it up for the years below us.
I have just realised that this is the last video i will ever be watching of Mr Salles, i am really grateful sir, as in y11 November mocks I got a 4 and after constantly watching your videos I achieved an 8 in my march mocks and I'm aiming for a 9 in the real gcse exam tomorrow, all thanks to you sir, I appreciate all the efforts you make.
mr salles
this will be the last time i watch one of your videos, and while you won’t see this i want you to know you’ve made my gcse years all the more enjoyable. seeing you talk about duality in jekyll and hyde with a contagious enthusiasm is the reason i ever got through that book hahaha. you’re a kind man, and clearly love what you do and do it well.
see you soon
I am delighted to be contagious! Good luck
I just want to thank you for doing all of this to help us pass. You helped me pass the resit last year after I got a U 🙏
That is awesome!
hi sir
heard you got covid so hope you feel better soon
thanks so much for the help
MASSIVE shout out to Mr Salles and his great guides!
Without him, I'd fail. (Grade 3 in November mocks and nearly a grade 7 in a past paper last month after i started watching his videos and reading his guides this Feb) I feel a sense of melancholy as I probably watch Mr Salles' videos for the last time. 😢
Truly Bittersweet.
Same. I got a 3 in my mocks, 1 for lit but back then I had no clue what I was doing. I left the other 3 exams with a (mostly) smiling face. I'm quite happy.
You Sir, are saving my English Language GCSE so hard lol (and saved my Literature too)
Thank you so much for these videos, idk what I'd do without them tbh
Good luck everyone taking the exam tomorrow!!!!
Mr Salles, this is probably the last of your videos I'll watch. But I just wanted to say a massive thank you for helping myself and many other students; English has been one of my weakest subjects but you've managed to teach this extremely well and made it interesting in the process. Thank you for making such a positive change in our lives and I wish you the best in helping others too.
I'll also keep the spatula in my lifelong memory.
I agree
@@O5mega me too
@@O5mega I agree also.
From Tragedy to Utopia, English as a whole has become a very interesting subject.
been avidly waiting for this video, thank you so much for all your help with gcses so far 🙏🙏
He truly is the goat.Thank you so much Mr Salles‼️
Mr salles, tomorrow is my last GCSE English paper, I thank you with all my heart the support and confidence you have given me for my GCSE's this year, I cannot begin to say just how brilliant you are :)
Thank you!
Mr Salles - I cannot thank you enough for all the knowledge you have given me over the past 5 years, to help me ace my GCSE English Exams - words cannot describe my gratitude for you Sir. I hope to get that high 8 or 9 and make you proud. You deserve all the love and happiness in the world for everything... literally everything you have ever done!! You are the best! And I mean it! It is sad to think this will indeed be the last video of yours I watch, but it was fun whilst it lasted. Thanks Mr Salles.
Thank you Mr Salles for all your help to the thousands watching your videos!! Saved me with all these papers icl
Good luck for tomorrow!!!
This guy helped me get 158/160 on my English literature GCSE.
LET EM COOK🗣🔥🔥🔥
we are cooked 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Can’t thank enough for helping my grades so much. I had no issue when I was doing English lit papers and English language paper 1, it went so smooth I was actually surprised.
Thank you.
it genuinely will be a shame not watching your videos anymore - thank you very much. Would be crazy to hear how people in one or two years will be watching this same video in the exact same situation as us! Good luck!!!!
Words cannot express how grateful I am for having someone like you. Thank you so much for all your help for these exams ❤❤❤
Last exam guys! Let’s go cook this paper!!!!
THANK YOU MR SALLES!
Thank you for everything Mr Salles
Hi Sir, just finished my last GCSE English paper! Thank you very much for your detailed videos and help over the course- genuinely don’t think I could have survived English without them. You’re a reason I’m taking English Literature for A-levels (wish you did A levels too 😞) and I’m planning on tutoring lower years in English as well, using your videos as a guide. Once again, thank you ☺️
sir, I just wanted to thank you so much for all the help you provided me with in english, if i get a good grade, a vast amount of it will be due to you, so sad that this is my last time watching your videos, THANK YOU SOOO MUCH! and God bless you!
This guy has been with us through thick and thin. Thank you for everything mr salles!
Just got my GCSE results last week, and i would like to thank you for your help during GCSE season, and helping me develop my grades. I got an 8 in Literature and a 9 in Language.
Well done on your brilliant results
maybe the last video i’ll watch from you!! thank you so much for everything Mr Salles, you are absolutely wonderful and I’m so grateful for all of the help you have given to us in our exam journeys - you’ve helped countless struggling students. you deserve all the subscribers in the world, plus a knighthood!
thank you so so much sir, thanks to your videos i went from a 4 to a 9 in lit and a 5 to a 9 in lang, i really couldn’t have got it without your videos and i will be recommending your channel to every single person doing their gcses
That is stunning- well done
To Mr Salles, me and my friends would like to thank you for the non - stop content that your provide everyday so that we may strive for excellence. You and Mr Everything English are the key players in which we have been able to do well in. You have taught me so much more than I have ever learnt in the past year or two. Anyways thanks for the hardwork!
Thanks,
The Gaming Crew
Sir, the exam was amazing. I'm so grateful i found your channel when I did and you've been so helpful to me and my friends! I'm doing English for my A-levels because your videos rekindled my love for the subject. You're the best!!!!
This is such an awesome comment, thank you, and good luck with a level!
I know everyone says this but I just wanted to say a massive thank you to you for your amazing vidoes throughout my english GCSES. I am going on to do A level english literature and cannot wait to use your videos again. Your a real hero and we all appreciate u! (And ur spatula)
My English GOAT, getting me through my GCSE even despite my awful teacher. Thank you, mate!
Thank you so much for all of your videos this year! They’ve really helped me gain a better understanding of English, a big thanks to you mr salles!
You and your spatula really helped Mr Salles, thank you
Our pleasure!
just came out of the English exam-that was the best language paper I've ever written thank you so much mr salles❤❤
Thanks Mr Salles we couldn’t have done it without you. You are truly amazing. We can’t ever thank you enough.
You just paid Mr everything english 10£ and now you are here 😭😭
That’s a lovely thank you! I really appreciate it.
@@Felixwas_there They both helped 😊
@lindseykerr9670 Yes, they indeed did help all of us
The GOAT of GCSE English YT, what man, what a teacher. Honestly saved my English grades this year, big props. Thanks Mr Salles for all the videos!
Hey Mr Salles, Just got my results yesterday. I got a 9 in both literature and language getting 157/160 for AQA Literature. I want to thank you immensely for all the help you've given me throughout this GCSE period. The way you teach, continuously gave me inspiration and motivation to revise, rearing a passion for a subject I never knew existed. Id be honoured to give you my papers once I get them back as a thank you.
I would be honoured to receive them, thank you! Awesome results. Would you be able to share 3-5 top tips about how you did it? I'll share these with next year's year 11.
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish 😂Yes of course. This feels surreal as it was only 4 months ago I was on the receiving end of all this advice.
1 - Memorise analysis of quotes. Work on this analysis in isolation and ensure it is top quality and befitting of "level 6" standard incorporating sophisticated literary technique. Ensure also that this is versatile analysis so that it can fit in any essay matching any question possible. During your examination, alter words/phrases slightly to match the question. This worked seamlessly in my literature essays. This was so effective that one of my entire essays was just my memorised analysis with only the thesis and the conclusion slightly altered to directly answer the question (THIS IS SO KEY - MAKE SURE TO ANSWER THE QUESTION). I can only assume based on the fact I got 157/160 that this essay scored a 30/30 or at the very least 27/30.
2 - For poetry, choose 3 or 4 poems and memorise a half essays worth of analysis for each of them. The poems you choose must fit all themes so you are prepared for any poem that comes up. Here however, analysis doesn't have to be versatile and can be generic -- (AS LONG AS YOU LINK IT EFFECTIVLEY AND SENSICALLY TO THE OTHER POEM). Despite this, if you want top marks, you want analysis to be detailed and include both advanced vocabulary and language techniques (Although I know you claim using sophisticated vocabulary doesn't add to your mark.)
3 - If you have loose change, or parents are willing to pay, get TILF (AI marking software). It is a monthly subscription so if like me, you struggled to pay for more than a month, get it a month before GCSE's around Mid April). It helped target my weaknesses and praised the strengths of my essays. Please don't let a bad mark demotivate you - as it did me - but learn from your errors.
4 - Top Marks requires dedication and Hard Work. From Christmas to the start of GCSE's, I must've written around 50 practise essays on all sorts of questions and on all 3 of my books/plays (ACC, AIC and The Merchant of Venice )and occasionally a poem question. Doing 1 a night -or even 1 every 2 nights- is key for developing essay writing skills which benefits all subjects. If you can and are not too tired, do these before sleep as it is scientifically proven to improve consolidation both the analysis you've inserted into an essay (which you must be attempting to memorise) but also general essay technique.
5 - Get good sleep, Eat well and exercise regularly. I cannot stress these 3 enough. I don't mean to brag, but throughout years 10 and 11, I always had the best memory out of my friends. I attribute this completely to my ample sleep and consistent sleep schedule as opposed to their ubiquitous terrible and inconsistent sleep patterns. I must also stress having fun is important. It is always necessary to break this once in a while to have fun with friends. I also had a mind hack during time before and during GCSE's: when I was feeling demotivated or I felt like revision was too laborious, I'd just go on a run. Preferably it should be over 8 minutes but just exercise. It works like magic. After my run, I'd shower, have a glass of water and there it was! My motivated always reappeared.
I hope this helps any upcoming students to achieve the grades they want. I also want to thank you again. I would not have been able to even dream of getting the grades I got without you, Mr Salles. Ill send my Essays when I get them. I would love for you to publish the Merchant of Venice essay as it is the piece of literature I struggled on most and there was no good student essays I could get inspiration from on this play. Thank you.
This was an incredible level of hard work for you! 5 is also fascinating. Yes, I would love your Merchant of Venice essay and any other you want to send over, via my Substack, or the 'About' section of my channel.
Im going to miss you my King, you will forever hold a place in my heart for providing a more blunt (and exciting) approach to English that made me enjoy even a tiny bit my King.
Just completed the last exam. I'm glad that it's over, thanks for all the help revising :) I'll probably still watch your videos in the future just for the sake of it. Such a fun teacher.
Thanks for the help on all these papers Mr Salles, its been an honor
hi sir, sad to say that this’ll be the last time i’m on your channel. i always had big issues with timing and planning answers out but with your help i somehow completely finished 3 of 4 of my english papers in time. i also managed to use a lot of your higher level ideas in lit especially and i think ive done really well in both overall. thanks for helping me through my gcses!!
Good luck
Thanks for all you do, now in y13 hoping to do Literature and Philosphy at Uni after A level i wouldnt have gotten my 9 in eng lang and 7 in Lit without you! hope others benefit from you as much as i did! 😊
Thank you so much Mr Salles! Have been watching dozens of your videos for last 3 years trying to help my boys. you are awesome!! Will miss you!!
Thank you mr salles for all your work!!
Such a bittersweet feeling of this being the last time I watch your videos. Your lessons have helped us and will continue to help students. 💛
Thanks for the video, and all of your help this year. Adding on to (and almost repeating) what others have commented, I must say that parting is such sweet sorrow. Whether I shall see your content again, I know not. With that said, I hope that this parting was well made. Farewell
Mr Salles. and thanks again! 👨🍳
Thank you so much Mr. Salles, English has been a pleasure with you. I wish you the best for the future
Mr Salles, I really hope you will read this comment because I just wanted you to know how brilliant of a teacher you have been. I got a 5 in literature and a 6 in language in our y10 mocks and I'm now looking at getting an 8 in lit and a 9 in language in my actual GCSEs. This was all down to your incredible videos so thank you so much. :)
Good luck in the final exam!
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglishThank you so much sir. I think paper 2 went quite well or at least I hope it did 🤞
Hmm i usually do question 1, 3, 4, 2 and then 5 at the end (i have more ideas towards the end of the exam usually)
Same, if it works for u just do your own order of q's
I achieved 6 grade 9s and 2 of them being English Language and English Literature! I wanted to thank you a lot!! You are a legend! Good luck to everyone! Keep motivated you can do it!!
youve saved me in my exams i thank you so much ones of the best english teacwvrs tgere are, such a dhamd its coming ti an end. I love you ❤❤❤
just wanted to give my words of thanks for everything, Sir. you’re videos have been amazing, and it’s quite sad that I’ll never be using them ever again. but i wish you all the best, and thank you!
I just want to thank you Mr Salles for all of your videos. I honestly wouldn't have been able to do as well as I have done without them. It's a shame that I will never need one of your videos ever again but what a relief that it is now over. Thank you again for everything, keep up the great work, you have helped so many students and we are all very grateful. ☺
These videos helped me sm! Although I did just sit paper2 and made the mistake of not leaving enough time for q5 and only wrote a page, without any ambitions punctuation or techniques i was plan on using, don’t make that mistake! But a massive thanks to mr sables as i have felt much more confident in my answers due to his teaching and want to thank him as much as my teachers in school:) !! Thank you !!!!!
I'm so glad!
Salles* i ment haha
Thank you sm Mr Salles!! I don't know what I would've done if it wasn't for your amazing videos saving my grades tremendously, your dedication and enthusiasm has made me enjoy studying English :) I hope many more get to improve from your videos and guides!
I can't believe all of us came this far, from the autumn mock in year 10 to my real exams. Although my teachers at school undoubtedly supported me, it was here watching TH-cam videos that barely pushed me over the boundaries of grade 9 English. Thank you for all these resources especially since I can't afford tuition🙏.
The return of the spatula 😂 Thank you for uploading. Your videos have been invaluable to so many people. Please keep up loading. I hope you are feeling better.
If you can answer one question, another youtuber said that you don't need to argue another point in question 5 is this correct? I have always been told to argue both sides. Please advise if you can. Thank you so much Mr Salles.
Top writers dismiss the counter argument by proving it wrong
thank you so much for all of your videos this year mr salles! i'll miss watching them :(
thanks so much for all your help!! i’ll miss watching your vids!
can you say GOODLUCK AS A LITTLE CHARM PLEASE ( ive had 9 exams this week im exhausted) love you and all the guides :)
Thank you so much, the amount of students you've helped jump grades and prove their teachers wrong, it's so sad that i'll never click on another one of your videos (hopefully i don't fail😂) i wish you all the best Mr Salles and again thank you for never failing to COOK WITH YOUR SPATULA.
Hey sir, thank you so much for your vids! This year, I managed to get a grade 9 with your videos and your tips and lots of effort!! Please continue what you’re doing!
Will do! Well done on your hard work
Love you mate, smashed my lan paper 2..... literally used all your methods... You came in clutch...
Thanks for everything
Hi sir, I'm sure you get this a lot, but I just wanted to tell you how thankful I am for all the help you've been putting out on TH-cam for free (and for so long!) I feel as though I've got a good chance of getting a nine on both GCSEs after watching lots of your videos, so thank you very much for helping all of us at every step! I'll be sending next year's yr 11s your way Mr. Salles. Hope you get better soon!
That’s brilliant 🤩
Thank you so much for everything, honestly you've saved my GCSEs and have been the most wonderful teacher. Also, hope you are feeling well (I'm subscribed to your substack and saw you were unwell!)
feel confident for tomorrow? it's in a bit over an hour..
Edit: this was great help, last minute revision.
Thank you for all the help mr salles. I sincerely hope that you continue to post these videos
Hi Sir! I just wanted to say a massive thankyou to you. I got an 8 an English language after being predicted a 6 and getting 6s and 5s throughout. Your videos helped me improve massively specifically my favourite tip of your for paper 1 especially which is to keep writing as much as I can and believe me I did! I also got a 7 in literature sort of wish I got an 8 but it's still an improvement since I got a 5 in the mocks before and I'm still thankful regardless and once again your predictions and videos were perfect for last minute revision and really helped. Thankyou so so much your your help Mr Salles I truly appreciate your channel so much 💗
I'm really pleased! If you have the time, I'm going to give tips from students who have made great progress to next year's year 11. What are the top 3-5 things you did?
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish ofcourse!
For language :
1. I would say to learn how to write fast especially for paper 1 since the faster and more you right the more marks you get!
2. PRE PLAN A VERY BASIC STORY. This story should be one which can be adjusted to fit any question and learn some generic ambitious words which you can fit in ang chosen scenario of yours (eg intense, calm etc). My story was literally about my physics teacher turning into a werewolf after an argument.
3. For literature keep on linking your ideas to the question (even if it sounds repetitive!) because that's what the examiner is looking for.
4. I would encourage people to give their own interpretations to quotes and analyse them in their own way since it makes you standout a bit more.
5. Just relax after you are done! Don't stress and i assure you that you will be fine.
Mr Salles the goat ‼️‼️ Just received my results back and I went from a predicted 5 to a 9 in english language! Couldn’t have done it without you, thank you so much I never expected to have improved to this extent. I also got an 8 in English Literature which i’m also happy about aswell!
I'm very happy about that too! Congratulations. If you have 3-5 pieces of advice, post them here and I will publish them for year 10s in my newsletter.
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglishOh my goodness I did NOT expect to get a reply back. Yes I do have some advice which taught me to achieve such a boost in my grade in so little time away from the mocks.
Ranking them in order from importance ( with 1 being most helpful ) and again this is just what personally helped me
5. Definitely prioritize q5 & q4 in your language papers and spend around 5-10 minutes in your planning for q5.
4. For Language Paper 2, Q5, if possible absolutely try to implement some of your own personal experiences into the answer. Anecdotes seem to work really well on the examiners as that has seemed to get me into that higher band for approaching a more complex idea. It doesn’t even have to even be completely true. Half lie, half truth is a good mix between the two and makes you sound more convincing.
3. Write. Honestly just write as fast as you can and pray you had enough sleep for your brain to come up with those sweet new ideas that’ll impress the examiner. For example, in the unseen poetry section prioritize answering all two questions even if the first one doesn’t seem to be completely well made. In other words, you need to distinguish when it’s the right time to move on to the next question in order to complete all the questions in time. To do this you need a good understanding of your ability and how fast you can write, which can ofcourse be done through past papers.
2. Make sure you get a good sleep the night before exam. Seriously. I know a bunch of people who spent all night cramming to take in as much information as possible but that only pushed them back as when the dreaded hour came, not one of them had the ability to think straight to analyze the extracts ( or the unseen poem ) Sure they may have done well to prepare a story for q5, but what about those 60 other marks? So please make sure you have the capacity to think and be creative because that’ll do you a lot more good than burning yourself out the day before.
Honorable Mention: Read Mr Salles’ books on kindle because they certainly helped me out a bunch ‼️
1. Definitely reach out to someone with consistently high grades in english and request them to take a look at your essays and such as this was the main game changer for me. It helped me improve in so many ways and widened my vocabulary through implementing their language techniques into your own work, soon it’ll become as natural as breathing.
To be honest talent plays a MAJOR role in deciding what grade you get in english. I tried REALLY hard for the mocks and I still couldn’t reach anything higher than a 5. Sometimes you need to take a look at someone who’s talented and mix their talents alongside hard work to really achieve that grade you want
PS: I scored higher than the person who I asked to mark my essays 😄
Hey Sir!
I just wanted to say thank you soo much for your help. You litterally saved me this GCSE as im going through alot rn and your advice was spot on especially in language paper 1 and lit paper two (also i am horrible at english) . Even your use of a cultural figure (which i didnt know till last week) was great as it helped my answer flow well without much waffle and i got 33/40 on a practice one
But again thx and i wish i had know this channel sooner :)
HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!
THANK YOU SO MUCH MR SALLES!
this is probably the last time i will watch you mr salles so thank you so much for literally saving me - i use to hate english in year 10 and struggle with it so much, but then when i found your videos i started getting 7s and before the exam was getting nines in my essays. even if i don't do well in my actual exam thank you very much for how helpful you've been, please keep going because i know thousands of people will feel the same way
Hi Mr Salles, THANK YOU SO MUCH! I used all your videos from y10 for both english language and literature! I got a 8 in literature and a 7 in language. All credit goes to you!!!!
I don't know, it takes a lot of effort to sit through so many videos! You did the work. If you have 3-5 pieces of advice, post them here and I will publish them for year 10s in my newsletter.
Mr salles you're the goat
This is probably the last time I'll watch your video but thank you so much for all the amazing advice and help me through all my English GCSEs
this is the last time im going to see one of your videos. Thankyou for all the help you provided.
icl you and mr everything english got me from 4s to 7s and 9s i cant express the amount of gratitude i have for you guys so cheers for being amazing mr salles and mr everything english god bless
i just wanted to say thank you. this has really helped me with English!!! i think i got more makes from watching your videos and suggestions than i ever did in my mocks! so....thank you Mr Salles.. home you can continue to Spatula another day XD :)
Just wanted to come by and say i got a band 7 for both english and english lit and missed band 8 by 1 mark in both, thank you! Suprising to see you not posting! But really Thank you!
This comment may be a bit late but nevertheless I wanted to thank you for these videos. I went from being predicted 6/7s all year around to in my actual gcse receiving not only a grade 9 but a mark of 157/160 in English lit!! I struggled so much with liking this subject and revising for it and your videos helped tremendously. If anyone in yr 10/11 is reading this then please subscribe to this hero because his videos are like magic. Once again thank you and keep making these amazing videos!
Just want to say thank you for the video. My lang p2 went really well. I cooked so hard :)
I even had time to go back through and add more to q3 and q 4. Once again thx
Thanks for all you do