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All the help you need for your English exam in 2004 is here. Consult our exam help on the right for a checklist of revision topics, a comprehensive guide to the exam paper, a model answer to show you how you can maximise your marks and a useful analysis of likely topics. Then view our study notes below.

These study notes cover the English higher level syllabus to be examined in 2004, offering an overview of each major syllabus topic, its significance and an outline of the key ‘must know’ information. They are designed to aid your revision and help you identify any information gaps.

Language	For notes on the five language genres, click here »»
The Stand Alone Texts	Students must study one major text on its own analysing it in detail. Texts from the Stand Alone text list are also available for study in a comparative manner, so long of course, as they are not studied as Stand Alone texts. Wuthering Heights - Brontë, Emily Silas Marner - Eliot, George A Doll's House - Ibsen, Henrik Amongst Women - McGahern, John Macbeth - Shakespeare, William
Comparative Texts	Any three texts from the list of texts prescribed for comparative study, other than the one already chosen for study on its own, may be selected for the comparative study. For general notes on the comparative texts, click here »» Things Fall Apart - Achebe, Chinua I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Angelou, Maya Pride and Prejudice - Austen, Jane Empire of the Sun - Ballard, J.G. Regeneration - Barker, Pat The Past is Myself - Bielbenberg, Christabel Circle of Friends - Binchy, Maeve Wuthering Heights - Brontë, Emily In Patagonia - Chatwin, Bruce Silas Marner - Eliot, George Dancing at Lughnasa - Friel, Brian The House Gun - Gordimer, Nadine A Doll's House - Ibsen, Henrik The Remains of the Day - Ishiguro, Kazuo A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce, James An Evil Cradling - Keenan, Brian Home Before Night - Leonard, Hugh The Grass Is Singing - Lessing, Doris The Silent People - Macken Walter Lamb - MacLaverty, Bernard One by One in the Darkness - Madden, Deirdre Amongst Women - McGahern, John A River Sutra - Mehta, Gita A View from the Bridge - Miller, Arthur Lies of Silence - Moore, Brian The Plough and the Stars - O'Casey, Sean Panther in the Basement - Oz, Amos King Lear - Shakespeare, William Macbeth - Shakespeare, William Twelfth Night - Shakespeare, William Oedipus the King - Sophocles The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Spark, Muriel Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck, John The Playboy of the Western World - Synge, John M.
Film Studies	The texts for comparative study include the list of films below. For notes on the characteristics of film and film genres, click here. The Dead - Huston, John (Dir.) A Room with a View - Ivory, James (Dir.) On the Waterfront - Kazan, Elia (Dir.) Richard the Third - Loncraine, Richard (Dir.) Strictly Ballroom - Luhrmann, Baz (Dir.) Cinema Paradiso - Tornatore, Giusseppe (Dir.)
Prescribed Poetry	Dickinson, Emily Frost, Robert Heaney, Seamus Hopkins, Gerald Manley Kavanagh, Patrick Mahon Derek Plath, Sylvia Wordsworth, William
Unseen Poetry	For notes on tackling the unseen poem, click here »»