An Inspector Calls: Intermediate Level Revision Session for AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 2

This Easter, students working at around a grade 4 to 5 can book a focused An Inspector Calls revision session designed to help them build stronger knowledge of the play, improve the clarity of their written analysis, and move confidently toward grades 6-7 in AQA English Literature GCSE Paper 2.

This 60-minute session is ideal for students who want structured support, a clearer understanding of the text, and a more secure approach to exam questions. As well as revising key characters, themes, and Priestley’s methods, the session will focus closely on the demands of the mark scheme: what examiners reward, how to meet the assessment objectives more effectively, and how to turn sound knowledge into well-focused, relevant analysis.

This session cannot be booked as part of a course, but it forms part of a wider series of revision lessons available for the core texts on AQA GCSE English Literature Papers 1 and 2. Alongside An Inspector Calls, similar intermediate-level sessions are available for Macbeth and Jekyll & Hyde, giving students the chance to choose targeted support in the texts where they most need to strengthen their confidence and secure their understanding. These sessions are designed for students who want to build essays that are clear, relevant, and secure, and who may need to revise the key themes, characters, and authorial messages in order to answer any exam question with greater confidence in AQA’s closed-book exams this spring.

In this An Inspector Calls session, we will focus on a core set of quotations and ideas from the play that can be used flexibly across a wide range of possible exam questions. Rather than trying to memorise large amounts of material without a clear strategy for using it, students will work on the most useful and adaptable references, building confidence in how Priestley presents key ideas such as responsibility, class, gender, power, generational conflict, and social change. These quotations and ideas will then be built out through detailed AO2 analysis, so that students are not just revising content, but learning how to turn that knowledge into strong, clear, and secure written responses.

This makes the session especially useful for students who know the story of the play and can identify the main ideas, but are less certain about how to develop those ideas into an essay that meets the mark scheme successfully. It is particularly well suited to students who want a clearer markscheme-led approach, who need more confidence in writing analytically about Priestley’s methods, or who are trying to understand how to move from a general response to one that is more precise, supported, and purposeful. With examiner-led advice on quotation use, paragraph structure, AO2 analysis, and the demands of the assessment objectives, students will be shown how to write with greater control and relevance.

There will be a particular emphasis on helping students move beyond retelling the plot or making broad points, and instead develop a more secure way of analysing the play. That means looking carefully at Priestley’s language, dramatic structure, stagecraft, and character presentation, but doing so in a way that remains clear, manageable, and directly useful for the exam. The aim is to help students build a strong framework for writing answers that are well organised, well supported, and clearly linked to the question.

Students booking this session will receive a lesson pack and supporting resources, with the recording available afterwards to all participants so that they can revisit the teaching in their own time. There is also the option to add essay marking, with work submitted after the session, making it a strong option for students who want focused, practical, and examiner-informed support on An Inspector Calls.