Oct 14, 2026 · 25 min · 9 segments
Ms Yem and Mr Forster talk about the extract we used for the 2025 Trial exam on Helena and Demetrius in Act 2 Scene 1. Don't forget to download the handout…
Um, a little reminder about the format of the, um, passage-based question in the exam, um, which is that the question oddly is always at the bottom.
Make sure you don't get mixed up with the whole text question-
Ooh, people do that every year
... which happens.
Every year.
Um, and first thing you need to do when you go into the exam is to find the extract in your book, and you'll see why in a minute that is particularly important, and this-
Incredibly important
...
this extract exemplifies that.
Yeah.
It, it, it's, I, I think so many people, like reflecting on our mocks for a moment, um, my class, um, they're really good on A Midsummer Night's Dream.
They're normally brilliant-
Yeah
...
but actually their mocks weren't quite as good as they could have been.
Sorry for that-
Same here
... public shout-out and humiliation-
Same here
... because they read it as if it was an unseen.
They forgot that they've read this play and studied this play, and no one mentioned, no one person, one solitary person mentioned that Oberon is present on stage.
Yeah, I think I had one or two people who did that.
Um-
And that makes such a difference to the extract that, um, it's an entire extract, this one, isn't it? It's not a, a-
Yeah
Um, a little reminder about the format of the, um, passage-based question in the exam, um, which is that the question oddly is always at the bottom.
Make sure you don't get mixed up with the whole text question-
Ooh, people do that every year
... which happens.
Every year.
Um, and first thing you need to do when you go into the exam is to find the extract in your book, and you'll see why in a minute that is particularly important, and this-
Incredibly important
...
this extract exemplifies that.
Yeah.
It, it, it's, I, I think so many people, like reflecting on our mocks for a moment, um, my class, um, they're really good on A Midsummer Night's Dream.
They're normally brilliant-
Yeah
...
but actually their mocks weren't quite as good as they could have been.
Sorry for that-
Same here
... public shout-out and humiliation-
Same here
... because they read it as if it was an unseen.
They forgot that they've read this play and studied this play, and no one mentioned, no one person, one solitary person mentioned that Oberon is present on stage.
Yeah, I think I had one or two people who did that.
Um-
And that makes such a difference to the extract that, um, it's an entire extract, this one, isn't it? It's not a, a-
Yeah
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