This guide is intended for those students who are aiming to raise their grades to levels 7, 8 or 9 in the AQA English Literature Examination Paper 1. Specifically, the guide deals with William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and is intended to help you to improve and refine your responses to the Macbeth question in Section A of the AQA English Literature Examination Paper 2. It aims to encourage you to build on the foundations you have gained through reading the play and studying aspects of language, character, context and themes. You are aiming to achieve well above the average and to add those extra bits of insight, analysis and evaluation which will make sure the examiner has to place you in the higher bands of attainment.