Anyone on here doing the GCSE English exam on Tuesday?

anant_shah94 said:
it's really easy

book - key themes
poems - learn meanings, then writing a load of crap for an hour
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A*
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+ use sophisticated vocab
use various types of grammar e.g. semi colons, hyphens etc
write in paragraphs
use rhetorical questions where possible, especially so at the start of a descriptive piece

oh, and answer the actual question :p
 
I don't think the questions are generally to hard to answer. They all seem to be sort of the same anyway...

My problem is i don't write quick and after 1hour my hand is going to be hurting so 2 hours and a half -- eww

Need like hand drugs haha.
 
VaderDSL said:
Shouldn't it be LOL for an acronym?
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That's how I'd view it although (sadly) it probably consitutes a word now that has transcended its origins as an acronym so "lol" would be correct or "Lol" if it is starting a sentence.

Lakeland said:
use various types of grammar e.g. semi colons, hyphens etc
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Pretty good advice but I would however say that if you don't fully understand the grammar you are attempting to use then it's probably better not to use it and for the love of all that is holy don't use apostrophes unless you are sure they are required - I'd leave them out in preference to perpetrating the grocers' apostrophe.
 
WJEC one wasn't hard.... never written so much in my life though tbh.

7 pages and my hand is killing me

Just found out a chief examiner comes round before entering exam on a unknown date with a metal detector... (time to not take my ipod in my blazer)
 
anant_shah94 said:
That AQA exam, it wasn't exactly difficult, but it wasn't straight forward.

The catcher essay went okay, as did the 4 way comparison, overall, I'm satisfied :)
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yeh i did Of Mice and Men, went good! :) For the poems though we did the carol ann duffy and simon armitage ones, it was okay rambled on, found links backed up with some quotes, glad thats a gcse outta the way in one exam! :)
 
What a splendid day for me to come down with what I can only assume is food poisoning. Could not concentrate at all. Spent the majority clutching my stomach and writhing in pain. Still should have secured the B. I hope :(
 
Haydz said:
What a splendid day for me to come down with what I can only assume is food poisoning. Could not concentrate at all. Spent the majority clutching my stomach and writhing in pain. Still should have secured the B. I hope :(
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I think there's a procedure for this, like you get to sit it another time or you get boosted marks or something :confused:
 
No1newts said:
Just dnt spl lik thiz nd u wil b ok lulz!1!!1!

Edit: are there people under 16 on this forum? :confused: honest question, not being an ass. Just doesn't seem the play area for under 16's
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I think I was 16 when I joined, but I lurked for ages beforehand... the hardware bit drew me in, and then I discovered GD :)

On the English front: Oh so glad I don't have to do English any more! was the most boring waste of time I've ever been through (save 2 years of latin a few years ago)...
 
Our poem was stupid.. something about a person and bee.. half of it made sence to no one lmao

What was funny in our exam was seeing someone i was like best m8's with a few years ago walk out of the english exam today as he was feeling well. (Not friends at all no more, long story)

So:
1) exam started
2) 20 mins in he got walked out with one of the people who come in to check for cheats (invigilator or something)
3) 5 mins he walked back in with water
4) 10 mins later he walked out again
4) Never came back

So what was wrong with him??

HE GOT STONED BEFORE THE EXAM HAHA
 
anant_shah94 said:
I thought Latin was a pretty awesome subject
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Maybe it was for you, and I suppose if you learned about roman culture and stuff that might be interesting, but my memories of latin were attempting to learn tables of dative/vocative/whatever endings to put on the regular and then all the irregular, and loads of vocab which you had to be able to conjugate and stuff... I've never been good at learning things like that, and I find learning new languages difficult in general, but Latin just seemed to be the most difficult language to learn out of the Russian, German, French, and a brief bit of Mandarin that I've been taught in my time... Maybe it was the lack of speaking which made it harder for me - other people did seem to really like it, but for me, I just couldn't learn it, although to this day I remember the first lesson being about 'puella laudat vaccum' or something similar.
 
No1newts said:
Just dnt spl lik thiz nd u wil b ok lulz!1!!1!

Edit: are there people under 16 on this forum? :confused: honest question, not being an ass. Just doesn't seem the play area for under 16's
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I joined when I was 13 ;)
Exam didn't go as bad as I expected, apart from revising the complete wrong set of poems :rolleyes:
 
semi-pro waster said:
Pretty good advice but I would however say that if you don't fully understand the grammar you are attempting to use then it's probably better not to use it and for the love of all that is holy don't use apostrophes unless you are sure they are required - I'd leave them out in preference to perpetrating the grocers' apostrophe.
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This may be good advice for English Language and/or other exam boards but in AQA English Literature "written communication" only amounts to a maximum of 3 marks, or 5% of the overall mark.

Of course, there's no reason why anyone shouldn't try to use a wide range of grammar etc. However it's not the end of the world if they don't. :p

:)
 
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