GCSE WJEC English Langauge Paper 1 Exam 16th May

Hey everyone, so the exam is tomorrow ! Is everyone ready ? What last minuite revision are you doing today ? I'm so worried for section B what about you?

I'm more worried about section A, all of the teachers are telling us to do different things. Some say 10 brief points, some say 5 developed and some say 3/4 really developed points. Any suggestions, what has your teacher told you???

See, that's something our teacher fails to make clear to us too. She sometimes tells us to write around 10 points, however, I bought a WJEC English textbook off of Amazon, and it tells you that for 10 point questions, if you are aiming for A/A*, then you will have to make a detailed response using as many points as you can. It will probably end up being about 5 though, as the detail should be thorough. If you give an answer giving just 10 points with no backing up evidence or explanation, the overall answer is not fluent and not worthy of anything more than a C/B grade. Remember, as it is language, the examiners want to know that you can write well and pick out useful information well, so just ensure you have a good answer with all the amplification required for the 'higher end' marks.

Yeah, I'll probably aim for 5 paragraphs with a couple of quotes in each that are clearly explained

Thankls by the way, best answer i
I've come across yet.

I'm going to be really stuck on the narrative. I got a C on the actual paper last time round but my coursework pulled it up to an A. I need 5 more marks on each paper to get a B and overall an A*. The narrative will be impossible for me as I haven't thought of an actual story I can try and fit things to and the question one I always run out of time.

Don't worry it's not too late. Just think of 5 interesting and adaptable stories, you don't have to write them just plan them e.g. in paragraph 1 will be based on. That's what i'll be spending my afternoon doing, in the mocks I just thought of some stupid story on the spot lol and I got 17/20 so don't worry. Lots of figurative language and interesting adjectives and you'll be fine.

Hi, im really confused on the narrative writing section of the exam in section B. Im not sure about which plots i should use so is there any good plot ideas that people could give me?

Also is there anywhere where i can read some examples of short stories, which are exam quality type?

Last of all i want to try and remember some stories for the exam so that i wont spend lots of time trying to think of one, for example a story about a good time and a bad time. Any other ideas of types of stories i should remeber for the upcoming exam which would fit into one of the choices they give me?

They want us to fail :'(

It is the last year there doing this style of paper so they will either be easy on us, or rather mean...

uuurrrghhhh mark scheme or eaminers report for nov 2009 higher tier paper

WHY is WJEC so unreliable???
Why can i not access or find anything on this paper

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alll the other boards are so caring...
they have free access to all the answers

WHY did they do this to us???