GCSE AQA German Exam - 18.6.12

hypanx

Is anyone else doing this exam? Do you know where I can find any vocab lists (i'm doing foundation)?

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Reply 1

Octopus_Garden

An AQA GCSE German book? Kerboodle, if your school has subscribed?

Reply 2

Octopus_Garden

I'm not really sure about posting this, because it could really wreck your confidence, and you could potentially waste weeks studying this list, when perhaps you would be better spending your time revising in some other way.

http://store.aqa.org.uk/qual/newgcse/pdf/AQA-4665-W-SP.PDF There are about 23 pages of vocabulary!

Reply 3

BWFC4life

You'll be fine I sat this exam and got 60 on reading and listening with no revision. Read the question thoroughly for the listening listen to the answer the first time don't write it down and listen again and answer the second time. Beware ! Some questions have several parts which flow without the tape pausing and for the reading take your time I finished in 15 mins went back and found a few mistakes.
Good luck !

Reply 4

jellybeanjosh

Do you suggest any other ways to revise? I'm doing higher listening and reading.

Reply 5

Missyeln213

I'm just cramming in as much vocab as possible... Hahaha... ^_^'

Actually terrified of this exam. Listening is going to be... hellish. Why did my teacher persuade me to do the higher paper? =_= It's not like I did particularly well in any of our mock exams.

Too many exams to revise for! I also have maths and history next week! AAUGH.

Reply 6

hypanx

Original post by Missyeln213

Me too! This is the exam i've been dreading the worst. I think i'm gonna get a D and it will ruin everything. I've got words from past papers, but i can't learn more than 5.. they just won't go in! aaaaaaaa!!

Reply 7

xoxlovelifexox

Original post by hypanx

i'm really nervous about german too! :/

Reply 8

hypanx

Original post by xoxlovelifexox

i'm really nervous about german too! :/

How are you revising? Are you doing foundation or higher?

Reply 9

xoxlovelifexox

Original post by hypanx

How are you revising? Are you doing foundation or higher?

i'm doing higher! i'm just cramming vocab from the book. are you doing higher too? and what's your revision way?

Reply 10

simibean

Dreading this exam, I have two exams tommorow aswell

Reply 11

JLKeating

Original post by simibean

Dreading this exam, I have two exams tommorow aswell

Me too! Geography? Or something else?

This was posted from The Student Room's Android App on my HTC Salsa C510e

Reply 12

hypanx

Original post by xoxlovelifexox

i'm doing higher! i'm just cramming vocab from the book. are you doing higher too? and what's your revision way?

i did 3 past papers and notes down the words i didn't know from them.. but they're not going in when i try to learn them.

Reply 13

simibean

Original post by JLKeating

Me too! Geography? Or something else?

This was posted from The Student Room's Android App on my HTC Salsa C510e

Yep, I have Geogrpahy

Reply 14

shmuxel

Ugh, I'm gonna fail this exam. I have had no time whatsoever to revise, since it's been sandwiched between two History exams. When i listen to the past papers, i don't know what they're saying.... has anyone got the Jan 12 listening paper?

Reply 15

Missyeln213

Original post by hypanx

I know this guy in our school who has a photographic memory... He literally learns vocab the day before and he walks out with an A*. SO.JEALOUS.OF.HIM. > :frown:

I guess I try to relate German words to english words, and try to remember them that way. Ok, this is going to sound off the rails crazy but for example: "Schnell" means 'quickly' or 'fast'. So I think of snails (which sounds like 'Schnell'...??), which are slow. And the opposite of slow is fast.

....Yeah. I'm really weird. >///<

*Goes to cram vocab*

Reply 16

enimpri

I could recommend noting down the words usually used in the listening past papers, and noting main ones on the vocab list per topic, so for environment it'd be things like Hauptverkehrszeit, Flasche, Abgase.

Reply 17

Missyeln213

Original post by hines

That's a good idea! *I'm an idiot for not searching past papers*
I feel like I'm drowning in an ocean filled with vocabulary.

Granted, the people do speak slow in the listening exam, so we should be grateful they're not speaking at full blown speed.. Ahahaha :eek:

Reply 18

hypanx

Original post by Missyeln213

yeah but still.. in the practice papers (foundation) i got 1 off a C, a C and 2 above, so every mark is gonna count for me in the exam. I'm just awful at german compared to my other subjects :frown:

Reply 19

Missyeln213

Original post by hypanx

yeah but still.. in the practice papers (foundation) i got 1 off a C, a C and 2 above, so every mark is gonna count for me in the exam. I'm just awful at german compared to my other subjects :frown:

Haha, I'm decent at reading papers, but I suck so badly at listening ones... Which consequently drags down my overall grade in German. By quite a lot.
German is possibly my worst subject. So you're not alone there :redface: