Hello everyone. Last summer in 2011 I did my AQA Classics A-level exams: AS Odyssey, A2 Greek Tragedy and A2 Aeneid. Despite being told I would get an A I unfortunately got an overall B. I have therefore decided to retake all three papers in the summer of 2012 this year. I need to get an overall A in order to get into Uni for September. Although my teachers have told me my papers are of A grade quality I worry that I will have a repeat performance of last years attempt.
If anyone has any tips/study guides/advice/anything that will help it would be very much appreciated. Also anyone who has already done their Classics A-level (and got the A!) that would like to share their *talent* would be super duper.
I have recently finished writing up my revision cards, which has short summaries of each book for Homer's and Virgil's poems, plus more detailed notes for the Greek Tragedy (my notes from last year were pretty crummy). I have also been looking at some short online study guides and will soon reread the introductions for all six texts I will be questioned on (Odyssey, Aeneid, Medea, Hippolytus, Oedipus and Antigone). Last year I did all the AQA past papers in timed conditions and am repeating the same thing again before the actual thing towards the end of May.
Naturally I am very worried about these retakes as I seriously want to avoid a repeat performace of last years effort. So if anyone has any advice then please please please feel free to help a fellow student in need!
Thanks everyone x
PS: in case anyone wants to know the *nitty grittys*: I got a high A in my Cicero AS paper and my Aeneid, Odyssey and Greek Trag papers were Bs and Cs.