Help!!AQA gcse english literature exam unit 1!!

well poetry is unseen and im not doin that until next year but im doing blood brothers now for WJEC literature Unit 2

is the exam format the same ?? an extract and then a theme/character question ??

i hate to scare most of yous but for an A* you can only drop around 6 marks in the whole paper ... and its the same for UNIT 2 ( i have this on thusday.. 'lord of the flies' and' blood brothers' ) im doing unit 1 next year but i did OMAM for a controlled assessment :-)

if i were doing this exam i would pray that crooks came up

yeh i think that is what we get on blood brothers. i really like the play i just find it really hard to write about (my teacher is not good at all :L )

I'm glad to correct you but you could've dropped 15 marks last year for an A* in AQA so that's good

ugh ( im poorly and have to revise for my spanish listening exam tomorrow ) but i will try


umm for the extract question it will usually be how it builds tension/drama.. but could possible how one character dominates the scene; the best way to answer these are actually simular you MUST focus on dramatic devices (Narrator, Dramatic Irony, MUSIC, stage directions, etc ) however you must continually link it to the question AND say HOW it effects the audience ( i cant stress these points enough :L )......... an added point but not always a requirement is to see if you can link it to context and say why the audience could relate to that scene


This deffo the harder part to explain
well for the theme/character question it is vitally important that you stay focused and always the answer the question umm try to link your answer fluently either chronologically or from point to point :-) :/

hope this helps slightly :-)

damn thats it i hate WJEC now -.- we need 54/60

Haha, yeah, but apparently last years paper for AQA was the hardest of the lot so I can pretty much guarantee higher grade boundaries on Tuesday

i still hate WJEC :L and i hate my school i do unit 1 next year and unit 2 this year -.- ......

Are you in year 10 then? And I can't judge on WJEC because I don't have them for any subject

yeah i am :L

my techer says WJEC is 'the easy board'

but some others on here say its harder so i dunno :L

In our school people who take Latin GCSE have WJEC and claim it's quite easy so :L but they took Latin so they are extremely clever haha

I'm doing Relationships poetry aswell inn the Moon On The Tides anthology!
I'm more worried for An Inspector Calls and Of Mice And Men rather than the poetry though

i hate to scare most of yous but for an A* you can only drop around 6 marks in the whole paper ... and its the same for UNIT 2 ( i have this on thusday.. 'lord of the flies' and' blood brothers' ) im doing unit 1 next year but i did OMAM for a controlled assessment :-)

if i were doing this exam i would pray that crooks came up

LIES! On AQA you need 45 out of 60 for an A* and 36 for an A: http://store.aqa.org.uk/over/stat_pdf/AQA-GCSE-UNIT-GDE-BOUND-JUNE11.PDF

For OMAM
My teacher Seems to think curleys wife or slim will come up as crooks was in the mock and George and lennie have been in lots of the practise questions. Omg, i would die if someone like carlson came up :/

That'd be horrible if Carlso came in, but you could write about how he killed the dog