Is WJEC English Combined boring?

Incredibly so.

We did A River Sutra for AS Level, I've never read a more boring book. Full of sex and Indian people. Wuthering Heights for A Level, haaaate it.

I did a River Sutra & Short Cuts too! And Wuthering Heights; exam on the 20th! The 3 unseen text section is alright though. The new AS anthology is packed with a variety of interesting and enlightening poems from the likes of Wordsworth and Donne. Especially adore Donne's sonnet Batter My Heart, most fave poem ever!
I actually enjoyed reading a River Sutra - the Executive's story, teacher's story, and the Musicians story were really touching! But Caver's Short Cuts - hated the minimalistic style.
So damn nervous for Wuthering Heights!

Oh and OP, i'm actually regretting choosing this over Lit! At GCSE I'd obtained A*s for both language and literature - however my first sitting at the AS exam, came out with a disappointing C! But it is your choice I honestly am finding this course interesting and not at all boring, indeed, it is challenging me in a way I did not initially anticipate.

Ooh I will admit I loved the teacher's story! I did enjoy that one I'm not confident at all for the exam, I'm hoping my grades in Drama and Psychology boost my chances of reaching my offer. I loved English at GCSE and got A* for language and A for literature, but I really haven't enjoyed the past two years of it, I got an A in the coursework and a B in the AS exam.

Btw do you intend to memorise key quotes or will u look for them in the book during the exam? I NEED an A for this subject but sure am struggling so far!

It probably doesn't help that I only need a C but I'm not memorising the quotes because A. we won't have much time and B. we have so much to remember anyways. I suppose looking up quotes won't help your timing but you never know what question you'd get and whether any quotes you memorised could be used. Good luck

Incredibly so.

We did A River Sutra for AS Level, I've never read a more boring book. Full of sex and Indian people. Wuthering Heights for A Level, haaaate it.

Personally, I really enjoyed AS Level as the texts we were studying were really interesting (Kelly Gang and In Cold Blood) however I have struggled with A Level immensely and am sitting it for the third time next Wednesday. Our main text is Wuthering Heights and I've read the novel and really enjoyed it every time i've read it but in the last two exams i got 45/80 and i need 60/80 for an A.
I don't want to put the entire blame on the teachers but only one person in my year got above 50/80 last year and I don't think they understand the syllabus.

How is everyone revising for it? What thematic questions do you think will come up for WH? In January I answered a question on death but i can't remember what the others were on.

I want Landscapes to come up

How is everyone revising for the unseen texts?! There's only two past papers which I've done in class, and I've only revised for section B so far.

For WH I'm hoping that question on isolation/barriers/freedom comes up; I don't think there's anything for WH I'd massively struggle with, it would just be applying to partner texts that I'd have trouble with.

Are most people using partner texts from the AS course? We studied Kelly Gang and In Cold Blood. They're fine but I'd wanted to put in some of my own wider reading, e.g. I found loads of comparison points when I read Sons and Lovers and Frankenstein, but my teacher said it probably isn't a good idea because I haven't actually studied the texts?

I have revised all the terminology as well as the different types of genres and the different historical events for each time period for section A. I know i'll forget it all when i walk into the exam though!

I am not using In Cold Blood of Kelly Gang unless revenge or something similar comes up. I am mainly using books ive recently read such as The Diary of a Young Girl and Huckleberry Finn as well as Political Speeches I have remembered key quotes from. But what i will use entirely depends on the question i choose too. It's such a horrible exam.

That's a good idea, thanks!

I do struggle with the synoptic contextual stuff. I've found that with some of the past papers they do really benefit from a certain amount of general knowledge, e.g. geographical knowledge and historical knowledge way beyond the english syllabus. Which I think is kind of unfair when literally anything could come up!