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Cambridge IGCSE English Language (May 3rd 2016) official thread

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Reply 780

FaisalNaeem03

Original post by Puddles the Monkey

What exam board is this for? :cookie:

UWhat's the exam code?

0522 IGCSE Cambridge

Reply 781

EnglishExamTomo

Original post by Puddles the Monkey

What exam board is this for? :cookie:

What's the exam code?

Cambridge, 0522

Reply 782

Aubergineator

Original post by Kevin:)

Can anyone please tell me if you lose marks if the summary is too short... I think i wrote just a bit over 100 words

I don't think you would lose any marks unless you didn't include the 15 points you previously listed

Reply 783

13384

Would i lose many marks if i got a little confused and thought that Mr Head won the competition instead of Maria? (I wrote like one sentence about it

Reply 784

Puddles the Monkey

Original post by FaisalNaeem03

0522 IGCSE Cambridge

Original post by EnglishExamTomo

Cambridge, 0522

Thank you - is this the official thread? I'll merge if so - that means everyone will be in the same place so it's easier

(edited 7 years ago)

Reply 785

I'm_infires

Original post by mint.skyscrapers

Can we just create a hashtag on twitter to get them to lower the grade boundaries :u:

This or just hope everyone nationally does worse than expected as well so the grade boundaries just naturally go down (although it's very mean to wish someone else did bad as well)

Reply 786

pugsofwesteros

q1) I repeated myself so much! Ugh I hated it and I missed out loads of development.
q2) Fine, until the second part where all of the quotations were awful.
q3) Also quite repetitive, but hopefully I get at least 12 of the points. :redface:

Reply 787

mint.skyscrapers

Original post by ellamoon_22

This paper was the hardest ive seen and done. THERE WERE TOO MANY INFERENCES. i started with question 3 which was my first time doing that the points were hard to find and the summary was just weird. Question 1 i only wrote about the first bullet point I didnt know how to word my thing and also I just got writers block. I knew the points but I couldnt write. WHY THE HELL WAS QUESTION 2 SO HARD. I couldnt find good phrases and also the paragraphs were so thim there wasnt a lot of choice

Question 1 looked okay but there were hardly any points. The paragraphs for q2 had barely any words and for q3 the points werent clear

Reply 788

tamanna___

Original post by vasuxx

i died in question 2 omg there was legit nothing

Omfg ikr there was nothing i had no idea what to write

Reply 789

Leighanna_

Original post by 0lut0

I nearly ran out of time to complete question 3b. There was 5 more minutes left so I just rushed my points. I pray I got atleast 30 or late 20's to secure that A.

Yeah the exact same happened to me! Had to rush question 3B but apart from that, I think it went okay 😊

Reply 790

ellamoon_22

Original post by vasuxx

i died in question 2 omg there was legit nothing

I did 4 phrases and general effect, general effect and 3 partly finished phrases. I am an A grade student and I actually feel like I got 15/50

Reply 791

JakeAntonyBrown

What did you guys put for the third point on Q1?

Reply 792

Aubergineator

Original post by 13384

Would i lose many marks if i got a little confused and thought that Mr Head won the competition instead of Maria? (I wrote like one sentence about it

I highly doubt you would but even if you did it would probably only be about a mark deducted off your reading mark

Reply 793

Leighanna_

Original post by pugsofwesteros

Try not to doubt yourself otherwise, you will begin to overthink! U tried your best, that's all that matters & you won't be the only one 😊

Reply 794

Dr Carlsberg

Original post by Puddles the Monkey

What exam board is this for? :cookie:

What's the exam code?

Cambridge International Examinations, i think its 0500/21

Reply 795

mint.skyscrapers

Omf i put one point for a3 and that was to look after mr head in hospital ffs im so dumb im a failure

Reply 796

username2219677

Original post by 0lut0

I nearly ran out of time to complete question 3b. There was 5 more minutes left so I just rushed my points. I pray I got atleast 30 or late 20's to secure that A.

same man when there was 5 mins left i was like oh **** and rushed summary. no time to check

Reply 797

sama5sama

Hey, well did you actually count the number of words? Because if your writing is small enough, you could hit just about 200 without knowing. How much did you write a4 wise?

I think if you manage to mention all15 points, even though some a wrong, you can still get 5/5... However it says write 200-250 words so im unsure? But let's say you get 4/5, you only loose a mark! That's one of the reasons they recommend us to leave the summary last, don't worry! :wink: