AQA A2 English Literature 2016 - Love Through The Ages. Official Thread

Yeah 120ums excluding the re-take; when you say much higher how much would I need?

An A is 320, so we'll divide that by 2, to get 160.

Your A2 coursework gets you 57:

160 - 57 = 103.


64 raw marks in the A2 exam (last year's grade boundaries) gets you 104, so I'd say you need 159 at AS to meet the minimum requirements for your A, going off of last year. Does that make sense?

Don't get too upset! The chief examiner said in a talk he gave that he frequently reads answers that he believes are completely wrong, but if they've used evidence from the text and done the rest of the AOs well then they don't lose many marks

try not to worry about it! I'm sure you've done brilliantly!
At the beginning of each mark scheme, they tell examiners to reward students marks for their own interpretations, as long as they support it with evidence :-)

I'm pretty sure there's no right or wrong answers with English, as long as you back up your point x

Thank youuu,
I really hope the examiner sees that I have analysed and used evidence to support my interpretation

Yeah, I'm sure they will. If not, the examiners marks get sent to a head examiner (which is what my teacher is) and they'll check whether the examiner has been fair and awarded points where people have supported their own interpretations.

I'm sure you'll do fine, everyone across the country interprets texts differently... they can't expect everyone to get it right!

Thank you for your reassurance!!

I really do hope so

That's okay!
We need to be reassuring and helping each other out in times like these:-)

Do you think the grade boundaries will be a lot higher and meaner this year?

I've been told by my teacher that it all depends on how the country does... For example, the top 2% of the country will get A*s, the top 10% will get A's etc...

I'm pretty sure that's how it works!

It's the top 10% who get A*, that's why you need 360/400 (90%) UMS for an A*. It's those who are in the top 20% but not in the top 10% who get A's, etc.

Everybody's grades will fall on a bell curve, with a few people who did amazingly, a few who did not so amazingly, and most people being towards the middle. They'll then begin splitting up the curve so that the top 10% gets an A*, and work out what the lowest member of this A* category got - this is the grade boundary mark for the A*. They do this for each percentile until they have accounted for grades A* to E/U.

This is the same for all subjects, if you're wondering how it'll apply for your other subjects.

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Do you have an idea of what the grade boundaries for an A/A* might be this year?

really enjoy this topic, but my teacher hasn't even picked our third coursework text :/ kind of annoying as i do want to start reading/researching around it (or at least have the ability to do so haha)

so far we've read the great gatsby which i LOVED and now we're doing othello which is a bit more difficult to grasp as we're going through it so quickly but it's interesting

I think it'll be higher, to be honest. Not by much, maybe a few marks, but the general consensus is that this paper was better than last year's.


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Didn't last year's exam have that esoteric Samuel Beckett play? (Krapp's Last Tape or something?) That was pretty rough.

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