Is French at AS/A Level Hard?

As a native French speaker who got A* and A for French GCSE and one-year A2 respectively, I don't remember ever having to analyse or read a French novel at all. I wrote an essay about La Haine, but mostly you have to talk about contemporary social issues, education, youth, drinking etc is the impression I got. It was nothing like GCSE or A-level English whatsoever. Which exam board did you use?

And S-Angel: it was easy for me, but I imagine it is more taxing for native English speakers, who seem genetically predisposed to be terrible at learning foreign languages lol. The main thing you'll need to focus on is learning the grammatical rul, especially their implications for word endings (courons, courez etc), accent use and sentence structure. I still don't really understand French grammar, I learned French naturalistically rather than formally.

A-level French is usually considered a major step up from GCSE in difficulty.

Can anyone who takes/took it tell me about your experience please? I'm taking it and tbh I'm a bit concerned about how much of a jump it is from GCSE :/

Not everyone who studies French studies the same cultural topic even when they're on the same exam board. For instance, I'm going to study Volver and the Spanish Civil War for my cultural topic in Spanish, but I know others who are studying the novel Como Chocolate para Agua and something else.

Vous avez étudié quel roman ?

We're doing Antigone. In fact, it's a play, which makes the vocab and grammar interesting haha.

Oh cool Which board are you doing?

AQA, although I'm not sure if there is a selection of books within the board or how the exam relates too it...I'm assuming an essay question. I always assumed I'd hate literature, but I'm actually rather enjoying it

Chouette ! I don't know what board I am on, but I know we have a 2 hour reading/writing/listening paper that includes an essay so maybe it's about literature Is that the only text you're going to study or are there others do you know?

Ahh That sounds like our paper! Although, I know we already have a geography based essay in the paper this year, so I'm not sure :L
I'm not sure if we will be studying anything else, I hope so! I'm also reading in my own time 'un sac de billes' which is really good too

Just looked it up and I'm doing AQA too! Are you doing A2 at the moment?