Help!!AQA gcse english literature exam unit 1!!
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Help!!AQA gcse english literature exam unit 1!!
Could anyone help please?!!!
i am really stuck on the exam revision, i don't know how to revise for the exams
I am doing the sunlight on the grass anthology and the of mice and men
How do you guys revise for the exam?
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Re: Help!!AQA gcse english literature exam unit 1!!
For of mice and men, part A is a question on a character or theme and part B is all about context. The book was set in 1930s America after the 1929 Wall Street crash.
Oh I'm doing sunlight in the grass as well. Here's the link for bitesize just click on whatever text you are studying. Scroll down to the bottom and there's the 3 sections form the anthology. Its really good stuff!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebit...sh_literature/
Happy Revising!
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Re: Help!!AQA gcse english literature exam unit 1!!Its about short stories(Original post by DE!)
what does the 'sunlight on the grass anthology' consist of? poems? short stories?
I did a slightly different specification to you I think ....:L but I did get two A*'s for English
I am aiming for an a/a* could you teach me how to revise for the english exam please?
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Re: Help!!AQA gcse english literature exam unit 1!!Its 30 marks each section and we are advised to spend 45 minutes on each section(Original post by panic king)
How long do you think we should spend on each question? And do you know the marks weighting? Thanks -
Re: Help!!AQA gcse english literature exam unit 1!!Ok(Original post by cloud19)
Its 30 marks each section and we are advised to spend 45 minutes on each section
thank you
So in the Of Mice and Men question when we have two questions do we combine the two in our answer? Thanks -
Re: Help!!AQA gcse english literature exam unit 1!!
Looking at... every past paper I can find, I reckon there is a very high chance of 'On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning' (longest title ever) coming up. Because I haven't seen it on any of them. So revise that one in particular because, it's not exactly the best story to write about, it's one of those stories where you completely forget what happens in it. Perhaps it will ask about relationship, or presentation of characters. The dude is a bit strange:
"Much as I like noses, I can't quite recall the shape of hers- or even if she had one."
Yeeeah. Okay.
For OMAM.
What has come up previously:
-Candy
-George and Lennie's relationship
-The bunkhouse (the extract was a description of it.)
KNOW THE CONTEXT. Part B will be about society at the time.
Know about the depression, migration of farm workers, the dust bowl, how women were viewed at the time, the American Dream. How does Steinbeck show this, the impossibility of the American Dream?
Revision for OMAM:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/micemen/context.html
Has EVERYTHING.
Revision for short stories:
http://www.youtube.com/user/mrbruff/videos
This dude has podcasts on every single short story and they are brilliant.
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Re: Help!!AQA gcse english literature exam unit 1!!I'm doing Relationships poetry aswell inn the Moon On The Tides anthology!(Original post by non)
I'm doing relationships anthropology why am I doing something different?
I'm more worried for An Inspector Calls and Of Mice And Men rather than the poetry though
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Re: Help!!AQA gcse english literature exam unit 1!!Hi, I'm doing OMAM too. You should do the questions SEPARATELY! It says "do part a) then part b). So do them separately(Original post by panic king)
Ok
thank you
So in the Of Mice and Men question when we have two questions do we combine the two in our answer? Thanks
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Re: Help!!AQA gcse english literature exam unit 1!!Thank you(Original post by Dandaman9999)
Hi, I'm doing OMAM too. You should do the questions SEPARATELY! It says "do part a) then part b). So do them separately
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Re: Help!!AQA gcse english literature exam unit 1!!30 marks per 1 big question, so you will be answering 2 big question (anthology short story a+b)/ (or inspector calls) Or of mice and men, the paper is worth 60 marks(Original post by panic king)
How long do you think we should spend on each question? And do you know the marks weighting? Thanks
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Re: Help!!AQA gcse english literature exam unit 1!!
I am sitting the same exam .. I am scared. Can someone help me here..because I do not get the second part question in Of Mice and Men AQA question. I meant like if it says for example: ....'present Candy in the novel/as a whole to convey....' - how should i answer it like do I look at the extract itself for this second part question or the NOVEL AS A WHOLE?
Please could u make it clear whether these two questions ask different areas in which Candy/someone is presented?
thank you guys. and yeah i have the exam 22nd May it's worth 60 marks: OMAM and Insptor calls -
Re: Help!!AQA gcse english literature exam unit 1!!Always refer to the extract, rarely in any other part of the novel. By "novel as a whole" it means how can you see from this extract the ways in which Steinback describes Candy or whatever the question is.,etc...(Original post by m.styles)
I am sitting the same exam .. I am scared. Can someone help me here..because I do not get the second part question in Of Mice and Men AQA question. I meant like if it says for example: ....'present Candy in the novel/as a whole to convey....' - how should i answer it like do I look at the extract itself for this second part question or the NOVEL AS A WHOLE?
Please could u make it clear whether these two questions ask different areas in which Candy/someone is presented?
thank you guys. and yeah i have the exam 22nd May it's worth 60 marks: OMAM and Insptor calls
For your second question, the first part of the OMAM question is on a character/theme and the second part is about context.

thank you