OCR LRW exam A-level

Hi, i was just wondering how other ppl taking this exam were revising for it?

Any suggestions, i've been doing hods of past papers, i've got through them all and have started on the old alevel [in which you could use a dictionary!] but i don't want to go off track! Any suggestions? or revision suggestions in general?

Reply 1

welwyn

Immerse yourself in French for the day before the exam; speak only in French to everyone you encounter in the day.
For the writing, have a bank of at least 5 set phrases eg "il faut bien se rendre compte que..." which you can use in the exam. I think doing grammar now is a bit pointless as by this time, either you've got it or you haven't.

http://www.frenchexams.co.uk/news_video/index_300k.htm
- lots of French news videos and questions (I think) - vg for the listening
the BBC website is good for offering lots of activities
my school's French worksheet bit of the website is also quite good: http://www.marling.gloucs.sch.uk/frenchweb/wrkmenu.htm

bonne chance

Reply 2

blondemoment

Thanks welwyn thats excellent advice! i take that you have already done yours?

Reply 3

welwyn

well.. I do Edexcel, and the exam isn't until the 28th June (!) and then I'm doing the AEA which I think is OCR and is the day afterwards.

It's convenient because I can leave any revision until a long way away - but I find that for French it's less a case of 'revising' so to speak (compared to, for example, Physics or Geography), but of constant low-level Frenchness. Listening to French radio or TV each day is excellent because they speak really fast, so when it comes to the listening exam the people will seem to talk very slowly. There's so much material available to complement learning French (eg on the internet, textbook, books for reading, etc), that as long as you do something 'extra-curricular', revision shouldn't be too much of a worry.