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Reply 40

melissabee

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You're joking?!? How on earth much would that cost?! :hugs:

I think the school is worried others will follow in our stead and want to do them (which would take money away from important things like paint for the corridors). To think taking AEAs would be revolutionary :confused:

Reply 41

Angelil

You can get practice papers from the OCR site.

I did the English AEA, really enjoyed it and got a Distinction :biggrin:

It was really nice to do an exam and not worry what I got in it, to just be able to enjoy the texts :smile:

Reply 42

Excalibur

I think different exam boards do the different AEAs. If you check on the QCA website (I think) it should give you a list of which exam board does what subject AEA, and there should be past papers on those websites.

Reply 43

Danny_777

Angelil

I did the English AEA, really enjoyed it and got a Distinction :biggrin:

It was really nice to do an exam and not worry what I got in it, to just be able to enjoy the texts :smile:

+1. I really enjoyed it!

Reply 44

Ossie1701

I did an AEA in History last summer and got a Distinction.
Is it worth it? I'd say most definately yes. Its not much extra work (in fact it's none, in the case of History - bar a three hour exam). And the exam was extremely enjoyable - I wrote about 15 pages (quality not quanity I know...) but I enjoyed every second of it. It was challenging but definately rewarding and did allow me to think outside of the box and apply scenarios to questions I had never really thought of - Its a fantastic exam and you'll almost certainly enjoy it.

Reply 45

Krystal

alrighty....thanks people!....ill have a look. It sounds excellent!

Reply 46

marshmallows

I'm gonna do one in Economics, from the looks of it, it sounds a helluva lot of fun.

cool, thanks

but gonna ask, do unis e.g. kcl, queen mary, bristol or leeds might make offers based on them for a competitive course like dentistry??

No.

The only Unis that may ask for it is Cambridge (engineering), and Warick in their Mathematics course. Even then it will be part of an alternative offer -

Eg - AAA or AAB + merit at AEA X.

Reply 51

Danny_777

Actually, I know a guy who has the option of scoring AAB+Merit instead of AAA for Durham Physics.

Reply 52

kellywood_5

Usually it's only Oxbridge that ask for it, and even then it's only for certain colleges and subjects, but some other very top unis have been known to ask for them for certain courses as well. It seems to be most common for maths and the sciences. I doubt KCL, Queen Mary, Bristol or Leeds would ask for them though.