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AQA EngB3 2016

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I've been feeling really bad about how this exam went so decided to look for this thread. Looking through this has NOT helped, seeing that people have written like 10/13/37 pages overall because I wrote five and a half for the whole thing. I am now feeling really annoyed at myself and obviously now know this won't be a good grade. Can I retake this exam next year due to the change to Linear A Levels?

Yes you can still retake, they will have papers for those students doing resits (same as in history etc) However with english lang it really is about quality!! In class a 4 page written essay on language change got me an A* mark whereas some like 8 pages long have scraped Bs. As long as you feel you picked out some good things and used all the correct terminology etc you cant get a really low grade!!

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HeatherLaff

Original post by chlo563

I've seen people write 3 sides and get A's. It really doesn't matter, people tackle things differently so don't beat yourself up about it. What's done is done so don't worry about it :smile:

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Gapyearstudent54

Original post by TheFailingNerd

Yeah, everyone who did the exam at my college said they thought the language change went bad, I think it's because there was so little to talk about in the question I picked? Don't know about yours :/

I thought there was a lot to write about.. But I felt like I was sounding more like a lit student than a Lang...

Reply 63

TheFailingNerd

Original post by Gapyearstudent54

I thought there was a lot to write about.. But I felt like I was sounding more like a lit student than a Lang...

Lol well hopefully whatever you wrote sounded Englishy enough to get you AO2 marks!

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09mmb1

Original post by HeatherLaff

Literally everything hahaha

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