Aqa English Language paper 1- HELP I MESSED UP

even if you do think u did wrong, u still have paper 2 which can boost up ur grade, so seriously dont worry

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ewarner2000

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Dont worry about it! (Dounds easy tk say i know). You arent the only one whi went iff topic- i ended up describing the bus then my feelings etc ( used an extended metaphor of the sea!). From what you said it youve got a strong part a (i haven't! 😁) and its still a bus journey just from a different perspective. Im sure it is great!

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Original post by ewarner2000

Dont worry about it! (Dounds easy tk say i know). You arent the only one whi went iff topic- i ended up describing the bus then my feelings etc ( used an extended metaphor of the sea!). From what you said it youve got a strong part a (i haven't! 😁) and its still a bus journey just from a different perspective. Im sure it is great!

Thank you so much, i feel much better now! Best of luck on results day :smile:

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Original post by AKA2234

even if you do think u did wrong, u still have paper 2 which can boost up ur grade, so seriously dont worry

Yeah, i hope so, thank you :smile:

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ewarner2000

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Original post by Jennifercullen

Thank you so much, i feel much better now! Best of luck on results day :smile:

Same to you, good luck 😉

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Original post by niamh787

My teacher went to an aqa meeting and the speaker said it's perfectly fine to go off the topic of the picture a little. It's good to be abstract! I doubt you will lose any marks at all, you still kept on the topic of a bus and the examiner might find it interesting that you've looked at it in a different way. Please don't worry about this, I'm not an aqa examiner but I seriously doubt you will be penalised at all. :-)

This genuinely makes me feel so much better, thank you !!!! Good luck with your paper 2 :smile:

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good luck to u too, dont stress about it, then it gets to ur head

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Original post by lolasmithy

First of all you need to calm down. Why are you stressing about how much you wrote?! It's quality not quantity and I'm pretty sure I only wrote about a page and a half. If you loose any marks for misinterpreting the question it will only be a few. You have still written something so you will not loose a hue amount. Please calm down

Yeah that's very true, sorry i know I'm stressing out its just English was one of the subjects i really wanted to do well in and i didn't really think anything through until after and i panicked aha, feeling much calmer now though so thank you

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trust me maths is worse than english, tbh i prefer literature than language, much more engaging and interesting to write about

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yh we all get that feeling on the subjects we want to do well in, so ur not the only one

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TheMentallBental

You'll be fine. as long as you managed to get descriptive skills, you will still get high marks. also, my teacher told me to try to write 2 side only.

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tbh doesnt really matter how much sides u write, even if u wrote one page it could of secured u a 6

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Moppet

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Hello

As others have said, don't worry because you actually won't get penalised at all :smile:

The question said to write a description suggested by this picture, not one about this picture or based on this scene. So your answer is completely relevant because it could have been inspired by that picture. In our mock people wrote a description/story about completely different things to each other and nobody got marked down. I'm sure that the examiner will actually like it if your description is abstract because then the ideas are original. I only wrote a paragraph or less than half a page for that question and my section A was not too strong, so don't worry, I'm sure you've done well :smile:

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