GCSE English Lit

Not with any particular board, but has anyone studied the entire syllabus for GCSE Lit in 4 months (e.g. Sept-Dec) then taken the exams in January? Is it possible time wise? I know it probably is, but I may also be over simplifying GCSEs et texts in my head ^_^

I ask because I (foolishly - but I'm not the only one by far) only recently looked at my GCSE results in detail. My Lit result was a B overall; I got an A* in my coursework and one exam, but aparently a U and almost no marks in the other (which I highly doubt, given that other people have said they noticed something similar).

I'm supposing it's too late to have it checked out as it was nearly 2 years ago now, so I'm going to have to retake as an external to get the grade I need.

Reply 1

m8nmina0h4

15

I'm sure you could learn it all in 4 months... I'm sure most of the learning for this exam is done in the 1-2 months before the exam anyway, as although you would have studied the texts in class you wouldn't have necessarily memorised and learnt the necessary quotes etc.. I didn't actually read the book we're doing yet so will have to do that soon and will only be staring revision in the next few days.

Reply 2

xXx Eloise xXx

1

Why do you need to resit? Grade B is pretty good result. I would concentrate on the A levels.

Reply 3

Konnifer

OP

Yeah. I think I'll probably pick an exam board sometime soon, read the texts over the summer and do some analysis in the autumn.

Reply 4

generalebriety

16

Konnifer

Not with any particular board, but has anyone studied the entire syllabus for GCSE Lit in 4 months (e.g. Sept-Dec) then taken the exams in January? Is it possible time wise? I know it probably is, but I may also be over simplifying GCSEs et texts in my head ^_^

I ask because I (foolishly - but I'm not the only one by far) only recently looked at my GCSE results in detail. My Lit result was a B overall; I got an A* in my coursework and one exam, but aparently a U and almost no marks in the other (which I highly doubt, given that other people have said they noticed something similar).

I'm supposing it's too late to have it checked out as it was nearly 2 years ago now, so I'm going to have to retake as an external to get the grade I need.

Of course it's possible, if you're an amazing lit student and/or you do nothing else with your time. If you really are just a B-grade GCSE lit student, and you're currently at uni or doing A-levels or something, do you want to put yourself through that?

(Of course, your answer might well be yes, in which case go for it.)

Reply 5

Konnifer

OP

I am, finishing my A Levels this summer then looking at taking the GCSE after that. I need at least an A for the university courses I'm applying for.

Reply 6

Konnifer

OP

I'm not just a B grade GCSE Lit student (although my AS grade says otherwise - don't ask ^_^). Not that I would be sad about it if I was, but I really do think that the original marking was wrong.