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AQA French Listening - Wednesday 4th June

POST EXAM DISCUSSION: page 3, starting at post 42.

Anyone else doing this exam?

How are you preparing/revising for it (or are you doing **** all, like myself :redface:

), and how do you reckon it's going to be?

Reply 1

DalekLover

Our class got given vocab booklets of all the words that can come up in the test (excluding the obvious, like et etc), so i have been working my way through those. Shouldn't be too difficult though, the german wasnt bad so i'm hoping they will be similar.

Reply 2

rachxl

11

I am absolutely petrified :O

yet I can't seem to motivate myself to revise :s-smilie:

o dear... hopefully my general french knowledge should tide me through...

Reply 3

strawberry_princess

13

Yeah im just going over vocab. We have done loads of past papers though and i always get between a high B and a low A* lol so hopefully will be ok

Reply 4

adam_1234

13

Listening's the hardest for me. I just hope I'm sat near the front :biggrin:

Reply 5

time.to.dance

8

listening (fingers crossed) seems to be my only strongest of all. and i hatehatehate writing and as for reading vocab probs is the main revision. since the listen. is in the a/n the whole morning will be spent going over the vocabulary. i'm hoping my best for the last questions for section a. they are horrible ughh anyway good luck evrn : ) x

Reply 6

sazzyb

i am scared but i think listening is easier than reading..
im hoping i get an A*, im just going over practice listening tapes my teacher gave me and ive got a vocab pack.
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Reply 7

j1991

Yeah I've been preparing for Listening ..I've got a tape cassette for a past exam which my teacher lent me ...so I'm jsut gonig to listen to that over and over again! Lol
and I've been learning vocab..also I've done soooo many past papers at school

So should be fine (Fingers Crossed)

Reply 8

DreamGirlx

I am doing **** all, just like yourself! Destest le listening... i always end up day dreaming haha

Reply 9

qgujxj39

OP

17

Well I have a CGP ultimate French book thingy, and that has a listening paper and CD, so I'll probably have a gander at that tomorrow.

What are the grade boundaries? Anyone know?

Reply 10

ojsimon

I dont know i think A* is around 80% if your getting over 85% you can be coinfedent.

Reply 11

girlofthenorthcountry

I can't understand how anybody can feel confident about French Listening! I'm just rubbish at understanding what they're saying. I usually get around 43/45 in reading and 19/20 in writing but I know I'm going to flop tomorrow's exam...
Is it true the grade boundary for A* in French Listening is 30/50? :s-smilie:

Reply 12

n_251

12

girlofthenorthcountry

I can't understand how anybody can feel confident about French Listening! I'm just rubbish at understanding what they're saying. I usually get around 43/45 in reading and 19/20 in writing but I know I'm going to flop tomorrow's exam...
Is it true the grade boundary for A* in French Listening is 30/50? :s-smilie:

I think people need to take the exam before they release grade boundaries but I would reckon an A* would be higher unless the exam is very hard

Reply 13

Princess_X

I'm revising by going through vocab sheets..I haven't done any revision for it yet though.

Reply 14

adam_1234

13

They wait until everyone's done the exam until they decide which grades go with which UMS scores.

Last year, for French A it was:
A* = 33/40
A = 27/40
B = 24/40
C = 21/40
D = 15/40

Just try your best though :smile:

Reply 15

Robbie10538

9

The boundaries in listening tests vary extremely from year to year because AQA are not very good at predicting how hard the tests are. The average for an A* is probably 30/40. A is probably around 25/40 and a B is about 20/40.

I myslef am hoping for a B/A and I'll let my A*s in coursework and (hopefully) oral bring me back up to an A.

Reply 16

RoadWarrior

15

The Section A is usually quite easy but section B (English answers) is hard. I might be able to guess most of the Section B :s-smilie:

Reply 17

sdiana91

17

does anyone have anything on the computer or know any websites that can help me revise for french?! I've got a french dictionary... but i'm not reading a dictonary for vocab!! lol

Reply 18

DalekLover

sdiana91

does anyone have anything on the computer or know any websites that can help me revise for french?! I've got a french dictionary... but i'm not reading a dictonary for vocab!! lol

Try the BBC bitesize website, they have practise listening tests.

Reply 19

Cyth

Gone through all the bitesize ones like 4 times, but some of the sound file links are broken? Thats about all i am going to do, lets hope its an easy paper.

And also, i hope a proper invdulator from the exam board better come into ours and set it up. For all the practice ones the player has been put on loud, and this totaly distorts the sound, and hurt when the people talk high pitched so you cant make out anything.

AQA French Listening - Wednesday 4th June

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