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AQA A Level English Literature A Paper 1 (7712/1) - 24 May 2023 [Exam Chat]

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Hi!
I was just wondering if anybody (or anybody's teacher's) have any predictions for paper 1 this year?
Any help would be really appreciated :smile:

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M00nlightt

Original post by Evil Homer

Added you to our official exam chat for this so more people see it :smile:

Thank you

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Evil Homer

TSR Community Staff

Original post by M00nlightt

Thank you

Welcome! Best of luck in your exams :smile:

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M00nlightt

Original post by Evil Homer

Welcome! Best of luck in your exams :smile:

Thank you! You too if you're doing them! :smile:

Reply 24

M00nlightt

Original post by annaramon

I'd also like to know some predictions. Did your teacher make any predictions, do you do love through the ages or tragedy?

sorry i thought i'd replied to this haha
I'm actually home-educated so I don't exactly have a teacher, i'm doing love through the ages tho :smile:

Reply 25

Fire dude

I've got some questions i am praying come up (does that count as predictions??) but basically for section c i'd be so happy if it was violence and love. My teacher says familial love could come up

Reply 26

M00nlightt

Original post by Fire dude

I've got some questions i am praying come up (does that count as predictions??) but basically for section c i'd be so happy if it was violence and love. My teacher says familial love could come up

yes either would be brilliant, especially familial love there's so much to say

Reply 27

username6141643

I am doing love through the ages, Othello as a standalone, Gatsby compared with poems, and unseen poetry. I'm currently stuck at a C and need a B to get into university, can anyone please help with any advice on how to bump my grade up? Thank you!! I am so scared the exam is literally in 1 week. I have been only revising paper 1 this week, and I am dying lol!

I am doing blurting, to try memorise key themes, points, interpretations etc...But the quotes for Othello i'm struggling with :frown:

I also do english language A level, as a whole separate A level (I know stupid of me) so I'm also stressing for that which is literally a day after the english lit paper ughhh :frown:

Good luck everyone, I'd love some advice thank you

hello

Original post by kaylawyse

hello

hello!! How is your revision going

Reply 30

Fire dude

Original post by M00nlightt

yes either would be brilliant, especially familial love there's so much to say

not gonna lie i'd hate familial love (i do wuthering heights so it would work well but it's just so mid)

Reply 31

Shivani390

Anyone got any predictions for the questions on othello and the awakening??

Reply 32

fig451

Original post by Fire dude

not gonna lie i'd hate familial love (i do wuthering heights so it would work well but it's just so mid)

Same, I do Gatsby and there are barely if none familial connections between the characters. It could be good for Shakespeare though (I do Othello)

Reply 33

Fire dude

Original post by fig451

Same, I do Gatsby and there are barely if none familial connections between the characters. It could be good for Shakespeare though (I do Othello)

i do winter's tale and it could maybe work? but from past papers i've worked out that shakespeare is generally specific questions and then section c is broad. if it wouldn't work for gatsby i'm pretty sure they wouldn't do it though right, cause that would just be unfair lol

Reply 34

dancingcabbage52

Original post by username6141643

I also do english language A level, as a whole separate A level (I know stupid of me) so I'm also stressing for that which is literally a day after the english lit paper ughhh :frown:

Good luck everyone, I'd love some advice thank you

For Othello quotes, try and organise quotes by character, e.g. quotes that show Othello as strong and quotes that show Othello as weak. Last year was a Desdemona question, so it would be good to know characters and their aspects really well. Then take your key themes and match those character quotes with the themes, so you have an overlap - e.g. "I will incontinently drown myself" shows that Rodrigo is in love in Desdemona and it could overlap with the theme of obsession.

Reply 35

yangoe

Original post by annaramon

I'd also like to know some predictions. Did your teacher make any predictions, do you do love through the ages or tragedy?

Original post by xo.lizziee

any predictions on the poetry/prose and Othello ?!

Original post by Fire dude

woo! do you have any predictions/ questions you'll hope come up for Wuthering Heights and poetry? I just did a practice essay on violence which would be a gift but I doubt it'll come up sadly

Original post by phiouebe

Hiya, does anyone who's studying Wuthering Heights and Othello have any predictions for the exam questions on the 24th?

I found some predictions for Othello and Poetry comparison that someone found on tiktok and posted in TSR

Should be good to practice with regardless of what comes up

(sorry about the quality, it's how they were posted)

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xo.lizziee

anyone know any more prevalent themes in Othello? these are all the ones I have - marriage / deception (infidelity and fidelity) / obsession / race / jealousy / women