AQA A Level Spanish Paper 2 7692/2 - 14th June 2023 [Exam Chat]

So if its something about how the people en el campo treat death vs people en la ciudad, id structure it like this:

intro (introduce the characters, almodovar, and how the characters behave differently to death depending on where they originate- campo o la ciudad)

para 1: Campo : talk about how they mourn people, use mama irene as an example, how they are superticious about ghosts, how quick to doubt raimunda was when sole told her sister that her mum was still alive, how sole in the first couple of scenes of interacting with her mum was in disbelief that her mum was still alive
para 2: ciudad: How they dont believe in ghosts (how people were able to process irene as alive, also how raimundas daughter quickly saw how Irene was alive and didnt think she was a ghost), how quickly they move on from death (pedro's death and how no one really cared about his dissapearance)

*para 3: since this is such a two sided question, i dont think there is a need for a paragraph 3. but you could talk about how characters change their mind about their opinions midway. people who are in both el campo y la ciudad, you could mention characters like raimunda, sole and agustina.

conc: sum everything up
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With this structure i managed to get an A. Just remember to have a strong counter point if possible (by that i mean if the question is a "how far do you agree" question) and READ/INTERPRET THE QUESTION WELL!!! I lost the chances of getting an A* because of this.

I also made a drive with all the questions ive written for volver y como agua para chocolate, feel free to check it out! :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uihVq0FBBq4ReNQWMhrEMxA2obtlMnHc?usp=sharing

anyone do maria llena eres de gracia?

im doing laberinto and cronica, im so stressed coz i have sociology on the same day and I'm only gonna have 4 days to revise for both. spanish p2 is the worst thing ever

thank you so much for your drive! if you're gonna discuss it on snap count me in!

omg I do cronica and maria and I also have sociology the same day 😭 its stressing me out

im doing laberinto and cronica, im so stressed coz i have sociology on the same day and I'm only gonna have 4 days to revise for both. spanish p2 is the worst thing ever

Also for LDF, I'm pretty sure the theme of obedience has never explicitly come up in any A Level papers, only in AS, so it's quite a nice possibility

Nothing on Doctor Ferreiro too

same!! Going to have 4 days to revise como agua and laberinto. Like you said it’s worth the least and you’re only meant to write 300 words so it shouldn’t be a disaster. Plus 1 hour per essay is insane so there’s not too much stress

same i have sociology on the same day which is stressing me out bcs paper 2 didn’t go so well but writing is only worth 20% so i’m not gonna worry too much about spanish 😭

I do maria and cronica!!

Question: do you have to use quotes to back up your ideas everytime? I always struggle with the accuracy of the quotes, and they are quite hard to remember.

Hi everyone, I am doing El Laberinto del Fauno and Como Agua Para Chocolate for paper 2. I am feeling ok on the content that could come up for Como agua, and have a vague idea of some possible questions, yet im struggling to think of what questions could come up for Laberinto. Any help?!

Also for LDF, I'm pretty sure the theme of obedience has never explicitly come up in any A Level papers, only in AS, so it's quite a nice possibility

Nothing on Doctor Ferreiro too

What do you think it's gonna come up for Como agua

I think for Como Agua it will be a question based more on the women , for example Rosaura and possibly her differences from Tita, or the Mexican familiy traditions that are evident throughout the book. I feel like I am leaning my revision more towards these things, and also the kitchen?

omg i pray its like to what extent can como agua be considered a feminist novel OMG

Same! You could talk about so much with Gertrudis and even Tita at points, yet could argue the opposite with Rosaura and Mama Elena's obsession with tradition and sticking to the rules. If you look back at past paper questions, there actually hasn't been a 'feminist' question or even a question solely about the women at all, apart from that dreadful Luz de Amanecer question from 2020