Edexcel GCSE English Literature Paper 1 (1ET0 01) - 17th May 2023 [Exam Chat]

gcse2023!

How did it go guys? How did you find it?

for OMAM it was a bit unexpected. theme was responsibility!
of allll the 10 themes I had prepared for, seeing this was a bit of a set back to be honest.
poems wise i think i did well.
unseen poetry wasnt too bad either.
now fingers crossed for the most important 40 marker!
i did manage to write 5 paragraphs and 11 quotes.
hope it pays off..

Reply 61

kimayamansi

1

Am I the only one that did mystery? None of my friends did it either

Reply 62

kimayamansi

1

Original post by minwom28818

I am the only person I talked to who did mystery, and the reason why I chose it is because I thought I would repeat myself with the younger gens one

I did mystery too but I kind of waffled and likens it to inspecting and time and stuff

Reply 63

18burrowsd

2

Original post by greenthing

Ahoy, does anyone have any predictions for Journey's End or Macbeth?

Ahoy! How did it go? I do those two plays too!

Reply 64

18burrowsd

2

Original post by mois56

What extract came up for Macbeth? What was the theme?

The scene was Lady Macbeth emasculating Macbeth saying 'when you durst do it then you were a man' and 'dash'd the brains out' and all that

Reply 65

Lil Sumi

4

Macbeth was super nice and animal farm was pretty easy to since the theme was education

Reply 66

emilyworrell

6

i can’t belive we got lady macbeth and power i was smiling at the paper

journeys end got me a little bit because they gave us two themes to chose from instead of a character and a theme but i picked bravery and did about raleigh, stanhope and osborne

overall not to bad but happy it’s done, well done guys

Reply 67

18burrowsd

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Original post by emilyworrell

i can’t belive we got lady macbeth and power i was smiling at the paper

journeys end got me a little bit because they gave us two themes to chose from instead of a character and a theme but i picked bravery and did about raleigh, stanhope and osborne

overall not to bad but happy it’s done, well done guys

yesss it was quite a nice paper actually definitely not as scary as i thought!

Reply 68

emilyworrell

6

same i was prepared for a lot worse so it was a relief to see that extract and lady macbeth

Original post by 18burrowsd

yesss it was quite a nice paper actually definitely not as scary as i thought!

Reply 69

MacbethHater

1

no wonder u on foundation hahahahahahahahah

Reply 70

brain cells

Original post by sara572729

can u give grade 9 j&h analysis points bc I often struggle with Jekyll and Hyde

Oh my God! I am so sorry for not being able to check this sooner :frown:

I've been having some issues with my internet connection lately. Unfortunately, I don't study Jekyll and Hyde but I strongly recommend watching Mr Salles playlist on Jekyll and Hyde on Youtube! He explains and analyses the pieces in a great amount of detail and I'm certain it would be of much use :smile:

Yet again apologies for not having read this sooner!

Reply 71

brain cells

Original post by h11huang

How do you think I should go about structuring my part b whole text questions as I'm not too sure what do to.

Sorry for not having read this sooner!!!!!! Of course it's most definitely too late to answer this now but I'm sure you did amazingly well so don't worry too much about the part b! As long as you made sure your answer linked back to the question then there's no doubt in my mind that you've aced it! :smile:

Reply 72

misa!!

10

Original post by sara572729

It was such a slay question but omg mystery for aic wth mate

icl whar would u even write ab mystery the only thing i can think of is inspectro cools - icl edexcel were so good w this paper though it could have been sm worse

Reply 73

IAMTHETOPG

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bruv that was the easiest paper iv ever done

(edited 11 months ago)

Reply 74

sara572729

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Original post by misa!!

icl whar would u even write ab mystery the only thing i can think of is inspectro cools - icl edexcel were so good w this paper though it could have been sm worse

Honestly I have no clue but grade boundaries are gonna be out of the roof so I’m very scared for that

Reply 75

sara572729

13

Original post by brain cells

Oh my God! I am so sorry for not being able to check this sooner :frown:

I've been having some issues with my internet connection lately. Unfortunately, I don't study Jekyll and Hyde but I strongly recommend watching Mr Salles playlist on Jekyll and Hyde on Youtube! He explains and analyses the pieces in a great amount of detail and I'm certain it would be of much use :smile:

Yet again apologies for not having read this sooner!