Ok so I screwed it up and I’m so frustrated with myself. Whilst English definitely isn’t my best subject, I’m still fairly decent at it and I can write top band answers. However, it’s the timings that are the real problem. I’ve always really struggled with time management (I already get 25% extra time) and it’s most apparent in my English papers - I honestly don’t think I’ve ever fully finished all of the questions in timed conditions. However, normally I at least manage to write a substantial partial answer (Q5) that can get SOME marks, even if it’s short and rushed and generally just mediocre.
But no, not this time… I spent way too long on question 2, which I was literally aware of at the time, yet I still JUST COULDN’T move on, no matter how much I tried. By the time I’d got to question 4, I only had 40 minutes left to do both remaining questions. I rushed through question 4, and what I did write was quite good but I couldn’t fully finish my point because I only had 10 minutes and I hadn’t started question 5 so I had to move on. I decided to do the description because I knew there was no time for the story. I was panicking so much because Q5 is worth 40 MARKS and I had NOTHING. In the end I only managed to write a very short paragraph. Like, only 3 sentences. I squeezed in some language features (imagery, similes, alliteration, tricolon), and it was relevant to the question, but I honestly don’t know how many marks that could scrape considering that I only wrote 5 lines. It’s just so annoying, because I know what I would have written and I would have done ok on the question.
I’m hoping to get a 7 in English language but now I’m really worried because I know that I’ve almost definitely lost A LOT of marks (I’m not sure how many: Q1,2&3 were very strong, Q4 was quite good but rushed, and I have no clue what my Q5 will get) and I don’t know if I can make up for it. I know I’m better at paper 2, which is relieving, but I don’t know how much better I need to do in that to fix this. Is it still possible to redeem myself? If so, HOW? HELP ME PLEASE!