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Students react after A-level English Literature Paper 1 on 24 May 2023

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Books are dumb anyway

A-level English Literature Paper 1 has been read from cover to cover, and the reviews are coming in...

It turns out that wasn't the kind of exam you'd proudly display on your bookshelf – it's probably one that would gather dust in a charity shop instead.

Here's what the internet thought, as well as some quick links to chat about the exact paper you took.

Exam discussion on The Student Room

And this is where you can find the link to the directory of all of the individual A-level exam threads.

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Forget being earnest, it's more important to get easy questions

That paper was so bad…

…that there’s some pretty creative hate for the exam board

But the exam board probably won’t lose sleep over it

What people are saying about A-level English Literature Paper 1 on The Student Room

bro just did the english lit paper and it was srsly the worst thing ive ever done imo 😭😭😭🤡🤡🤡🤡

prettywindchimes

I didn’t even realise in the second poem she was run over by a train

ijernign

Gatsby was weird I did the second question but there was not much you could get out of the question

oceana16

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Article by Ryan Lunn on Wednesday 24 May 2023
Last edited by Nik Taylor on Tuesday 20 February 2024