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AQA GCSE English Literature Exams - 20th and 23rd May 2013 OFFICAL THREAD

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Reply 1860

Galileo Galilei

Original post by cycahm

Yeh hopefully!! What points did you make?

For which question, I chose to make the most obscure points to impress the examiner.

Reply 1861

sarahrimington

Original post by rihannagirl

yeah! what did you write for (a)

It was tricky! Erm I can't remember exactly haha... I know that everything I wrote I related back to context. I offered alternative interpretations :smile:

I wrote about the theme of loneliness and how there was repetition of the word 'eyes', which could signify the judgment of multiple people and outlining societies attitude - they automatically judge people with their eyes without knowing the person. The reader therefore can feel guilt and be moved by the emotion shown by Scout at such a young age.. Basically stuff like that! The list goes on haha, how about you? :smile:

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Reply 1862

queenly

Original post by sarahrimington

Anyone do the question on to kill a mockingbird?

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i did tkam! part a was annoying - i ended up repeating tension and suspense a lot, but i just tried to shove in as many devices as possible. ended up shorter than my other answers though. and part b i thought was pretty good? i mentioned the lynch mob, the missionary society ladies, the general prejudice and social segregation and how the town was making "baby steps" with quotes from atticus and miss maudie. so hopefully it went okay?

both pretty vague but i used that to my advantage to get a lot of stuff packed in.

Reply 1863

mathsfreak8162

Original post by sarahrimington

Anyone do the question on to kill a mockingbird?

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Yes what did you put for both????

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Reply 1864

cycahm

Original post by Galileo Galilei

For which question, I chose to make the most obscure points to impress the examiner.

Hmm like Eric? I talked about the "half assertive" thing saying how he's not what he seems and his views are not expressed which the inspector therefore helped him and then there was this fireplace in the stage direction and I said how Eric enters at the tense moment creating sparks. Then I talked about how he is violent and didn't respect women, I then said he was violent as he forced his way into Eva smith's house, I also then said he may have had similar attitudes to me birling as he said "not really" when mrs birling accused him of stealing money so he may not be sorry after all but then on the other hand he was sorry blah blah blah. And then finally I did a terrible conclusion
So overall I think I'll not get a very good mark in this :'(

Reply 1865

laylarose

Original post by ryanb97

hey i did ralph :teehee:

i started of by doing the beast then i thought.... i dont know crap about it... i only revised for the conch and ralph

then i switched..made a new plan and then scribbled like hell !!

i thought LOTF is always fairly good though - i think i did really well here!!

how much did you write??

oh and i hated the OMAM question to... i actually thought that he was to minor... grr.... hopefully i can still get an A

are you doing poetry on thursday..if so what cluster??

ryan

Truth be told, I didn't even read the second question :tongue:

I saw the first question and thought "Hell, yes!" and jumped straight into it. And well done, I'm sure you'll get that A :biggrin:

I wrote about 3 and a half pages.

And yeah, I am doing poetry. I'm doing the Relationships cluster. What about you? :smile:

Reply 1866

cleveradam

Original post by Galileo Galilei

For which question, I chose to make the most obscure points to impress the examiner.

Wasn't part B for OMAM on any character?
Obviously I talked about Slim/Curley/Curley's Wife/George+Lennie and American context.
As far as I can recall it was something to do with how does Steinbeck show hierarchy and status within the Novella and how does it reflect American Society.

Reply 1867

Avor

is two sides enough for each question?
and do you lose marks for not writing about a particular character?

e.g. only talking about slim & curley's wife part b

Reply 1868

queenly

anybody do sunlight on the grass? managed to misread the question as carla's relationship with the head instead of the head and teachers and answered that instead. luckily i had time at the end to edit and add in more paragraphs like the class divide that kenward symbolised and knot of teachers etc.

but i'm curious to see which stories other people did?

Reply 1869

amyyalice

Ok, looking through these comments, this has made me worry now! :frown:

I wrote 4 pages altogether... 2 on AIC, 2 on OMAM. Mind you, I do have reasonably small handwriting.. I made 4 points about AIC and 2 points for each question on OMAM... I'm just really scared that I haven't gone into enough detail or made enough points!

I thought the actual questions themselves were ok though! :smile:

Reply 1870

theslowbaker

Original post by cycahm

Yeh hopefully!! What points did you make?

talked about the suspense and the frog sticking without a light quote

Reply 1871

Arkasia

So...did anyone else do Mr Pip?

The Crucible went well, although I spoke too much about Act 2 and not enough about the ending. Mr Pip was beastly, I didn't even know that passage was in the book, and I read the book 3 times! I gave up and started talking about how Jones was preaching equality and pluralism through his presentation of outsiders :/

I got 40/40 for my coursework, so hoping I didn't screw it up too badly for an A* :frown:

Reply 1872

cycahm

Original post by Avor

is two sides enough for each question?
and do you lose marks for not writing about a particular character?

e.g. only talking about slim & curley's wife part b

I wrote about 2 sides and for b I only talked about slim candy and the boss so I think you'll be find but I'm starting to think now ill fail so :/

Reply 1873

Elm Tree

Original post by queenly

I spoke about when the wasps drowned. The relationship between Mum and children, and how she can be perceived as being a good and bad mother.

Reply 1874

medskarim

OMG. that exam was actually quite good! I was over the moon that Eric came up :smile:

wrote around 10 paragraphs - 10 points for that. hell yeahhhhh! :biggrin:

I wrote a bit less for OMAM, I only wrote around 8 points but MEH :smile:

one more lit exam and one more lang and im done with english :smile:

hell chyeah!

Reply 1875

sarahrimington

Original post by mathsfreak8162

Yes what did you put for both????

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You only answer one of the two questions :smile:

I answered part a.

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Reply 1876

cycahm

Original post by theslowbaker

talked about the suspense and the frog sticking without a light quote

You mean of mice and men?

Reply 1877

Follett

Is anyone else doing the place cluster for poetry?

Reply 1878

darkdrifter10

Original post by TAPTUT

OMG!THE QUESTIONS WERE PERFECT! The inspector calls one was on Eric and i had plenty to talk about-his social change-younger vs older generation... Then slim came up and i was like yhyhyhyhyhyh! I had plenty to write about-'understanding beyond thought'-through the use of the noun 'beyond' we can see that he perhaps transcends the conventions of the novel... then the second part was even nicer!It was not the same question re-phrased giving you the danger of repeating yourself!I talked about the ranch being a microchosm of american society-then talked about crooks and curley-the two sides of the spectrum.
I think we had i good and i feel sorry for the next lot because they will probably get the dogiest of questions!The only thing i think i messed up on was timing as i did not have time to read through any of my omam answer.But anyway THANKS AQA!
Any ideas on the grade bouandaries???

Yhyh i wrote the exact same thing with the beyond thing. I also said how the two closely interlinked words were seperated by beyond providing an effective contrast to show...forgot the rest

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Reply 1879

sr234

Original post by harris12345

did anyone do the second crucible question? if yes, what did u write?????

i wrote about how the characters use the witch hunts as a facade to hide behind , and how the fight against witchhunts was more sinful than any sin that occured which shows that Miller presents the idead of the witch hunts as highly ironic, i also talked about danforths role and how Miller uses him to present ideas about witch hunts, along with Proctor and Tituba. I am not sure if u answered the Q? :frown:

what did you write? :frown:

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