AQA AS Unit 1 French exam 21st May 2013

Reply 280

squishysquid

Original post by sn96

Thank you

Would that mean there's a chance of it balancing out a bit / getting a C if I have completely messed up?

Hopefully

how did you find the exam overall?

Reply 281

bourboncreams

Original post by maddyt08

How much did everyone else write for their essays? Reading that people wrote 4 sides is worrying me - I wrote, and have written for all my essays, about 2, or a bit less. Is this too little?

I wrote 2 sides as well and I've got good grades for essays writing that much. I think it's quality that's most important rather than quantity :smile:

Reply 282

squishysquid

Original post by sn96

Thank you

Would that mean there's a chance of it balancing out a bit / getting a C if I have completely messed up?

Hopefully

How did you find the exam overall?

Reply 283

Rooroo96

4

Also madr grandant mistake :'( the subjunctive was in the teading though! :biggrin:

and the last qn in grammar was imperfect+conditional right? Then the others were masculins, s'agir, positive, monoparentales, aient...

Reply 284

Rooroo96

4

Will the grade boundary for an A be any lower than say 85? I think thats thr liwest ive ever seen it and this was deffo the hardest paper considering all my mocks :'( at least the essays were good, the last listening wn marriage, birth divore etc and the cafe and speed dating were just awful though :'( i found those the hardest, and timeeeee was a big problem, ahhhhh hopefully still an A, id be gutted if i got a b considering i havent in the mocks :'( such a hard paper

Reply 285

sn96

Original post by squishysquid

Hopefully

How did you find the exam overall?

I'm not really sure... I thought the listening went quite well, it's just a couple of the reading parts and that question 9 that shook me... Am thinking that there're probably a lot more silly mistakes I made in it....

For the essay question I managed about 4 sides, but didn't really have time to look over it so it might have been quite repetitive. I think I might have messed up a few of the tenses in there too :frown:

I've got a History exam tomorrow too... None of my exams this year seem to have gone to plan though :s-smilie:

Reply 286

Rooroo96

4

I only wrote 3 pages here which for me made time an issue for the other sections, but usually i write 2 and half and ive gotten 30/35 for that so hopefully all is good, a long as you're points are relevant, to the qn, well expressed, range of structures and a few eye catching vocab words then you should be fine

Reply 287

squishysquid

Original post by sn96

I'm not really sure... I thought the listening went quite well, it's just a couple of the reading parts and that question 9 that shook me... Am thinking that there're probably a lot more silly mistakes I made in it....

For the essay question I managed about 4 sides, but didn't really have time to look over it so it might have been quite repetitive. I think I might have messed up a few of the tenses in there too :frown:

I've got a History exam tomorrow too... None of my exams this year seem to have gone to plan though :s-smilie:

I'm sure you have done better than you think :smile:

I wrote 2 pages for the essay but I have quite small writing, so I hope I've done ok. Good luck for your History exam tomorrow :biggrin:

Reply 288

sh7171

Anyone got uniform answers?

Reply 289

sh7171

Can anyone remember answers from the café breaks one?

Reply 290

babybunty97

5

Original post by tomj45

There there, we all made that same mistake :console:

I feel a lot better now, thank you :wink:

Reply 291

milworthy

1

I thought the uniform was a bit deceptive

I can remember the bottom one on the first page being P/N and I think the top one of the second page was N. The one I was confused about was the one where he started complaining about le systeme actuel but didn't really mention uniform- I put P because he didn't like the current non uniform so he must think that uniform is good?

Reply 292

sandra95.p

Does anyone have an unofficial mark scheme? It would help a lot :smile:

I found the listening question in which you had to write in french quite difficult, also the grammar question was pretty difficult compared to the previous years!

Reply 293

bourboncreams

I'm determined to remember all the grammar questions! So far I've got:
comprendre -compris
reconnaitre - reconnu
s'agir - s'agir
monoparental - monoparentales
grandir - grandissant
avoir - aient
eviter - eviterait
masculin - masculins
can anyone help me to remember the last two?

Reply 294

milworthy

1

Original post by bourboncreams

I'm determined to remember all the grammar questions! So far I've got:
comprendre -compris
reconnaitre - reconnu
s'agir - s'agir
monoparental - monoparentales
grandir - grandissant
avoir - aient
eviter - eviterait
masculin - masculins
can anyone help me to remember the last two?

There was a pourraient in there somewhere and a positive

Reply 295

sn96

Original post by bourboncreams

I'm determined to remember all the grammar questions! So far I've got:
comprendre -compris
reconnaitre - reconnu
s'agir - s'agir
monoparental - monoparentales
grandir - grandissant
avoir - aient
eviter - eviterait
masculin - masculins
can anyone help me to remember the last two?

Ahh, are these definitely right? I think I put reconnu :biggrin:

I've heard the others were 'positif --> positive' and I think another one was 'pouvoir'? I put pourraient for the latter but not sure if it's right? *It was a future question*
Also, does anyone know the context that positif was in? (The sentence surrounding it? Still can't remember what I put for it, but guessing if there was an obvious -e ending I'd have put positive...)

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Reply 296

sn96

Original post by squishysquid

I'm sure you have done better than you think :smile:

I wrote 2 pages for the essay but I have quite small writing, so I hope I've done ok. Good luck for your History exam tomorrow :biggrin:

Hopefully! Some of the answers coming up here seem to remind me of things I might have put, so maybe I did a bit better :') And I'm sure that's fine - mine seemed a bit rambling on, and I put a line space in between paragraphs so that spaced it out a little too ^_^ Thanks!