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

Am I the only one that did Yellow Palm and Belfast Confetti??

Am I the only one that did Yellow Palm and Belfast Confetti??

For the unseen, I talked about the constant use of commas. They slowed down the reader which in turn could suggest she wants to slow down the growing up of her daughter. Is that a valid point?

Am I the only one that did Yellow Palm and Belfast Confetti??

Yup. Everyone came up with soooo many original, amazing and unique points!
Grade boundaries going to rocket up

Ugh i must be the only one who thought it was just ok the boundaries are gonna be so high

I loved this exam! When I saw Sonnet 116 on the paper I couldn't stop smiling: all my dreams had come true. I compared it with Hour, and thanks to Mr Bruff's video on Sonnet 116 I made a lot of references to phallic undertones and sexual references. I'd love to see the look on the examiner's face (I was desperate to find sexual references in Hour for comparison so I said 'cuckoo spit' was a reference to ejaculation, which is ridiculous but lol =_=).
The unseen poem question was really easy as well. So on a whole, it went a lot, lot better than the Unit 1 exam.

Unseen - I spoke about the 'bicycle' representing a cyclical structure of eternity and that she wanted to be with her daughter more which contrasts to when she says 'more distance'

I spoke about isolation of the word 'goodbye' and how that could be interpreted that the mother is on her own now wiithout the daughter and it shows the mothers isolation

Also about the structure of the poem looking like a cliffhanger and a block - block: the mother is the rock in the relationship, she is the foundation etc she is there to 'catch' the daughter - when she falls off of her bike and in life etc etc and the cliffhanger to represent how even though the poems story is over, it's not the end of the relationship with the daughter etc etc

I made reaaaaaaaally random points but can they be vaild? (I made more obvs but these were the more obscure ones!)

Thanks x

I think grade boundaries will go up due to the poems being so easy to predict this series.

Majority of my class did that. I chose Come On, Come Back. A few did Mametz Wood, though I'm not sure what they wrote, and a few Out of the Blue. Only 1 person chose the Hawk Roosting question!

I did too! What points did you make?