Do you revise for French reading/listening exams?

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Reply 20

PricklyPorcupine

Original post by dolphins321

And did it work?

Also, I edited my reply and added in some stuff you could do if you wanted to :biggrin:

Reply 21

PricklyPorcupine

Original post by zhuzhu

We've done a LOT of past papers for French at school so I'm just hoping nothing out of the ordinary comes up for the actual exam and just go for it without cramming and stressing out too much.

Yeah, we did a few in school and for the listening, everyone kept saying how it was like a game of luck :tongue:

We have done about 2-3 of each reading and listening

Reply 22

chxrley

I got given a booklet of all the vocab necessary to learn for the exams, iv just gone through that today and then i did a past paper in listening and reading and got an A* in both so i guess that works well... hopefully tomorrow goes the same way. To be honest as long as you got really good marks in your speaking and writing it doesn't really matter how you do as your mark will get bought up

Reply 23

Dazzling_Belinda

Yes by learning key words and vocabulary from revision guides for reading i think past papers help.

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Reply 24

dolphins321

Original post by thechemistress

AQA

I'm WJEC B,

how many case studies do you have?

Reply 25

zhuzhu

Original post by PricklyPorcupine

Yeah, we did a few in school and for the listening, everyone kept saying how it was like a game of luck :tongue:

We have done about 2-3 of each reading and listening

True last year's papers on AQA had really low grade boundaries compared to previous ones- hope we get something like that.
What exam board are you on?

Reply 26

suzywithaZY

Original post by dolphins321

I'm WJEC B,

how many case studies do you have?

I have 11 for unit 1 (on Tuesday) and 9 for Unit 2 xD So 20 in total xD

Reply 27

sam_1997

Original post by dolphins321

What exam board are you on for geography?

AQA

Reply 28

dilkaran

Original post by crosbycasey56

YES Have you tried recording yourself on your phone going over questions or paragraphs that you think are essential for the exam and then listening to it over and over again until it sticks, like listening to a song and learning the lyrics. You could also get someone else to ask you questions on the things written in your book.
Check out this website as it may also help you: -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesiz... OR past papers

I hope this helps
Good luck in your exam

this is also good
http://quizlet.com/19581690/work-and-education-1-foundation-flash-cards/

Reply 29

crosbycasey56

Original post by dilkaran

this is also good
http://quizlet.com/19581690/work-and-education-1-foundation-flash-cards/

thnx

Reply 30

chxrley

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Original post by chxrley

Not 100% sure, but i suppose you could still get an A if you get high Cs in both listening and reading, but i think aiming to get at least a B would be best - the grade boundaries are normally really low so it should be quite easy

Reply 31

dolphins321

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Original post by dolphins321

Ok thanks, hopefully I can get an A in reading, but probably lower in listening. Thank you!

Reply 32

émiliemilia

for my french exam last year I revised the night before and used the workbooks that went with my course to go over vocab, also i studied edexcel and on the website there was a list of "essential vocab" which was useful as it's written by examiners hence those words come up. I was horrified when I came out as it was mega hard but the grade boundaries change regardless so I still came out with an a* so don't worry too much.

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Reply 33

Northern Downpour

Listen to a french podcast to send you off to sleep. Radio Lingua are amazing. I used to listen to their podcasts before sleeping because I find it hard to go to sleep at night and thought, well french sounds nice so why not. And it was really good! I listened to the ones near the end of the course and tried to keep up, and it's great because after the conversation happens, they slow it down and translate each little bit so you understand everything. By the time the listening happened, I found it really easy because it was so slow compared to the podcasts.

Reply 34

PricklyPorcupine

Original post by zhuzhu

True last year's papers on AQA had really low grade boundaries compared to previous ones- hope we get something like that.
What exam board are you on?

AQA- I cant remember the boundaries but I lost a couple of marks in reading and a few in listening :tongue:

Reply 35

dolphins321

Original post by émiliemilia

what did you already have for your speaking and writing grades?

Reply 36

Radical Lemon

Original post by Otter_

My teacher encouraged us to look over high frequency language that is bound to come up in the exams :smile:

Best of luck to anyone sitting the french exam tomorrow :biggrin:

Do you have a list of these vocabs? would really help :smile:

Reply 37

Rascacielos

It helps to go over past papers to get a feel for the questions. Also, you can "revise" by watching films, listening to French videos on YouTube and reading simple news articles on, e.g. Le Monde.

Reply 38

chloe_spencer

Original post by Radical Lemon

Do you have a list of these vocabs? would really help :smile:

This might not be your exam board, but this is what I use and I've got my exam tomorrow! Bonne chance! :biggrin:

http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/82150-vocabulary-list-general-and-topic-areas-1-to-5.pdf

Reply 39

Otter_

Original post by Radical Lemon

Do you have a list of these vocabs? would really help :smile:

If you have a edexcel revision guide they appear in the last few pages of the books. If not then i would advise going over verbs and adjectives. Also connectives and time expression appear frequently in the passages. I hope this has helped a little bit :smile: