Wednesday 14th May exam: English Language AQA A level

What did people put for Section B Gender?!?!?!

How did it go????!!!!

How was Section A -groupings? What groups did you choose?

What about Section B - who chose gender?

I chose gender but half way through regretted it! It was so hard to use theories to explain so I had to come up with general stereotypes from myself.

Quite tricky!

I think the texts were all good but I think I messed up Literally got about 3 hours sleep last night and just couldn't focus....

What did you put? Mine didn't not sound sophisticated or clever at all but instead a waffle

Same! (That's me by the way!)

I slept like 3 and half hours which was a really bad idea!

Grouping was hard - I only did two groups. I didn't get Text G - it was confusing what it was saying.

I'm quite embarrassed to say it! It's absolute waffle mine is!

I said women were portrayed as if they're machines. The shopping experience and the woman together is represented as if it's a game because of the word 'mission'.

And then the part about the woman asking the opinion and then comparing the man to a middle east envoy - I said it portrayed woman as animalistic lol! Is that even a word?!

My examiners just going to laugh when he/she looks at my paper!

I don't think I talked about the effect on the reader enough, and I was grouping texts together for example A, B and C for imperatives (this is just an example, I can;t remember what texts A, B + C were) and then halfway through the paragraph I'd say something like: Text B uses deictic language and then I'd just say Text D also uses deictic language (even though I didn't mention it in my initial grouping). IDK if this is allowed :-(

Section A- I grouped by spoken language features, pragmatics and imperatives
How did I do with these? good groups? what did everyone else do?

Yes they're allowed as you're overlapping which the examiners like. You probably didn't do as bad as you think. It's done - you tried your best.

Try to focus on your other exams now!

those aren't bad points at all. they were portrayed as machines 'programmed' and also as animalistic (which is a word). I talked about the extended metaphor of war as opposed to a game though like the middle east bit, then at the end it said 'patience and tact'