Current Year 11 Thread Mark I (2014-2015)

I'm doing a music mock in a couple of weeks. I actually think most of my class will fail it as they just cannot be bothered


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How was it?


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Eurgh at my school they pressurise you with everything, we had to do them in the sports hall with the proper invigilators and stuff

Eurgh at my school they pressurise you with everything, we had to do them in the sports hall with the proper invigilators and stuff

Anyone else doing a general studies/critical thinking additional gcse? I think my schools forcing us to do it to try and boost our school's points in the league table :/

Did it in year 9. Possibly the most dull lessons I've ever taken part in


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ahah, we're not even getting lessons in it, tarts how desperate my school is

Oh I did the treatment of women as well, and I think I did Sonnet 130 I was speaking to someone else about it , don't know if you saw it but this is the best advice I have really, what I said to them was: For me it really helped me to do comparative paragraphs instead of a section analysing the Shakespeare and poetry separately; this makes it flow better and you can work from the points you've used about Shakespeare.

Mine was on the treatment of women and my Shakespeare text was Romeo and Juliet. For example I started off looking at Romeo's idolisation of women and linked it with The Sun Rising - both use natural imagery, they both elevate the woman's position to that of a goddess etc. Comparison is worth like 50% of your mark- try to find both subtle and obvious links and always remember to write about the similarities and differences in the writer's purpose, the effect on the reader, and social and historical context between the Shakespeare and whichever poem you're writing about.

When analysing the poems talk about the poem as a whole but also compare a certain line to one from the play. Here you can look at a certain word and talk about why it's important and why the writer may have chosen it specifically. Eg. Romeo says 'Juliet is the sun' using this metaphor to convey her radiant beauty, whereas Donne addresses the Sun directly saying 'if her eyes had not blinded thine' (well he says something like that ok it was a long time ago) implying that his lover's beauty transcends that of the sun and nature, elevating her to a position of idolatry.

Also, I planned mine completely at home and drafted it which helped loads as you can barely take in any notes. This way I knew exactly what I wanted to write when we were in controlled conditions and I didn't need to sit there for ages wondering what to write next.

Good luck! I hope you do really well

The WJEC revision guide also includes some useful tips which I'll include here.


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I quite liked studying Shakespeare. I liked Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and some of his poetry work; sonnet 114 was my favourite.

You could say he was very repetitive in his theme of romanticism in his work, which to some is offputting. I found it easier to elaborate on Shakespeare. I've always enjoyed studying his work

I just did lots of research on Shakespeare and made lots of notes, this really helped.


We have a Biology controlled assessment in October, so in the Biology lessons we're doing a lot of preparation; risk assessments, planning, evaluation etc.

On top of that, I'm preparing for my creative writing assessment which will be in late November. Creative writing is one of my strengths, so hopefully I can get band 5 (A*)

Good luck in your assessments. How are you finding Maths? Are you having cram in a lot for the November exam series of is it just a case of reinforcing what you've gone over?

Hi there I'm looking forward to year 11 so I can finally get an idea of my future I'm doing additional math English lit n lang math triple science Arabic geog ICT and that's it

Hello Are you enjoying your subjects? How are you finding the workload so far?

Are you just randomly going to take it with no preparation then?


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Has anyone else completely lost all motivation this year?

Motivation has been gone since the first day...

So much crap has happened to far and i'm in a stupid mess.