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Original post by Peachy23
Ooh, Mandarin! We don't have that option...I'm doing Maths, Economics and Physics. I have no idea what to pick for my last option! 
What do you tend on becoming?
Original post by OGGUS
What do you tend on becoming?
I don't really know :/ something to do with business...how about you?
Original post by Peachy23
I don't really know :/ something to do with business...how about you?
I want to do Chemical Engineering... SO you could probably obtain a apprenticeship or if you going to University try checking their requirements because that's what I did. Also try checking Colleges where you live that are specialised in Business.
Agh, absolutely ridiculous - my school had our history mock (it was absolutely evil) yesterday and today I found out that certain people within my own class cheated and had looked at both papers prior to it beginning and, evidently, had time to plan out their answers as they finished a whole twenty-something minutes before everyone else >_<
Consequently, I'm stuck in a dilemma in regards to whether or not I should actually tell my teacher (as we were all made to sign forms declaring our "academic honesty" at the beginning of the year). What should I do?
Consequently, I'm stuck in a dilemma in regards to whether or not I should actually tell my teacher (as we were all made to sign forms declaring our "academic honesty" at the beginning of the year). What should I do?
Original post by LeFeuilly
Agh, absolutely ridiculous - my school had our history mock (it was absolutely evil) yesterday and today I found out that certain people within my own class cheated and had looked at both papers prior to it beginning and, evidently, had time to plan out their answers as they finished a whole twenty-something minutes before everyone else >_<
Consequently, I'm stuck in a dilemma in regards to whether or not I should actually tell my teacher (as we were all made to sign forms declaring our "academic honesty" at the beginning of the year). What should I do?
Consequently, I'm stuck in a dilemma in regards to whether or not I should actually tell my teacher (as we were all made to sign forms declaring our "academic honesty" at the beginning of the year). What should I do?
Are you aqa? In that case the test was on the internet and personally I wouldn't class it as cheating when the teachers cba to find another test.
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Are you aqa? In that case the test was on the internet and personally I wouldn't class it as cheating when the teachers cba to find another test.
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Nah, edexcel. And I've scoured my school's database of past papers, edexcel's history page and the-like, but I've come across nothing vaguely similar to the one we got.
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Original post by OGGUS
I want to do Chemical Engineering... SO you could probably obtain a apprenticeship or if you going to University try checking their requirements because that's what I did. Also try checking Colleges where you live that are specialised in Business.
Thanks for the help! I'll look into it
Original post by LeFeuilly
Nah, edexcel. And I've scoured my school's database of past papers, edexcel's history page and the-like, but I've come across nothing vaguely similar to the one we got.
Ahh, that's what happened with us and loads of people ended up with A*. But anyway I can't really comment on your dilemma but personally I wouldn't snake as it would just complicate things. Hope you figure it out though
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Original post by LeFeuilly
Agh, absolutely ridiculous - my school had our history mock (it was absolutely evil) yesterday and today I found out that certain people within my own class cheated and had looked at both papers prior to it beginning and, evidently, had time to plan out their answers as they finished a whole twenty-something minutes before everyone else >_<
Consequently, I'm stuck in a dilemma in regards to whether or not I should actually tell my teacher (as we were all made to sign forms declaring our "academic honesty" at the beginning of the year). What should I do?
Consequently, I'm stuck in a dilemma in regards to whether or not I should actually tell my teacher (as we were all made to sign forms declaring our "academic honesty" at the beginning of the year). What should I do?
I think mention it to your head of year or head of department, and say you want it to be confidential. It's not fair if they all do better than you because they already knew what was going to come up. On the other hand, if people who don't usually do well get amazing results, I'm sure your teacher would notice. Besides, they're the ones with the guilty conscience and they won't be giving themselves a realistic idea of how they would do in the real thing.
Anyway, it's up to you, hope this helps!!
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Coursework-heavy week this week, but glad to get it over with so I can focus on revision Seeing the exam timetable makes it seem so much more real!
Seeing the exam timetable makes it seem so much more real!Original post by Déscartés
Ahh, that's what happened with us and loads of people ended up with A*. But anyway I can't really comment on your dilemma but personally I wouldn't snake as it would just complicate things. Hope you figure it out though
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Original post by Canttellyou
I think mention it to your head of year or head of department, and say you want it to be confidential. It's not fair if they all do better than you because they already knew what was going to come up. On the other hand, if people who don't usually do well get amazing results, I'm sure your teacher would notice. Besides, they're the ones with the guilty conscience and they won't be giving themselves a realistic idea of how they would do in the real thing.
Anyway, it's up to you, hope this helps!!
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Thank you so much
I'll definitely think it through.So what did you get in mocks then?
Original post by pursuedbyabear
Coursework-heavy week this week, but glad to get it over with so I can focus on revision Seeing the exam timetable makes it seem so much more real!
Seeing the exam timetable makes it seem so much more real!You've already gotten the exam time table?!
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Original post by OGGUS
Did anyone else fail the English mock exam?
in year 10 yep
Not sure what I got in the mock a couple weeks ago, but the teacher said I did amazing
Don't worry, exam technique will probably help you which you'll work on soon!
Original post by AnimeFreak101
I've got mine too!
Original post by LeFeuilly
Agh, absolutely ridiculous - my school had our history mock (it was absolutely evil) yesterday and today I found out that certain people within my own class cheated and had looked at both papers prior to it beginning and, evidently, had time to plan out their answers as they finished a whole twenty-something minutes before everyone else >_<
Consequently, I'm stuck in a dilemma in regards to whether or not I should actually tell my teacher (as we were all made to sign forms declaring our "academic honesty" at the beginning of the year). What should I do?
Consequently, I'm stuck in a dilemma in regards to whether or not I should actually tell my teacher (as we were all made to sign forms declaring our "academic honesty" at the beginning of the year). What should I do?
How did they find out the questions?
Did your school not use the June 2014 series?
The past papers for June 2014 aren't available online... could they have predicted the questions? (It's possible for History to predict a couple)
Like for the June 2015 exams I think something about "Nazi opposition" for Hitler's Germany will crop up, as it's new to the spec... Maybe something to do with Afghanistan for the Crises of the Cold War too as that's new to that section
For AQA B
However, I wouldn't grass if I were you because they only cheated themselves if they did somehow cheat... I doubt the teachers would be able to do much apart from lecture them on how cheating isn't good!
Original post by AnimeFreak101
Yes! A week or so ago now, I think - but we still haven't got our mock timetables yet (which start within the next few weeks).
guys what are your predicted grades and what type of school do you go to?
I don't understand why people want the mark schemes for the mock papers! What's the point of cheating and getting a bad grade, or you could work hard and get A*'s! 😂
Can somebody correct this please.
Explore the ways Steinbeck creates sympathy for Curley’s wife:
The novella ‘Of Mice and Men’ was written by John Steinbeck during the Great Depression, 1930’s. The Great Depression was a period of hardship for the majority of people in America as the country was experiencing an economic depression. (Should I write about George and Lennie being migrant workers or just focus the introduction on Curley’s wife) Curley’s wife is the only women on the ranch who is frequently discriminated by the other men who live in the bunk house. Steinbeck uses the themes of loneliness to make the reader feel sympathy for her. Women in America were still seen as inferior to the men.
Steinbeck uses metaphors to create a sense of desperation through the character ‘Curley’s wife’. Steinbeck describes Curley’s wife hair as ‘rolled [in] clusters like sausages’, ‘rolled’ and ‘clusters’ suggest the vast amount of time and effort she spent attempting to make her hair look elaborate. During the readers first introduction to Curley’s wife we can see that she is obviously concerned deeply about her appearance and how other people perceive her, otherwise she would have not spent so much time trying to make her hair look appealing. The readers pity Curley’s wife as she is so insecure about her appearance that she has to spend so much time on making herself look presentable. However, her hair being illustrated as sausages implies that her hair looks unattractive as sausages are fat and greasy with a mushy texture. Curley’s wife is determined to make herself look good. The reader can deduce that Curley’s wife craves attention because she would not have spent that much time doing her hair if it was not to get someone’s attention. The reader feels sympathetic for her as she yearns for attention.
Steinbeck presents Curley’s wife to the readers as very sexual and promiscuous character. Her face was ‘heavily made up’; she is attempting to make herself look elegant because she is infatuated with how people perceive her. However, she could have also plastered the heavy makeup on her face to hide the true, genuine self. She wears her make up as a facade. She could be embarrassed to show the true her so she has to cover it up so she can feel more confident. The readers feel pitiful for her because she is unconfident and has to use her make up as a mask to conceal her true identity. Her face could also be ‘heavily made up’ because she could be in an abusive relationship. The readers are aware that Curley is a fighter, he could abuse her and she has to cover her scars so people don’t notice that she is in an abusive relationship. (Do I need to back this up with extra information?) This creates a sense of sympathy because she is in a broken relationship, where she is being neglected. She can not leave the relationship as she has nowhere to go as she is a woman in a male dominated society. Since the ranch is a microcosm of America in the 1930’s, she was discriminated and maltreated on the ranch so this reflects how she would be treated during the Great Depressions.
She wore shoes with ‘red ostrich feathers’, the connotations of the word ‘red’ suggests: lust, passion and intensity however, it also suggests danger, violence and blood. Ostriches are birds that can not fly, Steinbeck could be portraying her as a woman who is stuck in Soledad and can not escape from there because she is a woman who is seen as inferior to the other men on the ranch. The readers feel apologetic for her because she had a dream but it was unattainable due to the fact that she was a women living in a prejudice society. Steinbeck is criticising the American dream because he believes that it was unachievable for a woman in a sexist society.
Curley’s wife is described as ‘jail bait’ she uses her sexuality and beauty as a weapon. In ways she is more powerful than the men because she is the only women, so she can use her power to attract men. Her being described as ‘bait’ suggests that her only use is to lure people into a trap, baits too are feeble and eventually die. Steinbeck could be foreshadowing events. She lures Lennie into her trap and he eventually dies. Curley’s wife uses her eyes to exert her power on the men. She uses her eyes to lure men into her trap too ‘her eyes travelled from one face to another’, Candy and Crooks avoid her gaze but Lennie ‘watched her fascinated’ by them and not scared by her power but instead trapped by it. Lennie eventually died. His death could show that Curley’s wife was nothing but a nuisance. The readers do not feel sorry for Curley’s wife as she is a troublesome character and catalysis’s dangerous events in the novella.
Steinbeck uses the theme of loneliness to create sympathy for Curley’s wife, being the only women on a ranch in the 1930’s was very lonely as the men saw her as inferior and less important. So the only way she can get the attention she craves is through her sexuality otherwise the men would not talk to her. She is trapped in a loveless marriage, Curley and his wife are actually seen together until the end of the novella and when she is dead he offers no companionship at all. He does not even touch her when she dies, Slim ‘explored her neck’, this shows that Slim offers more emotion to Curley’s wife, even though Curley is married to her. The readers feel sorry for her because she must have been so depressed in her marriage because no love was shown to her by her husband, therefore this must have caused to her to seek the attention of other men. If Curley had shown her more compassion she would not be as interested in Lennie so she would not be dead. In a way, Curley is responsible for the death of his wife. She is aware that ‘they all went’ ‘even Curley’ to a brothel. Maybe talking to other men on the ranch is a method her destroying her relationship by disobeying his order, not to talk to the other men on the ranch. This could be revenge for treating her inadequately. The fact that Curley has to get intimate with other women when he is married makes the reader feel very sorry for her because the whole point of marriage is commitment and he is not abiding by his promise. She gets ‘awful lonely’ even though she is married. She has the confident to tell Lennie that she is lonely must show severity of her isolation. The word ‘awful’ suggests that the loneliness is unbearable and she desire for some consideration. She has the life that Lennie, George and Candy want to achieve through their American dream. This is ironic as she has house that she does not want to live in and finical support therefore she never has to work again, where as Lennie, George and Candy do not. Yet she is still not content, she wants human companionship. ‘Glove fulla Vaseline’ suggest that Curley is only with Curley’s wife for physical desire not emotional purposes.
The fact that Curley’s wife does not have a name shows her insignificance on the ranch. The apostrophe shows that she belongs to Curley as his possession. This is also a sign of male oppression in the 1930’s. The readers feel sorry for her as she is not seen as an individual but an object; this makes the reader distressed as she is a human being who deserves respect and equality. Also the ‘glove fulla Vaseline’ demonstrates that Curley is showing off to the other men on the ranch. He is portraying it as a trophy. This makes the reader feel angry because something that intimate is meant to kept private not broadcasted to the whole world and this makes them pity Curley’s wife as she can not do anything about the situation because Curley wont not listen to her. In Curley’s wife final moments ‘Lennie’s other hand closed around her mouth’, this could be symbolic for men trying to silence women during this period of time. The reader feels sorry for Curley’s wife as she is not listened to by men on the ranch. This is similar for the life of a woman in America during the 1930’s.
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Explore the ways Steinbeck creates sympathy for Curley’s wife:
The novella ‘Of Mice and Men’ was written by John Steinbeck during the Great Depression, 1930’s. The Great Depression was a period of hardship for the majority of people in America as the country was experiencing an economic depression. (Should I write about George and Lennie being migrant workers or just focus the introduction on Curley’s wife) Curley’s wife is the only women on the ranch who is frequently discriminated by the other men who live in the bunk house. Steinbeck uses the themes of loneliness to make the reader feel sympathy for her. Women in America were still seen as inferior to the men.
Steinbeck uses metaphors to create a sense of desperation through the character ‘Curley’s wife’. Steinbeck describes Curley’s wife hair as ‘rolled [in] clusters like sausages’, ‘rolled’ and ‘clusters’ suggest the vast amount of time and effort she spent attempting to make her hair look elaborate. During the readers first introduction to Curley’s wife we can see that she is obviously concerned deeply about her appearance and how other people perceive her, otherwise she would have not spent so much time trying to make her hair look appealing. The readers pity Curley’s wife as she is so insecure about her appearance that she has to spend so much time on making herself look presentable. However, her hair being illustrated as sausages implies that her hair looks unattractive as sausages are fat and greasy with a mushy texture. Curley’s wife is determined to make herself look good. The reader can deduce that Curley’s wife craves attention because she would not have spent that much time doing her hair if it was not to get someone’s attention. The reader feels sympathetic for her as she yearns for attention.
Steinbeck presents Curley’s wife to the readers as very sexual and promiscuous character. Her face was ‘heavily made up’; she is attempting to make herself look elegant because she is infatuated with how people perceive her. However, she could have also plastered the heavy makeup on her face to hide the true, genuine self. She wears her make up as a facade. She could be embarrassed to show the true her so she has to cover it up so she can feel more confident. The readers feel pitiful for her because she is unconfident and has to use her make up as a mask to conceal her true identity. Her face could also be ‘heavily made up’ because she could be in an abusive relationship. The readers are aware that Curley is a fighter, he could abuse her and she has to cover her scars so people don’t notice that she is in an abusive relationship. (Do I need to back this up with extra information?) This creates a sense of sympathy because she is in a broken relationship, where she is being neglected. She can not leave the relationship as she has nowhere to go as she is a woman in a male dominated society. Since the ranch is a microcosm of America in the 1930’s, she was discriminated and maltreated on the ranch so this reflects how she would be treated during the Great Depressions.
She wore shoes with ‘red ostrich feathers’, the connotations of the word ‘red’ suggests: lust, passion and intensity however, it also suggests danger, violence and blood. Ostriches are birds that can not fly, Steinbeck could be portraying her as a woman who is stuck in Soledad and can not escape from there because she is a woman who is seen as inferior to the other men on the ranch. The readers feel apologetic for her because she had a dream but it was unattainable due to the fact that she was a women living in a prejudice society. Steinbeck is criticising the American dream because he believes that it was unachievable for a woman in a sexist society.
Curley’s wife is described as ‘jail bait’ she uses her sexuality and beauty as a weapon. In ways she is more powerful than the men because she is the only women, so she can use her power to attract men. Her being described as ‘bait’ suggests that her only use is to lure people into a trap, baits too are feeble and eventually die. Steinbeck could be foreshadowing events. She lures Lennie into her trap and he eventually dies. Curley’s wife uses her eyes to exert her power on the men. She uses her eyes to lure men into her trap too ‘her eyes travelled from one face to another’, Candy and Crooks avoid her gaze but Lennie ‘watched her fascinated’ by them and not scared by her power but instead trapped by it. Lennie eventually died. His death could show that Curley’s wife was nothing but a nuisance. The readers do not feel sorry for Curley’s wife as she is a troublesome character and catalysis’s dangerous events in the novella.
Steinbeck uses the theme of loneliness to create sympathy for Curley’s wife, being the only women on a ranch in the 1930’s was very lonely as the men saw her as inferior and less important. So the only way she can get the attention she craves is through her sexuality otherwise the men would not talk to her. She is trapped in a loveless marriage, Curley and his wife are actually seen together until the end of the novella and when she is dead he offers no companionship at all. He does not even touch her when she dies, Slim ‘explored her neck’, this shows that Slim offers more emotion to Curley’s wife, even though Curley is married to her. The readers feel sorry for her because she must have been so depressed in her marriage because no love was shown to her by her husband, therefore this must have caused to her to seek the attention of other men. If Curley had shown her more compassion she would not be as interested in Lennie so she would not be dead. In a way, Curley is responsible for the death of his wife. She is aware that ‘they all went’ ‘even Curley’ to a brothel. Maybe talking to other men on the ranch is a method her destroying her relationship by disobeying his order, not to talk to the other men on the ranch. This could be revenge for treating her inadequately. The fact that Curley has to get intimate with other women when he is married makes the reader feel very sorry for her because the whole point of marriage is commitment and he is not abiding by his promise. She gets ‘awful lonely’ even though she is married. She has the confident to tell Lennie that she is lonely must show severity of her isolation. The word ‘awful’ suggests that the loneliness is unbearable and she desire for some consideration. She has the life that Lennie, George and Candy want to achieve through their American dream. This is ironic as she has house that she does not want to live in and finical support therefore she never has to work again, where as Lennie, George and Candy do not. Yet she is still not content, she wants human companionship. ‘Glove fulla Vaseline’ suggest that Curley is only with Curley’s wife for physical desire not emotional purposes.
The fact that Curley’s wife does not have a name shows her insignificance on the ranch. The apostrophe shows that she belongs to Curley as his possession. This is also a sign of male oppression in the 1930’s. The readers feel sorry for her as she is not seen as an individual but an object; this makes the reader distressed as she is a human being who deserves respect and equality. Also the ‘glove fulla Vaseline’ demonstrates that Curley is showing off to the other men on the ranch. He is portraying it as a trophy. This makes the reader feel angry because something that intimate is meant to kept private not broadcasted to the whole world and this makes them pity Curley’s wife as she can not do anything about the situation because Curley wont not listen to her. In Curley’s wife final moments ‘Lennie’s other hand closed around her mouth’, this could be symbolic for men trying to silence women during this period of time. The reader feels sorry for Curley’s wife as she is not listened to by men on the ranch. This is similar for the life of a woman in America during the 1930’s.
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