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Original post by alishba-rosex
How was conflict? As soon as I saw that, it kinda threw me off lol and don't even get me started on Lennie's death


n conflict was relatively easy in terms of it's content, but I feel like I didn't use enough quotes to back up my points. Is it better to state a quote and explain in in detail or do loads of little quotes?


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Original post by WJGR
Thank you very much, does anyone know this for sure as i am worrying!


Don't worry, I saw someone did this in a psychology exam last week and they tweeted AQA asking what would happen - AQA said that the examiner will just work out which question was being answered, you won't lose any marks! :smile:
Original post by mollycatb
I failed that question so bad I swear I'm gonna get like 3 marks, but I just had to move on



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Aw no you gotta stay positive, and there's still poetry:smile:
I'm getting really stressed about mine as well...in the LOTF section I wrote way too much about civilisation and savagery and I'm worried I won't get any credit for it because the question was about good and evil.

In the OMAM section I wrote a decent amount for the first question but only had 10 mins for the second because I forgot how to read a clock in the stress of exam so I just wrote some rubbish about Slim and Candy.

In other news, after the Literature calamity, the Religious Studies exam went really well.

I'm just getting really stressed and annoyed with myself because I want an A sooooo badly but it's probably not gonna happen.
Original post by mollycatb
n conflict was relatively easy in terms of it's content, but I feel like I didn't use enough quotes to back up my points. Is it better to state a quote and explain in in detail or do loads of little quotes?


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Both are equivalently good, as long as you link ithe quotes back to the question
Original post by MForster1
I'm getting really stressed about mine as well...in the LOTF section I wrote way too much about civilisation and savagery and I'm worried I won't get any credit for it because the question was about good and evil.

In the OMAM section I wrote a decent amount for the first question but only had 10 mins for the second because I forgot how to read a clock in the stress of exam so I just wrote some rubbish about Slim and Candy.

In other news, after the Literature calamity, the Religious Studies exam went really well.

I'm just getting really stressed and annoyed with myself because I want an A sooooo badly but it's probably not gonna happen.



You will get the A, you need to believe in yourself:smile: and what re exam did you do?
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I feel awful about my exam too, I feel like I panicked too much and didn't really get to express my views within the time constraints and under pressure. English is my strongest subject which makes it a whole lot worse lol
Original post by alishba-rosex
You will get the A, you need to believe in yourself:smile: and what re exam did you do?


Thanks for the inspiration! I just...I honestly don't know what happened. My timings kept slipping behind and I had a couple of mindblanks. It was hell in that exam hall.

English Lit is my worst subject anyway but I really thought I'd be able to pull it together for this exam. I couldn't.

I sat AQA Religious Studies Unit 3 which required pretty much zero revision. I wrote more for that exam than I did for Lit and 2 of the questions weren't in my revision book, so yeah, it went really well.
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Original post by Triggsy
Don't worry, I saw someone did this in a psychology exam last week and they tweeted AQA asking what would happen - AQA said that the examiner will just work out which question was being answered, you won't lose any marks! :smile:


Thank you was that because they ticked the wrong one or didnt tick it at all? I
ticked the wrong one?!
Original post by MForster1
Thanks for the inspiration! I just...I honestly don't know what happened. My timings kept slipping behind and I had a couple of mindblanks. It was hell in that exam hall.

I sat AQA Religious Studies Unit 3 which required pretty much zero revision. I wrote more for that exam than I did for Lit and 2 of the questions weren't in my revision book, so yeah, it went really well.



That's okay and I totally agree! It was so eerie and weird, but then you had to get your head down

And oh, I did unit 2 for re which really isn't my forte but I did my best haha. Do you have any tips on how to memorise the content and do the 6 marks to a good standard?
I wrote complete rubbish for my exam and the timing was horrible. I chose the conflict question and wrote about the conflict between Birling and the Inspector, the conflict between Sheila and her family and the conflict between Gerald and himself (no idea how I came up with that last point tbh, it was just bs)
Then for of mice and men I just wrote about Candy's dream and Lennie's dream in part b. Part A was just a load of rubbish too
Plus, my handwriting was disgusting because of the timing
I basically did so bad since the structures of my paragraphs were just messed up
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Original post by mollycatb
Hey guys,

I sat my English Literature paper today and I'm feeling really bad about it.

I chose the question on conflict and I elaborated on the conflict within the characters, the impending warfare, the conflict between the classes and Eric's conflict between himself and his family.

Is it bad that I said that Eric's drinking habits could illustrate his detachment from the socialist doctrine as he is evidently uninhibited my the prospect of tainting his family's reputation and how as a result, he's more receptive to The inspectors overall message of societal unity? Feel like I've messed up.

I also only had 20 minutes to write the Of Mice and Men section and I I started talking utter rubbish about how the patriarchy and economic instability of the 1930s makes it impossible for the American dream to be attainted.

So done w life lol


I swear Eric didn't come up on this exam, the first question for "an inspector calls" was how the inspector and arthur birling are different?
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Original post by mollycatb
Hey guys,

I sat my English Literature paper today and I'm feeling really bad about it.

I chose the question on conflict and I elaborated on the conflict within the characters, the impending warfare, the conflict between the classes and Eric's conflict between himself and his family.

Is it bad that I said that Eric's drinking habits could illustrate his detachment from the socialist doctrine as he is evidently uninhibited my the prospect of tainting his family's reputation and how as a result, he's more receptive to The inspectors overall message of societal unity? Feel like I've messed up.

I also only had 20 minutes to write the Of Mice and Men section and I I started talking utter rubbish about how the patriarchy and economic instability of the 1930s makes it impossible for the American dream to be attainted.

So done w life lol



I swear Eric didn't come up on this exam, it asked us to talk about the difference between the inspector and Arthur birling, and the second question was about women
Original post by alishba-rosex
That's okay and I totally agree! It was so eerie and weird, but then you had to get your head down

And oh, I did unit 2 for re which really isn't my forte but I did my best haha. Do you have any tips on how to memorise the content and do the 6 marks to a good standard?


All I did was learn a bunch of generic quotes that can apply to pretty much anything ("Love your neighbour", "All life was created by Allah" etc.). After that I learnt the definitions and some more specialised quotes ("Fruit of the vine", "God gave them herb" etc.). Then I went over it during lunch today. Most of the information is either very basic or just common sense. Oh, by the way, choose the topics with the least content to learn. That makes everything a lot easier.

For the 6 mark questions, I do this 3-step process:
1. My opinion, with non-religious arguments (doesn't have to be actual beliefs)
2. Religious agreement quotes
3. Religious disagreement quotes

Anyway, now I have to learn some Electronics for tomorrow's exam...fun fun fun.
Original post by Psykotic
I swear Eric didn't come up on this exam, the first question for "an inspector calls" was how the inspector and arthur birling are different?


Nah mine was about conflict, I used Eric to represent the conflict between him and his family


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Original post by MForster1
All I did was learn a bunch of generic quotes that can apply to pretty much anything ("Love your neighbour", "All life was created by Allah" etc.). After that I learnt the definitions and some more specialised quotes ("Fruit of the vine", "God gave them herb" etc.). Then I went over it during lunch today. Most of the information is either very basic or just common sense. Oh, by the way, choose the topics with the least content to learn. That makes everything a lot easier.

For the 6 mark questions, I do this 3-step process:
1. My opinion, with non-religious arguments (doesn't have to be actual beliefs)
2. Religious agreement quotes
3. Religious disagreement quotes

Anyway, now I have to learn some Electronics for tomorrow's exam...fun fun fun.



Thank you for the tips :smile: and good luck with electronics!
I'm doing Maths as of now (yay)
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Original post by alishba-rosex
That's okay and I totally agree! It was so eerie and weird, but then you had to get your head down

And oh, I did unit 2 for re which really isn't my forte but I did my best haha. Do you have any tips on how to memorise the content and do the 6 marks to a good standard?

I also did the AQA RS paper for unit 2. It was a pretty good paper, I must admit. Now just have to work my ass off for unit 9, which is on the same day as Eng lang. :frown:
Original post by ~Lily~
I also did the AQA RS paper for unit 2. It was a pretty good paper, I must admit. Now just have to work my ass off for unit 9, which is on the same day as Eng lang. :frown:



Aw that's good to hear,glad it went welll:smile: re is not my fav subject anymore bc it's the one I do worst in!:frown: but really really looking forward to eng lang - that's one subject I know I'll do amazing in. I already asked someone about tips, but do you have ideas on how I can revise everything properly and the structure for the answers?
Original post by mollycatb
Hey guys,

I sat my English Literature paper today and I'm feeling really bad about it.

I chose the question on conflict and I elaborated on the conflict within the characters, the impending warfare, the conflict between the classes and Eric's conflict between himself and his family.

Is it bad that I said that Eric's drinking habits could illustrate his detachment from the socialist doctrine as he is evidently uninhibited my the prospect of tainting his family's reputation and how as a result, he's more receptive to The inspectors overall message of societal unity? Feel like I've messed up.

I also only had 20 minutes to write the Of Mice and Men section and I I started talking utter rubbish about how the patriarchy and economic instability of the 1930s makes it impossible for the American dream to be attainted.

So done w life lol


Not the only one, I did the first AIC question and feel like I've messed that up, started writing random stuff from the OMAM book so that's definitely wrong:s-smilie:

If your quotations, connotations and effect are decent you'll at least get a C:smile:
Original post by MollieT3
Not the only one, I did the first AIC question and feel like I've messed that up, started writing random stuff from the OMAM book so that's definitely wrong:s-smilie:

If your quotations, connotations and effect are decent you'll at least get a C:smile:


I would like an A, but after writing probably the most atrocious pieces of writing ever I'd be happy with a C I guess :smile:

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