Ocr english literature exam 26 may 2016

i personally found the streetcar question pretty ok, i picked the blanche one and wrote something about she was delusional because of this, delusional because of that.... i also talked about mental illness just so i could jam in some context about tw's sister with the mental illness but looking back on it im not sure that was wise :frown:

oh well.... i guess we'll see on results day....!!

EDIT: we only had to do one question from each section, right?

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abbieayinde

Wish I wrote about Blanche being delusional properly I couldn't get the words out for my topic sentence so it was a bloody mess but have you seen OCR's marked previous essays on streetcar? Someone didn't refer to the question once in their essay and they got a bloody 26! That's a B!!! There's hope 😌

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seriously?? oh gosh... that means theres hope for me too, i couldnt stop quoting the question all the way thru "blanche cant 'face the truth' because..." etc etc... im mainly just worried about the critics? i just put one, how many were we supposed to put in??....

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Original post by abbieayinde

Streetcar questions were good do you think? Didn't like the masculinity question felt like the Blanche question was a bit open to interpretation

I quite liked it, I mean I don't know if it was what the examiner wanted but I wrote 5 pages about the Blanche questions saying that it's not her who can't face the truth, rather it's her fear of others I interpretation the the 'truth' fingers crossed, because I absolutely failed paper 1

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Original post by nomnomnomm

oh well.... i guess we'll see on results day....!!

EDIT: we only had to do one question from each section, right?

Ahaha my friends and I were saying how we wanted to link to Stella but there was no real link for Blanche and stellar in the particular question... I too wanted to mention the mental illness to show my very vage knowledge of context, I just couldn't find any way in doing so, so hats off to you, and all the best

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Original post by nomnomnomm

oh well.... i guess we'll see on results day....!!

EDIT: we only had to do one question from each section, right?

Ahaha my friends and I were saying how we wanted to link to Stella but there was no real link for Blanche and stella in the particular question... I too wanted to mention the mental illness to show my very vague knowledge of context, I just couldn't find any way in doing so, so hats off to you, and all the best

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Original post by a199

thanks, i'm really worried but overall quite happy with how i did :smile:

good luck at results day!

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Original post by nomnomnomm

We were not taught critics all we ever did was literally go through one hour of our teacher give her own interpretation and how it links to her own life, I had no mention of critics, other than myself of course, so I hope that does not have a detrimental effect on my overall grade

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they gave the easiest street car questions possible which was good, bloody chamber was abit strange though

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Original post by a199

We were not taught critics all we ever did was literally go through one hour of our teacher give her own interpretation and how it links to her own life, I had no mention of critics, other than myself of course, so I hope that was not have a detrimental effect on my overall grade

wait, really? i remember my teacher saying "you need to remember 8 critics... something something queer theory feminist theory etc etc etc" (obvs i couldnt remember any of them on the day so i just kind of... made one up :frown:

) m...maybe they don't have any impact on the overall grade?? i'm really hoping thats the case

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Critics are important; A05 is 20% of the assement objectives for this exam.

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Original post by OddFuturez

Critics are important; A05 is 20% of the assement objectives for this exam.

oh dear

is including just one ok?

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Original post by OddFuturez

they gave the easiest street car questions possible which was good, bloody chamber was abit strange though

Yes, the questions were same as the candidate essays just worded differently

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Original post by nomnomnomm

) m...maybe they don't have any impact on the overall grade?? i'm really hoping thats the case

That's dissappinting, so thank your very much Mrs xxxx, at least you guys had critics

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Original post by OddFuturez

Critics are important; A05 is 20% of the assement objectives for this exam.

Clearly not as important as my teacher's life

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Original post by nomnomnomm

oh dear

is including just one ok?

Probably not, you at least 5 I would say, in the last weeks paper did you mention critics for Shakespeare? But overall it shouldn't influence your grade too much

Reply 18

Elia Kazan is the easiest/clutch critic 😂

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