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English Language Help??

So I got my mock results recently, and I practised quite a bit of questions for English language to improve my exam technique and was feeling fairly confident about the exam. I also watched youtube videos like Mr Bruff etc However, I only got a grade 5, 4 marks off a 6. Please could anyone tell me how to to improve and get better next time? :/

Reply 1

ss.01

Please could anyone give me any useful advice?

Reply 2

Sunshine1512

Original post by sara_s01

Please could anyone give me any useful advice?

Are there any specific questions you need to improve on?

Reply 3

ss.01

Original post by Sunshine1512

Are there any specific questions you need to improve on?

We did the AQA english language specimen for 9-1 gcse and I got:
Q1) 3/4
Q2) 5/8
Q3) 9/12
Q4) 10/16
on the reading section so I'm guessing i need to improve on all of them but I don't really know how, after doing so bad on that paper :frown:

Reply 4

Daydreamer3

Original post by sara_s01

Have you watched Mr Salles on youtube?
How about look at the mark scheme and identify the differences between your mock and the example answers they include so you can see the format your answer should be in?
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-87002-SMS.PDF

Reply 5

ss.01

Original post by Daydreamer3

Yes, I watched Mr Salles before my English mock. Thanks for the advice, I'll do that. Are you doing your GCSE's or have you done them already?

Reply 6

Daydreamer3

Original post by sara_s01

Yes, I watched Mr Salles before my English mock. Thanks for the advice, I'll do that. Are you doing your GCSE's or have you done them already?

Im still doing them and English is my weakest subject unfortunately.

Reply 7

ss.01

Original post by Daydreamer3

Im still doing them and English is my weakest subject unfortunately.

Oh right good luck for them! English is my stronger subject than maths, but i don't know what happened this time :s-smilie:

Reply 8

Fighter365

Original post by sara_s01

That's not even bad are you stupid

Reply 9

ss.01

Original post by matthewparker34

That's not even bad are you stupid

Its bad, considering its only a C grade equivalent when I know I have potential to do better. If you have any useful advice, that would help.

Reply 10

AsianG99

Original post by sara_s01

Its bad, considering its only a C grade equivalent when I know I have potential to do better. If you have any useful advice, that would help.

Schools are 'guessing' the grade boundaries right now!
27/40 = Grade 6 in reality
31/40 grade 6 no way will that happen thats complete bs

(edited 7 years ago)

Reply 11

ss.01

Original post by AsianG99

Schools are 'guessing' the grade boundaries right now!
27/40 = Grade 6 in reality
31/40 grade 6 no way will that happen thats complete bs

I hope so! Thank you for the reassurance :redface:

Its just because of the grade boundaries for English that have been set so far, its feels impossible to reach the higher grades.

(edited 7 years ago)

Reply 12

Fighter365

Original post by sara_s01

Its bad, considering its only a C grade equivalent when I know I have potential to do better. If you have any useful advice, that would help.

No way is that a C. No way will the grade boundries be that high, so many people are struggling. If you wanna get higher marks the only way is practice. But don't sweat about it, your marks are good

Reply 13

ss.01

Original post by matthewparker34

No way is that a C. No way will the grade boundries be that high, so many people are struggling. If you wanna get higher marks the only way is practice. But don't sweat about it, your marks are good