AQA English Language GCSE 2017

Just checking, the description was write a description about the bus/people on it and the writing was write about 2 contrasting characters from anywhere?

Just checking, the description was write a description about the bus/people on it and the writing was write about 2 contrasting characters from anywhere?

Yep

K thanks my story fits but is ****ing weird xD

Gap year so someone from a priveledged family went travelling to zimbabwe and found a homeless person from zimbabwe and her became friends and the dude stole all her stuff.

Thats what happens when you have 20 minutes to do a 40 marker xD

Ahaha well it is creative! 😃 I wrote about one poor woman and an extremely wealthy guy who both hate their lives and eventually they meet up (via bus?!) And then I was going to describe the scene where there's a crash in more detail but ran out of time 😕...(I wrote mine in 20 mins too) Oh well! I'll just have to smash the next paper. Btw do u have any ideas on what mark I would need to get out of 160 (2 papers) to get a level 6?- no worries if you don't

You didn't have to make relevance to the bus do you ?

Umm, in terms of marks, in my mock I did an english lang paper 1 and I got 56/80. I got graded on expected grade boundaries and worst possible grade boundaries. Worst possible grade boundaries 56 = lvl 5 and normal ones 56 = 7.

The texts will have one from the 19th century and one from the 21st so may be challenging to compare.

I think I got between 45-55 marks this time on paper 1 which I imagine to be between a lvl 4 - lvl 6 as I fully *******sed question 4 as I mis-interpreted a quote so I have only 2 decent paragraphs for that question.

My guess on grade boundaries however this is predictions:

4 - 80/160
5 - 96/160
6 - 104/160
7 - 120/160
8 - 138/160
9 - 152/160

4 will have a large range and 5 will shrink as 4 is now a pass. (C)

Always been a maths and science guy so been struggling with english xD

Literature felt alright however so that will be my english grade I imagine.

My tips for paper 2:

-Dont repeat/make same points in question 4 as you did q2
- Q2 will always ask for similarities or differences not both
- Do questions 1 and 3 first as they require you to only learn one extract
- Know the form of each of the writing types eg letter, newspaper etc

Good luck

Thank you so much, this is very helpful! Your predictions seem reasonable to me. Mrbruff's predictions (from youtube) for English language papers are:
4- 40/80
5- 43/44 out of 80
6- 46/47 out of 80
7- 50/80
Oh and no you didn't have to mention the bus but I usually mention something from the image for inspiration. I just had to make it more clear that I was writing a story and not a description.☺

Yeah but I think this might be the worst possible grade boundaries as they are steep

we were told to describe a bus journey home

After the exam? Is that what you did? I guess it would work if you took inspiration from the picture. I heard a few people in my class writing all sorts of different ideas.

Just checking, the description was write a description about the bus/people on it and the writing was write about 2 contrasting characters from anywhere?

*bus journey

i saw the question about the 2 different backrounds and wrote nothing about the bus -_-

Wait so did u do the description or the story?

I am very confused - I am 99% sure the story was about people from different backgrounds and didn't have to have no relevance to a bus

The descriptive writing was about the bus journey

Is that correct?

I did a weird story as did lots of other people with no relevance to the bus and that is correct right?

Yes it is:
Description- Describe the picture (which was of ppl on a bus)
Story- Write about people from different backrounds