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Reply 20

ajsar

Did you do Christmas carol if you did could you check my previous comment please. :smile:

Original post by Chynabenae

Literally same, I just rambled on about the dagger speech

Reply 21

Michelle0207

Original post by Chynabenae

I found the Macbeth question quite hard? I’ve been crying ever since

Yeah i was pretty gutted too but its only 40% and you've defo gained marks in the first part, we still have time for paper 2 which is a full 60% so no worries for now!

Reply 22

Chynabenae

Original post by Mrithika2

I didn't find the questions hard but I ran out of time :frown:

. I wrote 3 pages for Macbeth and 1 and a quarter for A Christmas Carol. Hopefully the content on my Christmas Carol essay won't let me down too much.

I wrote around 3 for Macbeth and I do Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde sorry x I’m so scared what grade boundaries will be like now

Reply 23

Chynabenae

Original post by Michelle0207

Yeah i was pretty gutted too but its only 40% and you've defo gained marks in the first part, we still have time for paper 2 which is a full 60% so no worries for now!

I just want that to lift my grade up soooo much, I need it to

Reply 24

username4677570

What were the questions for Christmas Carol and Romeo&Juliet? Got my Y10 mocks in a couple of weeks...my school might use same questions

Reply 25

Katieansell3453

The Jekyll and Hyde question was good but the Macbeth I didn’t have a clue what to write ... any suggestion on grade boundaries for a 6 or a 7 ?

Reply 26

Beanmaisy

Original post by Chynabenae

I found the Macbeth question quite hard? I’ve been crying ever since

Nwhat w

Reply 27

Onnadhiel

An inspector calls wasn't terrible... Not great, but not the worst
Jekyll and Hyde was a curse upon this planet.

Reply 28

Chynabenae

Original post by Katieansell3453

The Jekyll and Hyde question was good but the Macbeth I didn’t have a clue what to write ... any suggestion on grade boundaries for a 6 or a 7 ?

Yeah I like the Dr Jekyll and mr Hyde however I should have wrote more and I have no idea I’ll look x

Reply 29

Michelle0207

You probably will find it online soon, i didnt do Romeo and Juliet but A Christmas Carol was about the Ghosts influence on scrooges change/redemption and the extract was from Stave 1 where scrooge was like you are fettered and he met Marleys ghost etc

Reply 30

Kaiix

Macbeth was too easy. Hyperbolic language in the extract, listed that. Also Macbeth’s bravery and courage is being shown as well as his strength in comparison to everyone else as ‘all were too weak’ or suen like that which could give connotations of him being described as god, foreshadowing how he interferes w the divine right of kings hierarchical structure when committing regicide, this leading to his eventual downfall and would what a Jacobean audience would wanna see. Also talked ab ambition, guilt and triumph as well as his naive nature falling under the influence of the supernatural and LM. I predicted the q to be ab a theme and it surprised me but I linked everything together w the right quotes so.. plus you gotta link it back to the q too and you do that by illustrating how his ambition originated by his sinful temptations lead to the deaths of many due to his desires, and the guilt is representative of his downfall etc. etc.

Pride and prejudice was too hard looool, didn’t do too well tbf, winged it a bit but I’m being too harsh on myself, Macbeth was a gift for me 😂

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Reply 31

HateSchx

Original post by Lozzakmt

I blacked out in the first 10 mins but I finally finished, I cried so much in the end it's so overwhelming I don't know whether I did well or not but I hopefully did well *fingerscrossed*

This is exactly what happened to me. I couldn't even think straight the question was so easy but I went blank. Time was ticking and everyone was writing. I started writing like 15mins in and who knows what I wrote. Ha I thought I wasn't going to cry but as soon as I walked out and started talking to my friend, I welled up.

Reply 32

Ella6147

Original post by Chynabenae

I found the Macbeth question quite hard? I’ve been crying ever since

I thought it was so limiting like ive been revising so fecken hard for a hard question and then macbeth as violent comes up,, like uhHhh

Reply 33

Chynabenae

Original post by HateSchx

Happened to me as well, I thought “violence? What the hell? What quotes have I got to back that one up?”

Reply 34

SchmuckOff

Done macbeth and a christmas carol, Both questions were hard lol.

Original post by ajsar

Did you do Christmas carol if you did could you check my previous comment please. :smile:

Reply 35

Chynabenae

Original post by Ella6147

I thought it was so limiting like ive been revising so fecken hard for a hard question and then macbeth as violent comes up,, like uhHhh

I’ve revised SO MUCH like good quotes for lady Macbeth, guilt, kingship etc and I just didn’t know how to link it I just mostly talked about the dagger speech, urm banquo and other ****

Reply 36

HateSchx

Im such and idiot. I practiced an easy for it and completely forget everything. As soon as I walked out of the exam hall I remembered everything for that theme. All the contexts and points. Ughhhhhhhhhh

Original post by Chynabenae

Happened to me as well, I thought “violence? What the hell? What quotes have I got to back that one up?”

Reply 37

bhunt2

Christmas Carol was easy

Reply 38

HateSchx

Everyone keeps saying they wrote stuff about that . But like wasn't the question about how Macbeth is a violent character. Please tell me I didn't read the question wrong??

Original post by Chynabenae

I’ve revised SO MUCH like good quotes for lady Macbeth, guilt, kingship etc and I just didn’t know how to link it I just mostly talked about the dagger speech, urm banquo and other ****

Reply 39

Hafsah21

Original post by Chynabenae

I found the Macbeth question quite hard? I’ve been crying ever since

Sameee i had not time to answer the inspector calls one becausee of the stupid porter question likee how is it fair romeo and juliet got juliet and we get the least important character.....