OCR English Lit 2019 exam

Thread for the OCR English Literature exam on 23rd May 2019.

I study The Merchant's Tale, The Duchess of Malfi, Hamlet (and then dystopian for paper 2).

Anyone else doing hamlet?

Reply 1

mattrxgan

Original post by wordsandroses

Thread for the OCR English Literature exam on 23rd May 2019.

I study The Merchant's Tale, The Duchess of Malfi, Hamlet (and then dystopian for paper 2).

Anyone else doing hamlet?

I'm doing Hamlet too - how you revising it?

Reply 2

gmsb09

Original post by mattrxgan

I'm doing Hamlet too - how you revising it?

Really?? I literally haven’t done anything yet. Focusing on hamlet tomorrow. How are you revising it?

Reply 3

mattrxgan

Original post by wordsandroses

Really?? I literally haven’t done anything yet. Focusing on hamlet tomorrow. How are you revising it?

I bought the Brannagh version on Amazon Prime: I'm watching with subtitles on, making notes and taking down any quotes. Also making note of the tone/mood in the scene, but apart from that I'm just looking at potential essay questions and drafting plans.

Reply 4

gmsb09

Original post by mattrxgan

Oooo that’s a shout. What kind of question do you reckon will come up or which passage?

Reply 5

mattrxgan

My Lit class are hoping for one on either revenge or women. Personally, I think they're going to give us a moderate passage but with a nasty (b) question.

Original post by wordsandroses

Oooo that’s a shout. What kind of question do you reckon will come up or which passage?

Reply 6

gmsb09

Original post by mattrxgan

My Lit class are hoping for one on either revenge or women. Personally, I think they're going to give us a moderate passage but with a nasty (b) question.

Yeh those would be good. Yeh feel like it’s not going to be a nice one for us :/

Reply 7

Shuviliaxx

students last year were so lucky! Ham's last soliloquy and about indecision is a blessing. OCR is not going to be nice this year LOL

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Reply 8

gmsb09

Original post by Shuviliaxx

students last year were so luck! Ham's last soliloquy and about indecision is a blessing. OCR is not going to be nice this year LOL

Agreed. I feel so underprepared for this exam.

Reply 9

Shuviliaxx

Original post by wordsandroses

Agreed. I feel so underprepared for this exam.

Honestly, I feel like you can never be fully prepared for anything tbh

Reply 10

gmsb09

Original post by Shuviliaxx

Honestly, I feel like you can never be fully prepared for anything tbh

Yeh true but there’s not being fully prepared and there’s being extremely underprepared

Reply 11

Shuviliaxx

you will be fine! you know more than you think

Original post by wordsandroses

Yeh true but there’s not being fully prepared and there’s being extremely underprepared

Is this A level?

Original post by idontkn

Is this A level?

Yes

Reply 14

kolaliwenda

Apparently, ppl who get A* in section (a) Hamlet tend to talk about meter and verse...

Reply 15

kolaliwenda

Also for memorising Merchants tale quotes do you reckon we'll get penalised for miss-spelling quotes? cause boy am I gonna be putting in alot of work adding extra 'ee's to everything.

Reply 16

gmsb09

Original post by kolaliwenda

Also for memorising Merchants tale quotes do you reckon we'll get penalised for miss-spelling quotes? cause boy am I gonna be putting in alot of work adding extra 'ee's to everything.

I don’t think we will get penalised as long as it’s along the same lines

Reply 17

hurricanedallon

ive read some a*/full mark essays and some people have quoted stuff that isnt even in the poem and sometimes they spell it wrong so im guessing if it looks right then we will still get the mark 😂

Original post by kolaliwenda

Also for memorising Merchants tale quotes do you reckon we'll get penalised for miss-spelling quotes? cause boy am I gonna be putting in alot of work adding extra 'ee's to everything.