German AS Edexcel Unit 1 - 14th May 2015

How did people interpret the 2nd bullet point of the writing?
I put about how it is not always necessary to go to a private school to get good grades? And so therefore the "Erwartungen" are not not always met? I.e. you can get a good education at a state school?
What did others write?
I actually found this paper so hard and Im yr 13 retaking it!!!

Ah fair enough. Yeah that makes sense, danke c: The second question made me laugh as it was so random


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I wrote about the bit in the stimulus saying there were few differences in achievment.

Hi I may be wrong but i thought the recording said something about voluntary work rather than school work so I didnt put that one

I think it was about whether private schools will fulfill expectations but I'm not sure...

A2 retaking it. found listening a bit hard.
Im surprised you guys were ok with the vocab in Q7???????
the word illiterate is a word i only learnt this year hahaha
essay was ok, reading was ok, listening was difficult.

Yeah I'm pretty sure it wasn't school work, maybe community service??

I hated the listening! My oral was on education and employment so luckily the vocab was ok for me What do you think the grade boundaries will be?

Am I the only one that found the questions on playing table tennis on a train really funny?

I was cracking up ahhaha.
Super odd. I think they deliberately try to make the questions odd to confuse you further!

Yeah definitely! I was sat there thinking "how would you even get the table on the train?"

I hated the listening! My oral was on education and employment so luckily the vocab was ok for me What do you think the grade boundaries will be?

thanks! and for the answer in german questions the markschemes say it is ok to take words from the text if they have the answer but you can't lift massive chunks because it shows you don't really understand the text, so be concise and only pick out whats relevant

Also they only mark the first response for a 1 mark question so even if your second point is correct then you won't a mark for it because its not the first thing you wrote

good luck!

Do you think a lower grade in this AS will affect my chances at getting into a good uni for languages? I think I messed up on the second bullet point, and I may as well have been deaf for the listening. :L

I wouldn't worry about it at all - (Y13 retake here) I got B overall and in both modules last year and I'm off to Oxford for German & Italian next year so honestly don't stress
I promise you, last year seemed horrendous but it's really not as bad as you think it was