OCR A2 English Literature Exams - 15th June?

thanks alot for the calculations!! I don't know my exact coursework mark, she just gave it back to me as 30/40 then i could make final ammendments, so the mark may have gone up slightly when they moderated, no idea lol and what you've said is more reassuring, I think my twelfth night went quite well i chose the malvolio question, i talked about the conflict between him and sir toby and how they are both concerned with their social status lol and how malvolio gets taken for a fool by maria and sir topaz in the tormenting scene, lol i tried to put in as much critic points and A04 as possible so i don't think it went tooo bad, but i am just really freaking out about the faustus/pardoner, when it came to half way they told us to move on to the next question, but i was just finishing twelfth night conclusion so got behind and rushed the plan!! i was panicking, so couldn't really think straight, i think my plan was a disaster, i started off by picking the same question as you then i changed to the last question about pride and whether this is closely linked with foolishness :[ from what you've said about the question you chose, i swear our teacher read from the examinors report that the best interpretations weren't necceassirly focusing too closely on the question? I thought that was just meant to point you in the right direction for your argument, so i reckon the way you did it was fine, i am sure that question was something like is wrong doing more attractive than the fear of consequence( my verison undoubtely doesn't make sense hahah) and i think it was hard to compare/contrast them too, i seriously don't think i put many quotes in.. i remember doing an intro which turned into a paragraph comparing/contrasting right at the very start which didn't even have any context/ language or anything in it haha i remember getting to the end and going crazy trying to think of language points (even though i know that was only 5 marks haha) and i also went back and tried to put in some compare and contrast language on the marking scheme ive got for the different bands of answers the best arguments didn't lose track.. which mine did half the time!! i just waffled on loads i don't even know what i compared/contrasted to be honest i also think the time limit was a bit harsh n i couldn't quote pardoners tale, i probably quoted like half sentences!! before the exam i tried to learn way too many quotes, so i had my head filled with so many different quotes, when it came to it my mind went blank, didn't know which one was appropriate or anything GRRRR are you doing english lit at uni?? what are you hoping to get? x

Hmm I've realised that I never do any written plans at all, I just think of them in my head. Hmm. And I hope what you say is true about the quote/question, and they won't mark me down too much for focussing only on the quote, but I like to fear the worst about everything in life
What's done has been done now, I suppose, nothing will change. SIGH.
Yep, I applied for English Lit this year, and my offer from Lancaster is conditional upon gaining an A in English Literature. I've already got my other grades, (gap year) so it's just the English, but stupidly I only applied for unis that want A in English, so I got other offers but have no insurance.
I've spent today looking at potential unis for clearing :'-(

my teacher said to us failing to plan is planning to fail haha I don't suppose that is true for everyone though, it is so hard to make a plan within a 5/10 time span like we had in the exam!

Tbh I don't think planning would have made a difference to the way I perfomed - the points I wanted to make for the Malvolio one were quite organised in my mind, due to recent revision on that particular topic.
The second one - the comparasion - I think went so badly firstly because I feel I missed the point of the question (in retrospection) and secondly didn't have enough time to really wrap anything up, so using up precious minutes on a plan would probably have only lost me more marks.

I don't think a plan would have helped the actual standard of my essays, I'm just worried that they'll think 'oh, stupid girl hasn't planned, and her essay's a bit rubbish, lets make a connection and mark her down'

I got a letter from ucas in the post today about clearing which REALLY cheered me up

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And the dress idea is actually an excellent one, greeneyedgirl, I might do it with clothes/a bag/nice shoes or something. I might lose my uni place, but I'll look down and see nice shoes.

Yay! Someone doing the same texts as me

I haven't got any sites comparing the two texts, but I agree sparknotes is brilliant for Faustus.

Oh. On the OCR website, I think there is certain themes OCR wants the teacher to cover like Death, pursuit of power etc. I printed it all off, its really useful to find comparisons.