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CIE IGCSE english literature, did anyone take this exam the 19th???

how did you find this exam????
i thought it was hard. i didn't have time for my last book! :frown:

i wrote on :

the crucible (did question 2: chose the ending of act 2 and 4, this was great. i wrote three sides as i had studied those scenes the hour before with my english teacher)

keats poems (did question 2 about the Eve of St Agnes. it was lucky because it was the poem i knew best. i thought it wouldn't be in the exam because it had been in the previous one. i wrote three sides again about the setting, the characterisation and the narration)

Far From the Madding Crowd (i did the context question which was hard :s-smilie:

, i wrote only two pages and was out of time and ideas!)

how did you find the exam?
did you do any of the questions i did? if so please tell me what you wrote for that question

Reply 1

Worrier12345

Same problem. I totally ran out of time. :frown:

Do you have any idea where the grade boundary is for an A*?

Thanks!

Reply 2

Prisonbreak94

That exam was really bad for me. I'm not good at literature at all anyway. For the Crucible I did the 3rd question, where I pretended to be danforth and wrote my 'thoughts'. I got bored after writing 1 side. Then I did Ode to A Nightingale for Keats and wrote a load of nonse for about one and a half side. Then I did Stories of Ourselves how the author makes one of the following characters in one story memorable (mrs croft in 3rd & final continent). I wrote about a side and a half for that as well. In total I wrote 4 sides. Not good. I'm just rubbish in literature tbh and I'd be happy if I get a C / B grade.

Reply 3

fameisalluneed

Prisonbreak94

That exam was really bad for me. I did Ode to A Nightingale for Keats and wrote a load of nonse for about one and a half side. .

yeah, i read the question and gave up because it was so hard. i thought that i would do better with eve of st agnes.

Reply 4

Nitekitten

Did you get copies of any of the poems in the exam?

Reply 5

Worrier12345

Nitekitten

Did you get copies of any of the poems in the exam?

Yeah, we got the whole booklet. Why, didn't you?

Ahh, I'm so depressed about this exam. I can't stop thinking about it. I really wanted to get straight A*s but it looks like that dream's out of the window now. :frown: