A2 English Language Exam tomorrow!

I did this exam and I'm really worried about it!! did anyone do question 2 for acquisition, the transcript of a reception class?! if anyone did i'd be really really grateful to hear the sorts of things you talked about!! I rambled on about social interactionists, a bit of stuff about the features of early childrens books but i'm so worried cos i found hardly anything to write!

as for lang change, i wrote about how the grammar was more formal and how this would not be expected now in such a piece of writig, due to competition, etc, would use direct address contractions varying sentence structure etc....influence of grammarians eg. not ending sentence with preposition, a bit about lexis, obselete lexis, connotations of 'fragile', 'sweet' for women, 'women hater' and how that would not be an accepted term now....the long s and capitalisation - linked to caxton printing press....semantic change eg. in 'seat', and orthography in the use of contractions like 'cock'd up' and 'tho' and how this was missing out salient sounds to save space or ink, or due convergence from early poets.....anyone think those points are valid??? really rather worried!!!

I didn't do the question two for the CLA, so I can't help you with that (Sorry) but I did do the same language change question as you. I wrote about the Lexis- and how it was archaic and contained latinate lexis. The talked about the sentence length, ligatures and the Eth along with Capitalisation. I talked about context and how it would be aimed at people of a high social status as they would be able to read and write and own books. I mentioned missing out the "E" to save space or ink the same as you. I put in standardisation and perscriptivism to try and gain extra marks lol. I hope this is enough to get a B at least. I felt that I did better in the CLA question as I had revised speeching a lot. I ran out of time for the Language Change so I know i could have added more. Your points are valid and I'm sure you did well

How did you find it overall... like time wise and that?
Once we get the results we should talk about it on here although I'm dreading it It's not the first time I've ran out of time I ran out of time on Monday with my Sociology exam x

oh my gosh, i ran out of time in the sociology exam too!! i didn't even attempt the 15 marker which is a shame cos i felt the rest went really well! :/ i'm wanting a b in language too so i'll just have to hope i did enough....the exam overall was ok, not as good as the mocks we'd done but i guess exams are like that, acquisition threw me a bit cos we'd been told to expect a writing question or a transcript of a parent and child reading, which we didn't get, and the one i did didn't have any mistakes or anything so you couldn't write about it in much detail :/ fingers crossed for march, hope is all we can do now!!! x

So it's not just me then!! What on earth has happened? You guys going to get them remarked?

Only 2 people out of 238 got A*s!!

I got an A.....no idea how!!! :/ Does anyone know what the grade boundaries were???

Got 96/120, still have to resit it though because I need an A* for Nottingham and this is my best bet

That whole '2 people in the country got an A*' thing has given me a boost though :L must have been a hard exam this time round!


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Looking at the statistics, was there really only 230 people that sat the exam? I'm sure over 100 people have taken English Language in my college alone xD
Sorry about your result


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