AQA AS English Lit results?!

I'm also doing AQA English Lit but A2 and I'm on a gap year. I did this exam in June with very little revision or preparation and left feeling like I'd done awful, I think I even shed a few tears after however I knew I deserved a low grade for it. (For context, I got full UMS in the AS exam and A2 coursework which wasn't changed and a high A for the AS coursework, predicted an A* overall) I got a B in that exam so decided to take a gap year, put all my effort into the Jan resit and get the A* I thought I could.

I worked so hard for this January exam, I reread the books about three times and revised nearly daily from November so I really felt as though I knew what I was talking about. I double checked with my old teachers that I was revising for the correct things and they really expected me to do well, as did I (especially as I left the exam feeling quite confident!) I ended up getting a D.

I've never got a D before in English and it wasn't a matter of panicking in the exam so I have no idea how I got this grade, I don't recall doing anything drastically wrong like forgetting to quote/write an essay. I think that if my essay style was strong enough to get good grades in last years exam and coursework, how can it not be good enough now? I just don't understand what I did wrong really :s

Hoping my paper will come back soon and it might all be clearer (I supposed I could have drastically ****ed up and not realised at all). Luckily my last grade of a B still counts so I still have an A overall however my uni require an A*

Yeah, something is definitely up.

I was talking to a girl in my class who's actually been accepted into Cambridge and never got lower than an A, resat it and was going for full marks (she got an A last year, but she's going for full marks over all) and she too got a C.

Like I said, it's not that I think I'm amazing or anything like that. But at this point, it just seems completely odd and bizarre that there are *so* many students that consistently get A's, have got 1/2/3 or more grades lower.

I got a D in the paper originally, and I got a D again yesterday. I despair- honestly. It puts me in an awkward position because unless I retake again, me getting a B really depends on doing well in the a2 paper, and at the moment I don't trust AQA enough at all


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I got exactly the same, D first time then D second time only two marks higher. I really don't understand it, the first time I panicked and made some weak points and no critics, so I was expecting to do badly but I really prepared for my resit and used structure, named critics and ticked off the AO's as I did them. I don't know how it could go so wrong. Not sure whether to resit again because I need a B overall and I have a weak C at AS currently or just concentrate on gothic and coursework

Copying and pasting what I've said in a previous post -

I registered just to post my sob story, haha. (Studying English Lit AQA A)

Last year I got high marks in my coursework (I think 71/80), but I ballsed my exam up. I knew I did the moment I came out of the halls. Sure enough, ye, got my results back and I got 73/120, ergo a C. I was pretty upset since English Lit is my favourite subject, but not surprised and just thought I'd have to put extra effort in the January resit.

I did that. I revised a good 8 hours a week at least, missed friends 18ths, destroyed my social life, all in the hope that I would get an A in the exam, since my chosen uni (Sussex) wants AAB or A*BB. Sat the exam (Struggle for Identity and Duffy poetry), and really, I thought it went pretty ok. Not amazing, but I thought I'd ATLEAST got a solid B, and I was quietly confident that I got an A. I mean, I memorized the AO's of by heart, made the correct links etc, only negative thing was I slightly rushed the Duffy section.

But nope, got my results today. 82/120. C, near a B, but still not an A over all. Not gunna lie, devastated. Utterly devastated. I just don't understand how in this exam, where I *knew* I did x10 better than my ballsed up exam last year, I got a grand total of 9 marks more? :/

I really think the marking is botched. It's even worse since this was my last chance; the syllabus has changed, and this was quite literally my last chance of getting an A without re-doing another year at college. Just so... devastated. Another year of my life wasted and I just don't understand why. >.>

Definitely recalling my paper and asking for it be remarked. I've never trusted AQA much anyway, when ever I read about them, they're always commented for their hit and miss marking. They're either too generous or too cruel. >.>

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predicted an A* for the record. Looks like that won't happen... haha.

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At this point, I'm really, really doubting AQA. It's not that I think I was amazing or anything, far from it, but I don't understand how I left one exam knowing I had messed up and got 73/120, to the other exam where nothing horrendous happened and only got 9 marks higher, when I've been consistently getting A's through out the year.

I'm asking for my paper to be recalled and probably remarked. My (old) teacher was quite surprised, because after the exam I told her nearly everything I wrote and she said it all sounded like unique arguments and on that alone, I'd probably get a B. And like I said earlier, I felt confident that I'd atleast achieved a B.

This also isn't a case of 'oh, you can just resit'. The syllabus, for me at least, has changed. That was my last chance to get an A/high B and the only other option I have at this point is to re-take another year of college. As I'm sure you can understand, I'm far from ok with that prospect.

So I just got back my English Lit result and I got U Grade!

This was really unexpected for me; I was predicted an A and I also came out of the exam feeling really confident.

I was wondering if this is a nationwide thing..? Because many students I know in my school and in other schools are in a similar situation.

So is it probably a nationwide thing? And what result did you get?

Thanks!