GCSE FRENCH 13th MAY EXAMS THREAD

Hi guys,
Doing the exam on Monday too. :s-smilie:

I'm not too sure about how I'm going to don on reading, I did some AQA Higher papers, I got about an average of 26+ in all of them. Not great, I know. Any tips?

Does anyone have any links for the AQA Listening MP3 Audio's? I'd appreciate it a lot.

I got an A for speaking which I'm pretty happy with,
Got an B+ for Writing - Though my teacher said she was marking it harshly.

I'm aiming for B/A+ Overall. Fingers Crossed.

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i90Elite

Does anyone have the AQA Jan 2013?

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Original post by Elm Tree

It must be done! :fuhrer:

Some other time :lol:

Lol

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Original post by Khronus

Hi guys,
Doing the exam on Monday too. :s-smilie:

I'm not too sure about how I'm going to don on reading, I did some AQA Higher papers, I got about an average of 26+ in all of them. Not great, I know. Any tips?

Does anyone have any links for the AQA Listening MP3 Audio's? I'd appreciate it a lot.

I got an A for speaking which I'm pretty happy with,
Got an B+ for Writing - Though my teacher said she was marking it harshly.

I'm aiming for B/A+ Overall. Fingers Crossed.

http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/french/gcse/french-4655/past-papers-and-mark-schemes I think this is it, scroll down to the bottom and they should be there for each date, hope it helped :smile:

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Original post by Hero-H

Good luck to everyone taking GCSE French on Monday! I remember being frustrated last year because French was my first exam and was quite early! One year on, I have my AS French exam next tuesday!

The only advice i can offer you is make sure you're confident with vocabulary, if there are any words that you don't understand whilst doing papers. It may be useful for you to translate that word as there is a likelihood that it may come up again :smile:

Bonne chance!

Thank you, and bonne chance to you as well :smile:

Reply 186

Khronus

Thanks a lot man, this should help a lot. :biggrin:

Hopefully, I can get my listening out of the way an concentrate on reading vocab :smile:

Good Luck everyone!

Bonne Chance!

Reply 187

gomg

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Original post by Khronus

Hi guys,
Doing the exam on Monday too. :s-smilie:

I'm not too sure about how I'm going to don on reading, I did some AQA Higher papers, I got about an average of 26+ in all of them. Not great, I know. Any tips?

Does anyone have any links for the AQA Listening MP3 Audio's? I'd appreciate it a lot.

I got an A for speaking which I'm pretty happy with,
Got an B+ for Writing - Though my teacher said she was marking it harshly.

I'm aiming for B/A+ Overall. Fingers Crossed.

26 is great, almost always an A!

Here are the links for listenings

http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/french/gcse/french-4655/past-papers-and-mark-schemes#listening

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Khronus

Original post by gomg

26 is great, almost always an A!

Here are the links for listenings

http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/french/gcse/french-4655/past-papers-and-mark-schemes#listening

26 is A? Really? Thank God! I was getting so worried, thinking it was a C :biggrin:

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Is it possible to get a Grade B overall even if I do A Foundation Listening Paper?
For some reason, I've been entered for Higher Reading and Foundation Listening.

Reply 189

gomg

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Original post by gomg

TWO DAYS TO GO!

wooooooo

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gomg

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Original post by Khronus

26 is A? Really? Thank God! I was getting so worried, thinking it was a C :biggrin:

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Is it possible to get a Grade B overall even if I do A Foundation Listening Paper?
For some reason, I've been entered for Higher Reading and Foundation Listening.

It's normally around 25/26 on foundation for a C, on higher it for about an A or low B. But the grade boundaries vary all the time, on one paper I did it was just 28 for an A* because it was so hard.

That happened with some people in my class to, as long as your coursework grades are A/B and you get at least a B in reading and high C in listening, you will definitely be able to get a B

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Original post by Khronus

Thanks a lot man, this should help a lot. :biggrin:

Hopefully, I can get my listening out of the way an concentrate on reading vocab :smile:

Good Luck everyone!

Bonne Chance!

No problem, and yep vocab is a life saver. Bonne chance to you too! :biggrin:

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username1135580

In 42 hours I'll be completely done with French permanently, happy and quite scary! :eek3:

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Vionar

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Original post by JustaDreamer

Haha, I think to myself that I'm good at French, but then I realise how fluent French people would actually speak :rolleyes:

That explanation was fine! :smile:

Well you're probably good at French for GCSE, they don't expect you to be fluent! Is it just me or are the grade boundaries almost always really low?

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username1135580

Original post by Vionar

Well you're probably good at French for GCSE, they don't expect you to be fluent! Is it just me or are the grade boundaries almost always really low?

No!

Well, they're medium for the exams, but they're really high for the coursework

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Original post by Vionar

Well you're probably good at French for GCSE, they don't expect you to be fluent! Is it just me or are the grade boundaries almost always really low?

Yeah I wouldn't say they're hard to achieve, but personally I wouldn't label them as easy :colondollar:

But yeah I've never found a paper with particularly high boundaries

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Original post by MattFletcher

No!

Well, they're medium for the exams, but they're really high for the coursework

Oh yeah definitely this though :K:

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Vionar

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Original post by MattFletcher

No!

Well, they're medium for the exams, but they're really high for the coursework

Really? I thought they were quite low except for the ones with boundaries of about 35ish for an A*! The coursework ones aren't really high, but AQA's English language speaking and listening - 15/15 for an A*! :eek:

Original post by JustaDreamer

Yeah I wouldn't say they're hard to achieve, but personally I wouldn't label them as easy :colondollar:

But yeah I've never found a paper with particularly high boundaries

I think they're quite low most of the time plus see above bit! ^^^

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