GCSE English Literature 2013 - How did you do?

On the unseen poem it was not specific on whether the girl has actually left home or has died because of the quote 'pumping, pumping/ for her life'. I wrote that the poem is ambiguous for these two reasons. Could I loose marks for this? I explained in detail about how it could possibly represent her leaving home in the sense of demise. I feel so stupid now. Will I loose marks? How did you find it btw??

Reply 1

Majeee97

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I ment left home in the sense if moving house.

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Reply 2

Gracekgs

1

You would never loose marks because thats what you interpreted from that quote, but as long as you back it up with analysis then its fine. It went well, preferred it to mondays one. What Anthology poem did everyone choose?

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Reply 3

Majeee97

OP

I compared ozymandias and river god. Wbu ??

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Reply 4

ryanroks1

12

I compared Sonnet 116 to Sonnet 43 :smile:

Reply 5

dbenn97

I compared Sonnet 116 and To His Coy Mistress - I was really pleased with the unseen poem, I thought it was good one : )

Reply 6

ThePhoenixLament

18

I loved the paper (I never say that) and the unseen one was actually a surprisingly good poem!

I compared Hawk Roosting with Futility.

Reply 7

Knowlesracka

5

I did Conflict poetry, and found the questions surprisingly good.
The unseen poem was also quite good to annotate, exploratory responses were actually not that hard to convey.
Not a bad paper at all!

Reply 8

Jack59

9

I did The River God and Les Grand Seigneurs

Praying to God I got a B overall. Got a high A on my coursework, anyone got any idea what percentage I'll need on both of these exams for it to be a B overall?

Reply 9

Chat Gris

the paper was alright weirdly sonnet 116 came up which i wanted :smile:

and the unseen poem was really good simple but intricate the best types of poem.

Reply 10

Majeee97

OP

But people please answer my paper !!!

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simmy123

7

I was doing the conflict cluster so i chose hawk roosting compared it to of course god america i this gave me a lot of scope i felt really happy i think i have done myself justice i really enjoyed this exam haha

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Reply 12

bukhari

Did anyone do the poetry exam for edexcel..what did you guys think?

Reply 13

Oiseaux

10

I really liked it. I jumped for joy when I saw Sonnet 116, which I compared to Hour. I know I did a lot better than the first exam which I completely flopped.

Reply 14

Wahid1

7

Isn't the lit one about of mice and men and an inspector calls?

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Reply 15

Semc

You have two exams for English lit, poetry across time and exploring modern texts :smile:

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Reply 16

JustaDreamer

10

Original post by Majeee97

I compared ozymandias and river god. Wbu ??

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I did those too! My two favourites- I only wish I wrote faster :redface:

I had so much more to say...

Reply 17

JustaDreamer

10

Original post by Majeee97

On the unseen poem it was not specific on whether the girl has actually left home or has died because of the quote 'pumping, pumping/ for her life'. I wrote that the poem is ambiguous for these two reasons. Could I loose marks for this? I explained in detail about how it could possibly represent her leaving home in the sense of demise. I feel so stupid now. Will I loose marks? How did you find it btw??

That's good! Alternative interpretations are part of the highest band, it's GOOD, it gains marks! :smile:

Reply 18

Wahid1

7

Original post by Semc

You have two exams for English lit, poetry across time and exploring modern texts :smile:

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Ah well I did the poetry last year. How did you find the texts?

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Reply 19

amyyalice

I compared River God to Medusa... although I have a feeling I didn't go that much into detail as I only analysed a few quotes! :frown:

For the unseen poetry... well that went awful for me! Again, I don't think I wrote enough, or went into enough detail! I actually preferred Monday's exam!

Hopefully I did ok though, I'm aiming for a B in both exams!

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