Welsh A2 Exam (A level)

I've found A2 quite a bit harder this year, and (I hate to say it) less enjoyable too. Maybe that's because all my welsh lessons have been after school though.. :'(

Basically there's three modules.

CA4 is basically the same as CA1, but this year it's on the play Siwan instead of Hedd Wyn.

There's no coursework module in A2 either, which I know a lot of people didn't like as it really boosted my grade in AS!

Instead there's two written papers. CA5 is short stories, so you have to write about the content and style of one of four stories. The second part is trawsieithu, which basically you get an article in English and have to write in welsh about the same theme. (Eg binge drinking, sunburn, university etc)

That's the hardest module in my opinion, as I don't really like any of the short stories and I find trawsieithu hard.

Then CA6 is the last paper, which is grammar and poetry. Basically the same as CA3 in AS, apart from obviously it's harder grammar, and the poetry question is unseen, so no slaving away hours on the same poems!

All in all its your decision. If on results day you didn't get the grade you want, then I wouldn't advise you kept going as obviously it gets harder. But if you've enjoyed it and get the grade you want then definitely keep going! You can always go on the wjec website and look up the short stories etc and see if you think you'd enjoy it




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Ah good luck! What are you going to study? I'm year 12 so no uni woes atm, just aiming for an A haha!


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has anyone else just revised yr ymwelydd?
im scared that another story is going to come up...if it does i will literally fail the exam
good luck for everyone!

I've literally only looked at that too! fingers crossed we're right or we are screwed haha! Do you need to get specific grades to get into uni?

i know! im just praying that it'll come up,
yeah i need 3 B's for uni but i had an A last year so i would like an A this year but i find the course much harder this year! so i dont know, fingers crossed though aha

How did it go for you guys? Yr ymwelydd came up so I'm happy!


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I totally agree with the person below, the trawsieithu was a bit ambivalent, there wasn't much of a "problem" so I was a bit stuck, but otherwise I think it was ok!

The cynnwys for Yr Ymwelydd was good because I'd proactised that yesterday... I know I was a bit less careful with the arddull though :\ I'm also worried because I didn't have a lot of time to check over my answers and I know that all the grammar and stuff makes a big difference.

Was anyone else put off by the fact the cynnwys questionw as actually "describe his experiences in the hospital and in the club" and not the usual "describe the main events in the story"... I could be wrong, but I was a bit worried about avoiding talking about the car etc...

Ah well, no point worrying about it now! Hope everyone else found it good!

I am so worried about how much extra I have to prepare for CA6, I cannot believe how soon it is!

i haven't even looked at CA6 properly yet sorry
i have my psychology exam at 9 tomorrow so straight after that im going to have to quickly revise welsh
sorry i cant be of any help x