AQA English Language B

I am!

I know, our editorial pre-r is out on Monday. Eek

I like transcripts, i am going to do children's speaking

Reply 2

Lis xxx

OP

Is it out on Mon??
I thought we weren't going to get it til like Thursday?!!
That's scary!
I took the Editorial exam in Jan, and got 3 marks off an A, I'm repeating it because there's not really any huge rvision for it and I'm really hoping fo an A this time.
It's not that scary though, honest!!!

Reply 3

LoveMusic

My teacher keeps telling me its a week - but my book said 3 days

:eek:

Really? Phew! What about the time given = is it too much?
Can i have some tips for the commentary :biggrin:

Reply 4

It is a week - it's released on Monday :smile:

It used to be three days, but they changed it due to lots of people having clashes/lots of exams over the same couple of days (mainly problems with Chemistry & Further Maths I think), hence why it's been changed to a week.

As for what the questions may be...I don't know. My teachers have a feeling that it might be something to do with reading, as one hasn't really been done before. Other than that...one of them is likely to be a transcript really, isn't it?! Maybe writing as the other one. I don't know! Might as well just revise everything!

Reply 5

beanie

I thought the LA one was always a transcript of speech and a written extract. Could be wrong, but thats what I assumed. LC is hopefully going to be something fun and cool to analyse, as I'm really looking forward to the unit 6 exam.
Editorial booklets are out on Monday :smile:

Reply 6

Lis xxx

OP

I thought it was always a transcript and written but then got given a past paper to do that was two transcipts! So watch out for that.
I find written text so much easier to analyse for some reason, any tips on how to approach a transcript?
Looking forward to Change though, it's always interesting.

On the Editorial exam, I will try post some notes on commentary asap! Very relieved to hear we get it on Monday though, thanks guys!!

Reply 7

LoveMusic

Yeah - there was two transcripts once.

Transcipts are good for pragmatics, phonology and grammar - especially

Reply 8

Jessicarrr

My teacher said at examiner's meetings they've been hinting at a children's reading question? God knows. We haven't even touched on that.

Reply 9

*loz*

thanks for letting me know its out on mon, i thought wed be given it a few days before so im rather pleased

on the lang change, how old do you think the texts will be, early modern eng, modern eng?
also, do you have to know the theorists very well, or can you get away with just knowing the basics on them?

thanks :smile:

Reply 10

Zenfrozt

Our teacher said it was unlikely to be two transcripts to choose from as it wouldnt really be a choice then for lang acq.
I'm really worried about the Editorial exam as I failed it in January.
Blessed Be.
Zenfrozt

Reply 11

jmj

Hi, I've also got the ed writing exam on the 26th... I'm a bit worried about preparing it tho as although we get the packs on the 19th because I have a Hist exam on the 19th, an RS exam on the 21st, another history on the 23rd and on the morning of the 26th I have my final RS exam and then Eng Lang in the afternoon (and then, of course, my last exam the Lang Acq and Hist of Lang exam- I'm actually more worried about the Hist of Lang).

I guess I'll just have to look over them when I can and annotate them when I can, a good tip is when you're reading the packs think about what the exam questions might be. Also when you're preparing the material you can do a grid on the back of the backs with categories such as page reference, audience, purpose, genre and so on which will make the information much easier to access in the exam.

Good luck everyone

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*loz*

thanks for letting me know its out on mon, i thought wed be given it a few days before so im rather pleased

on the lang change, how old do you think the texts will be, early modern eng, modern eng?
also, do you have to know the theorists very well, or can you get away with just knowing the basics on them?

thanks :smile:

I'm not sure about the language change, but I don't think I've seen an example of one before 1450ish.

As for the theory, I think it's ok if you can bring in some relevant research at some point. In the sample answers I've seen, they don't seem to go into too much detail...

Reply 13

Zenfrozt

jmj

... on the morning of the 26th I have my final RS exam and then Eng Lang in the afternoon...

How come you have an RS exam on the 26th? What exam board are you with for philosophy?
Blessed Be.
Zenfrozt

Reply 14

Gerrard4eva

For some reason Editorial writing hates me.
If I get another E on it I'll scream!

Language aquisition isn't too bad I find and with language change as long as I can mention Johnson's dictionary somewhere then I'm fine! Are you all told to structure your answers according to the framework?

Reply 15

Was Unit 6 available to take in January this year? Does anyone know what questions were on it, if it did exist?!

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