English Language AQA GCSE Exam 3rd June 2014 Discussion

Hm whaat, I got told by my school that the english language exam is worth more due to speaking and listening not being used any more (our school lost ours). Furthermore exam boards have said on their official webpage that they have lowered the grade boundary by 1 or 2 marks to consideration that the exam is worth more. Je ne sais pas...

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A* down by 1 in English Lang Unit 1H, English Literature Unit 1H & English Literature Unit 2H so pretty consistent. Just glad they didn't go up.

A* boundary in English Language Unit 1H is down by 3! You needed 60 marks to get an A* in November 2013. And yeah the A* boundary in the English Lit papers is down by one, which isn't too bad

Hey guys, so I got a B in english language UMS 236, which is 4 points of an A. Do you think it is worth remarking??

Yes, remark. I'm remarking: I got a B in the exam, when I've been getting A*s in the mocks, not only from my teacher, but examiners too. I am convinced something has gone wrong. Let me know how your remark goes, if you proceed with it.


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I'm convinced there's something seriously wrong with the English marking this year too. Results down a huge amount across all schools nationally. I got A* in all my mocks.. I'm not sure what I got in the exam but I got an A overall and I know I performed how I usually do in the exam. My coursework reached the A* threshold so I'm not convinced either. Do you think it's worth trying for a remark?

I'm convinced there's something seriously wrong with the English marking this year too. Results down a huge amount across all schools nationally. I got A* in all my mocks.. I'm not sure what I got in the exam but I got an A overall and I know I performed how I usually do in the exam. My coursework reached the A* threshold so I'm not convinced either. Do you think it's worth trying for a remark?

I got 176/180 (A*) ums on the exam and 0 in the controlled assesment. So I'm currently on a D. This happened to 31 students in my year. Anyone else?
Also, does anyone else know what a high B in the controlled assesment (between 62-65 raw marks/80, I forgot) and my exam ums would be overall? What grade?

I was 3 raw marks off and A* overall in language, would need 59/80 on the exam, is it worth re marking?

Why did you get a 0? If you got 94 UMS in the CA, you'd have an A* overall.


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I got A in the coursework (67/80) but I want to get an A* overall. Unfortunately my question 4 messed up 'cos of the timing (was doing 6, 5, 1, 2, 3) and could only make like 2/3 points but I wanted to structure it out as beginning, middle and end. However I could only do begin. and middle. What sort of mark can I be looking at for Q4 then? I know it's hard to judge but the points I made very quite strong. In the mark scheme it says stuff about there being a full and detailed analysis. Would appreciate SEVERAL views on this!

Dude I don't know how you didn't get an A*, I read several of your stuff and I know it was better than mine so I fully expecting you to easily get full ums, I'd definitely advise a remark, the examiner was probably going straight to the indicative content list rather than considering what you've actually wrote.
Thx though, in like 3 days worth of revision I went from my year 10 B grade to almost full ums from this thread and your help .
Ivgot a 0 because I was resitting the exam and carrying forward my controlled assessment from year 10 which had been submitted once before invyear 10. They agrred thatvthe scholvwas allowed to do this bit when actually getting the full grade they didn't acknoledge the year 10 controlled assesment leaving me with no controlled assesment. Theyve now admitted to tjeir mistake and are ammending the error.

I'd like to know in advance what grade this will turn out to be. Do you know how many raw marks 97 ums is then?