WJEC GCSE English Language and Literature

Hi!

We've spoken before about maths (we both got A*A*), not sure about English though....what do you think about grade boundaries?

My teachers seem to think that it'll be 90% for an A* - I personally think that this is extremely unrealistic.


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I dislike language and I find it hard to revise it.
I did the PiXL curve exams and got 132/160(83%) which I was reasonably happy with. My coursework should bring up my grade, as I got 94% in that. Did you do these PiXL exams?


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How are people in your year finding English Language? Are they doing well/badly on the whole?

I'm just trying to gauge how people in other schools are doing to try and figure out grade boundaries.


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My school reckons about 80% for an A but doesn't want to give us a % for A*, i think because it depends on the cohort more than the 'main' grades do. Some of us are finding it pretty okay generally, but some are getting really stuck on the 19thC texts. We had a really hard sample text recently that I think only about half the class actually understood!

That sounds sensible. We haven't actually come across any 19thC texts... Oh no. I'll have to do some individual practise in case we don't cover any in class. Although, I'm not too worried about it, I'm usually fine with that sort of thing. Are you coping well with them?

There are lots of new spec English threads out there, but very few can cater for WJEC candidates, so I thought I'd make a place where we can discuss predictions, grade boundaries and help each other out, as a lot of people are struggling with the new spec Language.

Introduce yourself! Say your target grade for Language and Literature and a strength and a weakness of yours in English.

I'm Tombre. I'm hoping for a double A* in English, as it always was my best subject (until the Sciences took over in the last year or so). I also want to do A Level English Literature (alongside Biology, Chemistry and Physics). My strengths are Literature essays and the writing section of Language. Something I'm struggling with are the "what" questions in Language Section A.

I think so. I have it in my head I struggle with the cross analysis question as I sort of lose track of what I'm writing about. I keep getting better marks than I think I'm going to though, which is great Hopefully I'll do okay in June...

That's really weird if you haven't, it's half of the second paper! You are in Y11 right? Maybe you've just had easier to understand examples and not realised how old they are? Some of the example papers have easier ones in (we've had one about frugality, and another about balloon rides!)

Well done! I'm sure you'll do great!

I think we may be doing specifications... Are you with WJEC Eduqas? I believe they include 19th century texts, whilst with WJEC (Wales) they don't tend to.