AS Level Edexcel English Literature 2017

I did not like the poetry paper. Do not like inheritance but had to chose it over the Dover one as we hadn't done much on it. I hadn't revised either poems. I compared inheritance to Materials.
What did everyone else compare too?


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What a nice paper! The poetry was a lil dodge, I compared Inheritance and Genetics, but the Streetcar? A question on Stanley Kowalski? BEAUTIFUL. Let's just hope prose isn't awful now - anyone else doing Never Let Me Go/Frankenstein?

Thought streetcar question on past events determining future was a good one. Eventhough my essay was all over the place. But the Stanley one I thought was a horrible one.


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Mmmm... I wasn't a massive fan. Could of been worse but could of been better


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I did Inheritance and Giuseppe (inheriting guilt) because we planned that exact question last week in class, but my answer wasn't great

Ah, now I'm second guessing my Stanley one! For the sympathy part, I did how it depends how you view Stanley - if he's the hero, then Blanche is pretty awful and judgemental of him and it creates sympathy, because he just wants his simple life and Blanche is disrupting it - but if you see Blanche as the hero, obviously Stanley is a bit of an asshat and it's hard to really have sympathy for him! Bit worried that that was too much focusing on his relationship with Blanche tho, crapppppp!

What do you reckon the grade boundaries will be this year for the streetcar and poetry exam done today?

What were they last year?

It was out of 120 overall: 77-A, 66-B, 55-C, 44-D, 33-E. Quite low imo, only 64% for an A! I think that's probably because of not all the cohort taking the AS, and probably quite a few people took the AS because they didn't intend on doing the full A level - at least that's what my teacher thinks. Not too bad though, if you consider that this paper was out of 72 lol.

Wow they were low! Isn't it out of 116 though? 72 for paper 1 and 44 for prose?

This is what's on the grade boundaries for 2016, idk lol

Thats weird?? Thanks anyway, hope you do well :-)

You too man, just think by this time next Wednesday it'll all be over - until the exams next year!!!

I'm doing IAL but for poetry we got the options of Song and Out Of The Bag.

It was out of 120 overall: 77-A, 66-B, 55-C, 44-D, 33-E. Quite low imo, only 64% for an A! I think that's probably because of not all the cohort taking the AS, and probably quite a few people took the AS because they didn't intend on doing the full A level - at least that's what my teacher thinks. Not too bad though, if you consider that this paper was out of 72 lol.