How did everybody find paper 2 today?
Question 1 - I thought that was a walk in the park - I know everybody isn't the same so don't worry if you found it hard. I'm sure you all did ace!
Question 2 - There were quite a few things that you could talk about. For example I picked up on the fact that the boats were completely different as one was 'brand spanking new' and that the other one was described as 'Old'
Question 3 - At first, I thought question 3 was hard until I read the extract properly then I got a better understanding and focused just on the techniques rather than what they were actually saying. I felt that the question was quite nice as the question wanted you to ' Find language techniques to describe the power of the sea.' There was one that proper stood out to me and that was how the 'water towered over them' - which is a metaphor/personification
Question 4 - I found this question very hard. I only wrote very minimal and this was mainly because their experiences were the same and it was therefore harder to explain and go into any further detail.
Question 5 - I have seen that some people did a newspaper article rather than a letter. Don't worry about that, there are 2 papers in which you can show off to the examiner. Examiners love it when you get straight to the point and this is mainly because they don't want to get bored. You have to keep the examiners attention because as we know, people nowadays have a shorter attention span and therefore if it's interesting then this would keep their attention. I only did 4 paragraphs:
Paragraph 1 - Introduce why your writing the letter to introduce your main line of argument
Paragraph 2 - I spoke about how looks don't really mean a thing and for this part of my answer I mentioned a celebrity that has just cared about their looks and not their reputation
Paragraph 3 - I spoke about how footballers get paid more than people in the army and the public sector.
Paragraph 4 - I spoke about how some celebrities in this day in society cause people doing bad things such as drugs etc.
This is what I did in the exam personally. If anybody did anything differently, please let me know as I'm curious.
We've done it and we now no longer need to think about the exam. Wishing everybody the best of luck for their GCSEs.