How do you pronounce AQA (exam board)?

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How do you pronounce AQA?

I ask the important questions. I've always said "ey queue ey" but @The Learn Ranger has changed my entire outlook on life / exam board pronunciation.

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Reply 1

111davey1

14

Original post by Notnek

I ask the important questions. I've always said "Ey kew ey" but @The Learn Ranger has changed my entire outlook on life / exam board pronunciation.

I pronounce it 'AQA'

ey-queue-ey

A-Q-A

Original post by Notnek

I ask the important questions. I've always said "ey queue ey" but @The Learn Ranger has changed my entire outlook on life / exam board pronunciation.

I had a little mind blown moment too. Always said just the letters. Suddenly AQUA :eek3:

Original post by 8472

I had a little mind blown moment too. Always said just the letters. Suddenly AQUA :eek3:

I thought about it too but didn’t ask about it in case it was actually AQUA and I was wrong all along :rofl:

Reply 6

Blue_Cow

22

Original post by Notnek

I ask the important questions. I've always said "ey queue ey" but @The Learn Ranger has changed my entire outlook on life / exam board pronunciation.

Hell for Children

Reply 7

Pangol

15

Never even occured to me to say anything other than "A Q A". In my time teaching, every teacher, exams officer, and the AQA rep who came to see how we were dealing with the science practicals said the same!

Reply 8

blinksdialtones

12

the exam board themselves pronounce it ay queue ay from the French listening papers I did
so go with them i guess
(but yes also Hell for Children is an acceptable pronounciation - or just Hell 😉😂😩)

Reply 9

111davey1

14

Its certainly not Aqua or ey que ey. In my experience all i ever heard was aaa-ka going to a school in oxford may have had something to do with this.

Reply 10

username4187664

14

What does AQA stand for? And not making 'Hell for children',, but like Assessment and Qualifications Alliance

Reply 11

blinksdialtones

12

Original post by 111davey1

Its certainly not Aqua or ey que ey. In my experience all i ever heard was aaa-ka going to a school in oxford may have had something to do with this.

Yep, oxford will do it. It is “ay queue ay” tho I’m certain, bc the exam board said it like that as I said

Reply 12

04MR17

Volunteer Section Leader

22

Asking the important questions. :smile:

Given that OCR is called oh-see-are, AQA should be called ey-queue-ey.

Worth saying that the word queue is just the letter q with 4 silent vowels in a polite line behind it.

Reply 13

The Learn Ranger

18

@Notnek

Fascinating!

I think I say it both ways. If I have been incorrectly saying 'Aqua' for so long it's a bit disturbing that none of my colleagues have ever pulled me up on it (nor anyone from AQA actually). Perhaps they just assume everything I say is right. :colondollar:

Reply 14

nexttime

22

Original post by The Learn Ranger

I think I say it both ways. If I have been incorrectly saying 'Aqua' for so long it's a bit disturbing that none of my colleagues have ever pulled me up on it (nor anyone from AQA actually). Perhaps they just assume everything I say is right. :colondollar:

They probably didn't have a clue what you were talking about and were just nodding thoughtfully for politeness.

A-Q-A

A - Q - A

Original post by The Learn Ranger

@Notnek

Fascinating!

I think I say it both ways. If I have been incorrectly saying 'Aqua' for so long it's a bit disturbing that none of my colleagues have ever pulled me up on it (nor anyone from AQA actually). Perhaps they just assume everything I say is right. :colondollar: