AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 8700/2 - 10 Jun 2022 [Exam Chat]

Do you guys think the grade boundaries will be low?

Holidays: spend cash or spend time to relax?

like half of the extract tbh cos there were loads of devices. i think i talked abt onomatopoeia, personification with the thunder rolling, and rain lashing, then semantic field of heat cos it said 'boiling' 'spark' and 'steam'. and then the simile with the flock of starlings. i dont remember what else tbh, but there was quite a lot to say

Absolutely terrible, never capitulated on a test so hard in my life. Spent way too long planning all of my answers, 4 was rushed and undetailed. 5 was rushed and undetailed. 2 was unanswered 😐🔫
really annoyed since I got a 9 in the mock and revised alot

other source is the tent the bucket and me by emma kennedy

i was running out of time because i spent too long on q3 and 2 i was writing so fast but managed to finish q4 thankfully. i didn't even get time to read it but hoping it was good enough i tried my best at least AND YAY NO MORE ENGLISH EVER AGAIN

Questions:

1. Statements true or false ( do not remember any).

2. In both texts camping sites are different. Write differences what you understand of both camping sites.

3. How does the writer use language here to describe the rain and the storm?

4. Writer's different experiences about camping sites.

5. An article -something about holidays.

Q1-true,false statements.

You know,' said my mother who, as far as I could tell, was the only person delighted to be back in France, 'we should treat this holiday as the occasion it is. There's no point in being miserable. Holidays are what you make them.'

Had my mother learnt nothing? Holidays were not what you made them. Holidays were in the hands of malevolent forces hell-bent on wreaking chaos at every turn. Holidays were assault courses of the mind and body, endurance tests designed to break spirits and shatter spleens. In my nine years on the planet I had learnt one thing: going on holiday was awful. It was a small crumb of comfort to me that my father was now coming round to my way of thinking and as we sat, chugging along down the now familiar poplar-lined roads, sunflowers in the fields on either side of us, I thought, 'Yes, it IS nice to look at. But in the same way cheese looks nice in a mousetrap.'

can someone mark this for me please and tell me where to improve

Salvage your sleep
Sleeping is vital for young people

Student Consensus has long seen sleeping as unnecessary and frivolous, something health professionals meaninglessly ramble on about. This seems somewhat unfair on both the hardworking medical sector and our own well-being. Far from meaningless, sleep offers a solution: it rejuvenates our bodies from the merciless pressure teachers exert upon us. Sleep has the power to energise and prepare us for our upcoming exams - so why are we desperately trying to stay awake?

During this vital exam period, it has become increasingly essential that we sleep enough. Sleeping for 6 hours a day rather than the recommended 10, can reduce exam performance by 20%. Another statistic also shows that 50% of 13-16 year olds sleep for under 5 hours a day - that means half of our student population are willingly sacrificing their possibility of a 9 filled report card. Why are we committing self sabotage and relegating our grades when we could be could easily be pursuing our best exams yet.

Moreover, our ability to study is heinously hindered by a lack of sleep; it’s wrong to let our precious minutes, hours and days of studying all be washed away by our reduced retention. We all have days where we feel terribly tired but still determinedly still avow to study - and I applaud you for that, but when this routine becomes quotidian - it in turn evolves into a detrimental one.

Show me a jubilant student, and ill show you a student who sleeps well. Many of my schoolmates have been desolated by Satan's contemporary cauldron which is depression, unknowing that this is the consequence of their lack of sleep. As i look around my class, I see pupils dozing off into their textbooks that they toil themselves into, illuminated by the dim, flickering lights. They flinch awake as the teacher hopelessly reminds them that we are at school not at home. And to these pupils i am desperately hoping read this : get some sleep.

When I was younger, I wanted to be a supermodel, but what i didnt know was how much sleep affected growth. Now, i am stuck at 4’11, and any of my previous dreams now remain as a flinting memory, a reminder of my time spent awake, endlessly scrolling on my phone rather than energizing and giving back to my hard working body. At least I had realised the consequences before it lead to my death- which an insufficiency of sleep is able to cause.

This message is vital for all of us studying, typing, reading and scrolling on our phones all night : lets all make sure that tonight, and in the nights to come we rest our inured bodies.