A-level English Language and Literature Study Group 2022-2023

Original post by tealeavees

I'm also pretty nervous for Paris! What novel are you doing? We're doing Lovely Bones - I'm just hoping for nice questions 🙏🙏
Sending you good luck!! 🙏

How did it go for you? I did The Handmaids Tale and the questions were on the significance of the past or women’s physical appearance, really hoped there would’ve been a character question tho as I revised loads of characters but not as many themes. Paris went okay but I wish the question was on tourism/multiculturalism instead of first experiences and I think poetry went really well! I did Carol Ann Duffy and wrote about Valentine and Mean Time- I think it was good as I had just done a past paper including Mean Time which was about regret (I got an A on that paper so hopefully won’t get too bad of a grade), so I just reworded it in the exam to talk about how she was regretful of her love :smile:

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Original post by melissapage

Omg thank god I thought I was the only one doing The History Boys😭😭 the theme last year was sexuality so I’m definitely thinking it’ll be religion and potentially an extract regarding Scripps. How are you revising for it?

I was thinking religion also. Hopefully not, but I'm sure I can say a good bit as luckily I do RS. I answered a question about specifically Rudge a few days ago, so hopefully they do not pick a character specific question, it was very difficult to talk about. Fingers crossed its on the subjunctive or something because having a vague topic would do me wonders. I am writing intros and first paras for a host of possible topics so that I at least have a possible fall back or frame of reference.

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Udalls1

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(Original post by Curiousg30rg3)How are you structuring your answer? I’ve had 3 different teachers all day different things 🤦*♀️

i’m also wondering this!!! I’m so lost!!

Original post by Curiousg30rg3

How are you structuring your answer? I’ve had 3 different teachers all day different things 🤦*♀️

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Original post by sebmilm123

ah nice mate yeh i’ve got a whole day now to revise + tomorrow morning as well, what do you think the antholog text will be? rumours of it being the kings speech i wouldn’t mind that one - and did you say you did all my sons?

Yeah! Got it in a couple hours, so just looking over stuff- my teachers think it’ll be a speech text, and we’re debating between the kings speech, Iraq War, JFK and Diana/Bashir - because of the contextual stuff and because a text that needs speech terms hasn’t came up in the last couple of years.

and I do a streetcar named desire so no, but I just hope they are nice to us😂

good luck for later :smile:

<3

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It was Oscar Wilde!!! so happy, that was the best extract. Hated the character question but i think i answered enough on Mrs Lintott to have done it correct. I kinda melded the question to my liking though lol

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Original post by Luc1dRats

It was Oscar Wilde!!! so happy, that was the best extract. Hated the character question but i think i answered enough on Mrs Lintott to have done it correct. I kinda melded the question to my liking though lol

Aw yes it was!! Surprised me actually, but it was a good one, and a good comparison extract to - Sage.

My streetcar one was alright, nice question but work set awkwardly so I also welded the question to my liking😂

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melissapage

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Original post by Luc1dRats

It was Oscar Wilde!!! so happy, that was the best extract. Hated the character question but i think i answered enough on Mrs Lintott to have done it correct. I kinda melded the question to my liking though lol

No same the lengths I went to write about the stuff I wanted and to try and link it back to mrs lintott😭😭absolute waffle. I liked the Oscar Wilde text but not a fan of text A! What did you think?

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Original post by SeizeTheStory

Aw yes it was!! Surprised me actually, but it was a good one, and a good comparison extract to - Sage.

My streetcar one was alright, nice question but work set awkwardly so I also welded the question to my liking😂

Very lucky this year, was expecting it to be the kings speech though - i suppose thats how they catch you out. Melding it to what you want to answer is the way i always go, cant help myself lmao

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Original post by Luc1dRats

Very lucky this year, was expecting it to be the kings speech though - i suppose thats how they catch you out. Melding it to what you want to answer is the way i always go, cant help myself lmao

Honestly same, but they’ve literally mainly got speech texts and interviews left now, so I dread to be next years

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Original post by SeizeTheStory

Honestly same, but they’ve literally mainly got speech texts and interviews left now, so I dread to be next years

Some poor souls are going to be left with the past masters podcast 😭

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Yep😭 thank god it’s not usss

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sebmilm123

Original post by SeizeTheStory

Yep😭 thank god it’s not usss

hows you find it? what did yoi write about for the de profundis/text a?

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Original post by sebmilm123

hows you find it? what did yoi write about for the de profundis/text a?

Quite good actually! As for de profundis and text a I wrote about a voice filled with determination/resilience/hope, the differences in their imprisonment and how that affected their stay. Uhhh, how text a al no at romanticised prison by telling a story ‘and that’s where my big adventure started’ (or something like that) and ‘let me set the scene’ how he saw life like a story - an antagonist looking for redemption whereas Wilde was more straightforward, but had a factual and clear point about prison- it affected how he ended his perceived identity?

Something like that anyway lol

How about you??

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Original post by frnkiee

for the streetcar one did u guys stick to only talking about stella 😭 i started waffling about blanche and idk if that actually links with the really specific question we got - but extract one was so lucky i actually revised oscar wilde thank the lord

I mainly stuck to Stella and spoke bits of Blanche whereas some of my friends did a bit about Blanche and Stella :smile:

!

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sebmilm123

Original post by SeizeTheStory

Quite good actually! As for de profundis and text a I wrote about a voice filled with determination/resilience/hope, the differences in their imprisonment and how that affected their stay. Uhhh, how text a al no at romanticised prison by telling a story ‘and that’s where my big adventure started’ (or something like that) and ‘let me set the scene’ how he saw life like a story - an antagonist looking for redemption whereas Wilde was more straightforward, but had a factual and clear point about prison- it affected how he ended his perceived identity?

Something like that anyway lol

How about you??

nice yeh similar really there was a lot of metaphors in the text A by peter sage it wasn’t a bad text to be fair, quite an optimistic voice in the first one.

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Original post by sebmilm123

nice yeh similar really there was a lot of metaphors in the text A by peter sage it wasn’t a bad text to be fair, quite an optimistic voice in the first one.

Yeah I agree with that

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sebmilm123

anyone do the great gatsby and a raisin in the sun for paper 2? predictions for the question? and any predictions on what the unseen text will be based on? edexcel. thanks 🙏

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