french writing exam...

hi,so im doing french aqa higher gcse, and i have my mock in 4 days! generally im quite good at french, but my ego got shattered when i got 16/32 on my 150 words test i did in class so now im quite scared for the actual proper exam hall mock. idk what i need to know and be good at for the writing, especially the 150 words (the class one was an abomination fr every sentence i wrote had major errors LOL) because i know i do well in listening reading and speaking so to have my chances of a grade 9 be completely ruined because of my inability to write normal coherent sentences is smth i dont want... so fr what do i have to focus on this is such an emergency im so scared! also yeah i have 4 days thats loads of time but i have 15 other exams to revise for like im not doing well w time management so i need something i can do in like 2-3 hours! pls help i actually have potential in french which isnt the same for any of my other classes LMAO

Hiya there!

It sounds like you're going through a tough time in GCSE French right now, but please remember that mocks aren't the be all and end all! I'm sure you know much more than you think - you just had a little slip up, but you can definitely improve a lot from now and get that grade 9! For the next few days, I would do little and often revision here and there, but not going overboard. I would advise you to remember a few sentences/sentence structures/phrases and then use them in your writing practice; that way you know that you'll have some good sentences in your work so that you get a higher grade . Once your mocks are over, I would focus on doing more writing past papers in your own time, and also nailing your vocab!

Hope this helps x

Marimo
UCL Y3 Med Student
Study Mind

hi,so im doing french aqa higher gcse, and i have my mock in 4 days! generally im quite good at french, but my ego got shattered when i got 16/32 on my 150 words test i did in class so now im quite scared for the actual proper exam hall mock. idk what i need to know and be good at for the writing, especially the 150 words (the class one was an abomination fr every sentence i wrote had major errors LOL) because i know i do well in listening reading and speaking so to have my chances of a grade 9 be completely ruined because of my inability to write normal coherent sentences is smth i dont want... so fr what do i have to focus on this is such an emergency im so scared! also yeah i have 4 days thats loads of time but i have 15 other exams to revise for like im not doing well w time management so i need something i can do in like 2-3 hours! pls help i actually have potential in french which isnt the same for any of my other classes LMAO

hah just a very late update but i did end up getting a 9!!

well done
on my mock I just got a 7
and I revised tenses did a whole grid on the back of my paper
and structures and stuff and wrote a whole list out
she said I wrote too much and made errors in some of the structures and overall errors
she's not rlly giving me any useful advice but what did u end up doing for revision
also what are u doing for the other French exams too