A-level russian

Hello, I am doing A-level in russian language, I really cant manage to find ANYTHING related to essay in russian and its writing style, is it really just English essay in Russian, or it has a different structure, maybe someone could provide some materials/links (even paid-access resources will do) please because I am really struggling here, thanks everyone

omg hi. im fully fluent, so im fully confident with paper 1 and stuff but im worried about the IRP. I chose a topic but im confused whether the key findings should be from my sources or not? also i truly cannot be bothered to watch the film haha. good luck tho!

stop i wish i was fluent; im really scared ngl going up against fluent people esp since so few people do it. Do you have any tips for the paper 1? for the irp, they don't have to be from the source but good to have links from them.

oh ok thanks.
honestly, just listen to the audio in the listening part a few times bc they speak quite quick and the wording in the task on the actual paper can be not so straight forward. The 20 mark translation is annoying for me bc its LITERALLY a word-for-word translation. I checked mark schemes and its just the simplest words you can use, it a direct translation, so there's no need to show off your vocab knowledge. That's kind of it, im not putting in too much work to prepare, i still have to watch the movie haha

thanks! which movie are you picking?

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I've only started watching it yesterday and the scenery looks great but the tension between the two main characters makes me cringe hahaha
i'm so stressed for my a levels in general idk if i'll do well

Everything was fine until the last translation question! I deffo dropped 5-6 marks there 😭😭

The entire question on the woman and her husband travelling to St. Petersburg was so hard and for what

yeah no that was hard. Harder than the previous few papers 100%

Agreed! usually i find translations easier so i started with it but it just scared me LOL

Was this the one where:

1. Got there on the train
2. Saw the church where she and her husband got married (had to name it)
3. Left the hotel because it was either uncomfortable/unaffordable (не по карману)
4. The guy was happy because his son was born
5. We had to give the adjectives for what life would be like (hard, complicated, and something else? I gave 3 here)

I forgot the rest but hopefully someone can corroborate my answers lmfaooo





Oh my god, the translation threw me so much. I'm not a native speaker, and I had no idea what was going on. It was noticeably more complicated than the other years. I'm hoping the boundaries overall are lower this year.

The final speaking question about the palace guard and the theft threw me so much - you know the summary one? That, and the putsch one where we had to describe the reaction of the woman. Managed to explain "putsch" as "государственный переворот" tho so hopefully that works!

q 4 in the listening was so random. Some of the reading was ok, but I remember spending longer than I should have on the question about the walking paths in moscow. I dropped a lot of marks on the translation I think though (and my irp was on the circus). Feeling like I'm going to need to make up a lot in the writing. Is anyone else doing левиафан, пиковая дама, or вишневый сад?

Desperately need lower boundaries but what the govmnt said about 2019 boundaries isnt looking too hopeful

What about the speaking? I was very pleasantly surprised with mine, I got really lucky and got my card on theme 3, which is the easiest theme imo.

How's everyone feeling for paper 2 writing? I'm doing Burnt by the Sun and Queen of Spades, do you lot think they'll be nice on the titles this year?