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GCSE English Poetry & Prose Question

Hey guys I have a questions about CIE IGCSE English Poetry and Prose, so for Poetry in my school we are learning 15 poems by Ted Hughes and I realised in the 4 past papers released from 2023, 8/15 poems were questioned and none repeated. I was wondering whether they will repeat a poem this year or will question from the remaining 7/15 poems.
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Maybe not the answer you want to hear, but there's not really any way of telling. E.G, for my AQA GCSE last year, they repeated a poem that had been done only two years earlier, despite the fact that there was still a bunch of poems that had never been done at all. The exam boards seem to make it as unpredictable as possible to catch out the people who haven't revised all 15.
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Reply 2
Original post by waidh7
Maybe not the answer you want to hear, but there's not really any way of telling. E.G, for my AQA GCSE last year, they repeated a poem that had been done only two years earlier, despite the fact that there was still a bunch of poems that had never been done at all. The exam boards seem to make it as unpredictable as possible to catch out the people who haven't revised all 15.

Oh okay, thankyou!
im doing cie ted hughes too! what are your predictions and what do u want it to be. Im praying for jaguar, wind, hawk roosting football at slack, or harvest moon!
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Original post by saffronarora
im doing cie ted hughes too! what are your predictions and what do u want it to be. Im praying for jaguar, wind, hawk roosting football at slack, or harvest moon!

from the past papers i seen they havent done; cat and mouse, snowdrop, the roe deer, a memory, telegraph wires, anniversary and the other. so i assume its atleast one of these. also the ones you named i wish it was them aswell 😭
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Original post by saffronarora
im doing cie ted hughes too! what are your predictions and what do u want it to be. Im praying for jaguar, wind, hawk roosting football at slack, or harvest moon!

whats your drama?
Original post by carnaldrax
from the past papers i seen they havent done; cat and mouse, snowdrop, the roe deer, a memory, telegraph wires, anniversary and the other. so i assume its atleast one of these. also the ones you named i wish it was them aswell 😭

nooo those are all terrible. I've seen past papers for all of them except cat and mouse so idk
Original post by carnaldrax
whats your drama?

Othello wbu and whats ur prose
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Original post by saffronarora
Othello wbu and whats ur prose

i'm doing midsummer nights dream for drama, and for prose great expectation
Original post by carnaldrax
i'm doing midsummer nights dream for drama, and for prose great expectation

cool, good luck! do you know what you would say in an essay for telegraph wires or snowdrop or cat and mouse cus I have some ideas but not enough for a whole essay xx
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Original post by saffronarora
cool, good luck! do you know what you would say in an essay for telegraph wires or snowdrop or cat and mouse cus I have some ideas but not enough for a whole essay xx

Yeah I do, mainly from the YouTube channel "English with Kayleigh". She goes through all 15 poems and analyses with lots of interesting ideas. I recommend checking her videos for those poems.
Original post by carnaldrax
Yeah I do, mainly from the YouTube channel "English with Kayleigh". She goes through all 15 poems and analyses with lots of interesting ideas. I recommend checking her videos for those poems.

thank you

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