AQA GCSE Music: Understanding Music (8271/W) - 17th June 2024 [Exam Chat]

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AQA GCSE Music : Understanding Music (8271/W) - 17th June 2024

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Date/Time: 17th June 2024 PM
Length: 1h 30m

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@Pwca

Reply 1

Lars360

13

Hi. Does anyone know if Diamonds on the soles of her shoes was the 8 marker last year?

Reply 2

Liqht

13

Original post by Lars360

Hi. Does anyone know if Diamonds on the soles of her shoes was the 8 marker last year?

Yeah it was the 8 marker last year :smile:

Reply 3

Lars360

13

Thanks. What was it the year before? What are people thinking the 8 marker will be this year?

(edited 9 months ago)

Reply 4

angelina121517

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Original post by Lars360

Thanks. What was it the year before? What are people thinking the 8 marker will be this year?

in 2022 it was Graceland so maybe this year the 8 marker might be on You can Call Me Al

Reply 5

Im192838

1

Original post by erin11

AQA GCSE Music : Understanding Music (8271/W) - 17th June 2024
Welcome to the exam discussion thread for this exam.
Introduce yourself! Let others know what you're aiming for in your exams, what you are struggling with in yourrevision or anything else.
General Information
Date/Time: 17th June 2024 PM
Length: 1h 30m
Best of luck! :biggrin:

Click here to find exam discussions for other GCSE subjects

@Pwca

does anyone have any guesses for which little shop of horrors song could come up?

Reply 6

Liqht

13

Original post by angelina121517

in 2022 it was Graceland so maybe this year the 8 marker might be on You can Call Me Al

I was thinking this too, it's unlikely to be Diamonds (2022 paper + the specimen), so it's probably You can call me Al, could be Graceland, but the main features have already been used in the paper so idk

Reply 7

LetsFloGo

Original post by Liqht

I was thinking this too, it's unlikely to be Diamonds (2022 paper + the specimen), so it's probably You can call me Al, could be Graceland, but the main features have already been used in the paper so idk

yh i definely think it could be 'you can call me Al', thats why i'm only doing my last minute revision on that and mozart

Reply 8

whos_ffion

1

Original post by Im192838

does anyone have any guesses for which little shop of horrors song could come up?

I reckon it will most likely be Mushnik and Son since Prologue/LSOH and Feed Me have already been on, but it could be any of them because AQA is so unpredictable

Reply 9

Lars360

13

What did people think?

Reply 10

Liqht

13

Hated that in all honesty, so much on percussion, and I was barely taught it 😭
That, and the CD stopped working so lol, we're getting special consideration, whole exam was a joke, and it was my last one...

Reply 11

katiedisney

9

did anyone else totally freak out when wolf alice came on - one of my favourite bands!!!

Reply 12

ty_m

Ik I'm late but i genuinely went in thinking it was Mushnik + Son...only to be disappointed to see Prologue :') I started tweaking.

Reply 13

Lars360

13

I really didn’t like it - it asked for so many harmonic devices - I know barely any!!

(edited 9 months ago)

Reply 14

whos_ffion

1

A bit late to reply but it sucks that it was Prologue! It's easy to remember stuff but there's so little to write about - that question really sucked. And why was there a harmony question for like every single excerpt???

Reply 15

galloping-muster

Hi does anyone remember what the 8 markers eventually were in 2024?

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