AQA A-level English Language Paper 1 - 21st May 2025 [Exam Chat]

Reply 100

elliejj1312

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What was the question for written? And was it better than the spoken? Who did it?

Reply 101

Midnight786

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by Pwca

How did it go, everyone? :smile:

Spoiler

Can’t lie it went pretty well timings were good CLA threw me off for a minute so I decided to just annote the transcript then re read the question I argued against experimenting being the most essential brought in Bruner and skinner and vygotsky

Reply 102

andmynameis

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by princess-pinnac

David: (whispers) say mummydaddy 🤗
Seth: HAM CHEESE 🤑

🤣how did you go about that one? I did the written one but I'm intrigued

Reply 103

andmynameis

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by elliejj1312

What was the question for written? And was it better than the spoken? Who did it?

written was definitely better than spoken in my opinion. It was basically asking to assess if scaffolding is the most effective way to help a Childs written language develop.
Mentioned Brunner, Vyotsky and MKO and ZPD, criticised it with Chomsky, Bellugi and Grouch and Lambeth, etc. Picked out a few inventive spellings and slapped them onto the paper.😂

Reply 104

Ihatephysics!

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by andmynameis

🤣how did you go about that one? I did the written one but I'm intrigued

I said he didnt under stand the concept of turn taking and he flouted the maxim of relevance and also that its due to him still being egotistical - no idea if that's write though

Reply 105

moo212121

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by amycanpost

That was the WORST paper 1 I've ever written god help me 😭

Glad it wasn’t just mean my timings were horrific I only wrote 1 paragraph for question 3😭

Reply 106

andmynameis

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by Ihatephysics!

I said he didnt under stand the concept of turn taking and he flouted the maxim of relevance and also that its due to him still being egotistical - no idea if that's write though

okay this actually makes sense tho

Reply 107

andmynameis

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is it just me or in general, the timing for these a levels are diabolical in comparison to all we need to write?

Reply 108

moo212121

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by andmynameis

is it just me or in general, the timing for these a levels are diabolical in comparison to all we need to write?

100% agree, section A q1&2 literally took me 45 mins each, and idk how they expect us to do q3 in 20 mins I only have 10 mins left to do it at the end

Reply 109

andmynameis

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by moo212121

100% agree, section A q1&2 literally took me 45 mins each, and idk how they expect us to do q3 in 20 mins I only have 10 mins left to do it at the end

the timings are wild

Reply 110

moo212121

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by andmynameis

the timings are wild

For real idk about everyone else but it takes me at least 45 mins to write an essay idk where they are getting 20 mins from 💀

Reply 111

andmynameis

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by moo212121

For real idk about everyone else but it takes me at least 45 mins to write an essay idk where they are getting 20 mins from 💀

I tried to spend an hour 30 mins on Section A and focused the last hour on CLA since that was 30 marks and if I dont get the best marks in Section A at least CLA could save me 😓

Reply 112

inward-embolism

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by andmynameis

is it just me or in general, the timing for these a levels are diabolical in comparison to all we need to write?

the examiner report literally says students run out of time and don't finish writing question 3 like what??!! they are fully aware that there's not enough time

Reply 113

inward-embolism

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by Lucyem07

Anyone think the child language written question was mean or not normally expected ? Speaking about children being experimental which had nothing to do with the common theory that comes up like nurture etc so had to bring it into my theory, usually most years the questions alternate but haven’t seen the paper do this before . Anyway hope everyone has done well I think I managed the question affectively

i agree, the only link i can think of is pragmatics cus halliday has his taxonomy of pragmatics kids develop or something like that. i just wrote about imaginative play and halliday which is interactionist/nurture approach. also there was not one single thing to comment on in the nativist approach!!!! that is the best approach! and seth's window error was fis phenoma right?

Reply 114

moo212121

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by andmynameis

I tried to spend an hour 30 mins on Section A and focused the last hour on CLA since that was 30 marks and if I dont get the best marks in Section A at least CLA could save me 😓

That’s not a bad idea but I feel like the annotations also take forever

Reply 115

andmynameis

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by moo212121

That’s not a bad idea but I feel like the annotations also take forever

I didn't even bother with them this time. I just went along and annotated as I wrote the essay because I knew that would take me 30 mins at least

Reply 116

Insouciant.

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Our teachers never taught us written, they only allowed us to do spoken so that was messed up, i skipped the whole of question2 and messed up 3 so yw for lowering the grade boundaries x

Reply 117

andmynameis

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by Insouciant.

Our teachers never taught us written, they only allowed us to do spoken so that was messed up, i skipped the whole of question2 and messed up 3 so yw for lowering the grade boundaries x

why don't they though ☹️ Is that not in the spec? I mean if you learn one and you can't write on it you're literally stuck because you know nothing on written

Reply 118

moo212121

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by andmynameis

I didn't even bother with them this time. I just went along and annotated as I wrote the essay because I knew that would take me 30 mins at least

Damn that’s pretty smart tbh I should’ve thought abt this instead of spending ages annotating 😭

Reply 119

Mariia.kov

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How everyone found it? I think it was a really bad paper 😭 nearly cried half way through 😭

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