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

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

lmao real. i was gonna start freaking out but then just forced myself to write even if it seemed lowk bad quality

Guys what extracts did you get this year for Text A and B? I sat A Levels last year and I want to know so bad!! I hope you all done well this year guys, and remember that Section A was all about quality not quantity.

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

that was so bad, how were we meant to comment on CLD. i just made it nativist vs nurture and said that skinner, bruner and vygotsky would support the statement and then counter argued with chomsky berno and piaget. am i cooked 😭😭

Really? I said that Chomsky, Bruner and Vygotsky would disagree with the statement because they believe in the role of the caregiver, nature and the importance of scaffolding and strict correction while Piaget, Tomasello and Halliday would agree. ****, someone tell me how bad I've ****ed up there.

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

Really? I said that Chomsky, Bruner and Vygotsky would disagree with the statement because they believe in the role of the caregiver, nature and the importance of scaffolding and strict correction while Piaget, Tomasello and Halliday would agree. ****, someone tell me how bad I've ****ed up there.

Chomsky would disagree. Bruner and Vygotsky sort of sit on the fence here, probably agreeing that experimenting is important (scaffolding, MKO, ZPD, etc.) but also highlighting how CLA is still partially innate (LAD and critical period and LASS). Piaget is also probably sitting on the fence, arguing that experimenting is useful to develop cognitive ability and therefore progress CLA, but at the same time CLA cannot progress past where a child's cognitive abilities are, so experimentation has a limited impact. Tomasello would agree imo. It was definitely a hard question to get around and as long as you weren't too dogmatic (i.e. it's best to say "Chomsky might argue" rather than "Chomsky argues"), you'll be all good

Definitely was an unpleasant surprise when I saw it. They do usually do questions that are explicitely nature vs nurture but I have seen questions where it’s not immediately clear (eg. how important are age-appropriate toys to language development). I think they wanted people to initially see experimentation as nurture or go into how experimentation is a mix of nature and nurture (eg. playing with MKOs, internalisation of grammar and semantics). I found it a bit of a curveball but managed it alright

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

Honestly at that point nothing I wrote made sense and I repeated the same point about 4 different times with different words it was so funny, I do my exams in a separate room, so its just me and a single invigilator and she was laughinggggg at me the whole time
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omg sameeeeee, i swear i was repeating myself way toooo much. idk if i could deal w someone laughing at me lmao

Soo how did we find the paper?

Soo how did we find the paper?

i kept writing captain hook

Oh my days , I thought I was the only one but in my case I kept writing captain jack sparrow