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

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Reply 120

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by Mariia.kov
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

Reply 121

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

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

😂

Reply 122

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by de1ct1c
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.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8424545/Thousands-call-Captain-Cook-statue-REMOVED-links-colonialism-genocide.html this was the article for the modern text, the second text was from 'The History Of Cleveland' by John Graves about Captain Cook

Reply 123

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by princess-pinnac
David: (whispers) say mummydaddy 🤗
Seth: HAM CHEESE 🤑

😭😭😭

Reply 124

i thought it was pretty good overall, and i answered every question :smile:

Reply 125

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by etrnalsunshines
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.

Reply 126

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by emily.02
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.


dw ur probably right i’m predicted an E 😭😭😭

Reply 127

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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 timings for this paper are literally wrong. They need to change it

Reply 128

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by emily.02
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

Reply 129

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by joeysavin
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


The way i only spoke about halliday 😭, i completely bottled it i was so stressed

Reply 130

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by nell-is-cold
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

Yeah exactly I spoke about nature as the main like point that relates to experimentation then brought all my other theory in

Reply 131

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by Mariia.kov
How everyone found it? I think it was a really bad paper 😭 nearly cried half way through 😭
I saw the child language question and started nearly crying too . I’m glad everyone found it equally as hard hopefully they will lower the grade boundaries

Reply 132

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by Insouciant.
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
😂

omg sameeeeee, i swear i was repeating myself way toooo much. idk if i could deal w someone laughing at me lmao

Reply 133

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by lilitaa
omg sameeeeee, i swear i was repeating myself way toooo much. idk if i could deal w someone laughing at me lmao


It wasn’t in a malicious way but yeah it went terrible

Reply 134

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by possibly
Soo how did we find the paper?


Abhorrent 😂

Reply 135

honestly I have no clue what they were looking for with the experimentation so I hope its open to anything ig?
I wrote about Skinner (experimentation through reinforcement) linking to the role of siblings, cognitive (seth experimenting through singing to build schemas) and how chomsky would suggest that experimentation is not needed as children learn from inbuilt structures with support how the children are going through universal stages as how seth couldn’t use the alveolar “w” showing how there must be a deeper biological level.

Reply 136

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by possibly
Soo how did we find the paper?

It was ok imo

Reply 137

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by heiditoone
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

Reply 138

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by Pappichulo890
Oh my days , I thought I was the only one but in my case I kept writing captain jack sparrow


No fully 😭 i did both i was losing my mind at one point- i stopped with full names calling them morrison, anthony and jack 😂

Reply 139

aye quick question chat , yall see for question 3 when you "explore similarities and differences" but forget to label language terminology , do u lose marks.

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