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AQA A-level English Language Paper 2 - 4th June 2025 [Exam Chat]

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Reply 80

News articles were so **** like bro which one was prescrip and which one was descrip

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by manicured-enrich
News articles were so **** like bro which one was prescrip and which one was descrip


bro i spent 30 minutes planning it for some reason and i barely even got to write anything 🥲🥲 but in my plan i said they’re both descriptivist?

Reply 82

i think i messed up cos of how sick i am but the question 1/2 was so nice - tryna make up for the travesty paper 1 was 😭

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by Emily honka
Am I cooked for talking about Halliday functional theory in the diversity question 😭 I was saying how new contexts cause new language to be needed therefore context determines language . lol probs wrong

I think that's fine someone in my class said they wrote about it

Reply 84

Hellooo! To give some people a little peace of mind, in my exam today the person sitting next to me wrote 2 sentences for the entire paper. If you're worried about grade boundaries, just remember there ARE people out there who do not care about how they did and did not try! As long as you tried your best, you did well :smile:❤️

Reply 85

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by amycanpost
Hellooo! To give some people a little peace of mind, in my exam today the person sitting next to me wrote 2 sentences for the entire paper. If you're worried about grade boundaries, just remember there ARE people out there who do not care about how they did and did not try! As long as you tried your best, you did well :smile:❤️


oh bless them, they must have felt so bad or been unwell

Reply 86

How did we find it???😅

Reply 87

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by manicured-enrich
News articles were so **** like bro which one was prescrip and which one was descrip


exactlyyy I had the same dilemma 😭

Reply 88

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by possibly
exactlyyy I had the same dilemma 😭


i forgot the opposite of prescriptivist 😭 i still can’t clock the word i wanted to use it so many times

Reply 89

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by etrnalsunshines
bro i spent 30 minutes planning it for some reason and i barely even got to write anything 🥲🥲 but in my plan i said they’re both descriptivist?


I said that deacon article b was prescriptivist and a was descriptivist

Reply 90

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by possibly
exactlyyy I had the same dilemma 😭
Honestly

Reply 91

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by Sally13
I said that deacon article b was prescriptivist and a was descriptivist

Same

Reply 92

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by Sally13
I said that deacon article b was prescriptivist and a was descriptivist


Same!

Reply 93

What was the writing prompt?

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by Madeleine07
I loved the extracts and the article prompt

What was the prompt?

Reply 95

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by Skoorboom
I was happy with it! The language change was so good, you could use the same arguments as basically all the change questions. Accent was okay, at least it wasn’t occupation for discourses 😭 I struggled to find good points for q3 but that’s always been my hardest question


Same for q3! I loved Q2 and q4….but the texts….

Reply 96

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by Sally13
I said that deacon article b was prescriptivist and a was descriptivist


i said the opposite 😭

Reply 97

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by Aplomb_1017
What was the writing prompt?


Something about “Attitudes to accents”

Reply 98

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by manicured-enrich
News articles were so **** like bro which one was prescrip and which one was descrip


Text B was definitely prescriptivist because he resisted the change Rajan wanted. A was just weird tho

Reply 99

**** guys I've just realised I didn't read the article prompt for Q4. I just assumed we were writing an article on RP and regional accents. My article was a direct response to text B, I called the author of text B out directly of being ignorant of class issues surrounding RP and regional accents. I talked about Giles match guise test and results found by Machoney and Cocks. I may have also mentioned prescriptivism. Can someone please let me know what the prompt was and how far I was off base?

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