Where to send practice French A-Level essays for online marking

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Would anyone be able to guide me with regards to anywhere where French A-Level practice essays can be sent for marking. My daughter (Y13) is really struggling to get constructive feedback and with exams imminent I'd like to try and get her some constructive feedback on her practice essays. It is possible big online tutor companies may do this but she doesn't need a tutor, just the essay feedback on the AQA French A-Level criteria. Thank you to anyone that can maybe steer me in the right direction.

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voidhearts

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As a Y13 A level German student, I struggle with the same.
I tend to send essays to my teachers, but they don't always come back with the type of feedback I require.

I haven't found anywhere specifically where I can send the essays for online marking, I think particularly because modern language A-levels unfortunately aren't very popular.
Courses such as OXSS and Justin Craig courses could go through her essays, and help her with them. These are usually mostly during school holidays, so may not be do-able, but I believe they also do online courses which may be available during term time, or during the half term if her exam with the essays comes after the half term.

The AQA website has teaching resources (both sample essays and examiners reports for each paper, which explain the common faults and weaknesses in essays written by students for each exam), and also the specification where it gives the marking criteria for the essays.

Potentially controversial, but some AI softwares may be able to help, if you give it the essay, and the AQA specification, I would suggest not telling it to grade the essay necessarily (as that may not be accurate), but helping you to summarise the key points of what went well in the essay and what could be done better to match the specification more closely may be of help.

However, if your daughter finds it easy enough to use the specification to mark the essays on her own then this would be the best option, however the marking criteria is subjective, and will vary with every examiner who marks.

Sorry that this hasn't directly answered your question, but I hope it helps!

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simrankc26

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by Tintig

Would anyone be able to guide me with regards to anywhere where French A-Level practice essays can be sent for marking. My daughter (Y13) is really struggling to get constructive feedback and with exams imminent I'd like to try and get her some constructive feedback on her practice essays. It is possible big online tutor companies may do this but she doesn't need a tutor, just the essay feedback on the AQA French A-Level criteria. Thank you to anyone that can maybe steer me in the right direction.

Hi, hope i'm not too late. I'm a french uni student who also did a level and gcse and has done tutoring before so am happy to mark some essays

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abb1egreen

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by Tintig

Would anyone be able to guide me with regards to anywhere where French A-Level practice essays can be sent for marking. My daughter (Y13) is really struggling to get constructive feedback and with exams imminent I'd like to try and get her some constructive feedback on her practice essays. It is possible big online tutor companies may do this but she doesn't need a tutor, just the essay feedback on the AQA French A-Level criteria. Thank you to anyone that can maybe steer me in the right direction.

if it's for language, i used a website called langcorrect, where native speakers can correct a passage you have written and explain why what you have written is not correct. ofcourse they may not have read the books so won't necessarily understand the content, but they will be able to correct the language portion of the mark scheme.

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