AQA chinese-traditional or not?

Hi, I'm doing AQA Chinese-8673 this May, and I was wondering if anyone who's taken it knows if I would be docked marks if I wrote in traditional, I only know traditional characters.

Reply 1

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by ippikineko

Hi, I'm doing AQA Chinese-8673 this May, and I was wondering if anyone who's taken it knows if I would be docked marks if I wrote in traditional, I only know traditional characters.

I'm not a hundred percent sure for AQA but when I did my gcse Chinese (i think it was edexcel) there was a box at the front that you ticked to indicate either traditional or simplified and I think the front half was traditional and the back half was simplified (to be fair I scrapped a nine by inventing words and using pinyin). I think AQA is most likely different as I looked at their paper and the format is different, their report or specification doesn't explicitly state whether or not you can unlike pearson. Are you doing it at school or through a Chinese school? You could always ask your teacher, or email AQA.

Reply 2

ippikineko

I'm doing it at school, i'll ask when I get back, thanks! I might have to take a page from your book and start inventing words too

Reply 3

ippikineko

For anyone else checking if you can do AQA Chinese in traditional, you can! This is if you are writing in traditional, and speaking in Mandarin, not sure about Cantonese.