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How many quotes should I put per paragraph for a Christmas carol essay
I want to do one or two per paragraph and highly anylise it using all of the AO1 to AO5 points
And plan on doing 3-4 paragraphs
Is this a good idea

Reply 1

Is this for gcse? Which exam board are you doing?

Reply 2

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by DerDracologe
Is this for gcse? Which exam board are you doing?


Yes and I’m doing aqa

Reply 3

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by ~𝑛🌺
Yes and I’m doing aqa

@maybe-laiba do you happen do to AQA or know anyone who does?

Reply 4

@DerDracologe Yes, I do - I'm happy to help with any advice. (I'm assuming that's why I'm here 😅 hehe)

Firstly, hiii, love the username!

Secondly....

Yes - in my opinion, your idea sounds perfect! To be honest, I used to try and shove multiple quotes into my writing but eventually I learnt that even though I was still getting L6, it wasn't necessary for me to do that. For example, in my poetry essay for this mock, I did two quotes per poem and that was it and wrote 2 main body paragraphs and I got a L6 for it so writing more quotes doesn't necessarily mean a higher grade, it highly depends on what you do on the quote.

Since we're talking about ACC here, I would still pretty much say the same. One quote per paragraph is enough but ensure you took off all the objectives (like you've mentioned) but do this accordingly. For example, yes, have context, we love context but don't make 50% of your paragraph context and 20% analysis if that makes sense because context is worth a lot less in the mark scheme so be aware of that. Also, for context, try to find grade 9 or some fancy context that not a lot of people would use (I love Ouspenksy, Marxism...The superego, id, something along those lines although I am not so sure how well that would actually fit) and try to use it accordingly and embed it rather than writing a separate sentence about it after (I know a lot of people who do that).

Also, I would recommend doing three paragraphs rather than four unless you absolutely insist (I know I prefer doing a forth paragraph for Lady Macbeth in exams) or do one paragraph with two quotes from the same stave and then two other paragraphs with one quote each. My point is you might run out of time so it is better to just do three paragraphs and move on.

Just realised I waffled on a lot more than your question suggested but hopefully that somewhat helped - good luck :smile:

Reply 5

Just in case you would like someone else to look at it, I know @ibelieve-icanfly and @orion_nebula13 do AQA - they're quite smart so might be able to give you some more advice!
(Sorry if you didn't want to be taggeddd)
(edited 2 months ago)

Reply 6

Original post
by maybe-laiba
@DerDracologe Yes, I do - I'm happy to help with any advice. (I'm assuming that's why I'm here 😅 hehe)
Firstly, hiii, love the username!
Secondly....
Yes - in my opinion, your idea sounds perfect! To be honest, I used to try and shove multiple quotes into my writing but eventually I learnt that even though I was still getting L6, it wasn't necessary for me to do that. For example, in my poetry essay for this mock, I did two quotes per poem and that was it and wrote 2 main body paragraphs and I got a L6 for it so writing more quotes doesn't necessarily mean a higher grade, it highly depends on what you do on the quote.
Since we're talking about ACC here, I would still pretty much say the same. One quote per paragraph is enough but ensure you took off all the objectives (like you've mentioned) but do this accordingly. For example, yes, have context, we love context but don't make 50% of your paragraph context and 20% analysis if that makes sense because context is worth a lot less in the mark scheme so be aware of that. Also, for context, try to find grade 9 or some fancy context that not a lot of people would use (I love Ouspenksy, Marxism...The superego, id, something along those lines although I am not so sure how well that would actually fit) and try to use it accordingly and embed it rather than writing a separate sentence about it after (I know a lot of people who do that).
Also, I would recommend doing three paragraphs rather than four unless you absolutely insist (I know I prefer doing a forth paragraph for Lady Macbeth in exams) or do one paragraph with two quotes from the same stave and then two other paragraphs with one quote each. My point is you might run out of time so it is better to just do three paragraphs and move on.
Just realised I waffled on a lot more than your question suggested but hopefully that somewhat helped - good luck :smile:


Thank you for the advice

Reply 7

Original post
by maybe-laiba
Just in case you would like someone else to look at it, I know @ibelieve-icanfly and @orion_nebula13 do AQA - they're quite smart so might be able to give you some more advice!
(Sorry if you didn't want to be taggeddd)

thanks for the tag!
yup two-three quotes per paragraph that u can analyse to a great extent are perfect
putting a lot of quotes in, but not analysing them is pointless i've learnt

Reply 8

Original post
by maybe-laiba
Just in case you would like someone else to look at it, I know @ibelieve-icanfly and @orion_nebula13 do AQA - they're quite smart so might be able to give you some more advice!
(Sorry if you didn't want to be taggeddd)

ty for the tag!
1-2 quotes per paragraph is perfect, and I would recommend 3 paragraphs.

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