URGENT ADVICE NEEDED: AQA English Language papers 1 and 2

If anyone could offer advice on these 2 papers, please do. Especially paper 2, I really struggled in my mock.
Paper 1 still went okay since I'm pretty decent at fiction and creative writing, though i did struggle with how to answer the structure question (so question 3).
Paper 2 went extremely badly. I do not understand what I can analyse in most of the questions. I struggled a lot with questions 2, 3 and 4, which took up most of my time in the exam so I neglected question 5 and lost lots of marks.
For question 2, I literally have no idea what it wants from me. I don't understand how to answer it, what kind of points to give and just what it's asking in general.
Question 3 is difficult because i find it super tricky to analyse non fiction.
And question 4 confuses me because i don't understand how exactly i compare anything, and what kind of points i make.
I also find question 5 difficult as i don't really understand how to write one too well.
This sounds slightly stupid after saying all that, but I'm aiming for a 9 or an 8 at the least. I'm currently at a 7, but barely. I also want to mention that I haven't revised before, I just paid as much attention as I could in lessons, which I'm regretting now because I have zero idea on how to revise.
I've tried to give as much info as possible so helping me out would be easier. Literally any advice would be appreciated, thanks 😭

Reply 1

j1l_s

Hey, really obvious advice, but you should do it. Start with Q5. Q5 makes up 25% of your total English Language marks, so you should aim to not sacrifice it. I think that should bring you up a tad bit already. Could you please tell me how you annotate your extract - sounds very silly, but this small 10-15 minute task can make or break your grade. What I mean by this is - I read the Qs first, then read the extract whilst annotating what the questions are looking for, complete Q1 when I'm reading the first paragraph.

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Reply 2

stxrl1ght

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by j1l_s

thanks, i'll start with Q5 then!
As for annotating, I'm not very efficient at all honestly. I usually do Q1, then read over the extract once, and the second time i annotate a few things that stand out to me but not in too much detail. Then i look over Q2, 3 and 4, and i decide which question looks the easiest to do and i do it. But since i don't annotate too much beforehand, i end up annotating as i do the paragraphs. Now that i'm typing this out, I'm realising just how faulty the way i annotate in exams is 😭

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