English Paper 1

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LittleMissLost wrote: »

The poor thing I dont what the code of practice is for a situation like that?

She'll get marked for the best one out of A and B and she'll be down 50 marks.

AG2R

LittleMissLost wrote: »

The poor thing I dont what the code of practice is for a situation like that?

I done that in the mocks.
She will get marked for her best answer.

polka dot

kingofthehobos wrote: »

Had an awful experience.. My bottle of lucozade decided to explode when i opened it. Examiner had to clean it up and everyone was in stitches! haha

Happened to a girl in my centre too! He got up, turned her table around and she had to face the rest of us doing her exam. Mortified for her!

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polka dot wrote: »

Happened to a girl in my centre too! He got up, turned her table around and she had to face the rest of us doing her exam. Mortified for her!

Could be worse - think of the Inbetweeners episode where Will is doing his exam.....:eek:

PJelly

polka dot wrote: »

Happened to a girl in my centre too! He got up, turned her table around and she had to face the rest of us doing her exam. Mortified for her!

What is that supposed to do? Punish her? Just seems unfair.
plus, she could just y'know, move her chair to the other side of the table instead of moving the whole table.

LilMissCiara

polka dot wrote: »

Happened to a girl in my centre too! He got up, turned her table around and she had to face the rest of us doing her exam. Mortified for her!

Get her to tell the principal.. The guy sounds like a right *****!

Lexii307

Wow :eek:

I don't think I've ever heard anybody say that before about English. It can be an exam that will give you a swift quick up the arse if you become over complacent and cocky. For your sake I hope this doesnt happen.

Im not cocky im just confident that i can get my A1. If people think im cocky so be it.

flyaway.

I really don't see how it's cocky to think you did well in an exam, and will do well in an exam. I'd rather people saying ''I'm going to do well because I've worked hard and I'm confident'' than all the people going around saying ''OMG gonna fail so bad.'' yet not doing anything about it.

Nothing wrong with being confident.

BrendaN_f

flyaway. wrote: »

I really don't see how it's cocky to think you did well in an exam, and will do well in an exam. I'd rather people saying ''I'm going to do well because I've worked hard and I'm confident'' than all the people going around saying ''OMG gonna fail so bad.'' yet not doing anything about it.

Nothing wrong with being confident.

not cocky at all, especially with other subjects. but an a1 in english isn't really something you can bank on through your own interpretation

LittleMissLost

BrendaN_f wrote: »

not cocky at all, especially with other subjects. but an a1 in english isn't really something you can bank on through your own interpretation

I know the JC is no comparison but my friend thought she'd get an A and got a C and vice-versa for me I don't think they marked them properly at all.. I remember screwing up one or two "Merchant of Venice" and "Lord of the Flies" questions.. As for the essay :L on the spot or what?! :P

DessieMG

LilMissCiara wrote: »

Couldn't think of any features of style so for the tight rope text Q3 I said:

-vivid descriptions (feature of a descriptive piece)
-lists of 3s (make the scene come alive)
-simple writing (used as persuasion to make us appreciate the amazement of what was happening)
-shows is the chaos that was created. (Dessie Mg added this in)
Are they any way near right?

if you wrote this how many marks could you expect out of 20?

J_E

There's no point dissecting the paper anymore at this stage, you should all be gearing up for Paper 2!

Fbjm

Did grand, text 2 A text three (diary) B and essay 7, solving a mystery.

Guys, is it just me or are the essays you write in exam situations NEVER as good as the ones you'd write up in your room?

LilMissCiara

DessieMG wrote: »

if you wrote this how many marks could you expect out of 20?

As in they're the points I wrote. I obviously developed them.

DessieMG

LilMissCiara wrote: »

As in they're the points I wrote. I obviously developed them.

yea obviously! i wrote the same thing and a few people told me it's wrongish because they were looking for things like ''narrative style'' etc, I'm just wondering how many marks we're looking at out of 20!

LittleMissLost

Fbjm wrote: »

Did grand, text 2 A text three (diary) B and essay 7, solving a mystery.

Guys, is it just me or are the essays you write in exam situations NEVER as good as the ones you'd write up in your room?

Nope, not just you!

My teacher would probably get a heart attack if he saw my "article on the influence of technology on young people"

"www.endmylife.com" how flipping stupid and insensitive does that sound as a made up suicide pact website?!

richieffff

That was great :pac:
Did the cat one for the craic,
did the diary entry 'cos I can't write articles or talks,
none of my essays suited the headings so I did a page and a half on number 6 :pac:

MikeHough

LittleMissLost wrote: »

The poor thing I dont what the code of practice is for a situation like that?

they only count the highest scoring question i.e out of 50

so at least 50 marks down the drain!!!!!!!

LilMissCiara

DessieMG wrote: »

yea obviously! i wrote the same thing and a few people told me it's wrongish because they were looking for things like ''narrative style'' etc, I'm just wondering how many marks we're looking at out of 20!

Oh right. I thought you were saying how can I expect to get marks for that!

DessieMG

Originally by Lil Miss Ciara:

Couldn't think of any features of style so for the tight rope text Q3 I said:

-vivid descriptions (feature of a descriptive piece)
-lists of 3s (make the scene come alive)
-simple writing (used as persuasion to make us appreciate the amazement of what was happening)
-shows is the chaos that was created. (Dessie Mg added this in)
Are they any way near right?


I did the same as this and develpoed the points (obviously), a few people told me it was wrong as they were looking for things like ''narrative style'' etc


how many marks can I expect out of 20?

DessieMG

LilMissCiara wrote: »

Oh right. I thought you were saying how can I expect to get marks for that!

nah sorry I keep posting the same question I'm just kinda worried

DaveMur1

The only mystery about that paper, is how I could get anything less than an A1:D

LilMissCiara

They are kind of features of style I suppose!

J_E

In my view they were looking more for techniques then just informative, narrative, persuasive. The only 'style' I could see was narrative in that. I just wrote narrative as my first point, then tension, then references to places/people/dialect

DessieMG

Cydoniac wrote: »

In my view they were looking more for techniques then just informative, narrative, persuasive. The only 'style' I could see was narrative in that. I just wrote narrative as my first point, then tension, then references to places/people/dialect

so roughly what can I expect out of 20, guesstimate?

SBray

I feel pretty good in what I done. Wasn't a bad HL paper, the texts were okay but the theme of the paper seemed odd. The essays were also a bit odd. Also, there was no letter anywhere on the paper! Feeling better then when I did the pre anyway, so :P Tomorrow is the problem!

RHunce

Don't guess your results for your LC, it could be devastating, just leave things be and see in August

RHunce

SBray wrote: »

I feel pretty good in what I done. Wasn't a bad HL paper, the texts were okay but the theme of the paper seemed odd. The essays were also a bit odd. Also, there was no letter anywhere on the paper! Feeling better then when I did the pre anyway, so :P Tomorrow is the problem!

One might say it was a mystery

J_E

DessieMG wrote: »

so roughly what can I expect out of 20, guesstimate?

Honestly, I'm not an examiner, and I can't see your answer, there's no way I'd be able to. Put it at the back of your mind and get prepped for Paper 2 instead

spurious

LittleMissLost wrote: »

AGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(:(:(:(:(:(:(

HELP!!! :(

I left out part 3 of question A (text 2) worth 20 marks!

Such a stupid stupid mistake!

Is there ANY chance I could still get an A1? I wrote a totally impromptu article on the "impact of technology on young people" but I think it turned out good.

Also for part 1 of QA text 1 I wrote emotional responses instead of actual physical responses.. But I thought that was open to interpretation..

I am SO angry at myself you wouldn't believe it.. :mad: English was my best subject and I was desparate for it to be my one and only A..

Anyone got any consolation?

x

It's not any consolation, I know, but you will not be alone in doing this.

What you have described, not answering the right number/combination of questions and not answering the question asked are the number one reasons why people lose marks.

You can't do anything about it now, just try not to do it again.