r/ALevelEnglishLit

I know it would probs limit my marks but does anyone have any idea by how many 💔

I ran out of time so I only wrote one paragraph for death of a salesman in section C and only one about isabella. plus the points weren't even that good I just spoke about how Linda is an enabler and then how the brothers and wider capitalist society are at fault. I was gonna put the eve of st agnes in there and it was in my plan at the start but I didn't get a chance to 😔 i lowk fucked it I wanted an A* but I guess it is what it is atp.

At least the other two questions went well 🙏 do we think I can bring it back in paper 2..

What did you guys think of the questions? And what did you guys write for the unseen? I didn't like that one at all 😭

aqa B was actually so kind this year, i ran out of time on section C and waffled at the end even though the question was good :((

have i revised? yes. was it enough? maybe not. wish me luck 😛

Well, that was utterly incredible. I started section c and did the isolation question then realised why on earth am I doing this when the first question was significantly better? I spoke about technocratic progressivism for Willy Loman. For la belle dame I spoke about fate and epistemological surrender and romanticism.
Then for lamia I just spoke about actuality and irrationality leading to fate already sealed.
Lovely paper only problem was that the extract was kinda a bit bad for an othello cause you could barely talk about anything. I just spoke about Cassio and societal perceptiveness towards appearance as a reflection of worth. And yeh can’t remember what else. Really good paper th

The question was about the importance of outsiders in the play. My teacher said outsiders meant Blanche and Stanley being outsiders, but in the exam I read it as characters who are literally outside the main narrative.
So I wrote about the Mexican flower vendor, the Negro woman, and the street figures (the drunk and the prostitute).
My thesis was something like ‘outsiders become the voice of what the central characters cannot voice themselves’ and I argued that the vendor foreshadows Blanche’s death, the Negro woman establishes the sonic world Blanche can’t belong to, and I transitioned into Stanley through a critical quote.

I know it’s unconventional but is this completely wrong?? Will I lose all my marks?? Has anyone else done something like this and still been okay?
Please be honest I just need to know if I’m cooked 😭

hi
what do u guys think the grade boundaries will be like for an A

guys I'm honestly so SO terrified for tomorrow I feel like I haven't done enough I wanna jump off something omg

I actually can't pls lord

first a level and i'm realising i should've revised much earlier but there's nothing i can do now...

if they repeat a scene for hamlet im genuinely done for cus im only revising the scenes that haven't come up

i tried writing a comparative essay today and i just blanked

i'm sooooo scared its not even funny... i feel like i lost my ability to write which is my fault for not writing essays outside of class but still

i really want an a plssss ocr

Im resitting, last year, i got 48/50 in my nea and was averaging 24s in my mocks, (not being patronising just genuinely telling u for context). And i fluked, or at least i thought i did. Basically i ran out of time on p1 and spoke about only 1 poem and doas and got capped, not only was the essay bad, i also didnt write enough. However i still got an A and somehow was a couple marks of an A* and STILL could have done more to get it. Thats what was so so godamnnn annoying. Its not over. There is still an easy way u can make up marks u just have to smash p2 DO NOT GIVE UP. IVE LIVED IT, AND ANNOYINGLY HAD TO RESIT BUT OH WELL. Also ask me advice, i am practically an A* student i js ran out of dawdamn time so im fairly certain my advice has merit. GL ❤️

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who else fumbled tf out of that paper

I'm already mentally preparing for retakes ❤️

I don't know why I've titled it like a letter, but I shall keep it as such.

Firstly, good luck, I love you all, and you will all be pleasantly surprised with your results!

Secondly, as a year 11 who has officially been accepted into Alevel for Lit(....and lang💔💔💔), I'm wondering if anyone has any tips or advice for starting out. I'm wondering how much different it is compared to what im used to

Also, if I'd have free will to talk about the literature I like at any point 😭😭

Anyways, once more, good luck!!!!

(If this post isn't allowed, sorry..)

Twelfth night, Ibsen and rosetti.

…how are we feeling ? 😭 I think the extract was AWFUL, and I did the internal battles question..

Hey does anyone have romantic poetry notes. Blake,wordsworth,pb shelley,keats,lord byron. Its fine if you even have notes from some of these poets. Pls share themmm.

The nerves didnt hit me till last night fuck sake im literally so scared im shaking omg omg

I did the exam today and othello felt really nice, I did a similar predicted question to it and got 21 marks so I’ll assume I got within that range for this one, for gatsby and the anthology I think I did well around 18 marks but for unseen poetry I ran out of time and did an intro, 2 paragraphs and conclusion and paragraph 1 spoke about poem A and had 3 quotes and paragraph 2 has only 2 quotes and spoke about poem B. I think I got 15-17 marks for it. Worst case if I got 21 for othello , 18 for gatsby and 16 for unseen poetry am I capped for an A overall for aqa A option B? (FYI I got 54/75 for course work)

Hi I do spec B (Othello, Death of a Salesman, Keats, Handmaids Tale, Kite Runner, and Blake) and looking at a bunch of model answers I've found that they all reference/quote critics in their arguments. However my teachers have never taught us any critics and have said that we don't need them to get high marks-- they have marked me consistently at 20+/25 for most of my essays and I haven't used any critics. I know the exam is in like 3 days basically but I'm now terrified I might not get marked the same in the real thing if I don't quote critics compared to mocks and essays in class. I probably should have learnt some outside of class anyway, is it too late? 😭

How are we feeling for tmrw? Any predictions for Othello/Streetcar?

What i mean by this, is during GCSE i just fully skipped the unseen poetry part of the exam. I hate unseen poetry so just opted out and still managed to achieve a 7. I was about half way between a 7 and 8, not like i scraped a 7.

With A level, one of my teachers are outrageous. We should have completed one text, and all of the poetry section but we haven’t and it’s being left up to us as students to learn the content ourselves.
Both of these texts = 6% of my overall grade, so if i absolutely lock in and teach myself one of the texts, and just skip poetry, will this still give me the opportunity to get above a high B?

Sorry if this doesn’t make sense, lmk if anything needs clearing up :)