Now study 15 poems, a Shakespeare play, a modern play, and a gothic book, memorise them and go into an exam to compare them against an unseen text with quotes off the top of your head

@nityab7855

3 жыл бұрын

And 8 other subjects with the same amount of work

@linkalot7415

3 жыл бұрын

@@nityab7855 ikr fucking insane stuff we are expected to do

@nityab7855

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao i have mocks rn and i dont know shit

@hazelangus

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and have at least one other exam the same day in a totally different subject.

@PassionPno

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds just like the Malaysian English exam. God damn, I hate British colonial legacy. Lmao

Just so you know, if an English teacher marked that, you would not have gotten 30 marks

@mykisummerhayes3081

3 жыл бұрын

Ouch 30 marks is DEVASTATING... I agree though

@leahw4905

3 жыл бұрын

I’m 2 minutes in and the first questions are already not correct 😂😂

@Gambit771

3 жыл бұрын

If an English teacher was to mark your comment, you also would not have *received* 30 marks.

@lucsciousluca9702

3 жыл бұрын

Gambit771, I hated English with a passion, I don't speak in perfect English, I got my 9s and dipped

@declanroberts8934

3 жыл бұрын

@@Gambit771 Perhaps the English teacher in question would be neglecting the fact that languages are constantly flowing and changing. Poor grammar, misuse of vocabulary and dialect or slang influencing sentences is what allows for the language to change for time, something that is inevitable.

The lack of PEEL paragraphs in your answers physically pains me

@AceEcho1449

3 жыл бұрын

Or SPEED paragraphs (don’t forget to signpost/ tell us where the quote is from)

@bean7496

3 жыл бұрын

Get your PEARL in there

@jemma927

3 жыл бұрын

Or the PEER paragraphs

@littlewammity9896

3 жыл бұрын

@@AceEcho1449 speed?? lol 'ok kids today we're gonna do speed'

@martingibbs1179

3 жыл бұрын

In my day it was just PEE - Point Evidence Explanation. Remember to PEE in your essays kids! People are dumb you need to state the same thing three times in a paragraph to get your point across.

him: says he’s writing to fast all GCSE students: knowing he’s taking too long to answer the questions

@lilyholland5748

3 жыл бұрын

Literally, I’m sat her shouting Question 1 only takes 2 minutes!!

@ellak1789

3 жыл бұрын

@@lilyholland5748 yes, honestly when he read the sentence about the size of the jungle and changed the words i was like- umm ok then

@nefoyuki-igbinosa7352

3 жыл бұрын

When he was adding in quotations in the first question I wanted to cry and scream

@lesbiangoddess290

3 жыл бұрын

A MARK A MINUTE!!!!

@supersupreme5060

3 жыл бұрын

@@lesbiangoddess290 Too true.

it was almost painful watching him go so slow. If your arm isn't falling off with how fast you're writing then you're not writing fast enough.

@danielshannon961

3 жыл бұрын

He was going quicker than i would have been going, i fucking hated that shit

@TobyBanci

3 жыл бұрын

Edith true. My arm would be killing after my English and R.S Exams 😂

@rebeccaelizabeth918

3 жыл бұрын

and that my friend is why I typed

@hannah-davies3154

3 жыл бұрын

In my gcses I had english and then history in the same day, my hand hurt so much after that day but couldn't relax as had another 2 exams the day after

@alltimebubble7837

3 жыл бұрын

MOOD

Wait until he finds out what English Literature papers are like

@alexandra1415

3 жыл бұрын

Unseen poetry

@realwizard435

3 жыл бұрын

Personally i found literature so much easier than language. Once i had learned the content it was basically just writing the same essay for Macbeth/ A Christmas carol/ Lord of the flies etc each time

@alexandra1415

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah tbh lit is easier as my brain works well with fact reacall and learning how to structure you writing language youre on your own

@nmohamud7538

3 жыл бұрын

Taylan Yildirim same in language you never know what the source will be whereas in literature you can study the text

@therealmothman9386

3 жыл бұрын

Oof

"I want to do this as fast as possible, which I woundn't recommend if you're actually doing this test" *Every single British English teacher disagrees.*

Well it's safe to say his paper would have been torn up...

@liamstott5116

2 жыл бұрын

Why

@quillLADS

2 жыл бұрын

@@liamstott5116 you are not aloud to talk in exams...

@abcdefghijk___opqrstuvwxyz147

2 жыл бұрын

@@liamstott5116 that’s and if ur handwriting isn’t legible toy the examiner they wouldn’t even bother trying and just give you a U (ungraded)

@sewed102

4 ай бұрын

That is a common bit of misinformation spread by teachers. I mark exam papers, and have marked for AQA. Every script has to be marked fairly. If you physically can't read it, it goes to a Team Leader. If necessary, it goes even higher. But it will be marked. ​@abcdefghijk___opqrstuvwxyz147

I love how this comment section is just British students telling Evan all the mistakes that he made and just sound like English teachers in front of a year 10 class after their first mock lmao

@thenaturesystem

3 жыл бұрын

On the bright side, they can use our anguished comments as revision tips

@bethanyscreech3803

3 жыл бұрын

@@thenaturesystem true

@kitkat1321

3 жыл бұрын

Adrian Hrodek Good point. GCSE year was hell

@lizziebethh

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahah too true lmbo

@IsobelJohnson

3 жыл бұрын

Haha true

Wait till he finds out about the 15 poems and 3 books we need to memorize for English Literature 👁👄👁

@SeaKnight_Rory

3 жыл бұрын

🎉🎊🎆🎉🎊🎆AQA let us drop poetry 🎉🎊🎆🎉🎊🎆 (If you're not a current year 11, HA)

@monicamills6803

3 жыл бұрын

@@SeaKnight_Rory I still have to do poetry, my school just dropped a Christmas carol :'(

@mhrb44

3 жыл бұрын

@Cute Hufflepuff my school dropped a Christmas Carol. We are only doing Animal Farm and Romeo & Juliet as well as the poetry stuff

@SeaKnight_Rory

3 жыл бұрын

@@mhrb44 that's the short end of the stick. ACC is the easiest of those.

@Anna-ou7or

3 жыл бұрын

Cries in A level English Literature. 😂

Bro marks himself way to highly. Honestly it amazes me that US schools dont teach exam technique, and you just do multiple choice.

@felixroux

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly I think that exam technique is mostly BS. In some subjects we've spent almost as much time learning exam technique as we have the actual content. Whilst I don't think multiple choice is great either, the fact the in the UK you need to learn such a convoluted set of rules for each question in order to get a decent mark makes it harder to actually learn.

@OmniversalInsect

2 жыл бұрын

While I doubt US education is better, I think UK focuses too much on exam, like in English what is extreme rushing and remembering several quotes gonna do to help you in the future?

@leggo3213

2 жыл бұрын

The U.S. education system focuses on many different parts of the subject, it’s meant to spark an interest in the student so they can do more research themself in a subject they like and it’s meant to do that so they can start a career that they like The uk focuses more on the subjects and exams and focuses usually a longer time on a singular part of a subject None of these systems are bad and the uk school system may be better for some and the us for others I will say though that the uk school system cares much more about the students mental health from what I have seen lmao

@monhi64

2 жыл бұрын

I frankly have no clue what “exam technique” is lol. Like what how you answer the questions? But American exams are definitely not just multiple choice, where is this info it’s just mc coming from lol. There’s always full on essays and shit you have to write

@yeezus3709

2 жыл бұрын

@@monhi64 Exam technique is how to answer a variety of different types of questions under timed conditions, and essentially how to implement your knowledge into the format of each type of question

When you said infer for the first question I got flashbacks of my teacher saying "NEVER infer in the first question, you just need to state what you read or else they might not give the mark"

@amelieteakanga6151

Ай бұрын

The text :”the jungle was high, the jungle was tall” Evan “the jungle was large and high”?? Hehheheh

Did Evan realise while marking this that the examples are only for one paragraph you actually need 4 paragraphs on separate points that describe in detail and then analysing further each??? Sorry Evan you definitely were too lenient

@fleurpalmer-paquis8226

3 жыл бұрын

i thought the same lmao like the examples are examples of a single paragraph not the whole answer lmfaooo

@evanspencer3632

3 жыл бұрын

I fully laughed when he gave himself 6/8 for Q2 negl.

@fleurpalmer-paquis8226

3 жыл бұрын

@@evanspencer3632 honestly i was thinking like 3 ☠☠☠

@castlestar454

3 жыл бұрын

@@fleurpalmer-paquis8226 At most!

@abixx3999

3 жыл бұрын

@@evanspencer3632 question 2 was the bane of my life, thank god i never have to do it ever again lmaoo

He’s literally stressing me out so much WHY ARE YOU READING THE TEXT SO SLOWLY

@CJonesApple

3 жыл бұрын

So it can be understood by his viewers. I should hope Evan reads faster to himself.

@kikilatorre

3 жыл бұрын

He’s reading it out loud for other people, so he’s obviously going to read it slower so we can understand (Also, some people are just ✨slow readers✨, please don’t shame ppl for their speed doing things like reading or writing since you never know if sb has learning disabilities like for example dyslexia, it just makes us really uncomfortable and embarrassed)

@acinonyxjubatus9338

3 жыл бұрын

I am dyslexic an have slow processing so I get extra time on exams but I still read faster than him 😹

@oka2359

3 жыл бұрын

I had extra time and I still read faster than him💀😂

@chunkymonkeygaming

3 жыл бұрын

also you're supposed to see what the questions ask you before you start reading so you can analyse it as you read

I love how he’s struggling with a series of questions that Uk students do at ages 15/16. The first question he spent like 5 mins on I don’t know a single student who spent longer than 1 minute on it 😂

@insomniarmyinsomniarmy

3 жыл бұрын

Tbh the 5 mins allocated for that question should be spent annotating the extract and reading through all the questions so you know what your looking for and can plan.

@natashamangion5145

3 жыл бұрын

bruh I'm 13 and I started to write answers like this at 11 n the middle of year 7 don't let me get started on how much I'm reading having to memorise Macbeth in a year

@wolffisu

3 жыл бұрын

Content Baby. Lengthening them videos for more ad revenue.

@crepe80

3 жыл бұрын

@@insomniarmyinsomniarmy my teacher said 15 minuted to annotate and the rest to answer questions

@em_zz1137

3 жыл бұрын

@@natashamangion5145 consider your self lucky year 11 is hell the amount of stuff you have to know is a joke

At least 80% of GCSE exams is just exam technique - you need to know exactly what the examiners want, and exactly how to craft the answers to hit each requirement for different point questions.

@sevenfivelavender9996

Жыл бұрын

that's exactly how American AP English tests/exams are as well

@cheeseboi8769

6 ай бұрын

only for writing papers like english lang and lit and history

@sunnydays07

5 ай бұрын

@@cheeseboi8769also for sciences, the best revision comes from doing AQA papers and reading their mark scheme. Something that is technically right could be too vague, or too specific, or you miss a detail. And don’t get me started on OCR.

@HoldingThisHandle

Ай бұрын

Huh. That would have been useful to know for my GCSE's

It was stressing me out so badly how long he was taking, I just had "A mark a minute, a mark a minute, a mark a minute" going through my head

@helenbanks7599

3 жыл бұрын

Same 😂 😭

@artvid-1915

3 жыл бұрын

Same 😂😂

@ronanstephens1597

3 жыл бұрын

Us UK students all traumatised

@grim6013

3 жыл бұрын

When I did my mocks I had time to spare but then again English wasn’t my best subject. History was very different, my hand was visibly shaking after the exam and my thought process was no pain no marks.

@adawoods9643

3 жыл бұрын

@@grim6013 You had time to spare??? I never managed to finish a paper in English or History but somehow managed to get a 6 and an 8 in each respectively

to quote my GCSE english teacher. “WHY. Why does the writer do that. We know it’s a similie, MY 9 YEAR OLD NEICE KNOWS ITS A SIMILIE. but how to does it make you feeeeeel, what’s its significance in the text. what’s its purpose. Common year 11 you know better than this.”

@thisandthat3889

3 жыл бұрын

DID YOU HAVE THE SAME ENGLISH TEACHER AS ME WHAT

@ayaiko

3 жыл бұрын

We had to follow this structure IEEAE for each paragraph, and omds I remember every non creative writing lesson was a write an IEEAE paragraph. The pain. .

@ayaiko

3 жыл бұрын

@@thisandthat3889 LOL this is very funny ahahah

@emirachu8137

3 жыл бұрын

@ayame what paragraph is that :0? We had to follow a PEE structure (plus adding other stuff like alt, fig Lang, authors intention, reader’s opinion)

@moonlightharmony4100

3 жыл бұрын

@@emirachu8137 yeah same we had to do the same as u

"who speaks like this?!" its an english exam no one speaks how they write

When he said he couldnt read the writing and I had a mini heart attack remembering all my teachers saying examiners WOULD NOT MARK anything they couldnt read

@mysticcc368

3 жыл бұрын

Probably, why I could only get a D both times I took the gcse english paper. In class I would get Cs and Bs in coursework and practice exams, but for some reason could never get higher than a D in the actual exam even though I did exactly what I did in the practice exams. Maybe, the examiner couldn't read my writing because I have terrible handwriting. Some how I got a C in the literature exam though.

@zappyyz6368

2 жыл бұрын

my teachers didnt allow me to use a pen because i would have just got 0 marks so they gave me a little laptop at the back of the hall

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

In exams I always took extra care to write as readable as possible. Not giving any chance that a doctor's handwritting (or mathematicians handwriting if you prefer) ruins the result.

@nathilism

Жыл бұрын

That... Absolutely sucks and is kinda ableist. Obviously if they can't read it then they can't mark it, but they could TRY before deciding they 'WON'T'!!

@Jack-iu7pw

7 ай бұрын

@@nathilism all exams are ableist

After watching this I’ve realised how you can’t just answer these exams, you’ve got to be specifically trained to answer these questions. As a GCSE student, I forget that random people don’t just know how to structure and answer an 8 mark questions answer!

@leahwalker6138

3 жыл бұрын

I know right! I’m a gcse student too, it’s not as simple as just reading the question as answering it. You have to do A point, evidence, explanation and the right high vocab words. My school has just changed from AQA to Edexcel English lit and it’s so different!!! AQA you need point, evidence, explanation, language analysis and effect. Edexcel it’s like point, evidence (reference or quote) and a whole load of context. It’s not going well oops

@lolll3360

3 жыл бұрын

I just covered every single point I could think off and over explained it to hell 😂 got an A

@samayahone3497

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr!!!

@samayahone3497

3 жыл бұрын

@@lolll3360 HOW FAST DO YOU WRITE?!?!?! if I tried to do that I wouldn't be able to get past the first question! If I could do that, I would get more marks but I don't write THAT fast!!

@meleksir5728

3 жыл бұрын

FAX!!!

Yelling "Simile!" "Metaphor!" "Allusion!" "Anthropomorphism" "Imagery" and "HYPERBOLE!" at my phone was not how I was planning to spend day.

@ishanipandey9372

3 жыл бұрын

I cannot tell you how much I relate to this comment. I'm doing my GCSEs in a couple of years and I still can't figure out the difference between 'irony' and 'dramatic irony'

@trinkab

3 жыл бұрын

@@ishanipandey9372 Dramatic irony cries a lot. 😂

@ishanipandey9372

3 жыл бұрын

@@trinkab I'll remember that, thanks 😂

@trinkab

3 жыл бұрын

@@ishanipandey9372 😎

@notaseat5934

3 жыл бұрын

I was yelling "5 MINUTES, 10 MINUTES, 15 MINUTES, 20 MINUTES" and "MOVE ON, NEXT QUESTION" Gosh we had the timings of these tests driiiilled into us

what americans also don’t realise is that the oldest someone is when doing this exam is 16... and that’s the oldest i ended up having to do mine when i was 14 because our school decided to make us do it in year 10 because there are that many other exams in year 11

@infinnite4938

3 жыл бұрын

F what can i say..... thats very sad :((((

@gracebower3880

3 жыл бұрын

Yh my teacher wanted my class to do it in yr 10 so we only have to focus on language in yr 11

@steam_jane5580

2 жыл бұрын

16 is commonly the oldest. 15/16 (year 11) is also often the common age to take them, unless you have to retake or do some (mostly only maths or launguage, but others can be done to.) early. However GCSES are open to all ages if you need to redo them or never got the chance to do them and want to, I think but I could be wrong. I'm not sure if they cost money, if you take them outside of the school system, but I would guess so, as you need an exam center/ invigilator to make the exam certified and fair. A few people in my year had to do retakes, in year 12 (16-17 years old). In my sixthform there is a 3 year, instead of 2 year path with retakes, which I am thankfully not on. Maths and English are the only compulsory retakes, which are supposed to be taken untill you pass. Also my friends school did maths early and someone else I know did French early as well. I'm happy I didn't as it gave me time to get better. I get my results in about 22 days from writing on the 12th of August Anyway I hope you are having a great day if not a virtual hug is being sent your way. I hope all your exams and future endeavours to well. Good luck 🤞

@kitcatmeow7513

2 жыл бұрын

your school is evil

@juneconnell-sahin1761

2 жыл бұрын

yea, my school used to do lit in y10. but for some reason they changed it??? i’m a current y11 and idk how im gonna fit this into my head lol

Your next step is to do a higher biology, chemistry and physics GCSE. As a science teacher, I'd be very interested to see how you do

@crepe80

3 жыл бұрын

Rt i am A level biology and chemistry student so i just wanna know how he does

@evorock

3 жыл бұрын

@@crepe80 that would be hilarious 🤣🤣😂😂

@mikeharvey2129

3 жыл бұрын

@@crepe80 Just to ask, next year I'm doing all science A-Levels. What's the difficulty 'bridge' between GCSE and A-Level sciences?

@crepe80

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikeharvey2129 im not going to lie to you it’s extremely difficult and very different from gcse science especially chemistry but overall of you have good work ethic and drive you should be ok.

@mikeharvey2129

3 жыл бұрын

@@crepe80 Okay. You've got me scared now, lol.

Evans biggest downfall: he didn't skim the text. If it says list 4 adjectives, find 4 adjectives in the source. We deadass get told to not read the whole whole thing and instead pick out key bits

@obama4736

3 жыл бұрын

Also it's recommended that you spend 1 min per mark. Like if it's 8 marks you spend 8 mins on it

@nyahjohnson7126

3 жыл бұрын

In America they make us read 😂. If a student got done “too” early some teachers would make them retake the test during lunch or recess 🤣

@monis444

3 жыл бұрын

@@nyahjohnson7126 that's so dumb what 😭😭

@kitkat1321

3 жыл бұрын

Nyah Johnson Your system is so messed up

@obama4736

3 жыл бұрын

Forgot to say that in my school at least, we us the structure PEAL (Point, evidence, analysis, link) with its other variants of PEA, PEALEAL and others I cba to remember. For the 20 marker I'd probably do 3-4 PEALEAL paragraphs

NOW LEARN 15 POEMS, A SHAKESPEARIAN PLAY (Macbeth), AND A PEICOF PRE-WAR POEM (A Christmas Carrol) AND A PEICE OF MODERN LITERATURE (An Inspector calls) then go into exams without the book pick apart quotations from memory and compare them to a text we’ve never seen before

@janaweber2255

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah plus learn all the social historical context for all of those texts time period and the author/poets own beliefs or experience which would influence their writing (including critical response to enhance argument)

@arshtewari2833

3 жыл бұрын

and then forget within a week of the exams after months - or technically years- of revision

@20KadamsMaclay00

3 жыл бұрын

English lit HURTED

@izzyb6456

3 жыл бұрын

@@janaweber2255 and you need to try and remember all that on top of like 8 other subjects too!

@AceEcho1449

3 жыл бұрын

In my school we use a Christmas carol for the lowest English group lol. Everyone else does Jekyll and Hyde. For modern lit we do curious incident. Lol English education is weird

Evan: * Doesn't read the through the whole extract at the start * Me: Oof!

@Ez-dp5uq

2 жыл бұрын

Did people actually do this? I know we always get told to, but I don't know anyone who actually does it :D

@adamohren1469

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ez-dp5uq I looked at the stuff that was necessary when I did it got a 4 so it worked

@miaclarke6859

2 жыл бұрын

I only looked at the useful stuff so didn't read it at the start. Got a 7 soooo

@reminiscence7555

2 жыл бұрын

i never read the full extract, i do the first 1 mark questions where it tells you to read from line x to line y and then read the first and last bits to grasp the story while looking for language and structure to do in the next question

@MichaelNolan2006

2 жыл бұрын

I do the last question first and read the extract as I go along 😂

Evan: I'm not looking forward to the writing segment Me: (sips tea) It's ALL a writing segment

@thefruityflamingo519

Жыл бұрын

😂 yes

The audacity of him writing a side and a bit when I used to write like 3 sides for a 20 mark question

@esthxr_v6858

3 жыл бұрын

FRR

@kamj2948

3 жыл бұрын

i wrote a page and a half and for each 20 marker and got full marks for the paper xD dunno how it works

@amnaamin6390

3 жыл бұрын

Loool

@WrestleLogic

3 жыл бұрын

Because you only really need to write a side and a half to get full marks in the actual exam...going on can lose you marks because the writing loses it's focus

@ellatekere5370

3 жыл бұрын

@@WrestleLogic you don’t actually lose marks with the way english is marked. if your answer reaches the top band, your entire answer is marked as top band. so theoretically, you can write a really strong first half that hits every AO perfectly, and then waffle for the rest of your answer and still get top marks. but yes, you’re right in the sense that you’ll lose marks by losing time - if you write too much, you won’t have time to write a strong enough answer afterwards. which will mean you won’t hit the top band, and will therefore not access the top marks.

Damn, Evan is being generous with these marks

@stacywilliams2155

3 жыл бұрын

He definitely did not write enough for the marks he was giving himself lol.

@creepycobwebs

3 жыл бұрын

my gcse english brain is screaming for him to use the structures I get told phahaha . UsE NaRrOws oR ExPands wHen dOiNg QuEsTion 3 mY dUde

Me: *about to do my English mock in a couple weeks* I am screaming at the screen about how he is doing Q1 wrong 😭😭 it is so easy but he over complicated it by changing the words and referencing

@katelee1434

3 жыл бұрын

sameee 😭😭😭

@crepe80

3 жыл бұрын

U should aim to get all marks on question one cus of how easy it is

@MeganIsNotHere

2 жыл бұрын

He literally just had to copy out what they said 🥲

@Kristal-Gamer

2 жыл бұрын

frick i have my mocks in 2-3weeks:(

@hi-py8lx

2 жыл бұрын

ikkk you just have to quote it and you’ll be fine 😭

His reaction to turning the page and finding out he had another question with little time to go, is the precise feeling that every British kid has had taking their exams...It's stress lmao. 😩😂

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

I remember the thing we learned to do first was reading through all the questions. Knowing how much there is and what the questions are and (especially in maths) starting with the easy ones, so you don't get caught up on a hard one and have nothing else done when time runs out.

@ibrahimkabir4359

Жыл бұрын

are u from israel?

@elianayocheved6413

Жыл бұрын

@@ibrahimkabir4359 No, but I'm Jewish. 😁

@ibrahimkabir4359

Жыл бұрын

@@elianayocheved6413 just a quick question do u support israel or palestine? i live near finsbury park in london and there are a lot of zionists there and im against them. but not jews.

I wanna see Jack Edwards mark it, give him the invigilator experience, and allow an unbiased experienced opinion.

@wyaakk

3 жыл бұрын

yes!

@esthxr_v6858

3 жыл бұрын

YES THIS!!!

@-ineffablyflawsome48

3 жыл бұрын

YES OMG

@katieadams9084

3 жыл бұрын

Ooof such a good idea

@ellenharrison1468

3 жыл бұрын

YES!

Oh honey english language is easier than the literature Wait till he gets to poetry

@Xsara24

3 жыл бұрын

I did better in English literature than English language

@aishahkhalifa6783

3 жыл бұрын

Literature is way easier

@Ray-xl8jv

3 жыл бұрын

Mesmerising *all* the poems. Did you do love and relationships or power and conflict

@angeliczacboi1266

3 жыл бұрын

"You have to memorize all the poems from the live and relationship section; but you can just remember a couple that have different themes if that's easier" Me: oh yes just give me a moment let me just ask my mental health if I can remember even a single word from each one 🙃 Oh and let's not forget the 3 books aswell

@Xsara24

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ray-xl8jv love and relationships

i’m waiting for him to take out his highlighters and start annotating

@jelly_dog3924

2 жыл бұрын

Oml all my teacher expect this,I’m so scared,I start my GCSE’s next year T^T

@Misspunch

2 жыл бұрын

Worddd

@eret1761

2 жыл бұрын

@@jelly_dog3924 annotating is only to help you, its not that you'll get anymore marks for annotating but if you annotate as you read then when you're actually answering the questions it's so much easier since you already have the text highlighted for you

@reminiscence7555

2 жыл бұрын

@@eret1761 i’ve found highlighting and annotating took me too much time, so in lessons i never annotated and taught myself to find things just by skimming over and the circling them. annotating’s good to recognise things but i’ve found i save time just learning to spot things fast and bullshit them. gets me 7’s and 8’s

"I'm gonna try and do this as fast as possible, which i wouldn't recommend if your actually doing this test" how tf else are you supposed to get a good grade in time

For any American out there, the GCSE exams are sat at approximately 15 years old. Just for context

@janani1826

3 жыл бұрын

*16 they are sat in may and june

@Harvey-ix4yq

3 жыл бұрын

Theres only like 4 people in my school who will be 15 when they do them and in one of them :(

@sarah.93.30

3 жыл бұрын

I_Am_Potato will the rest be younger or older?

@janani1826

3 жыл бұрын

@@sarah.93.30 older

@Harvey-ix4yq

3 жыл бұрын

@@sarah.93.30 yeah like 16

A girl in my school literally sprained her hand while writing her history paper, and she was forced to do the rest of the GCSE with her left hand

@no1350

3 жыл бұрын

I- noo

@mikeharvey2129

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I just had a round of PPE's including a Germany paper. It's like you can't stop writing. As soon as you read the question, you have to immediately be able to recall all relevant knowledge and immediately analyse what the purpose could be/which interpretation is more useful. The amount of times I had to stop and crack my knuckles and wiggle my fingers to avoid cramp in my fingers was insane. I feel for that girl in your school.

@pannajohns5255

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikeharvey2129 Oh god don’t even remind me. My hands were in agony after all the exams. Except maths but for French, English, Science, History, Geography etc. my hands were deceased 😭😭

@mikeharvey2129

2 жыл бұрын

@@pannajohns5255 Hmm. I had a different experience than you. I could take my time on my Triple Science exams, and Maths, English (although I always missed out Q2), etc. I feel for you though.

@mychemical_sunshine5879

2 жыл бұрын

Oh god.. that's so harsh,did she pass?

English Teacher here - good effort! There is a VERY specific way of answering these exams, and as you were not taught how to do this, you still did relatively well. Never underestimate the need to P.E.A.L [Point, Evidence, Analysis and Link] 😄 EDIT: "dust glittered delicately" IS alliteration!

@jhplayz298

5 ай бұрын

I learnt PEEL when I was in school (Point, Evidence, Explanation, Link

I’m sitting here yelling “your too slow!” “hyperbole” and all sorts! Not how I planned to spend my evening XD

"I'm not looking forward to the writing segment" This is English GCSE. It's all the writing segment. Also Evan's story was actually pretty good

@mykisummerhayes3081

3 жыл бұрын

It made me a lil emotional

@notaseat5934

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah that was awful wording there 😂 he probably meant creative writing

@ZainabProductions

3 жыл бұрын

sofie. liz no because in the US they call it the writing segment since most of the exam paper there is multiple choice

@zahrasaid7137

3 жыл бұрын

I was so invested in that story lmao

@irrelevance3859

3 жыл бұрын

@@ZainabProductions How do you even do multiple choice for English. I wonder how the American English system truly works

You didn’t even bring pastel highlighters? you’re guaranteed to fail.

@samayahone3497

3 жыл бұрын

Lol I always bring my pastel highlighters to tests

@DJBEANZzROADTO1K

3 жыл бұрын

Never used highlighters in my life of gcse. Still managed to pass both

@DJBEANZzROADTO1K

3 жыл бұрын

Shom yes.... 2 8s

@janecantdance7369

3 жыл бұрын

@Nexan 010 you can bring any equipment you want, excluding a calculator in your maths non calculator exam

@janecantdance7369

3 жыл бұрын

@Nexan 010 you have two calculator papers to prove you are able of remembering equations and using them sensibly, all 6 science exams are calculator allowed, same for the 3 geography ones

The fact that student at the age of 15-16 in year 11 are being able to do this better makes me proud

@bhg582

Жыл бұрын

why

@iaminconstantpain4330

11 ай бұрын

it's because we're taught exactly how to answer these. it's not about knowledge, it's about knowing how to play the game, something evan hasn't been taught

“I’m so stressed!” Imagine having to take this but whatever you get effects your future. Plus you have like 150 other people in the room with you, possibly giving you a lot of distractions.

@benparsons4979

3 жыл бұрын

that's why it's in silence

Evan - "I'm not looking forward to the writing segment". Me - Hmm, the whole thing is the writing segment

@archimedes2209

3 жыл бұрын

Where all the marks are at. Literally the only way we can pass 😂😂

@patricia2932

3 жыл бұрын

That was literally the first thought that came to my mind lol

The pen should not at all leave the paper! You do not have time to take the pen off the paper. You must master the skill of simultaneously skimming and writing!

@madsmads2651

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed... just keep writing.. just like dory says just keep swimming

@dazmillons1998

3 жыл бұрын

That is not true

@annatabner8459

3 жыл бұрын

@@dazmillons1998 well how else is one supposed to write 16 pages in 2 hours?

@Joe-xc2nz

3 жыл бұрын

@@annatabner8459 or just learn to be a more effective writer with less waffle lmao

@annatabner8459

3 жыл бұрын

@@Joe-xc2nz bruh ain't nobody got time for waffle! That's what writing frames are for! Write as little as possible as fast as you can and the FUCKING PEN DOESN'T LEAVE THE PAPER

i got a 9 in this exam, there is no way you would have passed. and it was painful watching you write so slowly, i wrote 18 pages.Our english teacher always told us question one was literally just GIVING you marks, i don't know how you managed to get that wrong.

@samuelagho1557

3 жыл бұрын

I got a 3 but I'm working really hard so I can pass in june. Iam also gonna stay away from people that I know who distract me in class.

@isabellapetch5107

3 жыл бұрын

@@samuelagho1557 that's a good idea! Hope you smash it!

@goopguy548

2 жыл бұрын

Same, and it was painful when he gave himself such high marks for something that I spent 21h out of school revising for in the 3 days prior to the test lol. Was worth it for the 9 BC that might carry me to a 9 in the final grade.

@leeee.e

2 жыл бұрын

Oml how fast do you write-?!

@isabellapetch5107

2 жыл бұрын

@@leeee.e too fast..

As a Brit who took GCSE's last year, I give you: 4/4 for the first question 5/8 for the second question 4/8 for the third question 5/20 for the fourth question 21/40 for the fifth question Overall: 39/80 Grade: C (or a 4 in GCSE terms)

@ambermoore9617

5 ай бұрын

I agree 💯

Hello and welcome back to a man who wants to validate his American education with hard British tests

@mckenzieannis2029

3 жыл бұрын

How is this test hard? Legit question

@TRISTANTHEGAMER

3 жыл бұрын

@@mckenzieannis2029 simple its made for 16 year old stressed teenagers

@sofiat3970

3 жыл бұрын

@@mckenzieannis2029 i think identifying language vs structural techniques in the source was the difficult part for me

@geekygalaxy4307

3 жыл бұрын

@@sofiat3970 I can pick out language stuff easily, but I cannot find structural techniques at all

@sofiat3970

3 жыл бұрын

@@geekygalaxy4307 riight like what even are structural techniques i dont understand them at all

fully just sat here yelling PEEL evan PEEL WHERE ARE YOUR POINTS

@artvid-1915

3 жыл бұрын

Literally 😂

@sunflowersprinkles5787

3 жыл бұрын

YOU NEED TO LINK IT BACK TO THE QUESTION

@rebekahl840

3 жыл бұрын

They jumped out the window

@MillieAkister

3 жыл бұрын

we used PEA/PEE

@really-quite-exhausted

3 жыл бұрын

You should be picking PEAS Evan what did your English teacher teach you????

it’s really sad that i actually remember doing this paper as a practice test 😭

@livik9582

2 жыл бұрын

Sameeeee, and I remember doing it a lot faster than that hahaha

@opheliaxo7250

2 жыл бұрын

Sameee

@MohammedWentBoom

3 ай бұрын

We got this exact one too. And we did way better than him lmao

I remember doing this as my y11 mock for the GCSES that weren’t, so it was so funny watching him do this. Technique is everything, and if your arm isn’t about to fly off then you are writing too slow.

not me watching this, having done this exact paper, and dying because i know he's got the wrong exam technique

@ILUVDILFSS

2 жыл бұрын

Sameee

@megann5319

2 жыл бұрын

I did this paper as well for one of my year 11 mocks. I got a grade 3 😂. I only ever got above a 3 in the real thing 😂😅. I hated English with a PASSION!

@imogenmartin5339

2 жыл бұрын

I did it literally 2 weeks ago in year 9

Did you just say 'the writing segment' ? ... The whole paper is a writing paper, it's mostly essays. 😂 😭

@helenbanks7599

3 жыл бұрын

I have to sit this paper this year and... I'm not looking forward to it.

@helenbanks7599

3 жыл бұрын

Until I started to watch you attempt this I didn't realise how critical a knowledge of exam technique is in order to achieve good marks. Honestly, the form in which to write each essay and the marking points the mark scheme is looking for have been absolutely drilled into me. We've spent weeks practicing exam questions.

@helenbanks7599

3 жыл бұрын

We've also had suitable timings for each type of question drilled into us and watching you massively surpass them is stressing me out. I know it's not your fault but I'm getting second hand exam anxiety. 😂😬

@merrymermaid

3 жыл бұрын

Helen Banks as long as you know the mark scheme inside out you will do so well!

@upbeatmaster6618

3 жыл бұрын

Covid saved me from having to do this test. Shame about the people that died though :(.

Him: “20 mins in. I think that’s good. I am trying to go as fast as possible, but I wouldn’t recommend doing that if your actually taking this test” Me (a GCSE English student) : *LITERALLY SCREAMING AT MY SCREEN FOR HIM TO HURRY COS HES NOT GONNA FINISH ON TIME GETTING ALL THE ANXIETY HE SHOULD BE EXPERIENCING RN!* Also me: *realising that exams have traumatised me* 😂😂 p.s -if you didn’t start having a minor panic attack for him when he exceeded the amount of minutes to marks for each question are you even British my friend?

@poojadawadi7331

2 жыл бұрын

Dude, I'm doing English Literature A-LEVEL and yes omg i have mocks in a month what am I doing

@jamesplatt3101

Жыл бұрын

Lmao after i finished my English gcse with a pass i drove all that info from my mind as soon as i could and i only remembered thanks to your comment lol. Tbh maybe it’s just me but i much prefer the style of my degree where it was assessed through essays instead of exams. I’m going on to do my masters now and i’m not even sure i could say what preparing for an exam like this actually imparted upon me.

Im not the only one who was cackling at him failing as soon as he started writing right?(Lmao I cant say shit tho cause I did this paper and didnt pass english)

The thing with our GCSEs are that most of our time in lessons is spent preparing how to do the exam rather than straight up learning content, particularly in the case of English Language. Our lessons literally consisted of just doing practice questions from the exam, learning the "Objectives" that the examiners mark our exams with and applying that to our answers. All it teaches us is how to pass that particular exam, which is great /s

@mishmashmixofstuff

3 жыл бұрын

That's half the year in America. GCSE's get compared to college entrance exams like SAT's, but we also have standardized tests you take almost every year until your last year in high school. You HAVE to pass the standardized tests or you WONT graduate and teachers spend half the school year going over how to take the test instead. only half because the test is given 1/2 to 3/4 of the way into the school year. English, Math, Writing, and Science standardized tests are given.

@wolfzmusic9706

3 жыл бұрын

with mine we do exam questions but also revise stuff as well

@katsimpsforleviathan

3 жыл бұрын

@@mishmashmixofstuff everything I ever learned in English (right from year 4, where they started making us analyze paragraphs) was just for the GCSE exams

@irrelevance3859

3 жыл бұрын

@@katsimpsforleviathan exactly. You have to pretty much be trained for gcse English. You cant just be given the question and know how to do it

@koifish4276

3 жыл бұрын

i just finished my first year in secondary school and yeah it was just teaching us how to answer questions from the exam

“My hand really hurts” I know, my GCSE English teacher actually spent an entire lesson teaching us finger and wrist exercises to try and stop them cramping and hurting in an exam. Turns out writing non-stop for an hour and a half is painful. Who knew?!

@lelem1052

3 жыл бұрын

My A-level drama exam is 3 hours long and that's non stop writing. It's not fun

@frostyblade8842

3 жыл бұрын

@@lelem1052 My leaving cert History exam is the same so I can relate. Writing around 17-18 pages in 3 hours ain't fun

@Welcometotherox

3 жыл бұрын

My university had 4 hour exams. This definitely wasn't enough preparation.

@cherielullet1955

3 жыл бұрын

Please share 🥺 I cannot write for long without cramping up

@Hannah-zs6up

3 жыл бұрын

wait i'm taking 2 essay based alevels please teach me how to help my wrist

God this whole thing gave me anxiety I’ve never shouted at my phone so much

As a student currently in Y11: Q1: My English teacher would give it 2/4. A kind examiner MIGHT give it 4/4 Q2: 3/8 Q3: 0/8. You didn't answer the question, unfortunately. You wrote some good language analysis, but the question demands structural analysis and doesn't award anything else with marks. Q4: 5 /20 at a push Q5: 12/40 Total: 23/80 Grade: 3, the equivalent of a high E. I've seen a lot of people giving you much higher marks than this - my English teacher is VERY strict with marking.

@ixa.m9915

19 күн бұрын

His ques.5 deserved way mre marks though..he wrote a good story.

@themoonglowing

19 күн бұрын

@@ixa.m9915 As I say, my teacher was a very harsh marker :)

The english one is the worst as you just have to keep writing, there is no stop!

@utherteasdale933

3 жыл бұрын

AHC History as well

@Hoxnator

3 жыл бұрын

Re aswell

@notaseat5934

3 жыл бұрын

If you're hand isn't cramping, you're doing it wrong 😂

@ahc6004

3 жыл бұрын

@@notaseat5934 your writing has to look like it's been done by a toddler with a crayon or your being to slow

@notaseat5934

3 жыл бұрын

@@ahc6004 yesss😂

If this were marked by MY English teacher, she would think you were marking FAR too leniently......

This makes me proud of myself for getting a B as a 15 year old

knowing that I've literally sat the same exam as practice at some point in high school this was so painful to watch. but it really says something about our examinations lmao we literally have to be trained to answer the questions how they want you to its insane

I cried at the lack of reader Point Evidence Analysis Reader Zoom Link to question Link to context Theres more Ls but I never remember

@minaa450

3 жыл бұрын

literallyy😭

@db5094

3 жыл бұрын

PEARZLL

@amhud1456

3 жыл бұрын

We learn PMEZL at our school Point Method Explain Zoom Link to question

@jetdoggaming4694

3 жыл бұрын

@@amhud1456 whats method?

@amhud1456

3 жыл бұрын

@@jetdoggaming4694 basically you include a quote but instead of saying 'this is shown in the quote' for example, you would say this is shown in the simile or personification or something

“To what extent do you agree?” YOU ALWAYS AGREE REGARDLESS!!! Only mention that point, That’s all that was drilled into us 😂

@samkelly4132

3 жыл бұрын

I didn’t do GCSEs but in my Junior and Leaving Certificate (Irish equivalents to GCSEs and A levels), we were told it’s easier to just agree But if you disagree strongly, and can back it up thoroughly, do that cause you’ll probably be able to write it faster (than having to think of something to agree with) But if you’re indifferent to it, AGREE WITH IT

@kat_2715

3 жыл бұрын

If it says "To what extent do you agree" you always agree even if really you disagree just write about agreeing.

@samkelly4132

3 жыл бұрын

Katherine Sheasby i just said what I’ve been told And when I’ve disagreed with a prompt so strongly and thoroughly, so that my points are valid, developed, and backed up, I have gotten as many and more points than my classmates who agreed with the prompt

@yazminelsayed9703

3 жыл бұрын

we got taught to do one paragraph saying why you agree ect one explaining how structure supports your opinion and two explaining how language supports it and one ( if you have time) with a contradictory point just to show you know what your talking about

@notaseat5934

3 жыл бұрын

Nah we were always taught to always explain our opinion but also the opposing opinion, so basically just writing both sides of the scale

This is hillarious. My daughter is sitting her GCSE exams currently. She's already seen this and told me it's soo bad it's good. Sorry Evan you wouldn't have even got a 3 grade overall. But it's been fun to watch.

I LITERALLY DID THIS LAST WEEK(I’m 14)THE FEEDBACK MY TEACHER GAVE WAS: Q1:be as specific as you can instead of ’noises’ the text literally said ‘twittering’.COPY AND PASTE FROM THE TEXT!! ‘broad’&’wide’ are 2 different points. OTHER QUESTIONS:fix your structure,write more for the 20marker. Q3(I think)4 lines is not enough for a paragraph😁

@thefruityflamingo519

Жыл бұрын

I’m 14 and now in year 10. Our end of year 9 English exam was this kind of gcse paper. And that’s exactly how my teacher said how we should do it. Annoyingly we aren’t allowed to know our grades for it

Evan please send this to an english teacher to mark to see what you would’ve actually got, i know there are services where you can pay to get them marked by english teachers who tutor

@elliefletcher2862

3 жыл бұрын

I’m an English tutor and would mark this for free!

@emmabaker2395

3 жыл бұрын

@@elliefletcher2862 What would you give this?

@kathrynmft

3 жыл бұрын

@@emmabaker2395 commenting so I see what she gives him

@the_clumsy_wizard8910

3 жыл бұрын

@@kathrynmft same

@chloeharwood6451

3 жыл бұрын

@@elliefletcher2862 yes please mark itt

Also, reminder to everyone we do this at 16 and also have English Literature to take where we have 2 exams in which we write two essays in each, having to memorise quotes from 3 books and 15 poems! It’s wild!

@freddier47

3 жыл бұрын

We have to memorise 18 poems and 3 books.

@isobellemoxon1091

3 жыл бұрын

Its 2 essays for one and 3 for the other

@erinwood5349

3 жыл бұрын

I did it in year 10!!! Our teacher said that it would make it easier to revise for all the other GCSEs in year 11

@wolfzmusic9706

3 жыл бұрын

not anymore cuz poetry was dropped cuz of corona

@isobellemoxon1091

3 жыл бұрын

@@wolfzmusic9706 that's only this year I meant usually

I read the title and I was instantly like “he has no chance”

I showed my a-level media teacher (who actually taught me gcse English Literature and language and she took a look and came back with this list of scores Q1:2/4 Target- Do not attempt any kind of interpretation, you say what the text tells you. The vast forest for example is never stated outright that’s your interpretation Q2:2/8 Target- Lack of coherent structure and lack of analysis. Zoom into an aspect and talk about it’s effects and reasoning instead of generalising. Do not mention structure Q3:3/8 Target- Lack of coherent structure. Be specific about techniques and zoom in to specifics as well as full structural analysis and do not drift into language analysis. (She also mentioned how to receive top band, you have to have consistency while you weren’t in this) Q4:4/20 Target- Very simple and analysis is not deep enough also (was a point in every question) you have not written enough amor analysed enough of the available material to warrant high bands. Q5: 9/24 8-16 17-40 Interesting concept but you lack many descriptive techniques and so the piece remains stationary. Great use of vocabulary 27/80 that’s about a 3 or a low 4 which is C/D A usual score for first time takers She said as an overall Good effort for a first try but overall you lack deep analysis to move into higher bands. And you did not write sufficient amounts. Nice try though 52/80 was the sort of scores I got when I was at the start of year 11

‘20 minutes in - i think thats good’ Oh Evan I am part of the dreaded gcse covid class and if I had spent 20 minutes on the first two questions in my actual exam I would be crying because there is no way you could get the marks with the time left

@Ray-xl8jv

3 жыл бұрын

Did u retake like me Ir where u happy with youur grade?

@poppywild4607

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ray-xl8jv i was happy with my grade, i was really lucky- its seriously not fair how many people got marked down and had to retake

This upset me so much because I loved English and just so happened to be really good at it too. I got an A at GCSE for English Language and the whole way through I was just like 'oh God no, you need to write way more and be way more specific.' If it gives you three pages, it's telling you to write three pages and maybe even more than that. It is not really extra space even if it says so, it is a hint saying 'you should really be writing this much and if you don't, you need to write more.' They give you that much paper for a reason. That first question killed me - we were always told, if you get a question like that, don't infer. Use the words they give you or else you will get less marks. If it says it's vast, say vast rather than saying it's big or large. If it's full of murmurs and moans, say that rather than saying it's noisy. You definitely need to plan. Annotate the image and write a structure plan with bullets of the key things to include in each little bit. That was drilled into us as otherwise we would end up going off topic and off piste which was never a good thing in your English exam. It was so stressful for me to watch as an English geek. You were super lenient with the marking too, our invigilators and examiners would be way harsher. So in turn that makes us students harsher when peer or self marking, particularly in the academy I went to. For perspective on just how strict and harsh our marking can get I'd probably have given you: 1 - 3 2 - 4 3 - 5 4 - 6 just about, literally scraping a 6 5 - 14 So that gives you 32 by my marking. Sorry, but I really don't know where you got those extra 20 marks from. I may seem super harsh but that's the way we were taught to mark - be very harsh so you will write better because you are ready for harsh marking. You need to be really explicit so where Noah was like 'I knew what you meant and what you were going for' you wouldn't be marked based on what you meant, you'd be marked on what you wrote hence me giving you a 14 on that last question.

@samayahone3497

3 жыл бұрын

I think that's about right

@isabellapetch5107

3 жыл бұрын

i think he would be very fortunate to get 32, especially if he got a strict examiner marking his paper. He writes like a small child, the examiner would scoff at him for getting the first question wrong, and then from then one would think very low of him. I'd probably give him 28: 2,4 ,5, 5,12

@willshepherd4698

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry swet

This is hurting my chest. He is so slow, and is doing everything wrong. Like I had to ask for wayyy more extra paper. Like this is not how u do an English language paper

@Nashy119

2 жыл бұрын

I'd say it was a mistake to go for quantity over quality. The more pages you write the higher than chance of you making a mistake which downgrades their assessment of your writing quality. Plus you're only tiring out your hand at that point.

It’s less stressful to set a timer than start a stopwatch. Timers have the yellow ring then tells you how long you have. Stopwatches count the milliseconds which are more stressful.

Wtf this is actually a decent text. One of the main reasons I find language so hard is because of how dull the texts are Edit: i had my exam yesterday and it was on the dinosaur text, almost cried tears of joy

@SeaKnight_Rory

3 жыл бұрын

I know. There are so many shit ones. My teacher is pretty good at finding good ones and I'm great at waffling and finding random crap to talk about. There are no good Paper 2 texts though...

@nyx.8254

3 жыл бұрын

@@SeaKnight_Rory ugh lucky, my teacher somehow finds the worst ones. Like the other week we did 2 texts about tuberculosis and Victorian textile mills

@-callmecrazy-5859

3 жыл бұрын

I think our text was about some stupid girl who nearly drowned

@sarahchattaway95

3 жыл бұрын

I think I did this paper but I'm that slow person that had to do the large questions first. So I did creative writing first and took like a whole hour (how did I pass😂)

@Sophie_Cleverly

3 жыл бұрын

It's cool isn't it? It's A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury. There's a Simpsons episode that does a parody of it as well. I don't think we had anything this exciting!

It hurts my soul that you didn't take five minutes to read all of the text before starting

@teigan7283

3 жыл бұрын

The calmest 5 minutes of the exam

@lizziebethh

3 жыл бұрын

Same here

@CrochetWithMe365

3 жыл бұрын

My teacher always said not to read the whole text before answering questions to save time. Just for each question read the segment needed, write about it, and then read where you left off because you've already made your points in the previous questions so that those can help you, and save you time.

@regarded9702

3 жыл бұрын

Waste of time

@gaujaf1812

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrochetWithMe365 we always got told to read all of it over and over for 5 minutes, I never did but I still find it weird that he didn't read through it at least once before hand

You would get extra point for embedding quotes. The readers opinion/emotions during the extract And the writers intensions

I remember that first question that we did as a practice assessment and youve got to not over think it on the very first question 1. Point 2. Evidence 3.Terminology on a key word or phrase 4. Explanation 5. Effect on the reader

Evan, if you're stressed, imagine all the stressed 15 year olds whose entire careers rest on these papers... Believe me, it's awful, for I am one of them... 😂

@benparsons4979

3 жыл бұрын

honestly dude GCSEs aren't all that important, you can scrape a 6 and you'll be fine A Levels, on the other hand...

@lizziebethh

3 жыл бұрын

@@benparsons4979 yeah I guess, but there is a lot of pressure for GCSE, but I'll give you that, A levels are a lot harder.

@realpadrino

3 жыл бұрын

@@benparsons4979 So can I just scrape by my core subjects and focus more on my career subject which is sport science? Bc that’s what I wanna do

@benparsons4979

3 жыл бұрын

@@realpadrino you wanna do good on English and Maths but other than them the other subjects aren't that important; at least try to pass them tho

@its_summer261

3 жыл бұрын

@@benparsons4979 actually not for everything. I have to get As and Bs in my GCSEs to get into my desired uni

It really stressed me out that he didn’t annotate and plan all of the questions

@isabelnecessary5915

3 жыл бұрын

You guys had time to do that?

@lucyshowjumping5037

3 жыл бұрын

isabel necessary we had to spend at least 5 minutes planning on each question i got told to by both my English teacher and English tutor and It does help so you have to write fast

@angiolettaantuonette5074

3 жыл бұрын

I would stress you out ^^ My problem is that I spend WAYY too long on writing plans cause I try to choose the perfect name (as an example) and that takes up all my time. It’s easier currently for me to just write.

@lucyshowjumping5037

3 жыл бұрын

Angioletta Antuonette I get you a lot of my friends were like that and a lot of the time I would be adding things to my plan as I’m writing so I remember stuff

@lucyrandle849

3 жыл бұрын

I managed to write, skim and annotate ideas as I went in the end, you really have to be in the zone though

knowing that he failed at the first question made me laugh so much. my teacher ingrained in us exactly how to answer the first question so we never got it wrong lol :)

English Language teacher here - assessing you as you go. Your marking isn't far off, to be honest. The mark scheme ISN'T hurdle statements - we will accept similar responses even if not exactly the indicative responses. Q1 - it really is as simple as writing down 'broad', 'tall', 'animal sounds' etc. You'd get 3 marks. "Vast" would be accepted for "big", 'tall' would be fine for 'high' and you'd get the mark for the sounds. Q2 - Clearly they don't teach PEE paragraphs in America. Some of your explanations of the effects of language choices were vague. Probably 5 marks. Q3 - The question is ONLY about structure. Any analysis of language devices wouldn't be credited. It's looking for understanding of how the text is sequenced together as a whole-text: how does it start, where does is shift, how does it end. You made a pretty good effort, especially on identifying where there's a shift in emotion. Highlighting contrast is usually a pretty good way to go with this question. Although you do comment on language, it's done to exemplify the contrast created between parts A and B, which is the main structural device used within the text. Isolated comments on verbs etc are not going to get any marks though. 7 marks Q4 - To every AQA student reading - do NOT leave yourself on 3 minutes to do this question! You totally could have re-used some ideas from Q3 because Q4 is about methods too, but unlike Q3 you have a specific judgement to evaluate, as opposed to just saying how the text 'interests you'. You didn't do enough to explore the statement given by the fake students and evaluate it's accuracy. Your answer doesn't cover the text broadly enough and doesn't pick up enough marks for language analysis. It'd be around 6 marks, I think. The average mark for this question is 10 - it's hard!! Q5 - Bloody hell, Evan, capital letters for Grand Central Station, you heathen! Plot totally stolen from Looper - but I don't mind it. Overall, I'd give it around 16/24 and 8/16. The use of language and vocabulary would be classed as 'increasingly sophisticated' but it is let down by some cliches too - 'like a hawk'. I can't see closely enough to check all spelling and punctuation so I might have been generous on the SPAG mark. Not a bad effort.

He's not looking at the markssss 😰😰 a mark a minute Evan! Also the structure question is trash and you can't use any 'literary techniques' you have to use structure things like punctuation, paragraphs, sentence structure, how it starts/ends

@esthxr_v6858

3 жыл бұрын

right frr - sorry that would have gotten 3 marks tops 😂

@irrelevance3859

3 жыл бұрын

Right. That question irritates me sometimes. It's more limited. We used FRONTZIPS (all the structural techniques) you don't have to touch on all of them but they're there to pick from.

@ellax7434

3 жыл бұрын

Ohhhh god this is painful

Watching this made me realise how much of our education system is just teaching us how to answer questions which was kinda depressing honestly. ALSO evan please for the love of god annotate your text

Lol, I'm sorry but if any student stood up and shouted "My Leggies!" in the exam hall and then "OOPS, Sorry Ma'am." The Invigilators are gonna kick you out.

I was taught when analysing language techniques; you state the quote, define the language technique, then describe how this makes the reader feel, it’s pretty simple and can get you good marks

@fairy_flo1239

2 жыл бұрын

As a y8, i may be wrong but is that basically an sqi? (statement quote and inference)

@thefruityflamingo519

Жыл бұрын

You could say that’s a What, how, why paragraph. What is the writer doing, how is the write doing it (quote) plus also analysis. Then the why is what’s the point that they’ve done it, why it has an effect etc

@MeganIsNotHere

Жыл бұрын

@@thefruityflamingo519 yeah I guess

Why do I feel like this is gonna give me flashbacks to when my pen ran out in my English language gcse and the invigilator was too busy on his phone to notice me with my hand up so I ran out of time by 10 minutes and I was only a few marks off an 8 and it annoys me everytime I think about it because I might have got a higher grade but my invigilator was more interested in angry birds than his job

@aisha5491

3 жыл бұрын

OMGGGG THATS SOO ANNOYING

@bethanyscreech3803

3 жыл бұрын

@@aisha5491 I mean I 100% didn't even deserve a 7. I hated English but for some reason I was amazing at it without trying so I did no revision

@incognito9537

3 жыл бұрын

should've prepared lol

@aisha5491

3 жыл бұрын

@@bethanyscreech3803 lolll and then there is me who acc enjoyed english but had to work really hard to not have exams... I am doing it 4 a level thoo

@bethanyscreech3803

3 жыл бұрын

@@aisha5491 enjoy! A lot of my friends did it and really enjoyed it... Until exams got cancelled cos of covid and they had to do all their coursework in a week

How are you marking it? Surely you need a teacher for that lol - the scheme is not exhaustive and you would be suprised how you can swing things depending on who marks it.

@madsmads2651

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah will be intrigued to see how he does this...

@turtle_5004

3 жыл бұрын

One of the reasons I hate English

@parisewellington3664

3 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking that. You can't self assess an English language exam

@izzyb6456

3 жыл бұрын

@@turtle_5004 it’s so unfair because some people will get really nice examiners who are very generous when marking and other examiners will be very strict. One examiner might give a 5 and another examiner might give an 8. That’s why English gcse is so unfair. If you’re a couple marks off the next grade, one examiner might just grade you up and others won’t. So unfair

Oh wow he actually read the WHOLE source, we’re taught to skim through it until we find the key words we’re looking for to save time (in regards the the first question)

I did this exact paper as a practice test and loved the extract. There were so many structural and language features to write about!

aaahhh he's going so slow there's literally no time in the language exams.

Your panic when reading how the marking scheme is so unrelated to the actual question asked is so relatable omg

One thing that a lot of commentators have not taken on board is that the published mark scheme and how papers are marked do vary greatly. At examiners' meetings, they raise issues from actually marking papers, and where necessary changes will be made. Several points raised by Evan are exactly the issues where examiners will raise such things as a lack of clarity in the mark scheme or even in the question itself. An examiner's role is not to fail candidates but to ensure that a candidate receives credit for every possible positive response. As a retired teacher, I can say that rarely did the top exemplars do anything but annoy. Even the best prepared student would not write like that. The exemplar always needed dissecting in order to pick out salient points with which to compare actual answers. Grade boundaries are not set in stone. Evan could have got anywhere from a D to a B, depending upon how well the whole cohort did. I was, for a time, an Examinations Officer, and had an overview of all subjects. What surprised me was how narrow the C range was, often just a few marks difference between a D and a B. Overall, Evan did quite well. To achieve that score without spending the previous 2 years preparing was creditable.

Me, an British English A Level student, knowing hes taking too long and crying listening back to my old GCSE teacher

"I understand what's going on, but I don't understand what's going on" is one of the most relatable things I've heard all day. I have my English language test tomorrow😣. Edit: I got an 8 and was 4 marks from a 9.

@SeaKnight_Rory

3 жыл бұрын

Good luck!

@calitopleynassar4669

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve got mine next Monday 🙄😭

@spicysprinkles3223

3 жыл бұрын

Good luck, don't forget to read the questions thoroughly. I remember things like metaphors, similies and juxtaposition are used often.

@Khadijah1709

3 жыл бұрын

@@SeaKnight_Rory thanks.

@Khadijah1709

3 жыл бұрын

@@spicysprinkles3223 thank you. I'll keep that in mind.

it’s giving me anxiety that he didn’t print it double sided

@chloethething5160

3 жыл бұрын

Ikkkkk, the poor trees as well

I did this exam!!!! I can’t remember if it was a mock or actually the real deal but I did this exact one!

@nickyosehi571

2 жыл бұрын

Sameee

He was too kind in marking. He would not go past 35 marks with his answers omg 😭

@caithemburrow5569

3 жыл бұрын

Realistically like 30 marks