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[Ivelliis]

Originally posted by Dragonshadow: I have three exams on tuesday. Two of them at teh same time o.0 Bad organisation

GCSE exams?

Originally posted by Jaradu: Join the club. [img]smile.gif[/img] Hey, are you with the AQA examination board?...

For a few exams I am...

English, RE, Science are AQA.
Maths is OCR.
History is EdExcel/GCSE
Media Studies is WJEC/GCSE

The poems we're doing for English Lit are from Seamus Heaney (At a Potato Digging, Death of a Naturalist, Digging, Storm on the Island), Gillian Clarke(Catrin, Cold Knap Lake, Field Mouse, A Difficult Birth) and pre-1914(On my first Sonne, The Affliction of Margaret, Patrolling Barnegat, Sonnet)

For English Language it's Poems from other Cultures..Island Man, Blessing, Night of the Scorpion are the ones I remember.

If it's a character or symbol question for LOTF I'll be fine. The problem is we don't know what the questions will be.

There are two questions, you pick one.

The meaning Golding wrote it is to show us everyone has the power inside them to do evil things, but rules and order stop that. Take that away, then it all goes tits-up.

Note to self: Don't write tits-up in exam.

Also how the Island is a microcosm for the world. Piggy and Ralph's "gang" being the democratic leaders, Jack being a Communist. Also Piggy being the clever, straight-thinking scientist like person.

Jaradu I think the idea about a few quotes for each will work. For Jack, for example, I'll find one how he wants power at the start, drop another one in the middle somewhere and one at the end of his "transformation".

Any idea what the hell I write for Themes and Setting? I've got notes but I don't understand how I can drop them into a question.

[Dragonshadow]

Yupp. My latin and ICT retake overlap. I have to do one then the other straight after So I am stuck in the same cold room for two or three hours straight.

[Jaradu]

Poem-wise, I'm doing exactly the same thing as you. I'm quite confident on the Heaney poems, but I'm a bit iffy on some of Clarke's (Mali and October I don't even have notes for). Same applies to the pre-1914 poems, I'm okay on most of them but due to being absent occasionally and not catching up, I haven't studied let alone got notes to revise some of the others.

Yeah, I've heard there's a lot of important symbolism and association in LOTF, with the conch, politics, etc. It's probably harder than Mockingbird in that aspect. Then again, there are a lot of characters in Mockingbird that we have to be familiar with, and several social messages.

For themes, I've heard that examiners like to hear about how the themes are represented/shown throughout the course of the novel, and if/how they change. I guess it depends entirely on the question though.

Ooh, couple of questions about the English exams if you have any idea:
How much percent of our English GCSE is given by our coursework essays? And our other English exams are Tues 6th & Thurs 8th... which one deals with culture poems & describe/inform/explain essays, and which is reading non-fiction texts?

[Dragonshadow]

isn't it something like 20 or 30% for coursework?

[shamrock_uk]

Ouch, you can't annotate your anthologies anymore?!

What about LOTF - we could take it in covered in pencil notes?

[Ivelliis]

Well in LOTF our teacher told us to write notes in lightly in pencil, labelling them as phonenumbers or whatnot. Might do that as a last resort.

How much percent of our English GCSE is given by our coursework essays? And our other English exams are Tues 6th & Thurs 8th... which one deals with culture poems & describe/inform/explain essays, and which is reading non-fiction texts?

For Lit..30% Coursework, 30% LOTF/Mockingbird Essay, 40% Poetry Essay. That's why we've been told do Section B (Poetry) first.

English Paper One: Reading and answering questions on the text/Writing skills (Argue Persuede Advise)

English Paper Two: Poems from Different Cultures/Writing to inform/explain/describe.

Currently I've got all my LOTF sheets on the floor.

For Characters: Who they are, what they are like at the start, what they change into, who they represent, etc.
For Symbols: What they are, why they are there, what they represent
For Themes: I have no idea what the themes are for LOTF. Time to bug some people on MSN *grin*
For Setting: Island, microcosm, heaven/hell

[Dragonshadow]

I was told no notes on anythig at all - all clean or we get disqualified.

[Ivelliis]

Ahh but these aren't notes. These are, ahem, phonenumbers I accidently didn't rub out.

*fidgets*

[Dragonshadow]

Hmm, good luck with taht. Tell me if it works. [img]tongue.gif[/img] But somehow I doubt it.

[Ivelliis]

I'll probably be safer learning the numbers and as soon as I get in writing them down.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebit...es/index.shtml

*cheers*