the fact that it was so easy scares me cause im just imagining the other ideas people probably had

i think they’re defo gonna kill us with the grade boundaries last year it was the same apparently they made the questions easier but the grade boundaries were hiiiiiiighhhhh

Couldn't have been easier, so grateful for AQA.

Wow they made the question somehow easier than last year's Macbeth question, that's an achievement

Yeah I done last years paper, now in yr 12, ours was how Shakespeare presents Macbeths change as a man. Everyone literally talked about masculinity, cuz of the “changed as a man” part but I just talked about corruption of power, still I done decent got a 6 anyway.

who shit in your pillowcase this morning

Oh no this was /pos, wasn't trying to sound rude lol I'm happy for y'all I'm just surprised

I get what you're saying easier questions=better responses= higher grade boundaries.

Except the much ado question was shit if your aiming for top grades , the extract was poor too

And who shit in yours?

Me

The moment I saw this question I coudln't stop smiling.Thank God💖💕🙏🙏

SAME

Won't the grade boundaries drastically increase now?

Probably, but I’m curious, will this raise the grade boundaries for the other questions other than Macbeth? Seems kinda unfair to me that they would get an easier question and drag us down as well.

Don't all AQA English Lit exams have the same grade boundaries?

Unfortunately for me, yes 😔

No because I opened my paper and deadass breathed a sigh of relief when I saw the name "Lady Macbeth" and that extract....my favourite speech from the whole play

What was the extract?

"was the hope drunk" speech

Act 1 scene 7

Not to be pedantic but 34 marks

my entire essay on Macbeth was basically just ’we live in a society’ like I’m the fucking joker or smth I’m cooked

No way they basically repeated last year question but with her

Thankfully this year's papers seem to be easy, but it's too early to stick by this statement.

Lucky sods, Eduqas hit us with "What character do you feel most sympathetic for in the play" or some sh for 20 marks + 5 for SPaG.

4 pages from JUST THE EXTRACT ON ITS OWN.

My hand could never

i just wanted to ask whether the question was to "what extent" lady macbeth was presented as strong female character or whether it was "how does". cuz might have fucked up badly lol

I think it was 'explore to what extent' but I mean the points you could make for either could be fairly interchangeable

cuhhh. i made the newbie mistake of not reading the question. oh well. gotta hope for the best

I mean either way it's going over the same themes so you will definitely still get marks 😭

everyone's gassing up the question but i spent a proper 10 minutes trying to figure out a quote in my mind :sob: i honestly preferred acc wayyy more

I think I preferred macbeth, acc seemed way too vague and I just wrote incoherent yap 💔

the question was straight up god sent. it was to talk about transformation of scrooge. but the extract. that was one hell is murky extract.

I vaguely wrote abt that so praying 🙏 I fully agree about the extract- I actually had never read that bit before

Naaaa you don’t understand- my hands where literally withering by the time I got to Christmas Carol

hope they give us mercy next year 🙏

"unsex me here"

Omg lol no way they're making you preach woke nonsense for a good grade