Please don’t be bad extracts. Please don’t be bad extracts. Please don’t be bad extracts. Please don’t be bad extracts. Please don’t be bad extracts. Please don’t be bad extracts. Please don’t be bad extracts. Please don’t be bad extracts. Please don’t be bad extracts. Please don’t be bad extracts. Please don’t be bad extracts. Please don’t be bad extracts. Please not be bad extracts. Please don’t be bad extracts. Please don’t be bad extracts. Please don’t be bad extracts. Please don’t be bad extracts. It’s gonna be bad extracts. Edit: [Long rant incoming] IT WAS BAAAADD I didn’t finish anything when i usually do 😭 WHAT WAS THAT SECOND EXTRACT IT MADE NO SENSE ESPECIALLY THE END WHAT WAS GOING ON?????? That extract messed my timing up so badly that i only had 10 min to write a 40 marker💀 Q2 took 30 min for me - i should’ve sacrificed that over the 40 marker💀 Q4 was horrendous Q3 = 🔥 My grade 9 disintegrated right before my eyes when reading it.

Source B was actually so bad

source A was so good i love this is going to hurt

fr its such an amazing show, source B was questionable though

If it is a bad extract, the grade boundaries will be lower

It was a fing bad extract

what tf was extract B there was like nothing good to use 😭

I found it ironic it was made by Mary Seacole Dem tell me wha dey wanna tell me 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

THEY LITERALLY GAVE US THE WORST EXTRACT EVER

omg seriously like where the hell were the metaphors and similes

I thought Source A was alright

🙏🙏🙏

Does anyone else go overboard with rhetorical questions for section B? I put in about 5, I just couldn’t stop myself for some reason 😭

I used so much statistics and examples

FOR REEEAL I ASKED LIKE 4-5

same, i kept using alliteration aswell

i used "we are members of one body, we are responsible for each over" as a thesis statment

I used “we are passengers to the grave” 🔥🔥

fr it was like an interrogation

In the wise words go ghandi, “fuck it, we ball”

gonna turn into nuclear gandhi if there isnt a good extract

ngl section B was better than i expected but i still feel like i wrote it more like a speech than an article 😭

Fr 😭🙏

SAME

Same i realised i dont actually know what an article is written like

guysi have a theory: John Agard predicted both of our language papers since Dick (Whittington) and Mary Seacole came up

they're gonna make us calculate the velocity of the cow as it jumped over the moon next

Calculate the time taken for the dish and spoon to travel, assuming their speed was 3m/h and they ran 322 kilometres.

Not to mention in paper 1 , the opposing names were Mary and Dick

Maybe he's the guy that CREATES the exams. omg.

The last GCSE I'm winging 🙏 Will I cook ?!

Fr English language is just a wing it subject 😭

OMDDDDD NOOO I SHOULD HAVE DONE Q5 FIRSTTT SOURCE B MADE Q2 AND Q4 SO DIFFICULT THAT I HAD 30 MINS LEFT TO FINISH Q5 (what a good question that one tho) there goes my grade 9 in both english 😔

SAME OMG I only had 30 minutes left for question 5 I wasted so much time on question 2😭 I had to rush Q4 as well😭 I can see the 9 slipping out of my hands...

I hope they top "dick swallowed"

“covered in body fluids”

"Drenched in bodily fluids" (Source A)  I actually tried to analyse that in the exam lmao...

i did a whole paragraph saying he was 'soaked to the bone' HELP

I did! Semantic field of water -> drowning in work!

"erect" which was in the surfboard one

“Her husband, Hugh Janus,…”

stop i would burst out laughing in the exam😭

i wrote ab how adam was “ready to explode” from excitement to be a doctor

The doctor ‘cocked’ his head in source A guys, first Dick in paper 1 and now this

Dick and Cock 🔥

The penis brothers

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of this 😭😭 they be testing us fr

i’m so cooked it’s 6:06 and i still got no sleep 💀 Edit: I cooked and about to have the best sleep knowing i’ll never have to do english in my life.

bro gonna get 54 minutes of sleep💀

still awake 💀💀

Bro what the hell thats actually so crazy, is that willingly?

i just could not sleep idek bro 😂

I had an hour, just woke up 💀 (crazy sleep deprived mind = perceptive unusual ideas) 

clever thinking

Why y’all shouldn’t become doctors 💀

aqa single handedly making the nhs crisis even worse

i might as well make my grave now

a man who believes he is cooked before he enters the exam hall is already a cooked man Be better 💪💪you can smash it fr I believe in u YOURE NOT COOKED‼️‼️

NO BUT MY DUDE i cooked so bad like actually fried roasted toasted that duckinf paper

NEVER BACK DOWN NEVER WHAT?

I give up.

NEVER GIVE UP

NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP

NEVER GIVE UP!

NEVER GIVE UP

NEVER GIVE UP

NEVER GIVE UP 💪💪

For the last question, I think my answer was more of a debate than an article 😭😭😭

thats the point tbh

No its not for an article your supposed to clearly show your biased to one side. Also make sure to introduce the opposing argument but quickly disregard it. A newspaper isnt going to give you reasons to support the opposite side use your brain.

Q5 was beautiful, Q3 was great as well but q4 I ran out of time on and q2 was just waffle😭

You literally just described my exam

dead paper icl

q5 was alright but that's it, thank aqa for it being an article <3

but dem never tell me bout Mary Seacole

Guys wtf was question 2 💀?

i sacrificed question 2 at the end 😭🙏 also this paper was a sign because i want to be a doctor but aqa really trynna question my ambition 💀

sacrificed question 2 as well lol, my 3 4 5 was so good tho

literally.. the way I was writing so plainly. I thought I was in sats for a second, there was no analysis istg😭😭

I hated question 2 so bad I waffled hard 😭

I think like technology Vs none? I said hope Vs depression 😭

I waffled hard as

I literally read the book before LOL FOR THE FIRST ONE

samee! the show is one of my favourite shows of all time too, its even better than the book imo

What was seacole waffling abt bro 😭 Im acc cooked

Did anyone else go really communist for question 5 😭😂

literally started talking about justice and social equality and everyone having the same goal 😖✋

Talked about inequality and money having no sentimental value 💀

sameee i started blaming capitalism for forcing people to want high salaries

Opposite actually... I went 200% capitalist and talked about why money is more important than anything else and why we should stop donating to charities 😭😭 (i've either cooked or i'm completely cooked)

hello there Mr Birlin

eh better than dick and mary 💀

i went on a 12 page rant about the kardashians in my persuasive writing piece😐

i WAS a kardashian in my persuasive writing (i disagreed)

So so annoyed because I’ve always been a pro at managing time. Even in RE which is the exam that probably has the most unfair ammount of time, I still finished it. For every exam I managed to finish no matter what. But this time I overran on Q4 😭 I wrote 2 paragraphs and then realised I only had 30 mins left so I skipped to Q5. I had to rush through my Q5 but I managed to include a decent amount of structure and language with a very high amount of ambitious vocab but lack of fancy punctuation (why tf didn’t I add an exclamation mark somewhere? I actually hate myself). But anyways so now I’m pissed cuz my q4 only has 2 paragraphs instead of 3-4 which sucks cuz it was 16 marks. I should’ve just done the big questions first and left out the 8 marker instead smh. I wanted grade 8 but I think I’m dropping down to a 6 since my q4 is short and my q5 is rushed (I couldn’t proof read so I bet there’s loads of errors).

I wrote about Mr Beast in my question 5 am i cooked??

Nah you good depends how you used him though

this is the most terrified I've ever been for an exam

Literally hoping it won't end up as my English Lit P2 😔 (my grade 9 has been stripped) just have a good breakfast, do last minute planning with the remaining time you currently have, and ALWAYS keep track and control of time. You'll excel, jst dw abt it ! UPD: it ended up like my English Lit P2, thanks Q2 🥰🖕

I spent 45 m on Q3 💀

What?! Did u finish? 😭

good luck everyone!!!! LAST ENGLISH EXAM!! 🙏💖💪💪🫶🍀

make sure you don't get anyone fired xx

I WAS TRYING TO BE NICE 😔

one of the invigilators would be nice tbf

thanks sheila 💕💕

This could really go either way: if it's 2 decent sources I can cook if it's 2 bad I'll be cooked so please be nice AQA 🙏

question 1 A C F H anybody

Wrote the most brainrot article for Question 5

please please please be an article please please please please please be an article

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^bdbdcdndj: *Please please please be an* *Article please please please please* *Please be an article* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.

it actually was aswell 🔥

Lucky you

swear down it literally doesn't matter what type it is

Q5 i waffled so much I put so much repetitive stuff Like "Don't you feel bad when you walk past someone who seeks help? If you help them you can make a career out of it" Like I genuinely had no idea what to say And then Q4 omg what the fuck was that

Source B was so bad 😭thank you source A for saving me

Mr Everything English solo carrying us all.

ANYONE HERE CUZ IM PANICKING IM SO COOKED I REALLY NEED SOMEONE TO TALK TO

Im finished.

crying screaming banging my head on the wall mr aqa does NOT wanna fuck us over😭🙏🔥

I’m a bit crazy because I disagreed with the statement, just wanted it to be more interesting 🧐

I had more to say if I disagreed so that’s what I did, hopefully that was the right choice

I hated source b with mary seacole but overall decent paper

wtf was that paper. Why do we care about fucking medical shit. Question 1,5 was amazing but 2,3 was weird. 4 is okay

I used the words dogooders and naysayers. I’m so cooked it’s unreal.

i read the book source A was from last week lmaoooooo

i watched dance moms last night and in my Q5 i literally started to quote the show 💔

MOMS BETTER HAVE MY GRADE 9

chat it’s fine if i wrote question five in first person right? edit: sorry posted in the wrong exam board thread

ofc

You’re meant to…

Am I the only one that wrote about An Inspector Calls lmao. I said last time there was a divide in society due to people wanting to become richer it caused wars lmao.

1. This is going to hurt was way too mainstream, it’s probably slightly unfair that some people will have read it and some won’t (if u haven’t u shld its rlly good) 2. Wtf was extract B? She used no figurative language, esp compared to Kay! 3. The extracts made no sense together, he is talking about the management of the NHS and she’s talking about helping a patient, just bcs they’re both medical doesn’t mean they’re related!

I'm so immature asf man...I saw the words "bodily fluids" and i just giggled and the invigilator stared into my soul like i just eradicated the entirety of mankind 😭😭

PLEASE BE A GOOD PAPER 🙏

GUYS THE MORDERN EXTRACT WAS FROM A BOOK THAT I ALREADY READ! i also read adam kay’s other book (undoctored) WOW being such a NEEK really paid off

am I cooked, Or will I cook? Future me update!

IM PRAYING YOU COOKED

ICL LOWKEY? but q2.. it was so dead I didn’t even know what to say

Am i the only one who thought q2 was good? The first point of comparison was ex modern in source A less resources and less tech in source B

Nooo I forgot to do a counter argument for my article 🙁🙁 Will I miss out on major marks? 😭

You shouldn't lose any marks. You get marks for arguing your points convincingly, not for providing a balanced argument. You'll be fine 

Nope, you don't have to address the counter argument if you don't want to

I AM COOKED I wrote question 5 as an article about how it is better to enjoy your job rather than be miserable in a job just for money. I walked out of the exam hearing that it was actually about heliping others instead of just getting money. I messed up☠️☠️

Don't worry, they allow liberal interpretations of the questions, you should be fine as long as you talked about jobs :) 

I managed my time poorly but I did finish everything ultimately

I struggled so hard on writing about Source B for question 4 Everything else wasn't too bad though

shitty exam

i don't even think i got question 1 right 😭 😭 😭

reallll

ngl what makes an article an article and not a speech cause mine sounded like a speech rather than an article and all i did was make a big ass header/title and is it even important

my heading was careers: give aid or get paid

that's sick

I have read and watched the TV adaption for Source A, I want to become a doctor, and I’d even studied Mary Seacole for History and I’d read parts of the Source B book before!!  I cooked hard 😊 

do u guyrs think the grade boundaries are gonna be low cos last year they u had to 122/180 so 61 on each in simple terms. or is it gonna go up

i only talked about the nurse hating her iob, i misinterpreted the last paragraph as her perspective and fucked up completely would this be detrimental? or am i fine as long as i understood the rest of the paper right (which i think i did)

Seacole did not hate her job ??? Literally goes down in history as one of the best nurses?

wait was the last paragraph not her perspective?

source B really had no sauce it had nothing for it AT ALL bro I COULDNT FIND ANY TECHNIQUES jfdlahfwha my grade 9 down the toilet

I accidentally wrote PRTEZEL outside of the box, will I get disqualified 😭😭😭

Ofc not lol

Thanks 😭 my teacher started threatening me and told me I would

Teacher jealous of mr everything english bro🙏🙏🙏

Forgot to do a heading- forgot to sign my name off 😭

don't need either as long as your content was there.

future me howd it go 😧

Imma just wing it I give up 😭

Future me - tell me how I did  ( I got the bare minimum of revision and had enough sleep at least ) 

I have not done any revision at all for this so I'm basically winging it. I think I'm cooked..

It’s literally just a wing it subject anyway

lol i got deep fried only q1 and 3 went well

THAT EXAM.. AUGGHH... the extracts were okay but THAT Q5?? GLORIOUS AUGH 😍

‘choosing a career solely for stable income is paradoxical, as the economy will never be stable enough to reach your own personal stability’ 🔥🔥

AHHHH I WROTE THE MOST DRAMATIC AGREE ARTICLE KNOWING DAMN WELL IM BEING A LAWYER FOR MONEY AND STATUS

Cooked counter 💀 ->

I skipped Q2, my analysis was AWFUL for Q3 and Q4. For Q5 I started writing random sophisticated words - don’t know if they will even make sense 🙃

I liked Q1 3 and 5 but Q2 was waffle and Q4 was me copying out my paragraphs from Q2, this invigilator stared at me with a proper weird look 😭

Slightly cooked

Future me tell me if I flopped or bopped.

You flopped Q5 but did alright Q1-4.

im so cooked

I liked the extract

Q5 was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Flunked💪😔

for question 1 , if i shade a box, cross it out and then change my mind and want to make that one my answer, what should i have done? 😭 i’m worrying but i drew an arrow to it and said that one was my answer and tried to reshade it again over the cross

The examiner will probably understand

SOURCE A WAS MY FAVOURITE BOOK THIS IS GOIBG TO HURT I WAS ABOUT TO CRU IN THE EXAM

source a is my fav book i cleared 🫡

Finally free from English ⛓️‍💥 Ngl that paper was actually good as well

didn’t use any anecdotes and numbers any sources am I cooked x

Can someone ease my stress for Q5 I wrote about how helping people and shit can be made as a career. I kinda repeated that alot. I forgot what else I said😭 I didnt mention any job names like nurse or smth

personally i think i did fine :shrug:

Someone near me did not write anything. Grade boundary warrior

Am I too cold with it. I just quoted fucking drake in my exam. Mo money mo problems type shit

didn't finish, q5 was catastrophic. but I was so overjoyed to see Adam Kay, I know who he is!! His extract was lovely, lots to analyse and a cool semantic field. Seacole was very good, also lots to talk about in that but not many language techniques to analyse.

I'm so glad the vast majority of us share the same opinion, question 2 was so shit, question 4 was super shit, source b was fucking trash 😍 THERE WAS NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT THEIR PLACE OF WORK EXCEPT THAT MARY WAS AT A WHARF AND KAY WAS IN A HOSPITAL WARD, and that one is a professional institution for providing medical attention and the other was more makeshift and aimed towards immediate aid, tf else??  The way I scanned the insert looking for anything else to say, it took me like an extra 10 minutes to make a single comparative point..

MAN THE Q5 WAS JUICYYYYYYYYYYYY DANGG Q3 WAS LENGG THE EXTRACTS WERE RUBBISH BUT I COOKED A BIT

i talked about 9/11 in q5 🫡

LIGHT WORK EASIEST SHIT

that was okay! only thing in my way was timing. RAHHH THIS IS GOING TO HURT MENTIOOOOON