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
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
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
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.
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"
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
@@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.
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 😂
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.
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
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.
@@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
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!
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 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!!
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.
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?
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
@@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
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
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)
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
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.
@@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.
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.”
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. .
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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'!!
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'
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
@@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.
"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.*
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.
@@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 😭😭
@@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.
@@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.
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
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.
@@mishmashmixofstuff everything I ever learned in English (right from year 4, where they started making us analyze paragraphs) was just for the GCSE exams
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
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 🤞
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!
@@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
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
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
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!
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.
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. 😂😬
“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?!
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. 😩😂
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.
@@elianayocheved770 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.
@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
‘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
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
@@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
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!
@@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
@@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
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
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.
"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
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.
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
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!
"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
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
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
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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...
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😂)
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!
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
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.
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
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.
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
I mean essentially we practice for 2 years to do these exams so you don't have to be amazing at English to be able to get the marks they want Btw when I did this I'm pretty sure I wrote about 15 or 16 pages in total in the time
"you are reminded of the needto plan your answer.... really?" OF COURSE YOU NEED TO PLAN YOUR ANSWER OTHERWISE YOU MIGHT RUN OUT OF TIME OR WRITE TO LITTLE, OR GO OFF TOPIC OR WRITE TO MUCH
@@mykisummerhayes3081 In America you don't get point for planning. So as a person who is slow with anything language related: I just skipped planning in all cases.
“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 yeah but then you expect it to be quiet, making a pen dropping, coughing, sneezing, breathing, paper moving, chairs squeaking seem so much louder and it distracts you just as much (at least that's how I felt)
@@evan embellishing is adding secondary, decorative, detail. In the context of a story, particularly with the counter factual: dramatising the mundane or a adding facts to lies in an attempt to make it more credible.
As a high school English GCSE tutor in the UK, the amount of second hand stress I had from watching you do this is crazy! And yes, the structure question (Q3) is impossible on that paper, I don’t know a single teacher that really knows how to answer it, never mind the kids! That’s what government mandated tests set by someone who has never been a teacher gets you 🙄
Yeah, my English teacher is also working as one of the people that mark the final exams so she gave us so many tips, we somehow usually did really well on that question unlike everyone else in my year
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?
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.
I'm sorry Evan, but you didn't get more that 4 marks on Q3. You didn't talk about structural features, you talked about language features again! Also, you're supposed to write about 4 paragraphs for Q4 so you would've got a few less marks on that too. Your creative writing was actually quite accurate though, it was good! (Sorry, I love your videos)
Kaitlin, there's absolutely no requirement to produce any set number of paragraphs for any answer. If you cover the skills descriptors, you cover them, regardless of how many paragraphs you've written (but keep in mind that anything above level 1 will require variety in points to avoid being 'limited'). On Q3, contrast and building of tension are two of the best ways to talk about structure. Evan identified the clear turning point in the narrative and was able to discuss how the writer created this moment of contrast. Talking about language in isolation doesn't get marks, but talking about how the contrast is created through the things the writer focuses on and how the tone changes will get marks as they are evidence of conscious contrast being crafted by the writer.
@@fantastischfish You're obviously correct in pointing out that contrast and building of tension are two excellent ways to discuss structure, however those are simply effects that can be created by structural features. If you do not actually talk about said features at any point then it is entirely irrelevant that you chose to discuss tension and contrast.
@@fantastischfish they do have an amount that you should write in order to get the full marks. I’ve written multiple mocks and I’ve been told I’m not writing enough and marks have been removed. So I’m certain cases it does matter, for example, if it was a 16 mark question a short answer wouldn’t get you even 10 marks.
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 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
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😁
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
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.
@@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
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
The maths one was funny but this was on another level 😂, what Evan doesn't realise is that we don't get prepared that much for English language because you can't really revise for it. So his reaction is literally how we feel and that is our life qualification 😂😂🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
@@chloethething5160 literally all the help we got of teachers is do a practice question, remember the formula of the pee paragraph and waffle about shit 😂😂😂
i’m not even at GCSE yet but i just finished my first year of secondary school and i felt really good about it and the source was about marine life i died
@@koifish4276 the sources get weirder as you get older 😂. I'm year 13 now but my source in one of my English GCSE's was from a book about sexual and mental abuse. Welcome to the UK education system 😂😂😂
Me watching this and recounting last years (my Year 11) indoctrination of- Q1 = 5 mins, Q2 =10 mins, Q3 = 20 mins, Q4 = 30 mins, Q5 = 45 mins. A mark a minute people! Or something like that, also that was my Mock or a pracrice paper I think
yh, but Q1 in this one was really quick, so idk if it needs 5 full mins. I've done this exam as a practice and as soon as I found one I noted it down. took me 2 mins tops, lol
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
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... 😂
@@evan you pretty much highlight stuff as you read and automatically put down what certain phrases are. You are definitely a slow reader tho lol and abit generous with your markings.
@@darkritual951 it would be cool if he could get an actual English teacher to mark it to see just how generous he was. + I agree, highlight and annotate to make your life much easier.
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)
@@Ascension721 Same up until year 11 I only got 4s and 5s on English, rarely a 6, and it was because my teacher was not good at teaching us the materials. She was lovely and very kind, she treated me well and I even did extra work and practice (the way she taught us) but for the love of God I couldn’t get higher than a 5. Then in Year 11 we got a new English teacher because the one I had previously retired. The new teacher was amazing. I was getting 6s and 7s so easily. I ended up getting two 7s for both Lit and Language, I was very proud of myself. It may not be a 9 but I was super happy with a 7 😩
@@girlgenius_27 you can do it honestly keep doing practice paper , time yourself on each question i got a 3 on my language and then got a grade 6 on my retake im so proud of score
Omg I’m literally shouting all the advice I got from my teacher on answering the questions at you. Definitely glad my GCSEs got cancelled... I’m having flashbacks to the hand cramp lol. Haha what possessed me to do 3 essay subjects at a level
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 did my GCSEs in 2019 and the story question was on abandonment and lots of peoples parents ended up being contacted by their schools to ask whether their kids were okay 😂
Similar thing happened with me. I did that as a mock along with a story about falling off a cliff (which was literally the teacher's prompt). It got me and my friends a meeting with the teacher hahaha
OMG😂 My GCSEs were cancelled in 2020 but I remember on one of the mock exams for English language, we had an image of an Indian bazaar and instead of doing the obvious, eg. actually writing about the bazaar, I for some reason decided to write a story about a child who was abandoned and then became hunted by a serial killer. Needless to say, I did not do very well on that section!
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.
He was going quicker than i would have been going, i fucking hated that shit
Edith true. My arm would be killing after my English and R.S Exams 😂
and that my friend is why I typed
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
MOOD
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
And 8 other subjects with the same amount of work
@@nityab7855 ikr fucking insane stuff we are expected to do
Lmao i have mocks rn and i dont know shit
Yeah, and have at least one other exam the same day in a totally different subject.
That sounds just like the Malaysian English exam. God damn, I hate British colonial legacy. Lmao
him: says he’s writing to fast
all GCSE students: knowing he’s taking too long to answer the questions
Literally, I’m sat her shouting Question 1 only takes 2 minutes!!
@@lilyholland5748 yes, honestly when he read the sentence about the size of the jungle and changed the words i was like- umm ok then
When he was adding in quotations in the first question I wanted to cry and scream
A MARK A MINUTE!!!!
@@lesbiangoddess290 Too true.
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
On the bright side, they can use our anguished comments as revision tips
@@thenaturesystem true
Adrian Hrodek Good point. GCSE year was hell
Hahahah too true lmbo
Haha true
The lack of PEEL paragraphs in your answers physically pains me
Or SPEED paragraphs (don’t forget to signpost/ tell us where the quote is from)
Get your PEARL in there
Or the PEER paragraphs
@@AceEcho1449 speed?? lol 'ok kids today we're gonna do speed'
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.
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"
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
i thought the same lmao like the examples are examples of a single paragraph not the whole answer lmfaooo
I fully laughed when he gave himself 6/8 for Q2 negl.
@@evanspencer3632 honestly i was thinking like 3 ☠☠☠
@@fleurpalmer-paquis8226 At most!
@@evanspencer3632 question 2 was the bane of my life, thank god i never have to do it ever again lmaoo
Just so you know, if an English teacher marked that, you would not have gotten 30 marks
Ouch 30 marks is DEVASTATING... I agree though
I’m 2 minutes in and the first questions are already not correct 😂😂
If an English teacher was to mark your comment, you also would not have *received* 30 marks.
Gambit771, I hated English with a passion, I don't speak in perfect English, I got my 9s and dipped
@@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.
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 😂
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.
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
Content Baby. Lengthening them videos for more ad revenue.
@@insomniarmyinsomniarmy my teacher said 15 minuted to annotate and the rest to answer questions
@@natashamangion5145 consider your self lucky year 11 is hell the amount of stuff you have to know is a joke
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
Same 😂 😭
Same 😂😂
Us UK students all traumatised
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.
@@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
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!
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
I just covered every single point I could think off and over explained it to hell 😂 got an A
Ikr!!!
@@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!!
FAX!!!
Bro marks himself way to highly. Honestly it amazes me that US schools dont teach exam technique, and you just do multiple choice.
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.
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?
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
@@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
I mean most exams I’ve taken have a decent split of mcq’s, frq’s and other answer forms. Its not just multiple choice.
Damn, Evan is being generous with these marks
He definitely did not write enough for the marks he was giving himself lol.
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
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
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)
and then forget within a week of the exams after months - or technically years- of revision
English lit HURTED
@@janaweber2255 and you need to try and remember all that on top of like 8 other subjects too!
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
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.
that's exactly how American AP English tests/exams are as well
only for writing papers like english lang and lit and history
@@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.
Huh. That would have been useful to know for my GCSE's
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.”
DID YOU HAVE THE SAME ENGLISH TEACHER AS ME WHAT
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. .
@@thisandthat3889 LOL this is very funny ahahah
@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)
@@emirachu8137 yeah same we had to do the same as u
He’s literally stressing me out so much WHY ARE YOU READING THE TEXT SO SLOWLY
So it can be understood by his viewers. I should hope Evan reads faster to himself.
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)
I am dyslexic an have slow processing so I get extra time on exams but I still read faster than him 😹
I had extra time and I still read faster than him💀😂
also you're supposed to see what the questions ask you before you start reading so you can analyse it as you read
Well it's safe to say his paper would have been torn up...
Why
@@liamstott5116 you are not aloud to talk in exams...
@@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)
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
@@sewed102 yeah this is what my teacher said
Wait until he finds out what English Literature papers are like
Unseen poetry
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
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
Taylan Yildirim same in language you never know what the source will be whereas in literature you can study the text
Oof
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
Also it's recommended that you spend 1 min per mark. Like if it's 8 marks you spend 8 mins on it
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 🤣
@@nyahjohnson7126 that's so dumb what 😭😭
Nyah Johnson Your system is so messed up
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
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
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.
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
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.
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'!!
@@nathilism all exams are ableist
Yelling "Simile!" "Metaphor!" "Allusion!" "Anthropomorphism" "Imagery" and "HYPERBOLE!" at my phone was not how I was planning to spend day.
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'
@@ishanipandey9372 Dramatic irony cries a lot. 😂
@@trinkab I'll remember that, thanks 😂
@@ishanipandey9372 😎
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
The audacity of him writing a side and a bit when I used to write like 3 sides for a 20 mark question
FRR
i wrote a page and a half and for each 20 marker and got full marks for the paper xD dunno how it works
Loool
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
@@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.
"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.*
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
I- noo
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.
@@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 😭😭
@@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.
Oh god.. that's so harsh,did she pass?
"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
It made me a lil emotional
Yeah that was awful wording there 😂 he probably meant creative writing
sofie. liz no because in the US they call it the writing segment since most of the exam paper there is multiple choice
I was so invested in that story lmao
@@ZainabProductions How do you even do multiple choice for English. I wonder how the American English system truly works
"who speaks like this?!"
its an english exam no one speaks how they write
Wait till he finds out about the 15 poems and 3 books we need to memorize for English Literature
👁👄👁
🎉🎊🎆🎉🎊🎆AQA let us drop poetry 🎉🎊🎆🎉🎊🎆
(If you're not a current year 11, HA)
@@SeaKnight_Rory I still have to do poetry, my school just dropped a Christmas carol :'(
@Cute Hufflepuff my school dropped a Christmas Carol. We are only doing Animal Farm and Romeo & Juliet as well as the poetry stuff
@@mhrb44 that's the short end of the stick. ACC is the easiest of those.
Cries in A level English Literature. 😂
I wanna see Jack Edwards mark it, give him the invigilator experience, and allow an unbiased experienced opinion.
yes!
YES THIS!!!
YES OMG
Ooof such a good idea
YES!
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
Rt i am A level biology and chemistry student so i just wanna know how he does
@@crepe80 that would be hilarious 🤣🤣😂😂
@@crepe80 Just to ask, next year I'm doing all science A-Levels. What's the difficulty 'bridge' between GCSE and A-Level sciences?
@@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.
@@crepe80 Okay. You've got me scared now, lol.
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
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.
with mine we do exam questions but also revise stuff as well
@@mishmashmixofstuff everything I ever learned in English (right from year 4, where they started making us analyze paragraphs) was just for the GCSE exams
@@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
i just finished my first year in secondary school and yeah it was just teaching us how to answer questions from the exam
Evan - "I'm not looking forward to the writing segment".
Me - Hmm, the whole thing is the writing segment
Where all the marks are at. Literally the only way we can pass 😂😂
That was literally the first thought that came to my mind lol
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
F what can i say..... thats very sad :((((
Yh my teacher wanted my class to do it in yr 10 so we only have to focus on language in yr 11
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 🤞
your school is evil
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
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!
Indeed... just keep writing.. just like dory says just keep swimming
That is not true
@@dazmillons1998 well how else is one supposed to write 16 pages in 2 hours?
@@annatabner8459 or just learn to be a more effective writer with less waffle lmao
@@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
For any American out there, the GCSE exams are sat at approximately 15 years old. Just for context
*16 they are sat in may and june
Theres only like 4 people in my school who will be 15 when they do them and in one of them :(
I_Am_Potato will the rest be younger or older?
@@sarah.93.31 older
@@sarah.93.31 yeah like 16
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
sameee 😭😭😭
U should aim to get all marks on question one cus of how easy it is
He literally just had to copy out what they said 🥲
frick i have my mocks in 2-3weeks:(
ikkk you just have to quote it and you’ll be fine 😭
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
I’m an English tutor and would mark this for free!
@@elliefletcher2862 What would you give this?
@@emmabaker2395 commenting so I see what she gives him
@@kathrynmft same
@@elliefletcher2862 yes please mark itt
The english one is the worst as you just have to keep writing, there is no stop!
AHC History as well
Re aswell
If you're hand isn't cramping, you're doing it wrong 😂
@@notaseat5934 your writing has to look like it's been done by a toddler with a crayon or your being to slow
@@ahc6004 yesss😂
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!
I learnt PEEL when I was in school (Point, Evidence, Explanation, Link
Did you just say 'the writing segment' ? ... The whole paper is a writing paper, it's mostly essays. 😂 😭
I have to sit this paper this year and... I'm not looking forward to it.
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.
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. 😂😬
Helen Banks as long as you know the mark scheme inside out you will do so well!
Covid saved me from having to do this test. Shame about the people that died though :(.
“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?!
My A-level drama exam is 3 hours long and that's non stop writing. It's not fun
@@lelem1052 My leaving cert History exam is the same so I can relate. Writing around 17-18 pages in 3 hours ain't fun
My university had 4 hour exams. This definitely wasn't enough preparation.
Please share 🥺 I cannot write for long without cramping up
wait i'm taking 2 essay based alevels please teach me how to help my wrist
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. 😩😂
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.
are u from israel?
@@ibrahimkabir4359 No, but I'm Jewish. 😁
@@elianayocheved770 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.
@@ibrahimkabir4359bruda what
You didn’t even bring pastel highlighters? you’re guaranteed to fail.
Lol I always bring my pastel highlighters to tests
Never used highlighters in my life of gcse. Still managed to pass both
Shom yes.... 2 8s
@Nexan 010 you can bring any equipment you want, excluding a calculator in your maths non calculator exam
@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
‘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
Did u retake like me Ir where u happy with youur grade?
@@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
Evan: * Doesn't read the through the whole extract at the start *
Me: Oof!
Did people actually do this? I know we always get told to, but I don't know anyone who actually does it :D
@@Ez-dp5uq I looked at the stuff that was necessary when I did it got a 4 so it worked
I only looked at the useful stuff so didn't read it at the start. Got a 7 soooo
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
I do the last question first and read the extract as I go along 😂
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
literallyy😭
PEARZLL
We learn PMEZL at our school
Point
Method
Explain
Zoom
Link to question
@@amhud1456 whats method?
@@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
not me watching this, having done this exact paper, and dying because i know he's got the wrong exam technique
Sameee
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!
I did it literally 2 weeks ago in year 9
i’m waiting for him to take out his highlighters and start annotating
Oml all my teacher expect this,I’m so scared,I start my GCSE’s next year T^T
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@@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
@@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
If this were marked by MY English teacher, she would think you were marking FAR too leniently......
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
right frr - sorry that would have gotten 3 marks tops 😂
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.
Ohhhh god this is painful
Evan: I'm not looking forward to the writing segment
Me: (sips tea) It's ALL a writing segment
😂 yes
Oh honey english language is easier than the literature
Wait till he gets to poetry
I did better in English literature than English language
Literature is way easier
Mesmerising *all* the poems.
Did you do love and relationships or power and conflict
"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
@@Ray-xl8jv love and relationships
Hello and welcome back to a man who wants to validate his American education with hard British tests
How is this test hard? Legit question
@@mckenzieannis3 simple its made for 16 year old stressed teenagers
@@mckenzieannis3 i think identifying language vs structural techniques in the source was the difficult part for me
@@sofiat3970 I can pick out language stuff easily, but I cannot find structural techniques at all
@@geekygalaxy4307 riight like what even are structural techniques i dont understand them at all
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.
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
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!
We have to memorise 18 poems and 3 books.
Its 2 essays for one and 3 for the other
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
not anymore cuz poetry was dropped cuz of corona
@@wolfzmusic9706 that's only this year I meant usually
"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
“To what extent do you agree?” YOU ALWAYS AGREE REGARDLESS!!! Only mention that point, That’s all that was drilled into us 😂
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
If it says "To what extent do you agree" you always agree even if really you disagree just write about agreeing.
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
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
Nah we were always taught to always explain our opinion but also the opposing opinion, so basically just writing both sides of the scale
Your panic when reading how the marking scheme is so unrelated to the actual question asked is so relatable omg
The fact that student at the age of 15-16 in year 11 are being able to do this better makes me proud
why
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
fully just sat here yelling PEEL evan PEEL WHERE ARE YOUR POINTS
Literally 😂
YOU NEED TO LINK IT BACK TO THE QUESTION
They jumped out the window
we used PEA/PEE
You should be picking PEAS Evan what did your English teacher teach you????
"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.
Good luck!
I’ve got mine next Monday 🙄😭
Good luck, don't forget to read the questions thoroughly. I remember things like metaphors, similies and juxtaposition are used often.
@@SeaKnight_Rory thanks.
@@spicysprinkles3223 thank you. I'll keep that in mind.
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.
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.
@@samuelagho1557 that's a good idea! Hope you smash it!
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.
Oml how fast do you write-?!
@@leeee.e too fast..
It'll be in 4k soon!... whenever TH-cam gets around to it! Looks extra CRISP
the lighting is INCREDIBLY crisp too along with the overall quality! awesome evan!
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
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...
@@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
I think our text was about some stupid girl who nearly drowned
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😂)
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’s really sad that i actually remember doing this paper as a practice test 😭
Sameeeee, and I remember doing it a lot faster than that hahaha
Sameee
We got this exact one too. And we did way better than him lmao
It really stressed me out that he didn’t annotate and plan all of the questions
You guys had time to do that?
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
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.
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
I managed to write, skim and annotate ideas as I went in the end, you really have to be in the zone though
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.
I think that's about right
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
Sorry swet
I’m sitting here yelling “your too slow!” “hyperbole” and all sorts! Not how I planned to spend my evening XD
I mean essentially we practice for 2 years to do these exams so you don't have to be amazing at English to be able to get the marks they want
Btw when I did this I'm pretty sure I wrote about 15 or 16 pages in total in the time
15 or 16??? Jesus christ. I wrote about 8 or 9 but still managed to get an 8. Felt pretty lucky
how do you write 15-16 pages? sounds like you’re lying
"you are reminded of the needto plan your answer.... really?"
OF COURSE YOU NEED TO PLAN YOUR ANSWER OTHERWISE YOU MIGHT RUN OUT OF TIME OR WRITE TO LITTLE, OR GO OFF TOPIC OR WRITE TO MUCH
Yes! You can get marks for your plan if you run out of time was the only reason i bothered in my gcse when i despise planning
@@mykisummerhayes3081 In America you don't get point for planning. So as a person who is slow with anything language related: I just skipped planning in all cases.
@@mykisummerhayes3081 what exam board were you taking. We got told to plan but don't take too long because you get nothing
AQA - we were told that you could get marks for your plan based on intent if you ran put of time
I never planned my answers. I got really good marks. I used the time set aside for planning to just write more.
“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.
that's why it's in silence
@@benparsons4979 yeah but then you expect it to be quiet, making a pen dropping, coughing, sneezing, breathing, paper moving, chairs squeaking seem so much louder and it distracts you just as much (at least that's how I felt)
A more literary term for "embellishment" might be "hyperbole"?
That’s the one
Or even exaggeration!
@@evan embellishing is adding secondary, decorative, detail. In the context of a story, particularly with the counter factual: dramatising the mundane or a adding facts to lies in an attempt to make it more credible.
As a high school English GCSE tutor in the UK, the amount of second hand stress I had from watching you do this is crazy! And yes, the structure question (Q3) is impossible on that paper, I don’t know a single teacher that really knows how to answer it, never mind the kids! That’s what government mandated tests set by someone who has never been a teacher gets you 🙄
Yeah, my English teacher is also working as one of the people that mark the final exams so she gave us so many tips, we somehow usually did really well on that question unlike everyone else in my year
Oh I remember doing that extract and got full marks on that section.
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?
Dude, I'm doing English Literature A-LEVEL and yes omg i have mocks in a month what am I doing
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.
I'm sorry Evan, but you didn't get more that 4 marks on Q3. You didn't talk about structural features, you talked about language features again!
Also, you're supposed to write about 4 paragraphs for Q4 so you would've got a few less marks on that too.
Your creative writing was actually quite accurate though, it was good!
(Sorry, I love your videos)
Kaitlin, there's absolutely no requirement to produce any set number of paragraphs for any answer. If you cover the skills descriptors, you cover them, regardless of how many paragraphs you've written (but keep in mind that anything above level 1 will require variety in points to avoid being 'limited'). On Q3, contrast and building of tension are two of the best ways to talk about structure. Evan identified the clear turning point in the narrative and was able to discuss how the writer created this moment of contrast. Talking about language in isolation doesn't get marks, but talking about how the contrast is created through the things the writer focuses on and how the tone changes will get marks as they are evidence of conscious contrast being crafted by the writer.
@@fantastischfish You're obviously correct in pointing out that contrast and building of tension are two excellent ways to discuss structure, however those are simply effects that can be created by structural features. If you do not actually talk about said features at any point then it is entirely irrelevant that you chose to discuss tension and contrast.
@@fantastischfish they do have an amount that you should write in order to get the full marks. I’ve written multiple mocks and I’ve been told I’m not writing enough and marks have been removed. So I’m certain cases it does matter, for example, if it was a 16 mark question a short answer wouldn’t get you even 10 marks.
I wrote 2 paragraphs and got 17 so I don’t think u need to write 4 paragraphs 😂
@@Teeps1921 sameee
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
OMGGGG THATS SOO ANNOYING
@@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
should've prepared lol
@@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
@@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
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😁
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
How slow you’re going is stressing me out. I did not think I’d be spending my afternoon shouting “MARK A MINUTE” at the screen 😂
It hurts my soul that you didn't take five minutes to read all of the text before starting
The calmest 5 minutes of the exam
Same here
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.
Waste of time
@@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
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
The maths one was funny but this was on another level 😂, what Evan doesn't realise is that we don't get prepared that much for English language because you can't really revise for it. So his reaction is literally how we feel and that is our life qualification 😂😂🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
I’m year 10 and all were doing in language is exam paper questions for practice lol that’s all you can do. ANALYSIS ANALYSIS ANALYSIS
@@chloethething5160 literally all the help we got of teachers is do a practice question, remember the formula of the pee paragraph and waffle about shit 😂😂😂
Niamh Duffy honestly, I know. Exactly. Americans have it lucky tbh. Anyway, have a good day and I ought to get back to meh practice papers :)))
i’m not even at GCSE yet but i just finished my first year of secondary school and i felt really good about it and the source was about marine life i died
@@koifish4276 the sources get weirder as you get older 😂. I'm year 13 now but my source in one of my English GCSE's was from a book about sexual and mental abuse. Welcome to the UK education system 😂😂😂
Me watching this and recounting last years (my Year 11) indoctrination of- Q1 = 5 mins, Q2 =10 mins, Q3 = 20 mins, Q4 = 30 mins, Q5 = 45 mins. A mark a minute people!
Or something like that, also that was my Mock or a pracrice paper I think
Loool yh and my teacher says the order you should do the questions in are
1,3,2,4,5 it’s stuck in my head 😂😂😂
yh, but Q1 in this one was really quick, so idk if it needs 5 full mins. I've done this exam as a practice and as soon as I found one I noted it down. took me 2 mins tops, lol
Omg me too! I was so anxious about the time lmao!
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
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... 😂
honestly dude GCSEs aren't all that important, you can scrape a 6 and you'll be fine
A Levels, on the other hand...
@@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.
@@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
@@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
@@benparsons4979 actually not for everything. I have to get As and Bs in my GCSEs to get into my desired uni
Seeing the absolute lack of notes, highlights, ANYTHING on the papers frustrates me as an english student and I'm not even half way through...
Who has time for notes???
@@evan You don't have time really. I definitely had to rush some essays for these tests.
@@evan you pretty much highlight stuff as you read and automatically put down what certain phrases are. You are definitely a slow reader tho lol and abit generous with your markings.
@@darkritual951 it would be cool if he could get an actual English teacher to mark it to see just how generous he was. + I agree, highlight and annotate to make your life much easier.
In my exams we wasn’t allowed notes or highlights
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)
I agree 💯
Not 4 for the first question
Unpopular opinion: this paper was actually pretty kind (one of the only ones I got a 9 in anyway)
Ikr
One of the only ones you got 9 in? You got more than one 9?? I can't even get 7 in English lmao Be proud of yourself lol
@@Ascension721 Same up until year 11 I only got 4s and 5s on English, rarely a 6, and it was because my teacher was not good at teaching us the materials. She was lovely and very kind, she treated me well and I even did extra work and practice (the way she taught us) but for the love of God I couldn’t get higher than a 5. Then in Year 11 we got a new English teacher because the one I had previously retired. The new teacher was amazing. I was getting 6s and 7s so easily. I ended up getting two 7s for both Lit and Language, I was very proud of myself. It may not be a 9 but I was super happy with a 7 😩
@@pannajohns5255 well done!! i hope to achieve a 7 or higher but everything just has to always be so difficult 😭
@@girlgenius_27 you can do it honestly keep doing practice paper , time yourself on each question i got a 3 on my language and then got a grade 6 on my retake im so proud of score
Omg I’m literally shouting all the advice I got from my teacher on answering the questions at you. Definitely glad my GCSEs got cancelled... I’m having flashbacks to the hand cramp lol. Haha what possessed me to do 3 essay subjects at a level
You lucky sod
I took both englishes and drama. I won't have a hand by the end of my a levels if I make it that far without dying from coursework stress
Oh my gosh sameeee
@Eleanor Pass im taking drama psychology and english language! Im gonna dieee lol
Same. I failed English 3 times and my fourth was canceled so they gave me a 5
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 did my GCSEs in 2019 and the story question was on abandonment and lots of peoples parents ended up being contacted by their schools to ask whether their kids were okay 😂
Hello Amy I don’t even remember that. May have blocked it from my memory
Similar thing happened with me. I did that as a mock along with a story about falling off a cliff (which was literally the teacher's prompt). It got me and my friends a meeting with the teacher hahaha
My years’ was about whether famous people deserved the money they earn and we all went off on the kardashians
@@kookieslisp2848 yes!! We stan your year 😌
OMG😂 My GCSEs were cancelled in 2020 but I remember on one of the mock exams for English language, we had an image of an Indian bazaar and instead of doing the obvious, eg. actually writing about the bazaar, I for some reason decided to write a story about a child who was abandoned and then became hunted by a serial killer. Needless to say, I did not do very well on that section!
OMG, when he said what he expected, that's like English SATs that we take when we're in Yr6 - 11 years old!!!
You would get extra point for embedding quotes.
The readers opinion/emotions during the extract
And the writers intensions
11:00 "I'm going to try to do this as fast as possible" whilst he's on the second question 21 minutes in
aaahhh he's going so slow
there's literally no time in the language exams.
I did this exact paper as a practice test and loved the extract. There were so many structural and language features to write about!
it’s giving me anxiety that he didn’t print it double sided
Ikkkkk, the poor trees as well
when english lit exams are the same as this except they’re just 5/6 essays in 2 1/2 hours,,,,, hurts bro
I’m an American English teacher and I am loving this. Bless you for doing this in your free time!
Yeah American English isn’t British English, I mean the first question he messed up
does he realise that you should be doing a mark a minute