ENGLISH GCSE PAPER 1 - HOW IT GO?

[Rich.Boy]

I never do the descriptive questions because every time i have attempted one i end up doing half a page and completely running out of ideas. I tend to do the explain ones.

[Charles]

Don't worry about it. Yes the poetry is hard just try to remember to compare, just as you were comparing the two media pieces today.

Descriptive writing is easy, choose the descriptive question.
Do NOT write about something that is REAL.
If you write about something that is real, you can only say a limited amount of things, whereas if you make something up... you can say lots.

I.E
Describe the room you are in... describe it as a forest full of pixies, not a hall with chairs and tables.

Describe yourself... instead of scrawny tall mousy haired, personify an object into yourself, I described myself as a dead tree in my mock and got an A*

Describe a Hobby... MAKE ONE UP! Leaf eating, tree hugging, turning into an animal would be good, instead of football computers drama.

That's the only advice I can give

Before we left for exams, out English teacher kept drilling that into our heads. I might just try it out this time ;>

[Hecktix]

Before we left for exams, out English teacher kept drilling that into our heads. I might just try it out this time ;>

English is easy if you know how to write aload of crap and make it sound real.

Like in poetry/media don't say the writer could be saying, say the writer IS saying.

It's your analogy they are after

In descriptive writing though, why describe something real when you can MAKE SOMETHING UP!!

[beth]

someone said it earlier in the thread, be different. always put your own spin on the question. like, a past paper i did once said describe your favourite holiday destination? don't just choose somewhere like "spain" or whatever, because it'll be so popular, choose something different.
i mean, it's not something i've ever been told, but i'm a* english student (or so i'm predicted) so, it works i suppose

[joshuar]

I thought it was a stupid idea, that mobile phones could be linked to smoking. I was like what the???

But I did the old people and technology, never sounded so patronising in anything I have done. Wrote like 8 pages and worked for the whole hour and 45.

Ha.

[Nixt]

I did WJEC Higher. It was really easy ! The paper involved an extract on which we had to answer 4 questions, each of which was easy. We then have to write a short descriptive piece and then a short story based on a personal experience. All of which I had no trouble with whatsoever. Overall, it was a babe .

[Hecktix]

I thought it was a stupid idea, that mobile phones could be linked to smoking. I was like what the???

But I did the old people and technology, never sounded so patronising in anything I have done. Wrote like 8 pages and worked for the whole hour and 45.

Ha.

It was utter crap. Butttt English mostly is utter crap, all your answers are all crap, you don't know why a writer has used a certain technique, you don't even know if they just put it in without thinking, buttt it's about making something of what you can get out of the piece

[Moh]

I thought it was a stupid idea, that mobile phones could be linked to smoking. I was like what the???

But I did the old people and technology, never sounded so patronising in anything I have done. Wrote like 8 pages and worked for the whole hour and 45.

Ha.

write sumin the writer was trying to get out, he didnt even write half of it, it was all quotes from ppl, not his work

[,Jess,]

I did WJEC Higher. It was really easy ! The paper involved an extract on which we had to answer 4 questions, each of which was easy. We then have to write a short descriptive piece and then a short story based on a personal experience. All of which I had no trouble with whatsoever. Overall, it was a babe .

I did that exam, wasn't too bad my story at the end was bad. The descriptive was a good one though

[Nixt]

I did that exam, wasn't too bad my story at the end was bad. The descriptive was a good one though

Lol indeed it was, the chip shop thing was perfect as it's something I do often on a Friday night !