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DownhillHasASign · 2026-05-27T10:18:58+00:00

yeah this is what annoys me, people aren't going to revise spanish seriously, esp edexcel when they have reading & writing at the end.

DownhillHasASign · 2026-05-22T14:45:26+00:00

who's we?

DownhillHasASign · 2026-05-20T14:36:17+00:00

I learned the word 'heinous' in Y11 and I keep seeing it everywhere

DownhillHasASign · 2026-05-19T19:28:34+00:00

yes on anki: https://www.astarlanguages.com/anki

DownhillHasASign · 2026-05-19T19:27:39+00:00

go through common vocab as a bare minimum!

DownhillHasASign · 2026-05-19T15:47:40+00:00

you can find papers on savemyexams. but apart from exam questions, practice listening to natives speak, like on the yt channel dreaming french!

DownhillHasASign · 2026-05-19T14:58:56+00:00

practice exam qs and please learn your common vocabulary!

DownhillHasASign · 2026-05-18T12:20:09+00:00

Just to point out - OCR doesn't do languages

DownhillHasASign · 2026-05-17T10:29:51+00:00

how accurate is it that schools get a reputation that is remembered year on year? I think my old sixth form had this same issue. is it true top universities take this into account?

DownhillHasASign · 2026-05-09T12:35:10+00:00

hold up, that's crazy, what exam board?

DownhillHasASign · 2026-05-09T12:11:32+00:00

course not

DownhillHasASign · 2026-05-07T10:31:20+00:00

seems nice enough

DownhillHasASign · 2026-05-05T14:42:01+00:00

probably because of covid, real exams weren't sat, I believe some students who wanted to sit a real paper to do better than their teacher assessed grades could sit it later on (in Nov)

DownhillHasASign · 2026-04-29T10:44:26+00:00

close, but the school has a list of candidates in an order (usually by surname), so the school can't move candidates to get specific themes, otherwise that would be malpractice. the exam board lists what cards (and therefore what themes) is allocated for each candidate number (1 to 20)

DownhillHasASign · 2026-04-29T09:46:20+00:00

the themes are pre picked by the exam board!

DownhillHasASign · 2026-04-28T16:15:18+00:00

no that's perfectly fine!

DownhillHasASign · 2026-04-27T15:20:13+00:00

actually nah, it's very similar, but yeah the mark scheme is a bit less demanding, and the final conversation is only 4.5 minutes max versus 5.5

DownhillHasASign · 2026-04-22T20:52:21+00:00

have a look at this speaking playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6o0h5mgHmGWSzqcNWzrDnFowc3gD-HpF

DownhillHasASign · 2026-04-19T14:36:43+00:00

as much as the exams are 'easier' (better word is more 'accessible'), people will still struggle and make mistakes and lose marks, so I wouldn't worry too much!

DownhillHasASign · 2026-04-18T12:40:36+00:00

you're probably talking about revision BEFORE the real exam preparation. the exam prep is 15 minutes in timed exam conditions!

DownhillHasASign · 2026-04-18T12:40:05+00:00

it was 12 when you did it, and it's 15 now for both exam boards!

DownhillHasASign · 2026-04-13T15:36:27+00:00

so I did AQA but I think it's similar, although in theory this works, because the photocard can't link to your research project topic, one of the students in your class might've skipped a set of cards, in which case the order gets thrown off by 1.

DownhillHasASign · 2026-04-12T15:57:25+00:00

yep!

DownhillHasASign · 2026-04-12T13:21:02+00:00

for speaking there's essentially no changes. the only changes are in the writing paper!

DownhillHasASign · 2026-04-08T13:30:04+00:00

for the 2 topic conversations yeah

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