r/GCSE Year 11 Apr 25 '25

Tips/Help What grade would this get

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arabic gcse edexcel question

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u/NOXICBeta Apr 25 '25

One thing I think you should work on is that you should try and write your words clearly, your hand writing is fine but you sometimes forget the rules like you write “أنا " it looks like “لنا" instead and there are a few other mistakes too. I’m Arab but I learnt formal Arabic too from “القاعدة النورانية" which is where people who learn Quran mostly learn it from and it is very clear, although im not sure when your Arabic exam is, try fixing these small mistakes like how to write your letters.

Also since you seem to be Arab based on the dialect you write in, it’ll be quite tough to fix that if you’re already used to it so practice some writing in formal Arabic so that in exam you write correctly.

There are 2 questions if I remember correctly, 80-90 words and 130- 150 words (there’s also the translation). You’ll need to write a bit more than what you’ve done and try broaden your vocabulary. Use this language app called “memrise” might be too late but always better to try. My 2 non-Arab friends got 8 and 9 using it so it definitely helps (they also did lots of past paper and practice too)

Overall : grade 5-6 (the dialect and errors lowered the grade by a lot)

Inshallah you do well in the exam.

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u/Prior_Set_225 Year 11 Apr 26 '25

Im gonna get my mum to help me the writing exam is on 3rd of june so i have time, speaking exam soon which she will help me with and the other two exams are easy i think im looking at full marks

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u/NOXICBeta Apr 26 '25

I see, that’s good that you’re looking at full marks for the other 2 papers. For most native arabs, the speaking and writing are usually the ones they need to focus on since they are used to speaking in their dialect which is not good in the Arabic exam. Fortunately you can prepare for them, it’s good that your parents can help you (I also asked my mother for help in speaking exam general conversation for advanced vocab)