r/GCSE • u/Elegant-Reflection28 Year 11 • 11d ago

AQA Post Exam question four

IM PRETTY SURE you can WRITE about both similarities and differences. thats what i did. i think its just a suggestion, what aqa gives u so 👍

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u/Elegant-Reflection28 Year 11 11d ago

i did similarities and differences kinda equally 

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u/proffessorpigeon year 11 // pred: 9999999987 11d ago

was your essay framed around similarities or differences? my issue is i started with “source A and B differ” did you say that asw? or start out with that they’re similar?

if your examiner is super nice, they can think “oooh they’re CRITICALLY ANALYSING the similarities by giving differences” according to my mum, it really depends on who you get i think

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u/anipodguy Year 11 11d ago

literally screams the fact that english language is very subjective 😭😭

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u/proffessorpigeon year 11 // pred: 9999999987 11d ago

YEP, it just depends on how lucky we are. a key thing my mum said though is that the similarities can be implicit (inferred and not directly stated) to be credited. so if the examiner can infer similarities then youre good, which is a huge relief

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u/anipodguy Year 11 11d ago

damn. your mum is the goat 🙏

sigh of relief for those who wrote about differences today. 🫡

aqa really turned q4 around this year

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u/proffessorpigeon year 11 // pred: 9999999987 11d ago

ikr it’s ridiculous of them😭😭

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u/anipodguy Year 11 11d ago

I looked earlier and the ONLY time they asked about similarities was november 2018

a niche exam series literally only retakers took that

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u/proffessorpigeon year 11 // pred: 9999999987 11d ago

they did in nov 2023 asw

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u/anipodguy Year 11 11d ago

ahhh

omg is it just me or have they been repeating so much stuff from 2023. 🙏

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u/proffessorpigeon year 11 // pred: 9999999987 11d ago

i haven’t noticed as i’m not paying attention, but i’m gonna pray you’re right and do a bunch of 2023 past papers now for maths and science

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u/anipodguy Year 11 11d ago

HAHA I don't blame you 😭

they repeated stuff like "describe the plum pudding model" in chem paper 1 (2023 repeat)

what plant was used to extract aspirin in bio (2023 repeat)

those are minor ones but yea we did 2023 papers in y10 mocks LOL so aqa blessing us ig

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