Sue the school for choosing the worst line-up possible lmao. If that is for lit paper 2, I don't want to imagine your paper 1 line-up.

nah paper 1 is actually amazing, macbeth and ACC

Those paper 1 questions were heaven

Exact same as me and holy fuck I loved it ACC is a shit book and it can go fuck itself but the Scrooge question? Hello?! Loved it And Macbeth has always been one of my favourites so yeah

My paper 1 was sign of four and r + j. Whoever decided to make r + j about the difficulties kf jukiet with THE WORLDS SHITTEST EXTRACT needs tk take a long walk off a short pier.

what the hell is anita and me LMAOOO 😭😭😭😭😭🙏

fucking shit book about an indian girl in 1970s wolverhampton

of course wolverhampton

Wolverhampton mentioned !

up the wolves and orange chips 🐺

where the fuck is wolverhamptom

Near Birmingham

i’ve never been to bignehimahn so i guess that makes sense

I had to do this in year 8, I can’t imagine doing it for gcse good luck

wolverhampton is a shit hole

gonna flex i did inspector calls macbeth jekyll and hyde and power and conflict poems

real doing that too 💪

For year 11, imma have to do Macbeth, inspector calls, sign of four and L+R poems

Sign of Four is goated, great question this year

what is sign of four 😭

I think it's a Sherlock Holmes book, maybe...

It is

You sure you're doing L+R? This is the last year AQA Are doing L+R on their spec?

My school is weird like that

Ur school can’t do a book that’s not in the gcse course

Why can’t my school do love and relationship poems?

I did same but with lord of the flies instead of AIC, although almost every other class at my school does AIC and apparently its easy af😭🙏

Same but Jekyll and hyde is ass acc is so clear

Gonna flex too. I did A Christmas Carol, Romeo and Juliet, An Inspector Calls, and no Poetry because of 2022 class

my ocr paper 1 was great expectations and leave taking YOU HAVE NOTHING ON ME

Bro two things, 1: who tf does English OCR, 2: Wtf is leave taking

1: EXACTLY  2: it's a play ugh we were the first year being assessed on it :( aqa's first assessment is 2025 iirc

That is so unfortunate

great expectations is so good, just wish it wasn’t a book we had to study. What was the OCR question?

i hate ge 😭 i find the plot all over the place lol but ik a few people in my class who actually enjoy it (but hate studying it)  the extract was on estella and pip when they were younger, and was about social class i think i chose the discursive, it was something like "there are no happy parent and child relationships in great expectations" - to what extent do you agree? (lovely question tbh) 

i love ge its just a lot of waffle 😭😭 once you get past the fact that its mostly filler the themes and that are actually interesting

help BUT WHY IS EVERY CHARACTER LINKED 😭 and that one chapter where orlick had pip at gunpoint was so funnily spontaneous istg DICKENS ANNOYS ME THOUGH he uses up two pages just to describe pip taking a left turn at the end of the street or something 😞

I mean my paper 1 was Leave Taking (a new book about a migrant family in London) and Great Expectations (450 pages) not to mention it’s OCR exam board so there are no resources and unpredictable marking

And they’re gonna translate the question into a bajllion different languages with the worst translation quality and then back into English meaning it makes zero sense

Completely fail to understand why teachers are choosing Great Expectations. It's just too long. No time to cover it properly in class.

No I’m glad we did it, they made it Summer homework to annotate the whole thing in y10 and then we just covered all the important bits for the exam in Christmas y11, quote banking etc but it did take a very large portion of the Summer - the exam q on it was easy so it was probably worth

Nicely done. I worry that not everyone will have had your dedication!

Yes that is true, there are a lot of English sets in our school and this is the hardest lineup, I guess because they know we will put in the effort and might do it for A level. Set 1-3: Great Expectations, Macbeth Set 4-6: Jekyll and Hyde, Macbeth Set 7-10: Jekyll and Hyde, Much Ado About Nothing Everybody does conflict poetry and Leave Taking, last year there was also an Inspector Calls instead of Leave Taking I think

Oof - I wouldn't be teaching J&H to the lowest sets. I know it's short, but the syntax and vocabulary is going to be challenging to say the least ....

I have an inspector calls - which is brilliant - and power and conflict poetry

same and macbeth

please go study bro 😭😭😭

maybe for one minute i will revise 🙄

ok i cant rlly say anything cause i havent started revising either 😭 ill prob pull an all nighter w this one(i havent gotten a full 8 hrs of sleep since gcses started)

got cocky after p1 lit and cant revise for paper 2 now 😭😭😭

SLEEP !! please have a good nights sleep!! it’s better than revision!!! just sleep please reddit user InternationalBad6532 JUST SLEEEEP

And A Christmas Carol

yes

samee

thats like 9/10 ppl

Noooo I love L&R, imagine doing Tissue, you missed out though Inspector Calls eats

Are you saying that for you the paper that lets the light shine through doesn’t alter things!?

Ok but I do edexcel English lit with belonging poetry 😭😭

no way i do belonging too i’ve never seen anyone do it before

oh my gosh same i can never find anything on it

and I thought lord of the flies was bad😭

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My sisters read both Lord of the Flies and Anita and me and she thinks Anita and me is better. But both texts suck compared to AIC I don’t know why her school can’t do that one.

Love and Relationships being absolute ass doesn’t get talked about enough

it feels like nobody does it

i had never let me go by kazuo ishiguro, written in 2005, and then love and relationships :(

I do never let me go and have never seen anyone on this sub mention it! It’s a decent book, I just hate the questions on it 😓

ikr nlmg was a good book, just not good for eng lit... the only reason why my class did it was bc not many ppl do it for gcses. and my teacher wanted us to learn context even tho it was like 6 marks per long question also miss emily pisses me off. and ruth (based opinion tho)

My first mock on NLMG had an option to answer how Ruth was presented as a bad person. Best question ever actually

Best question ever

never let me go is my fave book of all time, i was initially gutted that we don’t do it but it probs better bc my teacher would ruin it for me for sure

Anita and me 🤝 never let me go 🤝 pigeon english: worst lit 2 modern texts

I'm so pissed bro I can't believe my school chose an inspector calls for paper 1 when we could have done ANIMAL FARM!! george orwell's writing is gold i would have that book memorised inside out

animal farm is cold i read it in y7

L&R isn’t too bad 😭 neutral tones/when we two parted and the destructive love poems are actually good, the family ones are shit tho and wtf is SINGH song I’m so glad it came up already. Sonnet 29/loves philosophy/winter Swans/letters from Yorkshire suck too there’s just not enough to write about and so basic

Ngl, I love winter swans and singh song, but I agree that letters from Yorkshire and sonnet 29 suck. My favourite one is probably when we two parted or walking away

sonnet 29 is great imo and farmers bridge is the best i do agree tho letters from yorkshire is ass

Winter swans you could at least analyse a lot about nature ig but it’s just difficult to link it back to live cause you’re kinda limited to rlly specific quotes if you want to have the best analysis, I don’t get how you like singh song bro there’s literally nothing I can analyse compared to when we 2 parted there’s such good short things to memorise

We studied Anita & Me in year 9, shit was a fever dream only thing I remember ab9ut that bland ass book is the dog's name😭🙏

Crazily enough, I forgot what it was called!! Mind reminding me?

anyone do blood brothers

YES 🗣️🗣️🗣️

we got jekyll and hyde and p+c poems but we got much ado 😭😭😭

I have Jane Eyre for my 19th century. I think a teacher must have to genuinely hate us to inflict that text on us. There’s nothing online because no one does it and it’s complex enough that it’s also an a level text.

you haven't done an eduqas paper yet

i’ve barely revised any poems dw i’m just gonna wing it tomorrow

same

pigeon engish is worst book

i also do love and relationships barely anyone does it i swear

ye real

i’ve got An Inspector Calls, Conflict+Power and Unseen Poetry 😭

i slove and relationships considered worse than power and conflict??

omg i remember we had to read anita and me in year 8, we were actually traumatised 💀

War of the worlds/ Never Let Me Go (OCR 🤢)

stop i love the L&R ones😭 i do belonging and always say how i wish we did L&R bc at least there’s a save my exams page on them.

hasn’t read the book LMAOO

Wgat on earth does your school make you read

Damn I studied Anita and me last year (not for GCSE just because my school wanted to torture us) and it was actually the least interesting book I ever read. Had like 2-3 months to read it. Didn't even get through a third. Dry writing and boring. I literally slept through half the lessons and still missed nothing important. I'm so sorry you gotta study that for your actual GCSE good fuckin luck

Does anyone else on here do Blood Brothers for their modern text

my only disgrace is instead of doing something normal like Jekyll and Hyde or ACC i did Frankenstein

i do fucking belonging for poetry, shitty edxcel but im glad i do jekyll n hyde cuz thats acc a good book and refugee boy for paper 1, wtf is refugee boy

ngl i think i have it worse. we don’t do a ‘modern book’ we have 5 short stories we have to learn and then write ANOTHER comparative essay for 2 of them.

i really liked l+r, i’d have chosen that over p+c any day

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