A Level French - is Edexcel easy or hard?

[lainiekazan]

Relatively, of course; I know all the boards are ostensibly equal.

Ds is veering towards a possible consideration of A Level French. He is predicted A* for GCSE.

Being an interfering mother I looked on the website of the sixth form and found the board is Edexcel. Now, ds wonders whether their A Level is more geared towards speaking than written French, as this would be a minus point for him. We could have asked at the open evening, of course, but didn't think to (plus ds was paralysed when faced with bouncy, glossy-haired sixth form girls).

We did the 6th form rounds last year with DD1, and saw schools offering Edexcel, AQA and WJEC in French. From what was on show at the open days, all seemed very similar, with the A2 being very geared towards cultural studies.
Although her GCSE was EDEXCEL, she is now doing AQA A level at a differen school. A quick look at both the specs on the exam board websites shows EDEXCEL having a 35/65 split and AQA a 39/70 split between spoken/written.
Massive leap up from GcSE, already decided its the one for her to drop at AS, which was not her original plan. But gather from your other thread that your DS is a strong at Ebglish, which DD isn't, and its the grammar that is getting to her.

Dd did A level french AQA I think , she is at uni doing french now. Think there will be a large element of speaking in any of the boards ..surely.