WJEC English Lang

[ElephantsNeverForgive]

Are their any other parents or teacher, totally mistified by the higher tire unit 2 results. (outside Wales)

DD has a C overall, but a u for this paper. Now she is dyslexic and her writting is full of errors, but she really enjoyed this paper and her content would have been reasonable.

I am certain she will have answered the question asked for the correct audience. She is very articulate to talk to.

(She got 100&98% on biology and chemistry papers, an A for maths and a B for full course RE, she isn't dim!)

My boy got a high A on Unit 1, 51/60) but he got a low grade C (36/60) on Unit 2. I'm going in for a re-mark to see if a different set of eyes sees a more appropriate grade.

DD got 51 for unit 1 too and then 19 for unit 2, it really doesn't make much sense.

Can you link grade boundaries, I've googled and I don't get anything that makes sense. Many thanks

School may resubmit a big pile for remarking, because the top sets teacher says several A/B students have Cs and even Ds like your DS.

I would be perfectly happy if DD had a C/D, she's massively better at reading than writing, but 19

36 is the boundary for a C on either unit. Seems odd to me that Unit 2 is so much lower for so many people.

According to the examiners report they were sad to see a lot of simple mistakes, their, there and basic spelling errors, which yess DD is likely to have made. She was excited at getting a good question she could write a lot about, but I thought they were supposed to mark in a reasonably positive manner and only a certain amount could be lost for SPAG.

The marking seems to have been positively Victorian. I guess that makes Gove happy.

SPAG is a few marks in every other subject but counts for a lot in the Writing section of English Language - which is as it should be I suppose! It doesn't count for as much as content and style though.

Creativity will only get you so far. Structure, spelling and grammar is essential for reaching higher grades. My son has heaps of creativity. But we spent lots of time on essay structure, proper dialogue layout, letter writing skills. We diagrammed essays, and did lots of past papers looking for how they wanted it.

Unit 1 is the problem here, not unit 2.

Interesting to read this. DS got 49 a and 33 d. He is dyslexic too so would expect some loss for SPAG. Got B overall thanks to CA results.

If she can structure science arguments well enough to get a 98&100% and RE to get a B, it's still a bit mean.