#43

My daughter just came home from her final Eng Lit GCSE exam (an Inspector Calls and WW1 poems)

I liked English and did well - but not sure how well I’d do now. In my day we were able to take the texts into the exam (I don’t remember any without the texts anyway), they have to learn it all by heart

seems like such a backward step

#44

God, don’t make me remember

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#45

Don’t think we could take the story books in, but were allowed the poems.

This fucking thing:

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#46

Scottish standard grades (GCSE in England I think). Those were just projects that happened through the year, don’t know if it actually came up in any proper exam.

#47

Some really truly awful poetry in there.

#48

GCSE texts were A View from the Bridge, Merchant of Venice. Absolute pants compared to the A Level texts. Wuthering Heights, Great Gatsby, King Lear, great bunch of books.

#50

It was basically the story of Oedipus through the lens of West Side Story

#51

Fuck yeah did the hecking rabbit cowboys book

#52

Also Julius Caesar, The Crucible and some war poetry (can only remember Dulce et Decorum est)

#55

I’d love it if a candidate had answered it just with something like, β€œShakespeare does not present any hatred of the Capulets in Tybalt, only love and allegiance.”

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#56

hahahahahha!!!

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#57

sorry, started reading that in his tongue for a second

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#58

the cone gatherers, load of shit

#59

we read and analysed every. last. page. of to kill a mockingbird and then watched the film afterwards, i guess because it gave a better impression of the storyline than pouring over every turn of phrase

#60

Yeah, we watched film versions of what we were studying, but we didn’t study the films themselves per se, and definitely not anything like Terminator 2.