Is your hand writing a mess?
Can you type as fast, or faster than you can write?
Then you can dramatically boost your grades, not just in English, but every subject that requires long answers.
I've just read the AQA examiner's report for English language 2023, and found this. I’m having to paraphrase it as this is not yet in the public domain:
Handwriting has been getting worse over a number of years. Many students would get higher grades if they typed their answers. This will be because the examiner would be able to read, understand, judge the whole of the answer, so that the grade would reward everything the student has written.
55% of my viewers on YouTube (out of 4000 polled) report getting a grade 8 or 9. Astonishingly, some of them are reporting typing their answers in the exam. I first noticed this trend in 2022, and none at all in 2019.
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Because many students can touch type, students with poor handwriting can easily jump more than a grade if allowed to type, and in many cases will improve by much more. (They are also likely to be mainly boys).
And the examiner report seems to make a compelling case that AQA will back this if parts of the student answer is illegible. We should analyse the coming mocks with this in mind, so we have evidence of who needs to type.
I think we will be astonished at the number of students who would meet this criteria.
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Write an answer under exam conditions, with exam timings.
Give it to a friend or an adult.
Ask them to read it out loud to you. If they can read it to you, great - crack on with your exam preparation, and you have the gift of legible handwriting for life.
But, if they struggle to read it, take it to your teacher.
Show them this post.
Ask them to give you an exam practice in class, so they know you are writing under exam conditions.
If they struggle to read that, ask them to arrange with the Exams Officer for you to type during the mocks.
If they won’t, go back to them again after the mocks. You will have a bigger evidence base then. Ask again.
hello sir , i get grade 3 in the mock exam , both language and literature , because i could not translate the idea into the well structured paragraph. how to improve ? should i practice more ? please help duly thank you very much sir