GCSE? Help needed please! Top points to best answer!?

Question

I have recently done my French Listening exam and alhough i didn't find it really hard i didn't find it really easy either and i think i may have got many wrong. I can't help but worry about what i might of got and i can't 'just forget about it'. I have the reading and writing french exams soon as well, does anyone have any ideas on how i can feel confident for the exam and do well?

I mean like really good study techniques?

Sorry if i haven't been very clear! Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Same here. I found the questions in English difficult, as per usual.

I would study vocabulary for those 'exam' words. Look through past papers and look up the words you don't know.

And do practice papers so you can get ideas for the real exams. I am also going to revise the environment because that is my weakest topic.

I also like this site http://www.zut.org.uk/intermediate/year1... not in those times on weekdays though and your school might be registered with www.linguascope.com

Good luck hope you do really well

Answer 2

If you want to feel confident, you need to know what you are doing. That sounds stupid, but if you know what you need to know then you will have the confidence to walk into the exam and do well.

Try not to think about how you did in the listening - its the hardest skill to master, especially in French, because the accent makes it hard to understand. I recently did one and after realised I did section B in French when it was supposed to be in English. I was quite upset about it but after that just thought I can't go back and do it differently, there's nothing you can do about it now so you may as well not think about it.

Good ways to study is to, if you're doing your speaking, is to record yourself and listen to it over again. This will help you practice pronounciation and learn what you have to say. For verbs, learn the patterns for each tense and write them up in tables. For irregular verbs, you have to learn them unfortunately.

For general grammar, split it up into sections, e.g.

- holidays

- family

- friends

- environment

- education

- career and future

etc.

this will help you to find synonyms (different words meaning the same thing) which will be so useful, because normally in the exam they have one word for it and then you may have to tick a box with a different word.

e.g. faire de la natation

nager

piscine

etc.