James Dempsey

So the night before, I'd be making sure I don't start panicking, right?

You have to remember you've already done, if you're doing higher level, 25% of the paper because that's what the oral accounts for, 20% for ordinary level.

And the night before, I'd be really focusing on a couple of things.

I'd be making sure that I am learning off some set phrases, but rich set phrases.

Bear in mind that every student in the country knows how to say, So I'd be finding other ways, synonymous ways, richer ways of saying those.

And then I would be reading every question on the reading comprehensions to remind myself how to do them.

Because obviously the reading comprehensions are the be all and end all of the French paper they are.

each question is worth 1.25% of your entire grade.

So you don't want to get, you don't want to miss those ones.

So make sure you know exactly what the question is actually asking in order to be able to answer it.

Okay.

And on the morning of the exam?

On the morning of my exam, the first day we went to mass.

It didn't do me any, it didn't do me any, you know, it didn't do me any problems.

But yeah, on the morning of the exam, I would be

Going back over the kind of grammar kind of questions that can appear in the reading comprehension.

So you can be asked to find examples of tenses.

So know what the tenses are.

By that I mean, is it a simple tense?

That means a one word tense.