Chinese Second Language

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Originally Posted by lictor

My mate tried to do that and ended up with 32 raw, I didn't and got 45 raw

Omg u make it sould so easy to get a high score. I slacked off till the week before the oral exam and i was rushing everything, struggling to memorise my detail study which... I took from my sister... >_<

Originally Posted by lictor

3) Learn the mandatory 600 or so vocab characters.

There's mandatory words to learn? lol... as you can see, i'm pretty much the laziest guy in the world is there any chance i can get a copy of those? I'm following ur advice and i'll try to work hard from now on ^^

and btw... Kevin Rudd is ownage at chinese xD

[lictor]

Scoring high in chinese is not that hard if you work hard. Last year we had a class of about 13. and we had a reasonably hard working class and most of the boys got 30's. Only a few of the shall we say 'less intelligent' boys got 20's.

[auxlegna]

hi...

we've just recently finished our unit 3 and for that unit i got 44.5/50. i saw that most ppl in our class were about the same. the highest (i think) was 45/50. but then again, there was only bout 6 ppl in our class that is doing VCE chinese in my class that is registered at my chinese school.

i was just wondering if anyone can tell me if i will be able to get 35+ with that score, and if i achieve similar score for my unit 4 and do pretty good on my exam at the end of the year?

just kinda stressing bout it... *sigh* coz i asked my teacher how good the score was and she said "不好" straight away without even looking at me... i guess im just hoping that she's trying to motivate me to do better... *laughs weakly* *sigh*

[lictor]

You will def get 35+ scaled
And you have a strong chance at getting 35+ raw

What score you get for your SACS aren't as important as where you are ranked.

According to the scores you stated you probably are ranked up high (possible top 2). If indeed you are ranked top 2 in SACS by the end of the year, and at least 2 people get A or above on the exams (one being you) you will end up with a very good score

[Shmeestar]

我一定同意！我觉得汉�*非常难，特� �听和回�*�。�*国人说太快，我不懂。� ��

[kinematic]

Hi! I dont want to seem like bragging but yeah 50 raw chinese, fairly happy with that but didnt get premiers

[spirited sloth]

whoa howd u manage that? what school did you do go to? u must be really really good

[kinematic]

nah not really, just learn the stuff. what school...hmm i might not say that on here. but yeah if you got the newspaper thing with all 40+ scores its on there.

[Electioneering]

Originally Posted by lictor

1) Start working hard now, I only started at the start of the term 2 holidays
2) Finish your work for the oral ASAP (definitely before end of term 3) and start to memorise it slowly. Leaving it to a couple weeks before the exam places too much stress on you. Also whenever your teacher has time practice with him/her. And if you have a parent who can speak Chinese get them to ask questions which you anticipate will be asked. If you want I can send you the questions that I anticipated they would ask me, just PM me
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Also, there is a possibility that I'm better at Mandarin than Kevin Rudd, just maybe

Thanks for your tips mate. Oh and I am only doing 1+2 this year so I don't have to worry about my detailed study at the moment.

I still haven't heard Kevin Rudd speak Chinese !

[PuGGer]

My girlfriend did Chinese SL in Year 10 and managed to pull off a raw 45. The higher you get, the more it comes down to luck - or so it seems. At the upper echelons the difference between a raw 45 and raw 50 is a matter of a couple of marks, so don't be disappointed if you "only" get 40+.

[Shmeestar]

i think id be lucky to get a 20
we're working on our detailed study at the moment and my mind is acting like a sieve absolutely nothing is staying in it, its quite depressing, ive certainly lost motivation,
Well at least after 5 years of studying mandarin, i do know a little more than when i started

[Electioneering]

OH, I finally heard Kevin Rudd speak. On the news when he was at the APEC summit. I lol'ed.

Shmeestar, I take it you're doing Chinese 3 & 4 this year. Does your signature contain any mistakes?

[spirited sloth]

yeah he's pretty damn pro for an aussie

[Schmeag]

Learn the mandatory 600 or so vocab characters. If you do this there should be nothing that suprises you on the written exam.

What? There are 600 mandatory characters? This completely collapsed what little confidence I had left in my Chinese skills. Where can you find the the mandatory characters? Bah, looks like someone else asked the question and it wasn't answered. Time to do a little bit of fishing myself, then.

...Oh...there's only a few weeks until my Oral! Well, well, this will galvanise me at least. Hoping for a 30+ at worst.

[Cara.Mel]

There's a list of characters in the study design, just went to look for it and it's there. (off this page - http://vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/l...n2ndindex.html)

Our teacher gave that list to us near the start of the year, she always refers to it as 400 characters though.

What I'm worried about is they'll be combined together in combinations I've never heard before. Happens quite a bit in the listening we've done so far..

Chinese I reckon is going to be my 7th subject though xD