Do you lose marks for having 2 related texts?

[kaz1]

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I had some extra time and thought why not. But now I'm pretty worried.

edit: It has been settled that you won't be disadvantaged and the people who don't agree are fucken douches.

Now stop reading this thread and start studying for SOR, IPT or English Paper 2.

[untouchablecuz]

i woudn't say lose marks

just wouldn't be marked on the second cause it said specifically, "and ONE related text"

[bmn]

I'm not sure, but you wouldn't lose marks. I don't think the 2nd related text would get marked at all though.

[youngminii]

I think they just completely ignore everything in your essay about the second related text.
Had to change like 70-80% of my memorised essay to adapt to the question and the related text thing

[Scinery]

I think this is the question on MANY people's lips atm. Heaps of people read it as "at least one" and some people didn't read that part at all.

I saw the "one" and thought fuck no itll be way too short.

i don't think they will DETRACT marks, but theres a possibility that they will disregard the second one or the worser one.

[untouchablecuz]

lol yer

i had to add an extra poem in to make up

[Phoenix Fury]

fucken hell, i so need to L2READ

[boxhunter91]

Well i intepreted as ONE text not at least one.
So i had to remove about 400 words from my essay and extend it a bit.
I chose to remove the shit related text and so i could slam the other.
They won't deduct marks for a second just mark the prescribed + first related text.

[youngminii]

They will definitely not give you any marks at all for anything you write on the second text.
I spent around 5 minutes planning on how I could adapt and extend my essay, ended up making it too long (hah)

[Xcelz]

it said "ONE related text of your own choosing". it didn't say "at least one" which is why i only wrote about one related text. if it said "at least one" then i would have written about 2.

[thisnameistaken]

Originally Posted by youngminii

I think they just completely ignore everything in your essay about the second related text.
Had to change like 70-80% of my memorised essay to adapt to the question and the related text thing

fuck, thats whati had to do, cut out 1 text, but then my essay wasnt balanced had 75% prescribed text, 25% related, so i made up about 3 or 4 quotes to get it around 60/40 for the related text, specifically related to the concept of understanding, no one will ever know unless they listen to my related text

[Fluorescent]

to be very honest.. i think it's only fair you get deducted marks if u do more than one because:

1) even though i had a memorised essay with 3 related texts, I managed to write a really shit roughly 800 word essay and its not fair that someone who writes on 2 with a lot less depth gets more marks than me
2) you completely ignored the question and showed u depend purely on memory...the question probably was very purposely worded that way to break the memory habit

sorry but i think its only fair :/

[nada92]

Originally Posted by Phoenix Fury

fucken hell, i so need to L2READ

same here... only i'm more of an idiot, as I did it just then... and in my trials! i failed to read the question for the creative writing section, and only based my story on the pictures they gave us.. FMLFMLFMLFMLFMLFML i'm so stupid.

[Marin3 Muscl3]

oh FUCK!!

[Borbor]

Well screw you.