Assessment: Viva Voce

[glitterfairy]

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Originally Posted by The Brucemaster

90 people doing extension 2 in the one school is freakin ridiculous.

Not really, however it takes a certain mentality to have this sort of thing happen. Hornsby Girls has a long history of being very english-orientated from Yr 11(however the math is good as well), and I believe Baulkham Hills is following a similar route.

Quite a few will drop, however. I'd be suprised to find more than one third/one half a grade handing in an EE2 major work, however realistically anything is possible.

[jhakka]

90+ is huge. We only managed 13 in our group, with one person not finishing his Major Work. From memory I think he handed it in anyway, though.

[Lord Pheasant]

We have 10, 11 at the beginning but one dropped.

You guys are soo lucky... Mine is tomorrow, and we aren't allowed to bring ANYTHING at all into the interview, just me and two english teachers. It's 20 minutes long, and we're asked 5 set questions. THAT'S FOUR WHOLE MINUTES EACH ANSWER! I don't know how I'm going to cope. I'm pretty sure I know what my process is and all, but I just don't know how I'll make the time.

[renton]

i did the same thing, 2 teachers 20 mins. its not that bad. adivce - known your work, know what your actually doing, purpose, ideas etc and practice a trillion times what u gonna say 2 em, do a mock viva with mum or your dog if your 2 nervous to face another human being yet.

[pungemo]

Personally I feel that if you're passionate about your work you should be able to talk about it at length. To me it just seems easy, although the creative writing involved with my journal was a little extreme. If you know what you've done and what you intend to do it shouldn't be a problem. Just relax and have a conversation with your teacher.

[The Brucemaster]

Yeah but even at Hornsby theres still nowhere near 90 people doing extension 2. As far as i know theres only about a dozen or so people doing it (i could be wrong but theres nowhere near 90). Even as a percentage of the whole grade thats still a considerable amount of people.

[glitterfairy]

Originally Posted by The Brucemaster

Yeah but even at Hornsby theres still nowhere near 90 people doing extension 2. As far as i know theres only about a dozen or so people doing it (i could be wrong but theres nowhere near 90). Even as a percentage of the whole grade thats still a considerable amount of people.

Last year there was about 60 (although that's not the final number), and HGHS *does* only have 120 girls per grade... I'd think there was something wrong if 3/4 of the grade did EE2, lol!!! Other schools like Baulko are bigger. Whilst not huge, they're competitive enough to push for a huge number like 90 for EE2... not saying they are doing it, but I wouldn't put it past them.

In my grade we had a final number of 34 doing EE2, I would imagine somewhere between 20-40 doing it currently.

[Cat_Orange]

Originally Posted by glitterfairy

In my grade we had a final number of 34 doing EE2, I would imagine somewhere between 20-40 doing it currently.

Hot damn, there's only 3 of us doing it at my school. I think I'd prefer the smaller class, it's good to read over each others and see how we're all going. Although, it does make it a lot harder to hide bad marks, lol.

Our Vivas were yesterday, 20-40 minutes long depending.. we sort of didn't time it and just went on as long as we wanted too. I can be the first to say that my ranking will still be 3 out of 3, lol. I'm not particularly good at talking to other people, and one of the teachers who was doing the interrogation intimidates the crap out of me.

Ah well. No use crying over spilt milk.

[ElendilPeredhil]

Originally Posted by The Brucemaster

Yeah but even at Hornsby theres still nowhere near 90 people doing extension 2. As far as i know theres only about a dozen or so people doing it (i could be wrong but theres nowhere near 90). Even as a percentage of the whole grade thats still a considerable amount of people.

wow there's only 4 people doing it at my school
Anyway, part 1 of my Viva is tomorrow, an interview with three teachers, answering set questions, and the next wednesday a presentation to the yr11 ext 1 class. I half wish it was in front of the yr12 class because there are only 3 people in that class who aren't doing ext2

[kloudsurfer]

Ahhhh!!!!
My Viva Voce is in week 4 of this term!

Am I the only one whos Viva voce is so early in the course?

[princesskt]

um mines early next term.. lol..

[bringbackshred]

Originally Posted by kloudsurfer

Ahhhh!!!!
My Viva Voce is in week 4 of this term!

Am I the only one whos Viva voce is so early in the course?

Mine's tomorrow.

Oooh, i just felt a sag in my pants. Uh-oh.

[cl3nta]

mine's in 3 weeks. I would rather it was next term:P

[bringbackshred]

So I stuffed mine up.


Completely.



And still came 2nd out of 3.

[annarose]

Mine's been moved to after the holidays.. our ee2 class has a grand total of three participants. And one actually good teacher (a rarity in my school). I'm weirdly looking forwards to it... I'm the pale sweaty person who looks like they're gonna up-chuck whenever it comes to oral tasks so I don't knwo what's happening to me... too much work is addling my senses. For people who have already doen theirs, what worked well and what went wrong?