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2009 Preliminary Yearlies Discussion Thread (5 Viewers)

speedofsound

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maybe. but seriously, five pages in an hour and twenty minutes?
:|
wow you get that long to write an essay?

Society & Culture peoplee -
I was just looking at some practice questions,
"Explain the effect gender roles have on communication. In your answer refer to the nature of communication in Australia and one other country" (20 Marks)

Also, "Describe the role of acculturation in changing cultural perceptions and values. In your answer, refer to cultural perceptions and values in Australia and one other country" (20 marks)

For both questions, what type of detail would you suggest to go into? I'm having trouble trying to elaborate to actually deserve 20 marks. My teacher is pretty horrible, and just constantly repeats himself with examples, rather then actual content!
Thankyou.
where abouts are you getting these practice questions? they're hard. D: i barely remember mentioning gender during the intercultural communication topic.
 

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These were approximately my predicted results:

Mathematics ----------- 100%
Mathematics Extension 1 --------- 97%
Physics ---------- 88%
Chemistry --------- 91%
Biology --------- 91%
English Advanced -------- 83%
Legal Studies--------89%
They're absolutely amazing results! you should be very proud :)
 

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Need to work on English though. I stuffed in the first paper about Australian Identity.
 

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Society & Culture peoplee -
I was just looking at some practice questions,
"Explain the effect gender roles have on communication. In your answer refer to the nature of communication in Australia and one other country" (20 Marks)

Also, "Describe the role of acculturation in changing cultural perceptions and values. In your answer, refer to cultural perceptions and values in Australia and one other country" (20 marks)

For both questions, what type of detail would you suggest to go into? I'm having trouble trying to elaborate to actually deserve 20 marks. My teacher is pretty horrible, and just constantly repeats himself with examples, rather then actual content!
Thankyou.
there both quite straight forward, after you get past the rhetoric.
the first one how the characteristics and roles we assign to males and females impact on communication, so talk about the cultural expectations and how when communicating we use these expectations as a prism in which to interact through
eg, women in business, male dancers

the second i would talk about westernization and globalization, perhaps mass medias power in bringing western concepts to the world.

just some suggestions.
 

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where abouts are you getting these practice questions? they're hard. D: i barely remember mentioning gender during the intercultural communication topic.
My teacher gave it to us - i think it might be last years prelim exam?

Yeah, we didn't really do much on the actual communication part, we more jumped straight into the case study.
 

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there both quite straight forward, after you get past the rhetoric.
the first one how the characteristics and roles we assign to males and females impact on communication, so talk about the cultural expectations and how when communicating we use these expectations as a prism in which to interact through
eg, women in business, male dancers

the second i would talk about westernization and globalization, perhaps mass medias power in bringing western concepts to the world.

just some suggestions.
Oooh okay! Thanks heaps, thats given me heaps of guidance :)
 

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goodluck! what topics did you do for modern?

just finished maths, i want two hours of my life back, what a precious waste of time.
PDHPE tomorrow, another subject i loathe.

modern<3 and society to close out the week.
chem and ext english on tuesday.
umm
the decline and fall of the romanov dynasty
the decolonisation of indochina
aaand the world at the beginning of the 20th century
just did a fuckload of cramming, first time i've actually felt the need to pull an all nighter to study lol
meh, i hope i did okay. not too sure. just trying not to think about it really.
IPT and extension english tomorrow, then i'm aaaaaaaall done. lovely way to finish though :|
 

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society tomorrow, modern on friday.

commence the exams which i may put a small amount of effort into.
 

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Chemistry + SORI tomorrow. Should be simple.
 

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Art tomorrow
Modern History Friday.

Art should be a breeze... Modern might be a pain in the ass.
 

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Art tomorrow
Modern History Friday.

Art should be a breeze... Modern might be a pain in the ass.
Modern kids in my year said that modern sucked. Lots and lots of essays to write and their hands are now broken.
 

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Modern kids in my year said that modern sucked. Lots and lots of essays to write and their hands are now broken.
yes modern will be a mind rape, interesting though.
people don't give modern enough credit. fuck i love modern.
 

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last exam tomorrow - society. pretty sure i won't do amazingly well, there's so much shit to go over and i've got no idea what they're gonna ask us for our two essays.
 

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had english today. 1 exam for english which was good lol, they did some retard paper with like AOS + 2 modules because our school skips a module for some reason.

no fucking idea how but someone snuck a footy in and kicked it in the middle of the exam lol
 

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