2014 HSC English Predictions? (6 Viewers)

[obliviousninja]

Why predict when you can craft an essay that can answer all questions?

 

[Chocolatebubble]

Why predict when you can craft an essay that can answer all questions?

A bit hard to do with Mod B imo, esp since i'm doing Yeats and they can specify texts, themes and techniques

 

[obliviousninja]

A bit hard to do with Mod B imo, esp since i'm doing Yeats and they can specify texts, themes and techniques

Tbh, I think having poems/speeches is a lot easier. A lot harder to predict and focus an entire essay on specific scenes in texts. It makes it a lot structured.

 

[obliviousninja]

A bit hard to do with Mod B imo, esp since i'm doing Yeats and they can specify texts, themes and techniques

I refined from essays from the start to end of year 12. I was able to recognise the importance of writing my essays utilising the rubric to construct a thesis and supporting topic sentences that embodied the module's core ideas. This set me up really well as I could write essays that could answer any question, because the board can only ask a question if its in the range of the rubric. So in this sense, I could never get caught out.

 

[futuremidwife]

In saying that, has anyone got any good questions on the 'possibilities' of belonging?

Barriers to belonging?

 

[bitchslapper69]

No, specifically on the 'possibilities' of belonging. Ie. "In engaging with a text, the responder may experience and understand possibilites presented by an exclusion from the world the text represents."

Some more of those sort of questions would be grand.

 

[enigma_1]

No, specifically on the 'possibilities' of belonging. Ie. "In engaging with a text, the responder may experience and understand possibilites presented by an exclusion from the world the text represents."

Some more of those sort of questions would be grand.

^what is with the dp and username..

 

[Sinyeta]

I am scared now because im writing really slow. How many pages can you write in 40 minutes?

 

[Beterban]

I am scared now because im writing really slow. How many pages can you write in 40 minutes?

Around 10

 

[enigma_1]

I am scared now because im writing really slow. How many pages can you write in 40 minutes?

lol I still don't know. I'll write an essay today and let you know

 

[typingtimtam]

If we had to write a feature article do we have to divide it into two columns on the page? That'd be pretty hard to do

 

[bitchslapper69]

Look, it's irrelevant. What is relevant are questions on possibilities.

 

[enigma_1]

If we had to write a feature article do we have to divide it into two columns on the page? That'd be pretty hard to do

w0t is a feature article. Damnnn why is engirhsis so fuckedd.

 

[Sasha123]

If we had to write a feature article do we have to divide it into two columns on the page? That'd be pretty hard to do

I don't think they would expect us to do THAT. I mean that is just unreasonable.

but then again... BOSTES just likes to swim in the tears of students so you know... you can never really know.

I used to go tutoring at the beginning of the year (only went for 1 term) and my tutor was a teacher who was part of the board of studies. So anyway they were trying to find texts for the 'unseen texts' section of AOS and he brought out like pictures (that they were planning to use) and these were all very disturbing all surrealistic type weirdo shit. And you could NOT even identify belonging in these crap. He said he had spent the whole day with his supervisors and collegues in BOSTES trying to analyse these texts. And I got so pissed off when he said that because we would get around 2-3MINUTES to analyse and write a response and they (the English teachers with years of English teaching experience) would take 3+HOURS. And they are trying to bring in harder unseen texts because BOSTES got feedback from PhD English lecturers and senior teachers that BOSTES texts were "too easy".... Are you frikkin kidding? Ofc it would be easy for them they have PhD's in English and we are just stressed out students.

So that, fellow hsc candidate, is how unreasonable and frustrating BOSTES can be.

(okay most of my post maybe irrelevant.... sorry)

 

[enigma_1]

I don't think they would expect us to do THAT. I mean that is just unreasonable.

but then again... BOSTES just likes to swim in the tears of students so you know... you can never really know.

I used to go tutoring at the beginning of the year (only went for 1 term) and my tutor was a teacher who was part of the board of studies. So anyway they were trying to find texts for the 'unseen texts' section of AOS and he brought out like pictures (that they were planning to use) and these were all very disturbing all surrealistic type weirdo shit. And you could NOT even identify belonging in these crap. He said he had spent the whole day with his supervisors and collegues in BOSTES trying to analyse these texts. And I got so pissed off when he said that because we would get around 2-3MINUTES to analyse and write a response and they (the English teachers with years of English teaching experience) would take 3+HOURS. And they are trying to bring in harder unseen texts because BOSTES got feedback from PhD English lecturers and senior teachers that BOSTES texts were "too easy".... Are you frikkin kidding? Ofc it would be easy for them they have PhD's in English and we are just stressed out students.

So that, fellow hsc candidate, is how unreasonable and frustrating BOSTES can be.

(okay most of my post maybe irrelevant.... sorry)

words cannot describe how screwed I am if this happens :/

 

[BLIT2014]

I am scared now because im writing really slow. How many pages can you write in 40 minutes?

Over 9000

 

[SuchSmallHands]

I don't think they would expect us to do THAT. I mean that is just unreasonable.

but then again... BOSTES just likes to swim in the tears of students so you know... you can never really know.

I used to go tutoring at the beginning of the year (only went for 1 term) and my tutor was a teacher who was part of the board of studies. So anyway they were trying to find texts for the 'unseen texts' section of AOS and he brought out like pictures (that they were planning to use) and these were all very disturbing all surrealistic type weirdo shit. And you could NOT even identify belonging in these crap. He said he had spent the whole day with his supervisors and collegues in BOSTES trying to analyse these texts. And I got so pissed off when he said that because we would get around 2-3MINUTES to analyse and write a response and they (the English teachers with years of English teaching experience) would take 3+HOURS. And they are trying to bring in harder unseen texts because BOSTES got feedback from PhD English lecturers and senior teachers that BOSTES texts were "too easy".... Are you frikkin kidding? Ofc it would be easy for them they have PhD's in English and we are just stressed out students.

So that, fellow hsc candidate, is how unreasonable and frustrating BOSTES can be.

(okay most of my post maybe irrelevant.... sorry)

Personally I kind of hope this is right haha. I'm terrible at preparing for English assessments and exams, I'm so hopelessly lazy and think the whole subject is a joke. The only reason I've been able to keep up my ranking is because I can do the short answer section (because let's face it, my prescribed texts are 'unseen' to me until a couple of days before the exam, so I get a lot of practice deconstructing texts I'm unfamiliar with quickly haha). And art works, especially abstract ones, are my favourite texts.

 

[enigma_1]

those moments when you start to forget a sentence here and there in your memorised essays

 

[astroman]

those moments when you start to forget a sentence here and there in your memorised essays

its usually ur best sentences

 

[enigma_1]

its usually ur best sentences

^ yess omg I could not have said it any better. haha