Band E4s - which elective? (1 Viewer)

[~ ReNcH ~]

For those of you who got Band E4s, what elective did you choose for the HSC?

 

[absolution*]

Texts and Ways of Thinking is, in my opinion, by far the easiest module to get E4's for (assuming you are decent enough at english and are willing to put in the work involved). I did post-modernism and got 49/50 and so did the famous laurie_field if im not mistaken. Pomo = best elective ever. Any past student will tell you the same.

 

[~ ReNcH ~]

Although technically the different electives are meant to be equal in difficulty to answer aren't they? i.e. the aligning is the same.

Do you know of anyone who has got 47+/50 doing Crime Fiction?

Btw. what exactly makes pomo the best elective?

 

[Karlz04]

I screwed up my exam (I was sick) but I got 18/20 for pretty much all my assessments for crime fiction.

 

[ujuphleg]

You can't choose what elective you do anyway, because thats the teachers choice.

But overwhelmingly, the majority of the EE1 candiature do Individual and Society the Post-Modernism - so if you want something without a lot of competition head over to Module C- Language and Values as the bulk of the students are in Modules B and A.

 

[absolution*]

so if you want something without a lot of competition head over to Module C- Language and Values as the bulk of the students are in Modules B and A.

The reason why no one does Module C is because its boring as hell.

 

[~ ReNcH ~]

You can't choose what elective you do anyway, because thats the teachers choice.

But overwhelmingly, the majority of the EE1 candiature do Individual and Society the Post-Modernism - so if you want something without a lot of competition head over to Module C- Language and Values as the bulk of the students are in Modules B and A.

Although some classes in other schools get to vote on what elective they want to do.

 

[Sarah168]

I did I&S because my teacher liked the texts. I hear RFTG is hellish though...

 

[glycerine]

I think post-modernism (and Mod B in general) is by far the best because it's actually at an extension level. Genre is as easy as shit.

 

[= Jennifer =]

I did I&S because my teacher liked the texts. I hear RFTG is hellish though...

yes rftg is sooo crappy and the questions for the hsc exam didnt suit the module very well but i still managed to gain 40/50 which i am pretty happy with considering that for the trials i got 28/50

 

[absolution*]

I think post-modernism (and Mod B in general) is by far the best because it's actually at an extension level. Genre is as easy as shit.

Exactly. Whilst all modules are supposedly scaled the same, its hard to make something so mundane sound intelligent, whereas dealing with post-modern theories and theorists is indelibly difficult, leading to more E4's.

 

[Will_Sparky]

Individual and Society, I got a 43 and was on the lower end of the class, out of the six of us four got E4. I didn't like ALL of Indiviual and Society (North and South *shudders*) but I think once you grasp the concept, your set! But Pride and Prejudice and A Dolls House are GREAT texts...

And I agree with the rest of you, genre seems a little too easy and mod c dead boring!

 

[tennille]

I got 46/50 and did crime fiction.

 

[grk_styl]

i got 45 and did I&S. But i didn't "choose" it. lol I loved I&S. Though by the end of term 3 this year I was so sick of it.

 

[MissSavage29]

i did Module C - Language and Values - Gendered Langauge

we didn't get a choice - just what the school had been doing for ages so we were continuing that...

 

[glitterfairy]

47/50, Retreat From The Global.

Not as good as trials though - where I got 48/50, but close enough... I did a much better essay for trials anyway (100%, screwed up the first part of it though, so it all evens out in the end!)

I'm actually quite protective of RFTG now. I hate to say it, but it's changed the way I think... hated it at first though, because I didn't get it, but now it's my teddy bear

 

[~ ReNcH ~]

Interesting....the poll hasn't really panned out the way I thought it would, but then again only 14 people have responded out of the ? thousand students in the state

 

[glycerine]

What was Gendered Language like? I think that's the only mod C option I could stand doing...

 

[MissSavage29]

What was Gendered Language like? I think that's the only mod C option I could stand doing...

Gendered langauge wasn't too bad actually - i think it is probably the best elective in module c.

basically you look at the differences in langauge b/w men and women - not terribly hard. THe only problem with is that if u slip into exploring common stereotypes (which is very easy to do) your marks go right down...
lets see - gee we looked a things like why women ask questions, why men engage in conflict - basically its exploring social behavouir but making an emphasis on language

but, actually when i think about it - it really wasn't that hard a concept to get your head around.

But overwhelmingly, the majority of the EE1 candiature do Individual and Society the Post-Modernism - so if you want something without a lot of competition head over to Module C- Language and Values as the bulk of the students are in Modules B and A.

having a small canditurship doesn't really work in your favor - only one teacher marks both sections the exam (i think there are like about 100 or so people doing the elective) so it means that you really can't do much work in class on your texts - ummm like with our film study we didn't analyse much together because the markers complain that they can pick out school groups and hence mark you down.

So if you are doing the module c electives you really have to work very independently and can't really share or do much discussion with your classmates - for us it tended to be alot of solitary work

 

[somechick]

Texts and Ways of Thinking is, in my opinion, by far the easiest module to get E4's for (assuming you are decent enough at english and are willing to put in the work involved). I did post-modernism and got 49/50 and so did the famous laurie_field if im not mistaken. Pomo = best elective ever. Any past student will tell you the same.

ye hah

I got 47/50 for this fab elective. Im doing something similiar soon at uni.