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[Lazarus]

In 2002, not a single student managed to obtain full marks in any of the following questions:

PAPER 2 - Modules

Section I Module A: Experience Through Language
Question 1 Elective 2: Dialogue

Section II Module B: Close Study of Text
Question 2(a) Drama Katherine Thomson, Navigating
Question 3(a) Prose Fiction Robert Cormier, We All Fall Down
Question 4(a) Film Peter Weir, Witness
Question 4(b) Nonfiction Gordon Matthews, An Australian Son
Question 4(c) Multimedia Australian War Memorial Website
Question 5(a) Poetry Debbie Westbury, Mouth to Mouth

Section III Module C: Texts and Society
Question 6: Elective 2: Exploration and Travel

 

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hmm...do none of them...

but wait..section 1..dialogue..(thats Lawsont to me)..


but does this explains why band6 is "hard" to achieve in standard?

 

[Lazarus]

Originally posted by ...
but does this explains why band6 is "hard" to achieve in standard?

No.

I just thought I'd point out which topics students had and hadn't succeeded in - all other questions saw at least one response obtain full marks. And we'll have samples of those responses for you shortly.

 

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hmm..interesting stats there...

 

[sukiyaki]

Originally posted by Lazarus
I?Question 2(a) ?Drama ?Katherine Thomson, Navigating

this is my biggest weakness every other module is fine..!!!!

 

[underthesun]

woohoo! I shalt obtaineth the fulleth marks for Macbeth, and all thee who was bornst of a woman shalt not ever take my marks away!

oh crap, caesarean is common nowadays..

 

[blue_chameleon]

Hey laz, when did u say ul have the full mark questions to standard english responses?
Also, these responses ur getting soon, are they for all the english paper 2......or just the electives mentioned by you?

 

[Lazarus]

Originally posted by blue_chameleon
Hey laz, when did u say ul have the full mark questions to standard english responses?
Also, these responses ur getting soon, are they for all the english paper 2......or just the electives mentioned by you?

The responses are now available on the main website.

'Exemplar' responses received full marks, whilst the others were placed at the band 5/6 cut-off. Clearly, whilst it's possible to gain band 6 in Standard in individual questions, only one student has been good enough to do it across their whole paper (in 2003).

 

[blue_chameleon]

Thanx heaps Laz........much appreciated.
Btw....just out of curiosity, y is there so much controversy over standard english students having the ability to reach Band 6 level?
Some people say yes u can, others say its impossible.
Where did everyone's resources for the information come from?

Should I even be worrying about this this close to the first exam? I think not, but I am for some unknown reason.

I think its so I dont have 2 study.

 

[Lazarus]

Originally posted by blue_chameleon
Btw....just out of curiosity, y is there so much controversy over standard english students having the ability to reach Band 6 level?

"People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want it to be true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool." - Terry Goodkind

Board of Studies Bulletin (Volume 11 No. 1, February 2002) at p6.
http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/bulletins/pdf_doc/bbv11_1.pdf

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However, there is certainly no artificial ceiling on the band level available to Standard course students. Students of the English Standard course who can demonstrate performance to the same standard as students of the English Advanced course who achieve Band 6 will also receive a Band 6 result.

 

[Angelic_Angel88]

Originally posted by Lazarus
... Question 4(a) Film Peter Weir, Witness...

Aaack! I stuffed up the question on Witness. I realised too late that I had read the question wrong.

 

[Benno]

lol i do dialogue i find it easy now


is that a band 6 i see coming!!

benno* is off in a fantasy world

 

[bMaN oNe]

Hmm im gonna be hell happy if i get band 5.
Can't wait till next weds (English tests OVER!)

Man none of them topics u posted are ones that i'm doing...which is good (possible to go hell great) and bad (i suck at english, so I still have no chance)

 

[craz]

hmm..i cant wait until then either...no more ENGLISH!!!!! Witness isn't a problem...but dialogue...lawson to me is not so easy, but consumerism isnt hard

 

[pocydto]

Yay... none of my modules are there....

Way to go for Macbeth, RAW and images....

 

[Cyclohexanol]

man that blows... i still dont get THE CLUB.

dialogue from a book is crap cause you cant get out the verbal dialogue nor stance dialogue.. there goes 3/4 of the arguements i could think of.

also i dont know any quotes that are good

 

[|-bLuSh-|]

Damn, I did dialogue. So I didn't get full marks for that >.< Well, who cares... "The Club" sucks anyway LOL (=

 

[craz]

very interesting stats. surprised about witness though but lawson is my weakness.

 

[SKA]

woot i failed my half yearly

 

[santaslayer]

Originally posted by Lazarus
whilst it's possible to gain band 6 in Standard in individual questions, only one student has been good enough to do it across their whole paper (in 2003).

So it was done by an Advanced english student before?...whoa, thats crazy.

btw, where do you get interesting stats like this from laz? BOS site?