General Thoughts: English Advanced Paper 2 (1 Viewer)

[Exotic]

after english today, i have a feeling BOS has thrown in alot of shifty things into other papers just to make our life hell

After i did business i thought the hsc will be really easy, i was really confident, but after today im expecting some more suprises in the next exams definitely.

 

[NubMuncher]

They've never asked for two..

Why would u prepare 2

They've never asked for a specific poem in mod B. But they did. Moral of the story is BOS are cunts.

 

[shutupnsmile]

No! Among school children was one of the only ones i didnt do! D:
I tried to analyse the last stanza they gave us, but all in all, i didn't really answer the question.
Wonder how badly we'll get penalised for that :\

 

[ruffshod]

yeats was completely unfair and uncalled for. im so screwed (((((((((

 

[Sophia H]

Rawrence: if this were facebook, I would "like" your post.
I was a bit thrown by the Module C "ONE" related text. Because I had two related texts whose perspectives conflicted with each other... so I just went ahead and used them, ah well.

 

[heyfeebs]

LMFAO.
I studied Aung San Suu Kyi's speech, but the question specifically asked to refer to the excerpt. So I only talked about the excerpt.
And Faith Bandler's speech for the other one we had to choose

 

[splash_me]

I thought the paper was actually very good.
Did anyone else do:

Mod A: Richard III and Looking for Richard
Mod B: Cloudstreet
Mod C: Fiftieth Gate

Richard and Fiftieth Gate were awesome! The Cloudstreet extract was very specific but you could pretty much talk about anything you wanted relating to textual integrity of the novel.

 

[shutupnsmile]

3, 2, 3
My writing gets really big in exams though

 

[oscarmanutdfan]

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Hamlet was awesome. Who doesn't relate their reading to the end of the play anyway?

 

[Morgan1234pooki]

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haha yes, i argued against the hamelt module b question as well

 

[Chazure]

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WOOO! last english exam evveeeeeeeeeeeer! DDDDDDD

lol jks, got 3U exam in 2 weeks ;(

module A - okay
module B - threw me off at first but l actually think l went okay
module C - okay

for some reason, l actually felt better during this one than the AOS.

 

[plasticities]

Could not have been happier with the module A and C questions for EBB/Gatsby and 50th Gate. I was actually happy that I only needed one related for history/memory because I probably wouldn't have been able to fit a second related in. But I almost cried when I read the Hamlet question. Ugh I think I fucked it up, I just pulled quotes from it and related it back to corruption, revenge and ended up doing fragility of human existence instead of verisimilitude. Thank fuck i remembered my quotes from trials.

I had such a bad feeling they would ask something about scenes in Hamlet. oh well the happiness i feel over never doing english again is overshadowing how mad i was at that question.

 

[WaterIsLiquid]

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Mod A/C were fairly easy for prepared responses. i should have expected this.
Mod B (hamlet) wow, it was the biggest shocker ever. i litterally made 2 booklets of bullcrap restoring natural order to the world, since thats all i could think about for fortinbras speech and then relate it to textual integrity wharttheeefackk?

 

[Politic]

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module A - easy, "accentuate"
module B - worked well for my text and thesis
module C - easy question but 1 related text only

 

[nano2e]

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Module B was ridiculous!

 

[katoji]

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A - was ok. B - did better than most. C - okay.
Then again, my perception of how I do in exams is screwed up lol.

 

[barny268]

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does anyone know when the last time was that they specified a speech/essay/scene etc. for mod B. just for interrest sake

 

[heyfeebs]

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A - was ok. B - did better than most. C - okay.
Then again, my perception of how I do in exams is screwed up lol.

Same here. The essays I feel pretty confident on turn out pretty meh, and the ones I'm shitting bricks on top the entire class. :/

 

[cloudstr1f3r]

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Pretty happy with the paper...

Module A is easy, just compare the context of Browning's romantic era and Fitzgerald's lost generation and how they represent different values. When I mean how, yes techniques, I used a fair bit.
Module B is perfect, all those Asians with pre-prepared essays about how themes shaped their judgment of the play as a whole could fail and fuck off. Seriously, this is the best idea ever from the Board of Studies. I did an anlysis on the transformation of Hamlet, and why these passages are said about him, which basically treats him AS a hero. So my personal response to it is merely a reflection and to a minimal extent had shaped my judgment of the play as a whole. But I supported my judgement throughout the whole text and did a significant analysis of the last scene in Hamlet 'The rest is silent'. Great fun, used a few critics like Nietzsche and Harold Bloom. This is really a perfect essay, much better than yesterday's belonging.
Module C: History and memory lol, easy as fuck. Just bs your way through with valid techniques and quotes, you'd get 15+

 

[slyhunter]

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fml game over