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Man, I did WAY better on the Modules than Belonging haha.

Mod A: Richard question was nice and generic, I focused alot on the differing mediums as one as a morality play and one as a meta filk yay!
Mod B: Loled so hard in reading time when the prescribed poem was the one I normally open my essay with anyway, spent yesterday memorising techniques from the others I don't like to use but no need, the question I feel really suited mainly talking about Out of Time, Five Bells with a slight throw in with Elegy in a Botanic Gardens.
Module C: Pretty stock generic as always from the module as always, talked about what shaped differing perspectives and how it affected actions to events in my texts. Also talked about the confliciting perspectives within an individual blah, blah. SO happy it was at least one related.

So tally: BOS: 1 LHS:1 (they won with the belonging paper, but I with the Modules)
Let's hope my Modules performance can offset my slightly below par performance in Belonging for a good HSC mark :D

P.S Anyone think it's really unfair if you do speeches or poems in other modules, like Mod C or Belonging where there's a stock Q for everyone you never get it prescribed?
 

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I feel like remembering 7 speeches is quite a big task. But then again you have a variety of speeches which adapt to any type of question they give. Memorising quotes is the most difficult part but then again other people's texts wouldn't exactly be considered 'small'.
 

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Lol... that was the hardest exam to date my opinion....

For mod B people doing speeches.. don't worry we will get scaled up (since it wasn't as straight forward as hamlet since it did not specify a section {i think})



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Was expecting 85% for English which I think I reached in Paper 1. Speeches question really got me bad though. Didn't do well on Frank/Blade either.
 

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How much do you get marked down for not writing a conclusion?
 

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In comparison to Paper 1, modules was a godsend! I started with Module B (In the Skin of a Lion) and absolutely smashed it. The Module A question for Richard was fairly straight forward, I was able to get a pretty good response for that, however I struggled a little bit more in Module C for history&memory, my brain was slowly dying and I was finding it difficult to comprehend the question and the terms "history and memory" weren't even mentioned. I still feel that I managed to do alright.
None of this matters though because HSC ENGLISH IS OVER FOREVER BITCHEZZZZ. Even though English is one of my favourite subjects and I'm dreading Legal Studies even more lol.
 

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Hamlet question was just retarded... didn't really know how to approach, other than that mod a and c were decent i guess... NO MORE ENGLISHHHH :D
 

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Man, I did WAY better on the Modules than Belonging haha.

Mod A: Richard question was nice and generic, I focused alot on the differing mediums as one as a morality play and one as a meta filk yay!
Mod B: Loled so hard in reading time when the prescribed poem was the one I normally open my essay with anyway, spent yesterday memorising techniques from the others I don't like to use but no need, the question I feel really suited mainly talking about Out of Time, Five Bells with a slight throw in with Elegy in a Botanic Gardens.
Module C: Pretty stock generic as always from the module as always, talked about what shaped differing perspectives and how it affected actions to events in my texts. Also talked about the confliciting perspectives within an individual blah, blah. SO happy it was at least one related.

So tally: BOS: 1 LHS:1 (they won with the belonging paper, but I with the Modules)
Let's hope my Modules performance can offset my slightly below par performance in Belonging for a good HSC mark :D

P.S Anyone think it's really unfair if you do speeches or poems in other modules, like Mod C or Belonging where there's a stock Q for everyone you never get it prescribed?
Fuark nice- congrats :)

And they scale each question so it doesn't really matter for prescribes or not

How much do you get marked down for not writing a conclusion?
You don't lose X marks per se. It depends on what you had up to it, how you ended it etc. You will get docked something though but it won't be that big.
 

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Skipped Mod C and B. cause spent my time on Mod A. i think i will get 20/20 for mod A
 

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Man, I did WAY better on the Modules than Belonging haha.

Mod A: Richard question was nice and generic, I focused alot on the differing mediums as one as a morality play and one as a meta filk yay!
Mod B: Loled so hard in reading time when the prescribed poem was the one I normally open my essay with anyway, spent yesterday memorising techniques from the others I don't like to use but no need, the question I feel really suited mainly talking about Out of Time, Five Bells with a slight throw in with Elegy in a Botanic Gardens.
Module C: Pretty stock generic as always from the module as always, talked about what shaped differing perspectives and how it affected actions to events in my texts. Also talked about the confliciting perspectives within an individual blah, blah. SO happy it was at least one related.

So tally: BOS: 1 LHS:1 (they won with the belonging paper, but I with the Modules)
Let's hope my Modules performance can offset my slightly below par performance in Belonging for a good HSC mark :D

P.S Anyone think it's really unfair if you do speeches or poems in other modules, like Mod C or Belonging where there's a stock Q for everyone you never get it prescribed?
I think that is the general consensus with most people, well atleast myself anyway :)

Since they prescribed for speeches and poems, these texts will be scaled higher imo
 
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my thoughts on the exam. wut iz engilhs?
 
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In comparison to Paper 1, modules was a godsend! I started with Module B (In the Skin of a Lion) and absolutely smashed it. The Module A question for Richard was fairly straight forward, I was able to get a pretty good response for that, however I struggled a little bit more in Module C for history&memory, my brain was slowly dying and I was finding it difficult to comprehend the question and the terms "history and memory" weren't even mentioned. I still feel that I managed to do alright.
None of this matters though because HSC ENGLISH IS OVER FOREVER BITCHEZZZZ. Even though English is one of my favourite subjects and I'm dreading Legal Studies even more lol.
What exactly did you write about for Mod B? What was your thesis?
 

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my favourite part of this paper was the section II question

because my teacher spent exactly half a lesson on Bandler's speech

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MODULE A - FrankieRuner -> spoke about contextual relations, parallels drawn through the realm of time -> different mediums complementing various facets of an inherent sense of the "Human Condition", to which I provided a suitable definition. Such as, written texts appeasing an individuals sense of "imagination" or complementing their metaphysical self. Whereas visual texts appealed to one's senses of sight and hearing. In spite of such, they both drew parallels between humanitarian notions of "( insert the themes I used)"

MODULE B - Speeches, fucking bandler. I guess I was in a better position than most, as I had prepared Bandler as "third speech" to use. Nonetheless, I spent too much time trying to break up the one paragraph that I did have on Bandler, and turning it into three main concepts. It turned out alright, and was quite content with it I guess.


MODULE C - Had about 20-25 mins left to write. It was as if my hands were on speed. I managed to write about two of Hughes' poems "Red" and "The Minotaur", but could only fit in one ORT (an article on Julian Assange)

Relatively happy, just glad it's over.

Anyone else f'd for Crime?
 

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Hi guys for mod b, question about "An inherent tension between the actual and the possible is revealed through the development of ideas "

This is how i think i answered the question using atwood and bandler

1st argument
--> Atwood: talked about how she presents the actual (which i defined to mean contextual perceptions) perceptions of women being that of repression towards the polarised "very very good" and "horrid" portrayal
--> bandler: talked about how she presents the actual through anecdotal allusions to jennie jess and how he saw "his house and his church on fire" representing the atrocirities that have contextually existed in the treatment of aboriginals

2nd argument:
Atwood--> upon revealing the actual she motivates her audience towards the possible through her emotive diction in "females can act as keys to doors that need to be opened".. her idea of the need to present the subterranean depths of female identity.
bandler --> Having revealed the past injustices she also reveals what is possible through her emotive diction in "we can not only move governments but we can move mountains" thus inspiring her audience towards deconstructing the cultural divide that has existed.

how is this format and how did other people approach this question

Thank you
 

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Very nice questions. Definitely a challenging exam, but overall I think I did quite well.

Had to really rush the end of the Hamlet essay and didn't conclude as well I would've liked; other than that no major issues.
 

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