General Thoughts - English Paper 1 2007 (1 Viewer)

[Master Sword]

How the hell do some of you people manage to write 8+ pages in 40 minutes? My GOD. Seriously. I did manage to write something like 6 pages for my creative writing but only because I spent 55 minutes on it.

My unexpected destinations essay was about 3.5 pages long, writing as fast as I could with 30 minutes to do it, and I'm a pretty fast writer. My trial essay was also 3.5 pages long, I got 10/15 and my teacher is an HSC marker, I lost some marks because my essay wasn't as relevant to the question as it should have been. I made it much more relevant this time though so I'm hoping for about 12 or maybe 13.

But seriously. If you can write 8+ pages in 40 minutes you deserve 15/15 for sure, unless either you write 5 words per line or you say the same thing 3 times over. I don't know how you people do that.

 

[blakegman]

i dont do physical journeys, but it seems that question was a bit more relevant then imaginative. but i may be wrong.

i write 8 pages easily, 8-10 worda line on average, never repeating myself, except when answering the question, and ur trial mark is higher then mine lol

 

[kim miles]

Probably the hardest AOS i've ever seen.

Physical journey, "unexpected detours"?.

Go fuck yourself BOS.

if u did the tempest..the whole deal wit the "unexpected destination" was that we as a responder expected Prospero to seek revenge on his brother, but in the end he realised that whole "rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance" n didnt seek revenge on him...n that was the unexpected bit lol..yeh..

everythin was pretty straight forward..easier than the trials ill give em that much lol.. :wave:

 

[Phil.B52]

Section one was fairly tough...text three was very sophisticated but i think i managed to pull some shit outta my ass for it.....
Essay question suited one of the thesis points really well, so i wrote like 7 pages on it....didnt suit my other that well so cut it down to about 2, 9 pages all up wasnt too shabby...
I got 44/45 in trials but would be very very happy with anything over 40 in that quite challenging but good coz it will filter out everyone nicely
C'mon u HSC markers.....bastards loll

 

[williams180]

How the hell do some of you people manage to write 8+ pages in 40 minutes? My GOD. Seriously. I did manage to write something like 6 pages for my creative writing but only because I spent 55 minutes on it.

My unexpected destinations essay was about 3.5 pages long, writing as fast as I could with 30 minutes to do it, and I'm a pretty fast writer. My trial essay was also 3.5 pages long, I got 10/15 and my teacher is an HSC marker, I lost some marks because my essay wasn't as relevant to the question as it should have been. I made it much more relevant this time though so I'm hoping for about 12 or maybe 13.

But seriously. If you can write 8+ pages in 40 minutes you deserve 15/15 for sure, unless either you write 5 words per line or you say the same thing 3 times over. I don't know how you people do that.

not hard i got 7,8 ,10 respectively and i could have got more. Not saying i deserve full marks but just wrote done everything i knew and it just flowed

 

[swimchick701]

i thought question 3 was the easiest- i really didnt understand the 2nd or third text in q1 and q2 didnt adapt to my story for q2 tried my best - if i get band 4 i will be stoked!!!!!

 

[sammi260]

For text 3 i pulled out quotes that suited what i wanted to say. i had no fucking idea what it was going on about.

gah i ran out of time for my creative writing and did it 20 mins and wrote 3 pages. although i had it completely planned out but it didnt really fit any of the quotes so i just pretended the person was talking to a hobo. lmao.
i didnt use the quote as a central idea i just kind of used it as a starting point. does that mean i didnt answer the question properly?

 

[lthomas]

HAHA the "if u dont have anything good 2 say"...
my thoughts exactly.... and same deal... text 3 in short answer.... if u dont have anything 2 say that any1 will understand....wtf how r u meant 2 answer a q on it wen ur struggling 2 force urself 2 read more than the 1st line!

 

[williamc]

How the hell do some of you people manage to write 8+ pages in 40 minutes? My GOD. Seriously. I did manage to write something like 6 pages for my creative writing but only because I spent 55 minutes on it.

My unexpected destinations essay was about 3.5 pages long, writing as fast as I could with 30 minutes to do it, and I'm a pretty fast writer. My trial essay was also 3.5 pages long, I got 10/15 and my teacher is an HSC marker, I lost some marks because my essay wasn't as relevant to the question as it should have been. I made it much more relevant this time though so I'm hoping for about 12 or maybe 13.

But seriously. If you can write 8+ pages in 40 minutes you deserve 15/15 for sure, unless either you write 5 words per line or you say the same thing 3 times over. I don't know how you people do that.

-8 pages + in 40 mins isnt hard.
-3.5 pages wont cut it in the HSC if you want A or even B range.(unless you're a magican)
-Because you write 8 pages + doesnt mean you will get 15.

 

[Martyno1]

-8 pages + in 40 mins isnt hard.
-3.5 pages wont cut it in the HSC if you want A or even B range.(unless you're a magican)
-Because you write 8 pages + doesnt mean you will get 15.

that's not true.

 

[~shinigami~]

Section I: This is usually my weakest section and I can't finish in time but this time it really flowed and found that I was able to finish in time. I'm not really sure how I fared in this section. I hope for 10+.

Section II: I was able to adapt my creative to quote c), the one about mosaics and stuff but it turned out to be a bit shorter than expected. It was 6 and a half pages. This section's pretty subjective so I hope they like it.

Section III: My essay was totally geared for the "unexpected destinations" so this should be my best section. I wrote 8 pages for this section.

Overall, I think it was pretty good. But when I say pretty good, I mean pretty good for English since I normally get owned by it so this time I hope I juts hope I don't get below average.

 

[mable]

I hated the whole exam with a passion... text three was the goddam stupidest thing I have ever seen in my life...the markers are gonna laugh their asses off when they read my interpretation of it... The only thing I like was section 2 because I could easily adapt it to my story.....goddam unexpected destinations, goddam you to hell!!!

I shouldnt have even sat the exam, I got stung by a freakin bee on the way to school it was an OMEN telling me not to go...to turn around and curl up into the foetal position and stay there...

 

[blackrifice]

Comp: hardest part of paper, got 11 in trials expecting same (7 pages)
Creative: my 'A range' response fitted pro. 12+ (just over 7 pages)
Essay: easiest question ever for physical journies. 12+ (9.5 pages)

Wow, well done mate. You are gonna ace it. Pity you can't even fcking spell JOURNEYS mofo. But still...well done :rofl: .....*cough*

 

[Master Splinter]

Williamc you are a fuckwit

 

[bec007]

i liked the imaginative journeys question, i hardly had to manipulate my essay at all. i wrote 1.5 booklets for it. and b for the short story quotes WAS my short story lol, so no manipulating there. didnt like text three of section one too much, but i kinda related it to imaginative journeys...i hope...lol.

 

[gaoOO]

General opinions. This was a totally crap examination paper. The essay question was so generic that i'm sure everyone will get away with simply regurgitating a learnt essay. I'd have rathered an essay question with a more interesting tilt.

Section 1 on the other hand, i found difficult, due to both lack of time and also the fact that the texts were longer than previous years and i think more ambiguous as well, especially the 3rd.

I'm expecting marks around here:
Section I: 11-12/15
Section II: 12-13/15
Section III: 14-15/15

So i guess the best case scenario is 40/45 and the worst case is 37/45.

I'm pretty disappointed with how i went in the first section.

 

[williamc]

that's not true.

k wait for results.

 

[gaoOO]

-8 pages + in 40 mins isnt hard.
-3.5 pages wont cut it in the HSC if you want A or even B range.(unless you're a magican)
-Because you write 8 pages + doesnt mean you will get 15.

3.5 pages is not going to give you an A range response unless you either write really small, or the creative is EXTREMELY well written. I think the possibility of an A range essay in 3.5 pages is practically zilch. A standard A range essay is 7-8 pages.


If you're looking at a B range, i think it's possible.

 

[Forbidden.]

General opinions. This was a totally crap examination paper. The essay question was so generic that i'm sure everyone will get away with simply regurgitating a learnt essay. I'd have rathered an essay question with a more interesting tilt.

Section 1 on the other hand, i found difficult, due to both lack of time and also the fact that the texts were longer than previous years and i think more ambiguous as well, especially the 3rd.

I'm expecting marks around here:
Section I: 11-12/15
Section II: 12-13/15
Section III: 14-15/15

So i guess the best case scenario is 40/45 and the worst case is 37/45.

I'm pretty disappointed with how i went in the first section.

.. but I didn't learn a single essay.

 

[samuel slack]

Section 1 on the other hand, i found difficult, due to both lack of time and also the fact that the texts were longer than previous years and i think more ambiguous as well, especially the 3rd.

I'm pretty disappointed with how i went in the first section.

Would you have done better if you had attempted section 1 first or second, rather than last (we were talking about this yesterday lol)... or would you have had to sacrifice marks somewhere else?