Atticus Ryan said:
You are wrong.
You are what is wrong with the world and with society.
Writing 12 pages of "good" material is NOT more likely to get high marks. Writing 12 pages of anything suggests you are not thinking at all and are merely churning out pre-prepared answers, which is NOT what the Board of Studies is looking for. They are looking for responses that are intelligent and that show a great deal of synthesis of knowledge in responding to a specific question.
I would like you to show me a Band 5/6 response that is over 10 pages. I guarantee they do not exist.
I hate you and everything you stand for.
By the way, I am happy to tell you all what I wrote.
For the first section, I wrote 3.5 pages. I answered questions succinctly and well, without waffling or generalising, and I kept to the point.
For the second section, I wrote 4 pages, having written a story that was NOT pre-prepared (as the highly specific stimulus was obviously trying to prevent students from churning out responses they had already written), and which responded to the stimulus and took into account what the syllabus asks you to do. Maybe all you fucking idiots should read the syllabus at some point.
For my essay, I wrote 6 pages. My essay was well-written and contained insightful ideas and stuck to the specific question thhe entire time. I did not waffle. I did not go off-topic. I answered the question.
Please let's all come back here in 2 months and see how we all did in English. I guarantee that fucking tool who wrote 44 pages does not do any better than someone who wrote 14 or 15.
Your an idiot. You wrongly assume that anyone writing over 8 pages is writing waffle. This is not the case. I do not write waffle, i do exactly what an intelligent person would do for english, i just do MORE of it. More pages doesnt lower the quality, usually the people who write alot are just writing MORE of the same HIGH QUALITY.
Your logic is something along these lines: Any response containing more than 8 pages is waffle, is unstructured, and unintelligent. Great logic -- i see a high UAI coming your way.
You assure me that band 5/6 responses of over 10 pages do not exist.
My school handed out a sample response from the BOARD OF STUDIES booklet on various ranged responses.
2004 HSC student answers - Paper 1 - section III - High-range sample answer Question 4:
14 pages
(i do remember reading other exemplar responses of about 12-15 pages - although i cant provide specifics like the one above, since i dont have them with me).
OWNED. Your whole argument is thus rendered invalid, as you could "guarentee" me such a thing doesnt exist.
My credentials?
Internal HSC Rank =1/152 in english (advanced) at a top 25 selective high school
SC mark of 97 in english (i realise the SC doesnt mean much)
In short, you are a sour jealous bastard. You make up for your inadequacies by KNOWING that EVERYONE who wrote over 10 pages wrote nothing but waffle for those 10+ pages. You can't accept that people can write the SAME QUALITY (or greater
) than you for MORE PAGES than you. Like me.
And yes, i would LOVE to compare our english marks at the end, as well as UAI's.
I hate you and everything you stand for
err what do i stand for? Using evidence to back up a correct opinion? Disagreeing with the almighty 'Atticus Ryan'? Writing more than 10 pages for an essay?
Get a life. Realise that good responses can contain more than 8 pages.
EDIT 1: To clarify, i am in no way saying that u cannot get a band 6 with less pages. I KNOW that a 5 page essay can get in the A range. I am just saying that a 10+ page essay can also... and has a higher chance of getting there
EDIT 2:
It is so obvious that Atticus Ryan is just jealous, read his post:
Yes but this doesn't mean I don't hate them for coming on the Internet and bragging about how many pages they wrote. It is because of people like this that there is war in the middle east. Anyone who brags about their page count needs a huge kick in the balls so they cannot have children. The women can be kicked in their wombs.
Atticus - if u didnt want to see people say how many pages they wrote, dont click on a topic called "how much u wrote and wat mark u expect" -- IDIOT.
Atticus also advocates violence against people who wrote more pages than him. See how he uses the word "bragging" - he assumes anyone who says they wrote 10 pages is "bragging" rather than just telling a fact -- This choice of words illuminates that Atticus actually realises that those people are better than him, since they wouldn't have anything to "brag" about if a 6 page response such as his was better. !