Hey,
This is kinda directed to Elyse, because I know she did this, but is it alright to use the same discovery and extension cw provided both fit the question? Or would it be better to change the discovery story from out of the cold war era.
My teacher says it looks bad, even though they did tell us to write about something we know (and I hope I know something about the Cold War now haha).
I was really thinking what "cw" meant for a while, I was thinking "content warning" haha! I'm with you now - creative writing. I can't imagine why it would look bad to a marker for either discovery or Extension. The same marker will not mark both. Plus, I know of quite a few discovery students who didn't study extension, and they planted their creatives into the scenario of other periods and settings - I know one was a Vietnam War one, one was a Cuban Missile Crisis..and none of these students studied Extension, it was just that they knew about the era and wanted to write a story about a specific setting.
If the perception from a marker is something like, "Oh they've obviously used the same" and the reason they think that is because you haven't adjusted to the question, then there's a problem. But I can't imagine a marker thinking it's lazy for you, when it's smarter studying.
Why does your teacher think it might look bad? In case it appears lazy?
Of course, I don't HSC mark, but I definitely think this is an OK thing to do and I know lots of students have done this.