Who else is nervous?

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Who else is nervous?   

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English Language is my wildest subject. I could perhaps guess my mark to within but that's as close as I can get.
I feel like I could get >70 on a good day and 50-60 on a bad day and 60s on an average day

[kenny17]

im the same as you, the ea say topics presented will makepor break me   

[ngRISING]

lol. i don't think it will be that bad. do you have the insight book? that will be quite useful if you havnt studied as well as the eng language notes from this site by puppy/puddy.

the notes are pretty much all you need to know for section 1 &2. 45marks right there.

essay topics, yeah they'll break all of us because we have no idea what will be on it :S .

as for your scale

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[lynt.br]

It really depends on the essay topics for me. For some of them I can write heaps and its just a matter of working out the best examples I want to include and what I want to leave out.

I can most topics at the moment but there are a few where my example bank is a little shallow.

Sections 1 and 2 I'm not too worried about.

Really my main concern is just exam day nerves. Having already learnt this from the English exam, no matter how many practice exams you do under exam conditions, your exam essay will likely be the worst one you've ever done.

[hyperblade01]

Nervous as whenever I think I'll be alright for essay topics, someone brings up a point that makes my examples and explanations not as solid as i'd think they'd be.

I'd be happy with anything over 20 out of 30 to be honest...


Section 1&2 is becoming like the other subjects - questions tend to be recycled and there's always a somewhat generic response.  




So I guess I'm :  

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Hmm yeah even though Sections 1 & 2 are repetitive somehow I drop marks whenever I get the chance... whether it be for line numbers, slightly-too-unacceptable explanations, slightly-too-unacceptable examples, or misinterpreting the text...
Oh well, maybe it's just a run of bad luck

[arthurk]

lol slightly too unacceptable examples? is that possible
essays are a bitch for me
so much to say so little time

[ngRISING]

do you think we'll lose a mark for each question if we forget to refer to a line in section 1 & 2? or would it be one mark in general lol

[hyperblade01]

Well for the essay its either too much or too little to say =.=

Hmm yeah even though Sections 1 & 2 are repetitive somehow I drop marks whenever I get the chance

Which is what happens with spesh, methods, chem etc


But yea, overall I'm happy I chose English language over English

[appianway]

Strangely enough, I'm not nervous. I went through a period when I was incredibly anxious, particularly because of the exceptional pressure that I was placed under, but I feel relaxed now. I guess my main concerns are that I'll misinterpret a question or that I won't have enough examples in my essay, but I'm not overly worried. This isn't to say that I'm confident that I'll get a perfect score (far from it!), but I've realised that the world won't end if I don't get a 50, 49 or 48, which is a pretty big thing coming from someone who's such a perfectionist. And if truth be told, I don't really care about the marks anymore - I'm trying to focus on enjoying myself. I guess it's a bit of a reassurance that I have English lined up for next year though...

[ngRISING]

lol. if  do get 40+ for lang. fuck eng i reckon.

what is the intended function of a parallelism in a advertisement. ?

[lynt.br]

Hmm yeah even though Sections 1 & 2 are repetitive somehow I drop marks whenever I get the chance... whether it be for line numbers, slightly-too-unacceptable explanations, slightly-too-unacceptable examples, or misinterpreting the text...
Oh well, maybe it's just a run of bad luck

Yeah I hate when your answers seem logical to you but the examiner thinks otherwise. In the 2009 Insight exam, one of the questions asked what was the text's register and identify and explain features that supported my opinion. I said the text was informal and listed the use of slang and expletives as supporting evidence. My slang example was completely different to my expletive example (which was the use of "bloody" as an intensifier), however I was told that "bloody" came under slang and hence I had given two of the same examples.

Another question in the same exam asked if the text was coherent, and again to give examples that supported my opinion. I stated that coherence in this text was dependant on the audience because of the frequent use of Australian colloquialisms, idioms and in-group slang. They gave me some generic answer saying it was coherent because of things like paragraphing, formatting, headings etc. While I accept that as a valid answer, I still think my answer was more correct because formatting isn't going to help you understand a text if the content itself is indecipherable....

[appianway]

Don't trust the Insight solutions. Your answer would've been correct (because of the reliance on inference for coherence), but it'd probably be best to consider a range of factors as contributing to the overall coherence of the text. After all, even if the audience is familiar with the semantics of the terms used, the rest of the text still has to be logical for it to make sense.

[Damo17]

I am not really nervous for EL, I find that although section 1/2 questions are slightly repetitive, I always seem to lose a few marks here and there because I don't have a deep enough explanation, or as /0 "slightly-too-unacceptable explanations." 

I think the essay will be alright, I find there is always one topic similar over each exam in past years where you can use similar examples. Alot to write in such a short period of time. 

The main thing I am worried about is my knowledge of metalanguage, and certain things they might ask us in section 1/2 that I don't know.

I guess stress is less for me because I came into EL this year only looking for a 33+ just to fill up my six but now am looking at 38+ and loving this subject. 

[ngRISING]

The main thing I am worried about is my knowledge of metalanguage, and certain things they might ask us in section 1/2 that I don't know.

I guess stress is less for me because I came into EL this year only looking for a 33+ just to fill up my six but now am looking at 38+ and loving this subject. 

dw about the metal language in unit one and two, most of the metal language in units one and two have been covered in units 3&4, probaly not on teh IPA imo.

im stressing now lol. still got 4-5 eng lang exams to do. all tomorrow. 5x2hours = gg