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Post by: andrewloppol on June 10, 2010, 01:50:02 pm
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Post by: Aqualim on June 10, 2010, 01:58:05 pm
haha it was soo easy to incorporate Bear Grylls into the Sea Life presentation. Lol just say the sea life had to make adaptations to ensure that Bear Grylls doesn't rip them out of a hole and try to eat them :P

Although I didn't write that, it would have been a good idea.

Overall it was alright, wasn't hard or easy
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Post by: ZachCharge on June 10, 2010, 02:06:06 pm
Yawn, got so bored I started to colour in the pages in pencil...
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Post by: kenhung123 on June 10, 2010, 02:07:21 pm
why bear grylls
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Post by: kenhung123 on June 10, 2010, 02:24:36 pm
Lol the examiners are probably like wth...what's with all this Bear Grylls stuff? Probably another facebook group...
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Post by: John President on June 10, 2010, 02:25:57 pm
Awesome topic selection for Bear Grylls-mentioning, although I wish the VCAA decided to do it on bears. Everyone in the exam room would be cacking themselves as soon as they saw the page.

I finished the GAT and left about 45 minutes early.
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Post by: kenhung123 on June 10, 2010, 02:27:42 pm
Btw, can you just like guess the humanities/arts questions? Do they actually count those when used to moderate maths/science subjects?
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Post by: littlebecc on June 10, 2010, 02:29:19 pm
I hope to god i don't fall sick at the end of the year

1st piece- babbled on about how underwater animals are fun- and i was 'Bear Grylls' 1.5 pages lololol

2nd piece- wrote about how we should all be understanding nature. pretty sure i chucked in a katy perry lyric in there somewhere- 1.5 pages

Multichoice- guessed 95% of them

Finished 1.45hr early and slept/drew a picture of a girl playing a guitar.


BEC PLEASE DON'T GET SICK!!!!!!
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Post by: Visionz on June 10, 2010, 02:33:03 pm
That was very boring. I had no idea initially what we were actually supposed to do with the first essay/deep sea task. I didnt know how much to write for each one either but seeing as half an hour is recommended I didnt do a whole lot.

My first essay on the sea was pretty good, I took it seriously. My next essay I really did not care and I ended up talking about how the city is a shit place to be. I probably shouldnt have wrote shit, but I did. It was pretty much a disjointed rant about how skyscrapers draw your eyes to the sky and away from all the chaos thats going on in the streets.

MC question I didnt have an eraser so I couldnt change anything even when I realised there was a better option. Some of them was just confusing. I seemed to have streaks of D's and C's throughout the whole thing. The lady on the last page scared me.
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Post by: John President on June 10, 2010, 02:35:36 pm
Awesome topic selection for Bear Grylls-mentioning, although I wish the VCAA decided to do it on bears. Everyone in the exam room would be cacking themselves as soon as they saw the page.

I finished the GAT and left about 45 minutes early.


Our school didn't let us go early... :S sooo gay
Ouch man, that sucks, I don't know why they make the GAT go for 3 FREAKING HOURS...When I left more than half the people in the room had already gawn.

At the start, the examiner guy was like "You need to complete the multiple choice in pencil, hands up if you don't have a pencil?" More than half the people put their hands up, haha.
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Post by: littlebecc on June 10, 2010, 02:35:56 pm
andrew- im gonna stock up on vitamins.........starting.......now
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Post by: John President on June 10, 2010, 02:38:01 pm
The woman in the painting on the last page was almost Amazonian in her butchness.
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Post by: Visionz on June 10, 2010, 02:43:07 pm
That was very boring. I had no idea initially what we were actually supposed to do with the first essay/deep sea task. I didnt know how much to write for each one either but seeing as half an hour is recommended I didnt do a whole lot.

My first essay on the sea was pretty good, I took it seriously. My next essay I really did not care and I ended up talking about how the city is a shit place to be. I probably shouldnt have wrote shit, but I did. It was pretty much a disjointed rant about how skyscrapers draw your eyes to the sky and away from all the chaos thats going on in the streets.

MC question I didnt have an eraser so I couldnt change anything even when I realised there was a better option. Some of them was just confusing. I seemed to have streaks of D's and C's throughout the whole thing. The lady on the last page scared me.

LOL I said she was flirtatious xD but I'm probably wrong

I said she was formidable. Her shoulders and traps and arms were huge.
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Post by: Plan-B on June 10, 2010, 02:49:10 pm
LOL, the GAT can't stop people from getting above 40s right? Because I probably got really low scores.
Haha, and half way during the exam, one of the examiners walked past me and accidentally knocked all of my pencils, pens, erasers and sharpener onto the floor, found it pretty funny.

and did anyone get hungry when reading about that guy sharing his sandwich? I was soo hungry during this exam.
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Post by: Aqualim on June 10, 2010, 02:50:33 pm
That was very boring. I had no idea initially what we were actually supposed to do with the first essay/deep sea task. I didnt know how much to write for each one either but seeing as half an hour is recommended I didnt do a whole lot.

My first essay on the sea was pretty good, I took it seriously. My next essay I really did not care and I ended up talking about how the city is a shit place to be. I probably shouldnt have wrote shit, but I did. It was pretty much a disjointed rant about how skyscrapers draw your eyes to the sky and away from all the chaos thats going on in the streets.

MC question I didnt have an eraser so I couldnt change anything even when I realised there was a better option. Some of them was just confusing. I seemed to have streaks of D's and C's throughout the whole thing. The lady on the last page scared me.

LOL I said she was flirtatious xD but I'm probably wrong

I said she was formidable. Her shoulders and traps and arms were huge.

I should have made an option E;
"Built like a brickhouse'
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Post by: Visionz on June 10, 2010, 02:53:22 pm
I was going to do that.

E: Has really high trap insertions
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Post by: littlebecc on June 10, 2010, 03:01:03 pm
i picked formidable.
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Post by: vexx on June 10, 2010, 03:02:49 pm
the gat is stupid, it was boring and easy.
i did so bad though i read my essays at the end cos i had forgot to and i literally corrected every line and ran out of time to finish haha, it was actually like a year 7s work. so bad >< i'll just be happy i'm not doing english though xD
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Post by: hawks08 on June 10, 2010, 03:04:05 pm
I hope to god i don't fall sick at the end of the year

1st piece- babbled on about how underwater animals are fun- and i was 'Bear Grylls' 1.5 pages lololol

2nd piece- wrote about how we should all be understanding nature. pretty sure i chucked in a katy perry lyric in there somewhere- 1.5 pages

Multichoice- guessed 95% of them

Finished 1.45hr early and slept/drew a picture of a girl playing a guitar.


BEC PLEASE DON'T GET SICK!!!!!!
i hope i dont get sick either lol
the first essay i rambled on a bout how perception of the sea has changed over time or somthing
second one i pretty much wrote about why i like the city
and multile cjoice i guessed about as much as you
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Post by: luken93 on June 10, 2010, 03:05:23 pm
what did everyone do for those political circles, arrows etc?
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Post by: John President on June 10, 2010, 03:08:24 pm
The photo of the angler fish made me think about Finding Nemo.

The most interesting thing in the GAT for me was imagining alligators trampling around the New York sewers. I guess  they're hiding from Bear Grylls.
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Post by: littlebecc on June 10, 2010, 03:09:28 pm
lawl, mine was so fail its not even funny.
are we sure this doesn't affect your enter :\
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Post by: the.watchman on June 10, 2010, 03:09:45 pm
Agreed :P
Soooooo boring...

The photo of the angler fish made me think about Finding Nemo.

The most interesting thing in the GAT for me was imagining alligators trampling around the New York sewers. I guess  they're hiding from Bear Grylls.

Lol :)
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Post by: Greggler on June 10, 2010, 03:14:39 pm
bear grylls doesnt live in the city.
he doesnt even live in a house
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Post by: crayolé on June 10, 2010, 03:15:38 pm
Flirtatious could have been a viable option for the last question, she was showing of a fair bit of cleavage and one hand was on her womanly part
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Post by: littlebecc on June 10, 2010, 03:23:39 pm
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKCOL85703320070718


my dreams are shattered.
on another note, why do i feel so depressed rn.
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Post by: littlebecc on June 10, 2010, 03:30:02 pm
i have an eng analysis tomorrow :(

and now i'm scared that because my gat will be such a low score that my marks for end of year will be affected
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
i just want holidays
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Post by: littlebecc on June 10, 2010, 03:33:34 pm
yayyyyyyyyy americaaaaaaaa
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Post by: John President on June 10, 2010, 03:40:20 pm
i have an eng analysis tomorrow :(

and now i'm scared that because my gat will be such a low score that my marks for end of year will be affected
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
i just want holidays
An English analysis? Tomorrow? As if!
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Post by: littlebecc on June 10, 2010, 03:45:05 pm
Mmmm pretty much guys. It's fcking stupid. Ah well, that's my school for ya.
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Post by: appianway on June 10, 2010, 03:46:59 pm
What'd you say that the article suggested about urban myths?

And it doesn't really matter. It's the GAT. I think I completely failed the multiple choice, although I found them easier than last year... but they took me longer! Maybe it's a good idea to get more than 5 hours sleep before the GAT...
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Post by: luken93 on June 10, 2010, 03:48:16 pm
Flirtatious could have been a viable option for the last question, she was showing of a fair bit of cleavage and one hand was on her womanly part
well thats the thing, im presuming the painting was quite old, and back then that amount of cleavage would be considered flirtatious...
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Post by: the.watchman on June 10, 2010, 03:51:21 pm
Lol, my GAT seemed pretty fail, but who cares? :)

Flirtatious could have been a viable option for the last question, she was showing of a fair bit of cleavage and one hand was on her womanly part
well thats the thing, im presuming the painting was quite old, and back then that amount of cleavage would be considered flirtatious...

She was quite the sexy one, if I may say so.

Haha, what an ambiguous question ;)
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Post by: samiira on June 10, 2010, 03:51:46 pm
one of our supervisors pants fell down.. lol.. every one just cracked up
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Post by: John President on June 10, 2010, 03:52:50 pm
What'd you say that the article suggested about urban myths?

And it doesn't really matter. It's the GAT. I think I completely failed the multiple choice, although I found them easier than last year... but they took me longer! Maybe it's a good idea to get more than 5 hours sleep before the GAT...

Conversely, I thought it was harder :P Or maybe just coz i went out last night, was harder to think..

The maths Q's were so easy haha.. can never get the 'article' style things tho.. never ever..
Man, those articles had loads of big-ass words. How was the definition of "excorporation" in the jeans section? "The process by which a subordinate subculture makes its own culture out of the resources and commodities provided by the dominant system" Wow, that's so much simpler!  :-\
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Post by: samiira on June 10, 2010, 03:58:15 pm
i know man.. he was just like .. i think iam losing weight.. now i cant face u people anymore
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Post by: darkphoenix on June 10, 2010, 04:14:02 pm
Awesome topic selection for Bear Grylls-mentioning, although I wish the VCAA decided to do it on bears. Everyone in the exam room would be cacking themselves as soon as they saw the page.

I finished the GAT and left about 45 minutes early.


Our school didn't let us go early... :S sooo gay
Ouch man, that sucks, I don't know why they make the GAT go for 3 FREAKING HOURS...When I left more than half the people in the room had already gawn.

At the start, the examiner guy was like "You need to complete the multiple choice in pencil, hands up if you don't have a pencil?" More than half the people put their hands up, haha.

Haha wtf same here. She's like "So you guys seriously walk into an exam without pencils?"

No response. LOL
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Post by: the.watchman on June 10, 2010, 04:16:28 pm
Awesome topic selection for Bear Grylls-mentioning, although I wish the VCAA decided to do it on bears. Everyone in the exam room would be cacking themselves as soon as they saw the page.

I finished the GAT and left about 45 minutes early.


Our school didn't let us go early... :S sooo gay
Ouch man, that sucks, I don't know why they make the GAT go for 3 FREAKING HOURS...When I left more than half the people in the room had already gawn.

At the start, the examiner guy was like "You need to complete the multiple choice in pencil, hands up if you don't have a pencil?" More than half the people put their hands up, haha.

Haha wtf same here. She's like "So you guys seriously walk into an exam without pencils?"

No response. LOL

Exactly the same scenario :D
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Post by: curious111 on June 10, 2010, 04:21:18 pm
So many references to food.... (egg sandwich thing, hotel thingy, fat/protein/carbs)

Why are VCAA so cruel...?
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Post by: darkphoenix on June 10, 2010, 04:22:32 pm
Awesome topic selection for Bear Grylls-mentioning, although I wish the VCAA decided to do it on bears. Everyone in the exam room would be cacking themselves as soon as they saw the page.

I finished the GAT and left about 45 minutes early.


Our school didn't let us go early... :S sooo gay
Ouch man, that sucks, I don't know why they make the GAT go for 3 FREAKING HOURS...When I left more than half the people in the room had already gawn.

At the start, the examiner guy was like "You need to complete the multiple choice in pencil, hands up if you don't have a pencil?" More than half the people put their hands up, haha.

Haha wtf same here. She's like "So you guys seriously walk into an exam without pencils?"

No response. LOL

Exactly the same scenario :D

It's not an exam though? It's a waste of time.

Haha exactly, or she might have said exam room, or exam conditions.

Couldn't really be bothered listening to what she had to say.
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Post by: cameron_15 on June 10, 2010, 04:29:22 pm
I did multiple choice first which too me an hour and 40 minutes. Then wrote the 2 written pieces for the remainder. Was writing up until the last 2 minutes.

Soooooooo perfect for bear grylls incorporation, both topics. However, I refrained and took it very seriously.

Got to drink my protein shake too :smitten:
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Post by: Yitzi_K on June 10, 2010, 04:36:31 pm
It's like VCCA wanted us to mention him, there were so many opportunities.

but I didn't mention him, not worth the risk
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Post by: Visionz on June 10, 2010, 04:47:11 pm
Lovin dat bathyscope.

The GAT leaves such a bad taste in your mouth. Its so draining.
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Post by: darkphoenix on June 10, 2010, 05:00:51 pm
true :/... oh.. and VCAA wants out names when we go the toilet now?
What next? They'll wanna start coming into the toilet with us..

Actually for our school, when you need to go to the toilet, one of the examiners follows you there, but waits outside. (I think.)
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Post by: the.watchman on June 10, 2010, 05:04:41 pm
true :/... oh.. and VCAA wants out names when we go the toilet now?
What next? They'll wanna start coming into the toilet with us..

Actually for our school, when you need to go to the toilet, one of the examiners follows you there, but waits outside. (I think.)

ewwwww what if ur loud? ahaha
worstt job xD

It's exactly the same at our school, he follows you to the door, but waits outside
Worst job? Agreed :P
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Post by: Visionz on June 10, 2010, 05:06:24 pm
I had to sign the paper too. I was like WTF?

Last year I thought they followed you in aswell and watched with the door open. xD They dont. Which is just as well because I went yesterday and did a long sharp sounding fart.
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Post by: darkphoenix on June 10, 2010, 05:07:46 pm
Hahah yeah fail job. They are probably all like Shotgun not! But one of them is too slow, and is like shit..
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Post by: Visionz on June 10, 2010, 05:09:43 pm
Hahah yeah fail job. They are probably all like Shotgun not! But one of them is too slow, and is like shit..

At mine its just the closest one to the kid who puts there hand up.
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Post by: littlebecc on June 10, 2010, 05:10:28 pm
lolooolololololololloolololol
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Post by: John President on June 10, 2010, 05:19:16 pm
Hahah yeah fail job. They are probably all like Shotgun not! But one of them is too slow, and is like shit..

At mine its just the closest one to the kid who puts there hand up.
What if all the examiners are the opposite sex to what you are? Lol
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Post by: slothpomba on June 10, 2010, 05:19:19 pm
one of our supervisors pants fell down.. lol.. every one just cracked up

Hahaha.

The dude in-front of me doesn't give a shit about school, i know him, he showed up not only without a pencil but he didn't bring a pen either. Hand up, head examiner comes, can i have a pencil? sure...can i have a pen? you didn't bring either *strange look*

Yeah, they waited outside the door for us last year but this year it was just write down name.
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Post by: luken93 on June 10, 2010, 05:29:58 pm
true :/... oh.. and VCAA wants out names when we go the toilet now?
What next? They'll wanna start coming into the toilet with us..

Actually for our school, when you need to go to the toilet, one of the examiners follows you there, but waits outside. (I think.)

ewwwww what if ur loud? ahaha
worstt job xD

It's exactly the same at our school, he follows you to the door, but waits outside
Worst job? Agreed :P
didn't he come inside with you? Lucky you
hahahahaha
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Post by: andy456 on June 10, 2010, 05:32:04 pm
Ours had no idea what they were doing.....
The guy said start reading and then 2 mins later the lady yelled at us and said no reading
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Post by: claire92 on June 10, 2010, 05:52:14 pm
My GAT was very boring, nothing happened, we did start our reading early because we didn't have a clock until a while into the GAT.

I choose the one about Cities being a disaster, basically 5 pages of rambliing about our dependance on technology and loss of culture, and if there was an apocolypse we would all be screwed. I also threw in my Bear Grylls in stating that we don't even know the most basic of Survival skills as stated by Man Vs Survivor.

The Ocean one I took seriously.

Did anyone else need a second script book? I have no Idea I could write so much...
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Post by: darkphoenix on June 10, 2010, 05:54:45 pm
LOL oh yeah our room had 2 clocks, but one was faster than the other.

Too bad they went by the slower one.
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Post by: InitialDRulz on June 10, 2010, 07:34:46 pm
Well, i had 4 supervisors managing my school exam. When you had to go to the toilet, you had to take your VCAA number with you, they hold it, follow you, COME IN WITH YOU TO THE TOILET, but you go into the cubicle and do it there. I'm a guy, and when there is a 40 year old lady following you, that is NOT cool. Yes, i did do a devastating fart followed by a long diarrhea due to a bad stomach ache, but hey, she followed me, so she suffers too.

What made it even worse was that i was sitting in the corner in the room, and which supervisor was right next to me? yep thats right ^^;
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Post by: John President on June 10, 2010, 07:38:33 pm
Well, i had 4 supervisors managing my school exam. When you had to go to the toilet, you had to take your VCAA number with you, they hold it, follow you, COME IN WITH YOU TO THE TOILET, but you go into the cubicle and do it there. I'm a guy, and when there is a 40 year old lady following you, that is NOT cool. Yes, i did do a devastating fart followed by a long diarrhea due to a bad stomach ache, but hey, she followed me, so she suffers too.
 
What made it even worse was that i was sitting in the corner in the room, and which supervisor was right next to me? yep thats right ^^;
HAHAHA, nice one...a 40 year old examiner? Pretty much all of the ones who come to our school are like 70+
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Post by: kenhung123 on June 10, 2010, 07:38:49 pm
lol @ the gravimetric analysis question after chem exam
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Post by: kyzoo on June 10, 2010, 08:11:43 pm
Mmm I saw how to wrote the 1st piece almost immediately after looking at all the marine material. So i wrote 4.5 pages on that. Then the 2nd essay I had no ideas of what arguments to put forward, so I wrote 2.5 pages of absolute rubbish.

Then multiple choice I finished in like 60 minutes.
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Post by: vexx on June 10, 2010, 08:19:21 pm
Mmm I saw how to wrote the 1st piece almost immediately after looking at all the marine material. So i wrote 4.5 pages on that. Then the 2nd essay I had no ideas of what arguments to put forward, so I wrote 2.5 pages of absolute rubbish.

Then multiple choice I finished in like 60 minutes.

umm.. :o exactly everything you just said was me (same times, length) haa
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Post by: physics on June 10, 2010, 08:27:38 pm
boring!
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Post by: RavenclawNerd on June 14, 2010, 12:19:08 am
Mmm I saw how to wrote the 1st piece almost immediately after looking at all the marine material. So i wrote 4.5 pages on that. Then the 2nd essay I had no ideas of what arguments to put forward, so I wrote 2.5 pages of absolute rubbish.

Then multiple choice I finished in like 60 minutes.

How did you write so much!? I thought I was doing well getting a 1.5 pages for the first one, and 1 for the second...
Im going to use the 'i have small writing excuse'...

So glad that's over though, I'll never have to do it again!

Our supervisor was practically never in the room, because she was always taking people to the toilet.
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Post by: darcy42 on June 14, 2010, 05:35:08 pm
i almost had to ask for another booklet for the first writing task, but decided that it was way too much effort so cut my essay short. just fit it in haha. so much material is given and i felt obliged to include the majority of it.
the second piece was very sloppy, started to get over it after the first one hah. just wanted to hit the multiple choice!
i actually didnt hate it too much, i got to leave after 2 hours and went and got kfc so it wasnt a terrible day overall
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Post by: mikee65 on June 16, 2010, 05:07:59 pm
Awesome topic selection for Bear Grylls-mentioning, although I wish the VCAA decided to do it on bears. Everyone in the exam room would be cacking themselves as soon as they saw the page.

I finished the GAT and left about 45 minutes early.
neither pretty lame

Our school didn't let us go early... :S sooo gay
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Post by: Tucker107 on June 16, 2010, 07:41:31 pm
i drew a picture of john howard and Michael Jackson and said guess who on one of the blank pages