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VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE English & EAL => Topic started by: EvangelionZeta on November 02, 2011, 05:51:16 pm
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Hey 2011 cohort!
To begin with - good luck! The fact that you're on this site at all means that you've probably worked to some extent this year - hopefully you've worked hard, but even if you haven't, it's tough getting through all the assessments which VCE throws at you. Be proud of where you're at!
Anyway, in case it wasn't obvious already, now is really not a good time to be doing more writing. If you're still facing major timing issues, it's probably better to work out ways in which you can cut down your pieces or redistribute your time, or better yet, remember that the exam adrenaline will help you write significantly faster. Take a chill pill! You want to be at maximum energy levels tomorrow, and now is a supremely bad time to randomly burn out
Get a hearty dinner in you tonight, and plan out a healthy breakfast tomorrow morning! Revise your notes right now if you want. Do some reading. Just make sure that you're relaxed, and make sure that you don't stress out. If you need some relaxation techniques, look around the internet.
Just remember, it'll be all right! Most people exceed their own expectations on the exam! That said, prepare yourself for the challenge as well - a year onwards, and the VCE English Exam is still probably one of my worst experiences, ever.
But seriously, it'll be all right. You'll come out of the exam feeling on top of the world - it's the best feeling ever, so look forward to it!
Make sure you party hard afterwards...when you get a chance!
Much love, and best wishes,
~EvangelionZeta
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are we allowed to watch tv shows?
cause thats what ive been doing all day :(
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Definitely! Relax, relax, relax! I played lots of Starcraft II. :p
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What's your biggest tip for the english exam? :P
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Cheers :)
Well i know i can only blame myself if I don't do well in the exam :D
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What's your biggest tip for the english exam? :P
Don't get drunk beforehand.
Also, make sure you always have the prompts in mind. ALWAYS.
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On an unrelated topic..
What were your exam scores for your 45?
just curious :P
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think it has to be A+
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Got a 20/20, 16/20, and 15/20, for A, B and C respectively. No idea what happened with the language analysis, but I think my context might have been a bit too simplistic.
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Cheers :)
I'm guessing your SACs were decent as well?
cause i think my exam is the only thing that can save me
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Thanks Evan, throughly enjoyed your lecture you gave to me before ;)
Also, what order did you tackle your exam?
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Got a 20/20, 16/20, and 15/20, for A, B and C respectively. No idea what happened with the language analysis, but I think my context might have been a bit too simplistic.
Really? That's good news, I'd been told for a 45 you need 56/60 minimum and strong sacs. This is very pleasing to hear
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Since when did you play sc2 Evangelion? :O
Haven't got anything done today. Just read my essays once, then switched off
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Got a 20/20, 16/20, and 15/20, for A, B and C respectively. No idea what happened with the language analysis, but I think my context might have been a bit too simplistic.
Really? That's good news, I'd been told for a 45 you need 56/60 minimum and strong sacs. This is very pleasing to hear
Remember he finished rank 1 internally, low A+ sacs and you'd need something like that.
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Got a 20/20, 16/20, and 15/20, for A, B and C respectively. No idea what happened with the language analysis, but I think my context might have been a bit too simplistic.
Really? That's good news, I'd been told for a 45 you need 56/60 minimum and strong sacs. This is very pleasing to hear
Remember he finished rank 1 internally, low A+ sacs and you'd need something like that.
damn.. false hope..
im probably not even in the top 20.. although its a really large cohort.. more than 200
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Got a 20/20, 16/20, and 15/20, for A, B and C respectively. No idea what happened with the language analysis, but I think my context might have been a bit too simplistic.
Really? That's good news, I'd been told for a 45 you need 56/60 minimum and strong sacs. This is very pleasing to hear
Remember he finished rank 1 internally, low A+ sacs and you'd need something like that.
damn.. false hope..
im probably not even in the top 20.. although its a really large cohort.. more than 200
jab are people at ur school very good at english, or did u just ceebs Sacs? U write so good. . . But it is gw I Guess
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anyone feeling a bit tingly?
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Thanks Evan, throughly enjoyed your lecture you gave to me before ;)
Also, what order did you tackle your exam?
Language analysis, text response, and then context. :)
Got a 20/20, 16/20, and 15/20, for A, B and C respectively. No idea what happened with the language analysis, but I think my context might have been a bit too simplistic.
Really? That's good news, I'd been told for a 45 you need 56/60 minimum and strong sacs. This is very pleasing to hear
What Taiga said, unfortunately. I had full SAC marks for both unit 3 and 4 (got a statement of marks).
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should of discovered this site a whole lot earlier ;_; thank you for your advice!!
the nerves won't hit until up to the moment waiting for this exam tomorrow morning..
good luck class of '11!
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@EvangelionZeta thanks mate!
Altough guys I wouldn't recomend watching Glee- I did last year before my accouning exam and I had 'Sweet Transvestite' in my head for the entire exam
Class of 2011 we are going to dominate!
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Thanks Evan, throughly enjoyed your lecture you gave to me before ;)
Also, what order did you tackle your exam?
Language analysis, text response, and then context. :)
Got a 20/20, 16/20, and 15/20, for A, B and C respectively. No idea what happened with the language analysis, but I think my context might have been a bit too simplistic.
Really? That's good news, I'd been told for a 45 you need 56/60 minimum and strong sacs. This is very pleasing to hear
What Taiga said, unfortunately. I had full SAC marks for both unit 3 and 4 (got a statement of marks).
That's okay
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I'm afraid to say I've actually got Mozart on replay due to people saying it helped your brain function...
Haha, anyway good luck class of 2011! I'm sure we will all ace the exam and just keep in mind that at 12:01pm tomorrow... you will NEVER have to write another essay again... (unless, of course, you're silly enough to do Lit or EL as well)!! :D
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I'm afraid to say I've actually got Mozart on replay due to people saying it helped your brain function...
Haha, anyway good luck class of 2011! I'm sure we will all ace the exam and just keep in mind that at 12:01pm tomorrow... you will NEVER have to write another essay again... (unless, of course, you're silly enough to do Lit or EL as well)!! :D
Has Mozart worked for you ?
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I'm afraid to say I've actually got Mozart on replay due to people saying it helped your brain function...
Haha, anyway good luck class of 2011! I'm sure we will all ace the exam and just keep in mind that at 12:01pm tomorrow... you will NEVER have to write another essay again... (unless, of course, you're silly enough to do Lit or EL as well)!! :D
Has Mozart worked for you ?
Hahaha I don't think so - it was on one of the other threads that apparently it helps memory or intelligence or something. So I guess we shall see tomorrow if it worked. :P
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ATAR notes after exam party ;)?
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ATAR notes after exam party ;)?
In the works
Attention All Year 12/11 Students of 2011 Year.
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I'm afraid to say I've actually got Mozart on replay due to people saying it helped your brain function...
Haha, anyway good luck class of 2011! I'm sure we will all ace the exam and just keep in mind that at 12:01pm tomorrow... you will NEVER have to write another essay again... (unless, of course, you're silly enough to do Lit or EL as well)!! :D
Ummm pretty sure it's 12:16 jane :P
But yeah, I've tried Baroque, it seems to help me focus/remember things, but perhaps it's just me :P
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Got a 20/20, 16/20, and 15/20, for A, B and C respectively. No idea what happened with the language analysis, but I think my context might have been a bit too simplistic.
Really? That's good news, I'd been told for a 45 you need 56/60 minimum and strong sacs. This is very pleasing to hear
Remember he finished rank 1 internally, low A+ sacs and you'd need something like that.
damn.. false hope..
im probably not even in the top 20.. although its a really large cohort.. more than 200
jab are people at ur school very good at english, or did u just ceebs Sacs? U write so good. . . But it is gw I Guess
the marking at my school is shocking.. our own teacher marks our sacs then only the TOP students get crossed marked.
i bugged my teacher to correct my essays a lot so i dont think she liked me after a while. hence she gave me shit marks. also my teacher was a REALLY harsh marker compared to other teachers such as Paulsterio's teacher who practically gave like half his class really good marks..
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Yeah, I'm definitely freaking the hell out. I'm just hoping I dont have a bad writing day and end up screwing it up.
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On the plus side I told my parents "I need a healthy dinner none of this roti and rice shit. Get me done subway ASAP "
man I love exams (until results)
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I'm afraid to say I've actually got Mozart on replay due to people saying it helped your brain function...
Haha, anyway good luck class of 2011! I'm sure we will all ace the exam and just keep in mind that at 12:01pm tomorrow... you will NEVER have to write another essay again... (unless, of course, you're silly enough to do Lit or EL as well)!! :D
Ummm pretty sure it's 12:16 jane :P
But yeah, I've tried Baroque, it seems to help me focus/remember things, but perhaps it's just me :P
:O It is too... haha I'll probably be celebrating then anyway...
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Topic on attractiveness of Richard PLEASE!
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Got a 20/20, 16/20, and 15/20, for A, B and C respectively. No idea what happened with the language analysis, but I think my context might have been a bit too simplistic.
Really? That's good news, I'd been told for a 45 you need 56/60 minimum and strong sacs. This is very pleasing to hear
Remember he finished rank 1 internally, low A+ sacs and you'd need something like that.
damn.. false hope..
im probably not even in the top 20.. although its a really large cohort.. more than 200
jab are people at ur school very good at english, or did u just ceebs Sacs? U write so good. . . But it is gw I Guess
the marking at my school is shocking.. our own teacher marks our sacs then only the TOP students get crossed marked.
i bugged my teacher to correct my essays a lot so i dont think she liked me after a while. hence she gave me shit marks. also my teacher was a REALLY harsh marker compared to other teachers such as Paulsterio's teacher who practically gave like half his class really good marks..
everyone who doesn't get good marks but feels they should become to cynical and jaded about their teachers.
Not everyone is out to get you.
although I do agree, its it pretty nonsensical that they don't cross mark the lower range. Pretty poor effort from what I consider a relatively good school.
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I was typing out our school song with about 4-5 other school mates on runescape.
(http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/73776_1576697811238_1049393747_1640313_50330_n.jpg)
http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/71516_1576666690460_1049393747_1640258_1613500_n.jpg
would really recommend that you don't stress about SACs right now and just remember that it's all done and all you can do right now is hope to do your best tomorrow.
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Got a 20/20, 16/20, and 15/20, for A, B and C respectively. No idea what happened with the language analysis, but I think my context might have been a bit too simplistic.
Really? That's good news, I'd been told for a 45 you need 56/60 minimum and strong sacs. This is very pleasing to hear
Remember he finished rank 1 internally, low A+ sacs and you'd need something like that.
damn.. false hope..
im probably not even in the top 20.. although its a really large cohort.. more than 200
jab are people at ur school very good at english, or did u just ceebs Sacs? U write so good. . . But it is gw I Guess
the marking at my school is shocking.. our own teacher marks our sacs then only the TOP students get crossed marked.
i bugged my teacher to correct my essays a lot so i dont think she liked me after a while. hence she gave me shit marks. also my teacher was a REALLY harsh marker compared to other teachers such as Paulsterio's teacher who practically gave like half his class really good marks..
everyone who doesn't get good marks but feels they should become to cynical and jaded about their teachers.
Not everyone is out to get you.
although I do agree, its it pretty nonsensical that they don't cross mark the lower range. Pretty poor effort from what I consider a relatively good school.
lol but its true..
i mean so i misinterpret the prompt slightly and what does she do.. take 9 marks off me for the criteria about ideas relating to the novel..
then she further takes marks off for structure and grammar even though there were barely any grammitical mistakes..
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everyone who doesn't get good marks but feels they should become to cynical and jaded about their teachers.
Not everyone is out to get you.
okay..
how about the fact that my school gives out the SAC prompts/topics a week early,
and you have people who get tutors and friends to write their essays for them, who end up getting 48-50/50, and then, on the trial exams (under exam conditions), they average like 6's.
teachers in many schools are retarded, so don't make assumptions..
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I was typing out our school song with about 4-5 other school mates on runescape.
(http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/73776_1576697811238_1049393747_1640313_50330_n.jpg)
http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/71516_1576666690460_1049393747_1640258_1613500_n.jpg
would really recommend that you don't stress about SACs right now and just remember that it's all done and all you can do right now is hope to do your best tomorrow.
is that motzeh kid from MHS, athletic white kid? I used to play CS with him last year.
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everyone who doesn't get good marks but feels they should become to cynical and jaded about their teachers.
Not everyone is out to get you.
okay..
how about the fact that my school gives out the SAC prompts/topics a week early,
and you have people who get tutors and friends to write their essays for them, who end up getting 48-50/50, and then, on the trial exams (under exam conditions), they average like 6's.
teachers in many schools are retarded, so don't make assumptions..
The cross marking at our school goes each teacher brings an example of a 100%, 80%, 60% and 50% to a meeting. The teachers then standardise the entire marking scheme of the best pieces and a ranking is effectively established. All our pieces get marked by at least 2 teachers. Those who get full marks get marked by 3-4.
For one of our SACs, they gave the entire year level the prompt one day early. Big mistake lol.
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my teachers never cross marked a thing, sacs were under complete different conditions between classes (e.g. one class getting over an hour longer than the other) etc. you just do the best you can. SAC marks don't mean much in the end.
also don't bother trying to predict english SS, it's completely whack. I was definitely not at the top in terms of sac marks and i didn't think my exam was particularly fantastic but still got much higher than expected.
don't dwell on your exam afterwards, english is so hard to predict that you are better off not worrying about it.
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I was really looking forward to the rush of "goodness" after finishing the English exam....but it has not come!
:(
I felt I went well, but still.... No good feeling....
Hopefully when I finish all my exam!!!!
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On the plus side I told my parents "I need a healthy dinner none of this roti and rice shit. Get me done subway ASAP "
man I love exams (until results)
Someone is a CURRY!!!
So am I LOL!
I hate rice. Its so boring!
But instead, the day before, the Mother made me some pastry shit, which is also very curry.
Ahhh, cant ever get away from the curries.
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On the plus side I told my parents "I need a healthy dinner none of this roti and rice shit. Get me done subway ASAP "
man I love exams (until results)
Someone is a CURRY!!!
So am I LOL!
I hate rice. Its so boring!
But instead, the day before, the Mother made me some pastry shit, which is also very curry.
Ahhh, cant ever get away from the curries.
a curry that's done history revolutions...
i've seen everything now
every time i see this thread title i think of that quote from father barry
'so you've got a brother aye? Well you've got some other brothers!'
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a curry that's done history revolutions...
i've seen everything now
LOL what about a curry that doesnt do any science subjects? Seen any of them?
Yeah, I know, Im practically disowned as a curry.
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Someone is a CURRY!!!
So am I LOL!
I hate rice. Its so boring!
But instead, the day before, the Mother made me some pastry shit, which is also very curry.
Ahhh, cant ever get away from the curries.
I usually never have rice for breakfast
But before the English exam, I decided to have some biryani rice, cheered me up :)
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the marking at my school is shocking.. our own teacher marks our sacs then only the TOP students get crossed marked.
i bugged my teacher to correct my essays a lot so i dont think she liked me after a while. hence she gave me shit marks. also my teacher was a REALLY harsh marker compared to other teachers such as Paulsterio's teacher who practically gave like half his class really good marks..
everyone who doesn't get good marks but feels they should become to cynical and jaded about their teachers.
Not everyone is out to get you.
although I do agree, its it pretty nonsensical that they don't cross mark the lower range. Pretty poor effort from what I consider a relatively good school.
My teacher says that it's because of time constraints, they only cross-mark some of the essays, although he didn't specifically say they were "good" ones
@ BoredSaint, I don't think that my teacher is an easy marker at all, one of my essays actually got marked up after cross-marking. But yeah, you do make a good point in that my class seems to have less lower outliers than other classes :S
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Someone is a CURRY!!!
So am I LOL!
I hate rice. Its so boring!
But instead, the day before, the Mother made me some pastry shit, which is also very curry.
Ahhh, cant ever get away from the curries.
I usually never have rice for breakfast
But before the English exam, I decided to have some biryani rice, cheered me up :)
cheered you up, meaning you were upset before the exam?
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the marking at my school is shocking.. our own teacher marks our sacs then only the TOP students get crossed marked.
i bugged my teacher to correct my essays a lot so i dont think she liked me after a while. hence she gave me shit marks. also my teacher was a REALLY harsh marker compared to other teachers such as Paulsterio's teacher who practically gave like half his class really good marks..
everyone who doesn't get good marks but feels they should become to cynical and jaded about their teachers.
Not everyone is out to get you.
although I do agree, its it pretty nonsensical that they don't cross mark the lower range. Pretty poor effort from what I consider a relatively good school.
My teacher says that it's because of time constraints, they only cross-mark some of the essays, although he didn't specifically say they were "good" ones
@ BoredSaint, I don't think that my teacher is an easy marker at all, one of my essays actually got marked up after cross-marking. But yeah, you do make a good point in that my class seems to have less lower outliers than other classes :S
you should see my class paul.. im probably rank one.. even after i FAILED that context sac..
either my class is really THAT bad (remember i didnt do unit 1 & 2 english).. or my teacher just doesnt like us :P
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Someone is a CURRY!!!
So am I LOL!
I hate rice. Its so boring!
But instead, the day before, the Mother made me some pastry shit, which is also very curry.
Ahhh, cant ever get away from the curries.
I usually never have rice for breakfast
But before the English exam, I decided to have some biryani rice, cheered me up :)
cheered you up, meaning you were upset before the exam?
Or maybe it just gave him a more positive attitude for it?
The Power of Curry!
Shit, that sounded like the title of the Language Analysis.
What nash are you guys? Indian? Sri Lankan?