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Archived Discussion => English Studies => 2011 => End-of-year exams => Exam Discussion => Victoria => Literature => Topic started by: weasleyisourking on November 10, 2011, 06:32:22 pm
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What did you think of it? What texts did you write on?
Am I the only one who is a little bit sad it is all over - Lit was a great subject!! :)
Congrats everyone! :)
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Not the only one at all. I was very sad actually!
Exam was okay. Atonement passages were pretty good overall.
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Very happy. Hamlet and Stasiland passages were excellent but spent a bit extra time on Hamlet so had to rush the second essay a bit.
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How many pages did you guys write on each text?
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I was on the last page for Hamelt and done like 6-7 pages for Stasiland.
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I was a little surprised to find both 'Prelude' and 'At the Bay' on the exam, but they were such great passages! <3 Blake was really good as well, really happy overall, but gonna miss lit so much D:
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Passages were great and challenging I found.
I THINK I did pretty well.
THAT BOOKLET COVER WAS SO CONFUSING THOUGH!
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mansfield ones were crap. as if they put both prelude and at the bay and they're the worst stories. Stasiland was ok, didn't know what to write about the passage about the puzzle piecers. I got horrible writers block for Mansfield because the passages sucked! I'm not sure how I went, i don't think I referenced the name of the story in the passages (for instance in "prelude" blah blah blah) which i think was a bad mistake. I feel as though I didn't do enough language analysis but more text analysis. hmm I'm not sure I always beat myself up after every exam and think of the worst possible outcome.
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Sixty Lights passages did not work for me. Stasiland ones provided scope to really discuss the text, and the world Funder presents, in a lot of depth, and welcomed in multiple links to all different parts of the book.
Biggest regret is focusing on Sixty Lights than Hamlet. As much as I love it, the Hamlet passages would have been much easier to write on.
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Passages were great and challenging I found.
I THINK I did pretty well.
THAT BOOKLET COVER WAS SO CONFUSING THOUGH!
Me too I started freaking out when you had to number them and everything like I AM WASTING MY TIME DOING THIS!!
Haha what can I say - I get a little bit melodramatic at exam time :)
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It was a good exam, I think. Good passages for Hamlet and perfect poems for Keats.
HOW DO YOU PEOPLE FINISH THE SCRIPT BOOK? (Please tell me you double space before I freak out!)
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Hamlet irked me a little, but was still do-able, but Frankenstein was pure bliss, I am so happy with that one. Hopefully I did well enough to get a 35 ss.
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Atonement passages were cool although i did an absolutely terrible job. and Two Brothers was average and i wrote an even worse analysis for that.
like half the people in my exam left early.
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Did anyone else actually shed tears during the exam, or was that just me? :p
Going a bit too far there...
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Passages were great and challenging I found.
I THINK I did pretty well.
THAT BOOKLET COVER WAS SO CONFUSING THOUGH!
OMG. Even the supervisors had no idea how to fill it out. I was like 'Study? What's study?'
Blake poems were excellently simple. Loved it.
Emma was pretty good. My thread was the characterisation of Knightley and the perception of gentlemen.
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Did anyone else actually shed tears during the exam, or was that just me? :p
The third this boy's life passages was one of the more moving ones for me... But I didn't :P
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I raised my hand for another script book as I was furiously writing away. The supervisor looked straight at me and IGNORED ME.
I couldn't waste time waiting for another book, so I just spoke up and said 'Can I have another script book?' She glared at me for speaking but gave one to me anyway.
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It's good to hear so many people enjoyed their passage selection. Hamlet and This Boy's Life had fantastic passages ("Oh what a rogue and peasant slave"+ "nunnery"+ "Alas, Poor Yorrick!"). It actually makes me slightly frustrated to hear how some people's texts where given weak passages, considering how the exam is meant to be the equalising measure. If everyone studied the same texts (goes for English too), then I feel so much of this would not be a problem. It seems few people in the state do the same exam in a sense.
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I wanted to scream out "THANK GOD" when I saw 'This Boy's Life' passages. I did responses to all passage 2 and 3 together a few weeks ago and the first passage I used it in another essay I wrote. Although, I have to admit, I felt I lost coherence and attention to the passages near the end of the essay because it was my second one and I was rushing to finish.
Wolf Notes. Beautiful. I had to restrain myself from jumping out of my seat and running victory laps. My friends and I managed to guess the poems they would be putting in, and we got all 3. The Lake, Dawn and Path. It was such a generous combination of poems I couldn't complain.
Overall I did quite well ahaha, I just hope at least the mean score, but anything higher I would be really happy. I managed to write a bit over 3 pages for each response and wow at those who wrote heaps more per response. I usually can only write 800 words for each response T_T
One thing I have to complain about is the timing of the exam: the same day as Specialist. Not fun at all.
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Hamlet passages were beautiful, the notion of morality and Hamlet's existential issues were perfectly set for discussion. Whilst This Boy's Life had transformation among other things which I did rather well in, hoping for at least a 43 :P
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Harwood was ... not what I wanted, but I could pull some stuff out of it. I keep swinging from okay to unhappy to okay. I am only hoping I scrape by with at least a 14 for that? Pretty, pretty please?
Hamlet I think I took a different stance on that everyone else. But I feel okay about it. Decent, not amazing.
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Did well hopefully
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I wanted to scream out "THANK GOD" when I saw 'This Boy's Life' passages. I did responses to all passage 2 and 3 together a few weeks ago and the first passage I used it in another essay I wrote. Although, I have to admit, I felt I lost coherence and attention to the passages near the end of the essay because it was my second one and I was rushing to finish.
Wolf Notes. Beautiful. I had to restrain myself from jumping out of my seat and running victory laps. My friends and I managed to guess the poems they would be putting in, and we got all 3. The Lake, Dawn and Path. It was such a generous combination of poems I couldn't complain.
Overall I did quite well ahaha, I just hope at least the mean score, but anything higher I would be really happy. I managed to write a bit over 3 pages for each response and wow at those who wrote heaps more per response. I usually can only write 800 words for each response T_T
One thing I have to complain about is the timing of the exam: the same day as Specialist. Not fun at all.
I know when I saw Dawn and Path I had to restrain myself from violently fist-pumping!!!:) Could have gone so badly with something like River and A Vow - but I couldn't have been happier with the Beveridge passages!
Initially I thought poetry was going to be dead boring but I thoroughly enjoyed Wolf Notes - especially the second suite, my favourite poem is by far Path. I love that line: "now I can orient a path towards an earthless-gradient" ... beautiful! :)
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Legitimately Lit is the only subject I have ever seen where people walk out of the exam sad that it's all over (or the only subject where people enjoy doing the exam).
I love you kids. Suddenly I feel nostalgic. <3
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Yeah, my whole class were beaming. This year went well (or not, depending how you look at it :p )
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Legitimately Lit is the only subject I have ever seen where people walk out of the exam sad that it's all over (or the only subject where people enjoy doing the exam).
I love you kids. Suddenly I feel nostalgic. <3
Naw :) EZ You are a Literature GOD so no matter how much you love us we love you more. :)
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Haha. Feel sad that lit ended too. Enjoyed doing the exam.
Keats and hamlet passages were gr8! Allowed good discussion.
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I think it went...not as bad as it could have been...
Does it matter that I didn't number the pages? Will the examiners give me a zero? Eeek...
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^ They shouldn't. It should all be scanned in as necessary. I don't remember numbering the pages on English or Lit, nor was I instructed to I believe. Furthermore it's in the assessor's duty to figure out what you've done wrong, if you've got it out of order. Then again, they may be mean but.
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I numbered the pages just in case, and I swapped pen colour (black to blue) and started a fresh page to make it clear when I had started a new essay (not that it wouldn't be clear, but it was exam time and I was a bit too precautions)
As long as you've written the numbers (eg, 1-6, 2-3, 5-4 etc etc) clearly on the first page of each response, and made it clear where one starts and the other ends, you'll be fine.
Assessors aren't THAT stupid, and they won't take marks away without reason. :)
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WHAT! we were supposed to number the pages. the examiners didn't say that to me. I wrote however the name of the author above each essay, if that isn't clear enough then they shouldn't be markers
we we supposed to have a booklet per essay? What did you guys write in the "study" section on the front page? ahaha we were told just to write literature =)
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WHAT! we were supposed to number the pages. the examiners didn't say that to me. I wrote however the name of the author above each essay, if that isn't clear enough then they shouldn't be markers
we we supposed to have a booklet per essay? What did you guys write in the "study" section on the front page? ahaha we were told just to write literature =)
Study: Literature.
Page numbers - unnecessary, but if you did them, no biggie either way.
Author: Should be embedded in your essay regardless, but I'm sure it'll be fine.
Should be more like: "Part One, 2-7" and so forth.
A note for the Lit students next year; the exam is being scanned in from the script booklet, so backs of pages that you may have written on are largely ignored. Blue ink is also apparently less advisable.
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Didi anyone else write on DH Lawrence? I'd be interested to know what your framework was - because I seriously couldn't think of anything amazing to link the passages with ...
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Literature classes are legendary, they're always so tight-knit. We have so many great pictures of our class.
Despite the fact that I hated the exam...
But I will miss lit.
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Every year in my lit class I was in charge of taking down notes of all the hilarious things that have been said.
SO many in jokes.
Typed them up every year and gave everyone copies :)
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Bit late, but I thought the passages for Frankenstein and Wolf Notes were perfect :D
Too bad I really struggle with time, so I ended up writing two essays around 700 words, missing out on a number of things I could potentially write about. But I knew that was going to happen to me, so I'm not disappointed with it.
I feel proud of myself that I took on Literature without doing it in Year 10 or Year 11 and came out happy with myself. That was all I wanted :)
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Bit late, but I thought the passages for Frankenstein and Wolf Notes were perfect :D
Too bad I really struggle with time, so I ended up writing two essays around 700 words, missing out on a number of things I could potentially write about. But I knew that was going to happen to me, so I'm not disappointed with it.
I feel proud of myself that I took on Literature without doing it in Year 10 or Year 11 and came out happy with myself. That was all I wanted :)
Wow! Thats really awesome you were able to just pick it up like that as a 3/4. I tried to do 3/4 Lit in Yr 11 but my school refused to let me, you are lucky!!
I did Wolf Notes as well - I as soooo happy with the passages they were just perfect! I was terrified it was going to be some horrible combination like A Vow and The River which were the two poems that always confused me the most :)
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Gwen Harwood
The Bacchae
I think my Bacchae one was okay but on my Harwood one I only wrote on two of the poems :S Hope it's an alright essay. Still 900 words for both. DEFINITELY not the best essays I've ever written but oh well I'm hoping for 35
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And yes I agree, Lit classes are the most tight-knit and intimate in my opinion! There were only 6 of us. All got along, made jokes (including the teacher), it was great! Had an in-joke that we were the "superior" English kids because we did Lit and everyone did only "regular" English haha...(we weren't actually stuck up lol)
And our teacher always gave us lollies and he rang some of us up after the exam to see how we all went :) I MISS LIT CLASS.
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Speaking for my friend who does lit. Because he had 3 exams that day(Spesh, Eco, Lit) , VCAA gave him an extra 20mins on the lit exam :P He PUMPED OUT 38 PAGES IN TOTAL, albeit double spaced. STILL HOLY F***K.
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Speaking for my friend who does lit. Because he had 3 exams that day(Spesh, Eco, Lit) , VCAA gave him an extra 20mins on the lit exam :P He PUMPED OUT 38 PAGES IN TOTAL, albeit double spaced. STILL HOLY F***K.
what the fuck
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Speaking for my friend who does lit. Because he had 3 exams that day(Spesh, Eco, Lit) , VCAA gave him an extra 20mins on the lit exam :P He PUMPED OUT 38 PAGES IN TOTAL, albeit double spaced. STILL HOLY F***K.
what the fuck
my thoughts exactly...
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This is the 2011 thread, confused me for a moment...