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Archived Discussion => English Studies => 2015 Exam Discussion => English Language => Topic started by: odeaa on November 12, 2015, 07:04:07 pm
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How'd we go??
I unfortunately completely forgot to include the stimulus ahhaha
anyone know the highest score i can get with rank 2 (strong cohort) and around 95% on the exam (other than obviously not using stimulus)? wrote like 6 quality pages, the essay was the best thing i've ever written in my life except for one fatal flaw lol
ah well, can't have everything
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I'm sure you know this, but you don't have to quote the stimulus directly. Even if you have just a hint of the stimulus you should be fine.
As for me, I think I did okay - definitely didn't write my best essay. But I'm just so glad I'm done man!
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As for me, I think I did okay - definitely didn't write my best essay. But I'm just so glad I'm done man!
I feel you - I'm so glad I don't have to write another essay! But overall I'm happy with how it went :)
Which essay topic did everyone pick?
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found it alright
bit rushed but, overall, not a bad exam
the ac was a bit difficult,
the short answer was good,
which essays did you guys choose?
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Essay 7, the topics were a bit weird (for what I'd studied) but it was manageable and fit well with my journal. Just forgot to chuck in some stimulus ahah
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I just forgot one example for my last paragraph, :(, just rushed it bad :( :( gg
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Went for Essay Question 8. Essays were a bit tricky this year - wouldn't be surprised if the distribution for essay choices is roughly equal.
Managed to pull off roughly 4-5 pages of discussion about PC, euphemism, and obfuscatory language.
Time was pressuring, and hence there were things I would have wanted to fix up in the AC and short answer (stuff I'd like to add :P) but anyway, finished with ~3 mins to go so yeah.
DONE!
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I did essay question 6, yeah all the questions were tricky,
did mine on
standard english, non standard english and identity, and informal and formal language in the online community
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Section A and B I feel good about.
Section C was horror. Bad choice choosing question 8, by my part. Goodbye 50 raw.
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What did you guys discuss in the ac,
i discussed
Conversation strategies,
Prosodics
Register
and the use of lexemes to create imagery
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Section A and B I feel good about.
Section C was horror. Bad choice choosing question 8, by my part. Goodbye 50 raw.
Same man. I was tossing up between 7 and 8 for a few good minutes but settled for 8, not sure why..
Ah well - don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened :)
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how was it grannysmith - I did 8 too
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how was it grannysmith - I did 8 too
Not the best - talked about positive face needs but didn't really touch on negative face needs - bad call on my part and I spent too long on AC.
Hopefully my AC can offset the essay :3
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I did 7. Felt it was the question my class was best prepared for
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I have yet to find another person who has done q6 like me :P for the essay
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sad cos there wasn't a topic directly about language + identity
wrote the Australian one (one can't remember which number it was)
one of the short answer questions (3rd one) was a bit weird. i don't think we've learnt about lexical fields or whatnot or whatever it was lol so I just BS-ed
finished the exam 15 mins early but I tried to write really fast so hopefully my handwriting's legible
my essay was like 5 pages and my AC four but my AC had tonnes of paragraphs which wasn't organized, my essay was structured better and with longer paragraphs but I probably didn't have enough examples
overall, the exam wasn't too bad but I'm still nervous about my chances at a 30 lol
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sad cos there wasn't a topic directly about language + identity
wrote the Australian one (one can't remember which number it was)
one of the short answer questions (3rd one) was a bit weird. i don't think we've learnt about lexical fields or whatnot or whatever it was lol so I just BS-ed
finished the exam 15 mins early but I tried to write really fast so hopefully my handwriting's legible
my essay was like 5 pages and my AC four but my AC had tonnes of paragraphs which wasn't organized, my essay was structured better and with longer paragraphs but I probably didn't have enough examples
overall, the exam wasn't too bad but I'm still nervous about my chances at a 30 lol
did you manage contemporary examples though? Those are kinda important
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did you manage contemporary examples though? Those are kinda important
a few but not much :(
oh well, what's done is done. after all, what's the worst that could happen? :)
glad it's over.
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a few but not much :(
oh well, what's done is done. after all, what's the worst that could happen? :)
glad it's over.
you could have linked the first essay question to identity sorta
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I feel like I completely stuffed up my essay... I did question 8. What did u guys specifically talk about...?
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I started off writing question 7 then 15 minutes later had nothing to write then hastily started writing question 8. That will probably as close of a gamble I will ever take.
I talked about politicians in paragraph 1 and 2, with examples being firstly a NSW Labor Leader posting LOL cats to try and meet positive face needs. In the second I focused on the use of euphemisms for positive face needs with the example of Global Warming. In the last paragraph I talked about negative face needs with the example being that of gender neutral terms such as Mx being added into the Oxford Dictionary.
Section C was nonetheless a surprise. Section B I found easy to analyse, there was a lot to work with - I wrote about Prosodic Features, Topic Manage / Turn Taking and Lexical Patterning.