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Archived Discussion => VCE Exam Discussion 2017 => Results Discussion => Victoria => VCE English Exams => Topic started by: Joseph41 on November 13, 2017, 11:49:36 am
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I thought the heart of darkness prompt was very decent.
And the coriolanus passages for part B were definitely workable :D.
How did everyone else go/were there any particularly hard passages or prompts for texts I didn't do?
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I found the Pygmalion prompt on Shaw criticising society for not seeing the potential of all individuals quite unexpected. I’m not too sure if I did well on that section :/
The Heaney passages were great! (Requiem for the Croppies, A Transgression and The Strand at Lough Beg) I had written an essay on the first two poems with Funeral Rites the night before, so I felt really lucky!
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Loved the close analysis passage for section B (Rhinoceros), but found the section A prompt for 'Baron in the trees' a little bit difficult to encorporate views and values as well as perspectives - Thank god for post structuralism!!!
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I found the Pygmalion prompt on Shaw criticising society for not seeing the potential of all individuals quite unexpected. I’m not too sure if I did well on that section :/
The Heaney passages were great! (Requiem for the Croppies, A Transgression and The Strand at Lough Beg) I had written an essay on the first two poems with Funeral Rites the night before, so I felt really lucky!
Thats very lucky to have done a passage analysis on two of the poems the night before!
I had actually been given a few practice passages for my text, two of which were on the exam. However I only looked at it and couldn't be bothered writing one with them ._.
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Anyone here who did North and South and found the last passage hard to link?
What were your contentions?
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I found the North and South prompt for section A quite challenging (especially for a feminist perspective). Not sure how relevant my response was.
Chris Wallace-Crabbe poetry was also difficult. However I think I reconciled the links.
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Our whole class walked out of the exam discussing how we didn't know the meaning of indictment ; luckily I jumped in and talked about Conrad's condemnation of imperialism, but I'm sure some others (vce discussion space) weren't so lucky :(
The Pygmalion passages were okay, good start, then I got a bit frazzled, and then I regained my balance.
Hopefully we do okay T^T
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Twelfth Night prompt definitely favored a feminist perspective! But that's what I was doing, it was a good prompt overall and I think it went ok, but I separated my paragraphs based on character which I never ever do so that was weird.
The Leopard passages were ok, I liked them personally but the first one was the only one with an actual event in it the other two were just before or just after.
Just glad its over tbh
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Did anyone else do Cat on a Hot Tin Roof? I think the prompt was a lot more specific and narrow than I expected!
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Did anyone else do Cat on a Hot Tin Roof? I think the prompt was a lot more specific and narrow than I expected!
I didn’t do that play, but I thought for many texts the prompts were surprisingly restrictive in what could be discussed.
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I didn’t do that play, but I thought for many texts the prompts were surprisingly restrictive in what could be discussed.
I agree. I honestly think they should have had set perspectives for each text that you had to learn - ones that would at the very least compliment the topics they had on the exam. I don't know the whole of Section A seems to be a bit wafty - my teacher (an assessor) said she was quite unsure what she will be looking for in her marking and she has a PD thing in a few days so she will know them, which is no help to us!
The Heaney passages were great! (Requiem for the Croppies, A Transgression and The Strand at Lough Beg) I had written an essay on the first two poems with Funeral Rites the night before, so I felt really lucky!
I did Heaney too! I loved the poems they selected and was so glad they did not repeat one from previous years! How did you link the three poems? :)
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I agree. I honestly think they should have had set perspectives for each text that you had to learn - ones that would at the very least compliment the topics they had on the exam. I don't know the whole of Section A seems to be a bit wafty - my teacher (an assessor) said she was quite unsure what she will be looking for in her marking and she has a PD thing in a few days so she will know them, which is no help to us!
I couldn't agree more. In all honesty, I was very disappointed with VCAA and their advice/recommendations for section A. The fact that they didn't even release a sample paper with relevant text prompts was exceedingly unhelpful for students and teachers alike. Hopefully future Literature students will have a better direction after this year.
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I did Heaney too! I loved the poems they selected and was so glad they did not repeat one from previous years! How did you link the three poems? :)
I discussed nature in all three poems - how it is used by Heaney to discuss the cycles of life and death (in Requeim for the Croppies and The Strand at Lough Beg), it’s contrast to human violence, and also its link to personal and political identity (in A Transgression and Requiem for the Croppies. My interpretation might not have made sense though!
How did you link the poems?
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I discussed nature in all three poems - how it is used by Heaney to discuss the cycles of life and death (in Requeim for the Croppies and The Strand at Lough Beg), it’s contrast to human violence, and also its link to personal and political identity (in A Transgression and Requiem for the Croppies. My interpretation might not have made sense though!
How did you link the poems?
I went off the rails with Heaney. I thought of talking about nature, but then went against it cos I wanted a more unique interpretation... oh boy did that back fire. I talked about heaney’s associations of religion and violence, then talked about paradoxes? With religion being necessary to discrupt the cyclical nature of sectarian violence? But my close analysis of the techniques were horrendous, barely talked about any sound techniques, spent 2/3 of the essay talking about connotations and euphism, only managed to squeeze in assonance and euphonism. 😭
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I went off the rails with Heaney. I thought of talking about nature, but then went against it cos I wanted a more unique interpretation... oh boy did that back fire. I talked about heaney’s associations of religion and violence, then talked about paradoxes? With religion being necessary to discrupt the cyclical nature of sectarian violence? But my close analysis of the techniques were horrendous, barely talked about any sound techniques, spent 2/3 of the essay talking about connotations and euphism, only managed to squeeze in assonance and euphonism. 😭
It’s sounds like you had interesting ideas! I’m sure you did better than you think.
I didn’t talk about sound techniques at all
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I couldn't agree more. In all honesty, I was very disappointed with VCAA and their advice/recommendations for section A. The fact that they didn't even release a sample paper with relevant text prompts was exceedingly unhelpful for students and teachers alike. Hopefully future Literature students will have a better direction after this year.
That sample exam irritated me so much! For English they published a relevant sample exam for the new AOS so why couldn't they do the same for Lit?!
I discussed nature in all three poems - how it is used by Heaney to discuss the cycles of life and death (in Requeim for the Croppies and The Strand at Lough Beg), it’s contrast to human violence, and also its link to personal and political identity (in A Transgression and Requiem for the Croppies. My interpretation might not have made sense though!
How did you link the poems?
I discussed Heaney's fear and fascination of the natural world and how people are either aligned with nature in his poems, or pitted against it. I ended with how the landscape with littered with remnants of sectarian violence and conflict, and how the Irish terrain was left scared and raw like 'opened ground'.
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Went through half of Chris Wallace Crabbe the night before cuz I realised I wanted to do HoD for section A. Saw only two poems that I actually knew and thought oh wow I must be cooked. I took a wild guess at what indictment meant and googled it after and I got it right !! Shoutout to my legal studies pals who used me as a living flash card app <3
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Went through half of Chris Wallace Crabbe the night before cuz I realised I wanted to do HoD for section A. Saw only two poems that I actually knew and thought oh wow I must be cooked. I took a wild guess at what indictment meant and googled it after and I got it right !! Shoutout to my legal studies pals who used me as a living flash card app <3
Great guess! On reflection (a day after lol), the CWC poems were a lovely selection.
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Great guess! On reflection (a day after lol), the CWC poems were a lovely selection.
Aw man I went IN on clothesline I really love that poem. Rescue was also a really great compliment to it !! Sacred ridges was a danger zone tbh but I still touched on the primeval primacy of nature and shit and how humans have the unique capacity for grief which renders them alien in their own psyche. Not too sure about my HoD essay but I'm really over it tbh. Literature was a great time and I got a lot more from it than a grade. Probs gonna spam all the arts electives I can at uni now !!
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Did anyone do the Twelfth night passage analysis?
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Did anyone do the Twelfth night passage analysis?
I think most people were saving 12th night for literary perspectives. It's very good for queer theory, Marxism, and feminism! :)
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What did you think of the Heart of darkness literary perspectives prompt?