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This thread is for all exam-related discussion. Was it easy? Was it hard? What did you get for each question? Feel free to post any and all of your thoughts below.
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What did everyone think of the prompt for cat on a hot tin roof
It was alright. A society-based prompt was what I think everyone had been predicting for this year. I feel like I may have waffled on to the point of incoherence though :/
The main thing I'm happy about is that it wasn't restricted to a feminist lens which was my biggest fear going into the exam!
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What did everyone think of the prompt for cat on a hot tin roof
I had literally just written a practice essay on societal pressures on Friday that my teacher thought was great where I talked about the socio-cultural demands, so I just attempted to regurgitate it, whilst sounding coherent.
Question: does spelling has a big impact? because there was this one word that I know spelt incorrectly.
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So what did people think of passage analysis for The Leopard by Lampedusa? What were people's approaches? :)
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Question: does spelling has a big impact? because there was this one word that I know spelt incorrectly.
No, minor spelling errors will cause no great detriment :)
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What did everyone think of the prompt for cat on a hot tin roof
Thought it was pretty decent. Much better than the prompt for 2017 lol.
What did everyone focus on for that prompt? I talked about Mae+Gooper; Brick+Skipper; and Big Daddy. Looking back now maybe I should've mentioned Maggie and Big Mama too, to fit into the 'family' prompt but I didn't want the assessors to think I was writing from a feminist perspective.
Did anyone do Gogol?
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Thought it was pretty decent. Much better than the prompt for 2017 lol.
What did everyone focus on for that prompt? I talked about Mae+Gooper; Brick+Skipper; and Big Daddy. Looking back now maybe I should've mentioned Maggie and Big Mama too, to fit into the 'family' prompt but I didn't want the assessors to think I was writing from a feminist perspective.
Did anyone do Gogol?
I spoke about Brick and Maggie, Brick and Skipper, Big Mama and Big Daddy. Feel like I focused a bit too much on Brick but he's my favourite character to write about for Cat so hopefully the quality of my analysis makes up for it. If it doesn't then I'll see you all in literary purgatory ;D
Just curious, is everything outside the outline on the page ignored? I was about to write the section and prompt number for an essay outside of the border but opted against it and wrote it on the first line given. It makes the page look so ugly though haha
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I spoke about Brick and Maggie, Brick and Skipper, Big Mama and Big Daddy. Feel like I focused a bit too much on Brick but he's my favourite character to write about for Cat so hopefully the quality of my analysis makes up for it. If it doesn't then I'll see you all in literary purgatory ;D
Just curious, is everything outside the outline on the page ignored? I was about to write the section and prompt number for an essay outside of the border but opted against it and wrote it on the first line given. It makes the page look so ugly though haha
I'm wondering about that too! I wrote the section and prompt number on the first line of every page, not sure if that's overkill lol, but I wasn't taking any chances.
Also were you supposed to start on a new page for section B because I literally drew a line through the page and then started Section B on the same page as my conclusion for Section A.
How many pages did everyone write? I wrote 15 (6.5 for section A, 8.5 for section B), not sure if that's a bit too excessive or not.
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Did anyone do The Passion for section B? Those were nasty passages...
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what did people think of the north and south topic??
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I wrote 12 and I thought that was a lot. How on earth do you write 15 pages in two hours
I didn't even have time to count — all I know is that I had to ask for a second writing booklet and wrote less for section B than A
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Thought it was pretty decent. Much better than the prompt for 2017 lol.
What did everyone focus on for that prompt? I talked about Mae+Gooper; Brick+Skipper; and Big Daddy. Looking back now maybe I should've mentioned Maggie and Big Mama too, to fit into the 'family' prompt but I didn't want the assessors to think I was writing from a feminist perspective.
Did anyone do Gogol?
I talked about Brick and Skipper in the first paragraph, Big Daddy and Big Mamma and their toxic relationship in the second, and how Maggie is blamed for not satisfying her husband when its not really her fault. Overall, I enjoyed this years prompt
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Are there many people who did either 'Rhinoceros' for part A or 'Ariel' for part B? Personally, I thought the prompt for 'Rhinoceros' was great. The poems for 'Ariel' were also a good combination.
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Hi everyone :)
Anyone do Heart of Darkness or Only the Animals? What did you think of the prompt and passages?
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Thought it was pretty decent. Much better than the prompt for 2017 lol.
What did everyone focus on for that prompt? I talked about Mae+Gooper; Brick+Skipper; and Big Daddy. Looking back now maybe I should've mentioned Maggie and Big Mama too, to fit into the 'family' prompt but I didn't want the assessors to think I was writing from a feminist perspective.
Did anyone do Gogol?
For section A I talked about Brick and Skipper, Big Daddy + Big Mama, Mae's five children, and Reverend Tooker. I was seriously grasping at straws with the reverend, hopefully the assessors don't mind.
Did anyone do Browning's poems? I was pleasantly surprised by them. Toccata AND Campagna together was unexpected, it made analysis so much easier. Pretty much your classic Browning quotes are all in there. My Last Duchess threw me off though.
Overall, surprised that VCAA was so nice to us this year. I was expecting curveballs right and left.
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Hi everyone :)
Anyone do Heart of Darkness or Only the Animals? What did you think of the prompt and passages?
I wrote on Heart of Darkness for Part A and was pleasantly surprised by the prompt. Sure, the mention of "European intrusion" did hint towards a post-colonial perspective (at least in my opinion) but after some discussion with classmates we agreed that it was as flexible and accessible as we wanted it to be.
Anyone else here wrote only 10 pages?
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So what did people think of passage analysis for The Leopard by Lampedusa? What were people's approaches? :)
I didn't think they'd do similar passages to last year but they did! It's a little strange that they didn't include Lampedusa's vivid imagery and symbolism and focused on politicky stuff, but there was still enough to write about I guess! I can't even remember now... pretty sure my main focus was metaphor, characterisation of the Prince as the aristocracy or something? and the broader themes of change and decay, I think. Yourself?
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I thought the Heart of Darkness question was a curveball, however if you planned it out really quickly at the start i found it easy to bend the question to the literary perspective i'd done the most work on, which was feminist. So i ended up talking about how the women were damaged and affected, and how their presence in the storyline was deplted as an effect of the mens intrusion into africa, and their voyages of 'glory' across the world. What did others do?
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Thought it was pretty decent. Much better than the prompt for 2017 lol.
What did everyone focus on for that prompt? I talked about Mae+Gooper; Brick+Skipper; and Big Daddy. Looking back now maybe I should've mentioned Maggie and Big Mama too, to fit into the 'family' prompt but I didn't want the assessors to think I was writing from a feminist perspective.
Did anyone do Gogol?
I actually did Gogol for Lit Perspectives and I struggled a lot with the prompt. However, the passages for Gogol were actually super accessible and to some extent i regret not doing Gogol for section B instead.
Did anyone do Vasquez- The Sound of Things Falling?
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For section A I talked about Brick and Skipper, Big Daddy + Big Mama, Mae's five children, and Reverend Tooker. I was seriously grasping at straws with the reverend, hopefully the assessors don't mind.
Just out of curiosity, what did you talk about for the reverend? I wrote pages and pages of analysis on him and he was my strongest point but I had no idea how to bring it into an essay on family values.
And yeah I agree this year's prompts and passages all seemed rather straightforward, which can only mean that they'll be overly strict with the marking to get that bell curve.
I actually did Gogol for Lit Perspectives and I struggled a lot with the prompt. However, the passages for Gogol were actually super accessible and to some extent i regret not doing Gogol for section B instead.
What lens did you use for Gogol? I really wanted to do him for lit perspectives but I felt like the only lens you could apply to all the stories (and have enough to say) was a psychoanalytical lens.
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Just out of curiosity, what did you talk about for the reverend? I wrote pages and pages of analysis on him and he was my strongest point but I had no idea how to bring it into an essay on family values.
And yeah I agree this year's prompts and passages all seemed rather straightforward, which can only mean that they'll be overly strict with the marking to get that bell curve.
I talked about the infiltration of American family values by upheld traditional institutions, aka the catholic church.
Once you make that connection that the church is also an institution that represents marriage it's quite easy to link the reverend into a prompt on family values. :)