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Archived Discussion => 2010 => End-of-year exams => Exam Discussion => Victoria => English & ESL => Topic started by: johnson on October 30, 2010, 05:49:39 pm

Title: How bad did people screw section C!!?
Post by: johnson on October 30, 2010, 05:49:39 pm
section C is analysis, i think i screwed bad because i said the contention was to try harder to reduce global warming..... instead of biodiversity,
i thought he was emphasizing on global warming acting on biodiversity since it was said in the speech, but i'm not sure T.T
Title: Re: How bad did people screw section C!!?
Post by: bomb on October 30, 2010, 05:50:47 pm
You'd be in worse trouble had you said 'to reduce biodiversity'.
Title: Re: How bad did people screw section C!!?
Post by: taiga on October 30, 2010, 05:52:35 pm
I'll keep it honest, you screwed that up.
Title: Re: How bad did people screw section C!!?
Post by: EvangelionZeta on October 30, 2010, 05:53:19 pm
Whilst I don't think that that would necessarily dock you entire marks, it'd definitely make the examiner lose "confidence" in your piece.
Title: Re: How bad did people screw section C!!?
Post by: claire92 on October 30, 2010, 06:19:05 pm
I think their will be quite a few things they will take into consideration, especially with the whole 'is it a transcript or a speech? what would the audience therefore be then....' debate.
Title: Re: How bad did people screw section C!!?
Post by: PringlePop on October 30, 2010, 07:30:51 pm
Like bomb said, it could be worse...
Title: Re: How bad did people screw section C!!?
Post by: Greggler on October 30, 2010, 07:50:02 pm
chin up. kick on to the next exam. its not something worth losing sleep over.

As EZ said, the examiner may initially lose confidence in your piece; but as long as you analyse those techniques adequately you should be relatively alright.
Title: Re: How bad did people screw section C!!?
Post by: eadvice on October 30, 2010, 09:23:48 pm
stuff it mate, that would be the least of my worries on the exam.
Title: Re: How bad did people screw section C!!?
Post by: monicapham93 on October 31, 2010, 11:19:44 am
:( worst section for me
Title: Re: How bad did people screw section C!!?
Post by: johnson on October 31, 2010, 05:57:38 pm
You'd be in worse trouble had you said 'to reduce biodiversity'.


i meant, i didn't right anything about biodiversity, but only reducign global warming which affects biodiversity.
Title: Re: How bad did people screw section C!!?
Post by: Robbey on October 31, 2010, 11:06:57 pm
just totally skipped the first image..being a gimp myself i thought it was the heading or something hahaha..then when i got out of the exam everyone was talking about how they analyzed 2 images and i was like FUCK
Title: Re: How bad did people screw section C!!?
Post by: 8039 on November 01, 2010, 03:19:49 pm
I made one screw up by making up a possible contention to fit in the first picture. I said that there was an underlying message of 'unity' for people to work together to solve this problem, and talked about the picture of man/child holding hands... cringe worthy stuff.
Title: Re: How bad did people screw section C!!?
Post by: appianway on November 01, 2010, 06:23:41 pm
How is that a screw up? It'sa valid idea, which does support the need for unity and action (think about all of the inclusive language used in the article).
Title: Re: How bad did people screw section C!!?
Post by: tcb1993 on November 01, 2010, 07:21:56 pm
i mucked up too man

had to rush through it and barely spoke about important stuff

i remember i blanked and couldnt find anything to talk about so i said something like because he said they 'lost so and so amount of trees' instead of saying 'there are so and so amount of trees left', the active verb 'to lose' makes it sound like they've each had an active part in its loss and it invokes guilt

or something like that wow it made no sense whatsoever