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Title: English Exam Scores
Post by: phanphy on October 27, 2009, 07:04:11 pm
Given reasonably high (A+) SAC results for units 3 & 4...

What mark /30 would get you a 45?

27, 28?

thanks.
Title: Re: English Exam Scores
Post by: iao123 on October 27, 2009, 09:15:14 pm
yeah aproximately 27.
Title: Re: English Exam Scores
Post by: bmsvce on October 27, 2009, 11:17:32 pm
What really? now i don't know if that's a good thing or not.

Do you reckon you'd be able to score a 9 or 10 if the piece isn't fully finished. like a conclusion off? clearly i'm having time issues
Title: Re: English Exam Scores
Post by: vexx on October 27, 2009, 11:23:14 pm
What really? now i don't know if that's a good thing or not.

Do you reckon you'd be able to score a 9 or 10 if the piece isn't fully finished. like a conclusion off? clearly i'm having time issues

i'm assuming out of /10?
there's no way you could that high score on your essay if you don't have a conclusion..hehe sorry..
Title: Re: English Exam Scores
Post by: NE2000 on October 28, 2009, 10:00:15 am
What really? now i don't know if that's a good thing or not.

Do you reckon you'd be able to score a 9 or 10 if the piece isn't fully finished. like a conclusion off? clearly i'm having time issues

i'm assuming out of /10?
there's no way you could that high score on your essay if you don't have a conclusion..hehe sorry..

I'm pretty sure in things like language analysis the conclusion is not a large determining factor in your mark (generally only 3-4 sentences of summing things up and closing off). I'm pretty sure you can get a 10 if the rest is very good and the conclusion is short or not very helpful
Title: Re: English Exam Scores
Post by: vexx on October 28, 2009, 01:11:41 pm
oh really? my teacher told us that you cannot do well without a good conclusion, i'm thinking more text response.
she took off about 5 marks (out of 30) from my friend's essay for not doing a conclusion.><
Title: Re: English Exam Scores
Post by: xXNovaxX on October 28, 2009, 01:26:57 pm
oh really? my teacher told us that you cannot do well without a good conclusion, i'm thinking more text response.
she took off about 5 marks (out of 30) from my friend's essay for not doing a conclusion.><
You also have to keep in mind, a conclusion for example is automatically worth lets say 5/20 etc, it doesn't work like that. It all comes down to the OVERALL piece.

I went to a lecture, and the lecturer was an assessor she said "dont do conclusions for analysis" they sound stupid, don't really do anything, and many people stuffed up their piece because if a poor conclusion.

But my teacher said in PREVIOUS study designs they didnt have to do one, but she said we should do one because it's a formality/convention

And now I am confused, LOL, both have valid arguments, in my opinion, a conclusion for analysis does sound boring and irrelevant, i literally write rubbish.
Title: Re: English Exam Scores
Post by: khalil on October 28, 2009, 01:29:50 pm
oh really? my teacher told us that you cannot do well without a good conclusion, i'm thinking more text response.
she took off about 5 marks (out of 30) from my friend's essay for not doing a conclusion.><
You also have to keep in mind, a conclusion for example is automatically worth lets say 5/20 etc, it doesn't work like that. It all comes down to the OVERALL piece.

The conlcusion is only for completeness in LA, assessors don't take it seriously

I went to a lecture, and the lecturer was an assessor she said "dont do conclusions for analysis" they sound stupid, don't really do anything, and many people stuffed up their piece because if a poor conclusion.

But my teacher said in PREVIOUS study designs they didnt have to do one, but she said we should do one because it's a formality/convention

And now I am confused, LOL, both have valid arguments, in my opinion, a conclusion for analysis does sound boring and irrelevant, i literally write rubbish.
Title: Re: English Exam Scores
Post by: RexPP on October 28, 2009, 01:34:16 pm
What I tend to do with my language analysis conclusions is recap what I believe to be the most persuasive aspect of both the visual and the article, before mentioning which out of the two was more persuasive as a whole - just to give it something.
Title: Re: English Exam Scores
Post by: xXNovaxX on October 28, 2009, 01:37:39 pm
What I tend to do with my language analysis conclusions is recap what I believe to be the most persuasive aspect of both the visual and the article, before mentioning which out of the two was more persuasive as a whole - just to give it something.
But that's the thing. I do that as well, recap which were the most persuasive, however I have ALREADY discussed how they are persuasive/why in my BODY, so i feel that I am merely repeating myself. But you are right.
Title: Re: English Exam Scores
Post by: RexPP on October 28, 2009, 01:43:36 pm
Particularly for language analysis, if I had to sacrifice a conclusion due to time constraints I wouldn't think it was the end of the world.
Title: Re: English Exam Scores
Post by: NE2000 on October 28, 2009, 03:13:53 pm
Yeah my conclusion for language analysis is always just recapping what I've already said and the main intention of the author. Pretty boring stuff.

I think it is more important to have a conclusion in text response. The reason being that you do have to bring all your points together. Also your text response conclusion will be longer than your language analysis one.
Title: Re: English Exam Scores
Post by: phanphy on October 28, 2009, 09:33:51 pm
I agree, my lang analysis conclusions are generally only 1-2 brief sentences.
it's not crucial, depends on the quality of the piece itself.
Title: Re: English Exam Scores
Post by: EvangelionZeta on October 28, 2009, 09:38:02 pm
What really? now i don't know if that's a good thing or not.

Do you reckon you'd be able to score a 9 or 10 if the piece isn't fully finished. like a conclusion off? clearly i'm having time issues

A guy at my school last year didn't write a conclusion on his last essay (ran out of time) and got 47, so you can still score high if your proness is pro.  (:
Title: Re: English Exam Scores
Post by: dejan91 on October 28, 2009, 09:39:17 pm
I conclude a language analysis by analysing how the author concludes. I find that an actual conclusion sounds too repeated and unnecessary.

EDIT: Wooo. 400th post :)
Title: Re: English Exam Scores
Post by: Trent on October 28, 2009, 09:49:21 pm
I conclude a language analysis by analysing how the author concludes. I find that an actual conclusion sounds too repeated and unnecessary.

Yeah this. I don't even bother with a seperate conclusion, makes it seem clunky.
Title: Re: English Exam Scores
Post by: aronno on October 28, 2009, 10:48:05 pm
have been getting a B+ average for english is it still possible to get 40?
Title: Re: English Exam Scores
Post by: kendraaaaa on October 28, 2009, 10:56:47 pm
have been getting a B+ average for english is it still possible to get 40?

I wouldn't say so. Your only hope, is you getting close to 60/60 for the exam and the rest of your cohort kicking ass thereby increasing your SAC marks.

Title: Re: English Exam Scores
Post by: khalil on October 28, 2009, 10:59:59 pm
have been getting a B+ average for english is it still possible to get 40?

YES....ofcourse....you might be getting B+'s cos' ur teacher marks harsh....maintain those skills in the exam and you could surprise urself with A+.