Section A Discussion

[dankfrank420]

Medea's first topic was fantastic, you could almost hear a huge sigh of relief in our exam hall because it was basically the interpretation we were taught at school.

My contention was bascially that Euripides is highlighting the dangers of extremity in an attempt to temper the Athenians desire for war.

Para 1: Medeas hamartia - dangers of excessive passion
Para 2: the hedonistic motivations of Jason and Medea - dangers of extreme ambition
Para 3: the sophistry employed by the main characters - dangers of extreme and emotional language (which Euripides argues has gripped Athens)

Pretty happy with it and I wrote 6 pages, so I'm  hoping for an 8 or maybe even a 9 if I'm very lucky. By far the best piece I wrote on the exam, let's not talk about language analysis lol.

[thaaanyan]

Medea's first topic was fantastic, you could almost hear a huge sigh of relief in our exam hall because it was basically the interpretation we were taught at school.

My contention was bascially that Euripides is highlighting the dangers of extremity in an attempt to temper the Athenians desire for war.

Para 1: Medeas hamartia - dangers of excessive passion
Para 2: the hedonistic motivations of Jason and Medea - dangers of extreme ambition
Para 3: the sophistry employed by the main characters - dangers of extreme and emotional language (which Euripides argues has gripped Athens)

Pretty happy with it and I wrote 6 pages, so I'm  hoping for an 8 or maybe even a 9 if I'm very lucky. By far the best piece I wrote on the exam, let's not talk about language analysis lol.

glad it went well for you
i did something like
para 1: excessive passion
para 2: excessive logic
para 3: the necessity of moderation between the two
i felt like LA was my strongest and text response my weakest haha...i think i can scrape an 8 too, though i wrote way less than you. like 4 and 1/2 pages.

[DJA]

HENRY IV Topics?? wow you guys are lucky as hell!

Can't believe VCAA

[drmockingbird]

glad it went well for you
i did something like
para 1: excessive passion
para 2: excessive logic
para 3: the necessity of moderation between the two
i felt like LA was my strongest and text response my weakest haha...i think i can scrape an 8 too, though i wrote way less than you. like 4 and 1/2 pages.

Yeah i wrote something similar

Para 1: Medea's violent feminism doesn't do her any favours
Para 2:  Neither do Medea's killings
Para 3: but she balances herself by the end so it's all good

[yeahm8]

HENRY IV Topics?? wow you guys are lucky as hell!

Can't believe VCAA

leadership one was a gift, out of curiosity how would you have responded to this?

[Mc47]

I did the first Stasiland one

Only wrote 3 paragraphs, but it would have been approx. 850 words so hopefully that's fine

[thaaanyan]

Yeah i wrote something similar

Para 1: Medea's violent feminism doesn't do her any favours
Para 2:  Neither do Medea's killings
Para 3: but she balances herself by the end so it's all good

that sounds solid! how did you find the overall exam?? I feel like i really should have gone for the second topic. like, i would have had a lot more that was original to say, but tbh i'm glad that the medea topics weren't awful awful. i was preparing for something on manipulation, or oaths, or exile, or sense of place or heroism. the old excess emotion caught me off guard but that's ok. i feel like it could have gone much better, but also so much worse.

[dankfrank420]

that sounds solid! how did you find the overall exam?? I feel like i really should have gone for the second topic. like, i would have had a lot more that was original to say, but tbh i'm glad that the medea topics weren't awful awful. i was preparing for something on manipulation, or oaths, or exile, or sense of place or heroism. the old excess emotion caught me off guard but that's ok. i feel like it could have gone much better, but also so much worse.

Really?

I found the first Medea topic to be the most obvious interpretation of the text.

Maybe it's just due to whatever your school teaches you.

Anyway, looking at your lit score I'm sure you smashed it.

[drmockingbird]

that sounds solid! how did you find the overall exam?? I feel like i really should have gone for the second topic. like, i would have had a lot more that was original to say, but tbh i'm glad that the medea topics weren't awful awful. i was preparing for something on manipulation, or oaths, or exile, or sense of place or heroism. the old excess emotion caught me off guard but that's ok. i feel like it could have gone much better, but also so much worse.

I found the exam good, apart from Section C, but I guess I fudged a decent amount in there
My text response and context were essentially memorised word for word since the topics fit some previous essays exactly, my only concern is that I did the entire exam sleep deprived so I woke up this morning, and was like whaaa, what did I even write yesterday. When I checked it over in the exam it read nicely, so  hopefully its just irrational nerves, but the last time I wrote something sleep deprived I made a fool of myself so

Don't worry about it though bro. With a 46 in lit the expression of your writing is bound to be top and you can defs make up for an alright interpretation with flair as long as its backed up with quotes

[bobisnotmyname]

Did anyone do else "the white tiger". Would it be easier to write a good essay on a books first year in the exam (less time the book has been studied) or makes no difference?