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Text Response: How did you go?
« on: November 03, 2011, 11:46:09 am »
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Just to try and break up the inevitable flood of posts, if you want to ask specific questions or discuss specific sections there are three threads :)
« Last Edit: November 03, 2011, 11:48:23 am by Russ »
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Re: Text Response: How did you go?
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2011, 01:19:42 pm »
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RICHARD III. LAST YEAR. BEST PROMPTS EVER. I JIZZED MYSELF :P
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Re: Text Response: How did you go?
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2011, 01:22:19 pm »
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On the Waterfront - both were good questions, I did the first one, I went a little overtime, but very happy with my essay, hope it'll be enough to save me!
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Re: Text Response: How did you go?
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2011, 01:25:29 pm »
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Dear America.. The prompts were great, but I suppose that's to be expected- it's only in its second year. I've yet to see anybody here who is studying Dear America... I reckon there would be have been a total of 10 or so exams done on my text :P
All of the quote memorising paid off. How many quotes did you guys include in your essays? Also, how did those doing Maestro go? I heard the prompts for that were terrible :S
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Re: Text Response: How did you go?
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2011, 01:34:11 pm »
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Really Sucked to Year of Wonders, the second prompt was nuts.
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Re: Text Response: How did you go?
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2011, 01:35:03 pm »
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do examiners count the number of quotes per paragraph or out of the whole essay?
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Re: Text Response: How did you go?
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2011, 01:35:09 pm »
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Ransom! What role does love play in the novella, bla bla?

I talked about what it could do; 'break' a man - Achilles, Neoptolemus, how we long for it and to protect it - Priam, Achilles and his mother (and Briseis, even - slipped her in as a passing comment.) And then how it wasn't just love of other people, but of life and the little things that come with it. And then how it allows us to learn our humanity. I was kind of vague about how this last point was related to love to be honest; talked about how love is central to our identity and it is this commonality between men that is so important (i.e; the ransom) I didn't talk about the redemptive power of love, nor how it connected Priam and Achilles.

GUYS, I'M STRESSING. I'm usually brilliant at Ransom and this felt like utter shit. I missed everything! I'm so concerned. Do these points work?
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Re: Text Response: How did you go?
« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2011, 01:35:34 pm »
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Quote from: cltf on November 03, 2011, 01:34:11 pm
Really Sucked to Year of Wonders, the second prompt was nuts.

What were the prompts for YOW?
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Re: Text Response: How did you go?
« Reply #8 on: November 03, 2011, 01:35:49 pm »
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Quote from: HarveyD on November 03, 2011, 01:35:03 pm
do examiners count the number of quotes per paragraph or out of the whole essay?

they don't.
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Re: Text Response: How did you go?
« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2011, 01:36:39 pm »
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oh cool, so if you provide text evidence in general its enough?
cause i kinda focused more on contrasts/imagery than on quotes
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Re: Text Response: How did you go?
« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2011, 01:37:37 pm »
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Quote from: Xavier1234 on November 03, 2011, 01:35:34 pm
Quote from: cltf on November 03, 2011, 01:34:11 pm
Really Sucked to Year of Wonders, the second prompt was nuts.

What were the prompts for YOW?

The first one was a quote from Anna then What other characters do this or something.

the second once was how does brooks show a sense of time? Some really messed up structural one.
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Re: Text Response: How did you go?
« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2011, 01:43:19 pm »
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Maestro :D

I actually had trouble picking a prompt because both of them were surprisingly straight forward even though its the 4th year. :)

GG if Maestro is still in next year. theres gonna be some insane prompts.
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Re: Text Response: How did you go?
« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2011, 01:44:21 pm »
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Ahhh CRAP! I just realised something....

In one of the Ransom prompts it said how does David Malouf portray love in ransom blah blah blah. If I talked about how love was portrayed in the novel is that still okay? I mentioned how David Malouf portrayed it at the intro but then just talked about how it was shown in the novel by the characters and etc.
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Re: Text Response: How did you go?
« Reply #13 on: November 03, 2011, 01:49:12 pm »
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I think Richard third might have saved me for my language analysis.. Great prompts though, heaps to talk about!
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Re: Text Response: How did you go?
« Reply #14 on: November 03, 2011, 01:55:11 pm »
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Horrible, really really horrible. Did it at the end, ran out of ideas, basically said the same thing in two paragraphs in a different way, missed the point of the prompt. Stupid Chistams Carol, stupid Scrooge, stupid me  :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
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