Silly things you did during the exam..

[BoredSatan]

i wrote half a page of my text response essay on the "planning section" so had to quickly transcribe it over to the lined section

how does THAT happen? dont you realise you're writing with no lines? LOL

[BigFunt]

It was only in the front of the booklet of the expository section that we had to put the name of the text we used right?

like there were two boxes, one for our context and the other for the text?

where did it say to put the prompt, i think i missed it !

[BoredSatan]

It was only in the front of the booklet of the expository section that we had to put the name of the text we used right?

like there were two boxes, one for our context and the other for the text?

where did it say to put the prompt, i think i missed it !

you only needed to put the context eg. "ENCOUNTERING CONFLICT"
and then in the other box the name of the text eg. "THE CRUCIBLE"

you DID NOT need to write the style of your piece. NOR did you have to write the prompt. there was only 1 prompt for each context. i dont think the examiners will get confused

[jinny1]

i wrote half a page of my text response essay on the "planning section" so had to quickly transcribe it over to the lined section

how does THAT happen? dont you realise you're writing with no lines? LOL

haha yea i was wondering that too!!i was like wtf why don't they line all of the pages?? i nvr did any practice exams so i didnt realise that they allocate evry other page on planning

[Cinnah]

i wrote half a page of my text response essay on the "planning section" so had to quickly transcribe it over to the lined section

how does THAT happen? dont you realise you're writing with no lines? LOL

haha yea i was wondering that too!!i was like wtf why don't they line all of the pages?? i nvr did any practice exams so i didnt realise that they allocate evry other page on planning

It's little things like the SAC booklets my school would do that I realised I took for granted...
I hope everyone knows that the markers don't see those pages... they're not scanned in, from what I've heard.

[xdecay]

i wrote half a page of my text response essay on the "planning section" so had to quickly transcribe it over to the lined section

how does THAT happen? dont you realise you're writing with no lines? LOL

haha yea i was wondering that too!!i was like wtf why don't they line all of the pages?? i nvr did any practice exams so i didnt realise that they allocate evry other page on planning

i know someone who drew her note-form summary diagram (part of section C language analysis in ESL) on the blank parts of the booklet. a lot of us originally thought that the blank space was allocated for the diagram as well. but oops. :|

[xdecay]

i wrote half a page of my text response essay on the "planning section" so had to quickly transcribe it over to the lined section

how does THAT happen? dont you realise you're writing with no lines? LOL

haha yea i was wondering that too!!i was like wtf why don't they line all of the pages?? i nvr did any practice exams so i didnt realise that they allocate evry other page on planning

It's little things like the SAC booklets my school would do that I realised I took for granted...
I hope everyone knows that the markers don't see those pages... they're not scanned in, from what I've heard.

'scanned' as in, the copies are sent for examiners to mark, right?

[BoredSatan]

Well i started my LA on page 2..

hopefully they'll realise that

[Cinnah]

Pretty much, the copies sent to the examiners aren't the originals: the process that has been explained to me is that they're catagorised by people, then made into electronic copies, then sent to the markers.
It's like the "this page is intentionally left blank" on some things like the GAT & the AIMS tests we did in earlier years of school.

Or at least, that is what I've been told.

(mentioned a few times when I've asked various people about marking process, and my english teacher once told me not to write parts I forget, leave out and add in later on the left hand page because the examiners don't actually get that page)

[BoredSatan]

Pretty much, the copies sent to the examiners aren't the originals: the process that has been explained to me is that they're catagorised by people, then made into electronic copies, then sent to the markers.
It's like the "this page is intentionally left blank" on some things like the GAT & the AIMS tests we did in earlier years of school.

Or at least, that is what I've been told.

So if i didnt write 'BLANK' on the first page they'll scan the whole book right?

Do you think i should call up VCAA and tell them i started on the second page?

[Cinnah]

You'll be fine. They get all the pages, just not the unlined ones.

[xdecay]

Thanks Cinnah for explaining all that. I will get my friend to call vcaa asap to make sure her diagram is scanned!

[geoftw]

someone fell asleep in the exam. what a loser.

[Cinnah]

Thanks Cinnah for explaining all that. I will get my friend to call vcaa asap to make sure her diagram is scanned!

hahaha, don't quote me to vcaa on that, I'm not 100%
but diagrams? They wouldn't grade you on that anyway, to be honest...

[BoredSatan]

Thanks Cinnah for explaining all that. I will get my friend to call vcaa asap to make sure her diagram is scanned!

hahaha, don't quote me to vcaa on that, I'm not 100%
but diagrams? They wouldn't grade you on that anyway, to be honest...

in ESL they do i think