EXAM THOUGHTS: All discussion on the 2007 paper to go HERE.

[Odette]

Wow 2 hours on the analysis that is only worth 20 marks
Time management is so important ... people sometimes underestimate how important it is...

[Juztine]

did anyone do man for all seasons pt 2 topic? id be interested to know what people put i liked it, but obviously spent to long on it, even though i liked it, i couldnt really pull my ideas together properly

Yeah I did Man For All Seasons part 2...lol kinda confusing. I was rushing thru it so my ideas might not have made sense. What did you write about?

2 hours on analysis?!?

did she do ANY of her essays?  :?

haha that's what I asked. but she seemed pretty laidback and not concerned so :S

[Odette]

Was it just the analysis or the writing task as a whole??
Time management is so important !!! people just don't understand how important it is...

Ahh well...

[simon07]

hey people
took 50 minutes - wrote part one barbed wire canoe wrote 5 pages
next took one hour - part two curious incident weird question wrote 5 pages
analysis took 45 min thought it was a bit long wrote 4 pages

now i only had like 20 min left for pov
rushed it a bit but still think wasnt to bad
some questions bout it
i only wrote 1.5 pages you guys reckon its a enough?
secondly and major question
the pov asked are we overprotected
me n my friend qrote as a parent saying how you know protection is needed
are we wrong?

[Juztine]

Was it just the analysis or the writing task as a whole??
Time management is so important !!! people just don't understand how important it is...

Ahh well...

it was JUST the analysis. rofl. she showed me her paper afterwards, there were annotations and highlighted bits of text everywhere...I barely spent 2 minutes annotating o_o

yeah time management is so crucial, that's why I'm relieved just to know I finished in time

[Freitag]

Simon, ALOT of people did that (I did it too.. same persona as well).

From my knowledge, in 2003 or 2004 a high percentile of students misread the question for the POV, and could only achieve a maximum of 6.

With your response you'd have probably covered the actual question in your reasonings anyway, so don't worry.

And as for spending 2 hours on the analysis, Wow.. o_O

[Odette]

Was it just the analysis or the writing task as a whole??
Time management is so important !!! people just don't understand how important it is...

Ahh well...

it was JUST the analysis. rofl. she showed me her paper afterwards, there were annotations and highlighted bits of text everywhere...I barely spent 2 minutes annotating o_o

yeah time management is so crucial, that's why I'm relieved just to know I finished in time

WOW OMG LOL ... DOESN'T SHE HAVE ANY COMMON SENSE? SPENDING 2 HOURS ON SOMETHING THAT IS WORTH 10 MARKS??!??

[Markos]

Yeah, I thought taking just under an hour was a litle overboard..

[melanie.dee]

did anyone do man for all seasons pt 2 topic? id be interested to know what people put i liked it, but obviously spent to long on it, even though i liked it, i couldnt really pull my ideas together properly

yeh while i liked the topic, i didnt make it work very well either. but i had fortuntely read the preface just last nite, and its talks a lot about bolt's ideas of society and the individual and stuff.. i think i talked about society being built around convenience and that quote how if most people want a divorce, they get it if its convenient or not if not, but if the key wants a divorce everything shifts to make that convenient or something.. so i said that the values were shaped according to the most powerful group.. then i said that individuals willing to adapt to this could gain consideral personal physcial success in such a society, but ultimate lost their freedom and hence kind of lost their individuality.. and then i said that when ones personal values come into conflict wiht most powerful group, and are unwillig to stand aside, ultimately they cease to have a place in that society and are deestroyed or something

meanwhile the look both ways topic.. i really regret choosing lbw because my essay so simplistic and yr 7 sounding it was horrible

[Freitag]

Not to mention spending an hour annotating... You don't get any marks for that.

[Ahmad]

Mel you're a really good writer. I bet you're underestimating your score on the other 3 pieces. POV is worth 1/6th, not so much. I hope you do well.  :wink:

[Defiler]

From my knowledge, in 2003 or 2004 a high percentile of students misread the question for the POV, and could only achieve a maximum of 6.

It'll be interesting as to what they deem to be completely 'misreading' the question or whatever...

[Markos]

Not to mention spending an hour annotating... You don't get any marks for that.

Ha exactly what I thought when I realised they dont take the Task Book up... All those notes/scribbles over the articles that I wasted time on

[Juztine]

did anyone do man for all seasons pt 2 topic? id be interested to know what people put i liked it, but obviously spent to long on it, even though i liked it, i couldnt really pull my ideas together properly

yeh while i liked the topic, i didnt make it work very well either. but i had fortuntely read the preface just last nite, and its talks a lot about bolt's ideas of society and the individual and stuff.. i think i talked about society being built around convenience and that quote how if most people want a divorce, they get it if its convenient or not if not, but if the key wants a divorce everything shifts to make that convenient or something.. so i said that the values were shaped according to the most powerful group.. then i said that individuals willing to adapt to this could gain consideral personal physcial success in such a society, but ultimate lost their freedom and hence kind of lost their individuality.. and then i said that when ones personal values come into conflict wiht most powerful group, and are unwillig to stand aside, ultimately they cease to have a place in that society and are deestroyed or something

meanwhile the look both ways topic.. i really regret choosing lbw because my essay so simplistic and yr 7 sounding it was horrible

omg! lol I did Look Both ways as well. looks like we did same parts for the same essays (:

[Freitag]

From my knowledge, in 2003 or 2004 a high percentile of students misread the question for the POV, and could only achieve a maximum of 6.

It'll be interesting as to what they deem to be completely 'misreading' the question or whatever...

Well, the other year the mistake was more major then this year.

If you wrote that children should be protected, you're still sort of addressing whether or not overprotection exists in society. Sort of =)