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Re: What order is everyone doing the exam?
« Reply #15 on: October 31, 2012, 01:20:52 pm »
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I will do CBA :D
Cause I did CAB on my prac exam and it didnt turn out too well. Doing context second since it's what I'm more comfortable with writing on the exam day as I've preplanned it already
Yeah but you should start with language analysis, usually takes the longest, and you don't want to waste all that reading time!
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Re: What order is everyone doing the exam?
« Reply #16 on: October 31, 2012, 02:34:17 pm »
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ABC
If I do A last, I will run out of time and A costs most

I was under the impression that each section was equally weighted...?

I dont know for Eng but for ESL, A-40, B-30, C-30
I did CBA, CAB for prac exams but didnt finish section A as the way I like
ABC works best for me
Anyway, if all of you wanna do C first, go for it.
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Re: What order is everyone doing the exam?
« Reply #17 on: October 31, 2012, 02:39:59 pm »
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ABC.

You can easily plan the points for context and text in your head, plus with text you know exactly what quotes you're going to use.

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Re: What order is everyone doing the exam?
« Reply #18 on: October 31, 2012, 02:50:32 pm »
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CBA - if prompt given has already been dealt with before

CAB - if otherwise.

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Re: What order is everyone doing the exam?
« Reply #19 on: October 31, 2012, 03:19:11 pm »
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ABC
If I do A last, I will run out of time and A costs most

No it doesn't - equal weighting :P

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Re: What order is everyone doing the exam?
« Reply #20 on: October 31, 2012, 04:08:16 pm »
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My order is dependent on how I feel about the prompts...
I usually finish context early so I think I'm going to get that out of the way first. Every time I've completed LA first, I've rushed it to make sure I complete it in an hour and I end up having time left over.

So I'm thinking BAC or BCA depending on how I feel..
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Re: What order is everyone doing the exam?
« Reply #21 on: October 31, 2012, 04:26:36 pm »
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ABC
If I do A last, I will run out of time and A costs most

No it doesn't - equal weighting :P
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Re: What order is everyone doing the exam?
« Reply #22 on: October 31, 2012, 04:32:20 pm »
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My order is dependent on how I feel about the prompts...
I usually finish context early so I think I'm going to get that out of the way first. Every time I've completed LA first, I've rushed it to make sure I complete it in an hour and I end up having time left over.

So I'm thinking BAC or BCA depending on how I feel..

Yay BAC for the win!  :P
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Re: What order is everyone doing the exam?
« Reply #23 on: October 31, 2012, 06:43:43 pm »
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I think I'm just going to go C,B,A

So i have about about 70 minutes to write my text response
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Re: What order is everyone doing the exam?
« Reply #24 on: October 31, 2012, 06:50:23 pm »
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The one I feel most confident in I guess

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Re: What order is everyone doing the exam?
« Reply #25 on: October 31, 2012, 07:06:49 pm »
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I'm doing C first since in reading time you get to plan for A and B
While you remember C because you do it straight away aiming to do it in 55 minutes
Anyway im thinking of doing B after since i got a prepared essays that should mould into the topic given
Then A last spending the most time on this

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Re: What order is everyone doing the exam?
« Reply #26 on: October 31, 2012, 07:09:22 pm »
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CBA for me, I've grown accustomed to it.
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Re: What order is everyone doing the exam?
« Reply #27 on: October 31, 2012, 08:57:22 pm »
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CAB.

Need to show 'dat understanding and close perceptive reading of the text for A. Context I can always take out a paragraph and hopefully get an 8 since my conclusion is only like four lines.

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Re: What order is everyone doing the exam?
« Reply #28 on: October 31, 2012, 09:02:42 pm »
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Just a warning though, stick to your times!

For my exam, I did ABC.

For text response, I spent like 1 hour and 35 mins - managed to get 9/10
For context, I realised I needed to speed things up, so I nutted it out in 55 mins - managed to get 8.5/10
Then I had 30 mins to do LA - I managed to finish just below 30 - got 5/10

So time = quality guys!

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Re: What order is everyone doing the exam?
« Reply #29 on: October 31, 2012, 09:08:31 pm »
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Just a warning though, stick to your times!

For my exam, I did ABC.

For text response, I spent like 1 hour and 35 mins - managed to get 9/10
For context, I realised I needed to speed things up, so I nutted it out in 55 mins - managed to get 8.5/10
Then I had 30 mins to do LA - I managed to finish just below 30 - got 5/10

So time = quality guys!

I thought you needed 24/40 to get at least 40? You got 42? Nice.