English 2012 - How'd you go!? (General Discussion + FUNNY EXAM MOMENTS)

[Lasercookie]

Can't believe, I didn't finish section A (the highest marked!) What's went wrong with all my study 

all three sections are out of 20 marks!

I'm guessing pyro is doing ESL, where it's not evenly distributed.

laseredd, upload here Re: 2012 Paper to avoid confusion please

Yeah sure.

[Aaron]

The prompts for Dear America and Identity/Belonging were quite simple and easy to understand which was good.

The persuasive analysis slides/speech was straight to the point.. audience in the background information.. perfect

I think i did well.

[Jenny_2108]

Can't believe, I didn't finish section A (the highest marked!) What's went wrong with all my study 

all three sections are out of 20 marks!

nope, he does ESL. Section A is 40, B 30, C 30. A is the most important

[pyro-53]

Can't believe, I didn't finish section A (the highest marked!) What's went wrong with all my study 

I haven't finished section C. Was writing and they said pen down, my life ended

Yea. I feel you. Curse the damn clock for running so quick!

[Jenny_2108]

Can't believe, I didn't finish section A (the highest marked!) What's went wrong with all my study 

I haven't finished section C. Was writing and they said pen down, my life ended

Yea. I feel you. Curse the damn clock for running so quick!

yeah true, they even didn't let me write down the last word. How did you go with section B and C?

[laurameulman]

Section A: Year of Wonders, first prompt was really really good and i think i did pretty well on that one.
B: Conflict and Paradise Road, prompt was good but i ran out of time and didn't finish it off as well as i could have.
C: Pretty easy in my opinion Was pretty happy with the analysis side of things. The contention was clear, and there was also a clear tone change that was easy to talk about.

[pyro-53]

Can't believe, I didn't finish section A (the highest marked!) What's went wrong with all my study 

I haven't finished section C. Was writing and they said pen down, my life ended

Yea. I feel you. Curse the damn clock for running so quick!

yeah true, they even didn't let me write down the last word. How did you go with section B and C?

Quite pleased with section B. My order was CAB, but A was so hard for me so I wasted a lot of time to plan out the essay. When I couldn't get anything to a paragraph, I quickly ran to B. When I finally came to A, there's only a short amount of time left.
BTW, I'm doing Cosi for A and conflict for B. How about u?

[taiga]

Just a heads up, regardless of how you did and how tempting it is to think over it, the best thing you can do is to continue to prepare for your other exams!

Hope you all get more than what you deserve

[diligent18]

Overall, I thought it was a fair exam.
Topics, Prompts and Language Analysis were all very reasonable and accessible.
I wrote so fast that I think I pulled a muscle in my hand (If that's even possible), my fingers keep twitching.
Glad its over though.  A great weight has been lifted off my chest.
Next up - Psychology!

[golden]

I haven't finished section C. Was writing and they said pen down, my life ended

yeah true, they even didn't let me write down the last word. How did you go with section B and C?

You had one word to finishing right?

[brenden]

Oh, and! I didn't have a single shred of adrenaline. My heart rate was not higher in anyway than my normal resting heart rate. That whole exam I was just like ""Cool... wonder when the adrenaline will kick in and give my word count a push... could really use some right now.... is it coming... hmm... nope... hmmm"" Not a shred. Was so weird. During my mid year I couldn't highlight questions properly because my hand was shaking so badly.

[Kanon]

Really don't know how I went. I was hoping for a 35+ but I think it's more likely going to be a low 30 now.
I went CBA (just realised that's the acronym for Commonwealth Bank of Australia of Australia LOL)

Text Response - By far the weakest for me, responded to the first prompt of Year of Wonders and overall really poorly worded and formed essay.  My examples weren't too solid and whilst I had two properly integrated quotes I think I retold the story too much (didn't really see an opportunity to introduce metalanguage to keep me on track).

Context - Decent, my english tutor kept saying they'd probably do something about adopting a 'personna' to suit a situation or environment. So I had written on it before which is great, although I don't feel that my essay was special in any shape or form which is a tad concerning.

Language Analysis - I found it pretty difficult, there wasn't a whole lot of different techniques she used.  The majority of them I found were: rhetorical questions, inclusive language and another two that have escaped my mind.  But imo there was a LOT of tone change, so i ended up with paragraph one being how Elliot first establishes her tone, the image also reaffirming it. Paragraph two ended up as the tonal shifts that occured throughout the speech and Paragraph three was her use of inclusive language, rhetorical questions and another thing in combination to appeal to something haha.

EDIT: Yeah haha Brenden, I was like that aswell! 

[ellaa81]

Any idea what the highest possible mark for section A would be if I only completed 2 paragraphs? They were fairly long, ended up going onto the third page but weren't coherent or well-structured. 3 or 4 or less?

[Jenny_2108]

Quite pleased with section B. My order was CAB, but A was so hard for me so I wasted a lot of time to plan out the essay. When I couldn't get anything to a paragraph, I quickly ran to B. When I finally came to A, there's only a short amount of time left.
BTW, I'm doing Cosi for A and conflict for B. How about u?

Don't worry too much, if you did well section B and C, they can compensate marks for section A
I did The reluctant fundamentalist for A and identity+belonging for B

I haven't finished section C. Was writing and they said pen down, my life ended

yeah true, they even didn't let me write down the last word. How did you go with section B and C?

You had one word to finishing right?

yeah but still important. I was writing "knowledge" but didn't have enough time to write the letter "e" in the end I didn't write conclusion in LA either but they said no conclusion need for ESL so...

[brenden]

Any idea what the highest possible mark for section A would be if I only completed 2 paragraphs? They were fairly long, ended up going onto the third page but weren't coherent or well-structured. 3 or 4 or less?

You could get higher than four if you only had two paragraphs. If they weren't coherent you could get a 0 LOL. If you were aiming for 36 I'll assume you're a mid-high student and say you might be looking around a five at your version of incoherent?