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

[jinny1]

You guys must be so relieved that you never have to sit another 3 hour English exam ever again!!!

[charmanderp]

You guys must be so relieved that you never have to sit another 3 hour English exam ever again!!!

You have no idea! I put in so much into that exam I feel incredibly sick right now. Exhausted on every level, never done an exam that's so gruelling. Including the GAT.

[jinny1]

You guys must be so relieved that you never have to sit another 3 hour English exam ever again!!!

You have no idea! I put in so much into that exam I feel incredibly sick right now. Exhausted on every level, never done an exam that's so gruelling. Including the GAT.

yea I had the exact same feeling last year So carefree and liberated!

All my exams at Uni are 3:15 hours long though.... Well at least they aren't all essay based.

[Deleted User]

Are all the exams from one school marked by the same assessor or are they scattered arbirtraily? I lent my friend a sample essay to read over a few weeks ago and it seems as though he has memorised it and written the same one as I did for the exam.... Any chance of both of ours being read by the same assessors? 

If you memorised a sample essay and wrote that in the exam, you're technically plagiarising and you're just as much an idiot as your friend is and you're both equally guilty of copying...just putting that out there, you don't have any higher moral ground when you did the exact same thing as him.

It was an essay that I wrote myself, and I was helping my friend out by sending it to him because he's not that great at English.

[jinny1]

Are all the exams from one school marked by the same assessor or are they scattered arbirtraily? I lent my friend a sample essay to read over a few weeks ago and it seems as though he has memorised it and written the same one as I did for the exam.... Any chance of both of ours being read by the same assessors? 

If you memorised a sample essay and wrote that in the exam, you're technically plagiarising and you're just as much an idiot as your friend is and you're both equally guilty of copying...just putting that out there, you don't have any higher moral ground when you did the exact same thing as him.

It was an essay that I wrote myself, and I was helping my friend out by sending it to him because he's not that great at English.

As long as he didn't copy off you during the exam you are fine.

IF you lent it to him then he obviously had your permission as well.

[paulsterio]

It was an essay that I wrote myself, and I was helping my friend out by sending it to him because he's not that great at English.

In that case, if you have evidence that you wrote it yourself and he plagiarised, I would report that to the relevant authorities ASAP - I just find it highly disrespectful that he would plagiarise one of your essays without informing you prior and this potentially puts you at risk - I would seriously suggest you see your co-ordinator which relevant evidence in order to back up your claims - always be pre-cautionary.

[diligent18]

You guys must be so relieved that you never have to sit another 3 hour English exam ever again!!!

You have no idea! I put in so much into that exam I feel incredibly sick right now. Exhausted on every level, never done an exam that's so gruelling. Including the GAT.

Have you tried the UMAT?
I ate a muesli bar before I went in, for fear of it being confiscated.
By the time everyone was seated, however, one and a half hours had passed, and I was starving!
After the three hour exam, I was ready to eat the table.  That was by far the most gruelling exam for me.

[charmanderp]

You guys must be so relieved that you never have to sit another 3 hour English exam ever again!!!

You have no idea! I put in so much into that exam I feel incredibly sick right now. Exhausted on every level, never done an exam that's so gruelling. Including the GAT.

yea I had the exact same feeling last year So carefree and liberated!

All my exams at Uni are 3:15 hours long though.... Well at least they aren't all essay based.

None of the subjects I plan to take next year have exams, except for chemistry breadth. Arts ftw hehehe.

[jinny1]

It was an essay that I wrote myself, and I was helping my friend out by sending it to him because he's not that great at English.

In that case, if you have evidence that you wrote it yourself and he plagiarised, I would report that to the relevant authorities ASAP - I just find it highly disrespectful that he would plagiarise one of your essays without informing you prior and this potentially puts you at risk - I would seriously suggest you see your co-ordinator which relevant evidence in order to back up your claims - always be pre-cautionary.

Since when did you change your name from paulsterio to some random letters lol

VILPQ?

[paulsterio]

Idk, someone changed it :\

[paulsterio]

None of the subjects I plan to take next year have exams, except for chemistry breadth. Arts ftw hehehe.

And you wonder why people make fun of Arts

Jokes jokes, but yeah, if there aren't any exams, in return you get a lot more assignments that tend to be worth quite a fair bit, which is good I guess if you put in steady work over the semester

[jinny1]

You guys must be so relieved that you never have to sit another 3 hour English exam ever again!!!

You have no idea! I put in so much into that exam I feel incredibly sick right now. Exhausted on every level, never done an exam that's so gruelling. Including the GAT.

yea I had the exact same feeling last year So carefree and liberated!

All my exams at Uni are 3:15 hours long though.... Well at least they aren't all essay based.

None of the subjects I plan to take next year have exams, except for chemistry breadth. Arts ftw hehehe.

Breadth??

Sounds like melbourne uni

welcome welcome great place to go to

[KayLi]

I think the exam was certainly fair - I think it provided scope for stronger students to really shine, but was certainly approachable for weaker English students.
I ended up writing on On the Waterfront for text response, and I went for the second prompt. I was a little shocked when I read the prompts during reading time - I can honestly say that the prompts were not what I was expecting. But I absolutely hated Cosi so writing on that wasn't an option. So I just adapted something I'd previously written and hopefully it answered the question well enough!
I loved the prompt for Encountering Conflict in section B, I thought it was fantastic and very versatile, which is always nice! I feel quite confident with my performance in this section particularly, I wrote about 5.5 pages and it was essentially an adapted story I'd written the day before to time which a teacher at my school who is a VCAA marker for English said would most likely score a 9 or 10!
Language analysis... I laughed when I read the Harry Potter reference, haha. Language analysis has always been my least favourite section of the exam, but regardless I wrote 6 pages and still finished the exam with 5 minutes to go, which was just enough time to speed read over everything and check for little spelling and grammatical errors.
All in all I think the exam was a good one, and I am quite happy with my performance.
I did the exam in the order of A, B, C, because I knew I could complete the first 2 sections in under an hour!
With my straight A+ SAC's and a bit of luck, I've got my fingers crossed for a low to mid-40 study score in English!

[charmanderp]

None of the subjects I plan to take next year have exams, except for chemistry breadth. Arts ftw hehehe.

And you wonder why people make fun of Arts

Jokes jokes, but yeah, if there aren't any exams, in return you get a lot more assignments that tend to be worth quite a fair bit, which is good I guess if you put in steady work over the semester

I will take that any day haha - I've done three VCAA exams and under performed in each of them. And today was just ridiculously draining. Would rather write ridiculously long essays in 5 minute bursts with plenty of food and entertainment breaks hehehe.

But yeah, not a great rapport for Arts, I must admit

You guys must be so relieved that you never have to sit another 3 hour English exam ever again!!!

You have no idea! I put in so much into that exam I feel incredibly sick right now. Exhausted on every level, never done an exam that's so gruelling. Including the GAT.

yea I had the exact same feeling last year So carefree and liberated!

All my exams at Uni are 3:15 hours long though.... Well at least they aren't all essay based.

None of the subjects I plan to take next year have exams, except for chemistry breadth. Arts ftw hehehe.

Breadth??

Sounds like melbourne uni

welcome welcome great place to go to

You have no idea how much I'm looking forward to it!

[KayLi]

Also, in regards to funny moments in exams - a girl in my mid-year biology exam rocked up about 20 minutes late, and then a few minutes after she'd sat down and started writing, her phone went off, and her ringtone was Wild Ones... It was in my head for the rest of the exam!