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

[jinny1]

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!

haha I LOL'ed.

But you go to Frankston High school so i guess that's expected I almost went there.

I went to the primary school next door to it; overport.

[Wazzup]

ahahahah @ late comer and phone!

[Deleted User]

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.

Problem is I'm not at school anymore so I don't know how I would contact my teachers. I'm really worried now.  What are the chances that both our essays would be marked by the same assessors though? Very likely?

[Mr Keshy]

Idk, someone changed it :\

I swear, I thought your Alias was PaulStereo. How come everyone keeps saying it's PaulSterio, even the quote thing sometimes says that.

[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.

Problem is I'm not at school anymore so I don't know how I would contact my teachers. I'm really worried now.  What are the chances that both our essays would be marked by the same assessors though? Very likely?

Highly unlikely. Even if that happened the assessors mark so many essays in one day that they would hardly recognise the similarities. Let alone know which person's exam it was similar to.

Assessors don't give a shit about copying; that is the Invigilators' job. They just want to mark quickly as possible for the most $$$$$.

[brenden]

Well, it certainly wasn't fucking funny when I was trying to write a piece in half an hour but a bird flew through my examination room! Good times.

[Lolly]

Well, it certainly wasn't fucking funny when I was trying to write a piece in half an hour but a bird flew through my examination room! Good times.

Nice! How on earth did a bird get in there?!

IN our lit prac exam we were in a room with englang students, but they forgot to give us paper. None of us realised until the end of reading time that we had nothing to write on. When the girl next to me eventually told the supervisor, needless to say, his reaction was classic. Here's hoping nothing like that will happen next week.

[FlorianK]

I've spend the last week looking for the 'perfect' pen to use
...
ended up using kilometrico :p

[gfrances]

My school thinks that choosing the niche books and contexts will give its students an advantage so I was one of those unlucky students stuck with The Imaginative Landscape, which you need to put your own personal experiences into to even get a good mark so I made up a story of moving houses etc.
Did 'Life Of Pi' for text response and found it quite alright, hopefully my markers do not want me to go into too much detail on faith as many of the references to Christianity are lost on me and so I decided to write about the fantastical elements of the text.
I think VATE prepared its students fairly well for the speech on this years paper, so quite happy that I did their practice exam.
Now all I am dreading is my Lit exam next Friday.

[Reckoner]

Did 'Life Of Pi' for text response and found it quite alright, hopefully my markers do not want me to go into too much detail on faith as many of the references to Christianity are lost on me and so I decided to write about the fantastical elements of the text.

Wow, somebody else actually did Life of Pi!!! I didn't mention much of religion either, only briefly mentioned it in one sentence. I felt the first topic was OK, but forgot to mention the Japanese investigators and "no factual difference"  hopefully wont be too damaging I did do a nice bit on the novel set in Portugal though. The second topic was awful!

[FirstAussie99.99]

Language analysis wasen't hard, however my analysis itself was weak...
Smashed the encountering conflict prompt
My text; The Reluctant Fundamentalist provided the prompt that i had been wishing for!

All in all, quite satisfied, but would love to have performed better on the language analysis.. ahh well

[Hannah_Banana]

Funny moment when it's not until you're halfway through your analysis that you realise the picture of the child with the e-book is a girl! *face palm*

[scarl54]

Funny moment when it's not until you're halfway through your analysis that you realise the picture of the child with the e-book is a girl! *face palm*

Shit I don't think I noticed that at all... luckily I'm pretty sure I just described them as a child/teenager

[VivaTequila]

Well, it certainly wasn't fucking funny when I was trying to write a piece in half an hour but a bird flew through my examination room! Good times.

Nice! How on earth did a bird get in there?!

IN our lit prac exam we were in a room with englang students, but they forgot to give us paper. None of us realised until the end of reading time that we had nothing to write on. When the girl next to me eventually told the supervisor, needless to say, his reaction was classic. Here's hoping nothing like that will happen next week.

That's an absolute pisser

I swear all literature invigilators are retarded, even if they supervise other subjects' exams.

I had one that was all up in ma grill last year, leaning on the back of my chair for support as he bent down to pick up my placecard that had fallen off of my desk in the last five minutes of writing time. I audibly said "What the Fuck, man?" and they didn't pull me up on it because they realized that they were being incredibly disruptive. Everyone heard it and asked be about it afterwards, but it didn't petrify the atmosphere. It just kinda let everyone know something sucked.

Nothing happened after that.

[katykins]

Language analysis wasen't hard, however my analysis itself was weak...
Smashed the encountering conflict prompt
My text; The Reluctant Fundamentalist provided the prompt that i had been wishing for!

All in all, quite satisfied, but would love to have performed better on the language analysis.. ahh well

yay! another student who did the reluctant fundamentalist, i choose topic 2, what did you choose?