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

[serendip]

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.

Last year in methods, during reading time, the examiner kept trying to chat about the weather with me and the aircon at her house. She did that for about a full five minutes. I would've laughed if I wasn't so stressed at the time

[BigAl]

I was so hopeless yesterday. There was a couple of mainstream student's responses amongst my notes. So I picked one and memorised it. The exam question was same. I wrote 4.5 pages in just 30 mins. Expecting a 10

[werdna]

I was so hopeless yesterday. There was a couple of mainstream student's responses amongst my notes. So I picked one and memorised it. The exam question was same. I wrote 4.5 pages in just 30 mins. Expecting a 10

That is just pathetic

[BigAl]

I was so hopeless yesterday. There was a couple of mainstream student's responses amongst my notes. So I picked one and memorised it. The exam question was same. I wrote 4.5 pages in just 30 mins. Expecting a 10

That is just pathetic

I call it 'luck'

[ShortBlackChick]

I was so hopeless yesterday. There was a couple of mainstream student's responses amongst my notes. So I picked one and memorised it. The exam question was same. I wrote 4.5 pages in just 30 mins. Expecting a 10

Karma will give you a 9. Or less

[thushan]

I was so hopeless yesterday. There was a couple of mainstream student's responses amongst my notes. So I picked one and memorised it. The exam question was same. I wrote 4.5 pages in just 30 mins. Expecting a 10

Plagiarism...?

[BigAl]

I was so hopeless yesterday. There was a couple of mainstream student's responses amongst my notes. So I picked one and memorised it. The exam question was same. I wrote 4.5 pages in just 30 mins. Expecting a 10

Plagiarism...?

I'm esl student and actually similar topic was my practice essay question. My ideas were just same...just sharpened my expressions. that's it.

[werdna]

You just contradicted yourself...

[AllAboutTheLGs]

On the Waterfront I was fairly confident with, smashed a solid 5 and a half pages on the maintaining power question, hoping for a 9-10 on that one.

Context I&B was also about 5 and a bit pages, prompt was a bit weird but I just kept referring and linking back to the prompt to be safe, hopefully a 9 on this.

Then e-books came along. MAKE UP YOUR MIND MRS ELLIOT WHICH ONE DO YOU LIKE MORE. I ended up screwing up my contention and because I was just so confused at the time and was rushing on time I didn't analyse any of the advantages of e-books and just completely ignored the first visual. Instead I analysed the crap out of why books are better and should be preserved. Probably getting around a 7 on this but who knows brb burning my kindle.

Overall I thought I put out 2 strong essays and 1 average one, hopefully I achieve my goal of 45

[BigAl]

You just contradicted yourself...

only difference was 'misused power' and and power used to punish those who cannot fight back. Isn't that the same or similar? whatever it is

[werdna]

Yeah, but you memorised a mainstream student's essay. Beats the whole purpose of studying ESL...

[BigAl]

Yeah, but you memorised a mainstream student's essay. Beats the whole purpose of studying ESL...

While those who have stayed in Australia for 6 years and are capable of studying mainstream English don't beat the purpose of studying ESL, my attempt to memorise a random essay beats it? While those rich ones coming to Australia for their education don't beat the purpose of ESL  but when I study day and night..only by myself..with youth allowance, I beat it? Yeah I beat the whole purpose of ESL.

[werdna]

I don't think you get the point, all English students who present their OWN work are deserving of their marks. That is all.

Those who are capable of beating mainstream students are the ones who are doing what the subject asks of - they're not defeating the purpose of the subject... you are, by memorising someone's essay rather than write your own, which is the whole point of the subject.

[BigAl]

I don't think you get the point, all English students who present their OWN work are deserving of their marks. That is all.

Those who are capable of beating mainstream students are the ones who are doing what the subject asks of - they're not defeating the purpose of the subject... you are, by memorising someone's essay rather than write your own, which is the whole point of the subject.

but why would they not just do mainstream English instead of ESL? Scared of being a random student in that group? Now their decisions are not immoral but mine is? If they are not studying mainstream English just to be a number one in ESL in spite of their capabilities, I have a right to memorise a mainstream student's essay to equalise myself...

[ShortBlackChick]

I dont think you understand the point. You didnt do your own work. No one cares about capabilities, maybe if you did the work yourself you could have equalised yourself anyway. Those 'capable' students did their own work regardless to get to such a level. You did not.

You are going to get disapproval here because you plagiarized.