Picked up a 17/20 for Oral, and a 13/20 for Language Analysis. With the Oral, stupid thing is that I engaged the audience quite well, they laughed, interacted, and they gave me positive feedback after class, teacher loved it too, got 17 - my content and opinion was well structured, lost marks because I did banning gambling adverts in sport, spoke of NRL slightly more than AFL (connecting to Melbourne audience); teacher's criteria. My mate, who made his speech the night before (mind you I spent more than a week planning and writing), was not prepared, was shaking throughout, unstable voice, no opinion whatsoever, no eye-contact, scored a 18, but scaled to 17 due to going 10 seconds over the time limit. In comparison, we both got the same score; no arrogance, but just annoyed at how I put in so much effort and couldn't get an 18/19.
With language analysis, similar thing; did around 5 practice analysis', had them marked, and got 13, but this other guy, who is not even going for an ATAR this year, didn't prepare or analyse the articles got a 13.
Nonetheless, hoping these sorta scores are good enough for a 30-35 study score.