Is it possible we might get 2 articles for language analysis?

[Thymaster]

Is it possible we might get 2 articles for language analysis?

[brenden]

Yes.

[alondouek]

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised at all. These are pretty easy to manage, too - just discuss one article, then the other, then compare and contrast contentions, tones and tone shifts and language etc. etc. between the two like you would if you were given a web article with comments or suchlike.

No big deal

[Damoz.G]

Yes, you can get up to and including 3 pieces to analyse. The Study Design states "Analysing text/s", meaning it could be one or multiple.

Hopefully when you covered Language Analysis, and in the and SAC, you had multiple pieces to analyse. Our issue was on drugs in sport, and for the SAC, we had a seen article (Meaning that we analysed it in class), an unseen article (Never seen before) and a separate visual, totalling 3 pieces to compare and contrast. So hopefully your school did a similar thing to get the practice of it.

It's only happened once in the recent years (In 2011 when VCAA stuffed it up), but don't rule it out that it won't happen again. If you have started doing some Trial Exams, you would have noticed that some have a piece and then have comments from different readers which must also be analysed. If you haven't seen this yet or started doing Trial Exams, then may be find some and practice it.

Rest assured, it is possible to get more than one piece to analyse in our Exam.

[BigAl]

Yes, possible..but not very probable...

[werdna]

Could be more than 2! Could be one big article plus a few comments, like they did in 2011. Or maybe a few tweets this year? You just never know...

[jeanweasley]

Yes, possible..but not very probable...

I'm curious, why don't you think so?

[Damoz.G]

I'm curious, why don't you think so?

I'm guessing that because its only happened once (in 2011) in the past 10 years.

[jeanweasley]

I'm guessing that because its only happened once (in 2011) in the past 10 years.

Oh, so they normally just stick with one article? Cool, that's awesome. What do you think the possible article could be?

[Damoz.G]

Oh, so they normally just stick with one article? Cool, that's awesome. What do you think the possible article could be?

NORMALLY - Yes. HOWEVER, VCAA has the power to give us a number of pieces and we are expected to know how to compare and contrast each of them. The Study Design states there COULD be one piece or COULD be "piece/s".

Whilst its only happened once, it doesn't mean that we can rule out that it won't happen again.

[brenden]

Honestly, I don't think 2011 counts as a "multi-article".
I think it's unlikely for VCAA to give a pure multi-article because it's skew te bell-curve at too far to the left.

[jeanweasley]

Honestly, I don't think 2011 counts as a "multi-article".
I think it's unlikely for VCAA to give a pure multi-article because it's skew te bell-curve at too far to the left.

How?

[Damoz.G]

How?

Because it would take the whole state a long time to read 2 pieces, and then everyone would struggle to get it completed, because they would spend a long time reading and trying to compare and contrast, rather than writing their piece. Means that all the High-Scoring range students will drop down and will make it hard for VCAA to rank everyone, if the top students didn't finish either.

Thats why Brencookie is saying everyone (Including the top students) will go below or near the expected score range.

[brenden]

Yep ^
People aren't well prepared enough to hands two edsays

[jeanweasley]

Because it would take the whole state a long time to read 2 pieces, and then everyone would struggle to get it completed, because they would spend a long time reading and trying to compare and contrast, rather than writing their piece. Means that all the High-Scoring range students will drop down and will make it hard for VCAA to rank everyone, if the top students didn't finish either.

Thats why Brencookie is saying everyone (Including the top students) will go below or near the expected score range.

Oh. Thanks for the reply.