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Re: Section B Context: Thoughts
« Reply #30 on: October 30, 2013, 03:40:49 pm »
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The texts that I wrote on the exam (On the Waterfront and The Lot: In Words) were the two texts I actually liked the least. lol
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Re: Section B Context: Thoughts
« Reply #31 on: October 30, 2013, 04:00:41 pm »
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I did expository for encountering conflict! It went okay, the prompt could have been worse
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Re: Section B Context: Thoughts
« Reply #32 on: October 30, 2013, 04:21:17 pm »
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I thought that the Whose Reality prompt was pretty standard. Seemed kind of similair to last year's (both prompts were about fantasies/illusions), but that didn't bother me, fits in really nicely with Death of a Salesman
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Re: Section B Context: Thoughts
« Reply #33 on: October 30, 2013, 04:26:13 pm »
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I just hope the examiner gets my implicit links to the prompt in my creative piece, because they're all there they just aren't 'oh why oh why is this conflict of conscious JUST AS DIFFICULT as the conflicts between people going on around me', they're more subtle. I'll get a good score if the examiner's like my story, otherwise bleh
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Re: Section B Context: Thoughts
« Reply #34 on: October 30, 2013, 04:26:41 pm »
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Quote from: Brencookie on October 30, 2013, 02:31:55 pm
Put it out of your mind and go do some spesh or something :)

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Re: Section B Context: Thoughts
« Reply #35 on: October 30, 2013, 04:42:22 pm »
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Re: Section B Context: Thoughts
« Reply #36 on: October 30, 2013, 05:10:23 pm »
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Quote from: Stick on October 30, 2013, 03:40:49 pm
The texts that I wrote on the exam (On the Waterfront and The Lot: In Words) were the two texts I actually liked the least. lol
I had studied OTW too, but I just got so bored with the whole truth and conscience ideas  :-X  And though this year it seemed the prompts were basic, in the past the prompts go on tangents to the score or cinematography to very general themes then specific characters so I used Year of Wonders as a novel just because I had a fair idea of what could come up  ;)
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Re: Section B Context: Thoughts
« Reply #37 on: October 30, 2013, 05:56:02 pm »
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did expository for encountering and loved it ;D id already done the same prompt as a practise piece and many other similar so my plan id made succeeded :D
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Re: Section B Context: Thoughts
« Reply #38 on: October 30, 2013, 07:02:05 pm »
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I finally decided on my creative topic about a week out from the exam. Nearly cried with joy when I opened up the section B bit and read the prompt for Imaginative Landscape. Applied a few Peripheal Light quotes here and there as well as the idea of droughts and issues with low yields.

Just did my best to keep bringing up 'threats' and 'comforts'.
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Re: Section B Context: Thoughts
« Reply #39 on: October 30, 2013, 07:12:40 pm »
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Quote from: Damoz. on October 30, 2013, 02:21:07 pm
LOL! I liked the prompt for Whose Reality? as well. But yeah if I had 2 more minutes, I would have been able to include another paragraph. But I don't think it will jeopardise my mark, because it wasn't crucial. :P

So though, okay so I'm doing creative, have like 3-4 story skeletons I can apply to various situations. Addressed memory, alternate realities, fantasy vs reality etc etc.
and then I saw this and thought:

2008 Prompt: ‘We can evade “reality” but we cannot avoid the consequences of doing so.’
Oh there probs WON'T be another prompt about the consequences of living in fantasies etc
So didn't prepare a response on consequences or dangers of evading reality

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2013 Prompt: ‘Loosing touch with reality is often dangerous’
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Isn't that I minded that I had to make it up, it was pretty fun, but I bet there were people that memorised answers for the 2008 prompt and could use it for today's exam :(

Moral of the story: screw vcaa :P
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Re: Section B Context: Thoughts
« Reply #40 on: October 30, 2013, 07:24:17 pm »
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You made one up on the spot? Oh dear. You're scaring me, Alwin!
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Re: Section B Context: Thoughts
« Reply #41 on: October 30, 2013, 08:15:19 pm »
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What sort of mark do you reckon I'll get for my context essay if I was heading for around a 6/10, but I only completed 3/4 of my essay? I was halfway through the last body paragraph when they said "pens down".
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Re: Section B Context: Thoughts
« Reply #42 on: October 30, 2013, 08:33:59 pm »
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Quote from: Special At Specialist on October 30, 2013, 08:15:19 pm
What sort of mark do you reckon I'll get for my context essay if I was heading for around a 6/10, but I only completed 3/4 of my essay? I was halfway through the last body paragraph when they said "pens down".
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Re: Section B Context: Thoughts
« Reply #43 on: October 30, 2013, 08:49:11 pm »
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Quote from: TheBoyWhoDerped on October 30, 2013, 08:33:59 pm
4.5

Really? So they don't make huge mark deductions when you hand in an unfinished essay?
I was worried they would give me like a 2/10 for handing in an uncompleted essay... if I can get a 4.5 for my context then I'll be really happy!
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Re: Section B Context: Thoughts
« Reply #44 on: October 30, 2013, 09:09:49 pm »
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Hi
Did anyone draw on ideas from Summer of the Seventeenth Doll?   :D :D
I wrote a short story (I & B). Footy captains and leaders going to have to forgo their captaincy and role in the team, to give way for younger players...   ROO AND JOHNNIE DOWD
Any good? i felt stressed
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