GAT 2014 Discussion + Tips + Answers

[RKTR]

Also, what do you guys get for that question which asks you calculate the average time it
takes to produce x pieces of timber?

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[deborahchew]

I had no idea what was going on in some parts and had to rush the last 10 questions. What are your thoughts on The Tantrum/hair cutting one, the baseball one and code words one.
Thanks

Tantrum: the loss she experienced was her own special view of her mother, the poem portrays the child's reaction with incomprehension and the last line evokes a sense of sad resignation (this could be objective detachment)

Baseball: disjunction between the setting and nature

Codes: GARY, BY, LENA, SAUL and JAKE

[deborahchew]

For the first essay, I wrote as a Grandmaster from Russia (obviously) in the 'World Chess Magazine' giving a Chess 101. For the second one, I referenced Edward Snowden, Australian wiretapping of embassies in Jakarta, 1984 and Stasiland... wish I had put in something about the Fifth Estate!

Overall had good fun doing the paper. The 3 hr 15 mins well prepares us for the year end English exam

[RKTR]

First one I wrote as an international chess player. Second one i mentioned the US government spying on citizens

[Zealous]

Wow, you guys were so creative for the writing pieces - writing as chess players or Grandmasters.

I just regurgitated all the information that was on the page and tried to make it sound beautiful.

[lmnop]

Tantrum: the loss she experienced was her own special view of her mother, the poem portrays the child's reaction with incomprehension and the last line evokes a sense of sad resignation (this could be objective detachment)

Baseball: disjunction between the setting and nature

Codes: GARY, BY, LENA, SAUL and JAKE

This is probably a silly question, but was the "Tantrum" poem about some kid's outburst at her mum's haircut or something else entirely like cancer?

[Valyria]

I just regurgitated all the information that was on the page and tried to make it sound beautiful.

I can relate. I opened with "Shāh Māt" which was the Persian phrase they gave us which meant "the king is ambushed". I thought that was ingenious before I realised it led me nowhere...

[PsychoT]

For the first one I basically did one long sales wind for people to play Chess. Second one I think I did on the news of the world phone tapping scandal, but it was terrible and didn't mean anything essentially, wasn't happy with it.

[deborahchew]

This is probably a silly question, but was the "Tantrum" poem about some kid's outburst at her mum's haircut or something else entirely like cancer?

Not silly at all! Now that you mention it, I think it is cancer! Read it as a haircut the first time. Thanks for pointing that out.

I can relate. I opened with "Shāh Māt" which was the Persian phrase they gave us which meant "the king is ambushed". I thought that was ingenious before I realised it led me nowhere...

Hahahah A+ for effort? Maybe the flow in the intro wasn't great but you probably did well overall!

[auds]

I just regurgitated all the information that was on the page and tried to make it sound beautiful.

That was me as well.   

[Reus]

My second writing task argument was purely based on
"What's better your bra size secret to be exposed or a potential 9/11-like incident to reoccur?" LOL
 

[Crystall97]

It was fairly standard for me, I've mainly had problems with some of those text analysis questions.

Btw, what do you put for that question which asks you name an area which doesn't refer back to any early occupation during the 17th century or something? (It isn't Beaver Street is it?)         

I don't know, personally I said "battery park" thinking that batteries probably weren't invented in the 17th century...

[balmemat]

I found the GAT easier this year than last year, not sure whether that had anything to do with being in Yr 12 this year, or just I probably tried a bit more this year. I felt good coming out of it, though it always makes you laugh looking at the people next to you who just sat their colouring/drawing on the paper and multiple choice, without doing a writing task!

[Jono_CP]

Frustrated. I studied for the English components but not necessarily the multiple choice, just did not have the time.

Multiple Choice............ Maybe I was half-brain dead, but I didn't understand most of it to be perfectly honest. Karma.

[Sense]

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