Englang Study Score

[psyxwar]

I keep telling people that all three of my 50s were probably on the low end

That said, my SACs scaled extremely high.

well a low 50 is still a 50 any extra marks wouldn't have made any tangible difference lol
#efficiency

SACs scaled to 100 i'm guessing?

[lzxnl]

well a low 50 is still a 50 any extra marks wouldn't have made any tangible difference lol
#efficiency

SACs scaled to 100 i'm guessing?

99 actually

[dmitridr]

This is pretty much what I've been advising my current students to do:

Short Answer: I’d recommend completing the 2009 – 2013 short answer and then checking your answers against the ones on the VCAA site. Ensure you READ the question and highlight the key metalinguistic terms in the question. Also ALWAYS check the marking… this will give you an indication as to how much you should write (i.e. you don't write too little or too much).

Analytical Commentary: I’d recommend completing the 2012/2013 analytical commentaries. Also use your 'green book' to practice some other analytical commentary texts. I’d also recommend revising coherence vs. cohesion as well as spoken discourse features and spoken conversational strategies. Remember to not speak in general terms for each point; you need to ensure that when you give an example, of say a passive sentence, then you MUST state why and give further elaboration in its given context.

Essays: I’d recommend going through the 2009 – 2013 exams and planning every essay topic in these exams. This means planning each body paragraph and including topic sentences as well as quotations and examples. Then, after that complete the hardest essays for each of these years... don't just choose the easiest ones you can do.

Quotations: You should now include your own quotations from the year. If you are struggling to compile a quotations list now, then I would start by creating headings for the main topics of the units and then inserting quotes and examples underneath (e.g. 'Swearing', 'Slang', 'Australian Identity' etc.).

Metalanguage: I’d highly recommend going over the metalinguistic terms so that you have an understanding of the key terms because every year they include this metalanguage in the short answer section and it often stumps people! Likewise, you will also need to know metalanguage for section B and C.

Exam Timings: You will be permitted 15 minutes reading time and 2 hours of writing time. During the 15 minutes:
1.   Read the essay topics and select one
2.   Go over the analytical commentary text and make mental notes]
3.   Finish off by reading the short answer text so that you’re familiar with it as soon as you start writing

Then I would recommend the following during 2 hours writing time:
1.   Spend 30 minutes on the short answer section
2.   Spend 45 minutes on the analytical commentary section
3.   Spend 45 minutes on the essay section

I hope this sincerely helps out!