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Section A Discussion
« on: October 29, 2014, 12:06:24 pm »
How'd you go?! Section A discussion here :)
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Re: Section A Discussion
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2014, 01:09:56 pm »
How'd you go?! Section A discussion here :)

This was probably my best piece in the exam, got some great analysis down as well as a plethora of quotes, i thought it was a big improvement from my Section A piece in the trial-exam.

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Re: Section A Discussion
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2014, 01:10:55 pm »
The Twelve Angry Men topics were relatively easy to write on.
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Re: Section A Discussion
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2014, 01:11:58 pm »
The Twelve Angry Men topics were relatively easy to write on.

Yeah agreed. I did the self-interest one and just had so much to talk about, however I might've deviated from the prompt itself. Uh oh.

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Re: Section A Discussion
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2014, 01:19:41 pm »
I thought the second prompt for 12AM was a bit left-field but would've been a Godsend for a top student as far as integrating cool analysis goes.
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Re: Section A Discussion
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2014, 01:20:07 pm »
ii. 'All About Eve is all about appearances.' Discuss.

^all I would have been thinking.

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Re: Section A Discussion
« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2014, 01:21:21 pm »
Was very happy when I saw that one of the Brooklyn topics was essentially the same essay that I'd written a couple of days ago.

Still managed to stuff it up :)

Ahhh, pressure. Always helping me along.

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Re: Section A Discussion
« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2014, 01:23:07 pm »
Was very happy when I saw that one of the Brooklyn topics was essentially the same essay that I'd written a couple of days ago.

Still managed to stuff it up :)

Ahhh, pressure. Always helping me along.
Haha, I'm sure it's way better than you expected! I think the Brooklyn topics were pretty generous, just as far as most students would have covered at least one of those prompts in class (as in, lots of people would be familiar with duty, lots of people familiar with opportunity).
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Re: Section A Discussion
« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2014, 01:24:23 pm »
I saw the first 12 angry men prompt and nearly cried tears of joy coz i had done it the night before ahhaha
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Re: Section A Discussion
« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2014, 01:27:16 pm »
surprisingly it was not too bad I did A Christmas carol and the first one was actually a do-able question but overall was good, better than the trial exam for sure

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Re: Section A Discussion
« Reply #10 on: October 29, 2014, 01:27:30 pm »
With Brooklyn I expected they probs wouldn't have put any in that were similar to last year's, but the topics were still very thematic and quite accessible. Just happy that they didn't go with something super specific like 'Eilis is only interested in Tony as a distraction from her roommates.' Kind of disappointed that there wasn't a 'How does...' question though, and super disappointed that even though I know I should have, I didn't put enough in about the text as construction. Mais, c'est la vie!

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Re: Section A Discussion
« Reply #11 on: October 29, 2014, 01:27:58 pm »
I saw the first 12 angry men prompt and nearly cried tears of joy coz i had done it the night before ahhaha
tears of joy were shed by me when i saw the 2nd prompt after pretty much all my practice essays revolved around the jury being a microcosm of american society

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Re: Section A Discussion
« Reply #12 on: October 29, 2014, 01:28:35 pm »
Looool the first Essay topic for Harwood was about a random poem which I don't think anyone studied :|

The second essay topic was PERFECT <3 I'm not 100% happy with my essay but yay it's over!!!
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Re: Section A Discussion
« Reply #13 on: October 29, 2014, 01:45:40 pm »
The Henry prompts were great, could have written a nice essay regardless of choice.
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Re: Section A Discussion
« Reply #14 on: October 29, 2014, 01:49:51 pm »
Hey, does it matter if I forgot to shade the box indicating which text I was writing on for Section A. I probably did do it; I tend to be paranoid. However, I do distinctly remember shading that I was answering topic ii and I wrote the prompt out before I began my essay.

So, am I okay if I forgot? Like, does my exam go to a specific assessor who knows my text, or do all assessors do all texts? I'm worried that my essay for this section won't be marked, and I did really well.

Thanks in advance, and I didn't really know where to post this so sorry if it is in the wrong place.

Hope today went well for everybody.