Section B Discussion

[aqple]

The encountering conflict prompt was a godsend, but I only had about 40 minutes so idk if the examiners will be able to read the last half of it lol

[Zesty]

I didn't finish my piece, I only had a conclusion to go. It would have only been 2-3 sentences. How much will my score go down? Other than that the piece was alright.

Glad it's over

[Valyria]

The encountering conflict prompt was a godsend, but I only had about 40 minutes so idk if the examiners will be able to read the last half of it lol

Ah, this happened to me as well.

Last half is illegible. At the start of the exam I had ~ 13 words per line, in the last 15 minutes I probably had 2 words per line

[AmericanBeauty]

I didn't finish my piece, I only had a conclusion to go. It would have only been 2-3 sentences. How much will my score go down? Other than that the piece was alright.

Glad it's over

if you wrote well then it won't do anything detrimental.

[indkel]

How much will my score go down? Other than that the piece was alright.

Your score shouldn't go down Examiners give you marks for what you have done, so if the rest of your essay was reasonable you should be alright

[Zesty]

Your score shouldn't go down Examiners give you marks for what you have done, so if the rest of your essay was reasonable you should be alright

if you wrote well then it won't do anything detrimental.

Good, I was a bit delayed due to section C and it sounds like I wasn't the only one

[marsbareater12]

The encountering conflict prompt was a godsend, but I only had about 40 minutes so idk if the examiners will be able to read the last half of it lol

Man, are you kidding? That shit slayed me.

[lucypevensie]

I read the Whose Reality prompt as 'misinterpreting' instead of 'misrepresenting' (how ironic). How badly would this impact on my score? Would I still be able to get a 35? I just cannot believe I made such a colossal mistake 

[brenden]

I read the Whose Reality prompt as 'misinterpreting' instead of 'misrepresenting' (how ironic). How badly would this impact on my score? Would I still be able to get a 35? I just cannot believe I made such a colossal mistake 

You can definitely still get a 35 . You might not even get wrecked that badly - it might just be that the examiners still perceive a lot of your piece as being relevant to the prompt! (And the prompts in Context aren't intended ot be 'stuck to' as much as Text response... if you still discuss relevant ideas of Whose reality you should be okay (definitely not ideal though obvs - not saying it's all sunshine, but you shouldn't get demolished horrendously)

[christined]

Encountering conflict was alright, it relates to The Quiet American well... hopefully I did ok. Wooo it's over! 

[lucypevensie]

You can definitely still get a 35 . You might not even get wrecked that badly - it might just be that the examiners still perceive a lot of your piece as being relevant to the prompt! (And the prompts in Context aren't intended ot be 'stuck to' as much as Text response... if you still discuss relevant ideas of Whose reality you should be okay (definitely not ideal though obvs - not saying it's all sunshine, but you shouldn't get demolished horrendously)

Ahh thank you, this makes me feel a lot better! And I hope you're right!

[Addzkebabs]

Hey guys, 

Well because of Section C ( )... I had a really limited time frame for this, maximum of about 25 minutes.. I only got down two pages of a creative piece about encountering conflict and paradise road, its just Susan's thoughts as she is being tortured. Well anyway, having got the basic structure down, I still think it was an effective piece... would i be penalised much due to the short length though?

Cheers!! And thanks for the awesome thread 

[Han123]

Did anybody here do Imaginative Landscape? Alot of people at my school struggled with the prompt as it was so vague, but I found it really easy to work with. What did everyone think of the prompt?

[sparked]

It was pretty shit with Death of a Salesman I think. There wasn't really anything complex I could think of other than stating the obvious.

I would have to disagree! Using Death Of A Salesman, I spoke about how Miller analyses the inheritance of flawed, misrepresentative legacies of realities. Willy believes exclusively that "there is nothing better than being loved" and intentionally ignores the truth, labelling his sons "a pair of Adonises" because of his fear of failure.

The realisation about the transience of such a narrow paradigm of existence - i.e. "phoney" - symbolises the extent to which we are autonomous about shifting the inherent ignorance of an assumed lens of reality etc......

But you're right, stating the obvious    Sure we all went fine~!

[liamh96]

Do you guys think I screwed up for context (CONFLICT)? I winged it with 30 minutes to spare:

I wrote about how the 'powerful' are more vulnerable to intra personal conflict as they have more flexibility in their choices . I discussed how the mere action of making a decision alone can cause intra personal conflict as our intellectual side clashes with our instinctive and intuitive side. I tried to relate this to Paradise Road by talking about how the women (less powerful) 'challenge'  the translator (a powerful character) to do something against the rules, stating that his desire to live up to his values clashes with his intuitive and instinctive \ desire to remain safe, and not disobey the rules of the camp.

I then crapped on for another paragraph about how the powerless are limited to their options and therefore adapt to the conflict easier. Thus, as they have less choices, they are forced to stick with one. The women resolve their inner conflict quickly by developing a women's choir.

You get the point. Crap.