Section A Discussion

[literally lauren]

Discussion for Text Response here!

What did you think of your prompts? Any especially easy or hard ones? Just grateful it's all over and you never have to think about your texts again? If you needed a reminder of different prompts you want to discuss, a copy of Section A can be found here!

[Orson]

I found the prompts Mabo easy (I chose the second one), but I did extremely bad. I didn't finish it.

I hope I get a 33...

[brenden]

I found the prompts Mabo easy (I chose the second one), but I did extremely bad. I didn't finish it.

I hope I get a 33...

A friend of mine didn't finish any of the three sections and got a 50. How much did you manage to write down?

[laurarm]

I did question two for Brooklyn

I didn't find this prompt too difficult as our last SAC question was quite similar. Hopefully I went well!

[schooliskool]

Medea ones were fairly sensible, hopefully I did well Felt alright.

[thaaanyan]

Medea ones were good. But my essay was awful. Feel really disappointed. I went with the 'extreme emotions' one.

[m9719]

I thought the Medea ones were fairly reasonable.
I chose the "extreme emotions" one because it felt a lot more easy to provide evidence for.

[Alter]

I did the Stasiland one about exposing a world that is cruel/absurd just so I could talk about hot chocolate and a truckload of puppies. More seriously, I was happy there was a prompt about absurdity as it is the theme I feel most comfortable with. Would've liked to have seen prompts that varied a bit more, but no real loss.

[brenden]

To the people who feel like they went awful -- don't worry! I had the same feeling. I remember walking out of my exam so disappointed that I probably wouldn't break the 40s, which had been my goal all year, and I ended up in the high forties. (I also went to a dodgy public school so it legitimately was a very big shock).

I screwed up my timing and wrote my LA in 90 minutes for only 950 words, then rushed an 850~~ word text response out in close to an hour before smashing out a 700 word imaginative story in thirty minutes. It wasn't an ideal exam but what I forgot was that everyone else would also have been making mistakes, and that VCAA know you only have an hour for each piece... So long as they can see you hitting the criteria, they'll give you some leeway on icky mistakes. Just be really proud that you completed such a mammoth exam and and even more mammoth year. You've all done really well to get to this point and to have studied so hard. It's really tough, so just pat yourself on the back and don't stress too much about it .

[e.m.i.l.y]

To the people who feel like they went awful -- don't worry! I had the same feeling. I remember walking out of my exam so disappointed that I probably wouldn't break the 40s, which had been my goal all year, and I ended up in the high forties. (I also went to a dodgy public school so it legitimately was a very big shock).

I screwed up my timing and wrote my LA in 90 minutes for only 950 words, then rushed an 850~~ word text response out in close to an hour before smashing out a 700 word imaginative story in thirty minutes. It wasn't an ideal exam but what I forgot was that everyone else would also have been making mistakes, and that VCAA know you only have an hour for each piece... So long as they can see you hitting the criteria, they'll give you some leeway on icky mistakes. Just be really proud that you completed such a mammoth exam and and even more mammoth year. You've all done really well to get to this point and to have studied so hard. It's really tough, so just pat yourself on the back and don't stress too much about it .

This actually helped so much, thank you! I tried my best and don't think I could have studied more but was still unhappy, but this post made me feel so much better!

[Orson]

A friend of mine didn't finish any of the three sections and got a 50. How much did you manage to write down?

Stellar intro and conclusion (not that it matters) for Mabo, and a bit of a body paragraph. I'm thinking along the lines of a 4-5. That's pretty amazing about what you said about people who didn't finish essays.

[appleandbee]

The prompts for All About Eve were pretty good. I'm fairly sure that all schools would have covered both of those prompts (or at least something really similar). Everyone I spoke to in my school that did the film were happy. Unfortunately the lang analysis compromised the quality of my text response. Conversely, the people that did the other text (Burial Rites) had mixed feelings, I was doing that book up to two weeks ago but backed-out when I attempted breaking down the prompts.

[hollidaisies]

I was happy with the Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? prompts, ended up choosing the first one.
I'm really struggling to determine if I wrote well or not, I felt so blank reading back over my essay and couldn't process it properly.
I'm really just glad it's over

[ayylmao123]

Both of The War Poems prompts were a gift. I'm so glad I chose to stick with it

[pinklemonade]

Did anyone else do Harwood?

I went with the prompt about memories but I'm really not feeling confident about it! :/