English Language Exam Discussion

[strawberries]

sad cos there wasn't a topic directly about language + identity

wrote the Australian one (one can't remember which number it was)

one of the short answer questions (3rd one) was a bit weird. i don't think we've learnt about lexical fields or whatnot or whatever it was lol so I just BS-ed

finished the exam 15 mins early but I tried to write really fast so hopefully my handwriting's legible

my essay was like 5 pages and my AC four but my AC had tonnes of paragraphs which wasn't organized, my essay was structured better and with longer paragraphs but I probably didn't have enough examples

overall, the exam wasn't too bad but I'm still nervous about my chances at a 30 lol

[zsteve]

sad cos there wasn't a topic directly about language + identity

wrote the Australian one (one can't remember which number it was)

one of the short answer questions (3rd one) was a bit weird. i don't think we've learnt about lexical fields or whatnot or whatever it was lol so I just BS-ed

finished the exam 15 mins early but I tried to write really fast so hopefully my handwriting's legible

my essay was like 5 pages and my AC four but my AC had tonnes of paragraphs which wasn't organized, my essay was structured better and with longer paragraphs but I probably didn't have enough examples

overall, the exam wasn't too bad but I'm still nervous about my chances at a 30 lol

did you manage contemporary examples though? Those are kinda important

[strawberries]

did you manage contemporary examples though? Those are kinda important

a few but not much
 
oh well, what's done is done. after all, what's the worst that could happen?

glad it's over.

[Redoxify]

a few but not much
 
oh well, what's done is done. after all, what's the worst that could happen?

glad it's over.

you could have linked the first essay question to identity sorta

[ccdes0001]

I feel like I completely stuffed up my essay... I did question 8. What did u guys specifically talk about...?

[catsinthecradle]

I started off writing question 7 then 15 minutes later had nothing to write then hastily started writing question 8. That will probably as close of a gamble I will ever take.

I talked about politicians in paragraph 1 and 2, with examples being firstly a NSW Labor Leader posting LOL cats to try and meet positive face needs. In the second I focused on the use of euphemisms for positive face needs with the example of Global Warming. In the last paragraph I talked about negative face needs with the example being that of gender neutral terms such as Mx being added into the Oxford Dictionary.

Section C was nonetheless a surprise. Section B I found easy to analyse, there was a lot to work with - I wrote about Prosodic Features, Topic Manage / Turn Taking and Lexical Patterning.