English Advanced Question Thread

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What technique is "I am not the man i once was" (besides foreshadowing)?

[jamonwindeyer]

What technique is "I am not the man i once was" (besides foreshadowing)?

Hmmm... To be honest I don't see anything here, perhaps in context it could mean something but isolated I have got nothing, aha

[jakesilove]

What technique is "I am not the man i once was" (besides foreshadowing)?

You could go for symbolism/metaphor. You definitely ARE the man you once were (physically), so this clearly means something greater than the literal

[elysepopplewell]

What technique is "I am not the man i once was" (besides foreshadowing)?

You can talk about the way that the tenses are paralleled. "Am" and "was" show inconsistency in tense, although it is grammatically correct here of course. So I'd be more inclined to talk about the way the present and past tense are paralleled to create the understanding that the narrator has changed, and time has elapsed.

[studybuddy7777]

Hey Justina! Do you mean like when your marks are submitted to BOSTES? In that case, no, it is purely based on weightings and marks. EG:

Assessment One (20%): 18/20
Assessment Two (20%): 16/20
Trials 60%): 92/100 ~ 55/60

School Assessment Mark: 89/100

If you have any further scaling questions, ask them here!

If my trials had 60% weighting I would probably have to do newstep lol. Just saying

And those marks are overly optimistic.. But good solid info thanks for that!!

[Deng]

Hey guys i was wondering how do i study for paper 2, for paper 1 i can practice unseen and refine my skills, have a few creatives in my mind and my discovery essay is give or take the same the whole time but paper 2 im lost

[studybuddy7777]

I hate to break it to you, but to the best of my knowledge, there is only one real way to study effectively for Paper 2.

Mirror the paper. This means observing factors such as keeping to only 40 minutes (of which 5 of them should be planning), not seeing the question before hand, giving yourself a few minutes reading time etc.

Then what you can do is get one of your teachers to mark it (or even better, one of the AN enthusiasts too . Try to ask if they can give you a mark/band/grade you are sitting at, as well as providing constant constructive feedback.

MAKE SURE TO DO THE MODULE YOU ARE LEAST CONFIDENT WITH THE MOST. IT WILL NOT GO AWAY OR GET ANY EASIER IF YOU DO NOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT AND YOU WILL NOT GET BETTER MARKS!!!!
(Sorry for caps, I just get really antsy passionate about this. No head in the sand with English. Do not just revise the stuff you are good at because that module or modules will still screw you over.

Having said that, make sure to do essays with and without notes, and you dont always have to stop at 40 mins, just see how long the essay you are doing goes for.

While I am not a fan of memorising essays (you have to remember a creative and an aos essay as well as 5 prescribed texts and 2 related texts, why put more pressure on yourself?) this may be a go to option just for a single module that you are not confident in. For me this was module a. King Richard III and Looking For Richard screws me over, still does. Luckily, I was good at Mod B and Mod C. So i devoted most of my time towards improving Richard but didnt memorise an essay on the day.

Managed to pull a 14/20 on the day even though I talked about power and not the authoritative aspect of the texts. This may not seem a good mark but considering I got 9/20 in my last Mod A essay before trials I was perfectly fine with this. My Mod B was a B and My Mod C was an A but due to only studying for module A my mod C dropped from an 18/20 (speech) to a 13/20 (essay). But ill get off my soap box now.

Hope all this info helps and i havent just rambled on to exercise my fingers
Feel free to pm me or ask me below if you have any questions, concerns, queries, comments or the like

[Lauradf36]

Do you guys find you get progressively worse marks throughout each essay in your Modules Paper?? Like, starts good, then as your brain (and hand) gets exhausted its like NOPE and your marks get worse.
Also, thoughts on doing your worse section first to counter this?? Or other way round?  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[jamonwindeyer]

Do you guys find you get progressively worse marks throughout each essay in your Modules Paper?? Like, starts good, then as your brain (and hand) gets exhausted its like NOPE and your marks get worse.
Also, thoughts on doing your worse section first to counter this?? Or other way round?  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I did my Module C essay last in the Trial, and it indeed was my worst mark (but Module C was probably my weakest module anyway)

I think it is a great idea to do your worst section first, if you think it helps you!! I didn't specifically do this in my HSC, but I think it is a great call, whatever you think will work for you

[melprocrastinator]

Do you guys find you get progressively worse marks throughout each essay in your Modules Paper?? Like, starts good, then as your brain (and hand) gets exhausted its like NOPE and your marks get worse.
Also, thoughts on doing your worse section first to counter this?? Or other way round?  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I swear paper 2 is death. Like the people at BOSTES were like "How can we make a test that will make people want to cry and die as soon as they read it" thus PAPER 2 was created

I get that after the first essay you're mentally done and by the second essay your hand has basically lost all feeling, so i think you should always do your least favourite/weakest essay first because:
--> Your mind will be clear, and its most likely that you were studying the hardest for that essay, so the quotes and stuff should be fresh in your mind.
--> Lets be real, you already hate the essay, so why not get it out of the way. You'll naturally be slower at this essay, because youll have to think more about integrating it with the question and you simply dont like it. So if you do it first and go over a little (one or two minutes) it wont affect you as much, because the other essay you like more, so youll be faster at them, and you can make up the minutes.

--> ALSO if you do the ones you like most first, youll be tempted to give them extra time, to "perfect" them. But this is risky and you have to be realistic. If you spend a little extra time in the first two, youll suddenly find yourself with only 30-35 minutes left on the essay you hate. Meaning it was already weak, now its got less time and your hand is probs dead so the mark could be affected.

--> I know its tempting to go over the 40 minutes for your good essays, but if it was say a 19, you can only improve by one mark. Say your weakest essay is a 15, there are a WHOLE 5 marks that you could get in comparisson to one. At the end, i think youll benefit more, from trying to push up your weak essay, thus doing it first and giving it time. If you do it last and run out of time, it could slip even lower... and for what... so you could get one extra mark in one essay but loose 7 in another.
I think its best to do your weakest first because you have TO GIVE IT A FIGHTING CHANCE by doing it when your hand is strong and your mind is fresh.
Thats just my opinion and the advice i have collected. i feel like this post is too long lol.

[jamonwindeyer]

I swear paper 2 is death. Like the people at BOSTES were like "How can we make a test that will make people want to cry and die as soon as they read it" thus PAPER 2 was created

I get that after the first essay you're mentally done and by the second essay your hand has basically lost all feeling, so i think you should always do your least favourite/weakest essay first because:
--> Your mind will be clear, and its most likely that you were studying the hardest for that essay, so the quotes and stuff should be fresh in your mind.
--> Lets be real, you already hate the essay, so why not get it out of the way. You'll naturally be slower at this essay, because youll have to think more about integrating it with the question and you simply dont like it. So if you do it first and go over a little (one or two minutes) it wont affect you as much, because the other essay you like more, so youll be faster at them, and you can make up the minutes.

--> ALSO if you do the ones you like most first, youll be tempted to give them extra time, to "perfect" them. But this is risky and you have to be realistic. If you spend a little extra time in the first two, youll suddenly find yourself with only 30-35 minutes left on the essay you hate. Meaning it was already weak, now its got less time and your hand is probs dead so the mark could be affected.

--> I know its tempting to go over the 40 minutes for your good essays, but if it was say a 19, you can only improve by one mark. Say your weakest essay is a 15, there are a WHOLE 5 marks that you could get in comparisson to one. At the end, i think youll benefit more, from trying to push up your weak essay, thus doing it first and giving it time. If you do it last and run out of time, it could slip even lower... and for what... so you could get one extra mark in one essay but loose 7 in another.
I think its best to do your weakest first because you have TO GIVE IT A FIGHTING CHANCE by doing it when your hand is strong and your mind is fresh.
Thats just my opinion and the advice i have collected. i feel like this post is too long lol.

Love your work!! Definitely not too long, some great advice in here

[Lauradf36]

I swear paper 2 is death. Like the people at BOSTES were like "How can we make a test that will make people want to cry and die as soon as they read it" thus PAPER 2 was created

Literally. 3 essays in 2 hours like WHAT IS THIS INSANITY

--> I know its tempting to go over the 40 minutes for your good essays, but if it was say a 19, you can only improve by one mark. Say your weakest essay is a 15, there are a WHOLE 5 marks that you could get in comparisson to one. At the end, i think youll benefit more, from trying to push up your weak essay, thus doing it first and giving it time. If you do it last and run out of time, it could slip even lower... and for what... so you could get one extra mark in one essay but loose 7 in another.
I think its best to do your weakest first because you have TO GIVE IT A FIGHTING CHANCE by doing it when your hand is strong and your mind is fresh.
Thats just my opinion and the advice i have collected. i feel like this post is too long lol.

Good thoughts, I will definitely try and do this! I just have ALWAYS done exams chronologically, idk why, so I'm unused to considering what order to do it in! I think I will have to test this at home and hopefully it works. Thanks again

[Lauradf36]

Random Q - would the "red terror" like in communism be capitalised?! Red Terror or Red terror or red terror? Idk

[jamonwindeyer]

Random Q - would the "red terror" like in communism be capitalised?! Red Terror or Red terror or red terror? Idk

Hmm, I'm assuming you are using it in analysing a text, and that would mean "red terror" appears in that text, what does the text do?

If it doesn't appear, I don't think it will matter too much either way, I'd probably capitalise though?

[Lauradf36]

Hmm, I'm assuming you are using it in analysing a text, and that would mean "red terror" appears in that text, what does the text do?

If it doesn't appear, I don't think it will matter too much either way, I'd probably capitalise though?

I think I have decided to capitalise it just in case. If I'm wrong at least it will look like I tried hard!