CSSA Paper One Discussion Thread!

[daniel044]

Didnt do cssa but I still had paper 1 today. Did it start absolutely bucketing down during the exam where anyone else sat it though? The noise was so loud I could hardly hear myself think, and it was pretty debilitating because I'd been holding in the need to pee since I entered the exam hall and the rain just made me conscious of it 

Oh my gosh!!! This was me too!!! And it was the worst when I was doing unseen texts and I couldn't focus at all on what the text was saying (and my school picked weird texts!)

 It was good though because halfway through my creative i remembered i forgot to mention the rain in my creative...so i guess it helped in that regard!

[12070]

Just got my results from paper one and I'm not very happy. For the essay and creative, I got 13 which I was happy about but I got mediocre comments at best: 'a perceptive and sensitive response' and 'a very creative idea' respectively. Then in the reading section, I got 6, from 15 in task 1 to 6 in trials. I actually thought my analysis was better in trials. That's not me trying to be ostentatious, I was still expecting 11-12 because our first task was marked extremely kind. I was talking to other people and most thought the marking was appalling and completely inconsistent. I'll give you an example of my comments for one of the questions out of 3...  '1'. Like cheers marker, really helpful. Other said they got 4/15 in the creative writing for task 1 and got 14/15 in trials for the same narrative. It's honestly infuriating as we had to do task 1 twice as people knew the questions beforehand and I got 12/15 for reading without finishing and only dropped marks on the one I didn't finish. I get better feedback from the AN community who do it for free than I do from external markers getting paid $80/h. Anyway, that's my rant, hopefully everyone else had better markers and in turn got reasonable marks.   

[jamonwindeyer]

Just got my results from paper one and I'm not very happy. For the essay and creative, I got 13 which I was happy about but I got mediocre comments at best: 'a perceptive and sensitive response' and 'a very creative idea' respectively. Then in the reading section, I got 6, from 15 in task 1 to 6 in trials. I actually thought my analysis was better in trials. That's not me trying to be ostentatious, I was still expecting 11-12 because our first task was marked extremely kind. I was talking to other people and most thought the marking was appalling and completely inconsistent. I'll give you an example of my comments for one of the questions out of 3...  '1'. Like cheers marker, really helpful. Other said they got 4/15 in the creative writing for task 1 and got 14/15 in trials for the same narrative. It's honestly infuriating as we had to do task 1 twice as people knew the questions beforehand and I got 12/15 for reading without finishing and only dropped marks on the one I didn't finish. I get better feedback from the AN community who do it for free than I do from external markers getting paid $80/h. Anyway, that's my rant, hopefully everyone else had better markers and in turn got reasonable marks.   

Aww jeez, I'm so sorry friend, sounds like you really got dealt the short straw definitely don't view your expectations as unrealistic or unfounded, and that is a ridiculous drop to get without justification! I'd be chasing the marker and demanding some more specific feedback - It doesn't have to be an antagonistic exchange, you need to know what happened so you don't do it again!

Stories like this are why Elyse, Susie and I (and others) do the essay marking, because good feedback should be there for everyone when they need it - We'll always be here if you need us! 

[12070]

Aww jeez, I'm so sorry friend, sounds like you really got dealt the short straw definitely don't view your expectations as unrealistic or unfounded, and that is a ridiculous drop to get without justification! I'd be chasing the marker and demanding some more specific feedback - It doesn't have to be an antagonistic exchange, you need to know what happened so you don't do it again!

Stories like this are why Elyse, Susie and I (and others) do the essay marking, because good feedback should be there for everyone when they need it - We'll always be here if you need us! 

Yeah, I'm definitely going to chase it up. Lost more marks in the reading section than I did for the other five sections of the two papers. I'm extremely happy with 90/105 but for 9 of those marks to come from one section seems a bit dubious.

Your feedback (even though it wasn't directly for me) was a major reason I got the marks I did. It wasn't until I joined AN that I fully understood how to write an English essay i.e without retell/concept focused/impact on responder etc. So thanks a lot for being so helpful and genuinely being the best community. I often wonder about the marks I could get if I had people like you, Elyse, Rui teaching me my respective subjects. You guys are the best!

[jamonwindeyer]

Your feedback (even though it wasn't directly for me) was a major reason I got the marks I did. It wasn't until I joined AN that I fully understood how to write an English essay i.e without retell/concept focused/impact on responder etc. So thanks a lot for being so helpful and genuinely being the best community. I often wonder about the marks I could get if I had people like you, Elyse, Rui teaching me my respective subjects. You guys are the best!

Aww, so glad we could be helpful! You 100% earned those marks, congrats on working hard and achieving such a great result (and fingers crossed you can chase a few more marks )!

Maybe we should open a school?

[pikachu975]

40/45 for paper 1 with 15/15 short answer, 13/15 creative and 12/15 discovery essay. Essay they said like my paragraphs need to be structured more coherently and answer the question more (thought I did...) so not sure what this means. Paper 2 got 50/60 so pretty happy overall but mod A dropped from 19 to 15 in one trial with the same content written so it just shows how subjective english is with marking...

[Wales]

What I thought was my strongest module turned out to be my weakest and my weakest was my highest mark :\

Rather disappointed with my marks for Eng overall but hopefully HSC is better!

[arunasva]

40/45 for paper 1 with 15/15 short answer, 13/15 creative and 12/15 discovery essay. Essay they said like my paragraphs need to be structured more coherently and answer the question more (thought I did...) so not sure what this means. Paper 2 got 50/60 so pretty happy overall but mod A dropped from 19 to 15 in one trial with the same content written so it just shows how subjective english is with marking...

bet you don't know the difference between apples and old men

[bun00]

heyy!
does anyone have the essay question from CSSA paper 1 trial?
i can't find it anywhere and can't remember it
tku!
ATB

[Daniyahasan]

heyy!
does anyone have the essay question from CSSA paper 1 trial?
i can't find it anywhere and can't remember it
tku!
ATB

I have a hard copy but I can't put it up cos copyright issues sorry

[RuiAce]

heyy!
does anyone have the essay question from CSSA paper 1 trial?
i can't find it anywhere and can't remember it
tku!
ATB

In general, ALL CSSA papers are copyrighted, as are some other companies (e.g. Independents). Please do not request these papers in the future as we will not tolerate the distribution of copyrighted materials.

[bun00]

In general, ALL CSSA papers are copyrighted, as are some other companies (e.g. Independents). Please do not request these papers in the future as we will not tolerate the distribution of copyrighted materials.

hokeypokes NP

[dancing phalanges]

heyy!
does anyone have the essay question from CSSA paper 1 trial?
i can't find it anywhere and can't remember it
tku!
ATB

Off memory the question was (something like): Discoveries are made more memorable by the ways that composers represent them in their text.