CSSA Paper One Discussion Thread!

[georgiia]

I laughed out loud when I read this hahahaha, the best thing ever.

Hey Elyse, I PM'd you a question so that I wouldn't give away the creative stimulus. Thx!

[djpetrin15]

Personally, I think Part 1 had good first two questions, but annoying last three questions. Part 2 was annoying cause my creative didn't fit, and Part 3 was alright. Overall I'm a bit worried but I should do better in Paper 2 and the HSC. *fingers crossed*

[djpetrin15]

Short Answer gave me nightmares, Creative proper mugged me off (I mean where tf were the options for different stimuli) although I was most confident with the essay. But once again, this exam re-affirmed the hatred I hold toward CSSA exams......now Wishing upon that Notre Dame Early Entry Thooooooooo hahahahaha

I feel you so much m8.

[zemilyx]

i remembered that text 3 was made into a tv show a while ago about a boy trying to get into the olympics! so i was lucky i knew that, it made it a lot easier to understand.
i spent lots of time practicing a good creative only to not have it fit the question at all... so i had to use one from ages ago and i just rambled for pages it was awful. anyone else doing Yeats tomorrow?

[Wales]

I felt fairly confident adapting to the Essay question. While it was something I've never seen I felt that it was fairly straight forward and free.

Creative is where I panicked. The question was rather obscure and definitely something I would never have predicted. Hopefully I was able to adapt my creative well enough. I had extremely high hopes for my creative as I got full marks last time but I feel that this question really threw me and the entire school off.

Short answer was a bit weird. Didn't like Text 4 and 3 much but used them anyway for the 5 marker.

Is anyone able to specifically PM me the Creative Question? I want to break it down myself and adapt my creative to it again.

Cheers, Wales

[Wales]

i remembered that text 3 was made into a tv show a while ago about a boy trying to get into the olympics! so i was lucky i knew that, it made it a lot easier to understand.
i spent lots of time practicing a good creative only to not have it fit the question at all... so i had to use one from ages ago and i just rambled for pages it was awful. anyone else doing Yeats tomorrow?

Unlucky man. I could feel the tension in the room and heard a string of profanity emerge when people saw the creative question.

I'm doing Yeats tomorrow too. I really do hope they don't specify a poem for us to do. I would be screwed ): Goodluck!

[georgiia]

i remembered that text 3 was made into a tv show a while ago about a boy trying to get into the olympics! so i was lucky i knew that, it made it a lot easier to understand.
i spent lots of time practicing a good creative only to not have it fit the question at all... so i had to use one from ages ago and i just rambled for pages it was awful. anyone else doing Yeats tomorrow?

Yeah I think I understood text 3 only because I had read the book

[djpetrin15]

i remembered that text 3 was made into a tv show a while ago about a boy trying to get into the olympics! so i was lucky i knew that, it made it a lot easier to understand.

I recognised it, probably would have helped if I had read the book or seen the show but still didn't make that much sense to me.

[sophia123]

thankfully one of my prepared creative writings fit perfectly so that was straightforward, but the essay really stumped me?! would love to know what kind of direction they were asking of us...the only direction I took was the way out of the exam room

[kaya-sandwich]

The creative and essay weren't too bad but section 1 really stuffed me up! I spent ages trying to figure out Unseen Text 2 and for a minute, I doubted my capabilities in the English language. IT was like text 2 had no connection to discovery and to attempt to do so would be quite a stretch. Our Standard English teacher was telling us later on that even he had questioned the authenticity of the second text. To be honest, it felt like they were trying to get us to waffle on and on especially with the first and third text. Paper 1 was supposed to be an easy entry into trials but instead it's confused me even more.

[elysepopplewell]

The creative and essay weren't too bad but section 1 really stuffed me up! I spent ages trying to figure out Unseen Text 2 and for a minute, I doubted my capabilities in the English language. IT was like text 2 had no connection to discovery and to attempt to do so would be quite a stretch. Our Standard English teacher was telling us later on that even he had questioned the authenticity of the second text. To be honest, it felt like they were trying to get us to waffle on and on especially with the first and third text. Paper 1 was supposed to be an easy entry into trials but instead it's confused me even more.

Hey Kaya! Glad to hear the majority of the paper went well for you!
Welcome to the forums - if you need any help please let us know

[marcorabbitolol]

wow!! seriously can't believe that everyone was in the same boat today! that paper sucked...and paper 2 is meant to be even more challenging...all the best with it everyone!! i'm sure a bad day today can make us do even better! 

[mixel]

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 

[pikachu975]

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 

Nope it was not raining thankfully

[elysepopplewell]

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 

Pathetic fallacy!