English Exam Discussion 2009

[janie]

Hey Guys,

I actually did better than i expected!
The language analysis I found a bit difficult!! :knuppel2:

NO MORE ENGLISH EVER EVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!

Such a relief I relaxed all arvo!!

well except for literature... why did I do this !!!

[billz1508]

people who did look both ways which one did u find was easiest... i chose to do the second one as could relate to so many technique sarah watts had used.  

and yeh persuasive was bit tricky, nearly forgot about the backgorund information.. lol quickly checked for it and found a sentence or 2 ..

Context was ok i reckon, identity and belonging. dont know how well i structured my words at times, but i did clearly point out what was needed

all over for english mainstream.. goodluck to everyone for their results. all the best.

[dejan91]

The arcticle (opinion piece or whatever) was way too long and just bland. Not to mention the image! I ended up talking about how the microchip being central to the human mind/brain suggests that technology is of fundamental importance to human though. Also the expanding size of the microchip shows how technology can expand our intelligence. LOL horrible image. Also, somewhere in the middle I didn't finish a paragraph off so yeah.

I didn't like the context piece and so it was my worst one I'd say.

The first ILOW topic I found was the better of the two and allowed a deeper, more complex discussion.

Overall, pretty happy. But could have done better.

[GerrySly]

people who did look both ways which one did u find was easiest... i chose to do the second one as could relate to so many technique sarah watts had used.  

I did the same, wrote about Photo Montages, Short Animations and then general filmic techniques.

[rajah21]

people who did look both ways which one did u find was easiest... i chose to do the second one as could relate to so many technique sarah watts had used.  

I did the same, wrote about Photo Montages, Short Animations and then general filmic techniques.

Same here. Luckily one of the practice exams I did had a question really similar to ii. of this exam so I just tweaked it to fit this one

[draadkar]

ehh i feel like a fool now. i referred to voxi as she then went back at the end and changed all he shes and hers to hes and his coz i was taught that's the appropriate thing to do in nglish if the gender isnt specified

[ross huggard]

ehh i feel like a fool now. i referred to voxi as she then went back at the end and changed all he shes and hers to hes and his coz i was taught that's the appropriate thing to do in nglish if the gender isnt specified

haha so you thought it was wrong that it was she so you changed it to he?

do you think making it gender specific would result in a penalty

[Heiby]

Section A- i did Look Both Ways the first question
Section B- encounteing conflict
Section c- i died....stupid peice of crap article

[Dark Templar]

Geez, I just realised I may have royally screwed language analysis. I didn't really put background information, got the name of the magazine wrong, and didn't explicitly mention the target audience or the form. The rest of it was damn near perfect. Have I definitely lost marks?

Is it a formulaic (A language analysis must have mention of the form, background information, this, that, etc) or is it a general (must have this depth, must adequately describe persuasive technique, comprehensively describe how the language has been used to persuade the reader and how the reader is positioned etc)?

Also I don't think it was very clear if the magazine was called CTRL ALT or Voxy. It seemed like CTRL ALT was graphics VCAA added to emphasise that it was on the web.

[Dark Templar]

Geez, I just realised I may have royally screwed language analysis. I didn't really put background information, got the name of the magazine wrong, and didn't explicitly mention the target audience or the form. The rest of it was damn near perfect. Have I definitely lost marks?

probs lost a mark if it was really noticeable but don't fret too much

Well that's the thing, it didn't detract from the calibre of the piece at all. That's why I'm asking are they looking for a certain calibre or do they fill in check boxes? Were mentioning the form etc guidelines to help people do well, or were they absolute necessities?

[phuiii]

I found the english exam pretty decent, wasn't as hard as the CSE practice exam for english.
Section A) I did look both ways prompt 2, mentioned the construction of the film to create meaning and tied it to interpretations of the audience. (photomontages, visual animations, music)

Section B) Whose  reality - Based my writing from A streetcar named desire.
Chose to do imaginative, did a combined hybrid form of writing where Blanche enters diary entries (4) and then a final entry (the doctor) analysing blanches psychology and using the doctors entry as a more expository form to explain why blanche can only see things in her own reality(had 20 minutes left and added this part thank god).

Section C) I found the online article to be a decently persuasive article, chose to analyse the use of the word "keyed" then the visual element saying that the CPU in place of the brain leads that as a human society we will follow digital technology.
Stated that the use of the appeal to common sense challenges the readers intelligence forcing them to the writers contention and then using inclusive language to make the reader feel they are also part of the "Debate" swindling their point of view to make a stand hence moving towards the writers contention again.

Overall, the prompts were much easier than expected and I was really pleased in the end.

Hoping for an A or A+

[TrueTears]

I liked the language analysis article, Richard III topic was great. However not too sure about context (I&B)

[Helvasca]

http://voxisblog.blogspot.com/

[xXNovaxX]

OMG

That wasn't what VCAA used righttttt??? LMAO.

[kendraaaaa]

Geez, I just realised I may have royally screwed language analysis. I didn't really put background information, got the name of the magazine wrong, and didn't explicitly mention the target audience or the form. The rest of it was damn near perfect. Have I definitely lost marks?

Is it a formulaic (A language analysis must have mention of the form, background information, this, that, etc) or is it a general (must have this depth, must adequately describe persuasive technique, comprehensively describe how the language has been used to persuade the reader and how the reader is positioned etc)?

Also I don't think it was very clear if the magazine was called CTRL ALT or Voxy. It seemed like CTRL ALT was graphics VCAA added to emphasise that it was on the web.

On the page before the article, where it had the 'background information' it said that CTRL ALT was the name of the magazine.