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What are the most popular text response texts?
« on: December 19, 2010, 07:22:49 pm »
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As some of you know there is a VN English trial exam in progress with all original content, hence we need to know the most popular text response texts. The top 8 will be selected and we'll have a little team come up with 2 prompts for each.

We've more or less handled the language analysis, and one of the context pieces :)

If you can think up some prompts for the contexts it would be great also.
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Re: What are the most popular text response texts?
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2010, 08:41:26 pm »
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They're listed in the examiners report. Since the '10 one isn't out, here are the '09 ones.

Section A - Majority of Students

Look Both Ways  24.8%
The Kite Runner  13.7%
Nineteen Eighty-Four  10.2%
A Man for All Seasons  8.3% 

The least popular texts for this part included Great Short Works (Poe), Of Love and Shadows and Collected Stories
(Farmer) Selected Poems (Slessor) and Into Thin Air, each with fewer than 100 scripts.

Section B

Context   %  Mean    Most popular text
Encountering conflict 38.18% 5.3  The Crucible
Identity and belonging 31.00% 5.5  Witness
Whose reality? 18.97% 5.5  A Streetcar Named Desire
The imaginative landscape 11.85% 5.6  Fly Away Peter
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Re: What are the most popular text response texts?
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2010, 09:22:25 pm »
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I was going to post these but all Reading and Responding texts are obsolete.
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Re: What are the most popular text response texts?
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2010, 09:28:08 pm »
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Yeah I know, and there are no figures/stats on the new ones. Very annoying.
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Re: What are the most popular text response texts?
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2010, 09:29:19 pm »
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I've got a list of the texts the year 12s on VN will be studying next year, here.  ;)
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Re: What are the most popular text response texts?
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2010, 01:21:19 am »
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Judging from my prep sessions, Cosi, Year of Wonders and On the Waterfront seem to be popular among the public schools. Being from MHS, you'd inevitably want to include their texts too taiga so Richard III and Ransom for that :P
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Re: What are the most popular text response texts?
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2010, 03:40:37 pm »
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Sucks that my texts (AFTA + The Reluctant Fundamentalist) are fairly new and so there aren't many prompts around.. :(
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Re: What are the most popular text response texts?
« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2010, 11:28:53 pm »
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Richard III - possibly the best text in VCE.
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Re: What are the most popular text response texts?
« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2010, 11:36:53 pm »
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Year of Wonders is common? Holy.. I did that.
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Re: What are the most popular text response texts?
« Reply #9 on: December 23, 2010, 07:35:31 pm »
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No, Hard Times is pretty awesome as well. :)
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Re: What are the most popular text response texts?
« Reply #10 on: December 23, 2010, 08:17:07 pm »
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Quote from: LOVEPHYSICS on December 23, 2010, 07:35:31 pm
No, Hard Times is pretty awesome as well. :)

That's gone now isn't it?
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Re: What are the most popular text response texts?
« Reply #11 on: December 23, 2010, 08:28:50 pm »
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Quote from: The Ghost Inside! on December 23, 2010, 08:17:07 pm
Quote from: LOVEPHYSICS on December 23, 2010, 07:35:31 pm
No, Hard Times is pretty awesome as well. :)

That's gone now isn't it?
And rightfully so.
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Re: What are the most popular text response texts?
« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2010, 11:24:34 pm »
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A Christmas Carol is up instead, my schools doing it. Not really sure how they will go on that one, it's not a private school/selective and most students have poor english/literary backgrounds.
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Re: What are the most popular text response texts?
« Reply #13 on: December 23, 2010, 11:28:07 pm »
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This may seem like a dumb question, but would it be more beneficial for a public school to choose English texts that private/selective schools aren't doing?
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Re: What are the most popular text response texts?
« Reply #14 on: December 23, 2010, 11:29:36 pm »
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I don't know, cause then everyone else do those texts anyway.
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