The GAT.

[AppleXY]

The GAT, gat, good ole GAT

Hard? Easy? Funny? Happened on your birthday? () Discuss here

[costargh]

Can we listen to our iPod in the GAT? LOL

[droodles]

Can we listen to our iPod in the GAT? LOL

-3/10

[psychlaw]

what is the gat like??? its my first one:D

Question: Does it actually effect our enter at all ? (If were not sick)

[JL_91]

(I moved this post from the other thread about the GAT). The GAT is a waste of 3 hours imo. Lol, my former tutor told us that he drew a turtle instead of writing one of his essays, wrote half of the 2nd one, and circled 'C' for every multiple choice XD yet he still came out with a 99+ ENTER, so that proves how useful the GAT really is! I'll still try my best though...sort of...

[moshi]

lol what were his predicted scores?

[JL_91]

What exactly do you mean by predicted scores? Well, he said that his GAT results basically indicated that he was, quite literally, a complete retard

[ElephantStew]

just wondering if anybody has any interesting or creative ways of doing the first writing thingo...please share

[clinton_09]

i'm not keen at all for the GAT the mc is bearable but the writing tasks are just annoying.

[ice_blockie]

just wondering if anybody has any interesting or creative ways of doing the first writing thingo...please share

The whole point of the first task is to see if you can organise the material into some coherent structure. So here are some ideas:
- feature article
- television commercial or those 'info breaks' you see on EVERY morning talk show...
- some sort of ad
- magazine column
- proposal/design brief
- talk show
- tourist guide talk

But remember don't get too stuck with these 'text types'. It's how you put all the info together so don't add too much irrelevant details...ie no story line, no plot, just basic info. Here's a random example of the 2007 GAT ( I think)


Members of the Board,
Today I present you a proposal that will revolutionise...situated close to 30'45 N [add details of place] with spacious dormitories which are fully equipped...[add details about place]

All meals will be cooked inhouse and all foods grown in a specially developed hydroponics plant....

...specially designed to withstand.[..temperature statistics, graphs and climate numbers...]

etc...

[clinton_09]

thats some good ideas there, thanks for that

[enwiabe]

More like General wAste of Time AMIRITE. Nah jk, jk, treat it seriously, it can really be the deciding factor in your marks if something happens.

[ice_blockie]

Well, he said that his GAT results basically indicated that he was, quite literally, a complete retard

If he happened to be involved in a crash the day before the end of year exams or something else happened....his derived score wud totally suck...

[moshi]

What exactly do you mean by predicted scores? Well, he said that his GAT results basically indicated that he was, quite literally, a complete retard

i haven't done the gat before, so i assumed that it was an indicator of how well you're going to perform in your subjects at the end of the year

[enwiabe]

just wondering if anybody has any interesting or creative ways of doing the first writing thingo...please share

The whole point of the first task is to see if you can organise the material into some coherent structure. So here are some ideas:
- feature article
- television commercial or those 'info breaks' you see on EVERY morning talk show...
- some sort of ad
- magazine column
- proposal/design brief
- talk show
- tourist guide talk

But remember don't get too stuck with these 'text types'. It's how you put all the info together so don't add too much irrelevant details...ie no story line, no plot, just basic info. Here's a random example of the 2007 GAT ( I think)


Members of the Board,
Today I present you a proposal that will revolutionise...situated close to 30'45 N [add details of place] with spacious dormitories which are fully equipped...[add details about place]

All meals will be cooked inhouse and all foods grown in a specially developed hydroponics plant....

...specially designed to withstand.[..temperature statistics, graphs and climate numbers...]

etc...

I wrote an imaginative story for my first piece. The info they gave us was about this ice station, so I set it 30 years into the future and incorporating almost all of the features from the info given I wrote a 10-paged short story thriller. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the plot was that global warming was so severe that all of the world was pretty much flooded. Only those in Antarctica were safe and not for much longer. In the research institute there they were coming up with a new chemical to deliver as a payload into the atmosphere to rebuild the ozone layer and rectify the situation. They JUST launched the rocket with the payload as the waves crashed into their station.

AWESOME, YOU THINK!?! I incorporated EVERY LAST detail into it about how it was set up etc. and do you know what i got for written communication? 32. The bastards.