Lit exam 2008

[amyminchin]

yuk. hated kinsella poems, the only 3 i decided to neglect a bit... but i think i managed to bluff it
and hs was not on the themes i studied it sucked massively, i walked out crying. BUT OHWELL
its over! i can read my own books!!! i probs still did better than the average cretin who does no study and thinks lit will be easy. i'm quite happy its all done for now  :smitten:
ONE MORE TO GO!

[rustic_metal]

I forgot about the seperate forum too. Well, rather I never knew about it. Anyway...

I did Hedda Gabler and Washington Square and reckon I did alright. The Hedda Gabler passages i found to be particularly good; almost all characters were represented (except Thea), and the third passage was the climax of the play. I wrote three  pages or so, which is about 800 words for me. Washington Square I thought had a decent first two passages; Dr. Sloper, Mrs. Penniman and Mrs. Almond all being detailed, while Morris was referred to. Passage #3 was not as good as the other two in my opinion, but i still wrote on it. It dealt with similar issues (Dr. Sloper's psyche) as passage #1 and seemingly went backwards from the natural progression from passages #1 to #2. I wrote about 3 and a half pages for WS which is 900 or so words. Using a standard descriptor I'm pretty sure I'm looking at 17s/18s so I'm very happy with the exam over all.

[Chihiro]

Mrs. Almost haha. I thought passage three was the best as it enabled you to contrast Almond to Sloper and all the subsequent dichotomies that exist between them and how this reflects' James views/values. 17/18's awesome as! I'd kill for that, I'm really hoping I get similar although my Lear will probably let me down. At least I felt I interacted with the language well. Good everyone went well on the whole.

[hancakes]

hey, I am probably my own harshest critic, but after hoping for an A+ i think it might be more like an A now - does anyone have any idea of how that would affect my sac marks (all high A+)? Study score?

[ursus]

yeah the Hedda Gabler passages were so good! We had done about 20 revision classes outside of school time for each text so really there weren't going to be any passages that we were going to find hard. And the passages from the Fox/Captain's Doll/Ladybird were really good, except the Captain's Doll one was a bit weird. But overall VERY happy.

[iamdan08]

hey, I am probably my own harshest critic, but after hoping for an A+ i think it might be more like an A now - does anyone have any idea of how that would affect my sac marks (all high A+)? Study score?

Depends on where you are ranked and your cohorts ability.

[bridgethuss]

yuk. hated kinsella poems, the only 3 i decided to neglect a bit... but i think i managed to bluff it
and hs was not on the themes i studied it sucked massively, i walked out crying. BUT OHWELL
its over! i can read my own books!!! i probs still did better than the average cretin who does no study and thinks lit will be easy. i'm quite happy its all done for now  :smitten:
ONE MORE TO GO!

yeah all along i was saying as long as machine and the shed arent on the exam ill be happy! walk in and BAM there they are!!! was really hoping for wild radishes : ( oh well i still mentioned it anyway!

im not fussed about this exam, i think i can still get a decent study score cos my sacs have all been high A+s, except the last one when i got an a. but just so happy to finish lit! NO MORE KINSELLA!!!!!

[chris]

Hey all , was pretty pleased in my decision to stick with poetry, the Auden pasages were magnificant and i had just written on them the day before, the exact same ones! -- as for Chekhov i think i went ok, the passages were easy to make links wth the common concerns like disconnection, delusions and teh characters inability to cope with their realities. Unfortunately not much on the sense of meaninglessness and questioning of existence. However after completing the essatys and proofreading although i am happy that i got all my ideas downa nd strictured my analysis well, i dont think my actual writing was my best. This is the only subject i dont know how i will go in. Its too hard to tell. -- Hope we all went well.

[clo]

i felt prepared for lear the whole time before i got into the exam, then just couldn't do it in there. im very happy tho cos i used two script books!! i dont think i stopped writing for the whole two hours!

[Butler]

hey, I am probably my own harshest critic, but after hoping for an A+ i think it might be more like an A now - does anyone have any idea of how that would affect my sac marks (all high A+)? Study score?

I'm in the same boat as you. I'm ranked first in my cohort, so hopefully that helps.

[rustic_metal]

Mrs. Almost haha. I thought passage three was the best as it enabled you to contrast Almond to Sloper and all the subsequent dichotomies that exist between them and how this reflects' James views/values. 17/18's awesome as! I'd kill for that, I'm really hoping I get similar although my Lear will probably let me down. At least I felt I interacted with the language well. Good everyone went well on the whole.

lol thats a pretty bad typo, eh? Lear is a bitch, it was my third option and I ran far, far away. You have to spend too much time understanding the words before you can even begin to understand the passages.

[Chihiro]

Yeah we only did two list B texts, so I didn't have a choice haha. Yeah, I'm not a big Shakespeare fan; the language is both good and bad in some senses... mmm I just want my mark now. Like I know I'm good at Literature and I've done fine in SACs and my cohort is definately strong, just that this is my teacher's first year of teaching the subject so it could be good/bad. I felt the views and values he encouraged us to write on were fairly unique and sophisticated so hopefully that works in my favour.

[hancakes]

hey, I am probably my own harshest critic, but after hoping for an A+ i think it might be more like an A now - does anyone have any idea of how that would affect my sac marks (all high A+)? Study score?

Depends on where you are ranked and your cohorts ability.

um first in my cohort, and there's quite a range of ability - maybe one or two others who do really well and the rest moderately well.

[hickey]

hey, I am probably my own harshest critic, but after hoping for an A+ i think it might be more like an A now - does anyone have any idea of how that would affect my sac marks (all high A+)? Study score?

I'm in the same boat as you. I'm ranked first in my cohort, so hopefully that helps.

I'm in the same boat a well, and am also ranked first in my cohort. I'm just worried that I may have said too much from outside the passages in the first half of my Much Ado essay. If its any help, last year I was ranked first in my school for Religion and Society, had 100% for SACs, didn't even get to start a ten mark question (out of 100) and got A on the exam, n I still got 41. so don't give up hope! I thought I'd get mid-30's after that exam! and honestly you probably didn't do as bad as you think. I come out of every SAC/exam I ever do thinking about all of the negatives - start to feel as if I bombed out - n still end up with good scores. just think about the good things that u wrote. I hope that things go well

[hancakes]

true that. Just my endings were not particularly resolved.... it's so frustrating to have to stop after an hour. fingers crossed eh!