Work & Education The School/Uni Thread

[ssfc0203]

I think everyone's okay for Module A. Its easy, fun, and since I'm doing Frankenstein much of the context I've already done in depth in Romanticism.

 

[alison_z]

I think everyone's okay for Module A. Its easy, fun, and since I'm doing Frankenstein much of the context I've already done in depth in Romanticism.

Lucky!! I'm stuck with Virginia Woolf and Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf in the Modernist context ... the thesis is fairly straightforward which is good though ...

Paper 1 - I think it was ok ... i got down everything i wanted and wrote a good amount for each one - i don't think i can do much more than that ... you???

 

[ssfc0203]

Umm yeah, essay I thought I did well, creative I made everything as subtly obvious as I could, the short answers were good but I think I'll get 3 for the 5 marker because I didn't get to write enough. Double damn.

 

[SM]

Either of you stuff up and write about Two Related Texts for the essay? A few of my friends did...

The essay question was cruel in saying 'Demonstrate how your studied text reflects this...' when The Crucible doesn't!! My teacher was like WTF afterwards, but I think I got around it ok, 7 and a bit pages for it, 3.5 for comprehension and about 5 for the Creative should be right.

Alison, why do you have 4 texts for History and Memory? Is your set text like two poems or something? I only have 2 relateds + The Fiftieth Gate...

 

[SM]

I think everyone's okay for Module A. Its easy, fun, and since I'm doing Frankenstein much of the context I've already done in depth in Romanticism.

I'm lucky, I'm doing Gatsby and Barett-Browning. I did Gatsby in Year 10 so I'm fully up with it for Gatsby, BB is the one I'm disliking, but I'll be right.

 

[alison_z]

oh well at least you're happy with most of it!!

random questions but do you do your exams in order??

 

[alison_z]

Yeah a few of my friends just wrote about 2 related texts coz that's what they had prepared ...

I was a little annoyed - did so much effort to prepare the other related texts and had to extend the one a chose a little to make it equal but it was ok i think - i wrote pretty much the same as you ... maybe a little longer on the first section but i usually write too much!!

and yeah i'm doing Levertov poetry for history and memory so 2 poems + 2 related texts

 

[SM]

oh well at least you're happy with most of it!!

random questions but do you do your exams in order??

I always do my essays last, and this exam just happened to have it in the order I wanted, so I did it in the order it was given.

Yeah I had 2, but one of them was the one I did for my Half-Yearly, and I had a ton of material on it which I resorted to. I did an episode of House, so the fact that it was about a lack of understanding leading to rejection, it worked perfectly for House, just didn't work for The Crucible...

 

[vonn]

stop talkin about HSC and worry about me! i just failed trial sc hahahahha hm fail

 

[alison_z]

stop talkin about HSC and worry about me! i just failed trial sc hahahahha hm fail

I know it doesn't seem like it now but SC = nothing and trials are even less!! I didn't even study and managed 89 in my worst 2 subjects (science and maths) - the questions are so basic ... really just general knowlegde stuff ... just do some of the practice ones off the board of studies website and you should be fine!!

 

[vonn]

yeh except my skol is selective an u ccan get kicked out..

 

[alison_z]

yeh except my skol is selective an u ccan get kicked out..

do you know what you would have to get to do well?? anyway the trials will be good in that they can show you which areas you need to improve/have done well in ... you have a couple of weeks don't you??

 

[ssfc0203]

Unless you're on a full scholarship, you go to a private school or you have been a total ******** who has not showed up to anything or have done something very bad, they cannot expel you. Selective schools are held to the same standards, teach the same and abide by the same regulations as all other schools.

HSC > everything else.

Continue spamming the thread with HSC talk 09'ers!



Gatsby is a fantastic book Stat.

I just went phew at the one related text - my other didn't fit very well at all.

I'm doing Conflicting Perspectives... don't think any of you are doing any of the texts I am.

 

[SM]

Yeah I hated Gatsby in Year 10, but reading it this year thought it was absolutely brilliant. I think I missed all the humour the first time round.

 

[ssfc0203]

Yeah, I started reading To Kill A Mockingbird in Yearr.. 9? Bored me so badly.

Read it again in 11, and it was great

 

[alison_z]

I loved To Kill a Mockingbird!!! I think i read it in year 9 too ... never read Gatsby - half my year did that unit and the other half (me) did Levertov ... I will have to try it - I'm a big reader but generally contemporary fiction ...

I'm off to bed now, hoping all my quotes are in my head!! Good luck tomorrow guys!!

 

[SM]

Yeah I loved To Kill a Mockingbird when I read it in Year 9, because I was sick for a week or so and just read it then.

 

[Dangas]

sitting in electrical engineering class, bored

 

[grimlock]

sitting in electrical engineering class, bored

and nand xor!

 

[alison_z]

How did you guys find modules??

I was pretty happy with all the questions - i felt i answered them all well but i'm not sure i wrote enough for each one ... i had time left over!!! but i used all the techniques and quotes i had which are pretty extensive

but on a brighter note .... english over!!!

 

[SM]

Yeah, good. I wrote about 5 and a bit for the first two and 7 and a bit for H&M.

Panicked at the start when I couldn't find the Hamlet question because I didn't realise the back of the page had it on it.

Surprised all three were essays though, thought one would be a speech or journal entry or letter.

Only one English exam left, huzzah!

 

[alison_z]

Yeah i thought all the questions were quite straight forward!! I wrote about 5-6 for all of them ... Hamlet was my longest by like one paragraph ...

only Romanticism to go where my essay is ok but my creative writing is a bit dodgy!! It's the morning after my afternoon french cont. exam though

 

[SM]

Romanticism will be fun for me, essay plan and good creative sorted, got me 20/25 and 21/25 for my Trials.

 

[ssfc0203]

We're all Romanticism AND extension 2 peeps! *hi-5* If you guys send me your email/s we can swap Romanticism notes over the weekend & we'll be ready to ace Extension. If we ace extension and get a decent mark for extension 2 - inflated ATAR here we come

I was happy with the exam overall. Think I can manage an A for the modules (maybe a B for Caesar and Speeches depending on how everyone else did).

I did 11, 5, 9.

See the 5? That's a B for Module B.

Oh, Extension question: What themes are you doing for Northanger? Its not easy to pick because you have the straight out "Austen parodies the Gothic fashion of the time as a medieval revivalism through the laundry scene and you-thought-my-father-was-a-murderer scene through Catherine's OTT responses to 'gothic' stimulus" -- seems to broad for me. I don't get how to achieve the closeness in Coleridge and Wuthering.

 

[SM]

I'm not doing Northanger, we weren't even really taught it. I'm doing Keats, Wuthering Heights and my two related texts, Blake's 'The Lamb' and the film Into the Wild.

We only have to choose two of our prescribed texts to write on I'm led to believe.