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Is 850 words each english advance essay enough for me to get full marks? (1 Viewer)

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Riproot said:
Yeah. Probs ~650-700 in the exam though (I got 17.5/20 for that one, meaning one marker gave it 18/20 and the other 17/20 lol)
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No offence (so you don't get the wrong idea) but does that mean that Standard marks quite a bit easier than Advanced because pretty much any 700 word essay in Advanced would get hammered...
 
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I wrote around 350 words (basiclly a page and a bit) for my 2nd module for my trials and i got 8/20
 
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I tend to write 900 less than 4 pages, because I have relatively narrow handwriting. Too bad it looks like I write much less.
 
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Gary_Oak said:
I wrote around 350 words (basiclly a page and a bit) for my 2nd module for my trials and i got 8/20
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I wrote 1 page for my creative, didn't include the line they told us to include, wasn't even close to finishing my story and I still got 7/15
 
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Rawf said:
I wrote 1 page for my creative, didn't include the line they told us to include, wasn't even close to finishing my story and I still got 7/15
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But see this doesn't really say anything- your school's marking could be harder or easier (I'm guessing here) than HSC. At HSC, if you don't include the line, you would get hammered
 
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deswa1 said:
But see this doesn't really say anything- your school's marking could be harder or easier (I'm guessing here) than HSC. At HSC, if you don't include the line, you would get hammered
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True - with english and to a lesser extent other essay writing subjects, the mark you get at school can be notoriously unreliable in some cases.
 
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Actually, you don't need to include the line that was supplied, there just needs to be a LINK or some aspect of the quote in your response. It's a stimulus, not a requirement to explicitly include in your creative.

Source: HSC Markers.
 
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