2024 HSC Chat (13 Viewers)

[lyingsalsa]

Is someone potentially willing to critique and help me with my 1984 essay? 16/20 was the best I got for 1984 and I'm not too sure on how to improve.

i dont do 1984... but what was the feedback on your trial?

 

[willy_g0706]

I am able to i think common module is my best mod. ended up getting 18/20 for it in my trial

Is someone potentially willing to critique and help me with my 1984 essay? 16/20 was the best I got for 1984 and I'm not too sure on how to improve.

 

[Legendary16]

i dont do 1984... but what was the feedback on your trial?

I did worse on the trial, my better 1984 essay was for internals

 

[thelittlepotatofrog]

Is someone potentially willing to critique and help me with my 1984 essay? 16/20 was the best I got for 1984 and I'm not too sure on how to improve.

damn me t5oo lol

 

[thelittlepotatofrog]

i yapped a lot about historical context in mine, linking it to my themes of hope, individuality, and repression and my teachers said they really liked it. if u have lots of historical context then link it to the story being a sort of cautionary warning to readers about totalitarianism i think it shows that you understand the meaning of the book and orwells intentions

eg in mine i talked about stalinist policies linking it to the memory hole, orwells work as a propagandist for BBC during WW2 and the atomisation of society similar to nazi germany

i think maybe historical context of Orwell and the world during the time he wrote 1984 may help show more depth and understanding in your essay especially if you link it to your points/themes well so it can also be like evidence. if u do modern history it can especially help since theres a lot of similarities between the power and authority topic and the book

this is what was said when I asked earlier

I did worse on the trial, my better 1984 essay was for internals

 

[willy_g0706]

Do yous have your actual essay that you wrote on the day typed out or no? what was feedback given by markers

 

[bbmiffy]

i just think its so cruel that my worst subject is the single one that has to contribute to our atar

 

[bbmiffy]

maybe the real human experience was the friends we made along the way

 

[thelittlepotatofrog]

Do yous have your actual essay that you wrote on the day typed out or no? what was feedback given by markers

I do, but the feedback basically says u did great but link to the question more, however I feel that if that was the only issue I would have gotten a higher mark

 

[lyingsalsa]

i just think its so cruel that my worst subject is the single one that has to contribute to our atar

i agree but its not like one of my subjects arent going to count anyway

 

[lyingsalsa]

at the end of the day if i cook an exam thats going to my atar

 

[willy_g0706]

I do, but the feedback basically says u did great but link to the question more, however I feel that if that was the only issue I would have gotten a higher mark

Well that doesn't necessarily mean you would've got a higher mark no. Linking to the question probably the most important part of every essay. If I was you I'd practise applying your memorised essay to a range of different questions and get feedback on those.

 

[thelittlepotatofrog]

Well that doesn't necessarily mean you would've got a higher mark no. Linking to the question probably the most important part of every essay. If I was you I'd practise applying your memorised essay to a range of different questions and get feedback on those.

ty man

 

[Legendary16]

Do yous have your actual essay that you wrote on the day typed out or no? what was feedback given by markers

I can send you the trial essay as well if you want...I've shared my internals' essay

 

[lyingsalsa]

Well that doesn't necessarily mean you would've got a higher mark no. Linking to the question probably the most important part of every essay. If I was you I'd practise applying your memorised essay to a range of different questions and get feedback on those.

i agree, if you have already memorised the essay, just adapt thesis and topic sentences to each question so you dont have to write out the whole essay

 

[willy_g0706]

Yeah but even so learning how to somewhat adapt your evidence also helps if you have time. Probably better spending more time adapting thesis/topic sentences tho yeah

 

[appleali]

I am able to i think common module is my best mod. ended up getting 18/20 for it in my trial

sameee

 

[appleali]

anyone else feel like the days to the lead up to the hsc are flying by? it felt like yesterday it was just the end of school and we had 4 weeks til the hsc... now we have effectively 8 days

 

[willy_g0706]

what are yous doing for module c? I got 5/10 in trials. as someone who cannot write creatively am i better to just memorise this too?

 

[sainzsgf]

i didn't study because i ran out of time before trials started but my paper was weird and there was 10 marks unseen and then a imaginative/discursive. i just used my mod c internal and adapted it to the stimulus. i think i just got a bit lucky lol