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  1. smartalec

    how many marks would I lose?

    mhm. same. and i could have EASILY done it as well. I was just to focused on rewriting what I memorised haha. bos sure cracked down on me.
  2. smartalec

    how was standard for you? Is a band 6 possible? still have no idea why you didn't do advanced!

    how was standard for you? Is a band 6 possible? still have no idea why you didn't do advanced!
  3. smartalec

    how many marks would I lose?

    Um...5.5 I think with 7-8 words per line.
  4. smartalec

    how many marks would I lose?

    thanks. well i got 13 in the trials, with harsh marking, so I'm hoping for an 11 this time I guess.
  5. smartalec

    how many marks would I lose?

    im talking about the creative writing though. and it didnt have NO relevance, it had a weak relevance haha
  6. smartalec

    how many marks would I lose?

    ok, that's not too bad then. I was just hoping it wouldn't be capped to <10
  7. smartalec

    how many marks would I lose?

    well for the creative writing, my link to place wasn't that obvious - I more or less said remembering belonging to people formed her a sense of place...I also had another bit similar to that but not sure if it was obvious the it was a memory type thing. how many marks would you lose for a...
  8. smartalec

    Module B Hate Thread

    haha spoke to my friend who did speeches as their critical study. awkward moment when their teacher tells them that they will only be focusing on 3 of them because that's all they needed. Imagine their shock when they saw the question was specific and had NO idea what the specified speech was...
  9. smartalec

    Module B Hate Thread

    looking back, it wasn't TOO bad. like super hard but not ridiculous. the bad part about them, im talking specifically about Hamlet is that BOS fails to remember that we are super nervous when we enter the exam room and also have like no time to write a suitable essay in the timeframe. for me i...
  10. smartalec

    Estimate for a friend

    English Standard: 12/120 General Mathematics: 50/107 Studies of Religion 2: 9/35 IPT: 2/24 CAFS: 2/45 Senior Science: 3/30 School rank ~200
  11. smartalec

    How much did you write?

    EXACTLY the same.
  12. smartalec

    raw marks for a band 5?

    lol so i know a band 6 is totally out of reach after today. so was wondering what the cutoff for a band 5 would be ROUGHLY? would ~70/105 be enough?
  13. smartalec

    General Thoughts: English Advanced Paper 2

    hamlet = rape. that is all. will be lucky to pass. how did everyone interpret the fortinbras bit?
  14. smartalec

    General Thoughts: English Paper 1 (AOS)

    Re: How Great Was That? i agrer, the creative was extremely specific... i talked about how the person lacked a connection to the world, is thsy ok for place?
  15. smartalec

    General Thoughts: English Paper 1 (AOS)

    dont worry guys, im SURE it will get alligned for the emily dickinson/crucible peeps, im seriously? skrzynecki screams lack of belonging to warsaw (post card) and belonging to his house (10 mary street) as well as lack of belonging in migrant hostel. its not fair for you guys, some standard...
  16. smartalec

    English paper 1

    follow this formula for short answers: -concept of belonging. eg belonging to place -technique. eg simile -quote to support. -effect and link back to the concept. for the 5 marker you CAN replicate stuff written, I read the bos workbooklet of top responses and they all rewrote what they had...
  17. smartalec

    marked down for same techniques

    our teacher gave us a copy of those exam booklets for the belonging paper labelled as 'top student responses' anyway, I was looking through them and they used the EXACT same quotes for the 5 marker with their previous responses. so should be fine!
  18. smartalec

    dont be negative! you have great ranks, believe in yourself!! :)

    dont be negative! you have great ranks, believe in yourself!! :)
  19. smartalec

    Exam predictions

    good prediction about the eye. i was at a TSFX lecture and the person running the lecture said the person writing the communication part is an eye specialist. hmm...
  20. smartalec

    A4 page to HSC booklet size

    ok coz im lame, i measured it out for you. there are 27 lines per page (however, on the back page on the last line it says 'you may ask for an extra booklet...' therefore only 26 lines on those pages) each line is 17.8cm in length, and 1cm in height.
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