General Thoughts: English Adv. Paper 2 (Modules) (3 Viewers)

[RainbowBrite]

Transformations- Hamlet and RAGAD- "moral order" = wtf
Critical Study- Yeats- "youth and age" = wtf
Representation and Texts (Telling the Truth) - Frontline- "significance of human experience" = excuse me, but WTF HAVE YOU BEEN SMOKING YOU *beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep*ers?!

I thought all the questions were more specific than they have been in the past, and that threw me off. I was expecting to go in and write what I like kinda thing. *sigh.

No more English Advanced though! Nice change I think...

"O cursed spite that I was born to do the HSC"

 

[Zoe 2508]

i am so jealous of everyone who found the paper easy!!

I HATED THE PAPER!!!

Telling the truth:
Wrote 20 papers. Complete and utter shit. my prepared essay focused on the medias callous disregard for the truth as did my related material. "HUMAN EXPERIENCES?" what the hell!!

BNW/BRDC:
Hated this question. Hated the fact that it did not ask us either a context question or a relationship with nature question. Wrote 18 pages. Hate, hate, hate.

King Lear (can die now):
Hated this question. wrote 9 pages. Allowed 18 minutes for this section as i was trying not to deal with it hoping that it would just disappear, but it didn't. It was there to haunt me as the clocking was ticking away, and the end was nearing. The essay bit me in the bum and i hardly think i'l get a 10/20 for this essay. My 4-yr old nephew could have written somethign better without even reading the play.

Was sort of hoping that paper two would make up for my failings in paper one, although unfortunately i fear that this will not be the case.

English can go shrivel up in a corner by itself and die because its over. Although what shits me is i was hoping english would bring about my salvation in relation to my other exams that will definately not be of a high standard, although i have resigned myself to the fact that now all of my papers will not be of a high standard.

oh how i long fo the 9th of November..

Wow, i've been really negative. Well, cant say i was too pleased with my efforts, and i hope i serve to be some comfort for all of you who went well.

 

[snowbunny]

So then i had to put arrows onto the opposite page but then when i got out of the exam i realised that i dont think they mark that page..... *tear*

***Lauren***

are you kidding?! i wrote a couple things that i wanted to add on the opposite page...they cant just ignore it can they? that would be a bit rude...



in tourism my teacher told me that they have to take everything you've written down on the paper into account... even if its just dots points down the side of the page as a memo or draft thing

 

[fruitarian]

English Modules ay...

I dunno...i prewrote my essays weeks ago but i made them like 2000 words so i could pick and choose paragraphs pertaining to the questions...

Seemed to do ok...very specific questions but In a way im glad for them because we will all get the marks we've earnt...that kinda stuff rly sorts us out i reckon.

I still have ext 1 to go so...no end-of-english celebrations for me At least there is no exam for ext 2 english such a relief

 

[TimtheEnchanter]

To all those of us who did Halmet, CLoudstreet and Frontline:

Hamlet question: not bad, but moral order? is that like social class?
Cloudsteet qu: a waste of 2 years work, i feel for you all
Frontline qu: quite good considering, very relevant stuff, pretty much 'why do people lie and who cares?'

Now to bitch about the specialisation of Cloudstreet questions:
(everyone start typing)

 

[TimtheEnchanter]

To all those of us who did Halmet, CLoudstreet and Frontline:

Hamlet question: not bad, but moral order? is that like social class?
Cloudsteet qu: a waste of 2 years work, i feel for you all
Frontline qu: quite good considering, very relevant stuff, pretty much 'why do people lie and who cares?'

Now to bitch about the specialisation of Cloudstreet questions:
(everyone start typing)

If there's one complaint to be made about enlgish questions, this is it:
Stop demanding we agree with your point sof view! Cloudstreet was a bad read! And analysing it destroyed the expeirience of even that!

 

[Midnight Ramble]

Ondaatje question...............so far out of left field...I had anticipated a textual integrity question, but im glad all three were straightforward essays in terms of form.

 

[blackiejim]

Hmm spose we will have to wait for marks to see how i went. Reasonably confident though. Questions were ridiculously narrow and shithouse.

Wrote 9pages for Hamlet/RAGAD, 8 for Harwood, 9 for Frontline.

As i always say..........MEH

 

[Santina]

CLOUDSTREET = WTF?! Who actually cares about Quick? He's not even the main character and nothing happens about him that is actually worth talking about. I spent a WHOLE year preparing for this module and it was all wasted, and the other texts got questions so much easier than ours!!!


Once again, WTF?!

TimtheEnchanter is completely correct.

 

[Megan5]

I can't believe that exam. I really... can't. I prepared myself for the worse - I knew it would be hard.. But that, was nothing I imagined.

The Critical study questions - ridiculous. That was my best module too. Before this exam. I wrote what I thought, and I managed an answer.
The other Modules were manageable. It was a hard paper.

I must say, that I think the questions were essays because they were already challenging enough without adding a form on top of it.
I had quite a shit exam. Got food poisoning over the weekend, spent all this morning before the exam throwing up in the school toilets. Not to mention, I had to battle not chucking in the exam. Examiners were nice though, and I took it in my stride and just kept going. Horrible! Thank God english is done with!

 

[cbadvanced]

For Cloudstreet, my conclusion was along these lines

"Me and my 2 critics dont give a shit about Quick because we are focusing on Fish and the author...your statement is absurb and I do NOT agree"

 

[roosterssuck]

yay it was heaps good, really easy except frontline...

 

[bored_of]

Well, thought Hamlet vs Ros & guil was the hardest, kinda just wrote what i'd prepared and tried to mould it to the question. Moral order, what is that? Think i wrote something about the moral order of their contexts disintegrating, or of stoppards at least, which shaped the texts.

Cloudstreet seemed hard when i first read the qu, but it actually ended up working pretty well with what i'd prepared, plus you could have always rejected that Quick was significant or whatever.

Frontline was really good, really easy to mould my prepared stuff around, didn't have to change my thesis at all.

Don't get why everyone was so glad that they were all essays. The only problem i have with other text types is that they take a bit on extra time to establish, instead of getting straight in there. Never again, it's over, the day has finally come.

 

[cbadvanced]

Doesn't anyone here do Simple Plan and Pardoner's Tale?

 

[Flaky]

Yeah, I found the exam pretty easy, probably cause i didnt create a generic essay, just made pages of notes, Hamlet/RAGAD was ok once I figured out what "moral order" meant, Yeats was awesome, a bit specific, but at least three poems were really relevant, and frontline was effectively "these texts show me how the media lie, and make me question it". All up a booklet for each.

 

[nicki8959]

This had been my most dreaded exam so far, because it has 3 hardcore essays in it, unlike Area of Study. And my fears were confirmed. It was AWFUL!

During reading time, I saw the first question, and thought "ok, this is kinda bad" and then saw the second question which was worse, and then i looked at the third question and didn't even understand it!!

I'm so glad I didn't memorize any of my essays. The questions were so specific, any memorization would have been useless for me. I reckon the BOS was weeding out the memorizers, like that otha person said

Module A: Emma/Clueless was kinda alrite...a bit random with the whole quality of relationship thing
And for Module B, I'm SO glad they didn't stipulate any poems for Harwood! I had only learnt two poems, and when my friend told me they might ask for 3 I was panicing! But then they only asked for two, so thank god for that
Module C: had to read the stupid question 10 times before it even started to make any sense to me...wierd...

I'm actually quite glad that they didn't include any particular text types...that would hav screwed me ova coz i hadnt really prepared for any specific text types...

My school has actually prepared me quite well for this exam...I feel sorry for people who weren't prepared well, and then they had to tackle that exam!

I only wrote 20 pages in total, and some ppl are saying they wrote 20 for 1 exam!! God, i thought i was fine until i read that, did anyone else right about 7 for each? i thought that was gd neway...

Anyway, next up geo!

 

[julz_rulz18]

Yes! I was soo not expecting a question like that! I actually think I did really bad in it though because of the 'responsibility' bit..... also couldn't remember how to spell a lot of my Chaucer quotes. Rabbited on about the paradox of the Pardoner for a while... and spiritual death etc.... what did u think?

And yes, why don't more people in this state do this option?????!!!!!!!!

 

[TimtheEnchanter]

After seeing just how pissed off everyone was at the Critical studies question (curse you to hell Winton), I really should say something:

1- Congrats everyone, you just sat the last English question you’ll ever be asked. Ever
2- We all have about 80 exams under our belts, 27 now of which are HSC style, so none of this crap is anything new to us and we know we can handle it.
Don’t worry about your UAI whatever you do, it’s just a number that doesn’t reflect anything but your ability to handle schoolwork. Course admission is just a popularity rating, like a class president election, and the UAI is by no means the only way to get into uni and to do what you want, or no one would ever get anywhere. YOUR UAI IS NOT A MEASURE OF YOUR ABILITY OR POTENTIAL, IT IS A NUMBER YOU GET WHEN YOU FINISH STANDARD SCHOOLING.

But back to whinging, that cloudstreet question was like doing a maths exam that only uses the number '4' after studying everything for years.

 

[Kimmyyeah]

WOOT MA BURN ALL MY ENGLISH PAPERS NOW :burn:MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH BURN STUDY NOTES

 

[elmo788]

yeh man, i thought frontline was shithouse too..what does "human experience" mean..i just wrote as many points as i could think bout, and just thre in those wordss..ohh no!