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ye then tell them dat im not u. and i dont really care if we do the same subjects. people do the same subject combos. what's the deal? who cares!

lol... ...well four posts in one night isnt too bad...i tend to accumulate all my questions into one heap and ask them all at once. 6...0....0...0...1...10....0 etc. :)

so u'd actually be looking at using sophisticated language....metaphors, similes....things that involve the marker??? so it's more important to illustrate uniqueness of vocabulary/style/language than the uniqueness of the plot/story itself?

hehe. fair enough. i didnt mean theyd go and count all the words, but it's just out of curiosity. i wouldn't want to lose marks for writing too little.

suppose two students came equal first, and then in the hsc exam one of them beat the rest of the class by a fair distance (including the other one who also came first). wouldn't that be unfair to the student who did well, since the average would be taken? (even though it's unlikely, anything...

how does the standards package help to determine your aligned mark?

how do u write that much in 40 minutes? by that stage, my writing's a mess and it tends to get either really big as i write quickly, or really small and "drawn out" across the page. i think at the beginning of the year, i wrote an essay of about 1200 words and my hand was already...

are there different ways that u should approach different types of essays? e.g. if an essay questions ask you: "all journeys have positive outcomes". do you agree? should u present both sides of the argument and come to a final conclusion, or should u present one side of the argument and...

wow....not only do u not get marks, but they get deducted??....harsh. for something like an essay, however, would it "impress" the marker? i.e. illustrate your knowledge of the text?

it seems in marking guidelines that there's an emphasis on "uniqueness" in this section....what if you've got nothing unique to discuss? it's not easy making up an original story with 40 minutes think and write. btw. what length would be sufficient for this section (i.e. number of words, not...

"the senior markers do consider that anything under 8 pages will never cover enough to get in band 6" taking how many words per page? there are 21 lines per page @ ~ average of 6 words per line = ~1000 words??? ...if u wrote 12 words per line, u'd have a good essay in about 4 pages :)

i've heard that it's no good to go into an exam with a pre-prepared response, but is it wise to do that for q2 of the AOS? is it best to just memorise the basic shell of ur response and then adapt that to the question, whether it asks for a letter/short story/interview etc? or should u just make...

i know quality is more important than quantity, but roughly how long should responses for Q2 and Q3 (of the AOS paper) be? i looked at some exemplar responses, and they ranged from ~600-1400 - each of them got 15/15, so it's kind of strange. i want to hit the bulls eye - not going overboard...

should u always quote page numbers from novels in an extended response, in addition to the quotes themselves? if not, in what "text forms" would u actually quote page numbers? e.g. it would seem strange to quote page numbers in a speech or a feature article, but it may impress the marker in an...

suppose u put forward an argument in an extended response, as u always do. is the point of related material to support ur argument? or could it also be used as a contrast? e.g. topic for discussion is "all journeys have a reward at the end". would it be: a) interesting or b) stupid to include...