2009 Trial HSC Exams Discussion (5 Viewers)

[med09]

HeyA!
I heard the English paper 1. is 40% and paper 2. 60%...
How'd you all find the exam timewise?

 

[shady145]

I loved the questions for Module A - Connections: Pride and Prejudive V Letters to Alice
Module B - Critical study: Harwood
Module C - Conflicting perspectives: Wag the Dog
Hopefully my essays to them were good ^^

nice work!!! i wish i was a genius like you ^^, but moneyequalsmarks told me im going to tafe coz i do standard english XD bahhahaaa

 

[shady145]

HeyA!
I heard the English paper 1. is 40% and paper 2. 60%...
How'd you all find the exam timewise?

yep it is 40% for 1st one and 60% for the second

 

[annabackwards]

standard english XD i did some philosiphisationing in part 2, i think i had the independent paper, looking good tho for my rank back... talked to the girl coming 1st n she said she stuffed up =P lucky me!!! lol.

Good job ^^

HeyA!
I heard the English paper 1. is 40% and paper 2. 60%...
How'd you all find the exam timewise?

If you're talking about the CSSA trials and it's true, hurrrrahhhhhhhhhhhh!

 

[shady145]

Good job ^^

thnx

 

[med09]

Just curious,
Does Standard and Advanced scale the same for English, or is there a slight difference?

 

[shady145]

Just curious,
Does Standard and Advanced scale the same for English, or is there a slight difference?

the same i think... but internal marks will be higher in advanced. i think thats right lol. go on the uac website they explain it

 

[jet]

Not really. The UAC release scaling statistics for each year, and if you scroll down you can see the comparison between marks in standard and advanced:
Table A3

Also, if you go here you will see that 0.23% of all students doing standard actually get a band 6. That's about 74 students, of the 32000 that do it.

 

[AnandDNA]

If you're talking about the CSSA trials and it's true, hurrrrahhhhhhhhhhhh![/quote]

Lol obviously it would be 40% for paper 1 and 60% for paper 2 seeing how paper 1 is only 45/105 and paper 2 is 60/105

 

[noturningback]

What is the weighting of the english advanced trial?

 

[ah.sport]

FINISHED TRIALS!
all of them done and dusted..

 

[bored of sc]

What is the weighting of the english advanced trial?

Depends on your school. Ours in 25% (paper 1 10%, paper 2 15%).

 

[Melisoverschool]

my english advanced trial was 30% (15% for paper 1 and 15% for paper 2)


had french trial today....it was pretty hard especially listening

only one more to go...chem on friday then HSC french speaking on Saturday and Sunday i'm having a break

 

[untouchablecuz]

standard english XD i did some philosiphisationing in part 2, i think i had the independent paper, looking good tho for my rank back... talked to the girl coming 1st n she said she stuffed up =P lucky me!!! lol.

it was an alright paper

what points did u talk about in the belonging essay, so nervous

 

[annabackwards]

Lol obviously it would be 40% for paper 1 and 60% for paper 2 seeing how paper 1 is only 45/105 and paper 2 is 60/105

That's not how weighting usually works though. Like in maths you could have 2 sections worth the same amount of marks but the weighting for each section might differ... then again we're talking about english teachers here so you could be right :rofl:

 

[noturningback]

Ah ok I can see that its weighting varies from school to school but generally its 25-30% as opposed to the 40% for most subjects. Good

 

[InaudibleMelody]

Module english exam today... If I passed I would be extremely surpised.

The part that got me the most was representation and text, which we did Julius Caesar... Ok, I didn't even know that was the name of the unit. I thought the name of the unit was Conflicting Perspectives.


My trial was worth 16%- 8% for each paper.

 

[shady145]

it was an alright paper

what points did u talk about in the belonging essay, so nervous

umm it would seem that i can't remember the 1st paper except the first 2 questions, O.O lol. umm i'm not completely sure if it was the independent paper, maybe u can tell me, first question had a visual of penguins and penkuins, then a poem then... i dunno if i should say it all incase ppl havnt done it yet, and i get banned XD

 

[shady145]

Not really. The UAC release scaling statistics for each year, and if you scroll down you can see the comparison between marks in standard and advanced:
Table A3

Also, if you go here you will see that 0.23% of all students doing standard actually get a band 6. That's about 74 students, of the 32000 that do it.

hehe lol i already know the figures of band sixes in standard and the numbers have been trippling every year for the last few years. here page 35 have a read, View attachment 19013

 

[shady145]

it was an alright paper

what points did u talk about in the belonging essay, so nervous

wait ur in advanced XD, althought the question was still the same lol, i still dnt remember wat it was... i hope i do as good as the half yearly, 5th in the year, beat ppl in EE2, EE1 and most of advanced =)