General Thoughts: English Advanced Paper 2 (5 Viewers)

[obliviousninja]

HAHAHAH deane shrekd

 

[bananaland]

Conflicting perspectives question was a bit weird... MOD A was alright, MOD B alright.....

 

[Smooth Operator]

Conflicting perspectives question looked easy

Probably my only coherent response the whole exam..

 

[Champouf]

Was anyone thrown off by how the title of the Deane speech was different? When I studied it, it was called ‘On the occasion of a Ecumenical Service for the Victims of the Canyoning Tragedy.' So, when I read it I was like, wtf B.O.S? Why do we have to reference some random...oh... I felt like such a tool.
Did not like Mod A (TGG and EBB) Found it hard to link to EBB without nitpicking the shit out of it.
Mod C was alright, I think. I'm kind of second guessing myself now since I interpreted power as having more influence than the other representations... I don't know how some of you people are writing 3-4 booklets for each module, I was on the first page of my third booklet for C and B. I almost finished my second booklet for A. You are all cray.

Trials were way easier, I think that was honestly the worst set of questions I've ever seen for my modules...

 

[Iwillget9995]

Crap, I interpreted it completely differently. I was like the view we are presented of the past are written by the 'winners' of history as they are the ones with the power to influence representations :/

you're fine, the person you quoted is wrong. that is an incorrect interpretation.

 

[enigma_1]

HAHAHAH deane shrekd

rekt me

 

[britaker]

Probably my only coherent response the whole exam..

x2

 

[Champouf]

you're fine, the person you quoted is wrong. that is an incorrect interpretation.

BOOYEAH! Didn't completely mess up Mod C... now for the other ones... :\

 

[QZP]

Crap, I interpreted it completely differently. I was like the view we are presented of the past are written by the 'winners' of history as they are the ones with the power to influence representations :/

Ohh that's interesting! I wouldn't say that's wrong (I had a quote somewhere that was like "History is created by the presenters of history themselves")

 

[ushnakhalid]

Caesar question was epic, speeches was slightly annoying but luckily i knew Deane (most of my cohort didnt)
read the frankenstein question 10 times and still couldnt figure out exactly what it meant, wrote down 3 booklets of bs hoping it answered the question lol anyone care to explain?

 

[NeonGreen]

All the people who had to deal with this Deane kid sound fcked

 

[TrentsUnicorn]

I interpreted it as power = emotional response, truth = traditional history
(basically discussion of the interplay between history and memory)

Lolllll I didn't do that
I think I did truth as being history, but power as being the ability of the author to manipulate representations within a text...

 

[QZP]

Yeah I don't think that's wrong. Power has too many possibilities... power to manipulate representations... power to evoke emotional responses. All good!

 

[Iwillget9995]

Ohh that's interesting! I wouldn't say that's wrong (I had a quote somewhere that was like "History is created by the presenters of history themselves")

IMO I think that's the obvious/way you're supposed to interpret it, and I feel like your interpretation was squirreling a bit...

 

[ushnakhalid]

Lolllll I didn't do that
I think I did truth as being history, but power as being the ability of the author to manipulate representations within a text...

same, thats what most of the people i know did too. Sounds right m8

 

[obliviousninja]

I didn't even see deane coming. Thank goodness they didnt specify it last year.

The people who bought my essay would have coped nonetheless, as I had covered Deane quite well

 

[NeonGreen]

Yeah I don't think that's wrong. Power has too many possibilities... power to manipulate representations... power to evoke emotional responses. All good!

I wrote something similar talked about social, political and intellectual power. The power of speech and language in conveying and manipulating concepts and ideas. Stuffs lyk dat

 

[shadowdragon555]

Lolllll I didn't do that
I think I did truth as being history, but power as being the ability of the author to manipulate representations within a text...

Yeah this is exactly what I did, I think the BOS will take into account the different types of power

 

[SuchSmallHands]

Mod A for Frankenstein was the worst question I've ever seen (note: I haven't seen many, I didn't do practice essays); Mod B for Yeats was really gross, what the hell does inspiration have to do with anytimg? Luckily they specified a poem I knew though. Mod C for conflicting perspectives could have been worse, fit well with my related text and thankfully they didn't require two (I didn't have two). I thought the CSSA trial was a lot easier, but at the same time this could have been heaps worse.

 

[QZP]

The reason I didn't go into manipulation (yes I did consider it) is because it was asked last year and I doubt they wanted a similar Q