Class of 2025 (2025 HSC CHAT) (6 Viewers)

[sonny_angel520]

what feedback has your teacher given in trials on the essay? if it was more about not relating to the question, i dont think the essay is the problem, but rather practice adapting it to a variety of practice questions. if the feedback was on the actual analysis, you would need to refine that and then follow a similar study appraoch of practicing to adapt it.
bruh i wish my school did 1984! we literally do vertigo which i have genuinly not heard of any other school doing and there are like no online resources on it!

Dude 1984 is like a toxic relationship... I hate studying for it but I can’t stop because I’m so pedantic
My teacher’s feedback was that I retell too much and don’t cover audience, context and purpose enough. additionally i need to analyse form more comprehensively (which is really hard for 1984 because Orwell gives us FKN NOTHING). So my analysis is pretty weak I guess. I just brainstormed a bunch of my thoughts and organised them, so I now have a more organised plan to analyse the essay. I have 4 body paragraphs about diff ideas and maybe I’ll try to analyse and assemble them in a way that fits whatever question.
I struggle to look at my old pre-prepped essay bc its so bad but now I think I can rewrite a better one and hope the HSC question fits what I have??

 

[Study to success]

Is 1984 really that bad. Well I’m doing that for common mod lol

 

[C2H6O]

Is 1984 really that bad. Well I’m doing that for common mod lol

its alright tbh nowhere near as bad as tempest/hagseed
ts eliot is the most enjoyable one imo

 

[sonny_angel520]

Is 1984 really that bad. Well I’m doing that for common mod lol

It’s not a bad book and was even a bit of a page turner on my first read! The literary techniques are just not very obvious and also hard to explain compared to those in poetry or Shakespearean plays. It’s mainly the fact that it’s Common Mod that makes it so hard for me, because I CANNOT STAND the Common Mod essay questions.

 

[killer queen]

It’s not a bad book and was even a bit of a page turner on my first read! The literary techniques are just not very obvious and also hard to explain compared to those in poetry or Shakespearean plays. It’s mainly the fact that it’s Common Mod that makes it so hard for me, because I CANNOT STAND the Common Mod essay questions.

yeah fair, I didn't know 1984 was a common mod text until one of my friends told me - it feels more like an eng ext worlds of upheaval text than smth in human experiences imo

great book! how suitable it is for this module is another question...

 

[sonny_angel520]

yeah fair, I didn't know 1984 was a common mod text until one of my friends told me - it feels more like an eng ext worlds of upheaval text than smth in human experiences imo

great book! how suitable it is for this module is another question...

Exactly. Like I’m sorry but all we can do is frame the human experience in the lens of the totalitarian dystopia world of 1984, which doesn’t make for a fantastic argument

 

[hellokitty48920]

Has anyone done or is anyone doing the LAT today?

OMG I DID IT ON TUESDAY

 

[KellyMc]

OMG I DID IT ON TUESDAY

How was it for you?

 

[KellyMc]

Exactly. Like I’m sorry but all we can do is frame the human experience in the lens of the totalitarian dystopia world of 1984, which doesn’t make for a fantastic argument

I feel like there are soooo many layers to 1984, I think its a great human experience text personally

 

[qweeosh]

I’ve been trying not to memorise an essay for Common Mod (eng adv) but my improvised essays always come out so shitty! In trials my memorised Common Mod essay scored the least at 14/20 when my others were all at least 16/20.
I wanna give up because I hate our prescribed text so bad (1984) but genuinely what do I even do? Should I just memorise a mid essay so I can use it for anything? Should I made like a bunch of modular building blocks of analysis and piece them together? Ughh

I’d go with the building block one

 

[qweeosh]

Is 1984 really that bad. Well I’m doing that for common mod lol

No

 

[killer queen]

I feel like there are soooo many layers to 1984, I think its a great human experience text personally

maybe it is!! I personally feel like it's very hard to make high schoolers write about a totalitarian regime where the vast majority of us would have never experienced it and can't fathom its restriction, so I feel that many arguments would end up being shallow, but I suppose the whole point of the module is to reveal new insights to the student
it's certainly got collective and individual experiences though! I'm sure there are great arguments and points to be made hehe

I read the book a while ago so I don't entirely remember it

 

[reniiiblaseee]

guys im not stressed and im fucking panicking why am I not stressing why am I acting like this is a normal exam it weighs 50% it’s what I’ve been waiting to do for about the last two years

im panicking bc im not stressed and im scared if this affects me

 

[hellokitty48920]

How was it for you?

umm tbh it wasnt horrible but not great. I definitely did not perform as well as I could have bc of numerous factors (obv my fault like I applied SO late...) and I ended up overwriting for the first task which took up my time, and I didn't write as much for the second )): But I'm hoping my writing style can save me idk the more I think abt it I keep worrying that my work wasnt good enough

 

[Study to success]

guys im not stressed and im fucking panicking why am I not stressing why am I acting like this is a normal exam it weighs 50% it’s what I’ve been waiting to do for about the last two years

im panicking bc im not stressed and im scared if this affects me

Well that’s good that ur not stressed. At least for me I perform much better when I’m calm than when I’m stressed

 

[reniiiblaseee]

Well that’s good that ur not stressed. At least for me I perform much better when I’m calm than when I’m stressed

like i don’t feel in the right mindset it feels like trials

 

[Study to success]

like i don’t feel in the right mindset it feels like trials

I mean whatever mindset ur in rn, as long as u prepare enough u should be fine

 

[KellyMc]

umm tbh it wasnt horrible but not great. I definitely did not perform as well as I could have bc of numerous factors (obv my fault like I applied SO late...) and I ended up overwriting for the first task which took up my time, and I didn't write as much for the second )): But I'm hoping my writing style can save me idk the more I think abt it I keep worrying that my work wasnt good enough

I am sure you will do well! Do you remember how much you wrote for each and what you wrote about?

 

[hellokitty48920]

I am sure you will do well! Do you remember how much you wrote for each and what you wrote about?

umm tbh...sect 1 was a tiny bit over 1k and the second I honestly dont remember cos I had no time to look buttttt im sure it was less than 800. Also I think for the second section I wrote more on 'for' the policy rather than 'against' (I had like 1-2 points for against lol) and my 'against' section wasnt worded or expressed that well. um first section I think I mentioned more strengths? I can barely remember im so sorry I do remember writing smth abt the data presented that it didnt have a large scope and it wouldve proved his point better (or probably debunked it) if he had included a wider comparison rather than only with e-bikes.

 

[hellokitty48920]

I am sure you will do well! Do you remember how much you wrote for each and what you wrote about?

also what time was ur session?