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    Full marks

    yeah do well in std english and prove ur good. btw, std ppl can beat adv ppl in trials... out top script in section 2 was a standards students.... no adv got 15/15...... so yeah do well and get well! good luck
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    Poem for creative writing

    last yrs best poem got an 8/15....
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    Full marks

    hey, i'm in top 5.... and plus, i write prepared essays... i get them marked, refined over and over again until they are succinct, and gets me good marks (eg trials).... plus i have a rather alright cramming memory so i can memorise it word for word the morning b4, and forget it in a months...
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    formal dress - where?

    i got my for 250... it is lovely, it is long and realli nice! it is pale blue, the material makes soft swishy sounds when you move..... i loved it to bits... but it is a tab bit long.... i am 175 and it is on the ground atm... so i need heels.... i got mine in a random formal stall i walked...
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    y doesnt every1 choose standard..

    std doesn't mean ur bad.... i mean, me and friends in std beat heaps of adv kids in our trial by doing very well in paper 1... our marks were higher than theirs........ i mean, seciton 2, std topped the section... adv didn't get full marks, std did... proves we ain't dumb...
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    General Thoughts: English Standard Paper 2

    it was good... every modules of mine went well... besides module C for rita... but still managed 8 pages... 9 for briar rose (best q) image was 8 too.. i'm happi. good exam. i was smiling and laughing so much for the essay questions... can't explain the feeling woot
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    Essays were heaps essay

    loved it man... loved it to death. i was shaking coz i was scared of the text types, was then shaking from happiness afte rit was all essays... yeah it was the write ur prepared with change.did dat, didn't run outta time, but only wrote 25 pages in big writing... i'm happy, aiming for band 6...
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    sam for selective schools

    yeah dun worri... if i put in my trial mark, i can only get a uai around 70... my predicted is between 90-95, (if i work hard and do well in hsc) 95+... soo... selective ppl are usually disadvantaged coz our tests are hard, marking is hard etc....
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    Suicide

    condolence to her family and friends. it is horrible. she is so pretti, and she is gone... screw the hsc... does BOS know wat it does to ppl now??????? i swear there is so much stress..... stop saying bad things about her, if a person has walked to the end of a road and sees nothing and...
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    What did you end up writing about anyway? Prepared or unprepared?

    prepared.... had it as the father telling the daughter to move on with life *due to some issue*, retold a stori of the mothers' life when the mother got into the same sit... the prepared was a female, just wrote it, and added after it how father recalled it word for word, just how mother would...
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    "Interperatation of the NEW" PHYSICAL WTF?!?!

    oi, dah we wun have fucked it...... think positive man....... i think that mine would have worked... so yeah, coz if it is included in the thesis, and u keep bring it bak, and you aruge that the obstacles and challenges and stuff, and give them paragraphs with how they refer to the 'new' then it...
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    Messy Handrwiting

    dun worri, last year some std english student had such appalling hand writing, that the ppl typed it up and published it.... and the published band 6 reponse for section 2 was horrifying.. i couldn't read it, but it was still good.. they mark it. they have to. they are gooood! trust me. i am...
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    Poll: Physical Journey question

    but it was confusing..... interpretation of the new.... yeah new wat man.... but then it sank in and yeah.. but i loved the inner q... it would have fitted my phys essay,but needed 2 change da words. i thought othes were so straight 4ward... just physcial..... but then again, it wasn't as bad...
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    so who cheated?

    english is always remarked... coz my tutor marked someone who wrote the whole wind in the willows out, word by word last yr. she gave it a 0, the supervisor told her to give it a 7 for stored knowledge. that plagarism... so next time teachers say to u 'u plagarised' u just say 'nup, it is...
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    No. of words written

    prepared story 1300+, had 2 add in crap, so probably 1400 prepared essay 1656, had 2 add in crap, so probabyl 1700
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    Section 2

    poem is tricky... coz last yr they had a fantastic poem *my tutor had the honour of marking* it was very very very brilliant, but it only got a 8/15. because they said it limited their response blah blah blah. true to an extent, but i think it shouldn't be so.... i had the man as my father...
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    Quality over Quantity

    i wrote a bit long... but i don't think my info was crap. i prepared the essays and just fitted them to the question. but i have the worlds' messiest writing slanted. so it takes up more room so i wrote like 10 pages... for section 2 n 3... but it is at least 1400+ for section 2 coz my...
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    Teachers/Tutors Pre-writing Students Essays

    ya i 2 go 2 a public selective, we got model response by the good students after tests, teachers writing them, and stuff. we are not stupid enuf 2 use them! i mean, not all essays work... some do, but if you wrote it yourself, u know what you mean and where u come from. thus in the hsc u can...
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    Standard vs Adv

    i do standard english, and it is not bad. u still have to work hard, but you are not generally gonna come out of the exams crying, or after getting your result back... not because it is easy, it is easier to get the marks needed. i dunno, i did poorly in yr 11, lifted mystandards in yr 12 and...
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    "Interperatation of the NEW" PHYSICAL WTF?!?!

    read it, blanked out. swore under my breath. the wrote: physical journeys is about the interpretation of the new, which would ultimately lead to a greater understanding of oneself and their identity after overcoming obstacles and challenges. (something along the lines) smack in prepared...
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