Maybe it's just my school but I've read band 6 exemplar essays that have very simple sentence structure ie. she uses "this shows that..." for every explaination of her quotes and the longest word of the essay was 'Skryznecki'.
I think unless you're super at english, overusing long words makes...
Something straightforward and easy like, "discuss varying perspectives of belonging" but we'll probably get something airy fairy quote to discuss like last year's question.
My bet is they'll ask for 2 related texts this year. They let 2009 off lightly with 1 cause they were the first year to...
Sounds too reflective. My teacher said too many people do reflective pieces and it is gets a bit cliche. I reckon you could do without the ghost at the beginning and just write the entire thing in present tense.
Thoughts of what will happen to me if I don't do well in the trials are going to be running through my head everyday up until the trials. Thankfully I've improved on my awful term 1 marks but still need 90+ marks to eat up more ranks.
So this sort of stuff only happens for 4 unit kids. You should add a disclaimer to your motivational stories so the rest of us sub par humans don't get our hopes up.
"Street smarts" is a term coined by people who did crap at school and felt like they had to invent a new intelligence to feel better about themselves.
Interesting because that's what you seem to be saying about yourself.