Getting 85-90% in Physics past papers but I've only done 3 & haven't memorised my notes.
Have a good feeling but I should probably move on to something else...
In fact, I remember my English teacher telling me it was unlikely they's radically change a question in the english exam- it's one of the first HSC papers and they don't want to send 64,000 kids into freak-out mode for the rest of the exam period.
Yeah, it's no biggie- just a little change in structure, throw in some conventions here and there.
In fact, I'm actually hoping we get some left field section two. I'd feel more confident if we all had to make one up on the spot...
I'd imagine that stylistic flow as opposed to 'big words' would be more effective in getting better marks.
I think above post illustrated this well though :)
Booklets? All we do in class is read through our texts, maybe a little bit of analysis (we're being spoonfed Birthday Letters), then they leave the rest up to us. The top kids don't use the analysis we do in class anyway.
And 'hobby' would be pushing it :P