To The 2023'ers : Can you rank the English Advanced modules from hardest to easiest?
To The 2024'ers : Rank the English Advanced modules based on what you feel would be hardest to easiest.
Modules are listed in order of Difficulty...
Module A - Hardest IMO. Did Hagseed and Tempest and hated both. Maybe because I didnt really see what atwood was trying to do at all, and ended up writing a pretty conventional b5 essay for the HSC. With how "samey" Hagseed and The Tempest felt overall to me personally, I found it pretty difficult to show how the former really reimagined/recontextualised the latter, since Hagseed kinda just shoved the plot of the tempest into the modern day without really trying to integrate it into the modern world (like how felix goes and exiles HIMSELF to a shack just because he wants to make HIMSELF into a prospero parallel, which is a pretty shit way of "reimagining" the plot, since felix ends up with a fetish for victimisation rather than actually being betrayed or imprisoned. Heck if it were me, Id have tony "exile" felix to a irrelevant department of the makeshiweg committee, keeping him powerless and isolated like the original, but recontextualised to the corporate heirarchy of today). Again, if you can memorise a highly edited b6 response for Module A, thats good for you. But at least for me, I just found it the most difficult due to how bad Hagseed is.
oh and again
fuck hagseed bro why does this text even exist, atwood should retire already omfg
Module B - Did TS Eliot for this. In the beginning, its a little difficult to understand what Eliot is trying to get at. But overtime, after reading the poems and their surrounding contexts/modernist ideas, it becomes much easier to interpret and write about. Probably the hardest thing about Mod B Eliot is memorising all 5 poems and relevant quotes+analysis from each.
Module C - People say its the hardest module, but generally, discursives are pretty fun to write, and imaginatives are manageable if you just bullshit everything.
Common Mod - Unseen Texts are a free 19-20/20, and the essay is fine (Did 1984 - Interesting text with plenty of themes to write at depth about, no problems here)
P.S: Kinda just realised I spend half an hour ranting about Module A. Fortunately, I wake up every morning with solace, knowing I never have to do this god forsaken subject ever again.