I'm in the opposite, grateful to those that pulled me up in English after I bombed the exam (not bombed, just mildly stuffed up)
Exam mark: 85, Assessment mark 92, overall = 89. If I got 90 then I would have had 10 units over 90, so close.
Apart from English, all of my exams were only 1 or 2 different to my assessment. Shows what a piece of shit English advanced is.
I know one of my friends topped the creative writing section in English Extension trial, and then failed the creative writing in English advanced trials as one marker loved his style (over-marked in my opinion) and the other hated it and marked him so harshly he failed. You can't simply blame that sort of difference on a bad day, that sort of shit doesn't happen in maths.
To everyone that has finished the HSC, congrats. The biggest achievement to come out of that is never having to sit another English Advanced test again.