Class of 2025 (2025 HSC CHAT) (79 Viewers)

[KellyMc]

grr bc it was my biggest regret in hsc i wish i chose it
i thought itd be boring jfk stuff in y11 but y12 its literally what i do for fun

Did you just say JFK is boring. Oh hell nah

 

[Kat.crazi]

I hate writing discursive I don’t want to talk about myself

 

[erin_4school]

mine don't like the fact I write like oscar wilde reincarnated (long and convoluted sentences my beloved)

real

 

[Study to success]

I hate writing discursive I don’t want to talk about myself

For discursives can u just trauma dump. I would like to do that with my experiences of school and Eng

 

[cheesynooby]

grr bc it was my biggest regret in hsc i wish i chose it
i thought itd be boring jfk stuff in y11 but y12 its literally what i do for fun

hey jfk was the best topic we just got to watch documentaries all day

 

[Trial&Error]

Wait, If they give an extract for english, how exactly do u use it? do you just like use quotes from it and stuff?

 

[Kat.crazi]

For discursives can u just trauma dump. I would like to do that with my experiences of school and Eng

Lolll sorta but I wouldn’t recommend it tbh

 

[99.95dreams]

What do u guys think is the easiest subject to not procrastinate. Lowkey idk cause I procrastinate everything

i don't procrastinate in much other subjects except maths and english rip. which you actually need to be doing so much...

 

[erin_4school]

Wait, If they give an extract for english, how exactly do u use it? do you just like use quotes from it and stuff?

yeah u just kinda have to hope and pray u either already use it, or can remember what section of the text its from/how it links to ur points

 

[99.95dreams]

Wait, If they give an extract for english, how exactly do u use it? do you just like use quotes from it and stuff?

basically like comp lol

 

[erin_4school]

hey jfk was the best topic we just got to watch documentaries all day

wait did u do indochina?

 

[gossipgirllll]

Wait, If they give an extract for english, how exactly do u use it? do you just like use quotes from it and stuff?

can someone answwe this question plz

 

[cheesynooby]

wait did u do indochina?

i did pacific

 

[killer queen]

Wait, If they give an extract for english, how exactly do u use it? do you just like use quotes from it and stuff?

To be safe, yes - however, they often word the question as "with close reference", so I don't know how true this is, but my teachers said that technically you can treat it as a stimulus and make it part of your thesis instead. How true is this? No idea!

Honestly though, I'd just analyse it on the spot, haha...just more short answer practice!

edit: I just checked the marking criteria for the 2021 Mod B question, and it says:

• Explains skilfully the ways the excerpt/screenshots reflect the concerns and aesthetic qualities of the text

So I guess you do have to analyse it to some extent. Honestly though, excerpt questions are really confusing, because in that case why can't your whole essay be on that extract? So actually it probably would be most effective integrated into one's thesis, but also analysed in the relevant section.

 

[lolcti]

600? like ur essay is only 600 words?

No actually it is 592 words i just checked

 

[erin_4school]

To be safe, yes - however, they often word the question as "with close reference", so I don't know how true this is, but my teachers said that technically you can treat it as a stimulus and make it part of your thesis instead. How true is this? No idea!

Honestly though, I'd just analyse it on the spot, haha...just more short answer practice!

edit: I just checked the marking criteria for the 2021 Mod B question, and it says:

• Explains skilfully the ways the excerpt/screenshots reflect the concerns and aesthetic qualities of the text

So I guess you do have to analyse it to some extent. Honestly though, excerpt questions are really confusing, because in that case why can't your whole essay be on that extract? So actually it probably would be most effective integrated into one's thesis, but also analysed in the relevant section.

yeah i'd agree w/ this, add the ideas explored in the extract (e.g. honour or legitimacy) into your thesis and then incorperate the evidence in the extract at least one in one of your paragraphs, or more if it fits (but once should be enough) --> though like u would any question keep linking back to the idea you incorperated into your thesis throughout.

just kind of imagine the stimulus as the part of the question that is like "How is [part of the syllabus (which can be seen in the extract)] shown/explored/[something else idk] in your study of [your text]."

if that makes sense...

 

[erin_4school]

*at least once

 

[killer queen]

*at least once

yo music 2!! what instrument do you play (or do, in the off chance you're voice)?

 

[erin_4school]

yo music 2!! what instrument do you play (or do, in the off chance you're voice)?

haha whoops that was meant to say maths standard lol, but i did do Music 2 (voice aswell!) --> i dropped it like last term cause I was doing 14 units rip (should've dropped legal)

 

[lolcti]

sorry just wondering wym by its only 600 words?

My intro is 50 words and my central paras are 250 each.. Obvs it ranges but in the exam my intro will be around 100, and body’s will be around 300-350 each when I adapt to the question + conclusion is around 50, so my essay will usually be around 800.. For mod B since we can literally be asked a specific question my school makes us do 2 body paras and recommends us to memorise 3 quotes per poem because it’s possible to get an extract and we shouldn’t leave it up to luck and tbh if I had extra time I would just make another para with the quotes I memorised for the other poems but usually I just take that time to think how to adapt effectively. It works tho I think the lowest I’ve gotten on mod B is 19/20