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[totallybord]

Hi,
I was just wondering if they asked you in q1 which text most effectively comunicates the notion of the journey or which text most effectively blah blah, could you talk about the lack of focus or clarity on the text?
Like, if it only mentions one thing about the notion of the journey and then talks about something vaguely related, could you say this shows that the journey is this but the lack of focus by the composer detracts it from the message of the journey being conveyed effectively. While blah balh balh used all this techniques to show this.

Is that fine or should you give other more englishy reasons such as lang techniques? What else could you say?

THank you

 

[Azreil]

I used the terms "tautology of adjectives detracted from text one's effectiveness due to the description of irrelevant elements" in my trial and got full marks.

As long as you can justify it (that's the key, backing it up with specific textual references) and you aren't in the wrong ball park, I think you'll get the marks.

 

[totallybord]

ok cool thanks
how much would you suggest is a good amount to write for a full 5 marker?

 

[Nicola1616]

Hi,
I was just wondering if they asked you in q1 which text most effectively comunicates the notion of the journey or which text most effectively blah blah, could you talk about the lack of focus or clarity on the text?
Like, if it only mentions one thing about the notion of the journey and then talks about something vaguely related, could you say this shows that the journey is this but the lack of focus by the composer detracts it from the message of the journey being conveyed effectively. While blah balh balh used all this techniques to show this.

Is that fine or should you give other more englishy reasons such as lang techniques? What else could you say?

THank you

This is just another point of view but I would be really careful about arguing against a composers work - I'm not saying don't do it, obviously if you read something and you genuinely feel it is crap you have to argue that, but the examiners are looking for your ability to explore a text to find the ways in which it adds to the notion of physical jouneys - I really can't see them putting in something crap to see if you can tell the difference. I think it would be better to say something balanced if you have to - give the good points and then say it fails to engage on a certain level due to this or that

 

[Azreil]

I go on 2-3 lines per mark generally, except I try to get 4 lines/mark in the final question.

I use these as absolute minimums unless the question is "describe the tone of text one <1 mark>" in which case a line is generally enough.

It does depend on your size of handwriting though. :]

I prefer to go off time. You have 120 minutes in AoS, 45 marks to recieve = 2 2/3 minutes/mark. But I spend shorter on the reading task than my writing or essay, so for time management I aim for 2 minutes/mark.

EDIT: I wasn't trying to say that a text was terrible, mind you. It was in the final question, where one of my statements was that Text Three was most effective due to it's concise nature and high clarity, whereas Text one... rambled a lot. Yeah.