HSC English Standard/Advanced Paper 1 Predictions/Thoughts

[tummyy]

My prediction is that they're going to hit on the "paradoxes, anomalies and inconsistencies" section of the syllabus for Texts and Human Experiences. Really hope they don't though lol.

that would be perfect for my memorised essay

 

[tummyy]

for our short answers, do we need to include a technique for every mark?

 

[queenb_3]

for our short answers, do we need to include a technique for every mark?

Yess! That's recommended although you can have a look at this thread where students discuss how to structure section 1 responses: https://boredofstudies.org/threads/common-mod-short-answer.392403/

 

[Drdusk]

All the best of luck from all of us here on BOS! Get a good night sleep for a fresh start tomorrow to give it your all!

 

[Trebla]

Good luck!


Thought I would just recycle this from last year because it's still relevant...

 

[Velocifire]

How was it? Seeing 2020's online rn.

 

[thatmailman]

so shit ://// the question was general and i was hoping it'd be specific to screw over the people who memorised their essay, so I only memorised quotes. Then forgot half of them and didn't carry my thesis throughout. Unseen was kinda cancer too.

 

[totally_screwed]

ok so personally I found the essay question alright, it was good for the feminist approach that I took

reading response was also okay, the first question was a 5 marker which scared me at first
also the line distributions for this section were weird, the 4 marker had 2 pages of lines, and the 6 marker had 1 page, smh

 

[totally_screwed]

was it just me that found the unseen pretty damn hard...

not just you!

 

[Velocifire]

I found it so hard, I didn't even see the paper!

 

[studiesofboard]

Thoughts on the essay question

 

[totally_screwed]

I found that laughing text a bit odd even though the question wasn't too hard

hm I found it straightforward I just didn't understand why there were so many lines for that question

 

[RakeshCristoval]

Thoughts on the essay question

essay question was alright. The unseen was ok but a bit hard to find techniques for some of them

 

[jasminerulez]

hm I found it straightforward I just didn't understand why there were so many lines for that question

for that reason i'm scared that I maybe didn't justify my point well enough (cause i only filled out 3/4 of the first page)- why did they have 2 pages of lines for that question??

 

[studiesofboard]

Yes. I agree the short answer questions were the worst. The essay was very broad and adapted really well with my prepared essay.

 

[De.Broigle]

was it just me that found the unseen pretty damn hard...

Just you.

 

[De.Broigle]

Easiest paper one since 2009. Raw mark cut off will probably equal scaled cut off this year.

 

[De.Broigle]

To quote my teacher who wrote the 2016 and 2017papers "What was the exam committee thinking. They have turned paper 1 into a joke. This now may as well be called the STANDARD common paper. The raw mark cut off may be negative ie 85 turns into 80"

 

[shashysha]

fuhhhh unseen was super easy but I was hoping for a more specific essay question ://///

 

[shashysha]

should’ve memorised a whole essay smh