Question 1 (2 Viewers)

[cigi_k]

Medicine

I think question 1 was filth- the Board of Studies always has some magical way of pulling the most random texts out of their asses!

YAY! ... about your ambitions to study Medicine post-graduate at USyd! That's what i want to do too! See you there!

Would you like to specialise or would you like to be a GP?

I'd like to be a paediatrician but work for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees! (UNHCR).

What have you chosen as your undergrad prefs?

cigi.bursa@gmail.com

Hope to hear from you...

Cigi

P.S. I thought the texts were fine... Yes, the one about the art exhib' was weird but it was okay. I did find the qu about why the reviewer found entering the artwork 'a daunting task', nonsensical, but hey... it was only worth one mark... (it was the creative writing that i stuffed- i have no time management skills whatsoever)

I'll make up for it in Paper 2.... i hope. :S

 

[cigi_k]

cheer up

I thought it was ok, although I didn't really like the texts. My 5 marker was shit, I think I just wrote everyone I wrote in the earlier three marker again...

Hey.... that's what i did too... it's what you're meant to do isn't it... that's what my teacher's told me to do... because the questions get strip marked it doesn't matter... so put a smile on ya dial luvey... and study for paper 2... hehe.

Good luck and don't stress! (i should take my own advice)

Cigi

 

[Dumsum]

Shit. I thought the contour lines in the background was a fingerprint... which is then related to the simile in text 2 in question f) "...everyone's brain profile, like their fingerprint..."

 

[#23]

I didnt read the question; I thought that the picture of a brain was an atlas globe. lol anyone else? Would I get any marks if I wrote about smoething along the lines of the hand pointing on the brain while he is standing on an atlas globe LOL comparing it to the open mind title, this is for the first question.

 

[pantha-princess]

I found Section I to be pretty easy. With the front cover question about how the title and visuals connect I wrote about the image the guy was standing on - it was in the formation of a brain and had words such as 'moral' and 'self-reflection' etc written all over it. I also wrote there about the hand pointing to the mans head.

Section II I thought was so hard! I had no idea what to write about - or what the question actually required us to do! I wrote some stupid thing about a Father's decision to tackle parenting and raising his child through obsticles. It was so hard. Alot of people I have spoken to also struggled to understand this question.

Section III was good. I did two Skrzynecki poems - Immigrants at Central Station, 1951 and Leaving Home. I also looked at Frost's poem from the stimulous booklet 'The Road not Taken" and I did one of my own texts - a website called 'Journey's End'.

Overall, I think I tried my hardest, and I passed. It was harder than what I imagined it to be. It was alot harder than our trials for sure!!

 

[cataleptic]

I think question 1 was filth- the Board of Studies always has some magical way of pulling the most random texts out of their asses!

Agreed. I think I answered most of the questions well enough but eh... I didn't like the texts they used, except the first one. That was dead simple.

 

[Pixydust*]

i think i screwed it i didnt mention 'journeys' in part A - i just said the hand was pointing to the photographed head hence bringing attention to the idea of the mind. the other one marker was crap too - i wrote something about it being an intimate space and a journey into 'forbidden' territory i mean what the?!! no band six for me i didn't discuss tone and stuff in last question either and i think i only had 4 techniques. hope you all did well

 

[mangela]

I thought it wasn't too bad, I had done trials that were alot worse. didn't the artist find it hard to walk directly into the painting because it was confronting to walk directly into to an artwork and left him out of his comfort zone in the small 'alien' space. just a question how many booklets did everyone use? i thought it was ok to fill up one per question and just get to my second for the essay. and apprently all these people from sydney wrote like 3 booklets per question! freaks!

 

[Pixydust*]

I thought the answer was more about how he was going on a journey into the artwork, when he was more used to just observing art. Since it was a new experience, it was seen as a daunting task

wow!!! how do you do that?!!! i didnt even realise the question was referring to the whole experience of the 'journey' - not just his entry into the actual artwork. well thats another mark gone

 

[mangela]

meh the fine art of bullshitting lol. but seriously how many pages did everyone write for the questions? cuz im freaking out i didnt write enough

 

[Pixydust*]

Ok, I'm confused, the third text, the art one, was that written in 2nd person? Because it said things like "You're walking onto the boat" etc.

hey! i said second person too!! though i wasn't quite sure whether it was 2nd or 3rd (technicalities sheesh) so i kind of scribbled the answer to make it look illegible but so the marker can still recognise im referring to some time of 'person' lol :b

 

[katos]

i'd actually seen the artwork they were reviewing on an art trip to melbourne which was awesome!!!
good paper all up...no surprises!

 

[Pixydust*]

meh the fine art of bullshitting lol. but seriously how many pages did everyone write for the questions? cuz im freaking out i didnt write enough

i apologise that im posting so much comments!! Umm well i would just like to say i wrote only a booklet and maybe an extra page for the first question but keep in mind i also tend to have huge writing during exams and im also really worried they won't be able to decipher it - on account of the fact my handwriting is not readable even to me which is concerning. Creative i wrote a full booklet and i wrote two and one page for my essay (which was approx 1800 words) but don't worry because the most important rule in the book is quality not quantity - don't write for the sake of writing!

 

[tabularasa]

i didn;t think they were tooo hardm the review threw me a bit, but think i worte enough crap for one mark i'll get it. Just glad it wasn;t poetry

 

[krazy_katie777]

yeah i though Q1 was pretty good.. seems like the review - text 3 threw ppl a bit.. i was ok with it actually, studying art was a lil bit of a bonus as it gives you a background on the conventions of art n the fact that making someone walk 'into' an artwork was a postmodern technique which challenges the conventions of art... by makin a person a part of the artwork they are not longer just a spectator, but a part of the artwork. i used the line of argument that the journey can be something with unexpected surprises which can be a 'daunting' experience.. and by using tactile imagery and onomatopoea the responder is also lured on an imaginary journey with the reviewer.

im sure all you guys would have done fine.. the fact that we are on this site discussing the bloody question shows we care enough to try! imagine all the people who dont even care! thinking of it that way makes u feel alot better i recon!

 

[babi_girl]

Ohhh i dont know how i went now after seeing some of your creative answers

I said that the man was standing on the world is that wrong 2 write??

 

[jebba_d]

What problem did the author have when walkling onto the vessel?

i think it was mainly to do with the already discussed concept that the author thought he 'intruding and imposing' by just being in the gallery. going one step further and imposing himself in the artwork was a daunting task because he first had to overcome the feeling that maybe he wasnt even meant to be in the same room as it. although i believe that there wasa bit of contradiction before hand where the author acknowledged the warming qualities of the artwork and that they dismissed the imposing thoughts or something.

it was worth one mark, they weren't looking form uch so whatever u wrote will be good. bos looks to give out marks, they try so hard. they're on our side

 

[jebba_d]

Ohhh i dont know how i went now after seeing some of your creative answers

I said that the man was standing on the world is that wrong 2 write??

it could be used really well. it symbolises the authors domination of his natural instints throughtout the physical/intellectual journey of writing the book

 

[HotShot]

it was a lot easier compared to last years paper, in last years they had a huge poem and stuff.

 

[holla back girl]

it was a lot easier compared to last years paper, in last years they had a huge poem and stuff.

totally agree...
i hated the quotes, feature article and the extract from last year...
the cd cover was alright..

i think we were pretty lucky this year...it could have been worse...
i really thought that they were going to hit us hard since we're the sec year doing it...