English Standard Paper 2 Exam Thoughts (2 Viewers)

[Drdusk]

All the best everyone doing Standard English for tomorrows paper.

Discuss your thoughts on how you found the exam. Was it better than Paper 1, maybe harder?

Good luck!

 

[sourpatchkid]

wtf is cultural tension

 

[charmandheaven]

The stimulus for Mod C was for the end?? Who does that??? Also, I put cultural tension as like conflict between cultures. E.g. conflict between Asian heritage and living in Australia.

 

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Depressed, might as just give up

 

[Bob Jane]

Regardless of what happens I have completed english without reading any of my prescribed texts, and I am very proud of that fact.

 

[Bandsaw27]

Would've done way better if we had 3 hours honestly.

 

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Would've done way better if we had 3 hours honestly.

Paper 2 is screwed up, what the f is a cultural tension?? And how do you expect us to write 3 or more pages of writing in 40 minutes with only an image??

 

[Bandsaw27]

Paper 2 is screwed up, what the f is a cultural tension?? And how do you expect us to write a 3 or more pages of writing in 40 minutes with only one picture??

I just wrote about cultural tension being the difference in lower and higher class - lower class has mateship and backing each other up, higher class likes profit - thus causes conflict between them - no idea if that hit the mark or not. I found I was better at the creative but I struggled with the fact the stimulus was meant to be at the end? Wtf?

edit: should mention my text was The Castle

 

[alole201]

im just happy that we never have to study english at ALL
rip

 

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I just wrote about cultural tension being the difference in lower and higher class - lower class has mateship and backing each other up, higher class likes profit - thus causes conflict between them - no idea if that hit the mark or not. I found I was better at the creative but I struggled with the fact the stimulus was meant to be at the end? Wtf?

I wrote the cultural tension about their identity towards their culture and how it is communicated. I just struggled with the amount of writing in section 3 that we have to do coz I couldn't think of any more ideas that can relate to it. The cow part doesn't deserve that much paper because it's so much harder to write a text with ideas instead of analyze it from a text.

 

[_rakelt]

Yo i liked the questions alot! better than paper 1 tbh

 

[MrSir]

wtf is cultural tension

It’s like people from one or several ethnic or cultural societies coming to a far different place with different styles of living and automatically expecting the new community to change to the lifestyle the new people are used to

there are other examples of course but that is one

 

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It’s like people from one or several ethnic or cultural societies coming to a far different place with different styles of living and automatically expecting the new community to change to the lifestyle the new people are used to

there are other examples of course but that is one

I just wrote about Merlinda Bobis, how her use of language features symbolizes her development of perspective and impact on her, and the use of bilingualism paradoxically demonstrates her cultural connection also how it blocks our feeling towards it. Does this sound okay?

 

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I didn't even have time to write down all my thoughts.

 

[Drdusk]

Great news guys! Even when I did the subject last year I found Paper 2 to be so much easier

 

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It makes so much sense now why does so less people get a band 5 in English compared to others

 

[Drdusk]

It makes so much sense now why does so less people get a band 5 in English compared to others

You mean in English Standard?

Usually people say why does hardly anyone get band 6 in Standard not band 5

 

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You mean in English Standard?

yeah

 

[Drdusk]

yeah

Standard literally has the weakest cohort out of any subject. Probably 60% of students in it don't care about the Hsc.

 

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Standard literally has the weakest cohort out of any subject. Probably 60% of students in it don't care about the Hsc.

Okay, that's bullshit since English is compulsory. I only chose standard simply because I don't think I can do Advanced