General Thoughts: English Paper 1 (AOS) (1 Viewer)

[Web Addict]

Wtf was with Section 1? The questions didn't seem hard, I still struggled badly.

 

[beth1312]

They do count everything

yeah, thats what I thought.. someone said a few pages back that it didn't matter if you didn't do creative writing cause they only count your best two sections :/

 

[Menomaths]

yeah, thats what I thought.. someone said a few pages back that it didn't matter if you didn't do creative writing cause they only count your best two sections :/

Someone also said they were trolling

They do count, Menomaths approved

 

[mads21]

Short Answer, every single question was so different!!
Creative- kind of had to change my story but actually was happy with it
Essay - So glad only one related! I disagreed with the attitudes thing and only did choice :/ it was ok

 

[beth1312]

Someone also said they were trolling

They do count, Menomaths approved

Well in that case, sucks to be the girl who didn't even attempt it ..

 

[twinklegal19]

They will mark only one of your related texts, so in theory you can still get 15/15.



Ikr, guys that was so 2012.

lol was it barbenator who started that rumour last year?

 

[spanky125]

Well in that case, sucks to be the girl who didn't even attempt it ..

Sucks to be her, it is actually good for every single other person in the state.

 

[YouKnowWho]

Am i the only one who ran out of time hardcore. I started with section 3 and then section 2. When I got to section 1 I only had time to answer the first 2 questions. Sooo I definitely lost 11 marks

 

[ClassOf2013]

Those stimulus questions were a bitch...but other than that I don't think I did too badly. I did incorporate the quote into my short story though, and it had a literal meaning, so I think that might lose me some marks. But my teacher, who marked my story a couple weeks back, said my story would be a 12/15, 13/15 or 14/15 so i'm not too worried.

 

[spanky125]

Am i the only one who ran out of time hardcore. I started with section 3 and then section 2. When I got to section 1 I only had time to answer the first 2 questions. Sooo I definitely lost 11 marks

Time management is so crucial, it is a lot easier to get the first 5 marks in any section than trying to get from a 12-15 is another section.

 

[nifkeh]

they collect papers so slowly sigh I was literaly waiting 25 mins just to get out after the exam ended

 

[Web Addict]

Just wondering, did anyone actually complete a whole past paper for English?

they collect papers so slowly sigh I was literaly waiting 25 mins just to get out after the exam ended

Yeah, that was so annoying, especially since the supervisors were really old and slow.

 

[Menomaths]

Just wondering, did anyone actually complete a whole past paper for English?


Yeah, that was so annoying, especially since the supervisors were really old and slow.

Never touched one

 

[beth1312]

I did section one first and spent way too long on it. Then I went to section three and once again spent too much time on it and was left with a solid 10/15 minutes for creative writing... Time management is definitely not my strong point :/

 

[RealiseNothing]

Never touched one

This. I couldn't bring myself to do one.

 

[muffintoast]

Am i the only one who ran out of time hardcore. I started with section 3 and then section 2. When I got to section 1 I only had time to answer the first 2 questions. Sooo I definitely lost 11 marks

I did the EXACT same thing. I started with section 3, moved on to section 2 then found out I only have 15 minutes left. I only did the first 2 questions and I bit of the 3rd one so that's around 11 marks gone for me too

 

[Web Addict]

I reckon that if you only did at least one past paper, you would actually be a state ranker.

 

[loversinjapan]

Just wondering, did anyone actually complete a whole past paper for English?
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I practiced section 1 and thank goodness I did otherwise it would've taken me way longer today

 

[YouKnowWho]

I did the EXACT same thing. I started with section 3, moved on to section 2 then found out I only have 15 minutes left. I only did the first 2 questions and I bit of the 3rd one so that's around 11 marks gone for me too

Really ? I also started on the third question but I didn't really count it as doing it because, well it just wasn't complete. Hopefully we scraped at least one more mark from that lol

 

[Frie]

Spent 50 minutes on this section. This kinda ruined my pace, so I had to erase one of my core for the third section

The second poem really caught me off-guard,it was pretty short so I struggled to find techniques under pressure. FML