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[beetree1]

with those 8 paragraphs- were they just general and then you adapted them to your actual essay question? how'd you seperate them eg by theme or...?
how'd you end up going for mod a and b in trials if you don't mind sharing haha

For Mod A, my text is pretty easy so I have 1 essay that works for 90% of all questions and I can just throw in the key words of the question into the essay on the day and my 2nd backup essay is one a queer theme that would work for the remaining 10%

For Mod B, I had 2 paragraphs on each poem (we have 5 poems) and those essentially cover different themes too and i just choose 2 (one of them would usually be specified) and the other that just works with the question.

I got 20 for both haha I lost all my marks in my common module essay because they threw me a crazy question

 

[jojosiwa123]

For Mod A, my text is pretty easy so I have 1 essay that works for 90% of all questions and I can just throw in the key words of the question into the essay on the day and my 2nd backup essay is one a queer theme that would work for the remaining 10%

For Mod B, I had 2 paragraphs on each poem (we have 5 poems) and those essentially cover different themes too and i just choose 2 (one of them would usually be specified) and the other that just works with the question.

I got 20 for both haha I lost all my marks in my common module essay because they threw me a crazy question

what were ur texts??
btw how'd you go about planning mod c responses- our question for mod c was so fking random everyone basically had to write a persuasive which we had never looked at in class lol, did u do an imaginative??

 

[Xanthi]

For Mod A, my text is pretty easy so I have 1 essay that works for 90% of all questions and I can just throw in the key words of the question into the essay on the day and my 2nd backup essay is one a queer theme that would work for the remaining 10%

For Mod B, I had 2 paragraphs on each poem (we have 5 poems) and those essentially cover different themes too and i just choose 2 (one of them would usually be specified) and the other that just works with the question.

I got 20 for both haha I lost all my marks in my common module essay because they threw me a crazy question

Do you mind telling us the crazy question? (Unless it's not an essay).

Also I remember you said in another thread that you only memorise quotes?

But wow you do memorise a lot. I can't imagine memorizing 10 paragraphs for mod B.

 

[ultra908]

aye i memorised 3 each for common mod, mod a and b, and 1.5 mod c creatives
how tf u memorise 10

 

[jojosiwa123]

BoS class of 2020 all wanna know beetrees secrets to smartness

 

[jasminerulez]

BoS class of 2020 all wanna know beetrees secrets to smartness

It'll remain a mystery

 

[tokyocalling]

what were ur texts??
btw how'd you go about planning mod c responses- our question for mod c was so fking random everyone basically had to write a persuasive which we had never looked at in class lol, did u do an imaginative??

the standard for the hsc is pretty low, have you read the sample answers published by nesa by chance - you'll see what i mean when i say low. For mod c as long as you've stuck to the stimulus and then pretty much abuse every technique you can imagine that belongs to the specific type of writing and incorporate it there no way youre gonna do badly. I suggest not memorising anything, maybe like excerpts that you like and may want to include cause youre more likely to get a stimulus for something which your piece doesn't fit, if you then go ahead and use your prepared piece your pretty screwed.

 

[beetree1]

Do you mind telling us the crazy question? (Unless it's not an essay).

It was to talk about mary warren for the whole essay...

 

[Zacharia Villegas]

the standard for the hsc is pretty low, have you read the sample answers published by nesa by chance - you'll see what i mean when i say low. For mod c as long as you've stuck to the stimulus and then pretty much abuse every technique you can imagine that belongs to the specific type of writing and incorporate it there no way youre gonna do badly. I suggest not memorising anything, maybe like excerpts that you like and may want to include cause youre more likely to get a stimulus for something which your piece doesn't fit, if you then go ahead and use your prepared piece your pretty screwed.

The sample papers released by Nesa are only 17/18(out of 20) because it would defeat the purpose if people could just copy someone else's 20/20 and use it in HSC.

 

[turtle67]

I prepped like 6 mod c pieces and one of them fit quite well so

For human experience, anyone can get 20/20 if they do enough past papers!! We are actually very lucky to be the 2nd year for the new syllabus so

How did you know what sort of stuff to prep for mod c? Like if it is a 'continue from this extract ...' question would you just pick things out of what you had memorised? Like there are a lot of questions I've seen like write from the perspective of a certain character about a certain part of the text so how would you prepare for that?

 

[beetree1]

How did you know what sort of stuff to prep for mod c? Like if it is a 'continue from this extract ...' question would you just pick things out of what you had memorised? Like there are a lot of questions I've seen like write from the perspective of a certain character about a certain part of the text so how would you prepare for that?

Well for a continue this extract question, you would just look out for whatever the extract's theme/issue is and surely 1 out of your 6 prepared pieces would discuss it.

For the write from a character's pov, I have actually done an internal task on this. I had prepared that earlier anyways because for an imaginative, you should be looking to take ideas/techniques from that prescribed imaginative - so just.. know your text.

 

[turtle67]

Well for a continue this extract question, you would just look out for whatever the extract's theme/issue is and surely 1 out of your 6 prepared pieces would discuss it.

For the write from a character's pov, I have actually done an internal task on this. I had prepared that earlier anyways because for an imaginative, you should be looking to take ideas/techniques from that prescribed imaginative - so just.. know your text.

Yeah okay that makes sense, thanks a lot and good luck for the HSC

 

[beetree1]

Yeah okay that makes sense, thanks a lot and good luck for the HSC

cheers bud

 

[Xanthi]

How did you know what sort of stuff to prep for mod c? Like if it is a 'continue from this extract ...' question would you just pick things out of what you had memorised? Like there are a lot of questions I've seen like write from the perspective of a certain character about a certain part of the text so how would you prepare for that?

They will never specify the actual character.

You only need to know 2 texts.

 

[jojosiwa123]

the standard for the hsc is pretty low, have you read the sample answers published by nesa by chance - you'll see what i mean when i say low. For mod c as long as you've stuck to the stimulus and then pretty much abuse every technique you can imagine that belongs to the specific type of writing and incorporate it there no way youre gonna do badly. I suggest not memorising anything, maybe like excerpts that you like and may want to include cause youre more likely to get a stimulus for something which your piece doesn't fit, if you then go ahead and use your prepared piece your pretty screwed.

idk where to find the sample answers

 

[大きい男]

idk where to find the sample answers

I think they're talking about the essays in the 'HSC Exam Workbook'. Basically it has student responses from the 2019 HSC for all of the questions (papers 1 and 2) and some marker's comments regarding why they were good responses.

 

[jasminerulez]

I think they're talking about the essays in the 'HSC Exam Workbook'. Basically it has student responses from the 2019 HSC for all of the questions (papers 1 and 2) and some marker's comments regarding why they were good responses.

Odd question but how did u study for bio considering u got 91

 

[jojosiwa123]

hey guys since u all 'hate' nesa so much drop the exam workbook into my dms so they don't get another cent from another student how bout that

 

[大きい男]

Odd question but how did u study for bio considering u got 91

After I finished writing my notes and summaries I did questions from textbooks mainly as there weren't many trial papers I had access to. The best thing to do at this stage is trial papers under exam conditions i.e. no access to your notes. As long as you know the content and can apply it well, you'll probably get a B6.

 

[大きい男]

hey guys since u all 'hate' nesa so much drop the exam workbook into my dms so they don't get another cent from another student how bout that

What texts are you doing?