Taking notes into exams (1 Viewer)

[sexii_Can_I]

I'm doing my mid-HSC exams at the moment, and for the Advanced English test we were allowed to take 6 pages, front and back, of notes into our exams with us. For English Extension we're allowed to take 3 pages front and back. If typed, minimum font is 12.

Has this always been the case for exams in Year 12 English? Because to me it slightly undermines the necessity to study diligently for the exam. I mean, we're practically allowed a cheat sheet....

And if this is something new, who else has taken notes into their English exams this year?

 

[harrisony]

I've never heard of such a thing in y11/12 although I would assume the pass mark would be significantly higher and that they would be marking you a lot harder.
Unless it's a test to give you the impression you don't have to study *shrugs*

 

[benchwarmer17]

wow, we are NEVER under any circumstances allowed to have notes in the exam room.. you are so lucky in a way, but i guess they would have to mark you alot harder as well..

 

[nossy7becks]

my school made us sit all our exams in 'proper' BOS conditions (no notes etc.), so i dunno whats up with that.
They must be marking you harder

 

[iRuler]

I'm doing my mid-HSC exams at the moment, and for the Advanced English test we were allowed to take 6 pages, front and back, of notes into our exams with us. For English Extension we're allowed to take 3 pages front and back. If typed, minimum font is 12.

Has this always been the case for exams in Year 12 English? Because to me it slightly undermines the necessity to study diligently for the exam. I mean, we're practically allowed a cheat sheet....

And if this is something new, who else has taken notes into their English exams this year?

you can type ur whole essay 3x over or w/e what a waste of exams

 

[jessxxr]

I'm doing my mid-HSC exams at the moment, and for the Advanced English test we were allowed to take 6 pages, front and back, of notes into our exams with us. For English Extension we're allowed to take 3 pages front and back. If typed, minimum font is 12.

Has this always been the case for exams in Year 12 English? Because to me it slightly undermines the necessity to study diligently for the exam. I mean, we're practically allowed a cheat sheet....

And if this is something new, who else has taken notes into their English exams this year?

i've never had that for english but for my next society and culture assessment it's an in class essay and we are allowed 2 whole sheets (front and back) of notes, so yeahh, obviously a very easy breezy approach for that one

 

[ohexploitable]

I had an open-book assessment for Physics in Year 11, we were allowed 3 hand-written pages but somehow people still managed to fail.

 

[Shadowdude]

I only had that once with a speeches assessment - because the speeches were very new to us and we had to do the assessment task. So he (my English teacher) told us we could bring notes like a day before I think, so we just spent that night analysing the speeches ourselves.