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Started by Richard_05, May 12 2006 11:48 AM

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What grade you think you got?

  1. A (13 votes [18.57%])

    Percentage of vote: 18.57%

  2. B (33 votes [47.14%])

    Percentage of vote: 47.14%

  3. C (13 votes [18.57%])

    Percentage of vote: 18.57%

  4. D (5 votes [7.14%])

    Percentage of vote: 7.14%

  5. Fail (6 votes [8.57%])

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#1 Richard_05

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Posted 12 May 2006 - 11:48 AM

Hey, how did everyone find it?

I thought the close reading was really pretty straight forward. I had to do a bit of altering for the essays I had prepared, but all seems well. Wasn't much harder or easier than I expected

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Posted 12 May 2006 - 11:59 AM

Emm close reading was fine. I had to make up a whole new essay for Sunset Song and Visitng Hour was fine.
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Posted 12 May 2006 - 12:09 PM

QUOTE(Richard_05 @ May 12 2006, 12:48 PM) View Post

Hey, how did everyone find it?
I had to do a bit of altering for the essays I had prepared, but all seems well.

Same here.

I'm glad it's over.

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Posted 12 May 2006 - 12:27 PM

im so happy thats finally done. I wrote 4 and a half pages for both essays and i hope that is sufficient.
The close reading was okay may have mucked up one or two questions but overall not bad.
There were a few people who were quite upset that they didnt manage to finish the papers or that one essay was great and the other rubbish but i didnt have those problems.

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Posted 12 May 2006 - 12:29 PM

I had the two best questions I could have got for writing. Which I am hugely happy with although I got the times muddled up and though we finished 10 minutes later than we did so got a bit of a fright when the halfway mark was called out. So the second was wasn't the greatest.

The close reading was quite hard timing wise. I did the second passage in half an hour plus the last question(s), which was definately a bit wierd.

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Posted 12 May 2006 - 12:40 PM

I found the close reading not to bad, just the timing that some times gets me including today. Critical essay paper had very good question for the literature I was studying so pretty chuffed, although with english you never can judge.

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I wrote 4 and a half pages for both essays

That was how much I wrote for the Sunset Song Essay and about 5 pages for the sonnet 29

Did anyone else do Question 4 for Sunset Song

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Posted 12 May 2006 - 12:44 PM

I only wrote 4 pages for my first one, then 2 and half for the second. Mine were much longer than usual too.

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Posted 12 May 2006 - 12:53 PM

The close reading was simple. The essay questions were shoite in my humble opinion... Blatantly aimed at certain literature - especially in the prose fiction section.

Ended up "shoe-horning" an essay for Death of a Salesman into Q4 and an easy one for an Orwell essay i just learned last week - sheer luck, because I didn't at all fancy any of the poetry or prose fiction sections...

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Posted 12 May 2006 - 12:55 PM

Yep overall it was ok but thats as far as it goes! passage 2 confused me Lol and as for the essay questions - Dont start Lol

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Posted 12 May 2006 - 01:31 PM

Bugger! I didn't have time to write: 'Has anyone ever told you how beautiful your eyes look in the moonlight?' I seriously meant to write that if I messed up anything.
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Posted 12 May 2006 - 01:36 PM

I found it okay. The essay questions could have been better, but I had a huge bank of knoweldege on many texts, which made it easier. My classmates who only learned 2 or 3 texts found it very difficult.

The close reading was a good paper, but I didn't like the way the split up the last 5 marks into two questiosn. I'm used to it being on ebig 5 marker on both passages.
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Posted 12 May 2006 - 01:41 PM

i thought it went pretty well, couple of questions in the close reading were slightly tricky but the essay questions worked out so well for me

we went to hand in our books at english at the end and the english teachers were basically going on about how the questions had worked out so well for us, so I'm feeling pretty confident, just hope the rest of the exams go like this!

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Posted 12 May 2006 - 02:12 PM

I think ive a really good chance of an A but time will tell. I wont vote in the poll since theres no option for A/B cus i could get either.

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Posted 12 May 2006 - 02:26 PM

Im not hoping for much better than a C from this cause im realy no good at english but heres hoping for a B or shock shock horror horror an A would be a BIG shock!!
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Posted 12 May 2006 - 03:02 PM

I think it went pretty well overall smile.gif I might have manipulated one of the essay questions a bit but hey tongue.gif

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Posted 12 May 2006 - 03:23 PM

Yeah, I thought overall it was pretty easy. no real challenges in the close reading and the essay questions were perfect for me. well actualy a symbolism q in prose would have been a gift but, he ho. smile.gif
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Posted 12 May 2006 - 07:44 PM

close readin was gd, pretty simple n most of the questions were understanding - not so much analysis.. ie the 6marker!! was well impressed lol!

oh, n 4 the record, brad pitt is not overweight. he's perfect.

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Posted 12 May 2006 - 08:07 PM

Who was the other guy that was obese? Tom cruise or something?

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Posted 12 May 2006 - 08:12 PM

russell crowe, i grant tht.
but i was shocked with the insult towards my brad... sad.gif

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Posted 12 May 2006 - 08:17 PM

What a topic! Obesity! What passage did everybody choose for the final question? I choose passage 2 because it was more personal and written with an informal tone!
So glad its over though!!!! tongue.gif
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