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Rafy

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Share your overall thoughts of Paper 2 here.

What aspects of the paper did you like and dislike? Did you consider it a fair test of your abilities?
 

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Oh wow, another year of specified speech :( The one I was least confident with too.... I'll just go burn everything English related now


EDIT: Specified Faith Bandler's speech incase anyone is wondering.
 
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Specified speeches/poems. How many people got screwed over? I sure as shit didn't :D
 

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wth does tension between stability and change even mean?!?! harwood!!!
 

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Loved it, hoping for a 17/20, 18/20 and 16+/20.
 

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WADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFAQ
The questions...were...HORRIBLE
 

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Specified speeches/poems. How many people got screwed over? I sure as shit didn't :D
I SURE AS SHIT DIDN'T EITHER, BECAUSE I KNEW THERE WAS A REASON WHY I CHOSE THAT PIECE OF SHIT POEM 'AT MORNINGTON' LOLOL MY LIFE IS WORTH LIVING BECAUSE THE BOARD OF STUDIES IN FAVOUR OF ME. YUP. SUCKED IN TO EVERYONE WHO HAS BAD TASTE IN PICKING POEMS LUL

btw nooblet94, i am a huge fan of your forum signature ;)
 

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Which speech did they specify?

[Which speech did they specify last year?]
 

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totally got thrown all over the place by the questions, especially Slessor and history and memory.
 

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All the questions were reasonably fair:

Frank/Bladerunner - textual form :-[
Hamlet - my favourite question ;-)
Justice Game - complexity of human attitudes and behaviour :-(


Also.....the fkn papers are sooo hard to right on and slippery - wasted probably 10mins of the 2hrs corre ting myseld!!!
 
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Mod A: Frankenstein/Blade Runner was pretty easy (asking about how textual form showed the parallels in the texts). Mod C: Julius Caesar was good too (how texts reveal the complexities of human attitudes and behaviour). Mod B: Speeches was the HARDEST!! I never studied Faith Badler's speech!! :( I thought there'd be no way they'd ask that speech, let alone not even give an extract from the speech :'(
 
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All the questions were reasonably fair:

Frank/Bladerunner - textual form :-[
Hamlet - my favourite question ;-)
Justice Game - complexity of human attitudes and behaviour :-(
Ah, I did the same texts. I absolutely loved the Mod C question though as it was really exactly the same as past years, except reworked. :lol:
 

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Frankenblade was alright, I just used my essay from the trial and talk about how the concepts were shown through form. Hamlet was semi-okay, I didn't write much for it though. The Fiftieth Gate was epic because I didn't need 2 related texts. Hoping for a half decent mark.
 

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For those wondering, they specified 'At Mornington' for Harwood this year, and 'The Violets' last year.
 

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Mod A: Frankenstein/Blade Runner was pretty easy (asking about how textual form showed the parallels in the texts). Mod C: Julius Caesar was good too (how texts reveal the complexities of human attitudes and behaviour). Mod B: Speeches was the HARDEST!! I never studied Faith Badler's speech!! :( I thought there'd be no way they'd ask that speech, let alone not even give an extract from the speech :'(
Have Faith!
Chances are if you found it hard the majority of people in the state found it hard.
 

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Man fucking shit.

I was stumped by Module B a bit. Fucking all the questions were so wordy n shit. Much to my disappointment.
 

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