my answers are mostly the same as yours. except I said text 2 is negative by using negative emotive language and the self-distancing pronoun.
I said both positive and negative to start with. but as I thought more about it - the negative view has over powered the positive in the last paragraph...
text 1 - fine.
text 2 - not really clear in terms of how they portray the sense of community and belonging. but the questions were okay I think.
text 3 - fine.
essay - I practiced something like this in trial question so I was fine.
for me, it will be pretty annoying. there is one kid that kept doing one of those pen tricks in one of our in-class assessment task and almost every time he dropped his pen, there was a death stare around.