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Yeah, honestly nothing much we can do now. If u still wrote a coherent essay with good analysis then obv youll still be picking up a good chunk of the marks. The nice thing about now is that those mysterious marks are going into the magical NESA/UAC scaling machine and we will never see them...

Yep, it was. I thought for my texts (Hughes + Plath) there was a fairly convincing argument to agree with the statement. Either way, it's done now!

F A C T S do this

Good luck, class of 2021. Enjoy it, it's a wild ride :)

A tricky situation. A strange one, but tricky nonetheless. I guess the first thing to think of is the actual difference between advanced and standard. Both courses require students to analyse texts (both seen and unseen), write essays and do creative writing. No difference there. The real...

Oh ok, yeah that makes sense. I always wondered about that. Thanks!!

Yeah look, who knows. It's up to the ATAR gods now ;)

Yep I'm looking forward to doing that.

Why's that. Maybe I phrased that wrong... All the marker wants to see is that you have engaged with the extract in your answer. It could be a paragraph, it could be throughout multiple paragraphs, it could be through your intro/conclusion (not sure about this though)... Idk though, and we will...

Where is this bonfire haha ;)

What's wrong?

Yeah, I didnt do TS Elliot but i get the impression that the marker just wants to see sustained engagement with the extract. I'm sure there are multiple completely legitimate ways of doing this! Personally, I integrated quotes and analysis from my extract throughout each of my three paragraphs...

Precisely! The only thing we can do now is keep working on our upcoming exams and look after ourselves. Once marks come out in a few marks we will have forgotten about "Normal Phantom" and the boat dude haha

Haha, no place in particular but some great resources are... Eddie Woo's Scaling / Moderation / Alignment Bonanza Matrix's Article https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-to-atar-scaling/how-hsc-marks-are-calculated/ UAC's Site (which details how scaling works)...

Although I'd just like to point out that stressing about all this is not productive atm. Rest up this arvo and lets keep pushing... not long now and we will be done with the HSC forever :)

So your final exam mark is made up from two things: (1) EXAM MARK which gets ALIGNED. This is a constant process that occurs no matter what school you go to or what mark you get. It basically involves adding (or, more rarely, subtracting) a constant onto your score to adjust for how hard that...

Fairly sure they're not, that process is same across all schools.

Yay!!! Yeah, mod b was fine, i just wasn't 100 percent confident with how I answered the question

Eh, ok... Mod a was good, mod b was pretty hard to answer and mod C..... I don't even know with mod C

Look, the reality is that they will just mark the creative. Will it get full marks considering it is only 3 pages? Potentially not. Will it get decent marks considering you are clearly a very able student? Certainly. Don't stress. Nothing we can do now (except have a laugh and move on).