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aha I loved the last song! How was the exam? Who cares! Music was such a wank.

I did 620 words for a 4 minutes speech so 800 for 5 minutes? But you said it's for legal or something so I don't know what the emphasis is on there, I did this for english and the emphasis there certainly wasn't on word count (the worst people said the most e.g. 1000 words = 12/20)

by doing that you would have 0 effect

only the examiners know!! Also they look at the questions from year to year and decide depending on that specific question. The only way to know is to find out the raw marks for the essay and creative per module and see what the mark after weighting is (they tell you this). So you'll find out if...

they mark everything on the paper! I know some are apparently done online, but they're still marking heaps on paper (they are at the marking centre I know)... also it will be obvious if the scanner has cut something off and the markers mindset isn't to penalise you for writing more by not even...

i don't think that the person who gets second gets stuck with the guy's 89% mark for their own internal, because they keep the distances, so it means that people down the chain 'feel the blow'

yeah but you'll be close to a percent from whatever he gets (even if it is your high external mark) since they try to keep the distances between students the same. e.g. you got 95 he got 85, then you'll get internal 93/94?

It's stupid. People should talk about what they wrote - this is what gets marked, not the number of pages. People like to brag they wrote X pages. Reality is they write what tonnes of other people write, but with larger handwriting. *illusion shattered*

what 'internal mark' are you talking about? As far as the HSC is concerned, you have no 'internal mark' besides the one that is calculated from the external exams. You're confusing your 'internal mark' with the 'moderated assessment mark' - two different things.

You need to find an author you like. I made a list a few posts back; have you read anything by any of them yet? This isn't the only way, but it's the way I did it and it helped shape my story and style. Reading other authors can make you think about how you write in comparison. I think there are...

Yes I really don't know what to expect! I don't think I had enough dialogue (but I find good dialogue really hard to write)... My reflection statement is really good, though I think it sounds a lot more sophisticated than the story itself, which is a bit confused in its direction. Wait and see...

I see what you mean. The one I read was fresh because it was unexpected and creative (I thought so anyway). It was about freedom of artistic expression. The ending was grim but it was appropriate to the genre. It also used a lot of humour which balanced the feel- it was witty, and this kept it...

someone I knew did a dystopian and it was brilliant. What's wrong with the genre?

I was tossing up between that one and services! They were both correct so it was annoying... I picked services but yeah I was completely caught between the two, it could be either (or both!) There was also one such question in german continuers! It was a multiple choice and there were two...

from what I can remember.. q.8 = the medecin sans frontier guy who was bad at school then 'changed his ways' (marks 5) q.7 = the nadine girl and tunesia holiday, her friend wants surgery cause he thinks he's fat (marks 5) q.6 = was this the neighbour calling up to complain about piano lessons...

same I put the points you did but I didn't understand all of it.. kept tuning in and out and it was so long! I thought it might've been liposuction (lol?) even though he was like 22 but they only talked about a beauty operation

native speakers? They would have an advantage in speaking and listening but otherwise it's less important, especially since a lot of marks come from the trappings of the test system rather than an authentic knowledge of French (though personally I think they should just make an Open High school...

I know, I think it was nasty to put a 4 marker then two 5 marker questions, because they all required the length/detail of a 6 marker. I think they did this because there was no 'refer to language techniques' part. I couldn't fit my writing in those tiny spaces so I ended up covering the page in...

what did you say about 'mathieu' and his personality for the 'A table'?

What did you think of the exam? The masterchef thing was interesting haha, but the listening was so full of stuff! It took me extra time to get it all down... though no 'language techniques' questions which was nice =) was the guy writing the job application trying out to be a camp counselor...