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bigupsanky

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completely false. English standard, advanced and studies scale the exact same. UAC even says so, and the graph looks the same.

English tanks our atar because there are retards in all levels of English (who score high in English but low in a subject like math), which contributes to it having low scaling.
ion know the graph of advanced seems more negatively skewed meaning that marks are higher, when compared to standard which is normally distributed id say
 

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can someone please give me feedback on my introduction for mod a??
'A text on its own is interesting but when you compare it with another text it becomes illuminating and dynamic’ How has your study of the connections between KRIII and LFR shaped and reshaped your response to the texts?
A comparative study of William Shakespeare’s King Richard III and Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard reveals interesting conversations on the dynamic representations of power and duplicity across time. Whilst RIII condemns Richard’s Machiavellian capacity to remain interesting and appealing to its religious Elizabethan audience, LFR intentionally collides with this by validating it as a means for self-advancement. By comparing the divine retribution and moral absolutism of Shakespeare’s work to the psychological and contextual relativism of Pacino’s docudrama, our responses to these texts are reshaped to reveal an illuminating conversation on the complexity of the human condition. Thus, the study of these connections not only bridges the early modern and contemporary audiences, but also offers a powerful exploration on the dynamic reception of timeless themes in accessible ways.
i would suggest having a really general thesis such as "Iconic texts in literature remain in a perpetual conversation with preceeding texts..." idk something like that. the rest is good and ur values are clear!
 

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completely false. English standard, advanced and studies scale the exact same. UAC even says so, and the graph looks the same.

English tanks our atar because there are retards in all levels of English (who score high in English but low in a subject like math), which contributes to it having low scaling.
ion know the graph of advanced seems more negatively skewed meaning that marks are higher, when compared to standard which is normally distributed id say
from my understanding, it's a bit of a case of everyone who can pick advanced picks advanced for the sake of ATAR, causing a bigger skew, causing more people to pick advanced, etc - it's a bit of a feedback loop
the people who pick standard thinking its easier also tend to do the lesser scaling subjects, causing it to be considered 'easier' because of relative performance - they are supposed to scale the exact same, I checked the UAC document and whilst HSC mark to aggregate looks similar, this doesn't account for the raw to HSC mark transition. using rawmarksdatabase in tandem with the UAC scaling document to infer a raw -> scaled (used for aggregate calculation) relationship, then yes, standard has a significantly lower contribution. this just highlights that it's harder to band 6 standard, since people measure their performance based on marks, and therefore would be very confused as to why their HSC mark is lower than expected. (I'm by no means an expert on this, but I like to think I'm somewhat intelligent.)
there really isn't that big of a skill difference, as evidenced in common module, which just doesn't make sense from a syllabus perspective. I think it's frankly stupid to be marking advanced, which is 'supposed' to require so much more skill, at the exact same level as standard. it defeats the purpose of advanced english and makes scoring a band 6 in paper 1 (and therefore the whole subject) unnecessarily difficult for standard students. also, for some reason my school does different common mod texts for standard and adv? I don't understand this personally...but it is true that there appear to be texts 'geared' towards standard and texts for advanced (e.g. your shakespeare, your 1984 - like no school worth their salt would make their standard cohort do shakespeare when a lot of them picked standard to get away from it)
the only conceivable advantage of dropping to standard is rankings (ik people in my school who did that) but it's so not worth the abysmal band 6 rate
the english syllabus in general could be so much better but that's a rant for another day...
 

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possibly, but i highly doubt they would
i remember a few years back they made a very specific question on the power of love for one module and got huge backlash for it lol
oh hell nah im kinda worried my essay doesnt fit at al to a question like that
 

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Do you guys think they can ask us to specifically write an essay on the role of women in mod a?
It rlly depends on the story you’re doing and tbh it’s unlikely if u get an extract or stimulus. like for me I'm doing mrs Dalloway and the hours and all the previous extracts have been about women so yeah its possible.
 

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