Hey there, another Baulkham Hills guy here having a laugh. For the record, I wrote 5, 4, 5, 11 words a line, got 95 in the SC yadda yadda. I'm also fairly terrible at 2 unit English, despite doing 4 unit, and I didn't do brilliantly in this paper. I also don't intend on going to uni, so marks don't bother me. I hope I've proved I'm not flexing my e-penis (much), I'm writing a post that conforms to the expectations of this thread.
Some of you are making the mistake of confusing what a sensible marking guideline would be with what we actually have. Hell, if it made sense we wouldn't even be writing essays. School is supposed to prepare us for real life, and essays are things that are almost exclusively used in the education system.
What most people are doing here though is just arguing about things that don't matter, bitching, whining, and basically being arrogant jerks. Just because some of you are right it doesn't make you any less of a jerk.
Most of you are being hypocritical as well, and the irony in pointing out the hypocrisies of other posters has caused me no small level of amusement. Now, I could very well point these out to you but I really, if you can't look things up for yourself there's no point in me even talking to you, you obviously think that you're right in everything you're saying and not open to budge at all. However, I encourage all of you who care enough to post in this thread more than once to actually do this. For instance, instead of just saying that something is what the markers expect, why don't you quote the syllabus and end the argument? You can do the same whenever someone says something that is not backed up by evidence. This is what an argument is. It is not arguing over trivialties and facts.
The 2 unit english syllabus does not expect you to really do much. I have seen very highly marked essays that do not follow the conventions of the english language. They also make concessions for spelling and grammar: it is a situation where you are under a lot of stress and a time limit. Informal conversations also do not follow the conventions of english. Feel free to ignore capitalisation and u kn also youse xtra or lss lttrs. It's all good as long as people understand what you are saying. It's all well and good to perfectly structure your replies, use correct punctuation and grammar, and run everything through a spell checker, but unfortunately a spell-checker doesn't inform you when you are spouting shit or when you are not stating your intentions clearly.
Guess what guys? A top english student can actually get by without knowing what a verb is, how to conjugate one, or where to place a comma! When was the last time you were tested on that? Year 3 maybe? Writing a good essay on poetry does not qualify you to be a poet.
There's something much more important than your UAI or your English skills. Do you know it is? It is the ability to not be a complete fucking wanker, to not see everybody as inferior to you, not to take everything so fucking seriously, and how to admit when you are wrong.
I have not run this through a spell checker, I've probably used some words and terms incorrectly, and I've probably said a few contradictory things since I'm listening to music and haven't read back through my post. And I'm swearing a lot, but I assure you, I do it in speech in a most casual manner, and I'm not angry or very passionate on the subject.
Bite me New South Wales.
Edit: Oh, and for your information, the Baulkham Hills forum we've all come from is http://forum.themace.net/. Feel free to come in and speak your mind, I could do with a laugh.
And I appreciate you people who are simply making such hilarious jokes and not being serious at all. You're aaaaaallll right.
Some of you are making the mistake of confusing what a sensible marking guideline would be with what we actually have. Hell, if it made sense we wouldn't even be writing essays. School is supposed to prepare us for real life, and essays are things that are almost exclusively used in the education system.
What most people are doing here though is just arguing about things that don't matter, bitching, whining, and basically being arrogant jerks. Just because some of you are right it doesn't make you any less of a jerk.
Most of you are being hypocritical as well, and the irony in pointing out the hypocrisies of other posters has caused me no small level of amusement. Now, I could very well point these out to you but I really, if you can't look things up for yourself there's no point in me even talking to you, you obviously think that you're right in everything you're saying and not open to budge at all. However, I encourage all of you who care enough to post in this thread more than once to actually do this. For instance, instead of just saying that something is what the markers expect, why don't you quote the syllabus and end the argument? You can do the same whenever someone says something that is not backed up by evidence. This is what an argument is. It is not arguing over trivialties and facts.
The 2 unit english syllabus does not expect you to really do much. I have seen very highly marked essays that do not follow the conventions of the english language. They also make concessions for spelling and grammar: it is a situation where you are under a lot of stress and a time limit. Informal conversations also do not follow the conventions of english. Feel free to ignore capitalisation and u kn also youse xtra or lss lttrs. It's all good as long as people understand what you are saying. It's all well and good to perfectly structure your replies, use correct punctuation and grammar, and run everything through a spell checker, but unfortunately a spell-checker doesn't inform you when you are spouting shit or when you are not stating your intentions clearly.
Guess what guys? A top english student can actually get by without knowing what a verb is, how to conjugate one, or where to place a comma! When was the last time you were tested on that? Year 3 maybe? Writing a good essay on poetry does not qualify you to be a poet.
There's something much more important than your UAI or your English skills. Do you know it is? It is the ability to not be a complete fucking wanker, to not see everybody as inferior to you, not to take everything so fucking seriously, and how to admit when you are wrong.
I have not run this through a spell checker, I've probably used some words and terms incorrectly, and I've probably said a few contradictory things since I'm listening to music and haven't read back through my post. And I'm swearing a lot, but I assure you, I do it in speech in a most casual manner, and I'm not angry or very passionate on the subject.
Bite me New South Wales.
Edit: Oh, and for your information, the Baulkham Hills forum we've all come from is http://forum.themace.net/. Feel free to come in and speak your mind, I could do with a laugh.
And I appreciate you people who are simply making such hilarious jokes and not being serious at all. You're aaaaaallll right.
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