independent trial results (1 Viewer)

[clairethebear]

How did everyone go in their art exam?? Pass/fail?? I got 48% all up, but got 85% in section 2. Section 1 was what dropped my mark down! How did everyone else go??

 

[saladsurgery]

*whips out calculator*

that would mean you got about 21/25 in the essay (yay!), but only about 3 marks in section one. ouch! what made your section 1 marks drop so much, do you think?

 

[still ill]

21/25 in section 1 and 20/25 in section 2
happy as larry with that result considering the study i did

 

[clairethebear]

saladsurgery, I think my marks dropped in the 1st section because I did my exam backwards. I spent most of my time on section 2, because I knew I would not feel like writing an essay after an hour, so I started my essay first. Then I did the questions with the most marks after that. I think I didn't spend enough time on sec.1 and also I didn't refer to the frames and other artists enough.

 

[DC10]

is this the one with the Tiananmen statue, christo's bridge and the billboard thing?

 

[Daemontreu]

Can't remember exactly what I got off the top of my head (I have since buried all my trial marks in a large pile of clothes and books lying on my bedroom floor), but it was 45/50 all up. I was happy-ish.

See? Happy.

 

[Uggy]

happyish with that! i got 43/50 and i was happy!

 

[saladsurgery]

Originally posted by clairethebear
I think I didn't spend enough time on sec.1 and also I didn't refer to the frames and other artists enough.

yeah, i found that sticking ot the proposed time limits is generally a good idea (for art at least)... perhaps spend an extra 5 minutes on one of the bigger section 1 questions or the essay if you're really getting into it, but i found that if i wrote too slowly or got stuck in the earlier questions, i'd always run out of time later on and have to write some half-arsed conclusion on my essay. always did my (art) exams front to back though, so i'm not too sure on the running-out-of-time-in-section-one idea... more like running out of time in the essay

 

[Daemontreu]

Originally posted by Uggy
happyish with that!

Yeah well, the "ish" part comes from the fact that I didn't get to actually write the conclusion and last sentence of the paragraph before my conclusion. I really have to watch those time limits...

And I found that I spent waaaay too much time on Question 1. I just had too much to say - and I'm never concise at the best of times.

 

[MrMiK]

I sucked so insanely much in the trials.
partly cuz i was doin my BOW and so did NO study.
Partly cuz i had no idea of the cultural signifigance in bits.
Partly cuz im an idiot.

I didnt write enough.. in all aspects..
so i gota do a bit of polishing up for the HSC i guess

 

[Red_Skittle]

me...

I ended up with 66% in mine, i didnt really study all that much, about 3 hours the night before i think... i wasnt too dissapointed though.... i came 6th in my class...

 

[JoeyR]

Originally posted by DC10
is this the one with the Tiananmen statue, christo's bridge and the billboard thing?

yeah i did that one and got 43/50

 

[DC10]

my teachers said that was an easy trial exam. I got 41.5/50

 

[tash]

i would've loved to get that one cos we had done something on all the artists in it. damn my teacher for giving us the cssa!

 

[JoeyR]

Originally posted by DC10
that was an easy trial exam

i was feeling all good about myself and everything

now you must DDIIIEEE!!!

nah im just kidding its cool

 

[DC10]

i mucked up q2 of section 1. because i forgot to mention 2 plates and talk about it. fatal mistake - couldve got the top of class if not for that

i'd expect the HSC exam would be MUCH much harder than the independent trial exam - look at last 2 years' exams they all seem to be harder than this trial paper :mad1:

 

[Daemontreu]

I'm sure it will be harder. But looking at our results, I think we'll do pretty damn well.

 

[saladsurgery]

last year's hsc (i.e. the one i did) was pretty weird. the question style was a bit of a departure from previous papers (trials, the 2001 hsc, etc)... i'm not sure if they're going to stay like that, or if it was a one-off out of leftfield. apparently alot of art teachers complained about that one.

 

[DC10]

actually i was surprised at last year's HSC paper - i thought as a general rule, when teachers complain about exams for one year, the exam next year would be changed - in terms of the style, and difficulty...

 

[allyteaded]

MY trial

I did the Catholic trial.

I got 50/50!

*runs around like a headless turkey*

gooble gooble gooble :rofl: