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bruh guys, how tf can english be harder in one year than the next? isn't in this subject you either can write or not?
 

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Nah it's the opposite the "night" connotated despondency thus revealing the paradoxical fleetingness of change
my money is on change bringing introspection, dawn came later, he saw his reflection cos it was still dark, he saw into himself --> external change is symbiotic with internal change
 

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... but also nothing too diabolical

no comparisons, nothing above 5 marks. Everything felt very middle-of-the-road difficulty
for me it was hard to find the techniques and even the meaning of some texts 😭
 

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Well, i was able to get a rough outline
i have the questions and the names of the texts
i'll format something rq
@coolcat6778 @lucas10champ here it is:
Stimulus Materials:
Text 1 - Memoir Extract: Tove Jansson, Notes From An Island
Text 2 - Prose Fiction: Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life Of Adults
Text 3 - Poem: Ted Kooser, A Letter In October
Text 4 - Prose Fiction Extract: Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer
Text 5 - Non-fiction Extract: Robert Macfarlane, Underland

Questions:

Section I

Q1 - Memoir Extract - Explain how Jansson celebrates the process of creativity

Q2 - Prose Fiction - How does Ferrante portray the ways that family relationships shape identity

Q3 - Poem - Analyse How Kooser shares insights about the experience of change

Q4 - Prose Fiction - How does Kingsolver expand the reader's understanding of the relationship between past and present

Q5 - Non-fiction - Evaluate Macfarlane's representation of the connections between humans and landscape

Section II

Q6 - Analyse how the representation of particular lives in your prescribed text enriches your understanding of the endurance of the human spirit

Make close reference to your prescribed text in your response
 

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for me it was hard to find the techniques and even the meaning of some texts 😭
that's so fair. I just kinda had a quick squiz, invented a meaning on the spot 'because the meaning of a text is multiplicitous and subjective', picked whatever quote i wanted to make my point, then bs'd a technique, 'vivid imagery' gonna carry my ATAR
 

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the essay question was pretty chill for me but some of the short answers were wild. had a major brain blank on q3 deciding to talk about structure as my reasoning for some reason and q4 was bad imo. the rest weren't terrible, just not great either
 

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the essay question was pretty chill for me but some of the short answers were wild. had a major brain blank on q3 deciding to talk about structure as my reasoning for some reason and q4 was bad imo. the rest weren't terrible, just not great either
yeah, SA's are so random sometimes...
 

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my money is on change bringing introspection, dawn came later, he saw his reflection cos it was still dark, he saw into himself --> external change is symbiotic with internal change
its only 4 marks itll be fine
interpretation is high level enough
doesnt matter if its right js gotta answer the question
 

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HELP! What do I do if Mod C is a persuasive/discursive only?? Any formulas/structures I can follow?
my plan is to turn the core of my creative into a discursive, ive heard it said you need both sides, so ill probably do a paragraph or two on one, then switch to the other side, and try and have a stron unifying conclusion

surely they dont for back to back years...
 

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