VCE English Question Thread

[HopefulLawStudent]

Hey y'all

Could someone please give me some examples of trigger sentences for Language Analysis introductions THANKS

What do you mean by "trigger sentences"?

If you're looking for sample language analysis introductions, you can find some here: English Resources and Sample Essays

[BlinkieBill]

Trigger sentences as in what triggers the persuaive piece.
Like when you start off the intro with describing the issue or event that prompted the author to write the piece.

[helloeveryone]

Pretty noob question but can someone please explain the concept of 'irony' to me please lol. Thanks.

[zhen]

Pretty noob question but can someone please explain the concept of 'irony' to me please lol. Thanks.

Check this site out. http://www.dailywritingtips.com/what-is-irony-with-examples/   It has a pretty good explanation of irony.

[DHP123]

Hi, I was just wondering how hard it is to get a 35 in EAL because I realised you need 35 raw to get into most courses. What average do u need for each sac? and like how good do you have to be? and any study tips for EAL would also be appreciated

[helloeveryone]

This is highly unlikely, but does anyone have any The Lieutenant essay prompts that they don't mind sharing? I know it's a first year text (well, for text response that is), but any prompts will be greatly appreciated. Or even better, people who've studied the text, is it okay if you write me one? Doesn't have to be fancy or anything, just something so that I can start practicing. Thanks in advance! 

[HopefulLawStudent]

Hi, I was just wondering how hard it is to get a 35 in EAL because I realised you need 35 raw to get into most courses. What average do u need for each sac? and like how good do you have to be? and any study tips for EAL would also be appreciated

This may be of some help to you re: tips for EAL: 50 in English (as an additional language)

To be honest, I'd avoid playing the numbers games largely because it's so hard to predict cos there are so many variables at play; just aim to do the very best you can do as opposed to obsessing over what you need to be getting because in my opinion, obsessing over numbers is just counterproductive. Like some of my friends decided to procrasti-obsess over numbers and got their predictions waaaaay off (which isn't all that hard to do tbh).

This is highly unlikely, but does anyone have any The Lieutenant essay prompts that they don't mind sharing? I know it's a first year text (well, for text response that is), but any prompts will be greatly appreciated. Or even better, people who've studied the text, is it okay if you write me one? Doesn't have to be fancy or anything, just something so that I can start practicing. Thanks in advance! 

Unfortunately, I'm not sure anyone will be able to help you there because as far as I know, TL hasn't been used for text response so there aren't too many resources for it as a text response text yet ( ).

If you're just looking for what a good text response looks like though, please feel free to check out this: English Resources for 2017 and Beyond and English Resources and Sample Essays

[minerva]

Hey guys, are GAT scores generally a good indication for what you would get as a study score in English? I did the GAT last year in Year 11 and got a 46 for Written Communication and I'm really hoping to hit low-mid 40's with English this year.

[HopefulLawStudent]

Hey guys, are GAT scores generally a good indication for what you would get as a study score in English? I did the GAT last year in Year 11 and got a 46 for Written Communication and I'm really hoping to hit low-mid 40's with English this year.

I got a 39 for Written Communication in 2016 and like a 42 for Written Communication in 2015 so I wouldn't trust GAT results all that much.

[smiley123]

Hi, can someone please teach me how to write an evaluative essay? Also, is an evaluative essay the same as an analytical essay?

[atar.notes.user]

Hi, I am doing This Boy's Life in school. For the essay question 'why do readers sympathise with Jack?' Is it recommended that I refer to Toby as Jack in the entire essay because the question specified? Or am I just looking too deep into it?

[anthonyttran]

Hi, i was wondering what types of prompts we would get for the creative response SAC? I know schools will be different but can someone give me a general idea?

[Syndicate]

Hi, i was wondering what types of prompts we would get for the creative response SAC? I know schools will be different but can someone give me a general idea?

You can write whatever you want, as long as you can relate it to the text(isn't that the point of a creative SAC?). However, the students usually tend to write:
- a monologue from a character that didn't get to express their points quite well (or wasn't exactly given a voice)
- a scene (using the writer's style) that continues from any point in the play- usually the end, the beginning or after something dramatic had occurred
- newspaper article
- a piece whilst acting as an omniscient narrator
- a piece where you act as the author of the text, and express his/her views on his/her protagonist/ tragedy that occurred

[HopefulLawStudent]

Hi, i was wondering what types of prompts we would get for the creative response SAC? I know schools will be different but can someone give me a general idea?

Unfortunately, there is no consistent approach between schools re: the creative SAC (not so far as I have seen anyway). Like in some schools, the prompt is basically just "write a creative response to the text" and in other schools it's been like "write a creative response in this form, from the perspective of this character, looking at these two scenes."

Hi, I am doing This Boy's Life in school. For the essay question 'why do readers sympathise with Jack?' Is it recommended that I refer to Toby as Jack in the entire essay because the question specified? Or am I just looking too deep into it?

I haven't read TBL (on my to read list still) but personally, I'd lean towards referring to toby as Jack cos that's what the prompt has done; with that said though, I don't think it matters all that much because any assessor reading your essay will know that Jack = Toby cos they'll have read the text so it should be fine either way. Don't worry too much about it, I think.

Hi, can someone please teach me how to write an evaluative essay? Also, is an evaluative essay the same as an analytical essay?

What do you mean by evaluative essay? + What exactly are you struggling with?

[Adammurad]

I need a bit of help I got a oral presentation/seminar that's due a bit later in the month. I got the quote of my choice which was "An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind" by Gandhi and I need to find two texts that relate to the core idea of this quote and compare them. Any suggestions of texts?