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Literature: Discussion, Questions & Potential Solutions
« on: October 09, 2018, 03:23:13 pm »
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This thread is for all exam-related discussion. Was it easy? Was it hard? What did you get for each question? Feel free to post any and all of your thoughts below.

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Re: Literature: Discussion, Questions & Potential Solutions
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2018, 02:36:36 pm »
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What did everyone think of the prompt for cat on a hot tin roof

It was alright. A society-based prompt was what I think everyone had been predicting for this year. I feel like I may have waffled on to the point of incoherence though :/

The main thing I'm happy about is that it wasn't restricted to a feminist lens which was my biggest fear going into the exam!
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Re: Literature: Discussion, Questions & Potential Solutions
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2018, 03:14:46 pm »
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What did everyone think of the prompt for cat on a hot tin roof

I had literally just written a practice essay on societal pressures on Friday that my teacher thought was great where I talked about the socio-cultural demands, so I just attempted to regurgitate it, whilst sounding coherent.

Question: does spelling has a big impact? because there was this one word that I know spelt incorrectly.

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Re: Literature: Discussion, Questions & Potential Solutions
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2018, 03:16:22 pm »
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So what did people think of passage analysis for The Leopard by Lampedusa? What were people's approaches?  :)

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Re: Literature: Discussion, Questions & Potential Solutions
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2018, 03:17:25 pm »
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Question: does spelling has a big impact? because there was this one word that I know spelt incorrectly.

No, minor spelling errors will cause no great detriment :)
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Re: Literature: Discussion, Questions & Potential Solutions
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2018, 03:29:00 pm »
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What did everyone think of the prompt for cat on a hot tin roof
Thought it was pretty decent. Much better than the prompt for 2017 lol.
What did everyone focus on for that prompt? I talked about Mae+Gooper; Brick+Skipper; and Big Daddy. Looking back now maybe I should've mentioned Maggie and Big Mama too, to fit into the 'family' prompt but I didn't want the assessors to think I was writing from a feminist perspective.

Did anyone do Gogol?
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Re: Literature: Discussion, Questions & Potential Solutions
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2018, 03:39:10 pm »
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Thought it was pretty decent. Much better than the prompt for 2017 lol.
What did everyone focus on for that prompt? I talked about Mae+Gooper; Brick+Skipper; and Big Daddy. Looking back now maybe I should've mentioned Maggie and Big Mama too, to fit into the 'family' prompt but I didn't want the assessors to think I was writing from a feminist perspective.

Did anyone do Gogol?

I spoke about Brick and Maggie, Brick and Skipper, Big Mama and Big Daddy. Feel like I focused a bit too much on Brick but he's my favourite character to write about for Cat so hopefully the quality of my analysis makes up for it. If it doesn't then I'll see you all in literary purgatory ;D

Just curious, is everything outside the outline on the page ignored? I was about to write the section and prompt number for an essay outside of the border but opted against it and wrote it on the first line given. It makes the page look so ugly though haha

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Re: Literature: Discussion, Questions & Potential Solutions
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2018, 04:01:12 pm »
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I spoke about Brick and Maggie, Brick and Skipper, Big Mama and Big Daddy. Feel like I focused a bit too much on Brick but he's my favourite character to write about for Cat so hopefully the quality of my analysis makes up for it. If it doesn't then I'll see you all in literary purgatory ;D

Just curious, is everything outside the outline on the page ignored? I was about to write the section and prompt number for an essay outside of the border but opted against it and wrote it on the first line given. It makes the page look so ugly though haha
I'm wondering about that too! I wrote the section and prompt number on the first line of every page, not sure if that's overkill lol, but I wasn't taking any chances.

Also were you supposed to start on a new page for section B because I literally drew a line through the page and then started Section B on the same page as my conclusion for Section A.

How many pages did everyone write? I wrote 15 (6.5 for section A, 8.5 for section B), not sure if that's a bit too excessive or not.
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Re: Literature: Discussion, Questions & Potential Solutions
« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2018, 04:05:22 pm »
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Did anyone do The Passion for section B? Those were nasty passages...

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Re: Literature: Discussion, Questions & Potential Solutions
« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2018, 04:43:21 pm »
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what did people think of the north and south topic??

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Re: Literature: Discussion, Questions & Potential Solutions
« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2018, 05:00:12 pm »
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I wrote 12 and I thought that was a lot. How on earth do you write 15 pages in two hours

I didn't even have time to count — all I know is that I had to ask for a second writing booklet and wrote less for section B than A

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Re: Literature: Discussion, Questions & Potential Solutions
« Reply #11 on: November 12, 2018, 05:43:38 pm »
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Thought it was pretty decent. Much better than the prompt for 2017 lol.
What did everyone focus on for that prompt? I talked about Mae+Gooper; Brick+Skipper; and Big Daddy. Looking back now maybe I should've mentioned Maggie and Big Mama too, to fit into the 'family' prompt but I didn't want the assessors to think I was writing from a feminist perspective.

Did anyone do Gogol?


I talked about Brick and Skipper in the first paragraph, Big Daddy and Big Mamma and their toxic relationship in the second, and how Maggie is blamed for not satisfying her husband when its not really her fault. Overall, I enjoyed this years prompt

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Re: Literature: Discussion, Questions & Potential Solutions
« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2018, 06:47:23 pm »
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Are there many people who did either 'Rhinoceros' for part A or 'Ariel' for part B? Personally, I thought the prompt for 'Rhinoceros' was great. The poems for 'Ariel' were also a good combination.
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Re: Literature: Discussion, Questions & Potential Solutions
« Reply #13 on: November 12, 2018, 07:23:32 pm »
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Hi everyone :)

Anyone do Heart of Darkness or Only the Animals? What did you think of the prompt and passages?


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Re: Literature: Discussion, Questions & Potential Solutions
« Reply #14 on: November 12, 2018, 08:04:08 pm »
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Thought it was pretty decent. Much better than the prompt for 2017 lol.
What did everyone focus on for that prompt? I talked about Mae+Gooper; Brick+Skipper; and Big Daddy. Looking back now maybe I should've mentioned Maggie and Big Mama too, to fit into the 'family' prompt but I didn't want the assessors to think I was writing from a feminist perspective.

Did anyone do Gogol?

For section A I talked about Brick and Skipper, Big Daddy + Big Mama, Mae's five children, and Reverend Tooker. I was seriously grasping at straws with the reverend, hopefully the assessors don't mind.

Did anyone do Browning's poems? I was pleasantly surprised by them. Toccata AND Campagna together was unexpected, it made analysis so much easier. Pretty much your classic Browning quotes are all in there. My Last Duchess threw me off though.

Overall, surprised that VCAA was so nice to us this year. I was expecting curveballs right and left.

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