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bruhhh literally the only states in Aus that have mandatory eng is nsw and vic. And all the other states are doing fine so why do they mandate this stupid subject
if they thought grammar instead things would be much better. Literally so many kids are falling below the minimum education standards. sure text analysis is important but grammar is more important i reckon.
 

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ikr I hate how creative writing is under timed conditions cause creativity is smth that takes time and not something that we should just be slapping on the page and memorising
lowkey next year I wanna write about the paradox of creative writing in English and how creative writing suppresses our creativity
 

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No but like seriously, if they are testing our creative skill, shouldn't we have time to perfect what we write? I remember in year 11 I had to write a story about human experiences, I got 96% for that. Because I put time into perfecting all the cause and effect that I was writing, all the techniques to convey what I want to convey. I can't do that AND analyse my own bloody text in 40 minutes. Just ridiculous.
It’s even worse when you have a question that’s restricting too. Almost everyone failed mod c in the trials because everyone wrote about the same thing and we all got marked down for that (I didn’t tho lmao).
 

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if they thought grammar instead things would be much better. Literally so many kids are falling below the minimum education standards. sure text analysis is important but grammar is more important i reckon.
yeah I wish they taught us more useful stuff like writing reports and other stuff that we need to use in the workforce. And like not analysing literature but like deducing meaning from real life scenarios and texts idk
 

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if they thought grammar instead things would be much better. Literally so many kids are falling below the minimum education standards. sure text analysis is important but grammar is more important i reckon.
Fr bro, only god (and my English teacher I guess) knows how horrendous my grammar is.
 

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It’s even worse when you have a question that’s restricting too. Almost everyone failed mod c in the trials because everyone wrote about the same thing and we all got marked down for that (I didn’t tho lmao).
did u do cssa? Apparently my teacher said that the stimulus was about saying yes. I would write about saying yes to unmandating eng
 

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what did u write about? my teacher said that some people wrote about actually saying yes, implying yes and then some did 'no' and like subverting yes or smth idk I can't remember
What… what is even yes and no about?? but to answer your question, I wrote about an art critic talking about how shitty the performance was and the powerfully bad experience the whole thing was. It was my worse imaginative I have ever written.
 

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lowkey I could just guess my way through the exam and still pass
sat math is standard maths level or maybe lower. but apparently questions can jump in difficulty pretty fast though. same with english. i think im gonna spend a year in uni over here, max out my extracurricular and just transfer to the us cuz why not
 

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Also another thing about creative that is so stupid is that in other subjects like drama or music or dance u would never be asked to like compose something under timed conditions cause it's an art form and it isn't supposed to be done under exam conditions. The same thing should be with creative but instead they take advantage of the fact that it is a written subject unlike other creative arts subjects so they do that. But like imagine if the visual arts assessment was creating an artwork in 40 mins. Like that's how stupid it is
 

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sat math is standard maths level or maybe lower. but apparently questions can jump in difficulty pretty fast though. same with english. i think im gonna spend a year in uni over here, max out my extracurricular and just transfer to the us cuz why not
same. I wanna go to a us uni cause they have more of an emphasis on extra curricular activities which is so much better than having all this pressure on ur atar
 

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Also another thing about creative that is so stupid is that in other subjects like drama or music or dance u would never be asked to like compose something under timed conditions cause it's an art form and it isn't supposed to be done under exam conditions. The same thing should be with creative but instead they take advantage of the fact that it is a written subject unlike other creative arts subjects so they do that. But like imagine if the visual arts assessment was creating an artwork in 40 mins. Like that's how stupid it is
Fr, that’s why I chose E2 English too.
 

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