English (Standard)
Component
About ARC
This site contains student responses to past examination questions and tasks. The standards described in the performance bands and applied in the marking process do not change from year to year. The responses provide examples of standards of performance at the band cut-offs.
Student responses of the day
Question 1 Elective 3: Image:
Exemplary response Peter Weir, The Truman Show
Question 1 Elective 2: Dialogue:
Band 5/6 response Jane Harrison, Stolen
Question 7b Poetry:
Band 5/6 response Wilfred Owen, War Poems and Others
Question 3b Changing Perspective:
Band 5/6 response Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi
Question 1 Elective 1: Telling Stories:
Exemplary response Henry Lawson, The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories