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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 10a Elective 3: Into the World:
Band 5/6 response Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot
Question 1 Elective 2: Dialogue:
Exemplary response Jane Harrison, Stolen
Question 3b Focus - Changing Perspective:
Exemplary response Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi
Question 7b Poetry:
Band 5/6 response Wilfred Owen, War Poems and Others
Question 3a Changing Worlds:
Band 5/6 response Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game