English (Standard)
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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 3b Prose Fiction:
Exemplary response Jane Yolen, Briar Rose
Question 3b Focus - Changing Perspective:
Exemplary response Peter Skrzynecki, Immigrant Chronicle
Question 3a Focus - Changing Worlds:
Exemplary response Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Question 2:
Exemplary response
Question 7b Poetry:
Band 5/6 response Wilfred Owen, War Poems and Others