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 5b Prose Fiction:
Band 5/6 response Jane Yolen, Briar Rose
Question 10b Elective 3: Into the World:
Band 5/6 response Willy Russell, Educating Rita
Question 2:
Band 5/6 response Change
Question 6 Elective 3: Consumerism:
Exemplary response Bruce Dawe, Sometimes Gladness
Question 1 Elective 1: Telling Stories:
Exemplary response Henry Lawson, The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories