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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 1: Transformations:
Exemplary response Sam Raimi, A Simple Plan
Question 4c Prose Fiction:
Band 5/6 response Tim Winton, Cloudstreet
Question 2 Elective 2: In the Wild:
Band 5/6 response Aldous Huxley, Brave New World and
Ridley Scott, Blade Runner - Director's Cut
Question 3b Changing Perspective:
Band 5/6 response Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi
Question 2 Prose Fiction:
Exemplary response Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion