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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 11 Elective 1: Telling the Truth:
Exemplary response Rob Sitch et al., Frontline
Question 5 Poetry:
Band 5/6 response John Donne in The Metaphysical Poets
Question 12 Elective 2: Powerplay:
Band 5/6 response George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four plus related texts
Question 1 Elective 1: Transformations:
Exemplary response William Shakespeare, Hamlet and Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
Question 4c Prose Fiction:
Band 5/6 response Tim Winton, Cloudstreet