Claims extracted
26
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
8%
2 of 26 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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not political
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The final question on Wednesday’s Higher School Certificate English Advanced exam might have seemed oddly specific or even divorced from the poetry and novels students studied in class.
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students → seem → class
It posed a premise to students: while “busyness and distraction” preoccupied most people, it was wonder, absorption and play that are essential for flourishing.
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that → pose → flourishing
“The point isn’t to catch a fish – it’s how you feel while you’re trying to catch a fish,” it said.
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it → catch → fish
Clued-up students knew to look deeper beneath the surface.
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students → clue → surface
“The question didn’t specifically ask us to talk about fishing,” Bonnyrigg High student Tijana Kovacevic.
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question → ask → fishing
Students were given a choice between writing creatively, persuasively or discursively in response; Tijana opted for the third.
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Tijana → give → third
“I saw that the question was trying to tell us that it’s about the journey, not the end result.”
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it → see → journey
She wrote about how awards and recognition were signs of success but the lessons and experiences a person had along the way could be the most rewarding.
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person → write → way
Bonnyrigg High English teacher Emmanuel Vazenios said he was confident most students at his school would have clocked it.
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students → say → it
“I think the majority of them would have figured out the metaphor,” he said.
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he → think → metaphor
Year 12 Julie Le also went for the discursive option.
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Le → go → option
“I wrote about like the erosion of intimate relationships in modern society as a result of digital communication,” she said.
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she → write → communication
The second HSC English exam runs for two hours, during which students must write two essays as well as the creative or discursive piece.
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students → run → essays
For Julie, the trickiest part of the exam was a question in the first section on “moral ambiguity” and how it pertained to the texts she had studied: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed.
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she → pertain → texts
“I didn’t really know how to adapt that question,” she said.
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she → know → question
But she found a way, discussing the moral ambiguities associated with gender identities in Shakespeare.
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she → find → Shakespeare
When English standard student Katherine Kurtz opened her paper, a question about how the relationship between “observations and feelings” was explored in the novel she’d studied – Feed by MT Anderson – did not have an immediately obvious answer.
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she → open → answer
“I was freaking out because I spent the entire time thinking about how I should make it relate,” she said.
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she → freak → time
The novel is set in a world where technology has just run rampant.
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technology → set → world
“It’s taking over human lives,” she said, “and it’s about this character who’s really absorbed in it, and he meets this girl who’s quite against it.”
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who → take → it
She got there in the end.
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She → get → end
“But it was a lot of trying to make sense of things that just didn’t make sense.”
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that → try → sense
For Christo Fathel, English was his hardest subject to study for, but he’s glad he did it.
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he → study → it
“HSC English is really important for going into the real world and communicating, giving ideas, sharing ideas,” he said.
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he → go → ideas
“It just taught me a bunch of things, including memorisation, critical thinking, analysis, all this stuff that is applicable to a future career.”
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that → teach → career
HSC exams run until November 5.
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exams → run → November
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