‘Clock is ticking’: Students reveal hardest part of QCE English exam
From Lady Macbeth to forgetting quotes and the initial planning stage, here are the components to the QCE English external exam that our Year 12s struggled with the most.
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From Lady Macbeth to forgetting quotes and the initial planning stage, here are the components to the QCE English external exam that our Year 12s struggled with the most.
Nearly 27,000 Queensland Year 12 students from more than 450 schools were expected to sit the English external exam on Monday morning, the highest participated subject.
English was also the first exam off the rank for tens of thousands of school leavers today, many of whom will be hitting the books over the next three weeks.
It marks the latest chapter following 12 years of schooling.
Marist College Ashgrove students were quizzed on what part of the exam they found to be the most challenging, here is what they had to say.
Tom Mitchell
“It was an essay-style exam, so we got to pick between one of the two questions. I went with Lady Macbeth and how she is portrayed.
“I have an economics exam tomorrow and three more after that. It’s been good with study so far but as they get closer together it’s hard but going well.”
Tobias Graham
“I found the most challenging part was just the planning at the beginning. I feel I’m a good writer when I get into the flow of things but the start was hard to understand the concept of the question and what to write for it.”
Will Ford
“Just memorising the quotes. One of the hard ones was Fair is foul and foul is fair from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. That was something I struggled with.”
Jack Haddad
“Just choosing the question to answer. I went with option B being Lady Macbeth.”
Hunter James
“The planning stage, just getting the three points down. There is a clock ticking in front of you which makes it tricky.”
Cooper Price
“Remembering the quotes. There were some I missed out. Un-sex me here, in Macbeth. I felt that was an easy one I just missed out on.
“I just have maths exam left. I’m not doing an ATAR because I am going straight into carpentry but I still wanted to stay on top of general maths and English.”
Leo Copeman-Hill
“Just remembering all the quotes was tricky but I think I had enough to do pretty well.”
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