I wasn't too happy with the Business paper. The multiple choice wasn't as easy as 2008 and there were quite a few which threw me off and required more thinking. For example question 9:
A business makes unauthorised copies of foreign movies and sells them at the RRP of the original product. Which of the following describes this practice?
a) Sugging consumers
b) Dumping illegal products
c) Violating intellectual property rights
d) Engaging in resale price maintenance
I know it's definitely not A or D, but what threw me off was C was the most correct option, but it's not a syllabus term! :| Also more than ever, they put more questions on the yucky stuff and by that I mean ethical, social, legal crap. A business student's worst nightmare! The short answer questions also weren't that pleasant and oh god, question 26 was such a killer for me! I managed to answer two components to the question, but I don't know what I was thinking when I didn't even write about standardization and differentiation! I am totally kicking myself right now :( Lastly, I picked question 28 because I knew more about the market research process than the financial planning cycle and also I really didn't want to write about the type of customers (I also didn't have case studies for those). I spent heaps of time on this question and I'm hoping I didn't do so bad here!
English Paper 1
In my reading time I skimmed through the questions and the paper totally screwed me over. The stimulus for the creative writing did not link to my story and the stimulus for the essay also did not make links with my prepared essay. I also thought both stimulus's were quite narrow and I didn't know what to do when they told me to only write with one self-selected!! I prepared two and now I only needed one?! I also hate the fact that there are people out there who only prepared one and have gotten away with it. Argh I'm not gonna be happy if Module C is the same! Anyway I went into damage control mode, added an extra paragraph to my CW to link it to the stimulus, replaced parts of my essay which linked to 'rewarding' to 'understanding' and ended up cutting out one self-selected. It's so funny because I made random links that didn't make sense, for example:
Raimond uses imagery of his father's arm enclosing him to show a sense of protection. In addition, he uses the repetition of 'I remember' to emphasize on the extent of detail in which he is able to recollect. This shows how there is a sense of understanding between Raimond and his father, which fostered Raimond's sense of belonging.
Does it really Rita? Does it really show a 'sense of understanding'?! Also, the reading and responding was my downfall. Haha I suck at R&R so much already and the texts just didn't make it easy for me. I am now dreading paper 2!
PS. I hope everyone else went alot better than I did :)
