How students think they fared in QCE’s largest exam
“I know one person who chose the second question,” Gjerek said.
Melissa Robertson, the school’s head of pathways and performance, said the noticeable difference compared to last year’s external English exams was an extra day’s buffer.
Questions were asked to 12th grade English students about Macbeth, the text most chosen by schools.Credit: QCAA
“English was the first session of the first morning since the birth of the new system, and it has some problems when you’re just trying to get going. [of things]” said Robertson.
“It was really lucky to get it done on day two this year because with the power outages in Brisbane… we had a little bit more time to sort out any issues that were going to occur.”
While Gap State High remains strong, half a dozen schools were closed in Brisbane’s west on Monday, affecting students studying design, music and accounting.
Text features in external year 12 exams
All the Lights We Can’t See By Anthony Doerr
Funeral Ceremonies By Hannah Kent
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Never let Me Go By Kazuo Ishiguro
hotello by William Shakespeare
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Dry By Jane Harper
Yield By Tara June Winch
The Ministry of Education said 149 students from Centenary, Kenmore and Indooroopilly State High Schools were taken to Corinda State High School to take exams on Monday.
Centenary State High School praised its 36 traveling students in a statement posted online that afternoon.
“They are our group who started high school in the middle of COVID-19, and now they are our group who finished their school with a minor disruption in their external exams,” the statement said.
“What this group continues to show us year after year is how incredibly resilient they are.”
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Four private schools – Brigidine College, St Peter’s Lutheran College, Stuartholme School and Ambrose Treacy College – were also left without power and had to cancel exams outright.
A spokesman for Brigidine College said the school first made an ill-fated application for its students on Monday before being notified that the exam would not be rescheduled.
Brigidine preferred that students take their English exams on Tuesday, even though the electricity was out until Wednesday.
Brigidine’s spokesman said: “We expressed our gratitude to parents for their patience and support, especially our Year 12 group who have adapted quickly to the changes in exam regulations.”
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