Trial Feedbackfrom analysis to action plan

Be realistic• What you can’t do:

– Change the past, retake the Trial HSC exam, redo Cap As, change your internal mark or rank

• What you can do:– Analyse your Trial (and Cap A) feedback

– Identify your strengths and weaknesses

– Create an action plan

– Help your cohort and work together to…

– Pwn the HSC

Types of Feedback• Feedback can be positive or

negative

• Negative feedback can be easier to analyse and use

• It’s just as important to analyse and respond to positive feedback

Where to start• Read the comments on your Trial papers

• IGNORE THE NUMBER AND LOOK AT THE WORDS

• Make a summary of the comments for each section

• Identify the different types of comments

• Are the comments similar for each section?

• Are there more comments of one type?

• Make a list or a table of your strengths and weaknesses

• Create an action plan

ContentComments

• Depth of ideas (positive)

• Depth of ideas (negative)

• Quotes (positive)

• Quotes (negative)

• Analysis of techniques(positive)

• Analysis of techniques (negative)

Action plan

• Share your ideas with the cohort

• Do some critical reading

• Keep revising

• Choose two or three strategies

• Help your friends!

• Recreate summaries

StyleComment

• Tone and register

• Clarity of expression

• Structure and flow

Action plan

• Negatives– Read your work aloud

– Learn some linking words

– Use simpler language

– Vary your sentence length and structure

– Ask others to read your work

– Analyse and annotate examples of Band 6 essays

SkillComments

•Answering the question!

Action plan

• Revise the rubric for each module, write it out in your own words

• Practise analysing different types of questions for content and direction

• Develop a variety of theses for each module, practise adapting

• Learn synonyms for key module words

• Write your own questions

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