English essay marking
Every essay, marked twice.
Write for Section A, B or C of the VCE English exam. Each essay is marked twice, independently, against VCAA’s criteria.
Writing for parents anxious about the cost of the new pool, Mayor Lin opens with a memory of learning to swim at the old baths. This makes the reader feel nostalgic.1 By then turning to the ‘crumbling’ tiles and ‘rusted’ rails, she recasts that nostalgia as a responsibility2, inviting readers to see the upgrade as a debt owed to the next generation.
1To fix
Claimed effect
This names a feeling without showing how the language creates it or why it matters to these readers. Assessors see claims like this in the middle of the range.
Her memory of ‘shivering’ through Saturday lessons invites older parents to recall their own childhoods, so the pool becomes a shared inheritance rather than a council expense.
2What works
Shows the shift
Explains how the writer turns one feeling into another, rather than naming a single effect.
Choose a section.
- Section A
Analytical response
An analytical essay on a text you’re studying, from the Text List 1 or any other, in response to one topic.Start - Section B
Creating a text
Your own text from one Framework of Ideas, using its title and at least one piece of stimulus.Start - Section C
Argument and language
An analysis of how an unseen persuasive text uses argument, language and visuals to persuade its audience.Start
Write timed, untimed, or paste an essay you’ve already written.
What comes back.
20marks
Two markings out of 10, added together; a third settles any gap of more than one mark. Then the letter grade and study score your mark points to.
Every criterion
The band you reach on each of VCAA’s criteria, with overall feedback, what works and areas to improve.
Highlighted passages
An assessor’s comment and a stronger way to write each one, plus the weakness that would lift your mark most.
Progress
Your marks over time, and redrafts marked against the first attempt.
Questions in the exam’s style
Write your own, or have one written for you.
- Topics on Text List 1
- Any other text, such as a Year 11 text
- Framework titles and stimulus
- Material to analyse
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