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 * Welcome to the Scholarship English wiki!**


 * SOME STATISTICS**


 * In 2009, 13,227 students in NZ sat the Scholarship English exam. 330 students received Scholarship pass (S) with scores of 14-19 out of 24. 52 students (2.89% of entrants) received Outstanding Performance passes (O) with a score of 20 or higher. The rest scored 0-13 and receive no award.**

[|Click here for annotated exam answers from 2004]

Section B question: "The slightest story ought to contain the facts about money and blood in order to be interesting" How are money and/or blood used to maintain interest in a novel you have studied?

Section B question for FILM genre Discuss the importance of ONE of the following in a feature film you have studied:


 * music
 * cinematography and lighting
 * special effects

Section C questions Literature converts ordinary experience into art OR

To what extent can the work of a range of writers and/or film-makers you have experienced be considered daring and/or dangerous?

This is YOUR resource - so make sure you add to it and take part in the discussions! It is important that you READ widely as part of your preparation for this exam - short stories, poetry, newspaper and magazine articles, reviews, travel writing, novels... You are expected to demonstrate **wide knowledge**, **wide reading** and an appreciation of **intertextuality** (how different texts relate or link to one another).

Section A: Close Reading of Unfamiliar Texts (800 words) Section B: Response to Literature and Language (800 words) Section C: Range of texts (800 words)

[|Past exam papers] (from NZQA site - just click on the English subject link. You'll find papers for any other subjects here too).

[|How Scholarship works] (from NZQA) [|Scholarship questions and answers] (from NZQA) [|Exam timetable 2009] (all your subjects will be listed here) [|Revision tips] from S-Cool [|New Zealand Listener] - great source of articles on current affairs and issues. Articles from here are often used in the exam! [|New Zealand poems] - an online anthology of modern New Zealand poets. [|New Zealand electronic poetry centre] - online anthology with a great range of poets (many of these have been used in the exam)
 * Useful links:**

Back to Scholarship English home page You must join the Ministry of Education wiki to see other helpful documents:

**http://literacy-english-esol.wikispaces.com/Scholarship+English**

Please also invite yourself to join the Karamu Scholarship English wiki as they have a really well established discussion board:

**http://karamuscholarshipenglish.wikispaces.com/**

Mrs Harris