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Speaker 1: Job Mission with Jones and Amanda Day one of the

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Speaker 1: HC yesterday, More exams today. Funnily enough, in case you're

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Speaker 1: listening to this and you're doing the HC and you

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Speaker 1: think I've got to do it again, That's what I'd

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Speaker 1: be like. I had a crack at it yesterday, the

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Speaker 1: English exam from from last year. Yeah, I looked through

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Speaker 1: part of it and I couldn't even see where the

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Speaker 1: question was. This is something about the castle, But what

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Speaker 1: was the question that we couldn't find the question? Do

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Speaker 1: you know one day this radio show might be the

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Speaker 1: subject of an HSC examination question. It's interesting you say

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Speaker 1: that because there was a novel yesterday Ocean Wong, who

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Speaker 1: was a Vietnamese American poet, and he has a book

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Speaker 1: on earthwhere briefly Gorgeous. This was an excerpt of that

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Speaker 1: was part of the HSC yesterday YEP and Year twelve students,

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Speaker 1: some of them were perplexed. This critically acclaimed novel, about

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Speaker 1: a young Vietnamese boy named Little Dog Growing Up in America,

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Speaker 1: features a nonlinear plot, expressive language, symbolism, and abstract ideas.

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Speaker 1: So the excerpt students had one lies a scene where

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Speaker 1: the protagonist is plucking gray hairs from his crazy, wise

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Speaker 1: grandmother as she tells him stories about the Vietnam of

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Speaker 1: the past. Unlike the old days, these days students could

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Speaker 1: get in touch with this author after the exam. Here's

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Speaker 1: this guy mining his own business in America and he's

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Speaker 1: bombarded with questions from HSC students in Australia. Imagine that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: one of them was your text. You are text so

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Speaker 1: he knows well the education systems alive and well, your

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Speaker 1: text was something we had to write about in our

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Speaker 1: major exams. But bro, what the f was it about?

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Speaker 1: One student messaged him. Another said, those exams determine our

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Speaker 1: entry into university. WTF what was your text about? He

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Speaker 1: took the questions, apparently in good humor. He said, hmm

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Speaker 1: about this, I too am haunted by it. Sorry, lad,

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Speaker 1: What the hell is an HSC exam? And why y'all

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Speaker 1: failing at so you know it's it's a different world.

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Speaker 1: If I could have contacted Jered Manley Hopkins and said,

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Speaker 1: dapper Dawn drawn, what the f t s Eliot, what

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Speaker 1: the hell are you talking about? Life might have been

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Speaker 1: a bit easier. He Shakespeare, what's with this? What's merchant?

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Speaker 1: Of venison, he's pound of flesh. Oh give me a break.

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Speaker 1: So if in the future, if you're right, this may

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Speaker 1: be the subject of an HSC exam, we'll get calls

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Speaker 1: from people. What did it mean when Amanda said go

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Speaker 1: and root your boot? The symbolism was haunting. I cried

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Speaker 1: for days. It's seven today in this paper, number two.

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Speaker 1: I think there's also some music ones today, it's a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of other stuff. Good luck whatever you're doing.

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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's