I personally thought the questions on FrankieBlade, Hamlet, and the 50th Gate were fairly reasonable. I was surprised by how many people thought the Hamlet question was ridiculous. I thought it was pretty generic.
It isn't the be all or end all if you do not get into Medicine this year, you can always transfer or do postgrad. Just keep working hard and you'll get there eventually.
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Obviously if you got the highest raw mark possible you would go pretty well. There's definitely still enough assessments left for you to boost your ranks. Probably not to top 5 for English sadly. It all depends how far away you are from everyone else in each subject.
Do you know how...
I can only do BR/Fraankenstein sorry.
I could read the others and look at grammar/structure but I can't help with your content. I don't think I'd be able to get it back to you today sorry.
If you want. What topics are they though? Maybe find someone else to do it too?
It's still possible. You need to get very high marks though and smash externals. Just keep on practising.
I understand that it can be a problem. But I don't think it would be significant enough to take you from 40th to first. Doesn't your school use one teacher to mark each assessment to help eliminate that problem.
If you are seriously concerned about this, take your essays to another teacher to...