mrstripedshades
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Yea. I do think I can memorise them still, like I have time and most of them should already be in my memory a little by little as I kind of unintentionally memorised for the trials. I never intended to memorise essays but they fit the questions well.I am going into English with 4 essays that are very narrowly focused - I don't know what "narrowly focused" means to you all but what I'm talking about is that I have all my points polished and ready.
I think people who fail to get high marks, even with memorising essays, don't do well is not because they memorised a narrow essay, but because they lack skill in changing/adapting their essay to the question. In my trials, especially for AOS, I was completely thrown off by the question on "pleasure and excitement" (now people who studied Frank Hurley knows that, that documentary is some boring assessment of the validity of his photographs and what not, and 99% doesn't look at pleasure & excitement), and still adapted by adding a few extra words here and there, and still wrecked everyone in English.
Memorise if it works for you and you know you have the skill to adapt. (Otherwise do whatever everyone else who doesn't memorise does)
By the way, I did memorise 3 essays before Paper 2 the night before, it can be done - so if you start now, you'll be in a pretty good position
For discovery however, I'm pretty confident for The Tempest and almost every essay I wrote on it has a different second paragraph with different set of techniques. Its kind of a waste because i remember so many more techniques then I use but I guess it doesnt really hurt.
Lmao. Yea, I completely agree in regards to the sentence structure as well as just making sense in your argument and not writing incoherent arguments. I dont think my essay was that narrow though and she in fact wrote that it was too vague. Reason I lost marks in BNW in trials was also because the first para was a bit vague, hopefully trying to improve that. Going to get a 3rd perspective on the essay tho and hopefully its good.Anyways - who cares. If you go into the HSC with a memorized essay that is narrow you're only setting yourself up for poor marks. Ofc teachers will be opposed to memorization (cept some schools encourage it) and you just have to deal with it. But personally, I feel a generalised essay is good as you can adapt the links to the question usually and you have a good sentence structure as a safety net.
also as opposed to other subjects where most people claim that HSC is easier than trials its pretty much 1-1 for English I guess, just a somewhat neg observation lmao