English essays for HSC (1 Viewer)

[elizabethy]

Should we memorize our sample essays for each module to get good marks?
because most of the students who get abvoe 85% in HSC seem to learn their essays ?

ne suggestions

 

[Eagles]

Memorising prepared essays, is a bad idea in general.

Now don't get me wrong, by all means, prepare an essay; but not on a single question.

e.g if preparing for King Lear, make PARAGRAPHS for critics, productions, and interpretations, etc.

In the actual exam, you choose those paragraphs is most revelent to the question and use them.


P.S. Aren't you in uni now?(sig) why do you care about this?

 

[silvermoon]

definately dont memorise an essay - if u do, more often than not you fall in2 the trap of not quite answering the question they ask. much better 2 do as Eagles suggested and just learn ur material - learn ur critics, readings etc. and practice doing lots of essays so ur good at linking all the ideas 2gether quickly in2 a cohesive text.

 

[glitterfairy]

Don't memorise... otherwise you might write a brilliant essay... that doesn't answer the question!

What you want to do is to actually LEARN your subject. Memorising essays is only learning by rote (repetition). What is your text about? what is it trying to say, and how?

The more you actually KNOW what you're talking about, the better you'll become at expressing what you're trying to say in an essay. Now, I tried to crash-memorise my way through my Eng Adv HSC Trials because I'd been working all week on my Textiles Major work. As I didn't answer the question, I got about 68% (BAD!) However, in Eng Ext 1, where I actually KNEW what I was talking about (hence didn't have to memorise anything, I literally just read over my notes for a couple of hours and walked into the exam room), I got 100%. Go figure. (As you can see, I'm extremely inconsistent).

 

[dark`secrets]

some people who memorized their essays for paper 1 or something actually failed.
although you might have parts which is related to the question, the bulk of it might not.

it is more important to answer the question and related back to it than remember sample essays that may have a different question/format.