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haha i do the three with a line through it.takes me more time to write & compared to and
lol
haha i do the three with a line through it.takes me more time to write & compared to and
lol
Well, for the last two English essays did you come into the test with a pre-prepared essay? If you do, and have practiced it and know the content well enough, there is really know way that your essay will be short. Pre-preparing is so helpful, and everyone should definitely practice writing it out a few times, under exam conditions, so that they have a general idea of how long it is and how long it will take. It's the single most valuable thing I've learnt from the HSC thus far.i can disrespect english because i can't write fast cause i have a horrible pencil grip but i can't change it now. i also have small writing which makes it look like less. my writing gets slower if i try to make it big.
essays are hard too. i can't express myself well.
obviously, nois there any way which is the 'best' way to approach essay writing/writing anything in english in general?
true story, this guy state ranked for eng adv if i'm not mistakenwrite your mobile number for the examiners.
how can you pre prepare if you don't know the question?Well, for the last two English essays did you come into the test with a pre-prepared essay? If you do, and have practiced it and know the content well enough, there is really know way that your essay will be short. Pre-preparing is so helpful, and everyone should definitely practice writing it out a few times, under exam conditions, so that they have a general idea of how long it is and how long it will take. It's the single most valuable thing I've learnt from the HSC thus far.
And as for the expressing yourself part, pre-preparing will obviously help, but only to an extent. The rest will come from enough experience.
Also, forgive me if I sound pretentious, because I am really not brilliant at English, and I'm far from mastering the essay.
This guy in my grade forgot his student number so he wrote his mobile number on his exam paper in Maths. Also I'm pretty sure back in Year 7/8/9/10 you were taught at least soemthing on how to structure a paragraph, how link paragraphs and eventually how to structure an essay. I'm pretty sure I was. But then again i consider anything below 18/20 to be a shit mark, so I'm different.true story, this guy state ranked for eng adv if i'm not mistaken
It's harder, but definitely not impossible like some people think. We knew the half yearly was on belonging, and we knew there'd be an essay at the end. All I needed to do was to learn my belonging speech (from term 4), which has all the main points for an essay in it, and be able to adapt that speech to suit the individual essay question. The questions are usually very general, and don't often bend too far from the standard "Explain the importance of a sense of belonging" type essay question. The one we got made it easy for me to regurgitate my speech, and although I only got 11/15, it definitely helped my mark by preparing this way.how can you pre prepare if you don't know the question?
for the one where we got the question, yeah.
haha, you're forgiven cause you're so cool =]].
i got 31st for my speech, so it was awesome [obviously =pp], but i find it really hard to rote learn. i remember chunks, but not some bits, and i suck at it basically.It's harder, but definitely not impossible like some people think. We knew the half yearly was on belonging, and we knew there'd be an essay at the end. All I needed to do was to learn my belonging speech (from term 4), which has all the main points for an essay in it, and be able to adapt that speech to suit the individual essay question. The questions are usually very general, and don't often bend too far from the standard "Explain the importance of a sense of belonging" type essay question. The one we got made it easy for me to regurgitate my speech, and although I only got 11/15, it definitely helped my mark by preparing this way.
I think rote learning is just reading straight off the page, right?i got 31st for my speech, so it was awesome [obviously =pp], but i find it really hard to rote learn. i remember chunks, but not some bits, and i suck at it basically.
nah, rote learning is just memorising a bunch of stuff. i don't deal well with it. which isn't good cause the hsc is basically memory, but i work better when i understand stuff. i'll never understand this english shit, so i try to memorise stuff but then i find it hard to apply.I think rote learning is just reading straight off the page, right?
Anyway, if you don't like that method, just read your speech/essay/notes to yourself, and basically try to remember (if you're planning to write an essay);
1. The main points for the topic
2. Quotes and techniques to support said points with
3. A topic sentence and "concluding sentence" (for the start and end of each paragraph/point), if necessary
It's important to remember at least 1 and 2, as the other stuff can be made up on the spot. It's as simple as that. Learning how un-complicated an essay actually is helped un-daunt English exams for me (if that makes any sense), and then after few essays I got the hang of them, and after half a dozen more I started to write better (well, I like to think I did); with flashier language and more sophisticated responses.
Again --> * I am =/= perfect * and I hope I helped someone.
yeha i know, i suck at rote learning tooi got 31st for my speech, so it was awesome [obviously =pp], but i find it really hard to rote learn. i remember chunks, but not some bits, and i suck at it basically.
hah thats a flaw in the systemtrue story, this guy state ranked for eng adv if i'm not mistaken
almost wish that wasnt trueIn english the way to capture a marker's attention is to write with flair and flow, your information is secondary to how you actually write the essay.
Teachers have some strange propensity to not educate students how to confidently and skilfully comprehend to essays, I guess they expect us to already have sufficient knowledge to do so? Ironically, they dumb the criteria down, the dumb everything down to suit those in lower classes. I'm in Year 10, and I know the feeling of hating essays and especially English, because that was me once. My tutor always noted to:is there any way which is the 'best' way to approach essay writing/writing anything in english in general?