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is 12 days enough to memorise 4 esays? (1 Viewer)

MrBrightside

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because you go to a school which creates tryhards and people who fail at life. HSC =/= life tbh, and I'd much rather learn essential skills than just maximise marks, because there'll come a point when there will be no marks, and you will be judge on your abilities, and that's where the men will be separated from the boys.
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all the fobs got 20/20 for a speaking task at my school lol made me angry. Couldnt even understand what they were saying
 

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yeahh there are very few genuinely intelligent kids at my school. Lots and lots of people who just study a lot and have good memory. Like myself for example I try super hard for not very good results
 
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to the op yes its easily achievable

also, ive been doing some practice questions recently, and as one who usually prepares generic essays, i've been noticing they're uselessness, since I pretty much change everything bar quotes/ techniques so my responses actually answer the question.

i reckon just practice essays, learn your quotes/ techniques well and have some general effect/ thesis statements prepared. the most important thing (imo) in english is answering the question, not merely fancy wording etc
 

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because you go to a school which creates tryhards and people who fail at life. HSC =/= life tbh, and I'd much rather learn essential skills than just maximise marks, because there'll come a point when there will be no marks, and you will be judge on your abilities, and that's where the men will be separated from the boys.
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I dunno I memorise and practise answering the random questions in timed conditions. It works for me and 50% of my cohort does it too.
 

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If it's english you're better off memorising relevant ideas/paragraph topics and relevant evidence for them than entire essays. Even memorising paragraphs. They are increasingly making the questions harder and harder to apply generic pre-prepared essays to. If you're intent on memorising whole essays you better have more than one up your belt for each module.
 

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Treat it like you would a science subject, right? You're not walking in word-for-word ready, nor are you walking in and just 'make it up.' You know, in Chemistry you learn a shitload of notes, content, even definitions. Then when you get asked a question, you answer that question with your knowledge.

I don't know about you, but when I respond to a 7 mark chemistry question, I'm thinking back to that list of dot points in my notes - not some prepared BS.

I employ the same principle with English - and I've never looked back
 

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Treat it like you would a science subject, right? You're not walking in word-for-word ready, nor are you walking in and just 'make it up.' You know, in Chemistry you learn a shitload of notes, content, even definitions. Then when you get asked a question, you answer that question with your knowledge.

I don't know about you, but when I respond to a 7 mark chemistry question, I'm thinking back to that list of dot points in my notes - not some prepared BS.

I employ the same principle with English - and I've never looked back
^ Yeah, that.
 

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