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I would suggest that you take a few past questions and practise writing essays for them under the same timed conditions. The first one you do will probably be absolutely shit. But that will highlight best to you where your issues are. For example, you may be doing really well with your points...

I think you have a mediocre strategy, but you are using it well. I never memorised anything apart from quotes and techniques, but I found that after innumerable practice questions I tended to be using the same points, same examples on quite a regular basis. This wasn't an issue, more that after...

I thought Tech was semi-selective or similar? Guy who topped Music 2 in my year went there. WRT the main discussion, employers typically want someone who (in order of preference): 1. Can get the job done without hand-holding 2. Won't bitch and moan 3. Is able to pick up new things quickly 4...

@strawberrye I've gone out of fashion

#humblebrag By the end of your introduction, the examiner is typically about 80% sure of the score they're going to give you. Sure, that score may go up or down a couple of points as they read your essay, but the introduction already indicates the mainstay of what they need to know: are you...

I'm no rookie. I'm sure you know my opinion of memorised creatives so I won't go there. When you split the reading paper/short answer into two sections - quick wins (1-3 marks) and longer response (4+ marks) - you solve all those issues associated with wasting too much time, compromising your...

Short answer, up to the first question which is 4 marks or more (i.e. requiring actual in-depth response). Switch to essay. Complete essay. Switch back to short answer. Now that you've done your essay, the "big" chunk of text-writing is out of the way; and your mind is already warmed into an...

You're probably the first person I've seen to ask rather than assume. Because of that, I would be very happy to take a look at some of the stuff you've written and provide a few comments/idea of scores. Like buriza, I'm no professional teacher but I do have some experience with what flies and...

In addition, there are an awful lot of people who simply assume that said BOS'ers have the time and inclination to spend hours looking at their work, without asking first whether they'd actually be happy to do so. It's really not helping your case if you simply message someone out of the blue...

In both, I would really emphasise defining what you mean by belonging. This will then influence what theses and points you develop to answer each question (in some ways, this is itself the "answer" to the second question). E.g. "feeling like you're part of a wider community" can result in very...

I'm pretty sure this is Metamorphoses: 21st Century Redux I wrote a story about a mythical birthday-cake on a mountain for my trials and got a 20. It all depends on your stimulus material on the day, so you're best off practising with different ideas and just writing a lot. As well as...

I (and probably a few of the other commentators) get a real sense of deja vu here. The ideal length of a Band 6 essay is "as long as you need to prove your points". I wrote half of what anyone else in my cohort wrote and consistently beat or equalled all of them. That's 18's and 19's against...

Is there an epidemic of laziness in the HSC these days? There is seriously no point memorising creatives. Why? Imagine that you're in ancient Egypt, and you have to get past a Sphinx which is going to ask you a question - any question. If you don't answer correctly, you DIE. Painfully, with...

in Western Sydney. If you wrote it as a long-form feature article, I reckon it'd sound disturbingly legit.

Why don't you have a little kid daydreaming in class about being a soldier going to battle? @AbsoluteZero Winter is coming

Some of you may have already seen me on BoS over the past few months (including for this AMA. In 2008, I ended up with a UAI of100.00 against all odds. I attribute this to a fair bit of luck and a lot of smart revision - particularly in my English studies, where I went from an Advanced ranking...

I actually think he's into you. But feels like you're pushing him away even if you haven't been, explicitly. There's nothing wrong with you. You may want to read this. It made me realise a lot of things which had perplexed me about my behaviour in the past. Don't change for other people, only...

Then you can party with her while your comrade betas suffer.

Also did this. Additionally, doing so means that you can pick the more "apt" text for the question if you're only required to have one. The more options, the better. For my finals, I actually had 3 supplementary texts for each module - 2 primary ones, and 1 secondary one just in case (the...

3 points, one point per paragraph. One text per paragraph. If you can adroitly combine texts in a single paragraph, go right ahead - but 95% of the time, your analysis will end up confused and murky, and the examiner will give up and just give you an average/less-than-mediocre score because...