Our Ext. and Adv. English teacher tried to make us to about 500 before our various English exams. The operative word being "tried". We put about as much effort into them as you would have into cleaning toilets. So yeah...
Heh.. it was pretty funny, cause we have like 4 different english teachers for our grade (we rotate each class through them) and they vary in their teaching styles, and this one teacher asked a bunch of us the day before the english exam (!) to see our practice essays. Yeah.... lol we kinda just evaded the question and walked away slowly.
I can't really be bothered doing practice essays for english- I find it's not all that difficult to expand two or three main ideas into an essay once I've seen the question. Especially when you've remembered a page long quote
sometimes when i wanna practice essay, i will write a very good introduction, but half way thru,i will think "mann that is a waste of time, how do i know it is gonna be the topic??".. so i juz stop there and bludged
im trying to write one now, for ext eng tomorrow. thing is, i dont see how im gonna fit everything into an hour long essay, plus i know like no quotes at the moment...hmmm probably shoulda studied a little more before today :s
im planning in year 12 to do past modules after every term, i.e. when i finish learning journeys i do a past hsc AoS~~ etc.. instead of like doing it at the end