Hello!
I just have a quick question
I am doing E1 and my elective is Science Fiction. How likely is it that they will prescribe? Just because I am only discussing 2 of the texts, and I was wondering if they have ever prescribed before?
Thanks
Hi!
I'm not sure how much help I'll be as my elective is Romanticism but my teacher always just gave us general advice (both for advanced and E1) that we shouldn't predict the hsc and should know out texts enough that we could write about all of them just in case there was ever a time when they did specify prescribed texts. Maybe have a bit of a plan for the other texts and see what you can carry across from the texts you have prepared already? My teacher requested us to put all our texts into a table (text, example, technique, explanation, critic).
In saying that, looking at past papers for E1 I've never seen a question where they specify texts so I doubt they would (and definitely hope so too). On that note, obviously your studies would have been different to mine but I studied a collection of poems and am only writing about 2 poems from those (which counts as 1 prescribed text) and about a novel, Frankenstein, and then my 2 related texts (1st is an artwork and 2nd is another poem) and am going in with all of those prepared as I have done all year. It would be unfair if they did, you have to find related texts that work with both the prescribed texts you've chosen and the study area, and they also don't know which texts you studied! So I'd say it's unlikely...
Sorry if that wasn't much help!