lol i want to swap brains with her too... she also got full marks on the practice english one. hence me studying lit with her tmrw. i do english as well, which is so much easier than lit. we have practice exams for every subject, to see where we're sitting, i guess.
i do okay on Antigone but terribly on Donne or The White Earth. Books are a lot harder than plays or poetry i think.
whats VATE? was tht the melbourne lectures? my parents refused to let me go to those cos i live 4hrs away from Melbourne.
i got 6/20 for one. and 13/20 for another. tht was with no study. with study im guessing ill get 13-14 for both.
Nice scores for no study! It's hard to study for Lit because you don't know what to expect. I got full marks on a few of my Lear essays but sometimes I can do horribly on them if the passages suck. But my teacher's not an examiner and I suspect she's marking fairly easily...Yeah the VATE lectures were the ones at unimelb - I live about 2 hours away so I didn't have it as bad as you. They were good and bad, bad being one of the lecturers used some third year lecture notes from a Uni in the States as their notes (yay google) and another recycled the ones she used last year (which I had already gotten from a friend =p) But they were good for saying what you had to do and what you shouldn't do, I'm glad I don't do English because I'd get waaay too confused between the different styles.
lol considering my friend did no study and got full marks... maybe i shud hire a hit on her lol. its not like studying the actual texts tht im bad at, its more knowing how to analyse them. we did NO practices before the practice exam and to sit down and see 3 passages with the word "discuss" above them was FAIRLY daunting. im like 'discuss....what?' so that was fairly annoying. what was funny tho was looking around at everyone doing the prac in our school gym and everyone had the exact same look on their face, that being 'huuuuuuuh?' so that was kinda comforting XD
my teacher marks REALLY harshly and we have a theory tht he is in love with my friend cos no WAY did one of hers deserve full marks, she had maybe 4 quotes and they didnt relate to her point attt alllll.
english is so much easier. like, a million times easier. all u need really is to express urself coherently, and have a good knowledge of the text and bam! tht right there is 7/10 for an essay. doing english has helped with lit kinda.
shiiite still procrastinating...