How many quotes would you recommend to memeorise for each of sections A and B? Should I memorise a quote for each theme?
And what make would I need to get a 36? A 7/10 for each essay or...?
Really up to you and what you feel comfortable with, I'd have a few quotes for each theme and a handful of quotes you could use for anything
Having short (even 2 or 3 word) quotes up your sleeve is great and because they're short you can remember more!
You'll surprise yourself by how many quotes you remember when you're in the exam.
Not sure about scores, it would depend on how you went in SACs as well. I got A and A+ for GA1 & GA2 respectively, got 51/60 (8s and 9s) in the exam and got a 41. My advice would be, just aim to smash it out of the park in the exam and not worry yourself with scores
Hi, for comparative should you make comparisons between texts throughout the paragraph? and take a similar approach to comparative language analysis?
I usually structure my paras by talking about one text then i have a transitional comparative statemnt and start talking about the next text, but should i include more comparison throughout???
I can't comment on the comparative, but for language analysis - I don't think you're *actually* required to compare. My school and a lot of other schools have taught it this way though, and I think the idea is that it helps you understand the effect of language on the reader - and being able to show how the language impacts the reader differently from text to text probably reflects well on your language analysis skills. Just my thoughts, though.
I think I ended up putting in the analysis of the second text at the bottom of my paragraph analysing the first text, and combined my analysis so that I didn't have heaps of separate little paragraphs. It wasn't *that* much of a comparison, though, I just chucked in a few howevers, maybe compared different effects a bit, but your main aim is analysing the texts and the effect on the reader, not comparing the texts.
What you described about talking about one text, then having a transitional statement or two, and then launching into analysing the second text seems absolutely fine to me. You could also completely separate them, if you wanted to. I always preferred a similar method to the one you described, but it's horses for courses, really.
My advice would be don't change your structure dramatically given it's so close to the exam - stick to your guns!
Hey guys, does anyone know if we'll be marked down if we don't have a conclusion for Section C? I've heard some people say that's it's not that important... so could someone please confirm this? Thx 
Nah, shouldn't really affect you at all. It's better to have complete body paragraphs and no conclusion rather than incomplete body paragraphs and a full conclusion. I'd recommend even just chucking a short one in (only has to be a few sentences - I think mine was maybe 2 or 3 and written in about 30 seconds haha) for completeness, but definitely not the end of the world if you don't have one.
Ideally you’d want more than one transitional comparative statement. So you should include more comparison throughout, cause comparison is a major criteria.
Is it, though? I think there was a debate on this somewhere in this board.
Here's the criteria from the 2017 sample exam:
Section C will be assessed against the following criteria:
• understanding of the argument(s) presented and point(s) of view expressed
• analysis of ways in which language and visual features are used to present an argument and to
persuade
• control and effectiveness of language use, as appropriate to the task
Anyone have a simple, easy acronym for language analysis structure? Like what to include in the intro and how to lay out each body paragraph?
I personally used ITAPTACTV for my intro, and just sort of went with the flow for my body paras. I know some people use "Support, Condemn, Do" and others use "People, Groups, Things" to order paragraphs, but I always just sort of analysed things that fit together or complemented each other in my body paras.
My general structure for each bit of analysis was
- the quote/strategy
- explain it - what's the author doing in this?
- what's the effect on the reader? what does it make them think/feel/do? how and why does it make them support or agree with the author?
You are only able to write about one text for Section B on the English exam. You can't write about both on the exam.
Actually, Section B is the comparative section - so they do need to compare texts. Section A is where you only write about one text - it's the traditional text response.
Assuming that manisha99 is asking about Section A, will provide an answer in the next post.
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