4 Essays?

[dermite]

Hi, as we all (yr12s) have trials coming up,
is it better to memorise all 4 essays (for paper 1 + 2) or is another method better?
If memorising isnt the way to go, please suggest alternative methods.

[Mada438]

Hi, as we all (yr12s) have trials coming up,
is it better to memorise all 4 essays (for paper 1 + 2) or is another method better?
If memorising isnt the way to go, please suggest alternative methods.

Memorising 4 essays sounds quite daunting...
I'd say memorise Thesis statements, concepts, quotes and analysis for all of them.
That way you have the backbone of your essay and you have the freedom to work with the question.
Thats what i'm doing 

[Lumenoria]

Jesus christ, I'm not even gonna bother. I'm just going to have a bank of ideas/themes and make up my thesis on the spot according to the question. The question, especially for the modules, at my school tend to be so specific that memorising would be rendered impotent. Different questions requires differing levels of nuance to respond to effectively, so yeah I would just prepare by writing out mountains of practice essays at home. Naturally, doing this will compel you to remember the most important aspects anyway, whilst enabling you to tackle different kinds of questions rather than just heavily committing to the one. I'm only going to memorise my creative (because it's awfully difficult to come up with one on the spot whilst other people are bringing in theirs of 1 years' worth of refinement), but I feel like this isn't necessary for the essays. You can 100% get a good mark without trying to memorise anything verbatim. If you know your texts well enough and are prepared to tackle a multiplicity of questions, you should be able to quote from any part of the text accordingly.

[dermite]

how would you remember the relation between quotes and techniques?
do you build a table or do you use another method?

[KT Nyunt]

how would you remember the relation between quotes and techniques?
do you build a table or do you use another method?

Hey!
A good way to collate all your ideas and practice drawing quotes and techniques from memory for certain essay questions is by doing essay plans. This is much faster than writing full length essays, as well as preparing an essay and learning it and this is also a quick way to expose you to multiple essay questions so you're prepared for whatever question nesa throws at you. Also, I often make essay plans and then pick a plan and use that as a scaffold for a practice full length essay. I posted my essay plan template here if you wanna try it out

Hope this helps