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VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE English & EAL => Topic started by: ji-coco on October 16, 2015, 06:40:51 pm
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I like writing creative pieces, I find it non-constraining as well as a meansof self expression but I come from a school where the teachers aren't exactly supportive of me doing a creative and all the other students (and I mean ALL) write expository. I'm scared to write a creative in the exam because apparently it's either black or white, in other words extremely risky, and so now I don't know what to do. For those who wrote a creative in the exam, what made you decide on doing it? Weren't you afraid of the 'risk' of getting a low mark because of its subjectivity?
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Imaginative can go down really well on the exam - it can show flair and original thinking. You're right re the 'risk' factor, but a lot of the time I approach it as a trade-off: you can write something that is probably fairly safely in the middle range (but hard to ace), or you can do something that has a better chance of getting a high score... albeit a bigger chance of getting a low score, too. There's no hard-and-fast answer that anyone can give you; you just make your choice, back it and see.
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I think the main risk in writing Creative is to not be caught up in story-telling but to get down to the key ideas surrounding your context. By far, Creative gives you the freedom to explore things in detail allowing you for a greater range as meganrobyn has pointed out but so long as you don't fall into that trap I think you'll be fine :)
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I think the main risk in writing Creative is to not be caught up in story-telling but to get down to the key ideas surrounding your context. By far, Creative gives you the freedom to explore things in detail allowing you for a greater range as meganrobyn has pointed out but so long as you don't fall into that trap I think you'll be fine :)
I agree - the more literal, 'plot-based' stories don't tend to do as well.