Memorising Context Pieces

[chief]

What do you guys make of memorising pieces?

If i have a few pieces that are very varied in approach and could fit just about any prompt, would it be a good stategy to just memorise them?

Thanks

[almostatrap]

This is kind of what I'm doing, only im memorizing lots of paragraphs. Like blocks to construct essays from. If you have essays memorized you can mix and match phrases and paragraphs to suit the prompt.

Of course you cant expect high marks from this approach, unless you get lucky and the actual prompt is perfect. I recommending not trying to memories essays verbatim, but it cant hurt to have lots of writing in your head to draw upon.

[kendraaaaa]

I've been to a couple of English lectures and pretty much all of the presenters say they can pick up 'pre-packaged' responses and these would inevitably be marked down. Your piece has to be 100% relevant to the prompt, and if you spew up something you wrote in a SAC or a practice essay it most likely will not be relevant.

[derivativex]

I've been to a couple of English lectures and pretty much all of the presenters say they can pick up 'pre-packaged' responses and these would inevitably be marked down. Your piece has to be 100% relevant to the prompt, and if you spew up something you wrote in a SAC or a practice essay it most likely will not be relevant.

I knew you went to VATE, what other one?