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Minimum essay length
« on: November 07, 2011, 04:00:01 pm »
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For future students, 700-1400 should do you for!
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Re: Minimum essay length
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2011, 04:02:17 pm »
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Holy moly... I'm only writing about 1,000 on average.
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Re: Minimum essay length
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2011, 04:27:00 pm »
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Quote from: demongleekgazza on November 07, 2011, 04:21:06 pm
Do you generally write on all three passages?
Generally, yes. But I don't address everything in the passages, just the bits I find important/link with the other passages.
I reckon I'd run out of time! My 1,000 words usually take the whole hour! :S
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Re: Minimum essay length
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2011, 04:32:41 pm »
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Are you sure approximating 850 word essay is only 17 - 18? I'd be assuming it'd be a solid 18, and those two above were either 19.5 or solid 20.... Unless I"m marking these Lit essays wrongly.

*scratches head, maybe I"m marking too lightly*
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Re: Minimum essay length
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2011, 05:00:22 pm »
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Usually I'd say quality over quantity, but in lit it's difficult to have quality without quantity, I think.

Then again, my friend wrote a 600-700 word essay which got a 17/18 from my lit teacher (who I'd trust with my entire VCE), so I guess quality can always trump quantity if it's good enough.
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Re: Minimum essay length
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2011, 05:02:35 pm »
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Quote from: Menang on November 07, 2011, 05:00:22 pm
Usually I'd say quality over quantity, but in lit it's difficult to have quality without quantity, I think.

Then again, my friend wrote a 600-700 word essay which got a 17/18 from my lit teacher (who I'd trust with my entire VCE), so I guess quality can always trump quantity if it's good enough.

I've experienced the same thing.

Our class, we were given essays of past student who wrote 2 - 3 pages of hamlet/ some poem analysis, and got 9/10s from our teacher. And shes a pretty tight ass marker. So I was a bit dumb founded with the low marks given just them to the ones published on the VCAA. Those Very High would've been the top 0.5 - 1%. No one knows, we need some re assurance ):.


PS: My post isn't actually going anywhere haha.
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Re: Minimum essay length
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2011, 07:16:47 pm »
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I wrote around 1300-1400 words on the exam, if that's any indication.  That said, if your 1000 words were absolutely brilliant, you'd be fine.
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Re: Minimum essay length
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2011, 08:42:28 pm »
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^ Is that per essay or overall? :)

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Re: Minimum essay length
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2011, 01:48:45 am »
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My bad, per essay.  That could have been VERY misleading...
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Re: Minimum essay length
« Reply #9 on: November 08, 2011, 06:13:42 pm »
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My teacher just marked my 1,000 words a 19/20 if that helps.
And, like I mentioned before, a friend got an 18 with 650-700 words.
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Re: Minimum essay length
« Reply #10 on: November 08, 2011, 06:31:24 pm »
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Menang; did you whiz that out in time conditions? I always find myself struggling to write enough ...
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Re: Minimum essay length
« Reply #11 on: November 08, 2011, 07:43:29 pm »
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Quote from: vivj on November 08, 2011, 06:31:24 pm
Menang; did you whiz that out in time conditions? I always find myself struggling to write enough ...
Not this specific one, but I have done essays at the same level of length/quality in an hour.
Mind you, it's always exactly on the hour. I'm really cutting it quite close.
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Re: Minimum essay length
« Reply #12 on: November 09, 2011, 05:55:02 pm »
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I write 750 words per essay give or take 50 words - I get 18/19s I need to work on connecting out to passages which arent on the exam
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