Year Of Wonders

[Dejan]

Well I have one week till I have my sac on this novel and I have difficulty in understanding what the novel is about and retain in the information on what is going on this novel, what are some techniques and or strategies that can help better understand the novel? Opinons of any sort would be very apperciated! 

[brenden]

I know that feel, bro.
There are some great notes on this site, definitely worth a read (or many). Read the afterword, read any summaries or notes you can find on Google (if you can't find any, search harder). Otherwise re-read key sections and beast essays from your peers (or the whole book if you're a super fast reader* in addition to AN notes to reinforce the good bits).

Edit: VivaT said this in another post, you'd do well to take his advice

How I did it:

- Read the book once before we began studying it
- Looked up summaries on the net
- Skimmed through study guides
- Paid attention to class discussion
- Looked up character profiles on the net
- Re-read a few parts of the book
- Read a few critical analyses of the text closer to the SAC
- Researched a bit on the religion

How you should do it:
- Same as above, except with reading the book more and knowing it better

I did reasonably well, but I could have actually spent much more of my time studying English, and studying effectively at that.

[Dejan]

I've have read the book once and I found the language difficult to understand and I find it very boring, I guess I can look through summaries and character analysis haha

[BigAl]

That was on my first sac in this year. I bought study guides on the internet and went through them. They are helpful. Yet I'm not going to write about YOW in the exam.

[brenden]

I've have read the book once and I found the language difficult to understand and I find it very boring, I guess I can look through summaries and character analysis haha

Yeah probs about all you can/want to do then.

That was on my first sac in this year. I bought study guides on the internet and went through them. They are helpful. Yet I'm not going to write about YOW in the exam.

I'm 100% not writing on YoW in the exam. I'm just concerned with keeping my ranking relatively high and then I'm never touching a YoW essay again.