HOW much study?

[treystorm]

guys,

please advise me what Grades form my GA's in English would get a 38? and also a 36?

thanks.

[jazza97]

A+ A+ A would net get you around 38, as would a few other combinations with those grades, depending on how high/low they are.  You would want a high A for the exam however as 3 low A+'s can get you only 38.

For 36, unless you are in a really strong cohort, you would want 3*As.

To answer your title, do all the homework that your teacher sets you and read wider-what i mean by this, is to read critics, cultural and historical background material and study guides.

Good Luck

[Yendall]

I got A+ A+ A and netted at 41 if that gives you any indication.

Mind you all my sacs never dropped below 88% and I wrote roughly 75 - 80 practice essays for the year. It requires a lot of study.

[ThyJovan]

I'll tell you what it takes to get in between those study scores.

A+ A+ B+ 37

That was with 88/100 in Unit 3, 93/100 in Unit 4 and an exam which I choked on and only finished one essay of 3. I was definitely in the top 3 regarding rank in an awful cohort if that helps you give you an indication.

[treystorm]

I got A+ A+ A and netted at 41 if that gives you any indication.

Mind you all my sacs never dropped below 88% and I wrote roughly 75 - 80 practice essays for the year. It requires a lot of study.

75-80 throughout the year for ALL your texts?
or per text?

i was planning on doing ~50 each for my exam books and ~20 each for my SAC only books.

[FlorianK]

Really depends on you.
The two dudes from my school who got a 50 wrote less than 40 essays and did one of them did 1 prac exam the other did 2.
It depends alot on talent as well.

I wrote 20-25 essays inclusive SACs and I got a 43 for ESL, which should be equivalent to the score you're aiming for.

[jazza97]

It is not the quantity, it is the quality.

You want to refine your essays and make sure each essay improves and fills the gaps of the previous one.

Always get an essay back corrected from your teacher or tutor before doing another one.  This way you can actually see where you have gone wrong and rectify the mistakes.  Secondly, i would highly recommend typing your essays for at least the first term and a half.  When you type, you write with more clarity and crispness which will allow you to perfect structure and language.  When people write practice essays on paper earlier on, they rush to try and finish it quickly or they become lost, don't know what to write next, cross heaps of stuff out which doesn't allow what you are writing to sink in and develop as it would when typed.

[AllAboutTheLGs]

Yeah I agree that it is quality over quantity. For the first half of the year I spammed practice essays and realised that although I had pre-meditated responses in mind, those responses wouldn't necessarily fit the prompt, and hence I would lose silly marks for it. I completely changed my study style for English, doing less work in terms of actual essay writing, but spending more time understanding my texts and developing quality ideas which were sophisticated and insightful. This extra level of depth and knowledge allowed me to reach the higher marks, as well as giving me the ability to tackle any form of prompt thrown at me.