How to study for Advanced English!

[elysepopplewell]

For all my exams I have memorised my essays, and moulded them to the question on the day. This has worked alright for me so far, so I was just wondering if I should be making notes about my texts in general, to deepen my knowledge in case I need to change my essays a lot?
Thanks

If you're comfortable with the essays you've got and your ability to mould them, that's great. But don't just sit on comfortable - I'd go beyond and do exactly what you're looking at doing, by making more notes about the text, engaging new parts of the plots that you're otherwise leaving unattended, etc. If you've got great essays and they're adaptable, that's super, but with the time you have to improve between now and the HSC, I think you'd best be investing in engaging new parts of the text so that your work is SUPER adaptable

[12070]

For all my exams I have memorised my essays and moulded them to the question on the day. This has worked alright for me so far, so I was just wondering if I should be making notes about my texts in general, to deepen my knowledge in case I need to change my essays a lot?
Thanks

Just to add to what Elyse has said as I memorise essay's as well. One of best things I have been doing is opening to a random page and reading through to see what exactly the author is trying to convey on that page only.The very first time I did this I got 3 new thesis ideas on one page and found some really good quotes that I replaced with others in my prepared essay. Definitely something I find manageable to do in what is usually a really tedious subject to study.

[J.B]

Thank you all so much, this is all very helpful! ☺️