Is creative really that bad???

[green_melon]

I've dug around the forums about the pros and cons of each style for context and it seems that a lot of people are on the Expository or Hybrid side. I quite like creative but my friends, teachers and etc. all say it is the wrong way to go. They state things like "It's super risky" or "You'll get a bad score". In fact, there are a few teachers in my school who state explicitly "only expository is to be written for context".
With all this negativity towards this style, I'm losing confidence to stick to this form, but it's the only thing I know how to do and like.
Can somebody offer me advice on what I should do? If you wrote an imagainative/creative piece last year, please talk about your experience.
Thanks much!

Additional:
I have written expository, hybrid (exp + creative) and persuasive before and received VERY bad scores.

[Ameliajanem]

Obviously it depends on your teachers, if they're saying stay away from creative then you probably should (as unfair as it is, they're the ones marking your sacs) but I believe creative can be done really well, I did creative for my last sac and received full marks, but it was a LOT of work, and luckily my teacher worked with me and embraced my ideas. If your teacher doesn't want you to do creative, maybe you could request their help on improving your other styles? What is it about the other styles that you get marked down on?

[spectroscopy]

I've dug around the forums about the pros and cons of each style for context and it seems that a lot of people are on the Expository or Hybrid side. I quite like creative but my friends, teachers and etc. all say it is the wrong way to go. They state things like "It's super risky" or "You'll get a bad score". In fact, there are a few teachers in my school who state explicitly "only expository is to be written for context".
With all this negativity towards this style, I'm losing confidence to stick to this form, but it's the only thing I know how to do and like.
Can somebody offer me advice on what I should do? If you wrote an imagainative/creative piece last year, please talk about your experience.
Thanks much!

Additional:
I have written expository, hybrid (exp + creative) and persuasive before and received VERY bad scores.

i did creative for all of my contexts and i pretty much full marked sacs (i think i got 49/50 for one because of handwriting) and i got like 19 or 20/20 on the exam for my memorised creative piece.

theres definitely a couple of methods to do creative well, but teachers generally tell peopel not to do creative because creative essays are such an easy way out for poor students or for people who cbf doing the work. at my school id say 98% of the creative essay kids were kids who barely, if ever, read the book and just didnt have enough knowledge to do any other essay type. you can definitely full mark a creative piece and really leave an impression on the examiner if you have prepared but if you have not studied the text that well then you are basically playing roulette with your marks.

if you've been getting bad marks too and wanna turn it around, give this write up i did last year a readhttp://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=160686 and it explains a good way to write up creative essays. but there is lots of info out there on what to do. creative essays definitely need a lot of resaerch and work put into them so that you can remove all shadow of a doubt from your teachers mind that you know your stuff

[green_melon]

What is it about the other styles that you get marked down on?

When I wrote the other styles it just wasn't very 'wow' and it felt restricting. My teacher could sense that i didn't like expository and I wasn't suited for the persuasive, so he made me do a hybrid. That's didn't go well either because I still felt that it was a bit restricting.

[FallingStar]

Well, you will have to play the game with your school. After all, it is your school that would be marking your SACs and you do need to get good scores on these to get a high ATAR. That means that you will have to listen to what your school says, even if you feel that it is restricting and you don't like it.

When you get to the exam however, you can do whatever piece you want. In that case, you just do the piece that you feel most comfortable with, as well as one you can get a high mark on. I do suggest that you stick to the context your school is doing, but write in the form/style you want to write in.

Good Luck.

[BNard]

I know this is a really old thread, but just thought I'd share my experiences, because it's interesting how different the ways the schools direct my students is.

I was told by my teacher numerous times, don't write expository essays, write creative, despite the fact that it wasn't my strength. They said that that's what the examiner wanted, so that's the way we should go for our (3 piece folio) SAC. In the end, I got in there and the topics didn't suit my creative drafts so I wrote two expository pieces and a persuasive hybrid.

The feedback was literally "I don't know why you didn't write an imaginative piece".

So yeah, sometimes schools push really hard for one style, but it doesn't mean all the schools are doing the same. I ended up not doing as well as I normally would, so maybe it would have been a better idea to ditch the expository and just do what my teacher wanted. I'm just not the sort of person who likes to be told that they should do something they're not as good at just for the sake of it (especially when the internal creative pieces we were told to write were anything but the 'out of the box' that they claimed they should be)