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Paper 1, Section I
jamonwindeyer:
--- Quote from: RuiAce on July 31, 2016, 07:57:26 pm ---Yeah. A 5-6 marker is basically a mini essay.
Seems like I wrote exactly 2 pages for mine in the final exam, with my intro, conclusion and just two small body paragraphsYou know what's interesting.
Back in the HSC, during reading time I read my unseen texts but they would never make sense. I always did paper 1 section 1 last because once I had written my creative and my essay, that's when my brain would switch on and reading would be effective - the techniques would just be like boom
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I never wrote intro and conclusions for those actually! Just body paragraphs ;D
I actually did that in my Trial, it worked well, but I ended up wanting to give less time to Creative. I liked the conceptual ideas in Section 1, so I did Section 1/Section 3/Section 2 ;D
studybuddy7777:
My English Paper 1 is today as well...
My biggest advice (if you see this) is do the paper back to front.
This is because the markers put a common thread through and put the sections in this order!! The writers have spent a lot of time making sure it flows!!
(However, for most subjects this is not the case. In SOR it is advised to do the essay first (Sect III) before tackling the section II, or multichoice) For Sciences, leave the multichoice till last)
Sorry, Ive gone off on a tangent but hope this helps :D
amina_98:
Does anybody have any tips on what to do when given a text that its underlying meaning is hard to interpret? Under timed conditions I find it hard to interpret and understand the texts. :( In our half yearly I got 13/15 for essay, 14/15 for creative and 6/15 for short answers. I feel like my brain freezes.
jamonwindeyer:
--- Quote from: amina_98 on August 17, 2016, 08:45:55 pm ---Does anybody have any tips on what to do when given a text that its underlying meaning is hard to interpret? Under timed conditions I find it hard to interpret and understand the texts. :( In our half yearly I got 13/15 for essay, 14/15 for creative and 6/15 for short answers. I feel like my brain freezes.
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Hey amina! I feel you, the short answer stuff can be really tricky to garner meaning from on the spot :P it is something that improves with practice though, so be sure to keep working hard and doing practice papers, it will be something that you improve at over time! :)
The first piece of advice is to use the question as the cue to what sorts of concepts you need to be looking for. The Questions in this section will usually cue you as to the sorts of areas to focus on. Usually, you can construct pretty generic statements that will work no matter what the text is saying.
An example from 2015:
Explain how the poem conveys the personal response of the father to his discoveries.
Your first sentence in responding to that might be something simple like:
Composers often portray the significant responses of individuals to unexpected discoveries.
If you then launch straight into analysis, you don't have to rely on the underlying meaning of the text to construct your answer. A generic start will get you into the question. The beauty part of this is that often, after doing a bit of analysis, you'll click with the meaning and be able to thread it through!!
Obviously this isn't as good as knowing from the start, but it's okay if you don't! You can still access the question, just talk about the ideas of the question a little more generally. Best case, the meaning comes to you and you write an awesome response! Worst case, you still get marked on a solid response, you just get asked to be a little less general. Better than not accessing the question at all ;D
amina_98:
--- Quote from: jamonwindeyer on August 17, 2016, 09:53:53 pm ---Hey amina! I feel you, the short answer stuff can be really tricky to garner meaning from on the spot :P it is something that improves with practice though, so be sure to keep working hard and doing practice papers, it will be something that you improve at over time! :)
The first piece of advice is to use the question as the cue to what sorts of concepts you need to be looking for. The Questions in this section will usually cue you as to the sorts of areas to focus on. Usually, you can construct pretty generic statements that will work no matter what the text is saying.
An example from 2015:
Explain how the poem conveys the personal response of the father to his discoveries.
Your first sentence in responding to that might be something simple like:
Composers often portray the significant responses of individuals to unexpected discoveries.
If you then launch straight into analysis, you don't have to rely on the underlying meaning of the text to construct your answer. A generic start will get you into the question. The beauty part of this is that often, after doing a bit of analysis, you'll click with the meaning and be able to thread it through!!
Obviously this isn't as good as knowing from the start, but it's okay if you don't! You can still access the question, just talk about the ideas of the question a little more generally. Best case, the meaning comes to you and you write an awesome response! Worst case, you still get marked on a solid response, you just get asked to be a little less general. Better than not accessing the question at all ;D
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Thank you so much Jamon i will definitely start preparing generic responses and practice 8)
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