How do people not read their texts and still do well in English?

[Sine]

Hey dude that's great as. I don't want anyone to do badly, I just want people to know that your experience is an anomaly. Some people may fluke English and still smash it based on the old study design, whereby entire essays could be memorised for the context prompt. But I think VCAA realised this and has made the new English study design to actively discourage such behaviour. This new study design requires students to engage more closely with the text. So to the former students who fluked English with the old study design I applaud you, and to the current students hoping to do the same thing with the new one I hope you pull it off.

hmmmm ok

probably should've specified I used study guides and sample essays as a supplement