Help prior to the exam!

[Bell9565]

Okay so english is in a week and I have been putting off doing preparation for it THE WHOLE STUDY PERIOD (help)

Can anyone give me any amazing ways to study successfully without writing essays as I really want to do well, I just keep doing maths exams to procrastinate english (oh what a fun life year 12 is).

I really really would like a 40+ so please help me .... I can't sit down and write essays because my attention span is terrible but I'm happy to try anything else.

Thanks in advance and I hope everyone else's preparation is going better than mine   

[K888]

Okay so english is in a week and I have been putting off doing preparation for it THE WHOLE STUDY PERIOD (help)

Can anyone give me any amazing ways to study successfully without writing essays as I really want to do well, I just keep doing maths exams to procrastinate english (oh what a fun life year 12 is).

I really really would like a 40+ so please help me .... I can't sit down and write essays because my attention span is terrible but I'm happy to try anything else.

Thanks in advance and I hope everyone else's preparation is going better than mine   

hey! so I hope I can help - I wrote no complete essays for english after my final sac and got a 41. obviously just want to put a disclaimer here that it doesn't work for everyone, but if you feel it's the best approach for you, then give it a crack.

first off - are you confident in your ability to actually write an essay (particularly under time pressure)? if yes, that's great - it means doing this sort of study is fine because the actual essay writing isn't what you need to practice.

for me, I found the biggest thing was to get a heap of essay questions and just plan for them - unpack the prompts, think of the evidence you could use, figure out what arguments you'd make and what your stance is - you're getting the skeleton of your essay with like, 10-15 mins work.
the reason I love this is that it helps you with writing for an unseen prompt, because you've planned out a response to a tonne of questions - at least one of the questions you see in your exam is likely to be similar to or an amalgamation of questions you've seen before.

so, that's essentially the first 2 parts of the exam covered there. with language analysis, apply the same sort of principles. annotate a heap of articles, pick out what you'd write about and write a few dot points about it - just brainstorm!

I found, at least personally, that this was the best thing for me - I was happy with my actual ability to write an essay under time pressure and put things into whole sentences, so I just worked on getting my planning quicker and all that, and I honestly think I ended up do a heap more useful study this way than I would have if I tried to write an essay for every single prompt.

hope this has helped a bit!

[Bell9565]

hey! so I hope I can help - I wrote no complete essays for english after my final sac and got a 41. obviously just want to put a disclaimer here that it doesn't work for everyone, but if you feel it's the best approach for you, then give it a crack.

first off - are you confident in your ability to actually write an essay (particularly under time pressure)? if yes, that's great - it means doing this sort of study is fine because the actual essay writing isn't what you need to practice.

for me, I found the biggest thing was to get a heap of essay questions and just plan for them - unpack the prompts, think of the evidence you could use, figure out what arguments you'd make and what your stance is - you're getting the skeleton of your essay with like, 10-15 mins work.
the reason I love this is that it helps you with writing for an unseen prompt, because you've planned out a response to a tonne of questions - at least one of the questions you see in your exam is likely to be similar to or an amalgamation of questions you've seen before.

so, that's essentially the first 2 parts of the exam covered there. with language analysis, apply the same sort of principles. annotate a heap of articles, pick out what you'd write about and write a few dot points about it - just brainstorm!

I found, at least personally, that this was the best thing for me - I was happy with my actual ability to write an essay under time pressure and put things into whole sentences, so I just worked on getting my planning quicker and all that, and I honestly think I ended up do a heap more useful study this way than I would have if I tried to write an essay for every single prompt.

hope this has helped a bit!

Thanks so much - I will definitely take this approach for section A&B but I don't have that much confidence in my section C writing ability so I may just have to write a couple more essays!
Do you know approx what score you would have gotten on the exam to get a 41?
Thanks

[K888]

Thanks so much - I will definitely take this approach for section A&B but I don't have that much confidence in my section C writing ability so I may just have to write a couple more essays!
Do you know approx what score you would have gotten on the exam to get a 41?
Thanks

Yeah, I got 51/60 from memory - I applied to get a statement of marks.

Just a disclaimer that I did English under the old study design, though, so scoring may have changed a bit