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dream chaser:

--- Quote from: Samueliscool223 on February 14, 2020, 07:09:26 am ---Thanks, I'll take on board this advice! :)

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No problem Samuel. I am glad if I have helped in anyway  :)

Sine:

--- Quote from: Samueliscool223 on February 13, 2020, 07:56:12 pm ----

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It kinds of depends on the content some people can definitely do 1k-1.5k within an hour but very little thinking actually goes into this. Once you get to the end of the year it is possible that students have prepared enough that whatever essay they write is extremeley simialr to something they have written before as a whole or they have taken sections from multiple essays they have written in the past. So if you aren't really "thinking' during that hour it is quite possible to really increase your word count.

Adding onto that word count is definitely not everything. A well-written essay of 800 words will always beat a mediocre essay of 1500 words. But two essays of the same quality generally the longer one would be able to go in more detail in breadth and thus would be more likely to score higher.

colline:
Hey! Considering it's still very early on in the school year, and you're in U1/2, you still have almost TWO YEARS to work on improving your writing speed. 1,000 words in 1 hour is the speed VCAA expect from students at the very end of Unit 3/4. If someone at the start of 1/2 is already writing 1000 words an hour, they're probably either exceptionally talented or writing absolute waffle.

The replies above me pretty much covers it all but just to reiterate, to write a high quality essay in an hour you would need to
- know every single part of your text inside out
- have thoroughly brainstormed and analysed your ideas
- read and dissected countless essays from not just previous high scoring students but also academic sources
- and have written PLENTY of practice essays before hand.

Finally assessors would always (within reason) prioritise quality over quantity.


--- Quote from: Sine ---Once you get to the end of the year it is possible that students have prepared enough that whatever essay they write is extremeley simialr to something they have written before as a whole or they have taken sections from multiple essays they have written in the past.
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Absolutely. It should get to the point where you recognise the prompt, what it's asking for, and have 3-4 main arguments in your head within 10 seconds of flipping open the exam booklet, because it's something you have already written on in the past, even just as a short practice.
Very rarely would you be thinking up NEW ideas during the exam!


--- Quote from: brenden ---Write things to a lower standard. Build the standard back up later when you're writing enough. Build the quality once you've got the speed.
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I'm not so sure about this advice. Quality of writing style is something that accumulates over time and it's a lot harder to work on than how fast you can write. If OP is already incredibly confident in their writing quality, then obviously speed is first priority, but otherwise writing to a lower standard should always be avoided especially if you just want to inflate the quantity of words.

KatherineGale:
Hi Samueliscool223,

This was something I had issues with when I did Literature. I have arthritis but it wasn't diagnosed at the time so I didn't have any allowances for it and I really struggled writing quickly.

Not sure if this will help, but it's the advice that I got:
My teacher pretty much told me that it's a matter of quality of quantity. I was told to spend the first couple of minutes planning on the first page, so that it could also be scanned. This meant that if I didn't finish the last paragraph in time, the assessors could look at my plan and have a better idea of where I was headed. My teacher said that I would still lose points if I didn't finish, but probably not as many if I wrote a complete but poorly written rushed essay that was illegible and difficult to follow.

By the time exams came around, I had built up to writing a reasonable amount in the time period, but I still wrote the plan on the first page because it was my back up if things went poorly or if I was having a bad day.

Also, I would suggest developing your own essay structure for paragraphs in particular over your year(s) of study.

I think mine was (author) said in a (something tone) that (quote from text) to the effect of (blah blah) using (such and such) technique to the effect of (blah blah) which relates back to (authors) main idea of (blah blah blah). On my plan, I would quickly write down the things needed in the brackets above for each paragraph and then just worded it better and filled in the blanks, changing the order every paragraph to keep it interesting.

Hope this helps :)

Sine:

--- Quote from: colline on February 14, 2020, 02:16:39 pm ---I'm not so sure about this advice. Quality of writing style is something that accumulates over time and it's a lot harder to work on than how fast you can write. If OP is already incredibly confident in their writing quality, then obviously speed is first priority, but otherwise writing to a lower standard should always be avoided especially if you just want to inflate the quantity of words.

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Definitely agree with this. At this stage of the year writing a 9+/10 essay within 3 hours is better than rushing a 4-5/10 within the time frame. Speed does come with practice over the course of the year.

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