WHICH SECTION IN THE ENGLISH EXAM ARE YOU WEAKEST IN?

[vidang]

context is the worst thing alive
no idea how to approach any of its ideas
all the ideas i think of are too simple
especially in the context of 'identity and belonging'
anyone wanna assists me -_-

[linahh123]

ENGLISH IS BIAS. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN.
THE END.

Agreed.
I spent 3 hours on a essay .. full planned it out ... took my time . checked it 100 times..
handed it in to teacher .. she said it was complete SHIT .. i got approx 20/50 for it

Then did one at 2.30 am .. no planning .. was falling sleep ... She gave me 49/50 and it became a sample perfect for all the other classes..

Fml .... so inconsistent .. this happens all the time

ROFL that sounds exactly like me. Every time i hand something in that i'm really confident about i end up doing so shit. But when i reluctantly hand in rushed and effortless work, my teacher gives me really good marks. I HATE THAT!! It makes me seem like those people who go "i failed man" and then end up getting A+'s (you know what im talking about)

[ghadz7]

Why couldn't I vote for all three options?

[werdna]

context is the worst thing alive
no idea how to approach any of its ideas
all the ideas i think of are too simple
especially in the context of 'identity and belonging'
anyone wanna assists me -_-

I agree... Identity and Belonging is just cliched and generic trash. Absolute trash.

[98.40_for_sure]

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I agree... Identity and Belonging is just cliched and generic trash. Absolute trash.

WUT? I LOVE I&B... its the only section i can write on properly that requires little to no thought as it just flows out of your mind like the river nile

[shinny]

ENGLISH IS BIAS. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN.
THE END.

Agreed.
I spent 3 hours on a essay .. full planned it out ... took my time . checked it 100 times..
handed it in to teacher .. she said it was complete SHIT .. i got approx 20/50 for it

Then did one at 2.30 am .. no planning .. was falling sleep ... She gave me 49/50 and it became a sample perfect for all the other classes..

Fml .... so inconsistent .. this happens all the time

ROFL that sounds exactly like me. Every time i hand something in that i'm really confident about i end up doing so shit. But when i reluctantly hand in rushed and effortless work, my teacher gives me really good marks. I HATE THAT!! It makes me seem like those people who go "i failed man" and then end up getting A+'s (you know what im talking about)

Didn't get an A+ the entire year in SACs despite practising pretty hard. Once it came to the SAC for my 2nd text response text which I did not study whatsoever since I wanted to focus on my first one, I finally get an A+. FML.

[98.40_for_sure]

It makes me seem like those people who go "i failed man" and then end up getting A+'s (you know what im talking about)

They're called 'cunts'

[methodsman]

The English exam will eat you up and spit you out! Haha JKS, it's not that bad..if you studied enough.

[2317]

COntext is most difficult. But my weakest atm is text response coz forgot everything in the book. lol. .... fml

[yejiawen]

ENGLISH IS BIAS. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN.
THE END.

Agreed.
I spent 3 hours on a essay .. full planned it out ... took my time . checked it 100 times..
handed it in to teacher .. she said it was complete SHIT .. i got approx 20/50 for it

Then did one at 2.30 am .. no planning .. was falling sleep ... She gave me 49/50 and it became a sample perfect for all the other classes..

Fml .... so inconsistent .. this happens all the time

ROFL that sounds exactly like me. Every time i hand something in that i'm really confident about i end up doing so shit. But when i reluctantly hand in rushed and effortless work, my teacher gives me really good marks. I HATE THAT!! It makes me seem like those people who go "i failed man" and then end up getting A+'s (you know what im talking about)

Didn't get an A+ the entire year in SACs despite practising pretty hard. Once it came to the SAC for my 2nd text response text which I did not study whatsoever since I wanted to focus on my first one, I finally get an A+. FML.

That happened to me as well. I was studying for Chinese and really did not do any English and got an A+. Whereas the others I study and get lower ROFL Let's hope we're all lucky on Thursday

[Blakhitman]

The English exam will eat you up and spit you out! Haha JKS, it's not that bad..if you studied enough.

No that's actually exactly what I'm expecting from that darn evil paper.

[kyzoo]

ENGLISH IS BIAS. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN.
THE END.

Agreed.
I spent 3 hours on a essay .. full planned it out ... took my time . checked it 100 times..
handed it in to teacher .. she said it was complete SHIT .. i got approx 20/50 for it

Then did one at 2.30 am .. no planning .. was falling sleep ... She gave me 49/50 and it became a sample perfect for all the other classes..

Fml .... so inconsistent .. this happens all the time

I've seen a similar thing happen in my own essays. The essays which I write within an hour are of much better quality than the one I use two hours to write. So the quality of your essays is inversely proportional to the time you spend writing it? xD

But I think there's are valid reasons for it
~ You're so much mroe concise when you're writing under time pressure. Whereas when you plan it fully, you are very prone to redundant plot-summary and saying much more than you need to. When you don't give yourself time constraints, your argument moves too slow since you are trying to be as indepth as possible. Whereas under exam conditions, you write only what you need to because you are trying to finish ASAP. See, you always feel as if you are missing something when you write under time constraints, but its not alawys beneficial to include every detail you can. Basically the mindset that you have to cram everything you can into the essay is detrimental to the qualtiy of your essays.

~ You write much more fluently under time constraints. The exam essay is a single train of thought, whereas with a 3-hour essay your thinking has to restart every sentence.

context is the worst thing alive
no idea how to approach any of its ideas
all the ideas i think of are too simple
especially in the context of 'identity and belonging'
anyone wanna assists me -_-

I also feel that my context is my weakest section, but not because of the reasons that other people say. Writing context is actually more natural to me than writing text response because all I do is explain my own concepts, and I don't think it's too general. It's addressing the prompt with its specific implications and not going off on a tangent that is challenging to me. I know I can write ideas that are deep enough, it's just they aren't always pertinent to the prompt.

[Greggler]

context is the worst. have no idea whether or not what im doing is a 9/10 or a 4/10.

[mojomojo]

I generally get the lowest score for text response out of the three sections, so I guess that is my weakest.

Same. I guess it's just because I've only read the texts once, and I only know parts of the texts.

[akira88]

Okay I'm going to go a bit off topic, but in "Recent Unread Topics" next to this thread, there is a sad face! How and why does this pop up? Sometimes I see a smiley face too, but most of the time it is the generic icon of a stack of papers.  LOL I sound like such a noob... but I've been wondering about it for a while now