Just wondering:

[Zafaraaaa]

It really doesn't matter how long the gap is between classes. As long as you practice writing essays and ideas for your texts in your own time, you'll get along fine, regardless of whether you have classes every week or fortnight. Private study out of tuition is so important when it comes to realising and understanding what form or style or writing you best suit, and tutoring (and getting essays corrected) is best for developing and refining this style.

[iffets12345]

 With that being said, how does a student who does not have a tutor achieve high English standards? Is it through the junior years when they used to read alot? Thorough thinking? Because I find it confusing when they have no one to check their work!

Just saw this lol. Personally I read a fair bit beforehand but by year 10 I was an absolutely pathetic reader *still am, DAMN MSN!* but it's definately possible to just read newspapers and really study your texts all year round. If you get bored, read other books by the author for leisure, no analysing, but just getting a feel for the language. And it's not about checking work...like I can't imagine myself in year 8 strenuously writing book reports which contribute no way whatsoever to VCE. I think it's more appreciating the texts you study or at least learning to develop coherent and sophisticated essays which you can do with practice and devotion.

[sgeorge]

Well I was in a similar situation at the beginning of this year and found it great having fortnightly tutoring. Our school's English department is excellent, but I found that it was indeed beneficial as it provided me with other ideas and sources of inspiration.

I would recommend fortnightly over weekly, as it gives you more time to prepare pieces as well as develop questions and find any issues you have with the area of study. Any longer eg. monthly, and you may write a number of pieces for your tutor, but may somehow have gotten a bit off-track.