Higher Revision: how much are you doing?

I can never seem to write anything above 2-3 pages in 45ish minutes, I'm just not fast enough

Isn't 2 pages (4 sides) an adequate amount for an English critical essay though? I generally aim for four sides

I seriously need to pick up the pace because I really haven't been revising enough! In the holidays I started using a website called StudyBlue which really helped me memorise my English poems but my first exam is Mods and I just can't face revising despite being so scared!

My last exam is Art on the 1st and I am not sure about anybody else but examwise it is the least of my worries. Folio wise I am soooo glad I handed mine in yesterday. It's been the thing that has sucked all my time away.

Next year I am taking Higher Spanish despite having never done it before, ever... My Higher French teacher said that since we (several others are doing it too) know how the exam works we just need to spend more time on vocab. To be honest I am really nervous about taking it!

my first official day on study leave today! however I had a big meal out with my friends last night to celebrate the end of fifth year and stayed at one of their houses so only just got home... meaning I haven't actually done any revision since Easter... oops!
my first exam is Chemistry (14th) so I'm going into major revision mode tomorrow, hopefully I'll still manage to do okay in everything

It was our last day before study leave today! The general fun of mischievous leavers was quite enjoyable.

I'm really struggling to revise now. The problem is, I don't need to study for maths and physics but those are the only subjects I can bring myself to study! Because we've done all this work a million times now it's just so blooming boring. I really can't wait 'till they're over!

My first is English, so it isn't until the 17th, and tbh I wish it was earlier.

ahaha everyone loves muck up day! I can only bring myself to do maths or chemistry.. meaning french/physics/english are all left alone..
I wish English was earlier too! I wanted it to be like next week or something, just so it's out the way because it's the exam I'm most stressed for

How many quotes are you learning/texts for English?

I was planning on learning my poem, 10 quotes for my prose and maybe a few for nonfiction text incase an emergency but some people are learning like 50 for each text...

I don't really belong here because I did Highers last year, but regarding English, I learnt about 15 quotes for my drama (Streetcar Named Desire) and then I memorised one poem and learnt a few quotes from about 6 other poems. In the exam I answered on the poem I had learnt. Got an A band 1 in the end so don't worry, you don't need to learn hundreds of quotes to get a good mark!

How many quotes are you learning/texts for English?

I was planning on learning my poem, 10 quotes for my prose and maybe a few for nonfiction text incase an emergency but some people are learning like 50 for each text...

That's what I thought. I mean in the prelims I got a 15 and a 17 (teacher said it had several elements of a 19/21 essay too) so I'm pretty close, particularly considering the 64% mark for an A.

Can I ask: Is it true that examiners are more lenient on marking the essays because they consider the time restrictions more and the fact teachers are inclined to mark more harshly for appeals etc.?

How many quotes are you learning/texts for English?

I was planning on learning my poem, 10 quotes for my prose and maybe a few for nonfiction text incase an emergency but some people are learning like 50 for each text...

ahaha everyone loves muck up day! I can only bring myself to do maths or chemistry.. meaning french/physics/english are all left alone..
I wish English was earlier too! I wanted it to be like next week or something, just so it's out the way because it's the exam I'm most stressed for

We only do two texts because they are major texts that always have questions (A Streetcar Named Desire and The Great Gatsby). I'm not learning any quotes by heart because we have been told quite strictly not to by our teacher, taking advice directly from the principle assessor of English for the SQA.

I wish I could just sit maths and physics tomorrow so I can really focus on the other three, especially English, to make sure can I get an A :/

I got 69/100 on my prelim, essays and close reading, and for my folio my essays are around the 19 mark, hopefully more.

So you don't use quotes?

I got 58% on my prelim /: which is well.. at least I passed..
My teacher hasn't been at school for the past month so we've had a number of random cover teachers not really doing anything so our class barely knows our texts
I have no idea what my folio marks could be as our teacher never gave us predicted marks for any essays either meaning I had no idea what level I was writing at until the prelim! :L

Sure I use quotes, I just don't go out the was to memorise a bunch of them that a probably wont use or will make sure I use even though they aren't relevant. You get no marks for using quotes, you get marks for presenting evidence from the texts, which is as straight forward as paraphrasing.



I'm even more confident with physics now 'cause I got my second prelim back today and got 92%, even though I found it terribly difficult!

The English exam is just so hard to predict. With other subjects like maths/physics you can go in quite confident of your grade, but with English it's pretty difficult cause you can do great, alright, or totally bomb it quite easily.

Oh that's terribly, theres nothing worse than not having your own teacher!

My teacher graded both of my essays at 19 but made it quite clear that hers are ver conservative/harsh estimates. Doesn't your teacher put a mark on your critical essays?