Higher English Exam 2010 :: Pre-exam thread :: May the breakdowns begin D:

I hope the close reading pasages are on sport so most geeks hate it & can't do it, but i'm ploughing my way through it (metaphor), hence lowering the grade goundaries

I can dream, non?

yeah a close reading on tennis would be my coup of tea, I am just really nervous about the critical essay - I really hope the question are right for my text

Yeah Key Scene better come up for Drama or i'm screwed

Passage 1; Andy Murray, will he ever win a major?
Passage 2; The Inspirational Andy Murray

I AGREE WITH PASSAGE 1

Yeah Key Scene better come up for Drama or i'm screwed

Only issue can be the way key scene is asked, now I think about it. I'ma doing Hamlet, dunno if you've done it, but there's quite a few key scenes. And I've definitely done a question before about how a key scene causes a turnaround in a character or something. Some people only learned one key scene (the prayer scene, if you know the text) which doesn't actually cause you're opinion to change of the character, just shows him doing what he was doing previously. The next scene shows him change his attitude and what not, so doing that one was obviously more approriate. Basically, make sure you've got more than one key scene if possible, one that shows a turnaround maybe? In Hamlet, both are kinda needed because the first is perfect for an important mistake. Blahhh, I'm rambling, apologies, but yeah, key scene always comes up, I'll be majorly raging if it doesn't this year!

Andy Murray is a legend
I might start weeping if the question don't fit my texts

I'm an Othello-er, which is a scene with turning point / scene of intense emotion / scene of cruelty / scene of conflict ...etc

If mines don't fit i'll write about The Hungry Caterpillar for Prose and Austin Powers for Language, so i'll be fine.

I'm going to sob quietly for 5 minutes and then write out the lyrics to bad romance if no questions come up. :]

If that doesn't get you an A I don't know what will! Ahhh don't worry, honestly, look through the past couple of years past papers, ever been a year you had absolutely no options for more than one of your sections? I doubt it, you'll be fine!

I know, I'm not worried, I was just making a joke lol

Anybody have any idea how many actual marks are needed to get a B?

Also, what are the chances of achieving this with one essay?

So, so stressed, didn't prepare myself for this properly at all ((

Lol, I just did the first half of the 2006 paper and I've realised that my analysis is strange. Does anyone else improvise when it comes to the big A?