Intermediate 2 English

Only preparing two pieces for my essays, do you think this is enough or a bit too risky?


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Im sitting this exam tommorow too. My texts are Educating Rita for the drama, Assisi, Box Room, Revelation and Sparrow for the poems and Sunset Song for prose, however I don't feel particularly prepared for prose. Am I taking too much of a risk going into the exam only fully prepared for the drama and the four poems? Its just I really want to avoid using Sunset Song as I find it has too much information to condense into a 45 minute essay. Am I taking too much of a risk?

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Remember you wouldn't be fitting the whole novel into your essay. Yes, you might have to write about the novel as a whole, but usually its on one topic(like turning point, or a relationship between two characters) so you would only be writing about certain parts.

It depends how well Educating Rita fits with the questions- look up past papers on the sqa website and see if you'd be able to write an essay on the drama. There will definitely be a suitable poem question, since you've prepared 4 and the poem questions usually have one that's pretty vague(my class did Revelation, and our teacher showed us that there had been a question every year to suit it).

Thanks, yeah I have looked it up and on most papers there is a question to suit educating rita so I think I will just go with what ive got

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Good luck!

What questions is everyone hoping come up? And here's hoping the close reading is an interesting topic or it'll be a very boring hour...

For int 2 the questions are really quite vague. I only went in with a poem and a play (In the Snack Bar and Macbeth) and I could answer 3/4 questions for both sections

I really hope there's something about human weakness for drama and aspect of human life for prose. Otherwise I'm screwed