Official Higher English 2013-2014 Thread

What should I do to revise? Should I like, do practice essays or something?

Reply 83

Claire__

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Original post by Pennyarcade

What should I do to revise? Should I like, do practice essays or something?

Practice essays help, definitely; it trains you to keep your line of thought.

Re-read your texts; it should be the most obvious thing. You need to know your book/drama/play/etc. inside out to be prepared.

Compile quote lists for questions that may come up so you have essays planned even if you don't actually write them

Reply 84

Do I need to mention how something links to the theme of the play in each paragraph - ie putting "This ties to the theme of reputation as is highlights the extraordinary measures characters..." at the end
or is it okay to mention it this way - "... he knows that he cannot doubt her story or his reputation will be ruined, something which he feels is more important than peoples lives"

Reply 85

Anyone able to give me( And everyone else) any tips for memorization of these damn quotes that work better that 'Stare at page for ages until it goes in', which is generally the one I go for.

So boring...must....continue.... :argh:

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Reply 86

Original post by Memetics

Anyone able to give me( And everyone else) any tips for memorization of these damn quotes that work better that 'Stare at page for ages until it goes in', which is generally the one I go for.

So boring...must....continue....s]argh

Do you actually sit and try to memorise a ton of quotes? I just write practice essays and by analysing the quote it makes it stick into my mind more. To be honest, no matter what my english teacher thinks, I still believe that you can get away with knowing ~8 long quotes and ~5 short ones that you can use for embedded quotes.

Reply 87

Original post by Pennyarcade

Do you actually sit and try to memorise a ton of quotes? I just write practice essays and by analysing the quote it makes it stick into my mind more. To be honest, no matter what my english teacher thinks, I still believe that you can get away with knowing ~8 long quotes and ~5 short ones that you can use for embedded quotes.

I do it for the poem, for my novel I've just went and looked through the book, wrote down interesting/ important quotes and wrote down a few notes for each one. I haven't really done any practice essays yet , been focusing on math instead for the most part.

How's your studying been going anyway, do you feel prepared? When's your first prelim? Mines on the 14th, seems too close now.

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Reply 88

Original post by Memetics

I do it for the poem, for my novel I've just went and looked through the book, wrote down interesting/ important quotes and wrote down a few notes for each one. I haven't really done any practice essays yet , been focusing on math instead for the most part.

How's your studying been going anyway, do you feel prepared? When's your first prelim? Mines on the 14th, seems too close now.

Ah right, Im going to need to be memorising my poem soon.. I cant wait ...
My first prelim is on the 1st of feb, So I have ages yet. Im oddly confident for them, I have been doing a hell of alot of pastpapers and doing well in them all :tongue:

Since I have nothing better to do with my time I pretty much spend all day studying and I actually think it can be pretty fun at times. :cool:

What about you? are you prepared?

Reply 89

Original post by Apologetic Cube

I was dreading this prelim last year :laugh:

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How so? What did you end up with?

Reply 90

kylerfc

Was it just me who learned their 'quotes' by just re-reading the text so I knew it so well I could just quote it?

Reply 91

Bromaldehyde

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yeah, close reading isn't too bad. god knows what i'm going to do for these essays though, looks like bull****ting my way through it is the answer !

Reply 92

Original post by -Neuro-

I've got a few 23 and 25 marker essays which I could dig out for you guys, if that would help? :biggrin:

The good thing about English is the insanely low grade boundaries, a guy in my year got an A1 with 72%!

yeah it would be a great help :tongue:

And thankfully close reading is pretty straightforward so that boosts your grade up loads

Reply 93

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Original post by Pennyarcade

Ah right, Im going to need to be memorising my poem soon.. I cant wait ...
My first prelim is on the 1st of feb, So I have ages yet. Im oddly confident for them, I have been doing a hell of alot of pastpapers and doing well in them all :tongue:

Since I have nothing better to do with my time I pretty much spend all day studying and I actually think it can be pretty fun at times. :cool:

What about you? are you prepared?

Prepared? No, no, no, no I'm not prepared...yet.

You'll be sitting your first 2 days before my fourth! That's fairly irratating. I don't have Physics until March though. :smile:

Original post by -Neuro-

I've got a few 23 and 25 marker essays which I could dig out for you guys, if that would help? :biggrin:

The good thing about English is the insanely low grade boundaries, a guy in my year got an A1 with 72%!

It definitely wouldn't hurt! Highest I've got so far is 21 marks, but I did have the book in front of me. :colondollar:

Reply 94

Bromaldehyde

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MRW when I find out that all the other classes in my year got notes made by their teacher for the prelim but our class didn't:

Reply 95

GeschichteJunge

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Is 78% as mark (what I got in a past paper tonight) good enough for close reading if it was to be the thing to strengthen my grade if my critical essays f-up?
Not that they will (hopefully) but I see some people saying that their grade was pulled up by close reading...

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Reply 96

Original post by GeschichteJunge

Is 78% as mark (what I got in a past paper tonight) good enough for close reading if it was to be the thing to strengthen my grade if my critical essays f-up?
Not that they will (hopefully) but I see some people saying that their grade was pulled up by close reading...

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Experiment with this http://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/46172.html and it will tell you.
I found out that you can get away with 17 for both critical essays, 35 in the CR and 38/50 in your folio and still comfortably get an A, which isnt too bad. Obviously if you get 39 in the CR you can have 15s for both essays etc etc.

Reply 97

weejackie10

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What plays are you guys doing?

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Reply 98

Original post by weejackie10

What plays are you guys doing?

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We're going to do The crucible. Not yet though.

And guys, do you think It'd be okay if I just ignored my media topic, and just focused solely on my poem and novel for the prelim. It'd be risky, but I just hate doing media essays. :tongue:

Reply 99