Advanced Higher English 2014 Discussion + Predictions

Hey, I'm doing advanced English this year as well. I'm doing Donne for the essay. Bricking it for this exam! Is it just me, or do you feel massively under-prepared? I haven't learned any quotations or analysis or even know my poems yet... FML! *Cries*

Not just you.

I'm feeling the exact same way, ahh thinking about how close it is makes me want to cry. I have modern studies tomorrow and then a day before englih. Going to have to cram everything in, don't know how I will manage that :/

Good luck.


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Good luck to you too! Do you need it for your offers or anything?

I feel so underprepared but I usually tend to whip something pretty good out in practices and prelims...
I'm doing Muir and Stoppard (probably focusing on Stoppard) and I feel like I just want to get it over with XD

Not sure yet, haven't quite heard back from everything. Not so far and hopefully not at all.

How about you?



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I feel so underprepared but I usually tend to whip something pretty good out in practices and prelims...
I'm doing Muir and Stoppard (probably focusing on Stoppard) and I feel like I just want to get it over with XD

Feeling the same way.

I'm not sure if I'll do well, I guess it depends on how well the question fits to what I've been looking over. Hopefully it isn't too bad though. Yeah, I can't wait until it's done with.

Good luck


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I feel the exact same. It just feels so unorganised compared to higher and I'm not even sure what I'm doing. Like there was a structure for close reading and essays last year but this year we're just told to write whatever in any old way. I really want an A since I've never had anything less for English but I'm doubting that now. Oh, stressful times... *goes to get a significant mass of chocolate*

At the end of the day if we have studied our stuff well enough then we should be able to do okay! I'm sure it'll be fine.



I know what you mean. It is different and I think it has prepared me well for university, so I'm glad I took it. I quite like the unstructured nature of essays, I just kind of go with it and things usually turn out quite well. Just go over your stuff and hopefully you get an A! Only 65% percent that you need to get <3

Is anyone doing textual analysis btw?
I used to be so freaked out about it but I usually get about 27 out of 30 for timed ones I do in class, I would recommend anyone doing it to avoid PROSE FICTION like the plague, most people do it and I personally think it is the hardest one in the paper. It is difficult to squeeze in a second reading of it because they can be quite long, and in some pieces it is really easy to miss the deeper meaning in it. I think that non-fiction and drama are pretty good ones to do, they are the least attempted ones on the paper and they are not too bad generally. Drama is quite fast to read!

Thank you! Hopefully I'll get a B or at least a pass. Is it not 70% for an A though?

Sorry to keep quoting you, but by non-fiction do you mean poetry?

I'm doing Keats in the exam, we did Shakespeare as well but I don't think I'll have time to cover it. This subject is so unpredictable, I've seen creative pieces which were amazing and they got 16s, average ones which got 26...I have no idea what I will get in August.

Creative is seriously unpredictable, I had to option of it and textual analysis and I eventually decided not to do creative because I have heard of so many people writing just outstanding, amazing pieces of work and they ended up getting low scores. Creative writing is so subjective, one marker could give a piece 27 out of 30 when another could just not really get it and score it a 15...

Textual analysis looks truly awful however, which swayed my entire class.