National 5 English 2018/19

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Until you have the knack about Reflective essays they can be very daunting. At their heart they about you examining yourself.

Your subject is the "fear of failure." that is a very broad canvas. In addition "success" is the other side of this coin. Some question points that might assist you.
a) What is the success you seek and why. Don't rely on generalities, sucess is specific and real.
b) Is failure an aspect of life your life in general and if so why.
c) Is failure also an elememt of your progress through education and if so why.

At this point we need to introduce positiveness into the essay.

d) What is it you seek in life and why and what and what is it you want out of life and therefore why the fear of failure is so important.
e) So what have your learnt about this process. You should have learnt something about yourself and who you are. They say Edison failed over a hundred times to sucessfully invent the light bulb before he succeeded. Actually it could be argued that he did not fail so many times - he succeeded in discovering the many ways how not to create a working lightbulb. Failure could be said to be a greater learning experience than success.

Maybe these ideas will help unblock your essay.

I've got my English prelim today. We have only done 3 poems so far out of the 6 but I only know quotes for 3 of them, I'm praying that I don't have to compare a poem to Mrs. Midas.

how did your prelim go?

The RUaE was really hard but even my teacher said it was hard for Nat 5. The poems went okay I think but I think my essay might of got like a high mark maybe a 16/20

Until you have the knack about Reflective essays they can be very daunting. At their heart they about you examining yourself.

Your subject is the "fear of failure." that is a very broad canvas. In addition "success" is the other side of this coin. Some question points that might assist you.
a) What is the success you seek and why. Don't rely on generalities, sucess is specific and real.
b) Is failure an aspect of life your life in general and if so why.
c) Is failure also an elememt of your progress through education and if so why.

At this point we need to introduce positiveness into the essay.

d) What is it you seek in life and why and what and what is it you want out of life and therefore why the fear of failure is so important.
e) So what have your learnt about this process. You should have learnt something about yourself and who you are. They say Edison failed over a hundred times to sucessfully invent the light bulb before he succeeded. Actually it could be argued that he did not fail so many times - he succeeded in discovering the many ways how not to create a working lightbulb. Failure could be said to be a greater learning experience than success.

Maybe these ideas will help unblock your essay.

well done
I definitely need to practise ruae before my prelim

I’m usually okay with RUAE but I just didn’t understand the topic that the paper was on. I usually score between 20-25 marks out of 30 but I will of been lucky to get 20 marks in that prelim

At this stage thats a good mark to get. Hopfully if you do more past papers you could rank up your score before your exam. What was your paper on? ours was on the grim trade in scotland and how scientist used to buy bodies to find out more about the human anatomy. It was actually quite interesting.

I’m usually okay with RUAE but I just didn’t understand the topic that the paper was on. I usually score between 20-25 marks out of 30 but I will of been lucky to get 20 marks in that prelim

I’m usually okay with RUAE but I just didn’t understand the topic that the paper was on. I usually score between 20-25 marks out of 30 but I will of been lucky to get 20 marks in that prelim

I’m really interested in biology so that is actually really interesting to me. Ours was about how American English is different from British English, it was just all round confusing.

yeah I'm ok with ruae but I want to get better and faster at answering the questions which I assume is just down to practise

Oh really?! thats what i am doing my Persausive essay on. How the Americanisation of english is a good thing. Anything interesting that might help me that would be great.

it is definitly down to practice. On my first past paper i got 15/30 and so i tried a couple more untill we had a test in school and i got 29/30 so if you do the questions, mark it yourself, reccognise where your mistakes are and then do it all again you will really learn from it.

I’m doing Norman MacCaig and I find his poems quite easy. The only thing I struggle with close reading and the 8 marker (set text)

Same. I've got an English prelim tomorrow, and I'm so worried for the 8 marker and what they're gonna ask. So far i have done Norman MacCaig poems including: Aunt Julia, Visiting Hour, Hotel room 12th floor and Assisi. We also have to write an essay on AWGB which is a short story. Got the prelim tomorrow tho, so wish me luck.