memorising essays

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is there an easy way to memorise an essay?
i have lots to do

Reply 1

dentalstudentGKT

don't memorise essays- memorise essay plans, much easier as your final essay will have the key points put down.

read, hide, re-write

english essays- thanks so far (but rewriting could be quite time consuming)

Reply 4

Meteorshower

Memorising essays isn't a good way to go about it i reckon. It's better to memorise the content that can be used to build an essay like anaylsis and a few quotes for English. Mainly because you don't know what your question will be so a memorised essay will not necessarily be relevant to any of them

Reply 5

Shadey

Build english essays around quotations...so lean the quotation and just try to explain it out loud...to yours parents or something

When going into exams make sure you memorise the quotations and the explanations should come to you naturally...memorising too much makes it difficult to answer the question directly

Reply 6

sjames06

I wouldn't recommend memorising essays, everyone who has done that at my school has either failed or done really badly in our two prelims. Like Shadey said, memorise the quotes, I personally memorise the quotes in order they are in my essay, and what you are going to say about them. Then, once you have the question the rest should flow out.

Reply 7

Reverie.

I wouldn't memorise English essays; chances are a) none of the questions you've learnt will come up, or b) a question similar but not the same to one you know will come up and you'll end up writing things not quite relevant/not answering the question as well as you would have if you'd thought up an answer specifically for the question.

Just learn quotations that tie in to the main themes, and really know your text and think about it - it's a book or a play meant to interest/give enjoyment to people, not a markscheme or something. Doing essay plans as revision is probably a decent idea, as you can practise thinking of ways to answer different questions without wasting too much time. :smile:

[If I was going to memorise essays I'd maybe record them on tape and listen to them on the bus or before bed; write each paragraph in a different colour to help me visualise it when I come to write it from memory; learn the topic sentences off by heart etc.]

Reply 8

usertest003

this, there’s no point memorising 500 words if you can memorise 15 and ******** your way around the rest - you’ll be remembering less and making sure that you have the important content covered.