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Higher English (Scottish Qualification): Critical Essays

I struggle on creating and writing critical essays on the spot in an exam, so I perform better by pre preparing an essay, memorising it and slightly changing it to suit the essay question. I am wondering: - How many essays I should memorise for the final exam?
- What types of essays these should be (eg theme, character, setting, key turning point etc)?
- What would be the ideal amount of quotes to memorise?
- Would I get away with using most of the same quotes for lots of different questions? My maximum amount of essays to memorise would be 3, but if I can get away with memorising just 1 or 2 to suit every question would be preferable. I’m needing an A, preferably in the high 80’s, so would be needing at least 14/20 for my critical essay. Help would be much appreciated!!

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hi there,
personally im not memorising essays for higher, instead im meorising quotes and analysis.
how I lay it out is like this:
introduction

paragraph 1:

topic sentence

quote and alanalyis x 3

link back to question


and im doing threee paragraphs
you can use more of less quotes depending on the amount of analysis you write, and I usually do three paragraphs and I okay. and then your conclusion, brief summary of the points made and final evaluation linking back to the question and you can add in your own personal response. also link your quotes together if you can so you arent just randomly dropping wuotes.
hope this help! :smile:

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