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epitome

I'm tempted to say that 5 hours would be more useful.

Very true...We are at the whims of the examiners :-S Do you think the next generation would thank us if we did that ("new 5 hr AEA")?! Bwahahaha...

Fiona87 - any chance you could type up some of the more general questions from the "the me myself" paper. Without the extracts, just to get a wider idea of the stuff they're asking? Pretty please?! :smile:

Well...okay :-) That's a good idea, and if it helps, then that is super :-D

1. Same format, but instead of Shakespeare discussion, replace with "how the texts offer views of themselves or of experiences that have helped make them what they are".

2. In passage K, Orwell suggests that a writer's "subject matter is determined by the age he lives in" and that we need to know something about the writer's "early development" and "emotional attitude" in order to assess his work. How far would you agree with Orwell's argument, in relation to passages and/pr to texts that you have read?

3. In Passage L, Nash suggests that "language is the individual's principle aid" in negotiating various kinds of relationship. Consider issues that you think this passage raises, in relation to passages and/or texts that you have read.

4. In passage M, Gardner argues taht first-person narrative limits possibilities for author and reader while "traditional third-person-omniscient point of view...gives the writer greatest range and freedom". In relation to Gardner's argument, discuss the effects of narrative point of view in passages and/or texts that you have read.

5. In passage N, Rylance and Simons emphasise that "reading literature is an essentially dynamic activity..." In relation to passages and/or material of your own choice, explore some of the issues raised by this passage.

6. In passage O, Pope suggests that English is a "multi-media resource...ubject to such diverse pressures and carrier of so many meanings in such diverse materials and contexts". Discuss and illustrate Pope's argument in relation to passages and your own studies of language and/or literature.

7. Select one of the passages from the reading booklet:
i) re-write it in another form and style
ii) discuss stylistic and/or linguistic transformations that your re-writing has entailed.

Closer to the time, I'm not sure how your exam timetables are, but could we have a discussion on one of the Shakespeare questions?

Reply 21

Zarathustra

Fiona87

Closer to the time, I'm not sure how your exam timetables are, but could we have a discussion on one of the Shakespeare questions?

I'm definitely up for that :biggrin:

I'd already set aside the evening of June 23rd for Eng AEA stuff (yes, giving myself a whole few hours of one night to prepare :rolleyes:

), so I think we should discuss it on that exact night! LOL.

Yeah ok, people are gonna have other ideas :smile:

But still...discussion! Woo! etc etc.

ZarathustraX

Reply 22

Fiona87

Zarathustra

I'm definitely up for that :biggrin:

I'd already set aside the evening of June 23rd for Eng AEA stuff (yes, giving myself a whole few hours of one night to prepare :rolleyes:

), so I think we should discuss it on that exact night! LOL.

Yeah ok, people are gonna have other ideas :smile:

But still...discussion! Woo! etc etc.

ZarathustraX

Haha! I have a massive day of exams on the 24th (clash! arrrg!!) but I will add to discussions on the evening of the 24th! We could just let discussions roll on over a few days :-) And also any time after the 27th is fine for me as well.

Reply 23

Zarathustra

Fiona87

After the 27th?? I have about 2 exams a day on the 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th. LOL.

Lets just spread it out over that week shall we?

ZarathustraX (*waits for someone else to come along and say they can't do that week* :rolleyes:

)

Reply 24

epitome

Spreading it out works for me, as I'm an annoyingly sporadic net user/insect.

Thank you Fiona87! Much appreciated. It's not so much the extracts that are the prob (because, well, it's just reading innit), but the thinking about lionguistic ideas etc. Cheers!

Zarathustra - you've figured out your timetable this far in advance?! I don't get it - that's 7 days before the exam. Surely cramming the night before would be more helpful (though what's the other exam you've got on that day? I've got politics synoptic, ick). And anyway - what's all this being ORGANISED? I'm feeling my function dribbling away before me....

x

Reply 25

Fiona87

Oh my goodness...your exams are really late on! Mine begin on the 15th, though :-S *scary clouds and piles of paper looming*. Yes, week-long spreading-it-out seems to be the way to go!

epitome - no problem :-D Sorry I couldn't post the texts themselves up, but there's 21 pages...I cower at the thought now, but at university I'm sure we'll all be like "pfft, 21 pages in an hour. NOTHING."

Thank you very much for rep :-D

Reply 26

Zarathustra

Fiona87

Oh my goodness...your exams are really late on! Mine begin on the 15th, though :-S *scary clouds and piles of paper looming*. Yes, week-long spreading-it-out seems to be the way to go!

Yeah mine start around then, too. Philosophy of Religion and Ethics on the 14th :eek:

epitome

Zarathustra - you've figured out your timetable this far in advance?! I don't get it - that's 7 days before the exam. Surely cramming the night before would be more helpful (though what's the other exam you've got on that day? I've got politics synoptic, ick). And anyway - what's all this being ORGANISED? I'm feeling my function dribbling away before me....

Well, I kinda allocated the few days between my Philosophy and Psychology synoptics (22nd) and the big huge scary mass of exams to different things, but only very loosely. And really I'll have to know everything before then because it's all too much too close together! :eek:

(My 'smiley of the month, it would seem!)

And yes, of course I will cram the night before - it's the only way I ever pass anything. But I do also have RS AEA the same day, so I'll be pretty damn stressed and not have much time to cram - hence cramming in the evening a few days early :smile:

Don't worry, your function as Official Organiser of Me is perfectly safe - even when I make up these "timetables" I never stick to them, and I really only do it because when I'm writing them I don't have to be doing actual revision :wink:

You can organise me at Cam next year and in return I'll write some of your more interesting essays :biggrin:

ZarathustraX

Reply 27

Zarathustra

*BUMP*

We forgot to do the discussion guys :rolleyes:

Good luck to y'all though!!

:tsr:

ZarathustraX

Reply 28

mousey

Yup good luck guys. I haven't checked this thread for a while. I'm not really doing anything to prepare, i'm completely knackered and it's my friend's birthday tonight so i'm going out for that. I wouldn't know how to revise for this exam tbh, either you have the skills or you don't. I probably don't, but i don't mind failing, so it's ok. xx

Reply 29

Rose64

I think a main feature of the exam is that you can't really prepare for it - or so I'm telling myself! Good luck everyone :smile:

What a nice last exam to have. Sadly, I have another one after it :bawling:

Reply 30

Zarathustra

Rose64

Sadly, I have another one after it :bawling:

As do I

And it's another three-hour one at that!! :eek:

ZarathustraX (Also not preparing, due to an appallingly bad headache)

Reply 31

Fiona87

Oh dear!! Zarathustra - hope your headache goes away...I sat down and I guess it's post-exam tiredness catching up with me, but I just fell asleep :s-smilie:

Pencil in hand!

Good luck for tomorrow, everyone! I'm planning on disgarding anything I don't like the look of and being brutal :biggrin:

. It's like a slightly bigger synoptic unit! But a better one, and we all got through that. I, strangely enough, don't like not panicking before an exam, but so far, quite calm...

How have your exams gone?

Reply 32

Sofa King

What questions did you guys choose? Being a lang/lit person, I did question 6 - a gift! It was basically doing a mini version of the coursework :biggrin:

And thats exactly what I did, making passage A into a TV ad. woo! No more exams!

Reply 33

silence

i'm a lit person but i went for question 6 anyway. made a sonnet out of the jan morris passage (e). was fun.

Reply 34

pepperpot80

Yo folks. Finished the AEA, I enjoyed comparing the London Orbital passage with the Steinbeck passage from The Grapes of Wrath. Then I did question 3 - the one about the Reah passage talking about "encoding values, and I talked about the Lawrence passage from Mornings In Mexico (I think that's what it was called) as well as some Blake poetry and some stuff from A Clockwork Orange. Just about finished with 2 mintues to go, whichw as comfortable enough for me. Although I did spend the first 30 minutes having a leisurely read through the passages and choosing questions :tongue:

and that was before planning out answers, but the exam says to spend and hour reading, so I'm guessing that's okay :d

Reply 35

Jelkin

I compared the two travel poems, which I enjoyed, but I'm worried that a) they were too same-y and b) I didn't write anything particularly innovative. Nor did I discuss them in a very detailed way. Then I did question 6, which I guess wasn't really aimed at literature students - whoops. I re-wrote the Morris passage as a poem...I wasn't really sure what to write in part (ii) though. What sort of stuff did anyone else write who did that question???

Reply 36

silence

i wrote how i chose a sonnet because it consists of two parts (octave and sestet) in such a way that it was similar to the passage. it meant that the first stanza could be moaning about how crap the city was, and then it could get sexual and happy in the sestet. because the passage contained a great deal of imagery, i spoke about how the imagism movement in the early 20th c (e.g. ezra pound / in a station of the metro) and said i stayed away from a purely imagistic form of poetry as it wouldn't be able to convey the emotions and personal beliefs found in the passage of something (?!) and a sonnet seemed ideal because it's a relatively contained form of verse which might reflect the "confined" element of the city. lots and lots of ******** lol.

Reply 37

mousey

Clambering skyscrapers fight for space
Amidst the smog choked air
Manhattan remains a mammoth mess
Slum stink seeps throughout my hair

Blackened shadows hide the city
Like a widow's veil
The deafening din forever rises
And the air is still and stale

But this city is seductive
Its glass eyes wink
This city can draw you in
With an alluring diamond twink

Argh that was my poem. I don't think it's very good. I couldn't make it very long, because i spent too long thinking about it. It's Morris' passage into a poem obviously. The guys that read that what do you think?

Question one was ok, i took a literary approach, but ran out of time and only managed to write about two texts. I don't know if i passed, but it doesn't really matter if i didn't i suppose. xx

Reply 38

crazygirlcath

I talked about advocacy of the authors....and how they used syntactical and grammatical structures to create an audience in about 4 texts....sounded *******s. my reconstruction of the text was complete balls too, was a newspaper comment in a Sunday supplement which sounded too much like original!! doesn't really matter if i've passed tho!

Reply 39

crazygirlcath

Oh yeh i rewrote the Morris text but as a comment about the cliquey-ness of Manhattan, (i justified it with taking the physical oppression of the text to make it emotional oppression...hmmm) and i used the Kingsley text, one of the transciptions, the P+O cruise text as well as Morris' text to compare. anyone else do anything different?

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