From what I know, the first criteria on marking is 'student effectively responds to the question given'.
I'm memorising an essay for Module C - you can.
I'm memorising a range of short, probably 'a third of ap aragraph' ideas - 30 of them, for Module B - and stitch them together
I'm memorising something similar for Module A, but in larger chunks.
Memorise your quotes, techniques, not essays! Write a list of all possible essays and then roughly plan in about 5 dot points how you will approach it beforehand.
In the simplest sense, what I'm saying is, memorise the "technique", the "example", but NOT the "effect" (generalism), as the effect will be to suport or debunk the view that "______" (Question)
