My best tip is to use your SENSES - try and stimulate your eyes, ears, mouth, and also engage your body.
When I was memorising English Advanced essays, I would:
- Record myself saying the essay out loud; listening to your own intonations make your essay sound more rhythmic and so it's much...
- understand logical flow; UNDERSTANDING > BRAINWASHING
- use active recall + spaced repetition with Anki, or some other form of flashcard. Just straight reading is NOT helpful because it's not jogging your memory and testing how much you know about a topic.
- lots of practice questions and...
CAUSE AND EFFECT IS YOUR BEST FRIEND!!
A cause and effect thesis and topic sentences literally make your life so much easier. All you have to do is establish the cause, then prove the effect - this will make your idea progression super clear. If you have 3-4 pieces of analysis per para (which...
As a 96/100 English Adv scorer, I would also like to add:
For essays:
- Read and UNDERSTAND your texts - author's aim, messages, context, form and features, etc. THIS is what is going to get you good quality, A-range pieces of work.
- Understand bigger techniques than just smaller ones in...
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When I was receiving private tutoring, I did it online. I'm also someone who is organised and has a clear understanding of my own strengths and weaknesses, and so I was the one who mostly asked to complete certain tasks with my tutor, e.g. mark a certain essay, explain ___, analyse ___...
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from my knowledge, the only ones with answers are CSSA or NEAP - i can't remember which, it may be both?
but usually, short answers don't come with sample responses, just marking criteria!
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I thought I did well in the biology exam, but I got ~3-5 marks lower than I thought... maybe it was because it didn't test a lot of knowledge? The whole exam really took me by surprise, because there was barely any content tested.
I would advise you to not stress out too much about the prelims - the ranks should be scraped clean at the end of Year 11, so Year 12 is basically a fresh start. But with that being said, still try your best - prelims is THE TIME to really understand and address your weaknesses, whether it be...