base essay mem and adapting (1 Viewer)

[Tryingtodowell]

Im confused .
so I see people saying they have memorised these number of essays or a 2000 word essay and blah blah approaching the hsc but when do you actually make sure you have mastered adapting it to various different questions?

do you memorise the base essay first then adapt as many times as possible
or
memorise one paragraph then adapt as many as possible then memorise the second one then adapt and so on till you got the full essay

because I get confused when I see people saying they memorised 'this much' a few days before the hsc meaning when did they adapt? online on docs/word ? or are they actually saying that they are 'rememorising it'


thanks

 

[v.tex]

Im confused .
so I see people saying they have memorised these number of essays or a 2000 word essay and blah blah approaching the hsc but when do you actually make sure you have mastered adapting it to various different questions?

do you memorise the base essay first then adapt as many times as possible
or
memorise one paragraph then adapt as many as possible then memorise the second one then adapt and so on till you got the full essay

because I get confused when I see people saying they memorised 'this much' a few days before the hsc meaning when did they adapt? online on docs/word ? or are they actually saying that they are 'rememorising it'


thanks

bruh, usually questions are broad enough that you can mould your essay pretty easily to the question, just define it at your intro and include links after some/most analysis. You can just practice doing this by making questions yourself and then adapting your essay for practice .

 

[Tryingtodowell]

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[Masaken]

Im confused .
so I see people saying they have memorised these number of essays or a 2000 word essay and blah blah approaching the hsc but when do you actually make sure you have mastered adapting it to various different questions?

do you memorise the base essay first then adapt as many times as possible
or
memorise one paragraph then adapt as many as possible then memorise the second one then adapt and so on till you got the full essay

because I get confused when I see people saying they memorised 'this much' a few days before the hsc meaning when did they adapt? online on docs/word ? or are they actually saying that they are 'rememorising it'


thanks

as mentioned above a lot of qs (esp for common module) are very broad and are just waffle words/phrases for the rubric so as long as you know the rubric you should be fine. there are certain schools though esp selective schools (and some years where the nesa gods just aren't in your favour) who set super specific questions or question types that most kids flop at because they usually prepare for generic essay ideas and qs (i think at my school we did a very specific type of extract q for module b that had to get remarked because everyone did horribly for it and didn't actually engage with the extract properly). you can just prepare for those by practising and exposing yourself to as many qs as possible but tbh it depends on your confidence level as well cos i only looked at a few past paper qs before the hsc

have a base essay first, if you want to build confidence in adapting then practise adapting key aspects of that base essay (introduction, topic sentences, linking sentences) to the focus of chosen past paper qs. to me memorising and adapting were pretty independent of eo cos you could do one at the same time as the other. practising adapting also helps you memorise kinda as you're looking at the same blocks of text over and over again and just changing/removing/adding minor details to what you already have to fit the question