I'd write down key quotes and ideas in point form.
that is like a really good form of revision/study (writing practice essays). it is just a real shame that teachers at MY school (mind you I go to a fully selective school) have this lame policy that they aren't allowed to mark any practice work you do unless it has been specifically assigned by them.For texts, I do these things,
-identify ideas and put them as subheadings
-then list major techniques used by the author/playwright/whatever and explain what effect it produces
-support with quotes from the text
-plus dont forget to do whatever the module tells you to do (e.g. compare with your other text if you're doing module a, link with belonging if you're doing AoS, incorporate critical readings if you're doing module b...)
-and dont forget to do lots of practice essays and get them marked by your teacher
You can't really write study notes for the creative writing part, the best thing you can do is just write heaps of practice creative writings and get your teacher to mark them
And for the comprehension part, just memorise techniques, and try to incorporate them in questions, practice questions are also useful if you get your hands on some that relate to belonging
fail lol
I totally agree with you! We had a creative writing assessment towards the end of last term, and people in my year were complaining. They wanted to submit practice creatives (and so did I) to get some feedback. But NOOOOO. They made up some rubbish about it being against school policy! HORRIBLE.
^ Minimal. You need way more.
Why was this policy introduced? I've never heard of anything like that before.
what about how we don't actually get given marks for any english things, just rankings, and we don't get personal feedback, or anything written on our writing, we just get a positives/negatives for the grade as a whole. that's shit.
this.
i agree with that also. most of the time feedback that is given for the grade as a whole won't even apply to me, so then I sit there wondering where I lost marks (since there's no personal feedback.)
to be honest, I have NO idea why this policy was introduced. in my opinion, I think that it's because the teachers are lazy perhaps? when we questioned my teacher about it, they turned around and said, "just get your tutors to look at it."
Well, excellent English skills (e.g comprehension, essay writing, creative writing) are not something you can develop overnight. However HSC is a bit different, when you enter the examination room, the questions are always based upon the topic you have studied (well you choose the question that is based on your topic), the questions they ask you are often very similar and something that you might easily expect.
yeah agreed! we can do that too, our teachers actually encourage us to do this? so we can expand on our main ideas and they can give us personal feddback. i cant believe that is actually a policy in some schools, how ludicrous.
