Prelim English Extension 1 worries (1 Viewer)

[showy]

I've continually been reading posts that english extension is challenging and taxing in terms of work load and high-order thinking.

I do this subject and it is an absolute bludge- I think I have done one creative writing piece (assessment) and one essay- throughout the whole year so far.

If you do/have done preliminary eng ext could you please tell me what it was like for you?

Am I in the right place to worry that I won't have sufficient knowledge and skills by HSC time?

Thanks heaps.

 

[wardiej]

yea for us its a bludge too. We've done two essays, a newspaper article, a creative writing piece and read two novels but thats all

 

[Duffman0]

The complete opposite. It depends on whether or not your teacher is a stuck up academic or a relaxed, intelligent person.

If you have the former, you'll get textual dynamics. And you'll be thoroughly - excuse the french - fucked. Our current assignment is harder than all of the assignments i've had for all my subjects this year put together.

I won't go into detail because it'll identify me if the teacher lurks these forums.

 

[Duffman0]

Please check your inbox.

 

[Duffman0]

But don't worry. Our teacher is a bit of a bitch, she's the worst case scenario.

 

[showy]

Haha, thats a relief then.

 

[Aquawhite]

I don't take EX1 but those who do say it is a breeze. I recommend it if your teacher is good. Get to know the English faculty...

 

[showy]

Yeah I think I might have to. Thanks for the advice. By the way, how do you manage those rankings?

 

[cookie.banana]

are you guys fucking kidding

my lack of intelligence obviously plays a role in the difficulty of english extension, but its not a walk in the park by any means for all the smart kids in my class

 

[jycy]

Our Extension English class is a bludge but the homework we get isn't.
All we do in class is discuss topics about literature then drift off to talk about things totally irrelevant to what we're doing in english. But we get a fair bit of homework.

 

[technicolour]

Our Extension English class is a bludge but the homework we get isn't.
All we do in class is discuss topics about literature then drift off to talk about things totally irrelevant to what we're doing in english. But we get a fair bit of homework.

It's exactly the same at my school and it's aggravating. It just ends up being really confusing after a while. I really like the content, but it feels like there's no substance to the class. All our teacher does is sit back and let us make the points, and usually they're either glaringly obvious or just stupid.

 

[ekoolish]

Just revise before assessments and exams and you don't even need a teacher. It's way easier then advanced because you're really only covering one module.

 

[georgetta]

Hey there. I was in your exact position last year! Doing Ext 1 english for HSC now. It's basically as easy or hard as you want to make it. In terms of actual assessments you've got nothing to worry about - the HSC exam is one essay and a creative. But the concepts get more an more difficult as you go along, and so bludging normally doesn't help in the end (as i've just discovered!). To ACTUALLY understand what you are learning about, you should be constantly doing your own reading and note taking out of class. Lol a bit confusing i know.. sorry. But, basically, you CAN get away with doing minimal work next year, but to do well and come up with sophisticated answers you need to work fairly hard or at least really enjoy the concepts your learning about!

Hope this helps =]

 

[showy]

Thanks.

So far we've done a Shakespeare and Romanticist poetry so it's fairly easy.
But I'll keep that in mind for hsc year.

 

[ashie0]

easy as pie, although not so for everyone in our class
im sure plenty of people work super hard on it...

check the syllabus to see where your upto perhaps?

 

[leahmaree1992]

I'm doing prelim. ext. English...and let's say this: a lot of the time, it is a bludge, however, our teacher can be a little zany and when she's stressed or a tad bit frustrated, she'll get a bit stuck into us and make us do some work when we have the class for 2-hrs every Monday.

If you don't really have your heart into English, don't do it, but if you do, it's worth it, bludge class or not!

 

[Bek93]

It's a pretty big bludge at times, esp in classes.
Although the tasks, assesments and homework we get is pretty hard.

 

[curlygirl93]

its a whole lot of discussion,
we've done one task and now were onto our 2nd assessment

 

[imsopostmodern]

the workload obviously feels different for different people. i personally didnt find ext eng particularly straining and it was my top subject for the hsc. it's considered a lot of work because there's often a lot of extra (usually theoretical) readings to be done and whether you do them or not can really change how the size of the workload for the subject.

 

[TBK11]

agreed ext eng is a really big bludge, but alot of reading which i hate im gonna drop it at start of term 4 doing horrible at it got 36/50 for half yearlies and the texts we do r pretty boring as well