Question on pre-written essays

[monicacinom]

Hello everyone,
It seems to me that many high achievers in English seemed to have pre-prepared their essays for the exam.
Therefore, I was just wondering, is there any tip on how to prepare for those pre-written essays? especially for the Text Response section?
Thank you

[brenden]

For the love of all that is good and holy, don't prepare a response for Section A >.<

[monicacinom]

For the love of all that is good and holy, don't prepare a response for Section A >.<

Oh really? Why is that? :O

[werdna]

Just don't do it...

[brenden]

Because every single year the assessors tell students not to.
Massive waste of time.

What if you wrote on Harry Potter an essay about friendship and the prompt was about destiny?

[Damoz.G]

Yeah don't memorise essays for text response. TR is not like Context where you can tweak a piece.

The question you "memorise" is probably not even going to be close to your actual topic that you are presented with in the exam.

[monicacinom]

Because every single year the assessors tell students not to.
Massive waste of time.

What if you wrote on Harry Potter an essay about friendship and the prompt was about destiny?

What is an effective good approach in dealing with TR?

[Damoz.G]

What is an effective good approach in dealing with TR?

Memorising Quotes that you can always use.

Knowing your texts very well

[simpak]

I used to prepare essay plans but not actual essays.
Like, to a lot of different topics, say 30 per text...just literally write down what the paragraph would be about (a sentence) and think about what quotes or examples I could use there.
And then in the exam, especially for Context, you end up with something that probably pulls together a few of those paragraphs because you've covered a lot of ground and left it broad.

For Section A though yeah, preparing essays is an awful idea.
Just quotes and examples and understanding the overall themes and then practicing with random topics you dislike is best.

[brenden]

What is an effective good approach in dealing with TR?

Practice getting good at it so you can do it to any prompt without a prepared essay.

[monicacinom]

thank you all for the input!

[thushan]

Interestingly enough...I know a school in NSW (*cough* Ruse *cough*) that actually legit trains their students to memorise a number of essays word for word and then tweak the topic sentences and a few others to match the prompt. Sounds a bit like a mark factory more than a school to me

[Damoz.G]

Interestingly enough...I know a school in NSW (*cough* Ruse *cough*) that actually legit trains their students to memorise a number of essays word for word and then tweak the topic sentences and a few others to match the prompt. Sounds a bit like a mark factory more than a school to me

I guess its possible, but its a massive risk and could be a complete waste of time if the topic given is completely different. Thushan, do you know how many essays they memorise?

[thushan]

I guess its possible, but its a massive risk and could be a complete waste of time if the topic given is completely different. Thushan, do you know how many essays they memorise?

No idea.

[pi]

Interestingly enough...I know a school in NSW (*cough* Ruse *cough*) that actually legit trains their students to memorise a number of essays word for word and then tweak the topic sentences and a few others to match the prompt. Sounds a bit like a mark factory more than a school to me

Yeah had a convo with a Ruse mate about this haha, from what I gathered their English course is more suited to that though.

TT memorised all his essays (VCE) and got high 40s in English, seems risky though