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The spiderlings were too many, forcing my legs down with the sheer weight and octapodian tenacity of their little furry bodies. With my last free leg, I lashed out into the floor, scattering tiny motes of baby spider in a cloud around me. To the casual observer (though how casual one could ever...

"What now?" I asked. "Are you going to throw me in a moat of water, then slowly bring it to the boil in order to test that theory about frogs and temperature sensitivity?" "And let you happily climb away in the process? Not likely," cackled Herbert as a sheet of spiderlings rushed up my armour...

this entire thread is evidence why the work:reward ratio for memorising and generic essays is simply not worth it. seriously you are far better off focusing on understanding your text, memorising QUOTATIONS (and understanding how the different techniques operate in each), and getting a decent...

"Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice" - Nam Le (in The Boat) short stories don't get much better than that. Or look at the works of Etgar Keret, specifically the short story "The Bus Driver who Wanted to be God" (also the name of his collection). Finally, if you...

I think, like Absolute that " your thesis is too broad, which then makes your ideas too broad". I would differ from him in that I would advocate specificity of points, rather than splitting each idea into separate stages or components. To your specific example "Relevance to modern society" can...

Your thesis is your answer to the question. Your topic sentences are the reasons why you made such an answer. And your evidence/analysis is the body of reasoning for those reasons. #inception

Your thesis is your constant. DON'T FORGET IT.

My best subjects were the ones I disliked the most. I have significant creative differences with the logic and rationale (or lack thereof) behind the English HSC syllabus. That same syllabus caused me, despite being reasonably decent at writing, to drop from 2nd to 30th in my HSC cohort simply...

inb4 strawber- never mind. No because it takes you longer to write a word in caps than it does in lowercase. Only half-joking.

Is it easier to talk about two texts in a paragraph, or one? Now consider doing that under exam timed conditions, with the pressure of completing not just that essay but two more after/around that. strawberrye calls the word limit/time as the main killing factor. I call the sheer complexity...

+1 I would generally introduce with something like "In a similar manner to <previous speech>, this one uses a certain rhetorical device, but the effect is different." Thank you strawberrye for beating me to the no-integration post

not sure if good idea for Band 6 student to take advice from Band 4 Seriously I suggest you just back yourself. If you're worried about not being able to pull the same thing in exams, try practising under time to any number of different questions. Get them from past papers, teachers, friends...

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CMON GUYS DON'T LEAVE ME HANGING

NO NO NO NO NO To avoid me typing out the same old thing again, this is why If you are doing well already, just make sure you have enough techniques prepared (including a few key scenes) and understand how to apply them to a variety of different ideas and questions. Focus on simply answering...

Unless you use them adeptly, flashbacks are a great way to bore or irritate the reader. The best example by far is Naruto. If you think there is a solid case for using flashbacks, it's best to adhere to a consistent structure - e.g. alternating paragraphs jump back to a past time. A lot of...

I remember that article with much fondness. One of my friends wrote about 1300, I wrote about 800. Typically beat him by 1-2 marks though it varied the other way sometimes. Write regularly to time and you can easily train yourself to hit 1000 which is arguably all you need. But what really...

Practice with the goal of improving two things: speed and accuracy. Accuracy is the ability to understand what a question requires of you, and provide it with interest. This means anticipating some of the easier questions (as Troll has mentioned) but also being able to break down harder ones...

Stop memorising, start thinking. If you make a deliberate attempt to answer the question (and use a decent structure, solid analysis, et c.), you'll be in a strong position to get a stronger mark. I'm not surprised people who "made up" their essays on the spot did as well as you or better -...

The suggestion from _blank made think of The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night-Time, which is about how an autistic boy relates to facts and memories as he goes about trying to solve the murder of his neighbour's dog. Works not just from the perspective of history and memory (the protagonist...