Taking to the next level (1 Viewer)

[ChilledAmbience]

Just started year 11. *sigh* Anyway, I get satisfactory marks in english high 70s, normally eighties and the occasional 90%. Yo-yo. What are the ways to consistently perform well? and improve? I.e. tutor?, extra study guides (any god ones?) ?, textbooks?, so on and so forth. As English definitely counts towards UAI.

Cheers! any help appreciated (BTW, I am doin ADV eng, just incase anybody did not notice this was in the ADV eng forum ; ) )

 

[absolution*]

Id probably say to work on your vocab and essay writing structure whilst your assessments dont count so that by the time you start yr12 youll be ready

 

[silvermoon]

all of those methods you mentioned should work well. make sure you read your texts multiple times so that you know them inside and out. make time at least once a week (but preferably every day or so) where you go over what you learned in your english lessons that day/week. summarise important points that can be used to create study/exam notes later on. if there's anything you dont understand, ASK about it straight away. it's hard to say whether or not you need a tutor - since you're only in year 11 i would say no, see if you can do it yourself. if, at the end of the year, you feel you still need help to keep your marks up, then you might consider a tutor. otherwise i'd say you're just wasting your money.

other than that, study guides can help - but remember that everyone else will have read the same thing. you'd be better off looking for critical essays to read.

the only other thing is to talk to your teacher BEFORE you work out any study plan. if you tell them what you're trying to do, i'm sure they'll be only too happy to tell you where you're losing marks and what you need to concentrate on to improve. this will give your study direction.

cheers

 

[modelzsuck]

you really need to use higher order language so thesauruses are good, excel study guides are good for english, i got study guides for every topic we are doing this year and it has helped me so much!!!

 

[ChilledAmbience]

Thanks guys. Its especially important since I'm doin the humanities - bus, eco, legal, modern.

What about textbooks and study guides?