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  1. WeeBhoy7

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    sitting higher english this year (5th) and prelims a week tomorow.
    studying hard, to learn all my poems (Visiting Hour, Hotel Room 12th Floor and Brooklyn Cop) and my play (The Crucible).
    finding it really hard, and just resigned to doing my best and proberly failing but getting my final exam right, anyone else doing it? and what plays and poems use studying?

    AND ANY TIPS PLEASE SHARE!!!! :50:
     
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  2. Scarecrow

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    am doing it.

    fiction - lord of the flies.
    drama - macbeth.
    poems - hotel room 12th floor, and others canny mind.

    its alot of *, awful subject, ye like a book/film/play or ye dont, ye say why and thats it, nobody gives a * how the sentence structure gives the idea of rain showing somebodys depressed - what a lot of utter gash. dont give a * if a fail it.
     
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  3. WeeBhoy7

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    hahaha, fair play declan mate lol.
    i just want to pass because its a GREAT qualification to have
     
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  4. Mr. Slippyfist

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    Never done higher English.....but I'm good at it:icon_mrgreen:

    Best of luck to you and Declan pal:50:
     
    Mr. Slippyfist, Jan 24, 2011
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  5. GreenGiant1888

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    The Great Gatsby, The Horses, A Hanging and Dulce et Decorum est . It's pish, an essay a week and close reading/textual analysis on top of that . Prelim is at the end of Febuary .
     
    GreenGiant1888, Jan 24, 2011
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  6. momosylla88

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    1984, The Horses, Saving Pvt. Ryan. I don't understand why you can't have the book in with you in the exam instead of having to memorise quotes which is detrimental to the overall quality of your essay imo
     
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  7. Mystic Penguin

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    Hotel room 12th floor is rubbish.:56:
     
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  8. PaddyBhoy

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    pulled out of school 2 months ago, i was sitting 4 highers including english

    but now im back in school got offered to go back to higher english, but its too much to catch up on, so dropped down to int.2 and will be doing higher again next year.

    we did macbeth and sunset song.
     
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  9. Heisenberg

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    Got a B for my higher English, was * delighted with it. Higher English has got to be one of the hardest highers, close reading is solid man
     
    Heisenberg, Jan 24, 2011
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  10. Scarecrow

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    it is man, utter pish.
     
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  11. kris_bhoy_1916

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    me mr brainy did int 1 english in 5th what a load of * :56:
     
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  12. davoud1888

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    I'm doing it this year and my prelims on Thursday :( I'm doing The Crucible, The Almond Tree and The Cone Gatherers (load of pish!!)
     
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  13. PaddyBhoy

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    im good at close reading, just * at handing in essays on time, i canny sit down and do them at home
     
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  14. Larsson93

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    i did it last year, got a C

    we did

    fiction - Of mice and men
    drama - Blood Brothers
    poems - Anthology 1
     
    Larsson93, Jan 24, 2011
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  15. ORIGINALS

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    im doing int 2 and ive got to learn 3 poems, 3 short stories and macbeth. * :38:.
     
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  16. Dazza

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    Did * at H. English last year, got a C. This year, * knows what's happened, got 25/25 for a timed Crucible essay today :39: Lowest I've had for an essay this year is 19 whereas last year the highest I got was 15 (which I only got once) :43:

    I'm doing The Crucible (play), The Changeling (novel), Shooting stars (poem), Glasgow Sonnets No. 1 (poem) and Havishm (poem)
     
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  17. Dariush67

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    I did SG English in 3rd year and started Higher in fourth, did all my nabs and that in fourth year and this year just concentrating on the exam. I'm doing the cone cathererers(novel), the crucible(play) and the almond tree(poem). The Cone Gatherers is a load of *.
     
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  18. CelticFC1967

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    did it 2 years ago and loved it haha! I really liked the subject, i think that helps if you want to do well in it.
     
    CelticFC1967, Jan 24, 2011
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  19. HectorTheTaxman Formerly The Spider

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    same with me paddy. i cant do them in class either though :icon_mrgreen:

    i did higher last year and got a B. i honestly don't have a clue how it happened. the highest i got all year for an essay was around 17/25. i got 44% in the prelim then went on to get a B so don't feel too disheartened if you don't do well in the prelim

    we studied a modest proposal, the great gatsby (which i quite liked tbh) and the crucible which i can safely say was the worst book/play/whatever the * it was i have ever had the pain of reading
     
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  20. BigWilly.

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    I tried english while high




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