is a 2.5 page essay long enough..and a 1.5 bishop essay?

iggyman

in english today since these were my last questions i did..i didnt have enough time to finish them..

but do you think that a 2 and a half page personal essay will be alri ..and a 1 and a half page bishop question? like will i lose loads of marks for not having at least 3.5 pages in essay and 2.5 pages on bishop...

smemon

too short imo. doesnt look good.

ThrownAway

It's quality not quantity
How big is your writing

Guys does anyone get that Bishop is going to marked very hard cause nearly everyone did that question :eek:

iggyman

me writing is about medium not not big not small...very tight together...well from what i wrote in my essay up to that point seems ok but it was just aload of crap piled into my last half page of bishop question

ThrownAway

smemon wrote:

too short imo. doesnt look good.

Yeah I was going to say that too but don't put the guy down ffs he needs reassurance

Orizio

Its really a matter of quality over quantity.

However my cultural context introduction is longer then your Bishop essay.Which is pretty scary.

Raphael

I'd say Hardy will be marked the hardest, looks to me like more people did that

Attractive Nun

You don't get marked for length in particular but I'm sure they look for a certain amount of content, depends on how much you squeezed in really. Length isn't all that big a deal though, I wouldn't worry about it, assuming what you wrote was of decent quality.

Hopefully the examiners actually do pay attention to the amount of people that did the question, because Bishop, Longley and Hardy were virtual certainities to come up, so I reckon the vast majority did them, and I'm in the tiny minority of Donne fans!

iggyman

well to be honest im only looking for a d3 in H english..any more than that is a bonus i just dont want to fail it...

like i did 5 pages on them and issue which i should score high in because it was learned word for word...and then my king lear essay was good in my opion so a few loat maks in bishop question i can handle but its the essay im more scared of..like its a quarter of the whole exam and i can really only be marked out of like 65 % percent of it or something

PrettyInPunk

Raphael wrote:

I'd say Hardy will be marked the hardest, looks to me like more people did that

**** really?:eek:

smemon

ThrownAway wrote:

Yeah I was going to say that too but don't put the guy down ffs he needs reassurance

is that what the examiner will say

best tell it as it is. that amount is all right. but 9/10 times it won't be enough for an honour.

iggyman

yeah once i actually pass the paper i dont mind..just dont want to fail...have to go and study mathes now

smemon

iggyman wrote:

mathes

english isn't your strongest subject then

Glazun

It depends on your content I guess, I'm sure that theres people who wrote a lot lot more and their over all factual stuff is less than yours... what.. what's everyone looking at me for? I didnt forget large chunks of lear quotes, then panic and stuff.. I also got so paranoid with my examiner, she was standing behind me for ages, till I turned and realised she was sitting on an empty table..

OctavarIan

I wrote less than I did in the mocks, and 3 pages was too short back then, but 2 and a half pages now of much smaller writing should be grand. I really don't mind now its over. I don't know why I wrote so small though my writing is usually sorta big.

abercrombie

Raphael wrote:

I'd say Hardy will be marked the hardest, looks to me like more people did that

nooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Lord Oz

That's not fair! Defeats the whole purpose of the exam!

Orizio

Of course Rapheal may just be wrong,considering his isn't an examiner or a correcter.:p

NADA

2.5 is perfect. There are people on here who wrote six and seven pages.I think they are full of **** or their essays are full of ****

smemon

i disagree, 2.5 pages is not honours standard, its ok if you want a pass though.

3.5 pages min if you want an A, preferably 4 or above. 6 plus is just taking the piss and will bore the examiner unless it's world class which it won't be unless your a genius.

Funkstard

smemon wrote:

i disagree, 2.5 pages is not honours standard, its ok if you want a pass though.

3.5 pages min if you want an A, preferably 4 or above. 6 plus is just taking the piss and will bore the examiner unless it's world class which it won't be unless your a genius.

My writing isn't that big or anything, but I constantly struggled to keep my poetry essays down to 4/5 pages. Today I wrote 6, and that ended up with me just giving a page long description basically on each poem. Dunno how in hell you'd write a decent answer in 3/4 pages

xha1r

smemon wrote:

i disagree, 2.5 pages is not honours standard, its ok if you want a pass though.

3.5 pages min if you want an A, preferably 4 or above. 6 plus is just taking the piss and will bore the examiner unless it's world class which it won't be unless your a genius.

english isn't your strongest subject then

smemon

xha1r wrote:

english isn't your strongest subject then

ffs, im always doing that :mad:
the hunter becomes the hunted

actually it is by far my strongest subject

Zoodlebop

My aunt is an english corrector and says that the ideal length for the paper 1 essay is around 1000 words. I only get 160 words per page, so that equates to about 6/7 pages. That is also plenty for Comparison and Lear, maybe with 200 words extra.

River Allow

I wrote about three pages. I fit bout 300 words in a page so should be ok like! I hope!

:|

Raphael wrote:

I'd say Hardy will be marked the hardest, looks to me like more people did that

Balls:mad:

ThrownAway

wrote:

Balls:mad:

Bishop too :mad:

DonaldDuck

Zoodlebop wrote:

My aunt is an english corrector and says that the ideal length for the paper 1 essay is around 1000 words. I only get 160 words per page, so that equates to about 6/7 pages. That is also plenty for Comparison and Lear, maybe with 200 words extra.

You must write like a monster! I get 300-400 words per page!

ThrownAway

DonaldDuck wrote:

You must write like a monster! I get 300-400 words per page!

Yeah same here maybe even more phew I feel better now I wrote 3 1/2 I think

jimi_t

Wrote 4 for the essay, 5 1/2 for Bishop (which was serious overkill but I was on a roll). I reckon the min you should be doing is 3 1/2 for the essay and 3 for the poetry - otherwise you'll be penalised for length.

DonaldDuck

ThrownAway wrote:

Yeah same here maybe even more phew I feel better now I wrote 3 1/2 I think

I only got 3 I had no interest in the essays on it and made it very dificult to write on. Had intended on doing the speech but not the one that came up,I ended up doing it anyway but not well at all

whassupp2

What about Longley. first it was a letter to him. then you had to concentrate on his themes. bit awkward...

Particle-Boy

Yeah. It's definitely quality and NOT quantity. Although.. I don't see how one could fit enough into a bishop essay of 2.5 pages... Sure. Best of luck anyways.
Besides I did a personal essay on Paper 1 of 8 pages and my teacher said that unless it is REALLY good that I will get marked down for the length. So I guess shorter is better in some ways!! Although in fairness I think that essay was the best one that I have ever written... So here's hoping!

Raphael

whassupp2 wrote:

What about Longley. first it was a letter to him. then you had to concentrate on his themes. bit awkward...

Discussing themes is basically what I do in essays anyway, and the letter wasn;t too bad if you were writing your essay on the day instead of regurgiating it. I did the themes of Nature, his father and sectarian violence.

Particle Boy: Tbh I'd say you'd only get marked down if it's a bad essay that the examiner gets pissed off with reading after 2 pages.

sticky9cd

smemon wrote:

i disagree, 2.5 pages is not honours standard, its ok if you want a pass though.

3.5 pages min if you want an A, preferably 4 or above. 6 plus is just taking the piss and will bore the examiner unless it's world class which it won't be unless your a genius.

I wrote 5 pages for the essay and 2.5 for the poet(Thomas Hardy), 3 for King Lear and 4 for the comparitive. had a full hour left after paper 2 but was in till the end in paper one.:D

DonaldDuck

sticky9cd wrote:

I wrote 5 pages for the essay and 2.5 for the poet(Thomas Hardy), 3 for King Lear and 4 for the comparitive. had a full hour left after paper 2 but was in till the end in paper one.:D

Its words not pages that matter,how many words on average do you get a line?

Faerie

smemon wrote:

i disagree, 2.5 pages is not honours standard, its ok if you want a pass though.

3.5 pages min if you want an A, preferably 4 or above. 6 plus is just taking the piss and will bore the examiner unless it's world class which it won't be unless your a genius.

Bull****! I wrote 6 and a half for my Bishop essay and 5 and a half for comparative studies and my teacher told me that that's perfect!
I agree quality is more important than quantity, but you can't make a generalisation like that about writing a lot!