can i just learn off an essay?

Glee_GG

ages ago i did an essay on "a day you would like to relieve" and it was about a Christmas day i spent in new York. I got a B+ for it and i was wondering can i just learn that one off and use it as there is nearly always an essay option on your childhood/memory/day you want to relive etc ?

kevin12345

Glee_GG wrote: »

ages ago i did an essay on "a day you would like to relieve" and it was about a Christmas day i spent in new York. I got a B+ for it and i was wondering can i just learn that one off and use it as there is nearly always an essay option on your childhood/memory/day you want to relive etc ?

Yeah you can, as long as it fits in with a topic it's grand

DylanS09

Glee_GG wrote: »

ages ago i did an essay on "a day you would like to relieve" and it was about a Christmas day i spent in new York. I got a B+ for it and i was wondering can i just learn that one off and use it as there is nearly always an essay option on your childhood/memory/day you want to relive etc ?

You can yeah!
And then just pray that the theme you've learned comes up!:pac:
But you can learn them off anyway...there's no rule against it!

Glee_GG

yeah because its a pretty general theme! i could tie it in to a few things!

jamesie_boy

Absolutely not. Whatever about learning off Irish essays it shouldn't be done in a subject like English. English rewards creative writing, not learning off essays in the hope that you might pass it off as something you came up with on the day. If you feel you can pull it off though, by all means go for it but our English teacher used to always go on about the importance of creativity and originality in essays....

kevin12345

jamesie_boy wrote: »

Absolutely not. Whatever about learning off Irish essays it shouldn't be done in a subject like English. English rewards creative writing, not learning off essays in the hope that you might pass it off as something you came up with on the day. If you feel you can pull it off though, by all means go for it but our English teacher used to always go on about the importance of creativity and originality in essays....

what are you on about :pac: she clearly wrote the story already so it is original, I prepared essays and got 65/70 in my mocks for that prepared essay! What about the 10 minutes wasted of thinking of a decent plot? Those 10 minutes could be used in another are where they might need more time? :rolleyes:

Glee_GG

kevin12345 wrote: »

what are you on about :pac: he clearly wrote the story already so it is original, I prepared essays and got 65/70 in my mocks for that prepared essay! What about the 10 minutes wasted of thinking of a decent plot? Those 10 minutes could be used in another are where they might need more time? :rolleyes:

yeah i got 45/70 in my mock essay because i couldnt think of a decent plot!! i got an A though because i did really well in everything else but the essay is such a major part of the exam i dont want to risk it!!!:) btw..im a girl!:P

kevin12345

Glee_GG wrote: »

yeah i got 45/70 in my mock essay because i couldnt think of a decent plot!! i got an A though because i did really well in everything else but the essay is such a major part of the exam i dont want to risk it!!!:) btw..im a girl!:P

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Glee_GG

kevin12345 wrote: »

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haha!!

Tommyrawr

yeh im gonna learn of a few essays meself gonna try to use the one i did in the pre's got 58/70 for it
anyone got any (teachers) predictions for any essay titles?

Glee_GG

Tommyrawr wrote: »

yeh im gonna learn of a few essays meself gonna try to use the one i did in the pre's got 58/70 for it
anyone got any (teachers) predictions for any essay titles?

well theres usually one about something that happened when you were a child that you would like to relive etc. they are usually pretty general!

Mayoegian

jamesie_boy wrote: »

Absolutely not. Whatever about learning off Irish essays it shouldn't be done in a subject like English. English rewards creative writing, not learning off essays in the hope that you might pass it off as something you came up with on the day. If you feel you can pull it off though, by all means go for it but our English teacher used to always go on about the importance of creativity and originality in essays....

I don't agree. You talk about the importance of creativity and originality, yet the OP has written this story himself, out of his own creativity and originality. So what if he learns it off and rewrites it in an exam? You're all going to have to learn things off for various exams, like history or Geography, and this continues on well into your LC. Some people have various different methods of studying, and that's one of them.

Crow92

This is hilarious that everyone is basically suggesting learning off essays, over the the Leaving Cert forum we're nearly all against it.

The most important thing in any exam, but especially english is to stay on topic and answer the question so if an essay comes up about
"an incident that happened during the holidays" and you write about how you had this amazing xmas that clearly doesn't fit into the title and you'll lose Soooo many marks.

oh and also Short stories are the hardest to get good marks in anyways if people are thinking of doing them.

spurious

You're a bit stymied if you have to jam it into a title.
It's very obvious when that happens.

Kyromancer

Yes, you can. Try to learn off an essay that you can easily tweak slightly to suit a large range of titles.

Personally, I have used an essay about a match in every essay since I started secondary school, and I have yet to have any problems.

alleystar

Well for the english exam you're actually not supposed to have an essay learnt off by heart. The examiners are testing you on your ability to create a story in a limited amount of time. You will notice this in paper 2, the unseen parts of the paper have the same mark as the studied. Anyone can learn of reams of notes. I suppose though for the essay you can get away with it since you wrote it yourself.

Glee_GG

oh im not going 2 use it if it doesnt fit into the title its just that its so general i topic i think i might as well!