3 Tips to Prepare for Module C – Trial Exams ✍🏾

With Trial exams for 2023 only a weeks weeks, away, each of our students have started preparing for their English exams – the first exam to kick off the period!   One of the sections with the most unknown variables will be Module C – students won’t know what text type...

💬 Chat GPT, the new Google? 💻

It’s here and there is no denying it. What are we talking about? Chat GPT of course. Whilst its features may be new and exciting, its application within the learning space for students is very similar.   You have a question, you put it to Chat GPT for an answer....

The one tip to boost your essay 💁‍♀️

Ther are lots of different things you will get told and taught to improve your essay.  Use more evidence  Incorporate higher order literary techniques  Develop a stronger thesis  Write more  Do these sound familiar to you? Even though I can’t hear your response, I...

How to Write a Band 6 Response for a Module C Reflection ✅

There isn’t necessarily a right or wrong way of approaching your reflection. Rather, what you should focus on is including the elements set out below and then you will be in on your way. Be sure to maintain paragraphs that contain a certain idea that your express with...

What’s in a mark?

You’ve just received your mark back on your latest assessment. It’s not quite what you are after. You may be in Year 11 and after maintaining solid marks throughout your junior years, this seems to be a dip in results.   But a number is just a number. Unless we...

Wait, what’s a thesis again?

And then all the other questions that go with it…where does it go? What does it do? Isn’t it the same as topic sentence? Do I include it in my conclusion? Ah, the list goes on.   Well let’s try and give some insight to better understand what it is...

Module C Texts – how do we use them?

A very good question. Glad you asked.   Whilst this is generally aimed towards the HSC course for Standard and Advanced English, what we share can also be applied to students completing their preliminary studies in the Reading to Write module.   So, let’s get on...

To Memorise or not to Memorise…That is the question…

Shakespeare put the original question to us in Hamlet when Prince Hamlet poses to audiences in a dramatic speech, “To be, or not to be”.   That question seems to resonate as we prepare to write essays on his timeless pieces of literature as we are now...