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Rebelius · 2nd May 2005, 01:56 PM

Higher English is a joke

I spent the whole year writing essays on Death Of A Salesman, Smeddum by Grassic Gibbon and Edwin Morgan poems. Then in the last couple of weeks of term we did a poem and another short story to give us more texts incase nothing came up that we could answer.

So come the exam i end up writting about The things we did in the last 2 weeks of term: Whole Town's Sleeping by Ray Bradbury(short story) and Death of a Naturalist(poem) by Seamus Heaney. Shitty English.

I got a B-3.

My advice to anyone with a science brain who doesnt need higher english for whatever they want to do after school is to not do it, I found it so much more work than my other highers and i didnt even need it. Wish I'd done Information Systems instead.

Edit: Alan, you get five sections of questions: Drama, Poetry, Prose, Mass Media and Language. (We didnt do anything on Media or Language) and you have to answer 2 questions from different sections.

As for Close Reading: Past Papers, Past Papers, Past Papers.

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Rebelius Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 7,169	Higher English is a joke I spent the whole year writing essays on Death Of A Salesman, Smeddum by Grassic Gibbon and Edwin Morgan poems. Then in the last couple of weeks of term we did a poem and another short story to give us more texts incase nothing came up that we could answer. So come the exam i end up writting about The things we did in the last 2 weeks of term: Whole Town's Sleeping by Ray Bradbury(short story) and Death of a Naturalist(poem) by Seamus Heaney. Shitty English. I got a B-3. My advice to anyone with a science brain who doesnt need higher english for whatever they want to do after school is to not do it, I found it so much more work than my other highers and i didnt even need it. Wish I'd done Information Systems instead. Edit: Alan, you get five sections of questions: Drama, Poetry, Prose, Mass Media and Language. (We didnt do anything on Media or Language) and you have to answer 2 questions from different sections. As for Close Reading: Past Papers, Past Papers, Past Papers. Last edited by Rebelius : 2nd May 2005 at 02:03 PM.