Year 10 English people.

[-:Undertaker:-]

How many pages have you done on your Romeo and Juliet essays so far?

Ive done 12 A4 Pages on my first draft and i'm just tweaking a few bits now.

You?

[Energizer]

omg lol, i did 1 page when i did it last year.

[Hazza]

Haven't done that yet. Doing gothic literature atm.

[reindeer.]

our teacher is slow so only just started studying it.
12 a4 pagess????
we've been told not to do as much because the exam board were complaining they were too long.

all i know is i wrote 1253 words on my pre-14 poetry essay.

[mike475]

I've done around 2-3 pages (A4)

Im doing Romeo and Juliet and have come to the part where Lady Capulet enters.. (Act 3, scene 5).

Anyone doing this?

[KnuxIBF]

We're doing the creative writing bits first :]

I've nearly done the draft of the Film review.

[Technologic]

Romeo and Juliet?

We not done that.

[VPSwow]

I only did 2 and a half pages of A4 for mine last year and managed to get a B.

[buttons]

Umm,
it's not just english people :S
I did it too, erm. . . . about 5 pages. we had to had 4 at min and maxium 7 so I did okay I guess, got a 2. our grades are different I guess..

[Technologic]

Umm,
it's not just english people :S
I did it too, erm. . . . about 5 pages. we had to had 4 at min and maxium 7 so I did okay I guess, got a 2. our grades are different I guess..
He meant the subject...

[Nixt]

12 pages is ridiculous.

[benjamin]

Quality not quantity..

I did 2 pages and got an A

[Nixt]

Quality not quantity..

I did 2 pages and got an A

Yeah I did 3 or 4 and got an A. To be honest if you write too much the examiner gets bored. At A Level you have word limits and if you get into the habit of writing lots it's really hard to get out of that and you just make the whole situation a pile of crap for yourself!
To be honest 12 pages is a foolish, it doesn't make you look good and if it takes that many pages to get a good grade you may as well give up now - as you don't stand a chance in the exam. If you can still get a good grade with a few pages, then why the hell write 12?!

[-:Undertaker:-]

12 pages is ridiculous.

No it isn't, only took me a few days to do (1st draft)


Quality not quantity..

I did 2 pages and got an A

To include all the points I had to do 12 pages, I would struggle to fit it all into 2 pages.


Yeah I did 3 or 4 and got an A. To be honest if you write too much the examiner gets bored. At A Level you have word limits and if you get into the habit of writing lots it's really hard to get out of that and you just make the whole situation a pile of crap for yourself!
To be honest 12 pages is a foolish, it doesn't make you look good and if it takes that many pages to get a good grade you may as well give up now - as you don't stand a chance in the exam. If you can still get a good grade with a few pages, then why the hell write 12?!

For all the points I had to write about in the exam I had to do 12 pages, I didn't write 12 pages for the hell of it :rolleyes:

[dannyisnotamazing]

When I did it in year 10 I did 2/3 pages.

[NMULLEN]

Its quality not quantity you morons!

[Samishlol]

I only done 5.

[Tristan]

Last year, (because it changes I think) we did Great Expectations. A boy in my year (11) that's doing his A level maths atm, lol did 18 pages in size 12 font, lol.
Madness.
I got an A on that though :). I think I did about 7.

[Frodo13.]

How many pages have you done on your Romeo and Juliet essays so far?

Ive done 12 A4 Pages on my first draft and i'm just tweaking a few bits now.

You?

You've got to have gone well over and you will probably be marked down for it. Im in Year 12 now and we are only allowed a maximum of 2200, and a minimum of 1800 [Mine was 1970]

When I did it in Year 10 I think I did about 5 pages.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Its quality not quantity you morons!

Well duh!


You've got to have gone well over and you will probably be marked down for it. Im in Year 12 now and we are only allowed a maximum of 2200, and a minimum of 1800 [Mine was 1970]

When I did it in Year 10 I think I did about 5 pages.

No, there is no limit to how much you have to do. However she did state you have to do at least 4 pages.

[Frodo13.]

No, there is no limit to how much you have to do. However she did state you have to do at least 4 pages.

I dont think there is a set limit, but if a essay is just way too long the I would of thought that your teacher would advise you to cut it abit, because the examiner will probably die of bordem when reading it.

Can I ask what your question is for the coursework?

[-:Undertaker:-]

I dont think there is a set limit, but if a essay is just way too long the I would of thought that your teacher would advise you to cut it abit, because the examiner will probably die of bordem when reading it.

Can I ask what your question is for the coursework?

She hasn't said anything which i'm happy about :)

It's err describe Act 3 Scene 1 and talk about how it's dramatic, character clashes etc etc.

[Frodo13.]

It's err describe Act 3 Scene 1 and talk about how it's dramatic, character clashes etc etc.

Ha! Well enjoy :P I prefer Othello tbh. Amazing play.

[Xarea]

Our question was "How does Shakespeare convince the audience that Romeo and Juliet are truley in love by Act 1, Scene 5" (or Act 5, Scene 1 - or something).

I've done like, one paragraph...

[Throne Sofa]

I'm in year 11 and i've just done my Romeo and Juliet coursework.
I did it on Monday night the day after it was due in lol (I know) owell!
Was due in on monday, forgot about it as i lost the sheet, had to do it in lyk 2 hours when i came home from school, but as long as it's ok.
12 pages.... GET A LIFE!!

(I did a character study of the Nurse. we had like 10 q's to chose from) If your c.w is 12 pages, likely the examiner might get JUSTABIT bored...

[Alan_Carr]

We're still watching the film, well we're at the end when they both die.
Sigh, i honestly cant be bothered to do this, it sucks..
First The Crucible, now this =/

[Judge Judy]

I haven't done Romeo and Juliet or Shakespeare yet :S

I've done
Media (Compare The Longest Day to Saving Prvate Ryan)
Just finished draft of The Christmas Carol.

Did a few pages on those.
So probably doing something like R & J soon

[Soy]

Im currently doing Sherlock Holmes, the speckled band. Anyone else done this?

[Nixt]

For all the points I had to write about in the exam I had to do 12 pages, I didn't write 12 pages for the hell of it :rolleyes:

I am sure you didn't, but the fact is 12 pages worth of points is too many points.

[Roboevil]

Wow, 12 pages is a serious waste of time, I wrote 2 pages and still got an A.

[Elliott$]

lol omg at the gothic **** that schools do.. man goths or wot

[clarissa !!]

im in year 11, and i did 5 pages on my much ado essay :]

[Elliott$]

im in year 11, and i did 5 pages on my much ado essay :]
much ado about nothing or w/e? lol

[clarissa !!]

much ado about nothing or w/e? lol
yeah, that. i got a B first draft, so i didnt bother redoing it :]

[Thrived]

i did 8 pages size 10 font for my english c/wk but my teacher told me it was too long.... :S i think 12's too much tbh but then again so is 8 but i still need to tweak it to get A*, 3 marks off ;/ lolll.

[The Undertaker]

We ish doing it as an oral exam in pairs :)
12 pages seems a bit much :s

[Zuar]

Im currently doing Sherlock Holmes, the speckled band. Anyone else done this?

We're going to do that. Doing the 'The Seduction' & 'Cousin Kate' now. Finished original writing c/w. And we done speaking & listening and I got a C because I hardly did anything, so I'm redoing that tomorrow at break or whatever.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I am sure you didn't, but the fact is 12 pages worth of points is too many points.

It isn't as she has told me I have included all the points that are needed.


Wow, 12 pages is a serious waste of time, I wrote 2 pages and still got an A.

Above.

[Nixt]

It isn't as she has told me I have included all the points that are needed.


Then how come people can write a lot less and still get the same grade? To be honest your teacher is either very stupid or you are lying, it's foolish to write 12 pages. Examiners have hundreds, probably over a thousand papers (or more) to mark and when they come to your 12 pages of fun they are not going to be impressed at all, especially when there are people who wrote ten less and still got in all the points to a satisfactory level.

[tart]

urrrrrrrm i'mm going to kill a mockingbird atm. We just did a speaking nd listening assesment
on how harper lee creates tension in chapter 6 and got an A on that :]

[-:Undertaker:-]

Then how come people can write a lot less and still get the same grade? To be honest your teacher is either very stupid or you are lying, it's foolish to write 12 pages. Examiners have hundreds, probably over a thousand papers (or more) to mark and when they come to your 12 pages of fun they are not going to be impressed at all, especially when there are people who wrote ten less and still got in all the points to a satisfactory level.

1. Teacher isn't stupid.
2.YH IM LYING TO LUK KL ON HXFQ1!1!! :rolleyes:
3. I couldn't give one about the examiners, they are being paid.

[shiver]

It seems like you're showing off about this essay and how many pages you've done, since this is the question you've asked. Currently, I'm not doing it, but when I do I can imagine it being no longer than 5 pages. You also seem to be knocking off the "it's the quality, not the quantity" phrase, when it's totally true. You could be writing a total mess, repeating yourself endlessly (and in 12 pages, you probably have) and get, for instance, a D, with the reason most probably being that you have written too much and repeated yourself way beyond control. There should be limits for coursework.

[Alkaz]

12 pages !! that sounds like a lot of waffle lol. I had 7.

[-:Undertaker:-]

It seems like you're showing off about this essay and how many pages you've done, since this is the question you've asked. Currently, I'm not doing it, but when I do I can imagine it being no longer than 5 pages. You also seem to be knocking off the "it's the quality, not the quantity" phrase, when it's totally true. You could be writing a total mess, repeating yourself endlessly (and in 12 pages, you probably have) and get, for instance, a D, with the reason most probably being that you have written too much and repeated yourself way beyond control. There should be limits for coursework.


How am I showing off to a Habbo online forum?
I have not knocked it off, I agree with it yet you seem to think any essay that is over 5 pages is automatically waffle? I think YOUR the one knocking things off.
I haven't repeated myself endlessly as she has checked through it and told me to add a few bits in, cut a few bits out and type it up.
You don't get marked down for writing too much.

[Eamonn]

When I had to do Romeo & Juliet I completed about 4/5 A4 pages and got a top mark, so don't be fooled with the whole quantity over quality thing because it's always quality>quantity.

[Throne Sofa]

Right...
Undertaker, it's obvious your trying to look cool and much smarter than you actually are on 'HXFQ1!1!!' Whatever that means, i'm preusuming it's habboxforum your on about. You should give 'one' about the examiners, they determine your GCSE grades, and they'll be bored reading through a 12 page essay, as will your teacher having to go through twelve essays and will probably put "Too long". My english teacher advised me that I shouldn't go over 3000 words for my war poetry, and she said even that was a bit long. Yes, it's mainly your teachers marking and the examiners just double checking to see if they've done ok. I don't see how someone can do 12 pages on a Romeo and Juliet 12 pages, without going completely off task and topic and analysing the whole play rather than the specific essay question asked. You are showing of on a habbo forum, you make it out like you're way too cool for this forum, and keep degrading it and dismissing that your way too cool and trying to show off, then you add 'On habboxforum or habboforum' trying to make it sound like only weird geeks would do this, however, you're not too cool for this forum, you've made 6,000 and something posts and are on it constantly, your on the same level as it. For GCSE an essay over five pages is probably excesseive, of course at university you'll probably be doing essays over five pages. However I'll say it again, you've probably gone off the question, big time, which will degrade you if your 'waffling' on about something different to the essay question. I'm suprised your teacher hasn't asked you to cut it down a fair bit, it's beyond me on how someone can do 12 pages on a romeo and juliet GCSE essay question coursework, without going off topic to the essay question, yes I keep repeating myself about this, however it's the truth. You won't initaly get marked down for writing too much, however it may come that you've written too much, examiner gets slightly bored and you'll end up getting a worse mark. Of course the examiners are being paid, however they have tons to do and may get slightly bored of a 12 page essay. And yes, obviously your teacher isn't stupid, however may not be the best coursework marker out there.

[Immenseman]

I did the same essay last year I think and done 3 pages and got a decent grade.

[mangle]

The other class did romeo and juliet , i did an inspector calls. I did 5 pages and got an a* :]

[shiver]

How am I showing off to a Habbo online forum?
I have not knocked it off, I agree with it yet you seem to think any essay that is over 5 pages is automatically waffle? I think YOUR the one knocking things off.
I haven't repeated myself endlessly as she has checked through it and told me to add a few bits in, cut a few bits out and type it up.
You don't get marked down for writing too much.
I don't give a damn what type of forum this is; you're still showing off. No one actually cares about how much they write because the grade is more important. This leads me to believe you are trying to show off. What does education have to to with Habbo? Nothing, really, so stop trying to reinforce that stupid motion.
I'd consider anything more than around 5 pages waffle, actually. Are you going to stop me from this? No, of course not, because if it's possible to get a pleasing grade with around a quarter of what you have written, it seems like you're writing too much for the sake of QUANTITY. I assumed you had repeated yourself as 12 pages is just ridiculous. Examiners do mark down work for "waffling" and writing too much, too. This is not just for English, but for MFL aswell (possibly more).

You get an F for incorrectly using 'your' instead of 'you're', too.

thanx,

ryan x

[Beau]

You've probably fallen into the trap of retelling the entire story for 8+ pages imo. The examiners, after reading the entire 12 pages are going to remember that point alone, and probably mark you down for it.

[:-:Lily:-:]

How did you fit this in with your rare vaules, neeky habbox crew and habbo? you lead such a busy life, from reporting on habbos rares to telling forums how many pages you have written! babe do you ever get time for yourself?

[Roboevil]

I've seriously wasted 2 and a half minutes reading and replying to your hypocritical post.


Right...
Undertaker, it's obvious your trying to look cool and much smarter than you actually are on 'HXFQ1!1!!' Whatever that means, i'm preusuming it's habboxforum your on about. You should give 'one' about the examiners, they determine your GCSE grades, and they'll be bored reading through a 12 page essay, as will your teacher having to go through twelve essays and will probably put "Too long". My english teacher advised me that I shouldn't go over 3000 words for my war poetry, and she said even that was a bit long. Yes, it's mainly your teachers marking and the examiners just double checking to see if they've done ok. I don't see how someone can do 12 pages on a Romeo and Juliet 12 pages, without going completely off task and topic and analysing the whole play rather than the specific essay question asked. You are showing of on a habbo forum, you make it out like you're way too cool for this forum, and keep degrading it and dismissing that your way too cool and trying to show off, then you add 'On habboxforum or habboforum' trying to make it sound like only weird geeks would do this, however, you're not too cool for this forum, you've made 6,000 and something posts and are on it constantly, your on the same level as it. For GCSE an essay over five pages is probably excesseive, of course at university you'll probably be doing essays over five pages. However I'll say it again, you've probably gone off the question, big time, which will degrade you if your 'waffling' on about something different to the essay question. I'm suprised your teacher hasn't asked you to cut it down a fair bit, it's beyond me on how someone can do 12 pages on a romeo and juliet GCSE essay question coursework, without going off topic to the essay question, yes I keep repeating myself about this, however it's the truth. You won't initaly get marked down for writing too much, however it may come that you've written too much, examiner gets slightly bored and you'll end up getting a worse mark. Of course the examiners are being paid, however they have tons to do and may get slightly bored of a 12 page essay. And yes, obviously your teacher isn't stupid, however may not be the best coursework marker out there.

[Conorx0]

I did 14 pages but then on final copy i wrote small and fit it in on 8 and half :]
I did macbeth though not romeo & juliet.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Right...
Undertaker, it's obvious your trying to look cool and much smarter than you actually are on 'HXFQ1!1!!' Whatever that means, i'm preusuming it's habboxforum your on about. You should give 'one' about the examiners, they determine your GCSE grades, and they'll be bored reading through a 12 page essay, as will your teacher having to go through twelve essays and will probably put "Too long". My english teacher advised me that I shouldn't go over 3000 words for my war poetry, and she said even that was a bit long. Yes, it's mainly your teachers marking and the examiners just double checking to see if they've done ok. I don't see how someone can do 12 pages on a Romeo and Juliet 12 pages, without going completely off task and topic and analysing the whole play rather than the specific essay question asked. You are showing of on a habbo forum, you make it out like you're way too cool for this forum, and keep degrading it and dismissing that your way too cool and trying to show off, then you add 'On habboxforum or habboforum' trying to make it sound like only weird geeks would do this, however, you're not too cool for this forum, you've made 6,000 and something posts and are on it constantly, your on the same level as it. For GCSE an essay over five pages is probably excesseive, of course at university you'll probably be doing essays over five pages. However I'll say it again, you've probably gone off the question, big time, which will degrade you if your 'waffling' on about something different to the essay question. I'm suprised your teacher hasn't asked you to cut it down a fair bit, it's beyond me on how someone can do 12 pages on a romeo and juliet GCSE essay question coursework, without going off topic to the essay question, yes I keep repeating myself about this, however it's the truth. You won't initaly get marked down for writing too much, however it may come that you've written too much, examiner gets slightly bored and you'll end up getting a worse mark. Of course the examiners are being paid, however they have tons to do and may get slightly bored of a 12 page essay. And yes, obviously your teacher isn't stupid, however may not be the best coursework marker out there.

Are you stupid or brain dead?
I haven't slated off the forum I have said I couldn't care less what you or any other member thinks of me. It's so nice of you to write many paragraphs of droppings over my essay but how can you have a go at me for writing 12 pages in a GCSE which is important yet you wrote all of that utter rubbish over me writing 12 pages?


I don't give a damn what type of forum this is; you're still showing off. No one actually cares about how much they write because the grade is more important. This leads me to believe you are trying to show off. What does education have to to with Habbo? Nothing, really, so stop trying to reinforce that stupid motion.
I'd consider anything more than around 5 pages waffle, actually. Are you going to stop me from this? No, of course not, because if it's possible to get a pleasing grade with around a quarter of what you have written, it seems like you're writing too much for the sake of QUANTITY. I assumed you had repeated yourself as 12 pages is just ridiculous. Examiners do mark down work for "waffling" and writing too much, too. This is not just for English, but for MFL aswell (possibly more).

You get an F for incorrectly using 'your' instead of 'you're', too.

thanx,

ryan x

It's a habbo forum therefore I call it a habbo forum, if you like I could call it forum? I am not showing off as I have said before, I DONT CARE what you think. I was asking a question.

Oh and how sad with that last line trying to correct my spelling, OMG I GOT 'YOUR' WRONG!!!!


How did you fit this in with your rare vaules, neeky habbox crew and habbo? you lead such a busy life, from reporting on habbos rares to telling forums how many pages you have written! babe do you ever get time for yourself?

I don't report rare values, babe.


I did 14 pages but then on final copy i wrote small and fit it in on 8 and half :]
I did macbeth though not romeo & juliet.

Sorry but I might have to **** you off :rolleyes:

Yeah i'm typing mine up now on the PC and it's like 1.5 normal pages into 1 computer page.

[Throne Sofa]

:rolleyes:
I've seriously wasted 2 and a half minutes reading and replying to your hypocritical post.

Er, explain?
I hardly use this forum, and hardly ever try to look 'cool' I come on like 15mins a week for a few posts. Nothing wrong :S Roboevil, explain next time..

That's all one paragraph by the way, I don't structure my forum posts well, sorry? That took me around five minutes to write so i'm not too bothered, and yes you are slating the forum off and degrading it, no problem with me I couldn't care less, but it's a problem you've got as you shouldn't be degrading it as your on the forum 24/7. It's not utter rubbish, and i'm not having a go at you, well I sort of am but yeh. I'm not a "stupid dead brain" :8

[Infrontation]

We had a guideline of 1000words, no more than 1250 and thats not cause we are a lower educated school it was nearly impossible to condense it into that amount.

[Smits]

Quality not quantity, the fact is, a good witty essay, not too long, will recieve more marks than a long decent one. Think about it, an examiner is sat there marking paper after paper, a witty essay will chear them up, a long essay will make then sigh.

[timROGERS]

Our coursework is replaced by and extra war poetry unit, so we haven't done anything on R&J yet. We're watching the film though :P

[Throne Sofa]

Quality not quantity, the fact is, a good witty essay, not too long, will recieve more marks than a long decent one. Think about it, an examiner is sat there marking paper after paper, a witty essay will chear them up, a long essay will make then sigh.

You've said it in a nutshell :)
The best writers coursework will be very witty and at about 1500 words, not too long, not too short.

[Xarea]

ive done 8 full sides of a4. submitted today.

[Technologic]

We're not doing R&J

We're doing Othello

[Kalk]

I'm doing something different at my school.
The top students in English are taught Media Studies until June, so we aint doing no English till year 11! To top that, we are designing our own comics at the moment!

[Blue]

Not even started doing Romeo and Juliet, just doing some stuff on "The Matrix"

[Jõnathan]

I did Macbeth :)
And on the subject of writing rubbish, a girl in my set did an answer about the trial scene (cos it was like a practice, but not a mock) and she didn't start talking about the trial until she was 2 and a half pages in
I just lol'd

[Tristan]

:rolleyes:

Er, explain?
I hardly use this forum, and hardly ever try to look 'cool' I come on like 15mins a week for a few posts. Nothing wrong :S Roboevil, explain next time..

That's all one paragraph by the way, I don't structure my forum posts well, sorry? That took me around five minutes to write so i'm not too bothered, and yes you are slating the forum off and degrading it, no problem with me I couldn't care less, but it's a problem you've got as you shouldn't be degrading it as your on the forum 24/7. It's not utter rubbish, and i'm not having a go at you, well I sort of am but yeh. I'm not a "stupid dead brain" :8

He doesn't need to explain...
If you learnt the definition of 'hypocritical' which he said in his post, you wouldn't need to ask him for further explanation.
Even your stupid penultimate sentence in this quote is evidence of what he said about your original one is correct. :rolleyes:

[Frodo13.]

We're not doing R&J

We're doing Othello

Im doing Othello in AS English Lit :) You like it? I love it!