frontline essay..how many episodes? (1 Viewer)

[jaisy88]

how many episodes of the frontline should u disccuss in an essay..or are u meant 2 look at the ideas and link all the episodes..

i my trial i did 3 episodes and got 15/20...so whats better to do.. more episodes?

 

[ane_st]

Your meant to do 2 episodes AT LEAST... So maybe the reason why you got 15/20 is cause you didnt talk about them very well....

Its better for you to do 2 in detail them doing 3 briefly...

And you also have to do 2 related texts.

 

[Roobs]

Its good if you can concept link the episodes to your related texts, and or eachother via a big umbrella concept (probably related to represntation, question depending though)

 

[Roobs]

Shit...where did u pull the 1500 word figure from? like theres no way i can write 4500 words legibly in 2 hours.......maybe i'll cripple myself b4 the exam and demand a computer.....

 

[Sleiphnir]

I type my exams, so I can definitely tell you that 2000 words is 3 typed pages - Arial 12, extended borders in Word. So 1,500 should be about 2 pages and a bit typed. It doesn't look like much. 1500 words gives you 350/400 words per text + 200 or so for the intro + 150 for a conclusion I think)
I can type 2000 words in 50 mins, so in an exam you should definitely be able to get out 1500 handwritten - it's realistic

And yeah - 2 Frontline 2 related and draw links between them.

 

[Jaymee]

My teacher has drilled it into our heads that the whole point is to demonstrate the depth of your understanding of the text. I'm guessing that in doing three episodes you've restricted how much you can say on each and only taken a shallow look at them. I'd say you'd be better off to do two episodes and look at them in detail.