Hey guys. So previously I've done a video where I talked about how to write a thousand word,
a thousand, a thousand-worded essay, and one hour. And so that segues into this particular video
where I'm talking about writing three essays in three hours. So if you haven't watched that video,
then I'll pop it up in the comment. I'll pop it up in the card up above. I would recommend
you go watch that first before you watch this, because pretty much all of the concepts that I
talk about in that video, uh, I just expected details that you should know for this video. So
instead of actually breaking down the essays as I did in the previous video, what I'm going to
do this time is talk more so about, you know, how to actually write three essays in three hours and
just not get burnt out and not die, basically. Yeah, it's that serious. So I've got a few tips
for you guys, but I'll keep this shot. First thing is that yes, you do want to practice
at least one time writing three essays in three hours. And the reason why I say that is because
inevitably there will come times where one essay will kind of overlap into another hour. And you
just want to ensure that you can know how to handle those situations when we're practicing
in one hour blocks. I think it's fantastic to make sure that we can do that, but then kind of
like three hours and three essays is another ballgame altogether. So I would recommend at
least practicing once sitting down somewhere and just smashing out the three hours worth of work,
just so that you know exactly what it's going to feel like when you go into the exam. Now,
most schools will actually offer a, like a mock exam for you to do so that literally could be
your one practice that you just need. But if you were like me, you might want to
do it twice. So in your own time, kind of print off your own exam paper and go ahead and just
set aside three hours and just do it that way. The second thing is I heavily emphasized doing
reading time. So reading time is pretty much your mental thinking game going strong. And this is
where a lot of your pre-work will be done before we actually go into the essays themselves. So make
sure you practice reading time. It's 15 minutes before the actual exam, but in that 15 minutes,
you can plan three of your essays and you can look up in your dictionary, any key words that
you might want to define, or you could even look up the dictionary and try to find synonyms for
particular keywords. So what I mean by that is when you open up a dictionary and you look
up that word inside the dictionary, often the definition for it will have synonyms for it.
So that's like my little hack that I had when I was at school. And then the last thing I would
say is just make sure you know what to do if you go over time. So, like I mentioned before,
there may be situations where, you know, worst case scenario, you don't finish your essay in
time. And that could be because of many reasons. But first thing for you to remember is if you're
running over time, sacrifice your conclusion first, do not sacrifice your third body paragraph.
I think mostly what happens is students will kind of be somewhere in the third body paragraph for
that essay, but rather than skipping that and just do it a little bit of a mess to finish it
up and then going into the conclusion, finish off your third body paragraph. And then just forget
about the conclusion. The reason why I say that is because a conclusion is basically just the
summary of what your entire essay is about. It's not really supposed to be, to add in any new
information where as your third body paragraph. You're still explaining your ideas. You're still
elaborating and discussing the prompt itself. So that is way more important to get you the marks
that you need than a conclusion. The next thing I would do if you're running behind is save a
proofreading until very last. So in the last video I talked about doing proofreading last
five minutes of every essay. But if you do not have time for that later, leave all your
proofreading until the very end and, and you might find that you only have five minutes,
it's true proofread all of your essays, but at least you kind of have that reassurance was that
you made yourself more time to write beforehand. And so if you literally find yourself writing
right up until the last minute and you can't perforate fine sacrifice that too.
Now last thing is, let's just say that you have sacrificed your conclusion and you're still
writing your third body paragraph right up until the very last minute. You still have at least half
a paragraph to go, but you know, the first hour is over and you need to move onto your second
essay. I feel like you can either approach this two ways. The first way is just finish it off,
but then move on to the next one as quick as possible. And obviously your hope there is that
you will finish the second essay in time within that hour. So that by the time you get to your
thing, essay, you are on track again. Right? But in the other alternative that you could do, and
probably one that I via towards a little bit more is just stop your third paragraph. Okay? You still
have maybe five more sentences you still want to write, but just move onto your next one. I think
that's kind of important because what happens is once we start running into the next hour,
you will find that with your first essay, you'll run maybe five minutes into your second hour,
but then you might find that you run 10 minutes into the third hour with your second essay leaving
only 15 minutes to finish your third essay. And that might not be like what you want. And you
might know that you just won't be able to achieve that because the third essay is maybe the hardest
one that you left to last. And that's the one that usually takes you the longest. So yeah,
like these are just thoughts and considerations for you guys to take away with whatever you
guys do. I think just be strategic. Think about these things beforehand, because they are things
that could trip you up when you are in the exam, you're stressed, you're anxious, you're under time
pressure and you just need to get things done. It might kind of make you do like bad decisions or
you might do something out of the ordinary that you normally wouldn't do. But if you
think about these things beforehand and think about, okay, this is what I'm going to do. If
this situation occurs, then at least you kind of have some control over what's happening. And that
gives you a little bit of reassurance. That is it from me. I wanted to let you guys know that
because we are approaching the end of year. And I know that you guys might not need English help
from me very shortly, especially when you're in year 12. I wanted to let you guys know that
I do have a personal YouTube channel as well. So that's just linked up above for you. And also in
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would really love to see you guys there and just be able to still have the connection with you
guys. You know, it'd be nice to not only just have you guys on board with me for a year, and then you
guys kind of disappear and do your own thing, I'd still really love to stay in contact and be able
to hear how you guys are going to once you finish school. So I will see you guys next time. Bye!