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Tips to Acing an Essay Test

Tips to Acing an Essay Test. REMEMBER: Just like an objective test, your goal is to show that you did the work, understand it, and can discuss it. This means… USE SPECIFIC DETAILS from the reading! For example…

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Tips to Acing an Essay Test

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  1. Tips to Acing an Essay Test • REMEMBER: Just like an objective test, your goal is to show that you did the work, understand it, and can discuss it. This means… • USE SPECIFIC DETAILS from the reading! • For example… • If I were to ask you what real-life dangers Grendel might symbolize for Anglo-Saxons, you would look back at your notes and at “Life in 999” and tell me...

  2. Give some examples of hardships:

  3. More Tips • Make SURE you understand the question, and that you answer it thoroughly! If you don’t understand it, ASK! • You’ll be graded on your writing as well as on the content. This means… • Topic sentences • Well-developed paragraphs (shoot for 10 or more sentences – good ones, not short ones!) • Concluding sentences (And NOT “Those are the things Grendel symbolizes.”

  4. More Tips • USE YOUR ABSOLUTELY UNREASONABLE AND TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE HANDOUT! • BE PREPARED! STUDY FOR IT! • PROOFREAD YOUR ESSAYS WHEN YOU FINISH THEM! • USE YOUR BRAIN! SHOW SOME CRITICAL THINKING! WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THESE TEXTS? NOW…BACK IT UP WITH SUPPORT!

  5. WHAT TO STUDY • Your notes on the introduction: pgs. 6-17 • Your notes on Beowulf • “Life in 999” and Grendel • “A History of the English Church and People” • “The Wanderer” • Things to think about: • Poetic elements and characteristics • Similar themes in different readings • Overall conclusions that can be drawn about life during this time: What mattered to them?

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