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Five things you can do to prepare for the new VCE EAL Study Design (2023–2027)

Insight Publications — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 03:40:30 +0000

In this post, Insight writer and EAL teacher Niki Cook offers her tips on how you can prepare for the new VCE EAL Study Design (2023–2027). — Beginning VCE can seem quite daunting at the best of times, but it can appear even more challenging when there’s a new Study Design to negotiate as well. With the new English as an Additional Language Study Design beginning for Units 1 and 2, it’s a good…

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Improving your handwriting

Insight Publications — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 05:03:28 +0000

Handwriting is an important but often overlooked aspect of English assessment. In this week’s post, Insight writer and English teacher Melanie Flower outlines why it is important to improve your handwriting, and gives some pointers on how to do it. — While it is true that electronic devices such as laptops, tablets and mobile phones are becoming ubiquitous in many classrooms, there is still an…

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Revising for the English exam: Last minute tips!

Insight Publications — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 05:28:56 +0000

With the English exam just over a week away, here are some tips from English teacher and Insight writer Anja Drummond to help you with last-minute preparation! — The English exam is almost upon us. Here are some last minute tips to help you with the final push. Make a study plan Aim to spend some time each day studying English. The English exam is in the morning, so start the morning…

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Reducing Exam Stress

Insight Publications — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 19:00:21 +0000

Knowing that the exams are drawing near can be a big stressor for students in their preparation for end-of-year assessment. In this bonus post, we asked Discover You coach Kylie McLerie to give us her tips for helping you reduce stress in the lead-up to exams. — Has your usual motivation for study gone on holiday? Are your stress levels creeping higher and higher because you can’t find the…

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Revising for the English Language Exam

Insight Publications — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 19:00:06 +0000

This week, English Language teacher Natalie Gleeson offers her tips on how to kickstart revision for the English Language exam. — With the VCE English Language examination on the horizon, preparation is key to success. As with any exam, having a solid and well-thought-out game plan for the day will go a long way in relieving those pesky exam jitters. So where do you start? 1. Make sure you’…

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Revising for the EAL Exam

Insight Publications — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 20:00:29 +0000

In this post, Insight writer and EAL teacher Niki Cook outlines her strategies for revising for the EAL exam. — This time of year typically prompts mixed feelings: the end of school is finally in sight, but – before that excitement – there’s the challenge of VCE exams to overcome! In this post we’ll look at some strategies to help you prepare specifically for the EAL exam, so that you can get…

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Revising for the English Exam

Insight Publications — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 04:34:42 +0000

This week, Insight writer and English teacher Anja Drummond shares her top tips on how to revise in the four weeks leading up to the English exam. — Now that you have finished your SACs, it is time to direct your energy to exam revision. There are lots of things you can do to get yourself match-fit for the English exam – here are my top tips! Practise handwriting Like any sort of…

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My teacher says I should re-read my set texts before the Literature exam – where do I start?

Insight Publications — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 20:00:28 +0000

Stuck on page one when it comes to re-reading your set texts? Insight writer and Literature teacher Briony Schroor is here to help, with suggestions for getting the most out of the process. — As a Literature teacher, the best piece of advice I can give to students preparing for the exam is to return to the text. All the answers are in the book, after all! That being said, not all methods of…

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Analysis: Comparing Reckoning and Brooklyn

Insight Publications — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 20:00:26 +0000

This week, Insight publisher and author Robert Beardwood discusses the comparison texts Reckoning and Brooklyn. — At first glance, Reckoning and Brooklyn seem to be very different texts. As usual for text pairs on the VCE English and EAL Text List, the two texts for comparison are in different forms: in this case, the nonfiction form of a memoir versus the fiction form of a novel.

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Analysis: Photograph 51 / My Brilliant Career

Insight Publications — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 06:12:03 +0000

This week on our blog, Insight author Sue Sherman gives us her tips and pointers on how to compare Photograph 51 and My Brilliant Career. — A play about a Jewish female scientist at King’s College in the 1950s and a novel about an Australian country girl in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries might seem quite disparate, yet the protagonists in Anna Ziegler’s Photograph 51 and…

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