Common Test Review

Common Test review will be done in lecture and tutorial next week. This common test has been quite interesting, in terms of your performance.

After conferring with Ms Chua, we agreed that there were similar problems across the board -- not much quotation and elaboration, or quotations with little elaboration, or quotations with elaboration with no linkage back to the point made. Also, questions were partly addressed/answered, usually with students expounding on one part of the phrase/question. Another problem with be choice of evidence. One factor that distinguished the good essays from the others was the evidence that backed up the points -- the higher scores had evidence that clearly and most aptly showed their point.

One thing that you have going for you -- you are decent, if not good writers as a whole (except for fragmented sentences). So let's capitalize on our strengths and go further.

We'll be focusing on answering questions in the next few weeks. For those of you who had scores lower than you expected, take in a moment of self-pity, then move on. The road is hard but we'll eventually get to the end.