Although I am loath to admit it...I did pretty poorly on this diagnostic. Maybe it was because I'm sitting at my laptop in a totally different country trying to consume some pretty odd tasting oatmeal, or maybe it's just that I don't have my head back in the English game. Whatever it is, I'm not totally happy. Going through my results, I start to see what I did wrong. For one, I have no idea what the different forms of poetry are. Secondly, I don't think I read the answers properly, because for a couple of those, I swear I would have gotten them right if they looked like that the first time...sigh. To my embarrassment and horror, I notice a large chunk of my wrong answers are in the Pride and Prejudice section, which happens to be a book I've read a bazillion times. The next chunk of wrong answers come in the last section, which I'll admit, I didn't read properly and I kinda fudged the answers.
Conclusion: If I read the questions and passages better and brush up on more basic literary things...I'll probably be a bit more set than I am now.
Conclusion: If I read the questions and passages better and brush up on more basic literary things...I'll probably be a bit more set than I am now.
Well, I assume your focus will be where it needs to be on test day =) And we will definitely work on the forms of poetry and assorted test-taking skills this year!
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