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  • 15-06-2007 3:08pm
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    aminimhurchadha
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    anyone have any advice for someone who has 4 days to cover the course?


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    lecomte
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    aminimhurchadha wrote:
    anyone have any advice for someone who has 4 days to cover the course?

    Yup. Write an entertaining essay.

    Look at your past exam papers. Find someone in your class with good notes. Ask them to help you out. Find paraphrased synopses of The Odyssey, The Illiad and the Aenaed on line, go the books and learn one or two quotes from each chapter. You need only know three or four words from each quote. Go to the library, find two translations of reach, and read the Introductions. Annotate and paraphrase.

    As for hisorical aspects, find anecdotes about the key players, learning reams of dates and such is less important than understanding the men and women who were the movers of History. Quote wrecklessly from the likes of Wilde who said of Heroditus "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story"...Entertain the pants of your examiner. He or she is bored silly with all these texts and wishes they could go out on play.


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    Outcast
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    Find as many film versions of your topics as possible.


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    Sauron
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    Study Roman Town Planning... it's easy enough to predict and it's a guaranteed question for the A&A section.


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