Shane De Poire

Oh, absolutely.

If you can get a stopwatch in, I would bring a stopwatch in that doesn't make noise and like stick to your timings, because if you spend 10 minutes extra on one question, you might go up three or four marks, but you've taken half the time away from another question.

So it's not worth the risk.

Oh, it has to come up.

Absolutely, yeah.

Well, they all will.

Like on Trail, Higna, Hitcher and Goffett, they all do come up.

But from my own experience in marking state exams, like on Trail is the most popular choice question.

And for that, again, Moira is the main character.

She has a horrendous life.

We won't go into it now on radio, but it wouldn't be a life you'd wish on anyone.

But you want to focus on how society and the characters within the drama kind of make her life worse and leave her isolated and just highlight their behaviour.

No background information.

Don't care about their backgrounds.

just tell me how they made Morris life worse.

Any final tips for people listening?

Paper one, take your time.

I say when you, paper one, most of the marks get lost in the essay.

I say, write your paragraph, stop, take a breather, read over the work there and then, because at the end of the exam, even with the best will in the world, you're not going to read over your work properly.

Find the mistakes before I do.