#rote learning

All over the generation

That doesn't bother

To say something other than ordinary.

The stubborn layer of conditioned activity

That never makes them breathless

With something other than

The same old statements that

Never evolve but remains

Pathetically passive.

In a life bereft of promises and fascination

They live with each day

A xerox copy of itself indeed

No new territories to explore in their roads,

In vain they roam

Hey! I’ve been asked the exact same thing before! I used to memorise all my 4 essays + creative writing story for English Advanced before every exam, so read these for the complete answer:

Memorising an essay!

HSC English Study Guide

The Blank Paper Method

Additional Tips for Memorising Essays and Acing Exams

Additional tips: you should think of an essay as one super long explanation

When you write one sentence it should trigger you to think of the explanation sentence! 

Think of each introductory paragraph as an answer to the exam question, and a list of all the concepts needed to fully explain the answer - so in essence it’s a summarised list of topic sentences. 

Think of each paragraph as a concept/component that you need to cover. 

Here’s the step-by-step-thinking process: 

The topic sentence tells you what you want to prove/explain. 

Then what evidence/quote from the text do you need to explain that? 

What technique does that evidence use? 

And what effect does that evidence have? 

Then wrap it all up by saying how the effect explains what you were trying to prove in the topic sentence. 

Repeat with a second or third piece of evidence to further prove the topic sentence true. 

Think of each conclusion as a summary of what you’ve just proved and how it answers the exam question. “How” is what makes it differ from the introduction. The intro just says what you’re going to be explaining to answer the question, but it doesn’t say how it answers the question in depth. You can always make this up even during the exam because you already have all the paragraphs written out. 

Answer the question! Even though you’ve memorised all the evidence, you need to remember to answer the examination question explicitly! Spell it out! Explain every last link!! You’d be surprised how many people forget to answer the question! 

If you think of all paragraphs like this, it’s super easy to remember all 4 explanatory (Area of Study, Modules A, B and C) essays. 

For memorising creative writing stories, it’s much easier, because it’s basically a story that you’ve written yourself, so as long as you picture in your mind the main plot, writing it out a few times on a blank piece of paper to practice should be enough to rote learn it.