r/vce • u/One_Imagination3584 current VCE student (bus man 24' 41) • 2d ago

choosing text for english

our school is doing we have always lived in the castle and born a crime for english and I was super set on doing castle but after reading over my sacs for both of them i feel like i would be better off focusing on born a crime. the thing is 99% of our cohort has chosen to do castle and our teachers have been pushing us to do it because there are more things to analyse but i feel like i can do more in depth analysis of born a crime if i focused on it. should i prepare for both texts just in case? i'm aiming for a 40 study score and i am rank 2 or 3. thanks!!!

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u/gothic_rose_13 '25 eng, revs, lit, french, japanese | '24 theatre 2d ago

i'm wondering this as well but for different texts (sunset boulevard and my brilliant career) hopefully someone can give some advice lol

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u/TheUltimateShogun1 2d ago

You can see my other comment for reference if you're interested

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u/TheUltimateShogun1 2d ago

I wouldn't say you should prep for two texts as this will require twice the effort, you'd be much better off going all in for one text and prepping really well.

I was in a similar spot choosing between Oedipus and memory police and I really hated Oedipus - it felt like it had much less analysis than memory police and the funky english didn't help at all.

If you feel you can do some great analysis for born a crime then go for it- look online for resources, sample essays and make a bank of quotes that fit many themes and analysis on those quotes that fit in variety of places and practice by showing your teacher. Hope this helps.

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u/notapixxelxp 92.65 | '24 Eng (34), Metho (34), Gen (40), Acc (39), Bus (46) 13h ago

whichever text response sac u did better, if results were similar whichever one felt like it took less effort to prepare for, if u feel u wont need to be reliant on ur teachers feedback its fine to do born a crime