Top 5 Baseline Essay Questions to Master and Memorise

The seemingly vast range of essay questions can be categorised into five basic categories.

Yes, essay questions can be organised into categories!

The five categories are:

1. Theme based essay questions

2. Technique based essay questions

3. Character based essay questions

4. Context based essay questions

5. Forms/feature/style based essay questions

Some of these categories may seem superfluous. Take the theme based essay question for example. Regardless of what the question is, you are expected to write about themes. However, regardless of how basic some of these categories may sound, having an understanding of how essays can target different aspects of a text that you studied can help you immensely.

In a nutshell, having an understanding of these five categories will help you to:

1. Better organise your notes

2. Better predict exam questions

3. Thus better prepare and proof your responses for the exam

The specifics of such categorisation will be explained further in future updates.