Four essays in two days?

Atomised

Is it possible to write four essays in two days? I'd like to hear some opinions/advice ! (not for me ,thankfully :j ) I don't want to be useless and say "Why didn't you do it earlier?"

alwaysonthego_2

I do not think it is possible to write 1 good essay in two days never mind 4 essays. It takes me at least a week to write a essay with the extra reading and research. I think that essays should be tackled in good time, not at the last minute.

Bamber19

it's possible but not if you're not used to it. For example, every essay i handed in over the past 3 years was, at the earliest, started the night before and i achieved highest marks in the course for some of them but that's the way i have always worked so it came quite easily to me. It also depends on the subject and the word count. Should be able to do a 1500 word essay in 2-3 hours i reckon. To be honest though the useless friend answer that you don't want to give is clearly the most fitting one.

sali_mali

Ouch. Does s/he plan to sleep? I still don't think it's possible even if they worked 24 hours a day on it. Good luck to them

welf_man

Depends how long they are, and whether the reading's been done!

If there was any proper reason for them not being done, your friend need to tell their department / fill in a mitigating circumstances form / ask for extensions as appropriate.

You might also want to make sure s/he doesnt cosider using prewritten intenet essays - tempting but a VERY bad idea!

Mel.

nikib_3

I doubt it, the word count might be there but the content wont be good, best just to get on and do what they can, I wish them luck

shelovestobuystuff

If they do not sleep then Yes they can do it.

Horace

Guess it depends on whether or not you can give up partying. 4 essays in two days shouldnt be a problem when you can spend on average 2-3 hrs on one essay.

Welcome to the real world!

flake_2

Depends how important they are, his level of motivation, how fast he can work, whether he has lectures too in those 2 days!

If it's likely not to happen, pick the softest tutor and ask for a deadline on one, or two. Can save a massive amount of stress sometimes.

The_One_Who

To be honest, I'd tell them that they should've started earlier. Essays require reading and research and a firm idea of where you're wanting to go with it. Then you have to write it, read it, edit it, read it and then print it.

CrispyUK

Not an ideal circumstance but providing they sit down and start getting on with it then it can probably be done, although it depends on word counts and such!

I know I've knocked out an essay in a couple of hours on the morning it's due (not proud, it's not the best way to do it!) and got a reasonable mark but then I've always been fairly strong in English and a speedy typist.

It's probably worth taking a little time to prioritise the essays in terms of their importance to marks, i.e. if you've got something worth 100% of a module then you obviously want to do a good job on that, if one is only worth 10-20% of a module then you could afford to hand something in that's a bit rougher round the edges and work extra hard on future assignments to get the average mark up.