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BEAR Quotes encourages you to ‘practice’ your English studies daily.  Repetition, or practice, is essential in improving performance.  Athletes, musicians, students of any kind know that success is correlated with practice.  For example, away to learn a new language is to immerse yourself in the native country.  Immersion is really just a way of increasing opportunities to practice.

So, in the lead up to your SAC (Student Assessed Coursework) or exam, BEAR Quotes will send you key quotes and explanations from the text/s being assessed.

That way, in about 5 minutes a day, reading BEAR Quotes contributes to your overall practice so that you can
learn and revise ANYWHERE for 50 days.  You’ve got a few minutes: over breakfast, on the way to school, on the loo, before lights out at night.

Bear QUOTES is a way of immersing yourself in your English studies that’s simple and achievable.

With BEAR Quotes, by the time you reach your SAC or exam, you’ll have 50 key quotes and explanations ready for revision. This boosts your confidence and reduces the intensity of overwhelm and cramming.

 

If time and money are important to you, consider this.  How long would it take you to put together a quote or cheat sheet from scratch?  Be realistic – 4, 6, 8, 10 hours or more? With BEAR Quotes, you will have the material at your fingertips, and get at least the equivalent of $75.40 of time saved(4 hours at minimum wage) for around half the cost.

 

BEAR Quotes is worth it when it comes to time and money, and even your headspace. Can you put a price on reduced stress and cramming?

BEAR Quotes provide detailed analysis of key quotes and doe not provide readers with a walkthrough of the text. In this sense, it is not a typical “study guide”. For example, study guides like those on Sparknotes / Lit Charts or those published by Insight or CliffNotes provide context such as background about the author or director and a synopsis of the text before going into analysis of key scenes. These publications do not provide an extensive compilation of key quotes and relevant analysis which BEAR Quotes does.

 

BEAR Quotes assume readers have a basic understanding of who the key characters are, and the key themes / ideas to enable BEAR Quotes to go straight into quote analysis which is key to strong essay writing in the VCE system.

The main audience is Victorian high school students studying mainstream English in Years 11 and 12 who to  are looking for a smart, efficient, and effective way to learn about the book or film they’re studying.

 

If you’re a parent or tutor who wants to learn alongside your child or student, BEAR Quotes is a great way to do so. With digestible chunks of information on a daily basis, it makes it easy for your to have a discussion about the importance and meaning of each quote on the drive to school, sports, piano, over brekky, or at the inner table. Bonus, you’re learning too!

Those who think that BEAR Quotes is the only studying they’ll need to do. If that’s you, think long and hard about what you want to achieve during VCE and whether this attitude is really going to get you there.  BEAR Quotes is not a magic bullet solution to getting to know your text (nothing beats reading the actual text, and honestly, by the time you get to VCE you should know that there is no such thing as a magic bullet solution).

 

Those who are not interested in actually doing the daily reading,  We don’t want to disappoint, and if you’re not going to do the daily reading then you might feel like you’re not getting the most out of BEAR Quotes and be dissatisfied.  We don’t want you to feel that way.

 

If you’re a bookworm genius and have read the text and every study guide and piece of information about the book or film and its author or director out there on the internet then we applaud you and absolutely adore your diligence and dedication!  So before subscribing to BEAR Quotes, ask: do you really need it? BEAR Quotes can still be a valuable tool as a daily prompt and reminder about the key aspects of the books or films you’re studying, but you may not get any new, earth shattering information from BEAR Quotes that you didn’t already know.

You’re right – there’s HEAPS of material out there, especially on the internet that’s FREE (don’t forget your school library, and public libraries too).

 

The reason you’d pay for BEAR Quotes is because…

 

… It’s an innovative service like no other – There’s nothing I’m aware of that will give you daily quotes and explanations from VCE text books like BEAR Quotes (nor BEAR Arguments for that matter).  It’s like getting a coach in your inbox every day, keeping your head in the game.

 

… It’s a time saver, stress reducer, and definitely worth more than you’re paying – See Is BEAR Quotes worth it?

 

… It’s definitely worth a lot more than what you’re paying – The cost of good English tuition these days is upward of $75 per hour – more than the cost of a BEAR Quote subscription.  And to be transparent, it takes more than one hour when working one-on-one with a student to help them put together a quote table or cheat sheet.

 

In fact, it could take up to 10 hours of lessons to put a quote table or cheat sheet together.  For the students I helped in the past, week after week I’d have to recap what we’d done the week before because most turned up seemingly without any memory of the quotes and explanations they wrote the week before!

 

That’s actually where I got the idea for BEAR Quotes – from wishing that I could call my students or email them every day to remind them about one thing we had done the lesson before, and keep their hard work alive by keeping it at the forefront of their minds in small, digestible chunks.

 

… You want more – If you’re disciplined and diligent, you don’t really need BEAR Quotes (see Who BEAR Quotes is NOT for).  To be honest, I didn’t have English tutoring in VCE so I KNOW you can achieve without having to pay a cent.

 

I’ve  told all my students this, and they still turn up week after week, and tell me how much English tutoring is a great addition to school, web forums, and seasonal lectures and seminars that work together to help them get the most out of their VCE English. If you want that bit more, BEAR Quotes can form part of these supports.

 

BEAR Quotes is another tool to help you get the best out of your VCE English, one that’s a  smart and  efficient use of your time. and effective in reducing some of that last minute panic and cramming.

 

… You want to buy something that gives back – Subscriptions to BEAR Quotes help keep BEAR Arguments free, and $1 of every subscription goes to petrescue.com.au.