<p>Why must this evil exist, particularly in IB? that's all we ever do. I'd rather read multiple books and have discussions and tests on them than annotation.</p>
<p>IDK – I like to annotate because it keeps me at attention. I’m a Junior this year so I’m really just too tired to let stuff sink through my head by reading it. I’d read the same sentence at least 3 times over if I didn’t annotate it. :/</p>
<p>I find annotation helpful when you have to study several novels before you’re assessed on them (e.g. right now we’re preparing for the IOCs, which aren’t until February).</p>
<p>@OP I feel ya. I abhor annotations to the maximum. 90% because it’s so pointless for me and I find no joy in doing them, 10% because I can’t bear to write in a book, even if I hate the book. Books are not meant to write on, from my point of view D:</p>
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<p>I concur. Besides, all the “deep meaning” nonsense can be readily found on Sparknotes…</p>
<p>I mean… I do my literary analysis just fine.@starfruit, in terms of the IOC, yeah. I can deal with that. Honestly my IB english class made annotating the first novel really an option. I mean we had to annotate it for reference, but our test was annotation and we could use our book. I didn’t annotate the selection in my book, but I knew enough about the book to ace it.</p>
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<p>It’d be hard not to on an open book test! haha</p>
<p>To be honest, I read the book 50 million times previously, and didn’t even open it.</p>
<p>The book helped me not at all.</p>
<p>My annotations last year went something like:
-short sentence
-medium sentence
-long sentence
-rhetorical question
-similie</p>
<p>Perhaps I could have made a greater effort (didn’t need to though to get a 100) but even then I don’t think annotating helps me understand the passage must better at all.</p>
<p>I always thought annotating was OK for timed writings, to jot something down on paper so that you don’t forget it later on, but annotating books just ruins the work. Plus, it distracts you from your whatever you were reading.</p>