Listen: you are in love with the margins, and it shows. This term you reached a proficient standard against ACARA v9 for English and medieval literature, consistently demonstrating comprehension, textual analysis and informed judgement. Your annotations reveal curiosity and strategy, underlines that note diction shifts, brackets that mark structural pivots, and marginal questions that become the seeds of argument. You use Cornell notes with commendable discipline: concise cue columns, organised notes, and neat summaries that synthesise evidence and interpretation. These habits improved retrieval, supported comparative writing, and clarified historical perspective when approaching primary sources. In medieval units you distinguished chronicle from romance, identified provenance and potential bias, and annotated for social context as well as rhetorical choice. Delightful asides aside, aim next to label rhetorical functions explicitly, cite line numbers routinely, and convert marginal queries into topic sentences for essays. Continue to expand the summary column to integrate contrasting viewpoints and historiographical commentary. Assessment judgement: proficient — meeting ACARA v9 achievement criteria with clarity and consistency. Strengths: attentive close reading, systematic note taking, and an emerging analytical voice that balances levity with rigor. Targets: deepen evaluation of authorial intent and broaden use of contextual evidence in synthesis. Keep whispering to the text like a courtroom lawyer who also loves a good romantic aside, precise, witty and entirely engaged. Your humour in the margins invites conversation with the past; maintain that bold curiosity while sharpening citation habits and comparative framing, and you will craft essays that sing and scholarship that persuades.