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the english exam HL

  • 08-06-2011 4:45pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 summers nearly ther HUHHHHHHHHH


    so how did you do?
    post all your comments here!

    to start things off:

    is it me or did anyone else write about osama bin laden for the media studies q1


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26 Louise6


    It actually went much better than expected :) paper 1 was easy - and i did Barack Obamas visit for the media studies question. And then paper paper 2 was also relatively easy. I'm pretty happy with how it went :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 summers nearly ther HUHHHHHHHHH


    Louise6 wrote: »
    It actually went much better than expected :) paper 1 was easy - and i did Barack Obamas visit for the media studies question. And then paper paper 2 was also relatively easy. I'm pretty happy with how it went :D

    same here, it went really well, just that my hands were killin me after that notorious paper 2


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭EmatoelDiablo


    After the exam every said they did either Obamas or the Queens visit...
    I did Osama bin Laden... They all said "Oh Yeah!"

    The Unseen Poetry was a bit bizarre though..


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ Corey Icy Junkyard


    For Personal Writing i did the speech- it was a very nice title:D
    for functional writing i did a review of my PS3 :) lol


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 summers nearly ther HUHHHHHHHHH


    After the exam every said they did either Obamas or the Queens visit...
    I did Osama bin Laden... They all said "Oh Yeah!"

    The Unseen Poetry was a bit bizarre though..

    that was one of the stupidest poems i've ever heard, but for me i had very little time to do the studied poetry


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭EmatoelDiablo


    that was one of the stupidest poems i've ever heard, but for me i had very little time to do the studied poetry

    What is your impression on Mrs Reece?
    She laughs? A lot?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 summers nearly ther HUHHHHHHHHH


    What is your impression on Mrs Reece?
    She laughs? A lot?

    hahaha, thats all she bloody did, the whole poem was about her laughing, wtf?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭EmatoelDiablo


    same, i did a ps3 review as well, it was class, what was your short-story or personal writing about?

    I did the Kindle for some reason.... wasn't arsed describing an Xbox again...wish it could have been a game though.. only wrote a page and a half:(


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ Corey Icy Junkyard


    same, i did a ps3 review as well, it was class, what was your short-story or personal writing about?

    the speech was write a speech for or against the motion Social Networking sites have a negative impact on the lives of teenagers (not the exact wording but close)
    Im useless at planning essays. :)


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ Corey Icy Junkyard


    I did the Kindle for some reason.... wasn't arsed describing an Xbox again...wish it could have been a game though.. only wrote a page and a half:(

    How much are you advised to write? :confused:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭EmatoelDiablo


    How much are you advised to write? :confused:

    half a page for 5 marks...ridiculous I know but it helped a little


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 summers nearly ther HUHHHHHHHHH


    the speech was write a speech for or against the motion Social Networking sites have a negative impact on the lives of teenagers (not the exact wording but close)
    Im useless at planning essays. :)

    i wrote a story from the q a composition beginning with the lines ''I knew i needed a lot of courage to get through the day'' or something like that. i based mine on a prison


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭cantanstrophe


    What is your impression on Mrs Reece?
    She laughs? A lot?
    I said she was nice. I couldn't find any evidence, so I said that "In my experience, most people who laugh like that are."

    *facepalm*


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭TheRedDevil10


    no way is it half a page for 5 marks.
    A page and a half is enough for it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭EmatoelDiablo


    i wrote a story from the q a composition beginning with the lines ''I knew i needed a lot of courage to get through the day'' or something like that. i based mine on a prison

    I did that on occupied Paris :)
    Basically wrote half the saboteur gameplay :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭EmatoelDiablo


    no way is it half a page for 5 marks.
    A page and a half is enough for it

    Im always docked marks in English cause it's 'too short' freakin 5 page essay for the mock "sorry but you lost marks because it was too short


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 summers nearly ther HUHHHHHHHHH


    Im always docked marks in English cause it's 'too short' freakin 5 page essay for the mock "sorry but you lost marks because it was too short

    haha i wrote 4 pages for the essay, but the freakin paper 2 killed my hand


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭EmatoelDiablo


    27 pages in the mock, 23 in the real thing FML


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭TheRedDevil10


    27 pages in the mock, 23 in the real thing FML


    you freak :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭EmatoelDiablo


    you freak :eek:

    Oh Jesus overall now! Not on a single paper :)
    One guy in my class wrote 36 today


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭Doublechinlolz


    I didnt write about osama, the queen, OR obama! I wrote about Wayne Rooney cheating on coleen.. Yeah im serious... :L


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,248 ✭✭✭Slow Show


    Errr I wrote 16 for paper 2 and 14 for paper 1 >.> Well that's if there was 12 pages in each booklet, I think that's how much there were...so errr 30 pages, ouch. Although one of them doesn't really count because I started doing one studied drama question and crossed it out because I realised I hated it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭EmatoelDiablo


    Slow Show wrote: »
    Errr I wrote 16 for paper 2 and 14 for paper 1 >.> Well that's if there was 12 pages in each booklet, I think that's how much there were...so errr 30 pages, ouch. Although one of them doesn't really count because I started doing one studied drama question and crossed it out because I realised I hated it.

    All I can think about now is inappropriate jokes about painful hands:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭TheRedDevil10


    i only did 12 pages in total :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Indiego


    I did 24 pages in total, 1 booklet for paper 1, 1 booklet for paper 2 :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭innovation.


    Why does everybody keep going on about the length? Have you read the marking schemes? Nowhere in it does it say that an answer should be a page and a half blah blah blah. Like for my functional writing I wrote a review about my iPhone 4 which was a fairly solid review (I'm on gadget sites everyday reading reviews) and it was only a page or so long. Didn't want to get too in-depth on the whole thing or else the examiner would've just been mind****ed me talking about phones that compare to it, specs, screen resolution, battery life etc. :p :L


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭EmatoelDiablo


    Indiego wrote: »
    I did 24 pages in total, 1 booklet for paper 1, 1 booklet for paper 2 :)

    Rightly done too!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,724 ✭✭✭mixery


    Am I the only one to write about Haiti? Well, anyway, I went wondering of the point TERRIBLY so it's entirely down to luck what I get :D ,

    I have 2 booklets filled from edge to edge. I was in a trance, so I couldn't be bothered getting extra paper.




    That 2 hour break is fantastic, Finally we can have a proper soccer match during lunch:cool:.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭TheRedDevil10


    The haiti earthquake was 17 months ago, the question said a story in the last 12 :rolleyes:



    :D:D:D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭EmatoelDiablo


    mixery wrote: »
    Am I the only one to write about Haiti?

    Only problem is that is said 'last 12 months'?
    :rolleyes:


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