[Eathrin]

How did everybody feel they did in Irish?
In every one of my exams so far I've felt as if I've alright, but could have done so much better if I had worked for it.

[Togepi]

Originally Posted by Eathrin

How did everybody feel they did in Irish?
In every one of my exams so far I've felt as if I've alright, but could have done so much better if I had worked for it.

Crap. I haven't a notion of getting any kind of A in Irish now.

[Eathrin]

Originally Posted by Togepi

Crap. I haven't a notion of getting any kind of A in Irish now.

I'll be hoping for an A now rather than expecting one, it wasn't my best paper ever, I'll be extremely pissed off at myself if I don't get an A1 just because I love Irish.

What did you find difficult?
Tbh my pros, poetry and drama answers were all a bit meh. Lack of quotations or technical vocab.

[The High Crusade]

Lads idk about you but my morning was insane.

First off I woke up at 9:50, yeah you read that right, 9:50. I woke up in a panic with a call from the school telling me I had 15 minutes to get there or my exam was cancelled. So my dad was driving me in a rush, stuck in traffic. Then he saw a Garda car and told them I had 15 minutes to get to my Leaving Cert Exam. So I got a Garda escort to the school to do my exam

[Togepi]

Originally Posted by Eathrin

I'll be hoping for an A now rather than expecting one, it wasn't my best paper ever, I'll be extremely pissed off at myself if I don't get an A1 just because I love Irish.

What did you find difficult?

I'll be hoping for a B1 now, which I won't even be happy with 'cause I got a B2 last year.

The prós. The most boring and most difficult story by far came up for us. I read a few notes on it this morning but it's just such an awful story, that didn't even do any good. And then we got the nicest poetry question ever, but I hadn't learned about the female poet for my favourite poem (which is almost as easy as the ones on the new course ) so I had to use my back up poem which was a higher level one on the course last year, just so I wouldn't be throwing away 10 marks. 10/30 for the poet is insanely unfair. People who learn stuff off by heart will get the marks and someone from the Gaeltacht would get 0 if they didn't study it.

I also misinterpreted the word 'femíneacht' for An Triail, so I could potentially lose 20 marks for that. The worst part is, it's basically just the word in English (feminism) with a fada stuck in. If it was like the word baninscineach I would've understood it.

/rant

[PictureFrame]

Originally Posted by The High Crusade

Lads idk about you but my morning was insane.

First off I woke up at 9:50, yeah you read that right, 9:50. I woke up in a panic with a call from the school telling me I had 15 minutes to get there or my exam was cancelled. So my dad was driving me in a rush, stuck in traffic. Then he saw a Garda car and told them I had 15 minutes to get to my Leaving Cert Exam. So I got a Garda escort to the school to do my exam

I would literally die if I was late for an exam.. :O

[Togepi]

Originally Posted by PictureFrame

I would literally die if I was late for an exam.. :O

Really?

Sorry, had to, that word is a pet peeve of mine.

[imelle]

i was fairly happy with Irish paper 2, the questions that came up were straight forward enough. i actually found the first comprehension kinda interesting but then boredom prevailed in the 2nd one. i had been hoping for an A2/B1 but i think my essay yesterday might have brought me down because i did the one on Ireland being open and welcoming and said it's because of the EU we are and went on talking about the effect of Eu policies on Ireland live travel and all. but if they see that as relevant i'm on track for the A2

[PictureFrame]

Originally Posted by Togepi

Really?

Sorry, had to, that word is a pet peeve of mine.

Metaphorically maybe?

Togepi what are you doing for French tomorrow? I don't know what to do, there's just so much! :O

[HowAreWe]

Originally Posted by The High Crusade

Lads idk about you but my morning was insane.

First off I woke up at 9:50, yeah you read that right, 9:50. I woke up in a panic with a call from the school telling me I had 15 minutes to get there or my exam was cancelled. So my dad was driving me in a rush, stuck in traffic. Then he saw a Garda car and told them I had 15 minutes to get to my Leaving Cert Exam. So I got a Garda escort to the school to do my exam

Jesus how'd you manage that?

[Eathrin]

Originally Posted by Togepi

I'll be hoping for a B1 now, which I won't even be happy with 'cause I got a B2 last year.

The prós. The most boring and most difficult story by far came up for us. I read a few notes on it this morning but it's just such an awful story, that didn't even do any good. And then we got the nicest poetry question ever, but I hadn't learned about the female poet for my favourite poem (which is almost as easy as the ones on the new course ) so I had to use my back up poem which was a higher level one on the course last year, just so I wouldn't be throwing away 10 marks. 10/30 for the poet is insanely unfair. People who learn stuff off by heart will get the marks and someone from the Gaeltacht would get 0 if they didn't study it.

I also misinterpreted the word 'femíneacht' for An Triail, so I could potentially lose 20 marks for that. The worst part is, it's basically just the word in English (feminism) with a fada stuck in. If it was like the word baninscineach I would've understood it.

/rant

10 marks for talking about the poet was ridiculous, I agree, I could hardly get a few lines down.

And the word was fimíneacht! Hypocrisy don't ya know.

[Mysteriouschic]

Originally Posted by The High Crusade

Lads idk about you but my morning was insane.

First off I woke up at 9:50, yeah you read that right, 9:50. I woke up in a panic with a call from the school telling me I had 15 minutes to get there or my exam was cancelled. So my dad was driving me in a rush, stuck in traffic. Then he saw a Garda car and told them I had 15 minutes to get to my Leaving Cert Exam. So I got a Garda escort to the school to do my exam

How'd you wake up late?
That sounds really nerve racking for the worry of missing the exam but crazy with the garda escort. What was the Garda escort like were there motorbikes in front of the car?

[Togepi]

Originally Posted by PictureFrame

Metaphorically maybe?

Togepi what are you doing for French tomorrow? I don't know what to do, there's just so much! :O

I don't know, you're probably asking the wrong person because I'll probably just be doing stuff I should already know, like learning vocabulary for a topic, or formal letters phrases or something. Last year I did nothing for French because I had to cram for History. Just go over stuff you're not sure of maybe, or open an exam question at random and try it.

[Eathrin]

Originally Posted by The High Crusade

Lads idk about you but my morning was insane.

First off I woke up at 9:50, yeah you read that right, 9:50. I woke up in a panic with a call from the school telling me I had 15 minutes to get there or my exam was cancelled. So my dad was driving me in a rush, stuck in traffic. Then he saw a Garda car and told them I had 15 minutes to get to my Leaving Cert Exam. So I got a Garda escort to the school to do my exam

That's awful luck, good thing you made it at least, but Irish 2 is quite time intensive so you probably ran way short on time?

[Dapics]

Originally Posted by Eathrin

That's awful luck, good thing you made it at least, but Irish 2 is quite time intensive so you probably ran way short on time?

Wha Wha Wha?

Time intensive? Half my exam hall were gone within 30 minutes of the exam!