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Irish Tape At The End= Joke!!

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    #32
    nerd3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭nerd3000


    Just look at both sides:

    Higher Irish is leaps and bounds ahead of Ordinary, the standard is actually huge. The very fact that ppl in my school had the exam done in under 1hr and passed with flying colours exemplifies Ordinary's easiness.

    Honours only get a 10 min break after a 3hr 20 mins exam, if you are aiming for an A1 you need 3 hrs at least! And to be fair to the SEC, they have the assumption that everyone is going for an A..or at least as high as they can achieve. Personally, I found it very hard, after all I was writing and focused intensely for 3hrs non- stop!

    I don't agree with Ordinary listening to our tape, for Honours students it's a doddle but Ordinary suffer, severely. Very, very unfair

    To have the listening before the exam is not attractive as it sounds. You wouldn't have Irish "floating around in your head" if ya know what I mean. I can assure ye, If the aural was before the written ye'd be saying it should be after!


    In all honesty, the aural for higher this year was simple, absolutely simple!


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    #33
    dshalloo
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭dshalloo


    Ya totally agree!! Its a bit of a joke, but i forgot all about it when the tape said bye at the end the room collappsed into laughter lol


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    #34
    Nanaki
    Registered Users Posts: 418 ✭✭Nanaki


    nerd3000 wrote: »

    I don't agree with Ordinary listening to our tape, for Honours students it's a doddle but Ordinary suffer, severely. Very, very unfair

    that's a good point, not everyone has the same ability to understand what they hear.
    nerd3000 wrote: »
    In all honesty, the aural for higher this year was simple, absolutely simple!

    thought I was the only one lol


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    #35
    bUILDERtHEbOB
    Registered Users Posts: 787 ✭✭✭bUILDERtHEbOB


    nerd3000 wrote: »
    Honours only get a 10 min break after a 3hr 20 mins exam, if you are aiming for an A1 you need 3 hrs at least! And to be fair to the SEC, they have the assumption that everyone is going for an A..or at least as high as they can achieve.

    I disagree, I was going for an A but I left both papers after and hour and a half.:cool:


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    #36
    Drodan
    Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭Drodan


    Last year we all went down to Qurkies and played about an hour and a half of pool, the fact I'm repeating is merely a coincedense!


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    #37
    A-Bit-Dodge
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭A-Bit-Dodge


    Got a severe fit of the giggles when I heard yer man's voice... That Iarthar na tíre squeak just sent me into overload... Were his balls dropping or something??? :p


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    #38
    brazilicious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭brazilicious


    A-Bit-Dodge wrote: »
    Got a severe fit of the giggles when I heard yer man's voice... That Iarthar na tíre squeak just sent me into overload... Were his balls dropping or something??? :p

    was the most ridiculous thing ive ever heard...first time i had laughed in about a week! was only able to answer the last q properly cos it was so weird, but itd make ya wonder where in the name they get these people!


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    #39
    A-Bit-Dodge
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭A-Bit-Dodge


    hahahaha!!!

    It was also wierd cos the first part of cuid A was about the grant me and my friend are going for and we knew everything about it!!! sweeeet :D

    ****, I really amnt going to get that after my shocking shocking Maths paper 2...ah well....


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    #40
    PrivateEye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭PrivateEye


    ..and here was me thinking the title of this thread was in relation to the Northern b*llocks they stuck on the end of it :pac:


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    #41
    A-Bit-Dodge
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭A-Bit-Dodge


    Oh it is!!! It very much is...


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    #42
    Reganio 2
    Registered Users Posts: 3,732 ✭✭✭Reganio 2


    Finally being partially deaf came through for me :D, I finished my Aural for Irish and French about 4 weeks before the LC :cool:


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    #43
    superLeetive
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    nerd3000 wrote: »
    Just look at both sides:

    I don't agree with Ordinary listening to our tape, for Honours students it's a doddle but Ordinary suffer, severely. Very, very unfair

    To have the listening before the exam is not attractive as it sounds. You wouldn't have Irish "floating around in your head" if ya know what I mean. I can assure ye, If the aural was before the written ye'd be saying it should be after!

    Students sitting OL have different Qs though which are much easier as a lot of them are multiple choice and only require a basic understanding of the tape.

    Yeah I agree...I think I'd be distracted during the written paper if the aural was first.


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