pass Irish

LegacyUser · 06-06-2004 4:44pm #1

ok, worst subject of the lot. I only need to pass it, which I did in the mocks, so hopefully I'll be ok. I only have one question really, its about the stories and poems. How many and which of them should I know? Is the paper predictable?

subway_ie · 06-06-2004 4:49pm

The paper is fairly predictable - paper one and two. Basicaly, paper 1 will have your standard essay (sport, youth, drugs/alcohol), story (winning something, exciting incident, accident), letter (going on holidays, concert, etc) and conversation (want to go on holidays, buy/do something). All fairly easy realy once you've practiced a few and learned some phrases.
Paper two is just as predictable - they follow a pattern every year - I haven't done any irish in a few weeks, so I don't remember what's supposed to come up this year - but if you stick with what came up on the mocks (the one with the Eminem comprehension) then you should be ok. It'll be a very hard exam to fail.

LegacyUser · 06-06-2004 4:52pm

Originally posted by subway_ie
It'll be a very hard exam to fail.

That sounds like a wager to me. I've got a teacher that looks like something from bo selecta, and I haven't done a rap in irish these past two years.

but remeber those stories we learned like tir na nog, gafa etc etc. Is it possible to predict which of those are coming? I dont have time to learn them all

subway_ie · 06-06-2004 5:02pm

Originally posted by pleb
That sounds like a wager to me. ...but remeber those stories we learned like tir na nog, gafa etc etc.

Hmmm. Maybe we should cancel that wager?

Pacifico · 06-06-2004 5:06pm

Originally posted by pleb

but remeber those stories we learned like tir na nog, gafa etc etc. Is it possible to predict which of those are coming? I dont have time to learn them all

Not really, kinda hard to predict. I learned 1 from each off by heart and knew the jist of the rest.

You wont fail it by the way

. I did NOTHING for it (im not joking) and i got a B3 (I'm not bragging

).

Good luck

LegacyUser · 06-06-2004 8:11pm

Originally posted by Axel
I learned 1 from each off by heart and knew the jist of the rest.
I did NOTHING for it

:rolleyes: they look good beside eachother

Pacifico · 06-06-2004 8:14pm

Originally posted by pleb
:rolleyes: they look good beside eachother

Ah yes so they do. :dunno:

subway_ie · 06-06-2004 8:15pm

Originally posted by pleb
:rolleyes: they look good beside eachother

Just so we're clear... "Tír na nóg" isn't on the course... hence my wager cancelling. Maybe you're thinking of Clann Lir?

LegacyUser · 08-06-2004 4:15pm

Originally posted by Axel

Ah yes so they do. :dunno:

:dunno: then what the **** have I been learning........ ****, I need to go

luckat · 08-06-2004 4:17pm

Was it for this the Wild Geese spread a grey wing on every tide?

LegacyUser · 08-06-2004 4:23pm

Originally posted by pleb
:dunno: then what the **** have I been learning........ ****, I need to go

:dunno:
Ya bucko, sure thing

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chrismon · 08-06-2004 7:23pm

im not to happy about irish, my teacher pleaded me to do pass for my orals,and now i cant change, i failed my mocks 31% and i was never good at irish.tried to study but it dosnt go in like other subjects

Smellyirishman · 08-06-2004 7:42pm

So your doing honours?

You can still drop down to pass ya know! You can drop down on the day. The orals are ALL marked the same without regard to level so you CAN still drop down if your doing honours

subway_ie · 08-06-2004 7:52pm

Originally posted by chrismon
im not to happy about irish, my teacher pleaded me to do pass for my orals,and now i cant change, i failed my mocks 31% and i was never good at irish.tried to study but it dosnt go in like other subjects

There was a big arguement about this before, but basically you can drop down at any time untill you receive your first exam paper.

luckat · 10-06-2004 4:29pm

Chrismon, go in to the Irish-language caff in Dawson Street when it's not busy and chat up one of the waiters or waitresses. You need to talk Irish to learn it.

subway_ie · 10-06-2004 5:01pm

What's the story with the SEC's obsession with Colin Farrell? He got a full comprehension AND he's apparently a hero. "Chill amach" - wtf?

DEmeant0r · 10-06-2004 5:05pm

He got a full comprehension and was mentioned in the aural. He's a decent actor and he's Irish, but wtf is with their obsession with him?

PowerHouseDan · 10-06-2004 5:06pm

easy paper very happy with it

DEmeant0r · 10-06-2004 5:11pm

Apparantly some people wrote two pages for their Comhrá. I wrote *ahem* 3/4 page.

Mutant_Fruit · 10-06-2004 5:14pm

wasn;t bad at all. I wrote the exact same essay ive been doing for the last 4 years (same essay i did for JC honours) and pretty much the same comhra that i've been doing the last 2 years. Wrote nearly a page on the essay, and a page on the comhra.

The tape was a bit of a disaster. Firstly she was 5 minutes late (as usual). Then, we had to switch tape recorders, as the first one was too quiet, and when you turned it up it buzzed badly. Then our tape was fecked up, and it was missing the repeat of the first comhra thingy (i'm talking about the very first section you do). It was supposed to be played twice, but it was only played once. So we had to stop and change to the second tape, which had an unnaturally long section of silence after the usual intro, and our examiner was just about to switch tapes back when it kicked in.

By that stage we were just over 20 minutes delayed. But i still did feckin deadly on it, getting pretty much everything right (as far as i know). THere was nothing i was syuck on.

Smellyirishman · 10-06-2004 5:14pm

I failed irish in my mocks but today went great!!

The irish just flowed out of me! I wrote 1 and a bit page for my debate type thing on TV and did 1 page on the present for your birthday letter.

The listening was brilliant! I ACTUALLY UNDERSTOOD IT!! and that is amasing for me.

If it was only these 2 papers (and perhaps forget about the oral) then I think I could actually pass!! but tomory IM screwed!!

subway_ie · 10-06-2004 5:15pm

I wrote about 2 pages for the comhrá, the one about the olympics. Very nice question, did something VERY similar about a month ago.

DEmeant0r · 10-06-2004 6:11pm

So does anyone know if spelling is important for the aural, made quite a few spelling errors.

subway_ie · 10-06-2004 6:15pm

Spelling isn't supposed to matter that much, as long as what you write closely resembles the answer.

DS · 10-06-2004 6:18pm

Wtf was going on with yer man in the last question, Joe Mickie Jimmie MacGrianna. I mean for god's sake, dunno about pass but in hons we had to write his name out. Otherwise, very easy.

subway_ie · 10-06-2004 7:39pm

Originally posted by Discharger Snake
Wtf was going on with yer man in the last question, Joe Mickie Jimmie MacGrianna. I mean for god's sake, dunno about pass but in hons we had to write his name out. Otherwise, very easy.

We were given his name on the exam paper... did look a bit weird. The questions were something along the lines of "what was he doing in the pub?" and "where can you buy his album?"

Funky · 10-06-2004 7:45pm

what an utter joke of an exam

Smellyirishman · 10-06-2004 7:52pm

You had to write his name!!! Im crap at irish but I didnt see that question and I thought that would be quite an easy question!!

I did however get the what was he doing and where to buy it.

conZ · 10-06-2004 9:07pm

Jesus, that Irish Aural exam was a joke in fairness. The mock was much harder.

I attempted every question in it, but I couldn't get that one where you had to send something in when applying for the job in Raidio na Loife. I think it was 'Fonn machadra'' or some **** - I wrote what I though it sounded like

- people were moving and coughing each time it was played.

Also put down ''Corcaigh'' instead of ''Cuairt'' for that question - "Where was yer man yesterday?".

Paper 1 was a bit of a doddle in fairness, but what is with the Exam Commission giving the worst ****in essay titles ever this year? I wrote about that You're a Satire piece of ****. Hit about a page and a half.

The other one, I wrote about that amazing present my thuismitheoiri gave me, and was so amazed that I had to write to my friend. Said I got my Wit,.. Oxegen ticket from them, and spun in the ''Ceolchoirm'' and ''Ghrupa ceoil'' essays I knew so well. Hit about a page and a half on that too.

Comprehensions were some doddle. Pissed myself when I saw "Hector" sa phaipear.
Coilín's comprehension was too easy, really. I added some of my own bits in, so I'd say I got full marks on that - It was too easy - I'm sure each examiner would be getting the same 'copied' answers in every booklet,.. I had to add a bit of class

I also used ''ar bith'' a commonly used saying with me and my friends. We use it sooo out of context, we ''Ar bith'' at anything, but, I'd say for the second time ever, I used it in the proper context today. The other time was when someone remarked about na daoine dubha.

PrecariousNuts · 10-06-2004 9:11pm

Oh god that Jimmy joe mac jim john junior name had me in tears laughing also Comhra a DOH, where do they find these people?

subway_ie · 10-06-2004 9:28pm

Originally posted by conZ
I think it was 'Fonn machadra'' or some **** - I wrote what I though it sounded like - people were moving and coughing each time it was played.

It was probably "foirm iarratas"... you know, like it is every year. That and "Gaeilige líofa" always come up on the pass aural.

Healio · 10-06-2004 9:38pm

anyone else start their aural at 5:00? or is my examiner a ****in eejit?

smelly girl · 10-06-2004 9:44pm

haha, i think yours was wrong. Yeah those jimi john frankie joe names were mad.
nearly pissed myself.

but i noticed some of the numbers in different accents sounded like they were hacking up something!!!

Mutant_Fruit · 10-06-2004 9:44pm

"foirm iarratas", Ai, that it was, and a damn fine foirm iarratas it was too. Only i couldn't spell iarratas

DEmeant0r · 10-06-2004 9:47pm

If I only heard that!

My tape was fuzzy enough, so I blame that!

subway_ie · 10-06-2004 9:47pm

Originally posted by Mutant_Fruit
"foirm iarratas", Ai, that it was, and a damn fine foirm iarratas it was too. Only i couldn't spell iarratas

Bah. I couldn't spell "foirm". How feckin hard can it be to stick in an "i"?

stuey · 10-06-2004 10:03pm

I thought that exam was a piece of cake. I had a few fits of laughter in the tape test over how your manos sister or something couldn't go cause she had a broken leg becuase she was in a road accident. And as for joe mhici jimi give me a break. Speaking of breaks did anybody else notice the painfully long pause at the start of the tape?

daveyjoe · 10-06-2004 10:42pm

Yeah Aural was grand, I can't have gotten more than 3 or 4 wrong on the whole thing. At least this year the Ulster dialect was understandable probably because they spoke so slowly it was painfull. And that question where they asked you about the "special" person, I thought they meant Special needs, it gave me a good laugh when the answer was Mary Kingston or Kennedy or whatever, she's that one who does the Disney club isn't she.... I can't stand that woman.... or her stupid talking dog (Oisín, I think). Paper 1 was easy aswell especially those comprehensions, Hector came up too, he's a top man.

subway_ie · 11-06-2004 7:13am

Originally posted by daveyjoe
she's that one who does the Disney club isn't she.... I can't stand that woman.... or her stupid talking dog (Oisín, I think). Paper 1 was easy aswell especially those comprehensions, Hector came up too, he's a top man.

They only spent about 2 minutes explaining how she was the one from Open House... replayed it twice as well.

Smellyirishman · 11-06-2004 10:12am

Yeay back from paper II!! Got the bus home and everythin so that shows how much I wrote!

But it went well, at least for me , so I may have scraped a pass

but prolly not

Hope all you guys are enjoying your test

Agent Smith · 11-06-2004 10:21am

out also,
left after an hour....

ah bollox....

mad a major mistake...
i thought clann ment King,
so i say your one mioda's father was a clann according to mioda...

which infact means,

"mioda's father was a family"

ah bollox...
am scraping the d3.... d2 if the gods are on my side....

anyone here who smokes, notice there smoking a hell of a lot more?

Joe

subway_ie · 11-06-2004 12:00pm

Originally posted by agent smith
mad a major mistake...
i thought clann ment King,
so i say your one mioda's father was a clann according to mioda...

That's not really a "major" mistake - happens to most people, only difference is that you actually spotted it. I did the same thing with "crann" and "troscán". Still kinda made sense though ("we burned the trees" instead of "we burned the furniture"). Mixing up a word here and there on a pass paper isn't a huge problem.

daveyjoe · 11-06-2004 12:01pm

Originally posted by subway_ie
They only spent about 2 minutes explaining how she was the one from Open House... replayed it twice as well.

Yeah, I heard that, but I've never watched open house, so I presumed it was the same person. Anyway I still can't stand the one who does the Disney club.

I thought todays paper 2 was fairly nice, I did my learning for paper 2 and I think it paid off, I'm hoping for a good B1 or B2 overall in Irish. First week of exams are over Wayhey!

country_gurl · 11-06-2004 10:49pm

wasnt that jimmi guy supposed to be mickey harte in irish? or am i just gone crazy. pissed myself laughin at the name neway

subway_ie · 12-06-2004 8:26am

Originally posted by country_gurl
wasnt that jimmi guy supposed to be mickey harte in irish? or am i just gone crazy. pissed myself laughin at the name neway

I don't think so...
Did anybody else notice how everybody on the tape was talking alot slower this year? I wonder if they'll do the same for French. That's where I always lose my marks.

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