Irish paper 1/listening

Attractive Nun

How did everyone get on?

I'm surprised at how well I think I did in honours. The essays that came up were grand enough, I had a few random paragraphs learned off and I managed to fit them into that 'old and new in Ireland' one, got three decent enough pages by my standards. The comprehensions were generally fairly easy I found, except that weird question at the end of the second one, which I now realise I was easy if only I could have remembered what 'tairiscint' was.

That listening was the easiest one I think I've ever done. I usually can't do them at all, but I'm in A/B territory with it I hope.


I now kinda wish I'd put more effort into learning an essay, and paper 2 (which could prove disastrous). There's potential for a good grade in the exam.

OctavarIan

Ordinary Level

Paper One: Comprehensions were grand, essay on Sport 1 A4 page grand stuff, story (which involved an entire airports worth of people catching on fire at the same time! and a noscensical ending) was also just over 1 A4 page and grand.

Listening: This was piss easy. Must have gotten an A only a few questions cuaght me out.

Finished Paper one in a hour, so we all sat out on the grass in the sun. Good stuff.

michelle_ie

LOVED IT!!! i did pass! but i think it was the best paper in a long time! i had sport learnt off my heart! my short story was class! the comprehensions 100% correct and im guessin i got about 110.120 in my irish aural!!!!!!!

Rockerette

Attractive Nun wrote:

That listening was the easiest one I think I've ever done.

thank god i wasnt the only one who thought that!
it was a bit of a pisstake how easy some of it was..


i was delighted with the comprehensions, that same question you mentioned was the only one that really stumped me, at the end of the second one.


i understand the essay titles too

i wrote the article on the interview with a famous person about the irish language (and only a brief mention of culture... ). Me and Gráinne Seoige!
managed to get about 900 words done on it, so im pretty happy with it overall




a wonderful day all round for me.


i dont expect an A or anything, we same that for those fluent speakers

but with some last minute uber cramming tonight, HOPEFULLY paper 2 wont let me down.



wooo.

smemon

tape work was handy, and im not even good at tape work.
id say i got 70/100.

paper 1 was a bitch imo.
reading comps were tricky and aiste was very poor choices.

ended up doing old & new ireland or something like that and wrote about the luas & the IT industry and the education system and landsdowne road!!

pretty stupid, i know but i pulled it off was a nice wee essay, happy with it. predicted and A for my essay in the pre and got 40%:rolleyes: i'll say modestly a C for me in paper one overall.

add in the aural and oral & paper1 i should have about 50% with paper 2 to go (~30%). i'd settle for 65% atm, hopefully i'll get 70 though

Attractive Nun

Rockerette wrote:

i was delighted with the comprehensions, that same question you mentioned was the only one that really stumped me, at the end of the second one.

As soon as I found out 'tairiscint' means 'offer', it came to me. 'Give him an offer he can't refuse'. Pretty weird question nonetheless.

Lord Oz

Essay and reading were surprisingly easy. So was the tape, except the accents were annoying. Hope paper 2 tomorrow goes just as well!

Rockerette

smemon wrote:

tape work was handy, and im not even good at tape work.
id say i got 70/100.

paper 1 was a bitch imo.
reading comps were tricky and aiste was very poor choices.

ended up doing old & new ireland or something like that and wrote about the luas & the IT industry and the education system and landsdowne road!!

pretty stupid, i know but i pulled it off was a nice wee essay, happy with it. predicted and A for my essay in the pre and got 40%:rolleyes: i'll say modestly a C for me in paper one overall.

add in the aural and oral & paper1 i should have about 50% with paper 2 to go (~30%). i'd settle for 65% atm, hopefully i'll get 70 though

smemon, theres almost.... almost a touch of MODESTY to that post?!

im shocked


you sound just like the rest of there with your uncertainty....!

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV

id say i got like 90-95% in paper 1+ tape test

smemon

Rockerette wrote:

smemon, theres almost.... almost a touch of MODESTY to that post?!

irish is probably my worst higher level subject (doing 6) , so if i can pull 70% out of the bag i'll be flippin extatic

not looking 4ward to paper 2. it's a workhorses paper and that i am not.

i'm in irish mode now though, so my irish is good. i just have to remember the stories and history :rolleyes:

come to think about it, my essay was laced with beautiful rare irish, if i get a real irish examiner and not some dozy college student, i might actually hit a low A, bringing me from a C overall to a B on paper 1

deisedolly

I saw 'Díoma' in the Scéals and I nearly fell off of my chair! Couldn't believe how lucky I was! I was able to jot down a whole lovely story about the fella playing a match and losing it and blah blah blah, a few lovely sentences should hopefully get me a good few marks! Delighted!

Our cd was slightly skipping in Cuid A and really really skipped in Cuid B so the superviser put in a new CD and started the whole thing from scratch giving us a second go of Cuid A! Helped me alot, but even without this little advantage I thought the tape was really easy!

Must have been my lucky day!:D Think I deserved it after the english fiasco there yesterday!

Garret

My guess is that the reason the listening was so easy is because its a new course for poetry and prose, so it will balance it out percentage wise probably.

Paper 1 was grand, did the Greens speech question, came up with it all (i dont like the whole learn essays off thing) and it seemed alright. Reading comprehensions were fairly handy.

abercrombie

yeah the tape was really really easy!! it was the part of the exam which i was most dreading...i'm so pleased with how today went...i'm motivated now to study for paper two! :)

bobneedshelpnow

Ordinary level
paper 1 lovely paper but i messed up the listening.
The supervisor guy shut all windows cause he didn't want people outside to interupt but i got so dizzy from the heat in the room that i couldn't concentrate and missed loads of questions :mad:

fatal

i was surprised....the listening was piss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Raphael

Higher Level

Did the scéál on dioma, then bull****ted an essay in case dioma didn;t mean what i thought it did. comprehensions were easy enough, and the tape test was fantastic!

I left an hour early in the exam as well, it's FAR too long.

Rob30888

Rockerette wrote:

i wrote the article on the interview with a famous person about the irish language (and only a brief mention of culture... ). Me and Gráinne Seoige!
managed to get about 900 words done on it, so im pretty happy with it overall

I did the exact same thing :P Although I made a slight mess, but hopefully it's ok...

The listening was great (surprisingly modern topics - 3G :eek:), but Cuid A went WAY to quick, even the lad in our class who speakis fluent Irish couldn't keep up

Dreading Paper 2, but no more of that moronic language ever again after tomorrow

Duddy

Raphael wrote:

Higher Level

I left an hour early in the exam as well, it's FAR too long.

Chah thank christ! I left at like 3.20 (H) and was like the first hons person out! Was crapping miself!! tape was soooooo cul...think it was the easiest i got this year.... Did the dioma essay too.....hadn a clue what the others meant...is 2 and 3/4 pages ok??


There's only so long u can flesh out a suicide.....i made the parents seem like right twats..."they were disapointed with their son for killing himself"




Jesus.

the room we did the *listening* exam in has 4 huge windows, all facing the sun, none of which open, and the doors had been closed for about 2 days prior to it...

The room was close to 50 degrees when the examiner went in first!

thank god he had the sense to leave the doors open and lock the outer doors of the corridor instead, otherwise there would've been bodies on the floor by the end of it!

Raphael

Duddy wrote:

Chah thank christ! I left at like 3.20 (H) and was like the first hons person out! Was crapping miself!! tape was soooooo cul...think it was the easiest i got this year.... Did the dioma essay too.....hadn a clue what the others meant...is 2 and 3/4 pages ok??


There's only so long u can flesh out a suicide.....i made the parents seem like right twats..."they were disapointed with their son for killing himself"




Jesus.

Mine was just over 2 pages, I counted my average words per line then kept going till i was near 600

tinka

lovely paper. did the essay on oideachas maith and was pleased with how it turned out. listening was simply splendid, except for the last question in píosa 2, roinn 3. about the priest and the old people..

PrettyInPunk

i missed one or two in the listenings i found the comprehensions really hard though

Raphael

tinka: there was a weird one there, 2 questions were reverses of one another

Rockerette

tinka wrote:

lovely paper. did the essay on oideachas maith and was pleased with how it turned out. listening was simply splendid, except for the last question in píosa 2, roinn 3. about the priest and the old people..

what he set up?

Ionad Lae i think, day centre?

tinka

Raphael wrote:

tinka: there was a weird one there, 2 questions were reverses of one another

really? there was a lot of talk about priests... which questions?

tinka

Rockerette wrote:

what he set up?

Ionad Lae i think, day centre?

ah i see! that guy had a crazy ass accent :rolleyes:

Rockerette

Rockerette wrote:

what he set up?

Ionad Lae i think, day centre?

yup, that's the one.

I reckon that pass listening was a joke...

they'll give us a real one tomorrow after paper2..

if i got less than 110/120 i'd go mental!

ThrownAway

Ordinary Level

I was in stiches

bla bla bla PUNK bla bla blaa PUNK
A guy got a sneezing fit up the top row and the tape had to be rewinded

I thought the comprehensions were hard enough :mad:

OctavarIan

Rockerette wrote:

what he set up?

Ionad Lae i think, day centre?

I got that too! Wasn't sure if it was right though. I was half asleep during Cuid C the warm room made me so snoozy.

d4gurl

Im so pleased with honours Irish paper one!listning grand!first comprehension grand second bit difficult nothing too hard except the last question! My essay was a beaut! An coras oideachas - it was just so nice to get an easy esssay I hope i got my B1 in that!

mang87

ordinary

Paper 1? My profound lack of Irish made me give up half way through the comprehensions, since I hadn't a ****ing CLUE

Didn't care, just left.


Listening: JEsus that was possibly the easiest listening ever...

Raphael

It was the second last 2 in that. 1 sec.

Edit:
"Cén gradam a bronnadh air"
&
"Cár bronnach an gradam air"

Thought it was a bit weird

Faerie

Easiest irish tape test ever! I reckon I got nearly 100%!! The comprehensions were grand, I was even laughing at the making an offer he can't refuse bit and although the aiste topics were weird (particularly the one about soaps!) I did the speech on Timpeallacht which I got an A in from my teacher so I'm hoping for an A1 in paper 1! Paper 2 will probably drag it down to a C though! Big boost after I messed up my two best subjects English and Maths!

Glazun

Bleh.. it was grand.. Except, I thought dioma meant nervous.. o_O then realised as I was leaving the exam room that it wasnt.. >_< I somehow think it fits in. >_>;;

The Leamthuiscints were easy.. About the 2nd question, they had Offeral next to the word... Tape work was REALLY easy, though I may have spelt some things wrong.. like I just said "Ionad do seandhuine" >_>;

****ting myself on paper 2, time for some rapid cramming.

Faerie

Raphael wrote:

It was the second last 2 in that. 1 sec.

Edit:
"Cén gradam a bronnadh air"
&
"Cár bronnach an gradam air"

Thought it was a bit weird

They were totally different. The first one was person of the year (I think!) and the second one was a hotel in dublin (forgotten the name now!).

Raphael

Really? I only got the second one, it just struck me as being really, really weird.

michelle_ie

yeah fr michael was person of the year!!!!!! he from gweedore in donegal!!!! hehehe we all dont sound like that boy talkin about ros na run!

NADA

Irish was brill. My essay was dodgy but still solid enough. Comprehensions were piss. Couldn't believe it. Listening. Cuid A fogra a haon was the haredest. Missed an answer there. Just turned around and got the word dramaiocht from the guy behind me.

Raphael

If i ever meet the guy who was talking about rus na run, im punching him in the face. He's made every tape test i ever did suck.

Faerie

Raphael wrote:

If i ever meet the guy who was talking about rus na run, im punching him in the face. He's made every tape test i ever did suck.

The way he said leathuair tar eis a deich was hilarious! I actually like the way he talks, he speaks very slowly!

:|

the whole tape test is just an advertisment for TG4 and RnaG

And Bono and Bob geldolf are always there too...

Raphael

I've heard him before, and his voice is just abusive imho.

deisedolly

Faerie wrote:

The way he said leathuair tar eis a deich was hilarious! I actually like the way he talks, he speaks very slowly!

Yeah i had an aul giggle to meself about that alright!

belinea06

i got the qs on the hotel - the Burlington in Dublin
he got the award for man of tir chonaill i tink. easy listenin, essay ans comps. hope p2 goes as well!

fearcruach

^

It was actually the Burlington in Letterkenny. Yeah it was pearsa tír chonnaill ie donegal person of the year. I love being from Donegal the Northern Irish is played soooo slow. And btw southerners i had a giggle at the way you say deich. so ha. Unfortunatley I'm totally outnumbered here so I'll shut up now:)

RebelRockChick

Ordinary Level paper 1 was easy. Was finished at 3, so just had to wait around for the tape. Tape was piss easy, probably the easiest one I've ever done!! Got most of the questions right!

I'd say I did fairly well over all combining the oral, tape, paper 1. Just have to get paper 2 over with tomorrow!

Rockerette

im already laughing at the "scrudu na hardteistemearahta, dhá mhile is a Sé.." - damn it i love that bit.. then the annoying beep... and hte "CUID AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA - leeeeeeeeigh anois go curamach..."


heheheee

oh i will miss that

Faerie

fearcruach wrote:

^

It was actually the Burlington in Letterkenny. Yeah it was pearsa tír chonnaill ie donegal person of the year. I love being from Donegal the Northern Irish is played soooo slow. And btw southerners i had a giggle at the way you say deich. so ha. Unfortunatley I'm totally outnumbered here so I'll shut up now:)

Nooooooo Are you sure it was Letterkenny? I thought it was Baile Atha Cliath!!

Btw I did the speech, is there a special format for that? I just did A Dhaltai at the start and go raibh maith agat at the end, please tell me you don't have to talk about how happy you are to be speaking,etc

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV

the damn northies in cuid c was the toughest

mang87

wrote:

the whole tape test is just an advertisment for TG4 and RnaG

lmfao you're right

DemonOfTheFall

Attractive Nun wrote:

As soon as I found out 'tairiscint' means 'offer', it came to me. 'Give him an offer he can't refuse'. Pretty weird question nonetheless.

What's there to find out ? It said something like "ofráil" in brackets beside the word tairiscint. If that doesn't give the game away I don't know what does!

Also, I'm pretty sure he said Baile Atha Cliath not whatever the irish for letter kenny is.