English- How did your first day go?

WeAreBohs

Was pretty happy with both papers. How did it go for everyone?

tracker-man

i thought paper one was grand but paper two really difficult, time was scarce and i didn't fancy any of the poem, drama or novel questions even though i had them studied!

stop_the_craze

Well, I went really great but then I realised on the Personal Writing Section of Paper One I forgot to add in the sentence it asked you to include in your composition...

Do you think I'll lose many marks for it?

Any help much appreciated.

eVeNtInE

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uniquechic

I didnt like the reading section on paper 1 that much and I hated the poetry questions on paper two but apart from that it was ok

Smartly Dressed

stop_the_craze wrote: »

Well, I went really great but then I realised on the Personal Writing Section of Paper One I forgot to add in the sentence it asked you to include in your composition...

Do you think I'll lose many marks for it?

Any help much appreciated.

If you put down the number of your choice then you probably won't lose any marks. If you didn't put that down, then it all depends.

I left out the "Poem I have studied" and "Novel I have studied". That's me down 60 marks already.

I've no idea how some people managed to write a 4 page essay as I only had 15 minutes left for the last question and I only wrote two pages for the essay on Paper 1.

eVeNtInE

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stop_the_craze

Smartly Dressed wrote: »

If you put down the number of your choice then you probably won't lose any marks. If you didn't put that down, then it all depends.

I left out the "Poem I have studied" and "Novel I have studied". That's me down 60 marks already.

I've no idea how some people managed to write a 4 page essay as I only had 15 minutes left for the last question and I only wrote two pages for the essay on Paper 1.

Thanks. I hope I don't lose any marks because my story was really good.

eVeNtInE

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oisin238

I liked paper 1 it was easy essay titles were good paper two though ugh i hated it but i got threw it maths tomorrow so good luck every one :D:D

iFight

stop_the_craze wrote: »

Thanks. I hope I don't lose any marks because my story was really good.

"An implicit link with the textual prompt is sufficient" according to the Marking Scheme anyway. Best of luck, sir.

Cathal93

stop_the_craze wrote: »

Thanks. I hope I don't lose any marks because my story was really good.

Unfourtunately our teacher once gave us out this sheet which said if your story is only a little relevent you get marked only out of 45.....and if no reference is made at all its out of 20......i think u could be in trouble because you technically didnt make any reference......

Anyone else think that the charles darwin was really hard.....aswel as the studied drama and poetry questions were hard to!!! Who agrees????

Bottleopener

Went cool today . Nothing crazily difficult

iFight

Cathal93 wrote: »

i think u could be in trouble because you technically didnt make any reference......

(S)He didn't use the line, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a relevant essay - he hardly just wrote the first essay that popped not his head. He said he forgot to mention the line so it was more than likely a relevant story.

Obviously using the line would be better, but you can make reference without actually quoting it.

I'd say he'll be fine.

stop_the_craze

iFight wrote: »

(S)He didn't use the line, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a relevant essay - he hardly just wrote the first essay that popped not his head. He said he forgot to mention the line so it was more than likely a relevant story.

Obviously using the line would be better, but you can make reference without actually quoting it.

I'd say he'll be fine.

My story was about this guy being bullied and chased down streets and eventually getting to his house and having an alcoholic mother and thinking about how his life's so bad.

The line that was meant to be included was "It was the unfairness of it all that annoyed me the most." I could have put that line in anywhere in the story so I don't know if that makes it relevant or not...:(

Cathal93

stop_the_craze wrote: »

My story was about this guy being bullied and chased down streets and eventually getting to his house and having an alcoholic mother and thinking about how his life's so bad.

The line that was meant to be included was "It was the unfairness of it all that annoyed me the most." I could have put that line in anywhere in the story so I don't know if that makes it relevant or not...:(

I still think it could be bad......because in the other titles you need to make specific reference to the title.....or you will lose loads of marks.....but because this is a line....you have to quote exactly that line.....if they didnt take off marks that in theory u cud enter the exam and write about anything!

Piste

The Darwin passage was so boring! But Paper two didn't seem too hard.

highlydebased

Just had a look at it there

Does not seem as easy as last year, thought the Darwin passage was boring also, Piste.....would not like to have answered that!

Personal writing topics dont look to appetising, either!

glad I had my JC last year!!

Reckle

i thought paper 1 went grand
but paper 2 was really difficult mostly cause i had to rush a load of questions cause i went over the time limit and didnt write long enough answers :S

iFight

Cathal93 wrote: »

I still think it could be bad......because in the other titles you need to make specific reference to the title.....or you will lose loads of marks.....but because this is a line....you have to quote exactly that line.....if they didnt take off marks that in theory u cud enter the exam and write about anything!

As i said (and taken from the Marking Scheme at Examantions.ie): ""An implicit link with the textual prompt is sufficient."

So he won't lose many marks.

Madeleine

I loved Paper 1, twas easy peasy.
Not so sure about Paper 2 though...Am I the only one that thought the unseen Fiction was the most irritating piece of writing in the world?

Reckle

LaVaughn!!!!!!!! hahaha hated that and the poem
it was so crap a bit no sensical tbh but id around 15 mins to answer the whole fiction section cause ms thick here fecked up on her time

stop_the_craze

iFight wrote: »

As i said (and taken from the Marking Scheme at Examantions.ie): ""An implicit link with the textual prompt is sufficient."

So he won't lose many marks.

Thank you for your suppourt. Even if I do lose marks, I tried my best, right? At least it wasn't my LC!!!

Madeleine

Oh yeah and, in the Nasa one- were we meant to write that as a letter or just an essay type thing?

stop_the_craze

Madeleine wrote: »

Oh yeah and, in the Nasa one- were we meant to write that as a letter or just an essay type thing?

It was meant to be a competition entry so I did it like a formalish essay.

Reckle

no idea
i did the other one about intercultural communtiy in school
how did you find paper 2 overall?

iFight

No worries. Best of luck with the rest of your week.

eVeNtInE

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Megatron_X

Madeleine wrote: »

Oh yeah and, in the Nasa one- were we meant to write that as a letter or just an essay type thing?

Half my class did it as a Formal Letter,and the other just as an essay. I did it as an essay,but I was thinking maybe it was meant to be a Formal Letter, I still don't know!

Reckle

when i was considering the option of the nasa question i thought it had to be done in formal letter form but chose the other one bout intercultural stuff

eVeNtInE

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KatCookie

Neon-Circles wrote: »

glad I had my JC last year!!

same here!!

in relation to the essay or formal letter thing.. dont think it mkes TOO much of a difference.. but then again, you never know cos u dont get back the papers!!

winner92

Im fairly happy with english which is a major suprise!!!! I didnt like the darwin passage however!!!!! I thought that the unseen shakespere was fairly good!!! Best of luck 2mw!!!:D:p;)

aine92

Yeh it was okaly i thought, Paper One was fine but the studied poetry questions were really crap, left us with very little choice and i had studied them :mad:


How easy was the modern drama?! So shocked!!!

Animalxerman

Meh. Question. In the English essay 'Its only 3 days away, im so excited' or something like that, I said i cant wait to go on a Voyage with charles darwin, and Took reference from the reading comprehension once or twice.. do i lose? :<

Smartly Dressed

Animalxerman wrote: »

Meh. Question. In the English essay 'Its only 3 days away, im so excited' or something like that, I said i cant wait to go on a Voyage with charles darwin, and Took reference from the reading comprehension once or twice.. do i lose? :<

I also chose that option and wrote it as a first person narrative (does that make sense). Basically, it was just about me and what I did in the 3 days leading up to the exam. The idea was good but I don't think I wrote it very well.

Reckle wrote: »

LaVaughn!!!!!!!! hahaha hated that and the poem
it was so crap a bit no sensical tbh but id around 15 mins to answer the whole fiction section cause ms thick here fecked up on her time

LaVaughn was extremely boring. I even got to the point where I thought to myself whether or not it was worth finishing! Luckily, I did finish it.:D

The poem was incredibly easy. Definitely the easiest poem I have come across in my Junior Cert course and although I understood it, I'm not sure my answers were written very well, though.

Animalxerman

Animalxerman wrote: »

Meh. Question. In the English essay 'Its only 3 days away, im so excited' or something like that, I said i cant wait to go on a Voyage with charles darwin, and Took reference from the reading comprehension once or twice.. do i lose? :<

Sorry, i meant to say 'do i lose marks?'

cork*girl

KatCookie wrote: »

same here!!

in relation to the essay or formal letter thing.. dont think it mkes TOO much of a difference.. but then again, you never know cos u dont get back the papers!!

i also am glad i had the JC last year..even though I thought it was a laugh doing it! poetry looked deadly!!:eek: essays looked good though!:cool:

ithoughtitwasap

I thought it was handy enough, though everyone seems to have found Paper 2 harder then Paper 1.

For the personal writing, I chose the unfairness one, wrote about a homeless lad in Moscow. Homeless people are easy as hell to write about.

And I found it hard to get the NASA thing into just 200 words.

Good luck tomorrow!

spurious

Animalxerman wrote: »

Sorry, i meant to say 'do i lose marks?'

No, each question is marked on its own, not in relation to other sections.
You used a bit of cop-on.

shantow

anyone do the debate speech?

i thought it was easy:pac:

does it matter if you got the format of the report slightly wrong?

ch252

I found paper one easy, it all just went perfectly, paper two didn't suit but I managed!

JodJunior

My essay was brillant , twas about world war 2 - at least 55 marks on essay but PAPER 2 was a balls i fecked up big time - them questions were gay

TessaGotGame

Well i thought English Paper 1 was a Beaut:pNothin Hard a tall.. the essay titles were really general..:D..The reading comprihension was alriiiiiiiiiight.. it was a hardish?? but it was okay.. managable like.. Functional Writing was grand and The Media Studies was grand too:D....

Paper 2.. Mehhh was hard enough.. The Poetry was fairly hard.. The questions were difficult.. The Fiction was graaaand..:o..The "Other" drama was fine.. d one bout gopal n anja..

Sooooo Paper One was grand And Paper Two was Harder:(..

RMD

Smartly Dressed wrote: »

I've no idea how some people managed to write a 4 page essay as I only had 15 minutes left for the last question and I only wrote two pages for the essay on Paper 1.

Did you do a plan for your essay? My teacher told me to spend 10 minutes at the start creating a plan. It really helps if you want to write a long / good story.

Anyone do the NASA question? After finishing it I decided to count how many words I wrote, by complete coincidence I wrote 199 words lol

tracker-man

I think I had about 199 words in the NASA thing too!! Although I may have missed a word or two cause I was just speed counting it! I doubt they'll penilise you for having it slightly over the 200.

Paper 1 for me was B-E-A-Utiful. Paper two was a disaster. The questions on the studied poetry and studied novel and studied play just didn't suit me, even though i had them studied

oisin238

i so agree with you on paper 1 and paper 2 i just waffeled on about stuff an di did the nasa one to think i got 197 words but like you i was speed counting.

highlydebased

The examiner is not going to be counting for the exact word count.

Its a general quota not an exact goal.

stop_the_craze

As regards the NASA Question, I think the question stated that answers should be 170-200 words. It didn't say anything like "Answers should not exceed 200 words". I think they just said it like that so people dont write tiny 100 word answers but don't waffle on for ages about how they want to see moon rocks .