English- How did your first day go?

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 .