How did paper 2 go?

Soby

I know it cant seem a good sign i was out at 12 but i was really happy..brilliant paper,Othello the exception.Questions werent great

poetry had it done by 9.50 flew through it had the answer in my head just wrote it down..2 1/2 pages for that..

3 for othello that was kinda meh..didnt use the best of language in it

comparative 5 pages theme issue dunno how i did in that

im really happy with poetry though..everyone shoulda really should have had at least one of them studied

Jay P

Which poets came up? Was the "leak" accurate? Just wondering....

xxGalwayGirlxx

Done Ordinary....

Loved it, couldnt have went more perfect

I only decieded to study Boland and Mahon....Mahon came up

Only studied Relasionships...relasionships came up

Soby

Jay P wrote: »

Which poets came up? Was the "leak" accurate? Just wondering....

No it was larkin donne,rich and mahon..same as my mock...the "leak" said two women poets..never likely..the tradition lives on

cian1500ww

Everything was grand apart from that damned Othello question. I only wrote 2 pages for it. I was hoping for either Iago or Jealousy. Oh well, did grnad in the rest.

SmashingPilot

I was really happy with the paper.

Only learned Larkin and Boland. So was more than happy to see Larkin appear. Had a perfect essay in my head and was done in fifteen minutes. I wrote 3 pages.

Othello was such a perfect question too. Got just over 3 pages done and took me about 25 minutes.

Pretty much waffled my way through comparative but think I did alright. Managed 3 pages.

Soby

SmashingPilot wrote: »

I was really happy with the paper.

Only learned Larkin and Boland. So was more than happy to see Larkin appear. Had a perfect essay in my head and was done in fifteen minutes. I wrote 3 pages..

same i was like wow..is this good or bad lol

tasha1

I'm So Happy With It!

I Was Majorly Worried And Then All My Stuff Came Up..

I Nearly Cried With Relief When I Saw Rich Was On it!

Four Pages For Each Question Made Me Happy.

No More Othello Ever Again!! Woo.

SmashingPilot

I kind of felt guilty for knowing it so well.

Decerto

cian1500ww wrote: »

Everything was grand apart from that damned Othello question. I only wrote 2 pages for it. I was hoping for either Iago or Jealousy. Oh well, did grnad in the rest.

for othello question you should of just disagreed with statement and wrote how it was iago who caused tradgedy

Anyone else find theme or issue question horrible?, what exactly did it mean by viewpoints

leomessi

Comparative: Super did 7 pages altogether
Single Text : Death and Nightingales 6 pages
Poetry: Thank God For Rich , got 4 really good RELEVANT pages and did 1.5 pages for unseen.....my hand is killing me

leomessi

Anyone else find theme or issue question horrible?, what exactly did it mean by viewpoints[/quote]

I think its just another way of how it was dealt with

Cokehead Mother

Went awful. Probably a fail but paper 1 was great so it's okay. Just glad I'll never have to sit English paper 2 again.

meeka

I'm so happy! Donne came up. Although, I did leave his question til last, wrote the last page and a half in about 2 minutes because I was just about out of time. Ah well, hopefully it was coherent! I thought the unseen poetry was nice enough.

The Othello question was fine, I thought - I did the 'weakness of judgement' essay.. Wasn't fantastic, but it wasn't bad.

I did the Comparative first to get it out of the way, that was okay too.

All in all, I'm happy I did reasonably, and I'm glad that it's over and that I never have to study English again!

Soby

theme/issue like poetry...you dont really have to change your answer it will apply to any question you may just have to tweak your opening paragraph or whatever

Ino112

Othello question: (i) Threw me at first, but disagreed with the question and got to use all my delicious Iago quotes :P Scored 4.5 pages.

Comparative: 2. Again, pretty fair, got 4.5 pages yet again, and also got a lot of comparisons/contrats in there to boot.

Unseen: A. Seemed to suit me better. Half a page more-or-less for either.

Poetry: 4. Adrienne Rich. Would have prefered Boland by miles, but knew her just as well, seeing as it was highly likely she'd make the paper.

Overal, I thought it was a fair paper. Maybe too predictable? I'm not saying that's a bad thing of course!

Well done to all!

i-cheat

honestly i only studied John Donne (like i have mentioned on this site before) and i cant describe the relief which over came me at about 9.31 this morning....i thought the paper was very fair

mattfender

Just did the exam in start to finish format and tried to time it properly but was left stuck with 30 mins for poetry and fitted in 1 and a bit pages on Mahon...waffle of course:pac:

Timans

Went alright but it was a nasty paper. Literary Genre was an absolutely disgusting question, they asked basically on one point. I'm really surprised that it was like that. I was lucky as I could twist most of my prepared points into the question but for some people who had prepared more technical points (narrative/flashbacks etc) I'd imagine it was a nightmare to have to twist them.

Rich - Happy Days.

Crucible - No John Proctor question straight? ****ers. Danforth mentioned in a question? ****ers. I had a page written on one of the questions and had to change to the other one.

Ah, all in all, while it was a nasty paper, I'm glad how it went. Hopefully that will be the one paper that was going to mess me up, as I had a feeling there'd be one.

GLaDOS

Quite happy Human judgement for Othello, Theme/Issue and Larkin.

The lit genre question looked horrible :eek:

blue-army

Comparative:Lit Genre! - Did 7 and a half pages altogether....read a sample answer of it mins before which stayed fresh in my head!

Single Text : Othello 5 and a half pages....easy enough!

Poetry: Thank god Philip Larkin came up- legend! 5 and a half pages! easy enough as well

Unseen: Did the A part with 2 questions......1 page on each....we never even did 1 unseen and it got 16/20 in the mocks....about the same again I'd say...

Hopefully thats enough for a B!!!

Fuascailt

Donne:D My learnt essay was pretty relevant, lovely, about five pages
Literary Genre Fine, I didnt really focus on one character though, got six or seven pages
Unseen poem :pac: slightly depressing, but plenty to write nearly two pages
Othello :rolleyes: meh, thought they could have done better, kind of a boring question, still got to five pages

Filled the book, got one extra page. I'm reasonably happy, looking forward to Maths now in the morning. Time to get into the meaty subjects:p

Mikeyt086

My god. I couldnt have done better if i knew the test last year.

Othello: Dissagreed with the statement and threw out a flawless essay on how Iago brought tragedy. 4 pages.

Comparitive: Spanked it, did the theme one with key moments and did relationships. 4 pages.

Poerty: THANK GOD for Larkin. Perfect essay. 4 pages.

Unseen: Thought i did ok, but you never know.

HELLO132

Ino112 wrote: »

Othello question: (i) Threw me at first, but disagreed with the question and got to use all my delicious Iago quotes :P Scored 4.5 pages.

Comparative: 2. Again, pretty fair, got 4.5 pages yet again, and also got a lot of comparisons/contrats in there to boot.

Unseen: A. Seemed to suit me better. Half a page more-or-less for either.

Poetry: 4. Adrienne Rich. Would have prefered Boland by miles, but knew her just as well, seeing as it was highly likely she'd make the paper.

Overal, I thought it was a fair paper. Maybe too predictable? I'm not saying that's a bad thing of course!

Well done to all!

:eek: I was going to do that but i wasn't sure if you were allowed i only got 1 page done, i would of done much much better :mad:

Mars Bar

Comparative: A beauty, 5 pages
Othello: I just rephrased what they had asked in the quest, got 4 pages to the last line, that's two times better than the mocks!:D
Poetry: OH WHY BOLAND?! WHY DIDN'T YOU APPEAR ON THAT PAPER. I didn't do too bad to remember quotes and stuff from Rich but couldn't remember the title for "Our Whole Life".

Not too bad, probably not as good as the mocks coz of paper 1 but I hope it isn't worse than my B3 last year.

22diamonds

5 pages for each! delighted! it was actually the PERFECT paper!!

Léan

Thought it was pretty ok besides the Curcible question. Was delighted when i saw Mahon there. Had only learned him and Boland.

Got around 5 pages and a bit out of my Mahon answer so that was cool.

Lit Genre question was a bit off putting i thought. Did the second part of the question, thought it was tricky enough. Still managed about 5 pages though.

Crucible quesiton.
WTF?
Usually there's one character ques plus another one.
Did the Danforth/Proctor one. Struggled to get 3 pages out of it. Mostly slated Danforth :pac:

Overall went well i think besides The Crucible bit.

irish_boy90

othello- did the foolishness of othello. was good enough 3 pages
theme - just what I wanted did 4 pages and got my 5 points done well.
unseen - HANDY
studied poetry- Did larkin, not happy with it but it will do.

all in all I believe I done fine and now it's maths time.:D

kwestfan08

Disagreed with the statement for othello - 3 pages

Theme and issue - 4 pages

Poetry - rich - 3 pages

Alright paper. Could have been better though.

BJC

My prediction was nearly right, with the exception of Boland, but Mahon came up!!! I actually called out when I got the paper and quickly flicked to the poetry section. "Mahon you legend!" Couldn't help it!

Maths and Geog tomorrow...

Sugarplum_fairy

Timans wrote: »

Literary Genre was an absolutely disgusting question, they asked basically on one point. I'm really surprised that it was like that. I was lucky as I could twist most of my prepared points into the question but for some people who had prepared more technical points (narrative/flashbacks etc) I'd imagine it was a nightmare to have to twist them.

Really? i did the lit g, second question, talked all about the flashbacks etc that helped create the characters. now youre making me worried... got 6 pages anyway

what did people think of the unseen poem?
i think there was a sigh of relief over the entire hall when people saw the list of poets, most people in my school were banking on rich. i did donne, lovely question, bout 5 pages.

but couldn't remember the title for "Our Whole Life".

ah yes, that happened to one of the girls in my hall, the examiner seemd somewhat unimpressed at her suggestion that she be allowed to ask someone else the name...

and the 2nd othello question, thought it was nice, very broad.

titan18

What a beautiful paper.That could not have come up any better.I didnt like the comparitive questions though.They werent very nice.But theme and issue came up and I was screwed otherwise.


Did Othello question on Iago's cleverness.4 pages

Comparitive on Theme focus sharply with key moments 5 pages

Poetry Mahon 5 pages and went very very nice.I managed to include all of his poems.Did 4 in detail and talked about the others

Unseen Poetry Personal Response 1 and a 1/2 pages

HELLO132

I feel sick i didn't disagree with the Othello question, could be the difference between a pass and a fail

1huge1

Yes I was very happy with the paper, found it very fair

I disagreed with the statement in othello and said that it was a combination of othello's foolishness and iago's cleverness. Worked like a charm.

I picked the 2 part question of theme and issue in the comparative section. Got in all that I had prepared so woreked out perfectly even though I had never practised doing the comparative question in two parts

I only studied 3 poets (larkin, donne and boland) and two of them came up so I was very happy.
I did donne but I never really did any imagery on him when revising him but still came through it no problem and of course referring to wit was no problem

Unseen poem was very nice, wrote 3/4's of a page on each question ( I did the part with two questions)

tabouli

Timans wrote: »

Literary Genre was an absolutely disgusting question,

+1, had to do it though, we never covered theme and issue in class. I did the second one about the character creation thing, got about 4 pages out of it. It was really hard to stick to. Also, does anyone know if you'd get more marks for doing more than one character, or would just one from each text be alright?

The Othello was ok, did the weak judgement one, managed about 4 pages on that too. I thought it would be worse, but once I got going it was fine.

Unseen poetry, grand, I did the second one and got about 2 pages. Did Donne too, which was ok, although I kind of ran out of time. Hope it was coherent enough!

plug-in-baby

paper was grand !! super happy mahon came up

messed up comparative up a bit tho

titan18

HELLO132 wrote: »

I feel sick i didn't disagree with the Othello question, could be the difference between a pass and a fail

How,as long as you back up the points you made.You'll get the marks

thatone!

Othello was grand got 4 pages
Comparative not too bad got 5.5 pages
poetry FANTASTIC got 4 pages
Unseen poetry fine got over a page
Happy enough

BJC

titan18 wrote: »

How,as long as you back up the points you made.You'll get the marks

Yeah, I agreed with it. I hate Shakespeare and I hate Othello and I hate Iago! So I got to take my rage out on both of them. Iago is no more than a lower class ensign and Othello is a bumbling idiot once he's taken out of his comfort zone! Obviously I worded my answer a wee bit better but I made strong points and backed them up with reference and quotes, good marks coming my way!

SRFC90

HELLO132 wrote: »

I feel sick i didn't disagree with the Othello question, could be the difference between a pass and a fail

I don't think so.

steve_bhoy

delighted:D
studied mahon...he came up:D
twisted othello question to iago by diagreeing:D
studied theme and issue...it came up:D

no more english ever:D:D:D

MikeHunt08

Mahon was the only poet I studied, so you can picture how happy I was to see His name on the paper . An easy question aswel! Got just about 4 pages on him!

Unseen was fair handy has well! Spent about 5 minutes on it got 3/4 page should see me in good stead.

Othello was fair handy! Havent opened an Othello book since 5th year and I flew through it! Mainly through the use of the dvd! Got 3 1/2 pages on that (Done (ii) the weakness of human judgement- all about Iago )

Comparative was the worst of my 4 questions. However, thats not to say it didnt go well. I was satisfied with it even though I only got 2 pages done on it. I got alot of comparison/contrasts so i was happy!

All in all English Paper 1 and 2 were quite handy and I hope to be looking forward to a C1 or B3 come August.

life_is_music

I thought the paper was sex!!!

I had 2 poets learned (Larkin and Rich) and they both came up

I did Larkin and the unseen poem was fine too.

I thought the Literary Genre question was awful!!! My class didn't have anything prepared on the creation of characters!
Luckily I had a perfect Theme and Issue answer learned off

Second Othello question was perfect!!! Really broad and open

First Death and Nightingales Q was easy too (I did Othello though)

Timans

Sugarplum_fairy wrote: »

Really? i did the lit g, second question, talked all about the flashbacks etc that helped create the characters. now youre making me worried... got 6 pages anyway

what did people think of the unseen poem?
i think there was a sigh of relief over the entire hall when people saw the list of poets, most people in my school were banking on rich. i did donne, lovely question, bout 5 pages. ah yes, that happened to one of the girls in my hall, the examiner seemd somewhat unimpressed at her suggestion that she be allowed to ask someone else the name...

and the 2nd othello question, thought it was nice, very broad.

Don't be worried at all, I was just saying that it would be harder to twist, if you managed to do it, then fair play!

Bryan4president

Thank god mahon came up.
Rest was grand, literary genre was pretty easy .
for othello I had both Iago and Othello studied so
I was ok.
And we had unseen poem already done in class.

What a great paper!!:D

Dr. Baltar

I was absolutely delighted with the Othello Question. I simply decided to argue that the tragedy of Othello was a combination of both Othello and Iago. I managed to get about 4 pages written for it and was very happy with my answer.

For the Comparatives, I did the theme of relationships and that was also pretty easy. In fact, my biggest problem was that I ended up writing about 6 pages and had to cut it short as I didn't have a lot of time.

For the Unseen Poem I did Question 1, I'm pretty sure I did fine, but I mean, you never really know with the Unseen Poems.

As for the Prescribed Poetry, I had 45 minutes left and I had to decide whether to do Rich or Larkin. I personally thought that the Larkin Question was more difficult (even though I know his poetry better).
I decided on Rich, realised I could only remember 5 of her poems and so quickly changed back to Larkin.

I was doing fine until the supervisor called out that there was only 5 minutes left and I had to really rush the last two poems I mentioned.

Overall, I am absolutely delighted with the paper. Never before have I thought that I've done better in Paper 2 than in Paper 1.

Now, bring on Maths.

Soby

What was the unseen poem about..Was there conflict with the father and son but also love??

alan4cult

HELLO132 wrote: »

I feel sick i didn't disagree with the Othello question, could be the difference between a pass and a fail

I didn't disagree either. Its more of a challenge not too but hopefully I'll get the marks for it!

Erica-smiley

Was mad all I studied was theme for the comparative.... that came up.... I only studied Rich and boland for poets.... rich came up.... then I only studied Iago's cleverness and a little bit bout othello..... I just combined the 2!

Was so happy would have been gone if Rich hadnt come up think a lot of people were depending on her!
Unseen poem was really easy I thought!
Overall english was fine!:D

Mars Bar

plawless wrote: »

did any else do real bad? only wrote half a page for the comparative, unseen 7 lines and i had only studied boland!!!!!!!:mad: on the flipside scored the bird hu brings us 2 the toilet . bring on maths

Your priorities are magnificent! Gave me a laugh though...

Cokehead Mother

plawless wrote: »

did any else do real bad? only wrote half a page for the comparative, unseen 7 lines and i had only studied boland!!!!!!!:mad: on the flipside scored the bird hu brings us 2 the toilet . bring on maths

I wrote 6 pages altogether and don't have impending sex with a TY student to cheer me up.

Did you take higher or ordinary?