What did you think of the exams?

partyatmygaff

Seeing as the exams are just hours away now I've decided to open a thread for talking about how you did in any one exam.

/Dont post in here until 4:30pm 3rd June

mink_man

what??!!! why did you do this? this is pointless! you just want a post with aload of replys!

partyatmygaff

mink_man wrote: »

what??!!! why did you do this? this is pointless! you just want a post with aload of replys!

what??!!! why did you do ^that^? that is pointless! you just want to boost your post count!






:rolleyes:

jumpguy

mink_man wrote: »

what??!!! why did you do this? this is pointless! you just want a post with aload of replys!

...Right.
But you could've waited. :P

Bonavox

This thread looks as if its going to die before it even gets started.

Bye bye.

I might start a new thread when this one sinks into the distant background if no one else does

Sighface

paper 1 and 2 were a lot of easier than i thought

fkt

The essay was a dissapointment. I did the mobile phone arguement one. Didn't construct it right, made the wrong decision. Apart from that I'm delighted.

jumpguy

In honours English I thought Paper 1 was easy. I was delighted with the debate that came up. I think I wrote a B-standard essay.
I found Paper 2 more difficult. For the seen poetry I did, question 2, and I chose the poem The Daffodils. It was great for part 1 but part 2 was more difficult.
All the seen stuff wasn't too bad, the unseen novel was again, a pain cause I could only use on section.

I hope I get a B for it, my writing was atrocious though. :pac:

partyatmygaff

vflhp wrote: »

This thread looks as if its going to die before it even gets started.

Bye bye.

I might start a new thread when this one sinks into the distant background if no one else does

Right....



Anyways

Delighted with the papers today, wrote about 4 pages of stuff guaranteed to get a few laughs off the examiner which I did as things that me angry.



I wrote about 24 pages combining both papers, I've already forgotten everything I knew about the merchant of f*cking venice.


Now I am sure Irish and maths tomorrow will be hell. I am pretty worried for Irish.

soccymonster

oh happy days!!!:D
had an essay that i got 95% in class for so i decided to leran off that..
and sure the heading "and that really was the last straw" came up so i just squeezed that into my essay on WORLD WAR II!!!! :pac:
My reading section was brutal though! lik wtf?? elements that contributed to his writing??? and the author was talking about all this weird fusion stuff??

iam_serpentine

I thought Paper 1 was alright. Paper 2 was grand too, except I didn't like the questions on the novel. I don't know why, I just didn't...I don't think I answered it well. Ah well. I think I did alright on English.

GirlsAloud

Oh man.. Why do I always do that... Everytime I get to the Personal writing bit I just blabber on about nothing.... then every question after that turns the same as a result and I start getting all giddy thinking I can get away with saying anything..

I don't take it seriously!!

Personal writing bit things that make me angry -- I ended up writing a sentence on ''that colour between red and brown.'' Like WTF am I doing? :P

Then the functional writing first one I just write about Jesus going to college or something...

Did anybody else totally not get that last fiction on paper 2? What the helll was it about? and it was like.. would you read the rest of this novel.. I was like.. um no? it's already made me lose a load of marks on my exams why would I read a novel that I can't understand when I read it over and over 20 times....


Wowwww... time machine, please?

XD these results are gonna be so bad. hahahaha I can't wait to see what thet give me LOL

xxxxx

Zipp101

I only wrote 13 pages in total!

I struggle big time..with time.

Frank3142

GirlsAloud wrote: »

Oh man.. Why do I always do that... Everytime I get to the Personal writing bit I just blabber on about nothing.... then every question after that turns the same as a result and I start getting all giddy thinking I can get away with saying anything..

I don't take it seriously!!

Personal writing bit things that make me angry -- I ended up writing a sentence on ''that colour between red and brown.'' Like WTF am I doing? :P

Then the functional writing first one I just write about Jesus going to college or something...

Did anybody else totally not get that last fiction on paper 2? What the helll was it about? and it was like.. would you read the rest of this novel.. I was like.. um no? it's already made me lose a load of marks on my exams why would I read a novel that I can't understand when I read it over and over 20 times....


Wowwww... time machine, please?

XD these results are gonna be so bad. hahahaha I can't wait to see what thet give me LOL

xxxxx

you shouldve just pretended to like the fiction and talk sh1te about it.

i thought both papers were fine maybe i could have done a bit better on the watershed question but the functional writing was good, thank god that michael bond guy came to our school talking about that stuff.

soccymonster

GirlsAloud wrote: »

Did anybody else totally not get that last fiction on paper 2? What the helll was it about? and it was like.. would you read the rest of this novel.. I was like.. um no? it's already made me lose a load of marks on my exams why would I read a novel that I can't understand when I read it over and over 20 times....

it was about some guy called OD?? Was tom mahoney a teacher btw?
for the merchant of venice my friend wrote about the relationship between portia and her father:pac:.. then she noticed when she sealed it up that she totally screwed it up!!!!!...:P

btw whats watershed???

GirlsAloud

Frank3142 wrote: »

you shouldve just pretended to like the fiction and talk sh1te about it.

i thought both papers were fine maybe i could have done a bit better on the watershed question but the functional writing was good, thank god that michael bond guy came to our school talking about that stuff.

Hahaha I know I should have. But I was in one of my ''write nonsense and hope you get away with it'' moods.. :mad: I wrote ''I'm going to be honest... i'm not going to be a sheep and write yeah I did enjoy it.. because I didn't..''
Jeeees. they'll think I have a right attitude!!
And what was everybody elses supervisor like?
I thought they'd be more strict like.... Ours was sat there;; first her phone went off. Then she kept walking out.. then she was sat there eating Weetabix... like WTF? LOL
xxxxx

Rexsplode

What did you guys think of the personal writing?

I couldn't think of anything to write so I wrote in the things that make me angry section about how muc h I hate writer's block. Esentially it was an essay about not being able to write an essay.

I hope it doesn't come across as snarky because it started off with me saying that the things that me angry are the 7 essay titles.

iam_serpentine

soccymonster wrote: »

it was about some guy called OD?? Was tom mahoney a teacher btw?

I think he was! >.< I didn't like the fiction too much either actually. It was really hard to answer the questions, I think we should've gotten more extract or something. Or easier questions. Like I didn't get when DO or whatever didn't get along with his girlfriend's father when "things got bad at home". That makes no sense! =|

GirlsAloud

soccymonster wrote: »

it was about some guy called OD?? Was tom mahoney a teacher btw?

Yeah.. that one.... Like I don't know what was all that about.. it was like talking normally about Nance then it went ''That business of me knocking over the phone was typical'' Like WTF?!! what's that got to do with anything before it.. It was threw in like anywhere..

GirlsAloud

Rexsplode wrote: »

What did you guys think of the personal writing?

I couldn't think of anything to write so I wrote in the things that make me angry section about how muc h I hate writer's block. Esentially it was an essay about not being able to write an essay.

I hope it doesn't come across as snarky because it started off with me saying that the things that me angry are the 7 essay titles.

Wow... that's a really, really good idea!! I love essays like that that aren't typical and boring... That's so cool!

jumpguy

soccymonster wrote: »

it was about some guy called OD?? Was tom mahoney a teacher btw?
for the merchant of venice my friend wrote about the relationship between portia and her father:pac:.. then she noticed when she sealed it up that she totally screwed it up!!!!!...:P

btw whats watershed???

Watershed is a time in which after mature programmes may be shown.

I didn't like how media studies was divided and I wrote very little for the 10 markers. Portia doesn't even have a father in the Merchant of Venice, doesn't she? I'm glad I don't have to read the drivel for another 3 months. I did the trial scene for the Merchant of Venice question.

The theme of the paper was Michael Morpurgo I think (the fella who's "Other Drama" was based on and the Reading on Paper 1)

soccymonster

iam_serpentine wrote: »

I think he was! >.< I didn't like the fiction too much either actually. It was really hard to answer the questions, I think we should've gotten more extract or something. Or easier questions. Like I didn't get when DO or whatever didn't get along with his girlfriend's father when "things got bad at home". That makes no sense! =|

yea like wtf?? did he leave school by the way?? because i said that he left school because tom mahoney was picking on him? it just made no sense at all!.. at least english is over. BRING ON MATHS PAPER 1:D

Zipp101

GirlsAloud wrote: »

Wow... that's a really, really good idea!! I love essays like that that aren't typical and boring... That's so cool!

tbh that just shows the examiner you lack creativity.

soccymonster

jumpguy wrote: »

Watershed is a time in which after mature programmes may be shown.

I didn't like how media studies was divided and I wrote very little for the 10 markers. Portia doesn't even have a father in the Merchant of Venice, doesn't she?

ooohhh! yeah she does but he isnt actually a character as such in the play.. they just talk about him! thats why my friend was kicking herself after it:pac:..

btw my spelling and punctuation was brutal!!!!!!

Rexsplode

Zipp101 wrote: »

tbh that just shows the examiner you lack creativity.

that was what i was worried about but the more I thought about it the more it made sense to me because while it seems like i'm writing about nothing i'm writing about writer's block and i started discussing it in detail so it was kind of an essay about the writing process so I hope that it comes of as ironic and unique instead of uncreative.

GirlsAloud

Rexsplode wrote: »

that was what i was worried about but the more I thought about it the more it made sense to me because while it seems like i'm writing about nothing i'm writing about writer's block and i started discussing it in detail so it was kind of an essay about the writing process so I hope that it comes of as ironic and unique instead of uncreative.

I think it does.. and I think that despite it maybe coming across as ''uncreative'' at first,, they'd read it and think it was more interesting than the usual boring essay.
xxxxx

GirlsAloud

soccymonster wrote: »

yea like wtf?? did he leave school by the way?? because i said that he left school because tom mahoney was picking on him? it just made no sense at all!.. at least english is over. BRING ON MATHS PAPER 1:D

Was nance the teachers daughter or something... I'ma google it. XD
xxxxx

GirlsAloud

Google..
The story is about Nance and OD.
Nance is an adopted child and she would like to find her mother. She was in love with OD. OD was a great fan of football. His father, Jimmy, didn't raise OD well and his mother has left him when he was young. Jimmy doesn't have a job, but he would like to come back as a musician. He didn't drink anymore. OD didn't do anything for his father and followed his own way. He was a difficult boy. He was dumped by Nance, because he never listens to her problems and only tells his own problems.
Nance's parents, Tom and May, didn't know what was going on with her. They knew that there was something wrong, but they didn't know how they could help her. Nance would like someone who could help her. That wasn't OD, it was Seanie Moran, OD's rival.
Seanie helps Nance to find her biological mother, Heather Kelly. They had found her, but it wasn't easy. She knew how it exactly was, but she didn't tell anything. She said, Tom and May must tell it Nance. Nance thanked Seanie very much. Heather Kelly had called May and May told Nance that she was her real mother and that her father has died.
Nance went in the meantime to Jimmy and OD came home. Nance and OD were fighting and Nance gave him a slap. That night Seanie called Nance, that OD probable had killed someone. Nance thought that it was her fault. They found OD and there wasn't killed anyone. They brought OD home and Jimmy was very ill, but the doctor said that it was alright. Seanie told them that he was gay.
Nance gave OD a new chance and they're in love again.



Daymmm.. I was right first time.

animalcrazy

Higher level paper one was so simple! Paper 2 was more difficult and I don't think I did great on the poetry question. What did you all write in the personal writing section?

I did the secret life of a superhero and I wrote that I was the devil and that people have me misunderstood and I'm actually a super hero and save the human race from evil spirits. I don't know is that creative or stupid?

GirlsAloud

animalcrazy wrote: »

Higher level paper one was so simple! Paper 2 was more difficult and I don't think I did great on the poetry question. What did you all write in the personal writing section?

I did the secret life of a superhero and I wrote that I was the devil and that people have me misunderstood and I'm actually a super hero and save the human race from evil spirits. I don't know is that creative or stupid?

That's creative... I'd like to read it!! sounds well good!

animalcrazy

GirlsAloud wrote: »

That's creative... I'd like to read it!! sounds well good!

Lol, phew!

6stringmaniac

I did really well in both papers. Hated the the question on studied fiction (Explain how the theme developed)

jumpguy

GirlsAloud wrote: »

Google..
The story is about Nance and OD.
Nance is an adopted child and she would like to find her mother. She was in love with OD. OD was a great fan of football. His father, Jimmy, didn't raise OD well and his mother has left him when he was young. Jimmy doesn't have a job, but he would like to come back as a musician. He didn't drink anymore. OD didn't do anything for his father and followed his own way. He was a difficult boy. He was dumped by Nance, because he never listens to her problems and only tells his own problems.
Nance's parents, Tom and May, didn't know what was going on with her. They knew that there was something wrong, but they didn't know how they could help her. Nance would like someone who could help her. That wasn't OD, it was Seanie Moran, OD's rival.
Seanie helps Nance to find her biological mother, Heather Kelly. They had found her, but it wasn't easy. She knew how it exactly was, but she didn't tell anything. She said, Tom and May must tell it Nance. Nance thanked Seanie very much. Heather Kelly had called May and May told Nance that she was her real mother and that her father has died.
Nance went in the meantime to Jimmy and OD came home. Nance and OD were fighting and Nance gave him a slap. That night Seanie called Nance, that OD probable had killed someone. Nance thought that it was her fault. They found OD and there wasn't killed anyone. They brought OD home and Jimmy was very ill, but the doctor said that it was alright. Seanie told them that he was gay.
Nance gave OD a new chance and they're in love again.



Daymmm.. I was right first time.

Ohhhh....I said OD's life was unruly and immature and he didn't plan for his future. Turns out half of it didn't have much to do with nothing. Oh well, I hope they look at it in the context of the passage.

animalcrazy wrote: »

Higher level paper one was so simple! Paper 2 was more difficult and I don't think I did great on the poetry question. What did you all write in the personal writing section?

I did the secret life of a superhero and I wrote that I was the devil and that people have me misunderstood and I'm actually a super hero and save the human race from evil spirits. I don't know is that creative or stupid?

That's such a good essay idea! Better hope your examiner isn't a hardline catholic. :P

soccymonster

GirlsAloud wrote: »

Google..
The story is about Nance and OD.
Nance is an adopted child and she would like to find her mother. She was in love with OD. OD was a great fan of football. His father, Jimmy, didn't raise OD well and his mother has left him when he was young. Jimmy doesn't have a job, but he would like to come back as a musician. He didn't drink anymore. OD didn't do anything for his father and followed his own way. He was a difficult boy. He was dumped by Nance, because he never listens to her problems and only tells his own problems.
Nance's parents, Tom and May, didn't know what was going on with her. They knew that there was something wrong, but they didn't know how they could help her. Nance would like someone who could help her. That wasn't OD, it was Seanie Moran, OD's rival.
Seanie helps Nance to find her biological mother, Heather Kelly. They had found her, but it wasn't easy. She knew how it exactly was, but she didn't tell anything. She said, Tom and May must tell it Nance. Nance thanked Seanie very much. Heather Kelly had called May and May told Nance that she was her real mother and that her father has died.
Nance went in the meantime to Jimmy and OD came home. Nance and OD were fighting and Nance gave him a slap. That night Seanie called Nance, that OD probable had killed someone. Nance thought that it was her fault. They found OD and there wasn't killed anyone. They brought OD home and Jimmy was very ill, but the doctor said that it was alright. Seanie told them that he was gay.
Nance gave OD a new chance and they're in love again.



Daymmm.. I was right first time.

oh yea! i totaly got dat *sarcastic tone*:cool:

GirlsAloud

soccymonster wrote: »

oh yea! i totaly got dat *sarcastic tone*:cool:

I don't think anybody got that.. The passage was totally stupid...

soccymonster

GirlsAloud wrote: »

I don't think anybody got that.. The passage was totally stupid...

soooooo stupid!
the functional writing was so easy though:D
so thats a positive i guess!

RHRN

Did anyone else think that watershed question was a cakewalk? Was hard to write a lot for the 10 markers though.....
I did crap for unseen fiction I think. Stupid story. So... was Nance Tom Mahoney's daughter? And that business with the phone... Wtf was that?
At least the studied questions weren't too bad.

My reading section was brutal though! lik wtf?? elements that contributed to his writing??? and the author was talking about all this weird fusion stuff??

The elements were just memory, reading other author's (esp. Literary masters) work and love for writing.
Did 15.5 pages overall. Course this was a computer, so may have been more....

Rexsplode

soccymonster wrote: »

soooooo stupid!
the functional writing was so easy though:D
so thats a positive i guess!

Did you do the speech or letter?

GirlsAloud

RHRN wrote: »

I did crap for unseen fiction I think. Stupid story. So... was Nance Tom Mahoney's daughter? And that business with the phone... Wtf was that?

LOL I'm glad everyone was thinking the same... I had to read it over and over like 20 times and I still didn't get it.. It's a mystery. Haha

soccymonster

Rexsplode wrote: »

Did you do the speech or letter?

the speech!
what a beautiful question i must say:)..

GirlsAloud

By the way.. no more English until September!!! We can officially put all them books away now... relax. :D

Rexsplode

soccymonster wrote: »

the speech!
what a beautiful question i must say:)..

I did the speech also and I cheekily mentioned in the speech that I got an A in english :rolleyes:

GirlsAloud

Rexsplode wrote: »

I did the speech also and I cheekily mentioned in the speech that I got an A in english :rolleyes:

LOL I cheekily mentioned that I failed every subject and that people weren't to do the same thing as me or they'd fail in life....

we can see who's the optimist and who's the pessimist now. hahaha

soccymonster

Rexsplode wrote: »

I did the speech also and I cheekily mentioned in the speech that I got an A in english :rolleyes:

oohh smart!!..
why didnt i think of that..
I'd say I got a B or C!..Not an A standard though!:o

Rexsplode

soccymonster wrote: »

oohh smart!!..
why didnt i think of that..
I'd say I got a B or C!..Not an A standard though!:o

I'm hoping for at least a B. I'm on the edge but hopefully I can pass that 85 barrier.

Maths is more my thing I think.

Lukker-

I was an exam attendant for this today (the examiner's bitch who sits outside the door) and I noticed much more people left early in paper 1 then 2. Also, if you didn't enjoy the piece, never lie and say you would read the whole book. It's much much easier to write about what you actually think. You can just say stuff like the subject matter didn't interest you or the overuse of technical terms etc for style.

Don't worry too much I only wrote 11 pages in total and got a B in honours so just go for substance over amount written if your a slow writer like me :P

soccymonster

Rexsplode wrote: »

I'm hoping for at least a B. I'm on the edge but hopefully I can pass that 85 barrier.

Maths is more my thing I think.

i've been getting grinds in maths so fingers crossed!:P

i need a C in maths and ill be over the moon..
want that A in science though..:o

Meller

Thought it could've been better but my own fault really, so not too bothered about it For the poem l didn't bother looking over stuff, so the only poem l could remember a thing about was 'Those Winter Sundays', had to squeeze the seen question out of that which was difficult.

Loved the essay about childhood memories, it asked specifically for 'moments' rather than just one incident, so it was simple to just reel off a dozen or so somewhat amusing little childhood stories and tie them together fairly neatly, think l did okay in that one. Tried to do a subtle but 'clever' piece that was open for much interpretation for the mock but that didn't seem to go over well with the examiner, so had to be safe and boring for this

Rexsplode

Meller wrote: »

Thought it could've been better but my own fault really, so not too bothered about it For the poem l didn't bother looking over stuff, so the only poem l could remember a thing about was 'Those Winter Sundays', had to squeeze the seen question out of that which was difficult.

Loved the essay about childhood memories, it asked specifically for 'moments' rather than just one incident, so it was simple to just reel off a dozen or so somewhat amusing little childhood stories and tie them together fairly neatly, think l did okay in that one. Tried to do a subtle but 'clever' piece that was open for much interpretation for the mock but that didn't seem to go over well with the examiner, so had to be safe and boring for this

That is what I'm worried about with my essay. Maybe they won't appreciate being clever and subtle. Or at least trying to be clever and subtle.

partyatmygaff

I got on fine in paper 1 I think, reading comprehension was easy, the personal writing I just ranted and raved on things that me angry about people who their phone in the cinema and ****ty drivers. Was pretty funny.

Then I started going downhill, before that I was writing very formal and perfect after I started to go all informal and it messed me up a bit but I think I did ok.

The watershed thing was easy as hell, I already knew what a watershed was so I was grand.

Paper 2 was generally much harder than paper 1, every question was pretty difficult, I waffled on a good bit.

soccymonster

for the studied poetry question, when the war or peace question came up, it was like a call from heaven!!!
dulce es decourum est being belted into my head for the last 2 years has really come in handy:D