What did you think of the exams?

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

fkt

soccymonster wrote: »

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

I could say the same but for the other poetry question about a location described and would ya like to live there. Lake Isle Of Inisree absolutely perfect.

soccymonster

fkt wrote: »

I could say the same but for the other poetry question about a location described and would ya like to live there. Lake Isle Of Inisree absolutely perfect.

I hate that poem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never liked it, never will..


:pac:

Namlub

I wrote possible the worst essay ever written for Paper 1, it basically consisted of being on a train with my friend Marmaduke(!), hopefully I can make up a few of the marks in media studies though. Media is my bitch. For some reason I found the unseen poetry in paper 2 really difficult, I felt like I just wrote 2 pages of essentially the same sentence phrased slightly differently. And the theme developing thing in studied fiction was a bit weird as well. Ah I don't know...

sammypsammy

soccymonster wrote: »

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

OMG, Dulce Et Decorum Est has been belted into our heads too...
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your not in my class are you...:rolleyes:

ash.c

Hello:)
First time using this forum but thought id join since im doin the JC too.
Found Paper1 ok but Paper 2 was B***H.

Im dreadin Science..21% in mock and i agreed to take HL??? Ouch

Sean-Tom

I did decent enough and am hoping for an A but am expecting a B. Question 1 paper 1 was a bit weird. I couldn't believe the amount of people leaving early. About 5 left with an hour to go in Paper 2. One guy left after an hour in paper 1.

animalcrazy

I left ten minutes early in both papers, I wrote sixteen pages though some I'm pretty happy
For media studies did anyone do the thing about the shoes, was piss easy!

partyatmygaff

animalcrazy wrote: »

I left ten minutes early in both papers, I wrote sixteen pages though some I'm pretty happy
For media studies did anyone do the thing about the shoes, was piss easy!

Lots of things in english look piss easy, but there not.

sammypsammy

animalcrazy wrote: »

I left ten minutes early in both papers, I wrote sixteen pages though some I'm pretty happy
For media studies did anyone do the thing about the shoes, was piss easy!

I did the shoe thing straight away cause it looked simple then i read over the other one and it was even easier!!!
:eek:

Rexsplode

sammypsammy wrote: »

I did the shoe thing straight away cause it looked simple then i read over the other one and it was even easier!!!
:eek:

I did the shoe one because while the other one was easy I thought I had more to say on the shoe question.

For the studied poetry I did Base Details by Siegfried Sassoon.