Aftermath: English Paper 1

PurpleFistMixer

(If anyone's reading this before their exam*: GO TO BED/GO TO YOUR EXAM...)

Keep discussion in this thread! 1 thread per paper, yes? Yes. Lovely! So I won't come home from my own exam tomorrow and see 50 threads about English 1, right? ... : (

So how was it?


*I feel almost like a parent sneaking downstairs to put the presents under the christmas tree... Except instead of presents, it's exam postmortem, which btw, I encourage nobody to take part in, but I know everyone will, so there is no harm in being prepared...

Fad

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

(If anyone's reading this before their exam*: GO TO BED/GO TO YOUR EXAM...)

Keep discussion in this thread! 1 thread per paper, yes? Yes. Lovely! So I won't come home from my own exam tomorrow and see 50 threads about English 1, right? ... : (

So how was it?

There's drunks outside my house tearing down Fine Gael posters :eek:

I cannot sleep.............................................................................

Fad

Theyre rapping now!

"I have the priority,
to kill.......eh........minorities"

FFS

flanree

put on some headphones and watch anything with Pat Kenny on YouTube you'll be out in no time.

amacachi

****ing heat:mad:

Beau x1

I'm up to have a bowl of special k, now I'm going back to bed.

I just can't sleep.

xOxSinéadxOx

IT'S TOO HOT

Dumb

Just watch that heap of pig shoite on TV3 (Play TV)

SarcasticFairy

Can't sleeeep. What is with the heat?

Dumb

You can't sleep becoz you are scared. Fook the heat. We want it for christ sake. I'm sitting here eating a bagette in a woolly jumper and a cap.

xOxSinéadxOx

nah I can't sleep cos I slept in way too late today and I'm not tired

Dumb

Yea. I'll probably get up at around 2 O'clock or so. What 'bout yerself?

Oh wait

KnifeWRENCH

Fad wrote: »

Theyre rapping now!

"I have the priority,
to kill.......eh........minorities"

FFS

There ya go - something to write about in your essay! :pac:

MrPirate

Fad wrote: »

Theyre rapping now!

"I have the priority,
to kill.......eh........minorities"

FFS

Sounds like a alternative version of the song f*ck the police. :P

We

was tossing and turning in bed til around 4am

~Candy~

i happen to read it before the exam,,,lol:p

off to school now..good luck lovely pplz xoxo

Daemos

Not long now...

challengemaster

TheCardHolder

Found it easy.

Did the reading comp on short story.

Question B on the letter.

Essay on President deciding whether or not to launch missles at north worea in the midst of a war while theres rioting outside and the rioters break into the white house lead by a former general.

challengemaster

Well that wasn't bad at all... delighted with that tbh!

HL - Text 1 Question A
Text 2 - Question B - Short Speech
Composing task - Question 1 - Magazine article on experience of education

Pala!

Found it okay.

Done the (A) on Text One. (B) on Text Two and done the article about school life.

I didn't write as much as I could, because I didn't use the time very well. But what I did write was good IMO. Just want a C3 - C1 so not looking for a great score, I'm definitly on track anyway.

wigsa

Pala! wrote: »

Found it not too bad.

Done the (A) on Text One. (B) on Text Two and done the article about school life.

You done it did you?

Then you probably failed.

Pala!

What?

Daemos

I thought that went really well, to be honest. I did Question A on the zoo, B on the decisions for teenagers and the school life for the composition.

Here's how much I wrote (spoilered if you get nervous about this kind of thing:

1 page for each in Question A
2 pages for Question B
5 pages for Comprehension (quite happy with that, usually only get around 4)
TOTAL 10 PAGES (yay for me )

Daemos

Pala! wrote: »

What?

lol, check your grammar

wigsa

Pala! wrote: »

What?

Read what you wrote,then read my post again.

manutd4life

wasnt as bad as i'd expected.

did question a on text 1.1.5 pages
question b on text 3 (letter) 2 pages
and did the essay on school life. about 3 pages

Idjit

challengemaster wrote: »

HL - Text 1 Question A
Text 2 - Question B - Short Speech
Composing task - Question 1 - Magazine article on experience of education

I did the exact same questions. In fact a huge amount of people seem to have done tha combination...which makes me a little nervous because now theres increased concentration on those areas. I felt it all went grand for me anyways. Its only the paper 2 that worries me.

MrSnuffleupagus

Question A on text 2, B on text 1 and the essay on Science and technology... Didn't go as bad as I thought... I think....

Bongomc

Ordinary Level was the easiest paper I've ever done.

Text 1 was about Youtube so I did Q. A on that
Text 3 Q. B was about the fascination of the internet

Then the essay I did was about teens in the 21st century which was easy enough.

Pala!

manutd4life wrote: »

wasnt as bad as i'd expected.

did question a on text 1.1.5 pages
question b on text 3 (letter) 2 pages
and did the essay on school life. about 3 pages

Around the same number of pages for B and the composition. I would have liked to write more for the composition but I ran out of time, I was just on three pages. Overdone question A.

Chanandler Bong

totally handy, did the speech for part B and the science speech for the composition, never spoke so passionately about science before :eek: 1 mistake though, i attributed a quote to einstein which was actually GB Shaw

and btw, that bad grammar joke when talking about english papers has been way overdone

QueenOfLeon

Question A on text 2, Question B on text 3, essay on public figures and why they deserve respect.

Ill start the panicked postmortem-ing, please tell me in question B text 3 they could just be imaginary photos and not famous ones? Like just ones i made up on the spot?

O and 2.5 pages A, 3 pages B (too long prob) and 5 pages essay

Sean_Ludawg

I always find it funny the way people talk about the amount of pages they wrote.....Not really a great barometer IMO

It went fine for me anyway! Could never really tell in english!

Davidius

I hate English so much. :pac:

I'm pretty sure I wrote something that was pretty much the film Madagascar for a B part.

I also wrote three pages of crap on science and technology before time ran out. It's OK though because I threw in a Hitler reference. Everything's better when you liken it to Hitler.

Risteard

Question A on Text 1
Question B on Text 2

Essay as usual was the short story based on the pictures.

Futurism

Did the Question A stuff on the zoo. Question B on Teenagers and trust. And the Science and Research essay. Had plenty of time too! Think my answers rambled a bit though

Beau x1

It went alright, I don't really know tbh..agree the above, pages mean nothing. I wrote more pages than most here and I still think I did meh.
@Futurism: Did exactly the same. What'd you say for your S&R essay?

Pala!

I agree that pages don't matter, I just would have liked to write slightly more than three pages for the composition. I was just at the third page when the time was gone. The contents were quite good though, well I think. Can't really tell.

BLARG

challengemaster wrote: »

Well that wasn't bad at all... delighted with that tbh!

HL - Text 1 Question A
Text 2 - Question B - Short Speech
Composing task - Question 1 - Magazine article on experience of education

same. Was a decent paper, the personal essay was a bit of a let down.

phic

Part A on text 2
Part B on text 1
Did the short story about making a decision.
Think it went pretty good, but didn't really like any of the part B's! was happy with how it turned out though!

TheCardHolder

WAIT WAIT WAIT.


I done my Question B on images that should be in the exhibition.

I suggested things like images of iPods and described why? Was I supposed to say actual pictures?:eek::eek::eek::eek:

SligoBrewer

I did question 1 on the photos, the speech for question two and the essay on my experience on education in question 3.

The choice on question 2 was limited , hence why >75% did the speech.
I mean a dialog question and one where you choose photos from the imagination? FFS, very unfair. Two very dodge questions there.

Otherwise grand. The questions I answered were ok.

Bring on Paper 2.

blue-army

challengemaster wrote: »

Well that wasn't bad at all... delighted with that tbh!

HL - Text 1 Question A
Text 2 - Question B - Short Speech
Composing task - Question 1 - Magazine article on experience of education

+1

Never have to write a bloody personal essay again!!!!


QA - about 1+1/4 pages for each...
QB - 3 pages! :eek:
Mag Article: about 4 pages.

I'm glad I got my timing right, and finished about 1min before the end, giving me time to look over it again.





paper 2 though....:o Vast, vast majority of people only have Bishop done! some have Longley as backup!

-Kenny-

meh was ok ... Pretty boring reading the zoo yoke !

i was in bed lovley and all at 11 last nite turned on the tv cause i cudnt sleep and saving private ryan just started on sky 1 i stayed up till 2 watching it ... then essay number 3 today 'an important decision' short story. D-DAY was the setting .. i feel that saving private ryan had sumthin to do with that:rolleyes::rolleyes:

ImJohn

I did 5 and a half pages on the essay section. 4 pages on question A altogether (did too much for (ii)) and 4 pages for question B on teenagers. The short story was perfect, if anyone at all prepared an essay before hand was easily able to fit it in.

Lets pray tomorrow that Walcott, Longley, Keats and Bishop comes up. Come on!! No shocks!!!

sedantez

Pala! wrote: »

Around the same number of pages for B and the composition. I would have liked to write more for the composition but I ran out of time, I was just on three pages. Overdone question A.

Hopefully they didn't ask you what the past tense of the verb:

to do

http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/verbtodo.html

Beau x1

For the Dublin Zoo one I was delighted with myself, made a great joke up.

Is it to you, the general consensus, that animals in Dublin Zoo are operated by corpororate slaves and crackberry addicts who are only looking to profit from such a wonderful establishment? My apologies – while Dublin Zoo is full of fantastic species, the Celtic Tiger is not a breed we have yet incorporated.

Well chuffed.

GA361

Did the technology/science essay . . . .
Ued this quote
''When I took office, only physicists had heard about the World Wide Web. Now even my cat has its own page.''-Bill Clinton

Fad

It's over........I'll have a nap now :mad:

Stupid fúcking drunks

(Did Question A on Text 1, Question B on text 2, and the Science and Technology composition. Really could have been a lot worse, didnt think the composition titles would be so nice)

SligoBrewer

sedantez wrote: »

Hopefully they didn't ask you what the past tense of the verb:

to do

http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/verbtodo.html

Grow up.