Irish Paper 1. Aftermath.

Twilighter

Did anyone find the paper ridiculously easy?
I did the essay on the Celtic Tiger but I thought the comprehensions were so simple compared to other years!

~Candy~

you are out early?

seany2929

Twilighter wrote: »

Did anyone find the paper ridiculously easy?
I did the essay on the Celtic Tiger but I thought the comprehensions were so simple compared to other years!

What topics were the comprehensions on?

What were the essay choices?

SligoBrewer

I didn't think they'd bow to putting the Celtic Tiger on. All they achieved now is having a a splurge of learnt off essays, basically those who did it.:mad::mad:

Ah well, did the diospóireacht on Gaelige.

And I've now got my B3 for Early and Modern Irish in TCD.:pac:

manutd4life

i did the people and things that are important to me essay
the comprehensions were alrite

vladglenin

SligoBrewer wrote: »

I didn't think they'd bow to putting the Celtic Tiger on. All they achieved now is having a a splurge of learnt off essays, basically those who did it.:mad::mad:

Ah well, did the diospóireacht on Gaelige.

And I've now got my B3 for Early and Modern Irish in TCD.:pac:

You're some <snip>

Black kettle

Paper wasn't too bad bit annoying though I learned essays on the health system, poverty, alcohol, drugs, safety on the roads and travel every essay they gave us in the institute and none of them came up!!!!! Had to do the teenager one...

On another note the irish tape was complete bollocks!!!!!! ridiculous!!!!

GA361

Happy enough with it. . . . Comps were a bit trickier than last year but still grand. . . .Essay was lovely,was tempted to do the Celtic Tiger but did Obama,a nice essay. . . . . The tape was grand,the donegal accents were so easy this year. . . .
A good pick-me-up after that disaster of a maths paper:(

SligoBrewer

vladglenin wrote: »

You're some twat.

Walsh

OL was grand, if any really gives a **** haha

squirrel!

SligoBrewer wrote: »

I didn't think they'd bow to putting the Celtic Tiger on. All they achieved now is having a a splurge of learnt off essays, basically those who did it.:mad::mad:

Ah well, did the diospóireacht on Gaelige.

And I've now got my B3 for Early and Modern Irish in TCD.:pac:

and whats wrong with learning off essays? you learn asnwers to other questions these are just longer answers:D well im happy with it fell asleep for five mns until one of the girls walkin out hit me on the shoulder! whew that could of been a disaster:eek:

challengemaster

Yeah, OL was pish easy. Out after an hour and a half, page done for the sceal, page for the litir and the easy comprehensions...

degausserxo

Nice and easy paper! Few of the new words I learned for the essay on an Tiogar Ceilteach came up in the listening as well, like breosla and whatnot
Thought the listening was graaaand, only thing I didn't get was that seanfhocal.

ironictoaster

Ordinary level ftw! Did the sceal about your friend falling on the ground in Croke Park and the one about Summer 2008.

Aural was ok, alot of the questions were number based ones. Very happy overall.

A-Bit-Dodge

anybody know what the seanfhocal at the end of the tape was? My cousin asked me but I dont know what she is talking about..:p

challengemaster

I've a feeling it means 'If you're not in, you can't win', but that's a half-guess based on context

artemus

such an easy paper and tape....was goin for an a1 but didnt learn any easys because i usually make them up...pissed that celtic tiger came up as everyone had reams of stuff learned off!!think i maxed out the comps and tape but most people did well i feel....bringt on a hard paper 2!!

Pygmalion

Did Ordinary level, was very happy with it, not the best Irish student but wrote just over half a page for letter, just under for both scéal and the gíota leathúnach (Did both because I had plenty of extra time and wasn't as happy with my scéal as my letter)

SligoBrewer

artemus wrote: »

such an easy paper and tape....was goin for an a1 but didnt learn any easys because i usually make them up...pissed that celtic tiger came up as everyone had reams of stuff learned off!!think i maxed out the comps and tape but most people did well i feel....bringt on a hard paper 2!!

Aontaim go huille is go hiomlán leat. Ar gach rud! :pac::pac:

rcaz

Did OL, wasn't bothered at all!

Did anyone else's examiner let the CD run all the way to the end? It says "Slán!"

Uaschamóg

a1 in the bag lads. simple

challengemaster

El Pr0n wrote: »

Did OL, wasn't bothered at all!

Did anyone else's examiner let the CD run all the way to the end? It says "Slán!"

Lol, yup. That was funny

Ours also tried to play the Junior cert one first.... Pure panic on everyone's face when nobody could get any of the first answers!!! :pac:

artemus

SligoBrewer wrote: »

Aontaim go huille is go hiomlán leat. Ar gach rud! :pac::pac:

`good to hear someone agrees!!****tin it for paper 2 now....dont really kno all the material but hopefully my irish will get me tru!!:(:(

Fluorescence

Am I the only one who found that listening atrociously difficult? *cries*

On the bright side paper one was brilliant! Celtic tiger? I just shoved in everything - recession, unemployment, crappy health service, no more free fees, even got something bout the environment in there for the laugh... :O Woo!

Uaschamóg

it was "muna chuireann tu siol, ni faigheann tu fomhar"

if you dont plant a seed, you cant get crops

phic

Well that was grand! Did anyone else find the second comprehension really boring though? Like why don't they put anything interesting up!

Did the Gaeilge should be a choice essay, went against it, hoping to score brownie points with the examiner by going on about my great love of Irish!
Listening was good, only one or two answers I didn't get!No idea what the seanfhocail was either!

Overall went a LOT better than expected!

QueenOfLeon

I thought HL was grand, comprehensions were fine, got a bit distracted by yer man off climbing mountains tho

The essays had something for everyone i think, i did the debate on irish

challengemaster

Uaschamóg wrote: »

it was "muna chuireann tu siol, ni faigheann tu fomhar"

if you dont plant a seed, you cant get crops

So....not translating literally, and taking it in context....:eek: I was right!!

\o/

ThatWouldBeNice

For OL I had prepared an essay on an accident in winter. I had lots of vocab on ice, fog etc. Turns out the essay title was 'Summer 2008' haha. I got around it by saying something like ''I couldn't believe it - it was summer but it was snowing! What was going on?" and then continuing on as usual

Claypigeon

OL was a total joke haha, me and the lads finished after about 30-45 minutes and fecked off into town to buy crap then lazed around on the lawns eating and setting things on fire. Result.

Listening comp was so easy that I had time to translate every question in between repetitions because I got most things first time around, so glad I dropped down. "What month is the festival in" my days that's awesome to see on an LC paper.

ThatWouldBeNice wrote: »

For OL I had prepared an essay on an accident in winter. I had lots of vocab on ice, fog etc. Turns out the essay title was 'Summer 2008' haha. I got around it by saying something like ''I couldn't believe it - it was summer but it was snowing! What was going on?" and then continuing on as usual

Essay in OL? Surely you mean the 1-2 page excuse for an essay that revolves around things happening "go tobann" and commenting on the weather "thanks be to God".

aine-maire

Happy with paper...stayed til five minutes before the end, it was just me and the super lol

Did Tíogar Ceilteach! Sligobrewer,fyi,did not have an essay learned off(didn't even have a plan learned off) just made up my plan on spot and wove in the aul' nathanna I'd learned

challengemaster

ThatWouldBeNice wrote: »

For OL I had prepared an essay on an accident in winter. I had lots of vocab on ice, fog etc. Turns out the essay title was 'Summer 2008' haha. I got around it by saying something like ''I couldn't believe it - it was summer but it was snowing! What was going on?" and then continuing on as usual

Lol! It's Ireland...It's not THAT surprising...

QueenOfLeon

challengemaster wrote: »

Lol, yup. That was funny

Ours also tried to play the Junior cert one first.... Pure panic on everyone's face when nobody could get any of the first answers!!! :pac:

Haha, we had a tape incident aswel, our supervisor is in his 60s-ish, we were using a combined tape/cd player.....He must have pressed the tape play instead of the cd, we were sitting there listening to classical music for about 5 minutes! Then he was like "emm, thats not right is it?"...all of us in fits of laughter at this stage!
Then after the first 2 bits he tried to put up the volume, ended up restarting the whole thing, then took about 5mins to get it back to where we were!
And about half way through he realised that someone was missing, cd stopped again, sends teachers off looking for the eejit that went to the wrong room :rolleyes::D

challengemaster

Claypigeon wrote: »

Essay in OL? Surely you mean the 1-2 page excuse for an essay that revolves around things happening "go tobann" and commenting on the weather "thanks be to God".

Lol? 1-2 page?!?

They're only looking for like, 10-15 lines!!!

Rob!

El Pr0n wrote: »

Did anyone else's examiner let the CD run all the way to the end? It says "Slán!"

haha ya! i was like 'what the hell?'

OL paper was lovely. hadn't went over a thing and it went perfect with well over an hour to spare. being the big children we are, we all climbed out the bathroom window and headed off for a mighty game of soccer in the park before the aural.:p (our teachers don't let us leave the school cuz there jerks!!)

challengemaster

Rob! wrote: »

haha ya! i was like 'what the hell?'

OL paper was lovely. hadn't went over a thing and it went perfect with well over an hour to spare. being the big children we are, we all climbed out the bathroom window and headed off for a mighty game of soccer in the park before the aural.:p (our teachers don't let us leave the school cuz there jerks!!)

They can't stop you leaving. School is finished, and they hold no authority. Everything's being run by the SEC, so they're the only people who can stop you leaving.

Jello

HL - was so happy Celtic Tiger came up! And those giving out about it should get over it really, we're not all fluent Irish speakers who can make up an essay on the spot.

Thought the listening was ok, last page of questions were kinda hard enough though.

Chanandler Bong

handiest paper ever

SligoBrewer

aine-maire wrote: »

Did Tíogar Ceilteach! Sligobrewer,fyi,did not have an essay learned off(didn't even have a plan learned off) just made up my plan on spot and wove in the aul' nathanna I'd learned

I stayed well away from it, as you're now going to be competing with >75% of people now doing that essay.

At the very least, my essay will be a break from the others and their Cúlú.
Cothrom na Féinne duit though!:)

GVNDNN

Ordinary was grand ,
Got mixed up in a few bits on the tape

Claypigeon

challengemaster wrote: »

Lol? 1-2 page?!?

They're only looking for like, 10-15 lines!!!

I know aye.

Going for a B or an A1 in OL though

And I needed something to do in order to not leave early before even the foundation level people who leave after 5 minutes because they're dying for a fag (I'm sure every school has them)

That

SLÁN : D

bit at the end of the tape made me smile, most of the room started laughing at the sheer geekiness of her

Rob!

challengemaster wrote: »

They can't stop you leaving. School is finished, and they hold no authority. Everything's being run by the SEC, so they're the only people who can stop you leaving.

And i agree completely, but in our school they are some form of tyrants! to be fair, most are lovely, but the few that aren't really really drive us insane. the bathroom was just old-time childish antics for the sake of it. it was really just to provoke more than anything else..........

QueenOfLeon

SligoBrewer wrote: »

I stayed well away from it, as you're now going to be competing with >75% of people now doing that essay.

At the very least, my essay will be a break from the others and their Cúlú.
Cothrom na Féinne duit though!:)

Heehee, that was my plan too. All the rest of the class seems to have done the recession....I toyed with the idea of doing the teenagers one, till i realised all i had done on that topic is alcohol/drugs. Wonder how that would have gone down..."The most important things to me in my teenage years were drink & drugs..." :rolleyes:

GVNDNN

the foundation level people who leave after 5 minutes because they're dying for a fag (I'm sure every school has them



:P:pac::pac:

Claypigeon

Rob! wrote: »

And i agree completely, but in our school they are some form of tyrants! to be fair, most are lovely, but the few that aren't really really drive us insane. the bathroom was just old-time childish antics for the sake of it. it was really just to provoke more than anything else..........

Two of my friends that were doing OL (and had dropped from HL like me and were loving the fact it was utter easy-on-a-sheet) left v. early and the Super started chastising them over it "being their native language" and "would you not take it seriously" because they'd "need it in a few years!".

challengemaster

Claypigeon wrote: »

I know aye.

Going for a B or an A1 in OL though

And I needed something to do in order to not leave early before even the foundation level people who leave after 5 minutes because they're dying for a fag (I'm sure every school has them)

Hehe - I did a page for the sceal too so

Lol, yeah, one of the foundation level guys was behind me - quite a sound chap tbh! But after a while... heard some noise, and saw another friend turn around and start laughing.... He'd fallen asleep on the desk and was snoring! :D:D

challengemaster

Anne-Marie!! wrote: »

Heehee, that was my plan too. All the rest of the class seems to have done the recession....I toyed with the idea of doing the teenagers one, till i realised all i had done on that topic is alcohol/drugs. Wonder how that would have gone down..."The most important things to me in my teenage years were drink & drugs..." :rolleyes:

Hah! Classy burd! :pac:

aine-maire

SligoBrewer wrote: »

I stayed well away from it, as you're now going to be competing with >75% of people now doing that essay.

At the very least, my essay will be a break from the others and their Cúlú.
Cothrom na Féinne duit though!:)

I know, I was VERY tempted to do the Gaeilge one after my oral (Ó is breá liom an Gaeilge, caithfimid í a chaomhnú......is teanga ársa í......is ar aghaidh.........)

But seeing as I'd done bochtanas for the mocks I went with the cúlú....

I did put in about how I think it will affect stádas na Gaeilge, so hopefully that'll set it apart

sock puppet

OL paper was grand. Never need to look at another Irish book again.

dlofnep

IS there a sample paper up online anywhere, or could someone scan me this years one?

lorna100

Best paper ever - everyone doing honours in the classroom were whooping and shaking our fists in the air when we saw tiogar ceilteagh!
The comprehensions seemed to me so much easier than previous years, and the listening was incredibley easy, didnt get the seanfhocal though.

And to those of you giving out that people have learnt off an essay - I wrote the essay, and re wrote it until it was perfect, then learnt off by heart, word for word, a four page essay, in the hope that it would pay off - and it did. Just because I didnt make it up on the spot I am no less deserving of my A - do you not know the amount of work involved in learing one off?

Anyway, im pretty sure I p*ssed all over that paper. A2/B1 please!