ordinary level irish

electriks

they must think we're retarded to give us such an easy paper:):rolleyes:
any tips on whats coming up in the poetry and sceals tomorrow????

9wetfckx43j5rg

Yeah here are the tips given on Countdown to 306.

Every story will come up on the paper in some form.

Jack hasn't come up in a couple of years. An Bhean Og is also tipped.

Lig Sinn i Cagtu and Bimse Buan Gach la.

electriks

Thanks very much!!!! hopefully it will be as easy as paper 1. Had that done in half an hour except the examiner wouldn't leave me out till an hour was up:mad:

happyhappyhappy

I think it'll be Bhean Og& Clare Sa Speir
even though all stories will come up!

Poems: For the short questions

Gealt or Faoiseamh a Gheobhdsa

Compulsory poem: Bimse buan

9wetfckx43j5rg

We're allowed leave after half a hour..

Des23

Thank god PII is only worth 16%.. I did Irish today for the first time in AGES, it was fun though... I was having a great time in australia apparently.

Better go look over some of it now I suppose..

Claypigeon

Des23 wrote: »

Thank god PII is only worth 16%.. I did Irish today for the first time in AGES, it was fun though... I was having a great time in australia apparently.

Better go look over some of it now I suppose..

I, too, was living it up in

Sráid Koala
Syndey
An Astráil

there today. Was "laughing and drinking like never before" and had to go buy new clothes because I had brought all warm clothes and it was too hot to wear them.. Said I'd met my uncle's friends and we were going for dinner and was planning to meet up with some English lads I'd met at the beach the next day etc then invited mo chara to come and stay with us for the rest of the summer since I'd found a nice restaurant that was opening up belonging to my uncle's friend who was looking for more waiting staff...

High fantasy altogether

Des23

I kept it simple:

They it fish all day.
I don't like fish.
We are going to a restaurant tonight.
My uncle lives near the beach.
It is warm.
Sometimes it is too warm.

It went on in these poetic terms till I did about 120 words...

carefulnow99

i know i av to say im brutal at irish but i found the paper pretty easy but my god....i made such a big mistake ha well ya know ya have to write like 2 things from ceist1 i.e a sceal or litir??

mise only wrote one

and has always only wrote 1

right back to evry irish test iv ever had

so im stupid but look everyone else dont make my mistake just read the dam paper:mad:

and btw im not blamin my teacher obviously i cant read irish but she never told me and i asked my mate and he said she never mentioned it but he still done 2......yup..guess its just me dats stupid

no point cryin over spilt cider as i say:D:D:D

awhir

my god if only i could link 2 word of irish

i really dont have a clue what to study for this !

Dante

Is it actually true that p2 is only worth 17% or is that an urban myth??

electriks

Yup. dead straight. i think it's actually 18% cause unno the 1% makes such a difference:cool:

awhir

DaaaaaaaaaaN wrote: »

Is it actually true that p2 is only worth 17% or is that an urban myth??

true

Walsh

18% actually.

Claypigeon

This "only" thing baffles me Did you discount the listening or the oral for being "only" 5% either side of 20%?

Dante

Sweet jesus, Then I've probably gotten near an A already, haha savage! **happy**

KokaNoodles

I doubt that child abuser is coming up this year is he :rolleyes:?

electriks

would you seriously stop taking the leaving so seriously claypigeon.... its not even that important. whaere do you go to school??

joh6n

i reckon Gealt will come up in the short poetry questions with Nil Aon Ni and Faoiseamh and Bimse buan being the prescribed poems!?

and from the pattern i'd say Fiche Bliain Ag Fas will come up in the short questions and bean og and Cearrbhach will be the prescribed pros?

ha it really is 18%... well i think i did bad in my oral so i still wanna get as close to the full 18% as possible!:D

electriks

stop taking these exams so seriously. not that important. where the hell do you go to school?

electriks

joh6n wrote: »

i reckon Gealt will come up in the short poetry questions with Nil Aon Ni and Faoiseamh and Bimse buan being the prescribed poems!?

and from the pattern i'd say Fiche Bliain Ag Fas will come up in the short questions and bean og and Cearrbhach will be the prescribed pros?

ha it really is 18%... well i think i did bad in my oral so i still wanna get as close to the full 18% as possible!:D

lig sin i gcathu is hottly tipped even though its the crappest story ever

joh6n

me? the Bish in Galway
im relyin on points from irish i think!!

sock puppet

electriks wrote: »

lig sin i gcathu is hottly tipped even though its the crappest story ever

Can't remember that at all. I suspect there'll be a lot of blank spaces on my exam script tomorrow.

joh6n

electriks wrote: »

lig sin i gcathu is hottly tipped even though its the crappest story ever

lig sinn i gcathu is tipped to come up in part a or b? because it was a part b the last three years

electriks

joh6n wrote: »

lig sinn i gcathu is tipped to come up in part a or b? because it was a part b the last three years

b i think i'm not too sure. ya sorry i was talking 2 claypigeon there who was insulting me so was a bit pissy...sorry:(

awhir

joh6n wrote: »

me? the Bish in Galway
im relyin on points from irish i think!!

i was in your year last year

Occono

Ugh, I really wish my Irish teacher hadn't gone away as soon as school ended.....Gah I'm so screwed. I don't even understand how to answer paper 2 properly. Can someone please explain how you answer it?

joh6n

hmm i dunno electriks! ha its k i frickin (<im not sure what the policy is on swearing yet haha) hate twats who think their all big and smart behind a computer! anyways im off! better do a tad of study! hope whatever you study comes up and best of luck man!

joh6n

awhir wrote: »

i was in your year last year

yeah? who's this?

brennaldo

whats with people saying definatly study lig sinn, its tipped to come up, every story comes up every year and lets jus say ya study 3 pros and they all come up in part a, then just do pros roghnach.

electriks

Occono wrote: »

Ugh, I really wish my Irish teacher hadn't gone away as soon as school ended.....Gah I'm so screwed. I don't even understand how to answer paper 2 properly. Can someone please explain how you answer it?

ya your lucky our teacher had 2 kids in the late two years so we had so many different teachers they wouldn't notice whether you're there r not. hint hint...i wasn't

electriks

anywho. you'd be safe just learning the characters and themes for stories. they're at the end of the stories and for the poetry they give question every year to summarise a bit of the poem. just know what the irish means and use LOTS of quotes from the poem in your answer. best of luck.

Occono

So so you answer any two of the four sections, or does it have to be one section from the Ainmnithe (Roinn A) and one from the Roghanach (Roinn ?

Claypigeon

Electricks - taking it seriously? I'm doing very little and doing very well, more than I can say for someone who admits with a giggle that he loves sitting in bushes smoking in a bid to act impressive :rolleyes:

randylonghorn

Claypigeon wrote: »

Electricks - taking it seriously? I'm doing very little and doing very well, more than I can say for someone who admits with a giggle that he loves sitting in bushes smoking in a bid to act impressive :rolleyes:

Oh, give it a rest.

I'm honestly not sure if you realise how much you get under peoples skin, and are doing it deliberately ... or if you are just totally lacking in empathy, and are oblivious.

Either way, you are straining my patience.

Btw, you will discover soon enough in life that acquiring the ability to get on easily with the people around you will take you far further than the LC will. Cultivate the talent.

And the rest of you, cop on and don't rise to him ... I know everyone's stress levels are high, but that doesn't mean that the handbags have to come out.

Act your age, not your shoesize!

challengemaster

randylonghorn wrote: »

Act your age, not your shoesize!

And for those of you with size 18 feet...How's the basketball going? bet finding shoes is a bítch eh? :pac:

randylonghorn

challengemaster wrote: »

And for those of you with size 18 feet...How's the basketball going? bet finding shoes is a bítch eh? :pac:

And for those of you like CM, with size 4 feet (and a good case for proving THAT old myth) ...

Claypigeon

randylonghorn wrote: »

Oh, give it a rest.

I'm honestly not sure if you realise how much you get under peoples skin, and are doing it deliberately ... or if you are just totally lacking in empathy, and are oblivious.

Either way, you are straining my patience.

Btw, you will discover soon enough in life that acquiring the ability to get on easily with the people around you will take you far further than the LC will. Cultivate the talent.

And the rest of you, cop on and don't rise to him ... I know everyone's stress levels are high, but that doesn't mean that the handbags have to come out.

Act your age, not your shoesize!

Just because I strain your patience or you don't agree with me doesn't mean I have any less of a right to post afaik, unless you show me where that's stated and I'll change appropriately.

Don't know why you're educating me in the merit of an LC anyway as I'm not the one having a nervous breakdown over it or bragging about how I like to be a waster and oh I'm so rebellious and the drama of it all, oh lads.

bedtiem

challengemaster

randylonghorn wrote: »

And for those of you like CM, with size 4 feet (and a good case for proving THAT old myth) ...

Er...Size 10-11 depending on shoe there, matey. You'll get a good feel of them next time I see you!

randylonghorn

Claypigeon wrote: »

Just because I strain your patience or you don't agree with me ...

Actually, I do agree with you sometimes.

It's your manner of getting your point across which is the problem.

Claypigeon wrote: »

Just because I strain your patience or you don't agree with me doesn't mean I have any less of a right to post afaik, unless you show me where that's stated and I'll change appropriately.

The point is that you don't have a "right" to post. This is a privately-owned and run website, and has it's own policies and approaches which have evolved over the years for damn good reasons.

Try reading here

I'll quote you the most relevant bits, because I know you have enough reading to do these days with revision etc. I'm nice like that!

Contribute in a constructive way.
Nobody is interested in your laser sharp ability to cut someone down.

Comment on the post not the poster.
Responding to someone's point with personal attacks, regardless of how "witty" you think they are, is not big or clever. It just comes across, at best, as being an ass and at worst a bully with a small doodah (we mean “mind” of course).

It’s much better to stay on the topic of their post, not on the person who posted it. People will respect you for that, take your opinion more seriously and you put the ball back in their court to answer your points.

Respect/manners go a long way.
Around these parts, people recognise good contribution. This isn’t YouTube or 4chan (*). Being respectful, mannerly and even occasionally acknowledging that someone has made you consider something in a different light, is going to win friends and influence people a lot more than being yet another rude "anonymous" internet keyboard warrior. No one wants to be around that guy.

No freedom of speech.
This is a private website. There is no "right" to freedom of speech here. We, the Admins and moderators DO want to promote discussion but FREE un-moderated discussion online turns into a screaming match between children. We believe that rules of etiquette should be applied (see below). Shouting about how we have infringed your "freedom of speech" on a privately owned website is silly.

Oh, and one final bit ...

Be Civil (Don't be a dick)
The internet is full of anonymous keyboard warriors being rude to each other. We don’t want that here. We're not saying you have to be super-nice to everyone and sign each post with a little heart, but we DO require that you are at least CIVIL to the humans on the other end of this intertube. Everyone is tired of the muppets online and if you feel you must be a dick to others, you aren’t welcome here.

So I look forward to you changing your approach appropriately, as promised.

Otherwise, this probably isn't the site for you.

Claypigeon wrote: »

Don't know why you're educating me in the merit of an LC anyway ...

I'm not.

I am attempting to educate you in Boards etiquette, because that's my role as a moderator.

I'm also I suppose throwing in a bit of free advice about life because that's a lot of what I do IRL ... I'm an educator. Not a "teacher" as you and your peers think of it, someone who prepares you for Leaving Cert, an educator.

Did you know that the word educate is derived from the Latin word educare, meaning "to lead or draw forth" (the best from someone).

Not, strangely enough given the exams you are all going through at the moment, from the word(s) for "cram in".

Education isn't all about the LC.

In fact, very little of it is.

randylonghorn

challengemaster wrote: »

Er...Size 10-11 depending on shoe there, matey. You'll get a good feel of them next time I see you!

I really don't want "a feel" of anything of yours, mate ... well, I wouldn't mind a go at that camera, I suppose!

Now, can we get back to Irish? :cool:

challengemaster

Ceart go leor!

Seachmall

Paper II is up in a couple of hours, I'm not very confident about it (hence why I'm here and not studying ). It's good to hear that it's only 16-18% of the whole exam :cool:.

Quick question: Do we get bonus marks for answering in Irish?

:rolleyes:

poisonated

oh yeah an automatic 100% if you answer in Irish:rolleyes:
if only
"is maith liom an dan seo":pac: