Junior Cert 2010: Irish Paper 1

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Just started the thread for general discussion of the paper, people's predictions and questions ect. ect.

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This should be okay. Apart from the listening. Does anyone know what happens if you're in an exam hall for the JC? Do we go to seperate rooms?

soccymonster

DKZ wrote: »

This should be okay. Apart from the listening. Does anyone know what happens if you're in an exam hall for the JC? Do we go to seperate rooms?

No
the examiner has the cd and cd player in your room and plays it.

Love the way deise's thread was totally ignored. Well I don't "love" but I find it an-barrúil

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Why would you? Its the same tape for HL and OL

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soccymonster wrote: »

No
the examiner has the cd and cd player in your room and plays it.

Love the way deise's thread was totally ignored. Well I don't "love" but I find it an-barrúil

Didn't even notice deise had made one! :P

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decisions wrote: »

Why would you? Its the same tape for HL and OL

Because we're in an exam hall with 200 students so it might be a little difficult to hear the tape all the way from the back? :P

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Anyone else writing about an accident no matter what the sceal q is??

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decisions wrote: »

Anyone else writing about an accident no matter what the sceal q is??

Robbery!

We've got a 3 hour & 15 minute lunch break between P1 & P2 tomorrow! Woo!

suitcasepink

*Cries*
I even wrote mine as Gaelige

decisions

DKZ wrote: »

Because we're in an exam hall with 200 students so it might be a little difficult to hear the tape all the way from the back? :P

Oh I dont think so. In my mocks the Cd player was in the middle of the room so mabye thats what they do

Grindylow

DKZ wrote: »

Because we're in an exam hall with 200 students so it might be a little difficult to hear the tape all the way from the back? :P

In my school its the same, so we all got put into separate rooms when I did mine! I don't think they're aloud play it to so many people!

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deise_girl wrote: »

*Cries*
I even wrote mine as Gaelige

But it didn't stick with the format that I laid out with English Paper 1! :P :pac:

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deise_girl wrote: »

*Cries*
I even wrote mine as Gaelige

Woops didnt see your thread when I went to start this one Sorry

suitcasepink

DKZ wrote: »

But it didn't stick with the format that I laid out with English Paper 1! :P :pac:

Coz Im an individual! :P
*Grumbles incoherently about plans for studying*
Yea Im a 5yr old! :pac:

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deise_girl wrote: »

Coz Im an individual! :P
*Grumbles incoherently about plans for studying*
Yea Im a 5yr old! :pac:

Haha, fair enough! :P

Speaking of studying, I'd better be off!

Bears and Vodka

Irish Ordinary Level FTW !! :P

Namabillion

decisions wrote: »

Anyone else writing about an accident no matter what the sceal q is??

Mine will be about a fire no matter what

fiestapower

Im hoping to a concert as gaeilge no matter what .. Really hope something like that comes up

In the mocks it asked about an event that happened you on your way home from school and I said that i found tickets on the floor and then wrote about a footy match..Anyone on the same boat as me?

Blue_Seas

fiesta our mock said something that happened in the country.
Oh would you lookit that the road was slippy and TIMPISTE.

I forget... it's comprehensions, tenses, litir and listening in Paper 1 right? No fecking around studying my pros and poetry until the 3 hour break tomorrow?

WanderingSoul

There better be an opportunity to write about an accident or I will be fúcked.

How long is everyone's sceal nó eachtra?

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Paper 1 is listining, comprehension x2, grammer and sceal. Easy paper

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WanderingSoul wrote: »

There better be an opportunity to write about an accident or I will be fúcked.

How long is everyone's sceal nó eachtra?

about 1 and 1/2 pages u?

WanderingSoul

decisions wrote: »

about 1 and 1/2 pages u?

Depends wildly on the topic. If I get what I want, same.

.SONIC.

is it just me or does anyone else hate the grammar????

AoifeO.o

WanderingSoul wrote: »

There better be an opportunity to write about an accident or I will be fúcked.

How long is everyone's sceal nó eachtra?

My irish teacher said not more than 2 pages as you can slip up.
I learned geit, doiteain and róbail

Blue_Seas

Ohh right thanks. Gives me three hours tomorrow to revise my pros and filiocht tomorrow and actually learn an intro to a letter ._.
Maybe I'll head over to that wonderful Notes thread... did anyone post a letter opening?

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Ye there are a few notes on the letter somewhere on that thread

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.SONIC. wrote: »

is it just me or does anyone else hate the grammar????

Cant stand it got 0 for it in my mocks

Blue_Seas

I can do it when I'm told "here it is on its own. Change to future tense". Cannot do it at all if it's "here it is in future tense change to past".
They were a little mean springing this on us but I'm glad I don't have to do any Comhras any more

suitcasepink

Go mbeidh in different tenses?

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tá (present) and bhí (past) I think

Caught

deise_girl wrote: »

Go mbeidh in different tenses?

Go raibh [past] go bhfuil [present] I think.

Haha. I'm gonna mess up. I know 2 pros and all filiochtas I think. Only I cant do the unseen stuff. Or grammar. I hate the grammar. But my teacher said they're usually easy on us when they change the exam and give us new stuff.

Caught

fiestapower wrote: »

In the mocks it asked about an event that happened you on your way home from school and I said that i found tickets on the floor and then wrote about a footy match..Anyone on the same boat as me?

Thats the mocks we had too! I wrote that I won 100 euro on the radio. My friend got upset because we were already rich and shes poor and never wins anything. I gave her 50 euro. She was all happy and excited and was jumping around so much that she jumped in front of a car. :L I took the 50 euro from her hand and ran home.

Smiley Laura

decisions wrote: »

Anyone else writing about an accident no matter what the sceal q is??

Yes! I'm writing about a road traffic accident. No matter what comes up, I'm just writing down my essay!:)
I'm guessing it might say the weather will be good, because last year it was a storm in the eachtra...?

Good luck!

Vivara

Who thinks I'm covered by knowing a scéal that fits the following:

• A storm
• Bad weather
• Walking in the mountains
• School Tour in Ireland
• School Tour abroad
• An accident in the country
• Camping
• General Accident

I think the topic has become more general over the past few years and this story has fit at least the past five years as far as I can tell.

So, who thinks I'm sorted?

Ed.

fiestapower

your obviously sorted, you make me feel so unprepared!
ive only learned off a concert, and its not even that well learned off tbh.. need to go over it in the morning. do you think i'll be okaay with just a concert?

DylanS09

I've only learned about an accident!
It should do me for "a day you'll never forget" "an accident abroad" etc etc!

Vivara

fiestapower wrote: »

your obviously sorted, you make me feel so unprepared!
ive only learned off a concert, and its not even that well learned off tbh.. need to go over it in the morning. do you think i'll be okaay with just a concert?

Thanks! I'm just nervous that a party in your house or shopping in the city or something like that will come up. That would be a nightmare...

I think you have a good enough chance if you are able to make your concert be abroad (Spain or something), as well as in Ireland and just make sure an accident occurs like an earthquake or something. The trend has been something like that over the past few years. Given that they just changed the layout, I think they will err on the side of caution in all areas. That could just be being hopeful though.

Ed.

kevin12345

Vivara wrote: »

Thanks! I'm just nervous that a party in your house or shopping in the city or something like that will come up. That would be a nightmare...

I think you have a good enough chance if you are able to make your concert be abroad (Spain or something), as well as in Ireland and just make sure an accident occurs like an earthquake or something. The trend has been something like that over the past few years. Given that they just changed the layout, I think they will err on the side of caution in all areas. That could just be being hopeful though.

Ed.

Your shopping in the city and there's an accident, your at a party you all go outside and there's an accident. I AM SORTED.

DylanS09

kevin12345 wrote: »

Your shopping in the city and there's an accident, your at a party you all go outside and there's an accident. I AM SORTED.

Exactly what I plan on doing!!:cool:

Vivara

DylanS09 wrote: »

Exactly what I plan on doing!!:cool:

That would work for me if my brilliant teacher hadn't forced us to learn excellent vocab... like 50 out of 50 stuff... she said not to be making up your own Irish... she wants 'her' Irish... plus, my crappy Irish followed by loads of the tuiseal ginideach, saor briathars and plenty of the modh coinniolach just won't fly in my eyes. Sigh. I'm going to have to prepare a second story me thinks!

Ed.

jack157

soccymonster wrote: »

No
the examiner has the cd and cd player in your room and plays it.

Love the way deise's thread was totally ignored. Well I don't "love" but I find it an-barrúil

Im a attendant for this years leaving cert and people are getting moved from hall to classroom. It was the same for my JC. The acoustics does be so bad in most big halls that they have to separate large numbers.

suitcasepink

My essay plan is foolproof.
If they want to know my favourite season, ill tel them why I love winter though one winter I saw a terrible accident etcc

What I did for my holidays. Well I went to Finland and there was a terrible accident there

About a concert. The concert was great but on the way back there was a terrible accident.

Mo cheantar fein. I love it but this one time there was a terrible accident...


See where Im going with this? :pac:

Daniel2oo9

Im only going to do some exam papers and look over verbs and tenses in the morning.Whats going to come up?

WanderingSoul

deise_girl wrote: »

My essay plan is foolproof.
If they want to know my favourite season, ill tel them why I love winter though one winter I saw a terrible accident etcc

What I did for my holidays. Well I went to Finland and there was a terrible accident there

About a concert. The concert was great but on the way back there was a terrible accident.

Mo cheantar fein. I love it but this one time there was a terrible accident...


See where Im going with this? :pac:

Exactly what I'm planning to do: I will make it fit.

I'll be doing the same in paper 2: anger, sorrow, love, nature, resentment, family, animals . . . I will MAKE it fit my poem and story!

Vivara

WanderingSoul wrote: »

Exactly what I'm planning to do: I will make it fit.

I'll be doing the same in paper 2: anger, sorrow, love, nature, resentment, family, animals . . . I will MAKE it fit my poem and story!

You mean you DON'T have a page A4 learned off for all your seen prós and poetry? I'm stuck memorising four pages of brilliant Irish I will never, ever need again.

Ed.

Luno

Goodluck everyone for tomorrow hope everyone's timpiste or whatever it is fit's in nicely somewhere!

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I'm nervous for this one tbh..

Tommyrawr

Vivara wrote: »

You mean you DON'T have a page A4 learned off for all your seen prós and poetry? I'm stuck memorising four pages of brilliant Irish I will never, ever need again.

Ed.

haha ya so am i Dtioltas an madra rua , An bfaca einne roy keane, na blatha craige agus roiteog marfach xD

Goodnight everyone and good luck =D

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How long is this exam?

Tommyrawr

DKZ wrote: »

I'm nervous for this one tbh..

me too =P im going to be studying all those 2 and a half hours of a break we have! for the revised stuff like letter pro's and poetry :eek: