Yesterday's Higher Level French Aural

An Fear Bocht

I'm a little curious as to what people thought of the French aural yesterday. I've seen a long thread about the exam as a whole, but what does everyone think of the aural more specifically? I've heard mixed reactions, some thinking it was clear and audible, others thinking it was quite tricky.

I personally found it hard, mainly because the sound quality coming from the CD player was dreadful, but I might give the sound file a listen when they put it up on the department website to check if it was really as hard as it seemed at the time. I can imagine that the questions on the bone, the roof of the pre-World War II house and French peoples' tipping habits caused some problems.

I don't expect the marking scheme to be as specific as last year's, but I can see the department revising the scheme once or twice to account for some of the more difficult questions. Just out of curiosity, did anyone else have issues with acoustics?

ajjmk

I didn't have a sound problem with french, but irish was bruuutal! The CD player was vibrating off the table reeally loudly!

aine92

The paper said today that it was a very easy one and I'd disagree, it wasnt overly difficult but they archaeology was difficult.

Acoustics were grand except when the ordinary level people had to turn the page and the higher level people were still listening for an answer and i felt like screaming at them haha!:rolleyes:

irish_man

An Fear Bocht wrote: »

I'm a little curious as to what people thought of the French aural yesterday. I've seen a long thread about the exam as a whole, but what does everyone think of the aural more specifically? I've heard mixed reactions, some thinking it was clear and audible, others thinking it was quite tricky.

I personally found it hard, mainly because the sound quality coming from the CD player was dreadful, but I might give the sound file a listen when they put it up on the department website to check if it was really as hard as it seemed at the time. I can imagine that the questions on the bone, the roof of the pre-World War II house and French peoples' tipping habits caused some problems.

I don't expect the marking scheme to be as specific as last year's, but I can see the department revising the scheme once or twice to account for some of the more difficult questions. Just out of curiosity, did anyone else have issues with acoustics?

well actually we were in a fairly big room (for an aural) and there was an echo.

god it was such a hard test especially the very last question about the remote control. the marking scheme wont be as bad last year there was a lot of people doing very well so they made the marking scheme very hard but this year i couldn't imagine the same standards as previous years

johnmcdnl

the bone shaped like a bull was really difficult in fairness and the remote control was tricky too...

also the ones talking about the tourism weren't very easy but overall it was fair imo... i didn't think it was desperate bad and I'm only aiming for a D... then again maybe that's why I'm aiming for a D because I haven't a notion what was going on at all...

c0nor

An Fear Bocht wrote: »

I'm a little curious as to what people thought of the French aural yesterday. I've seen a long thread about the exam as a whole, but what does everyone think of the aural more specifically? I've heard mixed reactions, some thinking it was clear and audible, others thinking it was quite tricky.

I personally found it hard, mainly because the sound quality coming from the CD player was dreadful, but I might give the sound file a listen when they put it up on the department website to check if it was really as hard as it seemed at the time. I can imagine that the questions on the bone, the roof of the pre-World War II house and French peoples' tipping habits caused some problems.

I don't expect the marking scheme to be as specific as last year's, but I can see the department revising the scheme once or twice to account for some of the more difficult questions. Just out of curiosity, did anyone else have issues with acoustics?

we were in a large room with a bad echo, made it very difficult to hear :mad:

*giggles*

Thought it was fine. Then again, I spent a couple of weeks in France last summer. No major problems with it, the bit on the shopkeepers in Paris was tricky enough tbh

LadyGaga!

Ours was really muffled and made that vibrating noise but it wasn't the worst.

cxh20y

I put down bone of a bull for question on her first discovery, then changed it to engraving of a bull in a bone, then realised how stupid i was after the exam, and how the second answer is so unrealistic!