How to study for Irish?

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Do you people study for Irish? If so, can anyone please tell me how exactly? It's just one subject I feel a complete inability to study for. I can get a B without trying pretty much, but I think it's going to be nearly impossible to get an A. I know, I know, learn phrases, learn studied stuff but I'm pretty good at the latter and as for the former, I don't see how it can bring me up to an A, considering I'm a middle-of-the-road B now.

I can study perfectly for French, despite doing worse in it than Irish in my mocks, and I'm pretty confident of that in the real thing, but Irish just feels like I'm already too messed up and confused over it. I fell down a good bit in the aural in my mocks, but it was a very tough aural apparently and I just managed to score 0 marks in one section and nearly perfect in the rest, so I reckon I'd do OK in a real aural, if it wasn't as hard. As for everything else...I dunno, my scéal is decent (good old timpiste), the comprehensions can vary on the day and the second section of grammar is a bit awful...Oh, and unseen poetry is ridiculous. Ew.

So yeah, went off on a bit of a tangent there but any suggestions? Other than 'learn phrases', I just don't think it's going to cut it.

Indiego

ugh im in the same boat as you mate
Im a typical high C/ low B scorer, because of my inability to write essays or lette lol
I just CANT study for irish, my attention span just doesnt cut it...
Im ok at reading comprehensions, verbs, studied poetry/fiction and unseen poetry
BUT
I SUCK at letters and essays, like really SUCKKKKK, i got 5/50 for the essay in my mock and it was one i had done before pretty much.. and im usually good at letter but i went blank in the exam and forgot how to say hello :O yeah, im THAT bad...it probably didnt help that i had my irish teacher lurking around shaking her head for the entire exam...
Im not too great at the grammer question or the unseen fiction ( i didnt even know what my mock one was about, still got nearly full marks though ??? lolol)

to be honest i can only give is on the stuff in good at, but really the best advice i can give you is practice practice practice, like seriously abuse your past papers lol

i worked out that if the letter and essay weren't on the exam i would have gotten an A lol

anybody got any advice for the essay or letter?

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Abuse past papers? Looking at Irish past papers makes me die inside...I don't see how they can be very helpful either, I definitely don't have the attention span to note down every single word I don't understand, and lots of the paper is unseen anyway, and I'm quite good at manipulating my studied pieces.

The story and the letter...well I get on quite good in them generally. I don't know how to give advice tbh, I'm just good enough at piecing Irish together, it's the grammar that I fall down on. Although I always do a timpiste, no matter what, I reckon some year they're gonna make it impossible to do a timpiste tbh...and my story is heavily based on one in Revise Wise and apparently they crack down on learning off stuff but, bothered much? I'm trying to give advice here but really the story at any rate is a reflection on your proficiency at Irish and the letter is kinda the same thing, with a few necessary phrases thrown in. And I really wouldn't know to begin on how to get better at Irish...I hate how there's a complete lack of online resources.

Well, that was a big load of nothing.

Desire.

I'm also in a similar situation to you. Irish was my worst subject in the Pres -- I got 68%.

I'm very good at the studied sections too, I got full marks in both studied section in my Pre. However, I'm fairly terrible at everything else.

I can make basic sentences and all that, but I just don't have a good grasp on the language. My essays are terrible -- in my Pre I did my essay on Katie Taylor, the same person the comprehension was about. :rolleyes:

I also got nearly perfect in must of the aural, but no marks in one section... :P

All I want is a B in the Junior Cert.

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Desire. wrote: »

I also got nearly perfect in must of the aural, but no marks in one section... :P

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Indiego wrote: »

anybody got any advice for the essay or letter?

really look into your essay structure, thats very important. For essays, make sure you have a clear intro, a main body and a very good general conclusion which can be used for any essay

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lol for the essay you should make a bull**** intro consisting of about 100 words, where you can change "key" words that can easily be manipulated into the sentence. However, if the marker notices that everyone in your class is using the same start to essays, marks will be deducted.

For example, a sports essay:
"Ta a lan spoirt, idir olc agus maith" - there are a lot of sports, both good and bad.

can be easily changed to this for a tv show/hobbies essay:

"Ta a lan clar teilifisean, idir olc agus maith" - there are a lot of tv shows, both good and bad

If you are preparing essays, make them easily changable for different topics.

Paper 2 can be studied for as a lot of the things are "seen" ie Poems and stories, just like the English essay.

Irish is, for me, the hardest to study for, as it radically changes every year, and my general grasp of the language is terrible. Stringing a simple English sentence into Irish together for me is extremely difficult.