the english exam HL

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so how did you do?
post all your comments here!

to start things off:

is it me or did anyone else write about osama bin laden for the media studies q1

Louise6

It actually went much better than expected paper 1 was easy - and i did Barack Obamas visit for the media studies question. And then paper paper 2 was also relatively easy. I'm pretty happy with how it went

summers nearly ther HUHHHHHHHHH

Louise6 wrote: »

It actually went much better than expected paper 1 was easy - and i did Barack Obamas visit for the media studies question. And then paper paper 2 was also relatively easy. I'm pretty happy with how it went

same here, it went really well, just that my hands were killin me after that notorious paper 2

EmatoelDiablo

After the exam every said they did either Obamas or the Queens visit...
I did Osama bin Laden... They all said "Oh Yeah!"

The Unseen Poetry was a bit bizarre though..

For Personal Writing i did the speech- it was a very nice title:D
for functional writing i did a review of my PS3 lol

summers nearly ther HUHHHHHHHHH

EmatoelDiablo wrote: »

After the exam every said they did either Obamas or the Queens visit...
I did Osama bin Laden... They all said "Oh Yeah!"

The Unseen Poetry was a bit bizarre though..

that was one of the stupidest poems i've ever heard, but for me i had very little time to do the studied poetry

EmatoelDiablo

summers nearly ther HUHHHHHHHHH wrote: »

that was one of the stupidest poems i've ever heard, but for me i had very little time to do the studied poetry

What is your impression on Mrs Reece?
She laughs? A lot?

summers nearly ther HUHHHHHHHHH

EmatoelDiablo wrote: »

What is your impression on Mrs Reece?
She laughs? A lot?

hahaha, thats all she bloody did, the whole poem was about her laughing, wtf?

EmatoelDiablo

summers nearly ther HUHHHHHHHHH wrote: »

same, i did a ps3 review as well, it was class, what was your short-story or personal writing about?

I did the Kindle for some reason.... wasn't arsed describing an Xbox again...wish it could have been a game though.. only wrote a page and a half:(

summers nearly ther HUHHHHHHHHH

summers nearly ther HUHHHHHHHHH wrote: »

same, i did a ps3 review as well, it was class, what was your short-story or personal writing about?

the speech was write a speech for or against the motion Social Networking sites have a negative impact on the lives of teenagers (not the exact wording but close)
Im useless at planning essays.

EmatoelDiablo

EmatoelDiablo wrote: »

I did the Kindle for some reason.... wasn't arsed describing an Xbox again...wish it could have been a game though.. only wrote a page and a half

How much are you advised to write?

EmatoelDiablo

Deleted User wrote: »

How much are you advised to write?

half a page for 5 marks...ridiculous I know but it helped a little

summers nearly ther HUHHHHHHHHH

Deleted User wrote: »

the speech was write a speech for or against the motion Social Networking sites have a negative impact on the lives of teenagers (not the exact wording but close)
Im useless at planning essays.

i wrote a story from the q a composition beginning with the lines ''I knew i needed a lot of courage to get through the day'' or something like that. i based mine on a prison

cantanstrophe

EmatoelDiablo wrote: »

What is your impression on Mrs Reece?
She laughs? A lot?

I said she was nice. I couldn't find any evidence, so I said that "In my experience, most people who laugh like that are."

*facepalm*

TheRedDevil10

no way is it half a page for 5 marks.
A page and a half is enough for it

EmatoelDiablo

summers nearly ther HUHHHHHHHHH wrote: »

i wrote a story from the q a composition beginning with the lines ''I knew i needed a lot of courage to get through the day'' or something like that. i based mine on a prison

I did that on occupied Paris
Basically wrote half the saboteur gameplay

EmatoelDiablo

TheRedDevil10 wrote: »

no way is it half a page for 5 marks.
A page and a half is enough for it

Im always docked marks in English cause it's 'too short' freakin 5 page essay for the mock "sorry but you lost marks because it was too short

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EmatoelDiablo wrote: »

Im always docked marks in English cause it's 'too short' freakin 5 page essay for the mock "sorry but you lost marks because it was too short

haha i wrote 4 pages for the essay, but the freakin paper 2 killed my hand

EmatoelDiablo

27 pages in the mock, 23 in the real thing FML

TheRedDevil10

EmatoelDiablo wrote: »

27 pages in the mock, 23 in the real thing FML

you freak :eek:

EmatoelDiablo

TheRedDevil10 wrote: »

you freak :eek:

Oh Jesus overall now! Not on a single paper
One guy in my class wrote 36 today

Doublechinlolz

I didnt write about osama, the queen, OR obama! I wrote about Wayne Rooney cheating on coleen.. Yeah im serious... :L

Slow Show

Errr I wrote 16 for paper 2 and 14 for paper 1 >.> Well that's if there was 12 pages in each booklet, I think that's how much there were...so errr 30 pages, ouch. Although one of them doesn't really count because I started doing one studied drama question and crossed it out because I realised I hated it.

EmatoelDiablo

Slow Show wrote: »

Errr I wrote 16 for paper 2 and 14 for paper 1 >.> Well that's if there was 12 pages in each booklet, I think that's how much there were...so errr 30 pages, ouch. Although one of them doesn't really count because I started doing one studied drama question and crossed it out because I realised I hated it.

All I can think about now is inappropriate jokes about painful hands:D

TheRedDevil10

i only did 12 pages in total

Indiego

I did 24 pages in total, 1 booklet for paper 1, 1 booklet for paper 2

innovation.

Why does everybody keep going on about the length? Have you read the marking schemes? Nowhere in it does it say that an answer should be a page and a half blah blah blah. Like for my functional writing I wrote a review about my iPhone 4 which was a fairly solid review (I'm on gadget sites everyday reading reviews) and it was only a page or so long. Didn't want to get too in-depth on the whole thing or else the examiner would've just been mind****ed me talking about phones that compare to it, specs, screen resolution, battery life etc. :L

EmatoelDiablo

Indiego wrote: »

I did 24 pages in total, 1 booklet for paper 1, 1 booklet for paper 2

Rightly done too!

mixery

Am I the only one to write about Haiti? Well, anyway, I went wondering of the point TERRIBLY so it's entirely down to luck what I get ,

I have 2 booklets filled from edge to edge. I was in a trance, so I couldn't be bothered getting extra paper.




That 2 hour break is fantastic, Finally we can have a proper soccer match during lunch:cool:.

TheRedDevil10

The haiti earthquake was 17 months ago, the question said a story in the last 12 :rolleyes:



:D:D

EmatoelDiablo

mixery wrote: »

Am I the only one to write about Haiti?

Only problem is that is said 'last 12 months'?
:rolleyes:

DarkEagleEye

Am I the only one that finished really early? For Paper 1 I finished a half hour early and and hour early on PP 2. I waited till the end tho, just in case . I was getting a bit nervous that everybody in my class said they were stuck for time cuz I was like wtf you serious?:rolleyes: . My hand is flipping aching now lol. I did a booklet for each PP too:pac:

Sorry if I spelt something wrong my hands not responding much.:P

mixery

Ah well, maybe. It's not like I immensly care.

LMFAOx3

Oh crap.
Am I the only one here who did question 2 for media studies?:(

innovation.

Some people on here are caring way too much for there junior cert. God know's what they'll be like when it comes to the leaving. :eek:

EmatoelDiablo

LMFAOx3 wrote: »

Oh crap.
Am I the only one here who did question 2 for media studies?:(

The only one in Ireland? Yes. Good luck with that.

LMFAOx3

LMFAOx3 wrote: »

Oh crap.
Am I the only one here who did question 2 for media studies?:(

no I did it too
I only got 2A4 in total for it
remember: correctors love change

DarkEagleEye

Nah I did it. I only wrote about 7 lines for the ad lol. But I made it for it with a pg+half for second part.

Lollipop95

Am I the only one that did Cheryl's sacking from US Xfactor?

I thought it made sense because the media are obsessed with Cheryl and it's VERY recent! Plus,I love Cheryl lol!

I think I did very good. I said her sacking was premature,so that posh word should get me marks!

I hope who every corrects it is a Cheryl Cole fan!

TheRedDevil10

Lollipop95 wrote: »

Am I the only one that did Cheryl's sacking from US Xfactor?

I thought it made sense because the media are obsessed with Cheryl and it's VERY recent! Plus,I love Cheryl lol!

I think I did very good. I said her sacking was premature,so that posh word should get me marks!

I hope who every corrects it is a Cheryl Cole fan!

Tweedy :P

Lollipop95

LMFAOx3 wrote: »

Oh crap.
Am I the only one here who did question 2 for media studies?:(

what question was that? I think I may have done that too

DarkEagleEye

The one where it told you to write the text for an ad that would be used in a radio station to convince ppl to use their local library. Boring.

Lollipop95

Oh no I did the writing a letter to your future son/daughter
By weird coincidence I was reading a magazine article in which celebs wrote to their 16 year old selves..I took inspiration from that!

EmatoelDiablo

Lollipop95 wrote: »

Am I the only one that did Cheryl's sacking from US Xfactor?

I thought it made sense because the media are obsessed with Cheryl and it's VERY recent! Plus,I love Cheryl lol!

I think I did very good. I said her sacking was premature,so that posh word should get me marks!

I hope who every corrects it is a Cheryl Cole fan!

Yeah I hope I get someone who agrees that bin Ladens death meant nothing

DarkEagleEye

Anyone find the poem a bit..well weird? I mean a guy in my class thought it was talking about a fat woman laughing. I just thought it was a woman laughing and said it was like a volcanic eruption.Ummm....that sounds a tad weird too:(

TheRedDevil10

it just dawned on me that we have to wait til september to get the results!!! :eek:

hello.hello

did anyone write about the earthquake in JAPAN??
cus no one in my year did!

hello.hello

TheRedDevil10 wrote: »

it just dawned on me that we have to wait til september to get the results!!! :eek:

i wil be so worried 4 the whole summa

Osmosis Jones

hello.hello wrote: »

did anyone write about the earthquake in JAPAN??
cus no one in my year did!

yeah my friend did the earthquake.i did bin laden though.the whole exam wasnt too bad i finished up pretty early in both papers. did anyone do the unseen poem question 2 about reading to your class.i did it on the eagle

innovation.

After English now I'm just worried about the leaving cert in two years. F*ck the Junior cert, leaving is actually important. I just want to do good in my junior now so I can be happy on junior night.

Louise6

Did anyone else think the personal writing choices were totally awesome this year! I prepared a story this morning before i went into the exam and it fit into every topic! I did the last one though where it was like "Include these words and phrases in your story..." I got kinda carried away with it though and ended up writing like 6 pages