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Leaving Cert '11/'12 Off-Topic 2

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    #5372
    Mysteriouschic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭Mysteriouschic


    The QBs just awful seriously a proposal form , persuasive article , a letter?
    I did the letter wasn't sure what to write just trying to make it descriptive. I liked the titles for my short story.


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    #5373
    imelle
    Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭imelle


    it was the one paper in the world i probably could have actually got an A on if it wasnt for the fact i spent over an hour on comprehensions and only had an hour and 20 mins to do my composing and qb. my own fault i should know by now not to have messed up time. had 2 paragraphs left to write for my speech that were really good ideas but instead i end up having to write a one line conclusion that just said goodbye. oh well :(


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    #5374
    finality
    Registered Users Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭finality


    Hopefully the question B and the short story went well, part of the comprehension was a bit of a disaster due to running out of time. I think I got like 5 marks for one part, I literally just wrote the introduction.


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    #5375
    Chavways
    Registered Users Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭Chavways


    Don't know about ye but I thought that was a piece of piss.Apart from the minor panic attack I had at 11 it was simple


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    #5376
    Cruel Sun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,323 ✭✭✭Cruel Sun


    Went well for me. Hard to know though. Nice Paper.


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    #5377
    Dearbhaile
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    Guys seriously,you know te easy about time? How many marks do you think I'd lose if I wrote a completely serious article (which I thought was really excellent until I got home) where the question states 'a ligt hearted and entertaining article? Would I lose a loaaad of marks??:(


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    #5378
    Canard
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 8,572 Mod ✭✭✭✭Canard


    did you fit your depressing story in, finality? :P

    chuffed with how it went! i thought of historykitten in my short story, it was about a guy who moved to kilkenny when he was 8 and wanted to live in dublin again :P managed to fit their linking quote in although slightly edited, and got loads of fancy language in. 12 pages in total. lets hope tomorrow's as nice!

    we have the same examiner as when I did my JC too :eek: he started late, messed up my whole timing thing but I got it all done and read over, barely :)


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    #5379
    Mysteriouschic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭Mysteriouschic


    Which short story did everyone do?


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    #5380
    Cruel Sun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,323 ✭✭✭Cruel Sun


    Patchy~ wrote: »
    chuffed with how it went! i thought of historykitten in my short story, it was about a guy who moved to kilkenny when he was 8 and wanted to live in dublin again :P managed to fit their linking quote in although slightly edited, and got loads of fancy language in. 12 pages in total. lets hope tomorrow's as nice!

    we have the same examiner as when I did my JC too :eek: he started late, messed up my whole timing thing but I got it all done and read over, barely :)

    We started late too. I did the rock band one, I just wrote about Nirvana from the point of view of Kurt Cobain. Didn't even have to think of a story. Just rewrote history and tweaked it slightly. :cool:


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    #5381
    finality
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    Patchy~ wrote: »
    did you fit your depressing story in, finality? :P

    chuffed with how it went! i thought of historykitten in my short story, it was about a guy who moved to kilkenny when he was 8 and wanted to live in dublin again :P managed to fit their linking quote in although slightly edited, and got loads of fancy language in. 12 pages in total. lets hope tomorrow's as nice!

    we have the same examiner as when I did my JC too :eek: he started late, messed up my whole timing thing but I got it all done and read over, barely :)

    I did, it was perfect, except I made the ending uplifting because it's easier to write a happy ending in NO TIME ugh. I wrote the last page in 5 minutes, seriously. :( Our examiner was lovely, he's an adorable old man.


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    #5382
    c28omzk7ihsxv0
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    I lost big marks in coherence.
    Twas a lovely paper but I screwed up in the essay.

    Did text 1 comp,
    text 3 Q.b
    "When I turn 18 .... essay


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    #5383
    haro124
    Closed Accounts Posts: 684 ✭✭✭haro124


    Wow I was really worried this morning but I couldn't be more happy:D


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    #5384
    Meglamonia
    Registered Users Posts: 1,247 ✭✭✭Meglamonia


    done the question B about the proposal..what was the format tho? :p


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    #5385
    fizzyorange
    Closed Accounts Posts: 592 ✭✭✭fizzyorange


    Managed to fit YOLO into my part B question.

    No regrets. :cool:


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    #5386
    QueenOfLeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,109 ✭✭✭QueenOfLeon


    Well done guys for getting the first paper done, now you're in the swing of it the rest of the time should fly by! :)

    Doing post mortems on the paper is only natural, but try limit the time you think about Paper I and move right onto your next exam. Don't panic about the time constraints you may have had today, the examiners know that you're under a lot of stress and that time is tight for English. Even if you didn't get to put proper conclusions on things that's only a small part of the essay, the rest of it was probably fine! :)


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    #5387
    FaoiSin
    Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭FaoiSin


    Composition and B were grand. I couldn't concentrate enough to properly read the Comprehension so Question A was extremely bad.


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    #5388
    Togepi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,813 ✭✭✭Togepi


    B3. :cool:

    Question Bs weren't very nice, essays were grand. Like an eejit I did Part A on Text 1. :( Happy enough with my B part and my essay though. :)


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    #5389
    Eathrin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    Text 1 QB
    Text 2 QA
    Composition Q7 "leaving home"

    Wasn't too bad, ran out of time for my art A questions, could have done with an extra 2 mins. I think most people in my year did the short story q7!

    How long do ye generally write for the composition? I wrote just 4 pages, although I counted my words at 1200.

    Also I think I messed up on my letter format!


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    #5390
    Coeurdepirate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,576 ✭✭✭Coeurdepirate


    Joey. wrote: »
    I know it's nice of people so I shouldn't really complain, but all the good luck cards, phone calls and people calling to the door to say good luck is really unnerving me :o
    I know, I don't know why they bother sending cards with no money, just getting my hopes up!
    Historykitten wrote: »
    Importance of literature :D hell yeah :D

    You liked it? :/ I did it and it was so waffley and ugh.


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    #5391
    imelle
    Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭imelle


    had to keep reminding myself during the exam - "this is real this is the actual leaving cert"
    as a repeat i really am too complacent and lazy


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    #5392
    Cruel Sun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,323 ✭✭✭Cruel Sun


    Togepi wrote: »
    B3. :cool:

    Question Bs weren't very nice, essays were grand. Like an eejit I did Part A on Text 1. :( Happy enough with my B part and my essay though. :)

    I did that one too, I didn't think it was too bad, took up a good bit of time though.


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    #5393
    c28omzk7ihsxv0
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    Togepi wrote: »
    B3. :cool:

    Question Bs weren't very nice, essays were grand. Like an eejit I did Part A on Text 1. :( Happy enough with my B part and my essay though. :)

    Text A was a great comprehension question.


    Also to the other mate, my teacher said, after the exam, that the proposal could have been done in just a regular, article like format or a summary report format with the headings. Anyway, off to start hamlet!


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    #5394
    FaoiSin
    Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭FaoiSin


    Anybody do Text 3? I thought the image on the left was better but everyone else went with the one on the right. At least I'll be unique :P


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    #5395
    Cruel Sun
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    Eathrin wrote: »
    Text 1 QB
    How long do ye generally write for the composition? I wrote just 4 pages, although I counted my words at 1200.

    I wrote 4 pages as well, didn't have enough time to count the words though.


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    #5396
    c28omzk7ihsxv0
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    Martin_94 wrote: »
    I did that one too, I didn't think it was too bad, took up a good bit of time though.
    I admit it took a lot of writing though.


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    #5397
    Eathrin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    Coeurdepirate wrote: »
    I know, I don't know why they bother sending cards with no money, just getting my hopes up!


    You liked it? :/ I did it and it was so waffley and ugh.

    I thought of doing the personal essay, then I realised that I don't read so yeah fùck that like:pac:


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    #5398
    c28omzk7ihsxv0
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    Actually, does anyone know how many words they wrote/typed? I know I did 3,100 in total. Is that a lot?
    Thanks.


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    #5399
    Cruel Sun
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    Craig Mealy Couch wrote: »
    I admit it took a lot of writing though.

    Over 3 pages I think it took for me and I could have wrote more but I would have ran out of time, how much you write.


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    #5400
    Hayezer
    Registered Users Posts: 652 ✭✭✭Hayezer


    QA was grand, spent too long on it though and when I got to the third part it was shorter that the two 15 markers :L

    QB shhok me a bit, never did an article before so I basically just wrote :S What makes an article an article guys :S?

    Short story scared me alot and I was panicking cus my idea didn't fit in and I was feeling like I couldn't think of anything. So I did like a page of me going on about how I want to leave home, and once I did I slotted in my normal idea which was something completely different. I somewhat tied it back together in a conclusion paragraph thing. But I'm really scared that I didn't really answer the question :(:(:(


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    #5401
    c28omzk7ihsxv0
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    Martin_94 wrote: »
    Over 3 pages I think it took for me and I could have wrote more but I would have ran out of time, how much you write.

    I wrote at least 1.7 (Typed) which would be about three and a bit written.


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