**OL Irish Paper 1 before/after **

Monsieur Folie

I have a feeling I could be a bit stuck for time with this paper.

ScummyMan

Not sure if serious.....

Monsieur Folie

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

Not sure if serious.....

No, I'm not serious.

As terrible as I am at Irish, I do have cúpla focail and should be able to string together a few essays in an hour and a half..

shootie

I wonder how many times I can mention the presence of clouds in the sky without it looking dodgy?

Monsieur Folie

Lá brea samhraidh a bhí ann. Bhí an ghrian ag taitneamh go h-ard sa spéire agus ní raibh puth gaoithe ag seideadh.

Bionicle

Do a CSPE on it. Try do it in less than half an hour.

ScummyMan

"Go tobann!"

Will be in my sceal roughly 700 times..

JustForClarity

I don't have a word of Irish in my head so this will be good. Apparently my mock exam essays were so unintentionally funny that our teacher had to take a break in the middle of it.

Still got 73% though.

LukeF96

Anyone any tips for the essays?
Our teacher had to point out to us in the mock exam what the titles meant I'm afraid i wont be able to understand what they're asking me to do.

decisions

Bionicle wrote: »

Do a CSPE on it. Try do it in less than half an hour.

I had my letter in the mocks finished by the end of the aural :P

Monsieur Folie

I wrote one of each in the mocks. I'm going to try and do that again this time, see how long it takes me. We're not allowed to leave the centre early in our school (they detain us if we do ) so I'll just get it done as quickly as possible and then take a nap. :P

Lcstudent2013

What even comes up in the first paper?

Jade.

No matter how bad you are at Irish this will always be a simple exam! :P

PictureFrame

Irish OL is a joke.. I dropped from Higher at the start of 6th year last year, did one question from each section (4 in all :pac:) and still left after 35 minutes..

A couple of us had a race at one point in Paper II to see who'd get out first...

I won.. With a breathtaking 45 minutes..

And still got an A1 :pac:

This is probably (as disgustingly awful and impossible as it sounds), the most fun exam in the Leaving

** i do not suggest challenging eachother to races if ye actually care about the subject though :pac:

Lcstudent2013

PictureFrame wrote: »

Irish OL is a joke.. I dropped from Higher at the start of 6th year last year, did one question from each section (4 in all :pac:) and still left after 35 minutes..

A couple of us had a race at one point in Paper II to see who'd get out first...

I won.. With a breathtaking 45 minutes..

And still got an A1 :pac:

This is probably (as disgustingly awful and impossible as it sounds), the most fun exam in the Leaving

** i do not suggest challenging eachother to races if ye actually care about the subject though :pac:

Exactly what I was think of doing with some friends! I actually can't wait for my pass irish exams. Walking out like a baws after 30-40 minutes and still getting a good grade

PictureFrame

Lcstudent2013 wrote: »

Exactly what I was think of doing with some friends! I actually can't wait for my pass irish exams. Walking out like a baws after 30-40 minutes and still getting a good grade

The subjects a joke at OL. I didn't study for paper II at all, and no joke to yis, got 200/200 in the exam. Couldn't believe it when I went in to view the script (saying that I did drop to pass which is an unbelievable difference from higher andddd our teacher was a psycho and literally beat the pros/poems into us)

internet_user

going to do ordinary as my oral wasn't great. whats on paper 1? a letter and an essay?

JustForClarity

internet_user wrote: »

going to do ordinary as my oral wasn't great. whats on paper 1? a letter and an essay?

It's your choice of four types of question. An essay and a letter are two of them, with a story and something else being the other two. You choose two to answer.

decisions

I think HL JC Irish was harder.

stevie4568

Is there any specific vocab you need for particular questions? Like specific words for a letter or a story?

How many words do you need for the story or letter? And how many for the answer on the stories?

LukeF96

stevie4568 wrote: »

Is there any specific vocab you need for particular questions? Like specific words for a letter or a story?

How many words do you need for the story or letter? And how many for the answer on the stories?

Your story or letter has to fit into the title somehow i guess.
We've been told a page each is plenty for the story or letter.

stevie4568

LukeF96 wrote: »

Your story or letter has to fit into the title somehow i guess.
We've been told a page each is plenty for the story or letter.

Makes sense, and then what about the stories, how long do the pieces have to be for them?

Aksa94

And how does the exam actually work for paper 1. Do we all go into a room to do the aural and stay in there or do we spend an hour in exam hall an then leave to do aural

internet_user

decisions wrote: »

I think HL JC Irish was harder.

got a C in that so hopefully i should be grand, im gonna have a look on sec at the papers, ive never looked at an ordinary level question before!

ulty77

If i fail irish , do i fail my leaving cert?

Monsieur Folie

No..

ulty77

thank ****!

JustForClarity

ulty77 wrote: »

If i fail irish , do i fail my leaving cert?

No, but many college courses require you pass it, so you may want to check with your course if that's what you're planning on doing next year!

mossy95

How much do you write for one essay?

decisions

mossy95 wrote: »

How much do you write for one essay?

'Ni mór leathleathneach nó mar sin a scríobh'

I generally write 3/4 of a page to a page.

internet_user

what type of titles usually come up? is it pretty broad?

mossy95

decisions wrote: »

'Ni mór leathleathneach nó mar sin a scríobh'

I generally write 3/4 of a page to a page.

Your in the wrong thread this is ordinary Irish before/after

Lcstudent2013

What's in paper 1?
Is it just the tape and two other things that we have to do? (Letter, essay, story etc?)

SecondMan

I'm also thinking of dropping to ordinary level but I don't have a clue of the structure of the paper. My teacher is also a psycho and warned me not to go down. To be honest, I'd rather sit higher and fail than sit ordinary level because that woman would bate the livin' ****e outta me.

ronanc1000

I've only dropped down to ol in the last two weeks! Thought my teacher left it a bit late to ask me , but I had an idea anyway..
I'm between thinking I could fail HL so I'd drop down...
How hard is it to get a B in OL if you think you would fail HL realistically?


And what the best essay title to revise?

Cheers.

Bionicle

ronanc1000 wrote: »

I've only dropped down to ol in the last two weeks! Thought my teacher left it a bit late to ask me , but I had an idea anyway..
I'm between thinking I could fail HL so I'd drop down...
How hard is it to get a B in OL if you think you would fail HL realistically?


And what the best essay title to revise?

Cheers.

Depends on how well your oral went to be honest. It's quite easy to get a B if you are anyway decent at Irish and have a solid oral.

Revise the Litir and Sceal. Learn off opening and closing lines for the litir and learn some phrases that you can use all the time in the sceal(e.g. go tobann). Also learn an address and date your letter. I wrote a page for both and got a B2 overall.

Monsieur Folie

I reckon I failed my oral so I may put in a good written paper :P

007driver

decisions wrote: »

I think HL JC Irish was harder.

It was, I remeber writing 1 and a half A4 pages for JC. Now I write 3/4 of a page and still get top marks. Wrote better irish in JC aswell

Monsieur Folie

When I dropped down at the start of 6th year, I got the teacher I'd had all the way through Junior Cert HL.. She was teaching the same Irish, only dumbed down even more than it was then. I loved it! She was a great teacher though, very methodical about it, she taught it as a subject and not as a language which tbh I learned more with. If I'd had her for honours I probably would have stuck it out!

internet_user

sorry for the stupid question, but is the oral worth 40% for OL too?

JustForClarity

internet_user wrote: »

sorry for the stupid question, but is the oral worth 40% for OL too?

It is, yes.

Jamesunited

I hate Irish! Boring take nap

Jade.

Completely forgot about the tape! 0% for me :P

Hope I get to write about music at some stage! Favourite Irish topic! :pac:

Monsieur Folie

"Leigh anois go cúramach ar do scrúd-phápair, na treoracha agus na ceisteanna a ghabann le cuid A." Beeeeeeeeep. :P

SecondMan

Monsieur Folie wrote: »

"Leigh anois go cúramach ar do scrúd-phápair, na treoracha agus na ceisteanna a ghabann le cuid A." Beeeeeeeeep. :P

Examiner: "You"re saying this in my voice aren't you?"

tommybc

Does anyone have any sample answers for the scéal or letter?

dizzymenace

im feeling good about this exam . i just barely got the points i needed in the pres and that included the fact that i didnt know that we had to do 2 topics in paper 1 . i got 48% but now i did a really good oral and actually studied for the written tests .

SecondMan

Anyone have any good intros and conclusions for paper 1 stuff? I really am clueless in how the paper is structured.

mossy95

What would an A1 essay consist of In OL, i only dropped down like the 2nd last week of school so don't know whats expected at OL essay. How long? Do your sentences have to be just basic sentences constructed toghetour perfect or do they look for sayings and the likes?

Please Im not sure

Jade.

mossy95 wrote: »

What would an A1 essay consist of In OL, i only dropped down like the 2nd last week of school so don't know whats expected at OL essay. How long? Do your sentences have to be just basic sentences constructed toghetour perfect or do they look for sayings and the likes?

Please Im not sure

Essays only need to be about a page. Basic sentences and throw in a few phrases and you'll be fine. Essays are very simple anyway.

mossy95

Jade. wrote: »

Essays only need to be about a page. Basic sentences and throw in a few phrases and you'll be fine. Essays are very simple anyway.

Is that A1 standard though?