JC 2013 French Papers Wed. June 12th, 2013 - OL and HL

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French OL & HL
Wednesday June 12th 2013

All discussion and questions about the French papers goes here, following the exam.

Please keep off-topic chat elsewhere.

Good luck all.

Ninjah Tigah

Higher level paper was quite easy, the only challenge was the writing section, was expecting to get demolished on the comprehensions & listening, would expect to only lose a few marks on the comprehension & listening, the writing on the other hand...

juniorcert

Listening and reading were so much easier than I thought they would be the letter though was much more difficult than I thought it would be I reckon I might have just got a low a, although I might be pushed down to a B because of the bell curve. I was happy with the paper though

Lost In Confusion

i liked the paper got stuck a bit on comprehensions and like 2 on the listening.... the f*ucking plant smelled like meat? like seriously? Probably lose a few marks in writing but expecting an overall a

teach88

What came up in the written? Note?

juniorcert

Lost In Confusion wrote: »

i liked the paper got stuck a bit on comprehensions and like 2 on the listening.... the f*ucking plant smelled like meat? like seriously? Probably lose a few marks in writing but expecting an overall a

Ya my friend who is fluent in french told me about the plant afterwards and I was so annoyed, lol. I doubt hardly anyone got that, haha.

Jijsaw

juniorcert wrote: »

Ya my friend who is fluent in french told me about the plant afterwards and I was so annoyed, lol. I doubt hardly anyone got that, haha.

I did :P

juniorcert

Jijsaw wrote: »

I did :P

Your guaranteed an A then I'd say if you managed to get that. I didn't have a clue so I just said it was the only plant of that species there :P

MomijiHime

I said it smelled nice, do you think I'll get any marks?

stephlumo

the french letter was definitely the hardest over the past few years for me.. there was so many different things to write

emzana

I actually wrote that the plant smelled like meat I thought I was mad writing it down!

but the letter was difficult I thought

Ninjah Tigah

Couldn't get that question, so I said it had a unique fragrance. Close enough I guess.

Drift_King_33

I said the plant eats meat

emzana

Drift_King_33 wrote: »

I said the plant eats meat

it said 'parfum' so I think it might have been smell?

Lost In Confusion

juniorcert wrote: »

Ya my friend who is fluent in french told me about the plant afterwards and I was so annoyed, lol. I doubt hardly anyone got that, haha.

i said it's smell and like 2 minutes before i handed it up i wrote like meat because i heard it but i thought that i was imagining ;P gambled in the end

Lost In Confusion

Jijsaw wrote: »

I did :P

have five to us we got it :P

emzana

aw I'd say they will probably change the marking scheme for that if lots of people got it wrong!
It was a gamble for me too, I hated the letter so much >:(

Lost In Confusion

emzana wrote: »

aw I'd say they will probably change the marking scheme for that if lots of people got it wrong!
It was a gamble for me too, I hated the letter so much >:(

everything i learned didnt come up, luckily i knew my verbs and surprisingly overall i got stuck on 5 questions in the comprehensions that i made a guess on :L

Drift_King_33

emzana wrote: »

it said 'parfum' so I think it might have been smell?

Probably.. I only heard viande because I got a f**king nosebleed in the middle of it so i put the first thing that came into my head :DD

positivealf

listening would have been much easier if it wasnt too loud but it had to be so everyone else could hear, reading was too easy, the note kinda surprised me but i had a feeling.

Lost In Confusion

positivealf wrote: »

listening would have been much easier if it wasnt too loud but it had to be so everyone else could hear, reading was too easy, the note kinda surprised me but i had a feeling.

is there any things that you have to do for a note like layout?

positivealf

Lost In Confusion wrote: »

is there any things that you have to do for a note like layout?

Yeh, you have to write the time and then continue on as you would with a postcard but shorter and quicker to the point.

Lost In Confusion

positivealf wrote: »

Yeh, you have to write the time and then continue on as you would with a postcard but shorter and quicker to the point.

oh **** i didnt right the time i just put madame dubert and wrote a note :L cause i didnt leave the house or ne thing i was just giving it to her :P

3yearstudent98

I found section e of the listening impossible! I thought reading comprehensions and letter were simple though!! Although I wasn't sure of school bag so I said sac d'école is this right?

Lost In Confusion

3yearstudent98 wrote: »

I found section e of the listening impossible! I thought reading comprehensions and letter were simple though!! Although I wasn't sure of school bag so I said sac d'école is this right?

it's as cartable i think

LawdyLad

Listening was good except for one or two questions from part A-B and a lot of part E was tough. The reading was also okay except for the last 2/3 which got a good bit harder. The note was okay also but the letter was difficult. Would be delighted with an A But I think I got a high B!

onlinenerd

The letter and postcard was pretty hard and reading comp was easy enough and since y'all takin abbout the odd plant I will say I wrote own that it looks like a lamb.

Imaginary Friend

I was quite frustrated with the exam because I've been finding French ridiculously easy (finished the exam papers before Christmas and the teacher put me working ahead on my own). I got 94% in the Mocks and think I got around that but it wasn't an enjoyable paper, in my opinion!

I didn't like Section E because of that goddamn flower! I should've known, it was on the Simpsons!

The Reading was grand, nearly full marks in that one at least.

I really liked the letter, oddly enough. Even if it was a bit weird with the topic. And anyway, how are you supposed to have played a match when you only just moved to a new town? Oh well, who needs logic in a language? xD

Lost In Confusion

Imaginary Friend wrote: »

I was quite frustrated with the exam because I've been finding French ridiculously easy (finished the exam papers before Christmas and the teacher put me working ahead on my own). I got 94% in the Mocks and think I got around that but it wasn't an enjoyable paper, in my opinion!

I didn't like Section E because of that goddamn flower! I should've known, it was on the Simpsons!

The Reading was grand, nearly full marks in that one at least.

I really liked the letter, oddly enough. Even if it was a bit weird with the topic. And anyway, how are you supposed to have played a match when you only just moved to a new town? Oh well, who needs logic in a language? xD

it could be in your old town and you came back. I just said j'ai joue au foot
Then I said j'ai gagne... i got caught out never came up across those :L

Trait

I think I did pretty well in listening and comprehensions, can never write letters though..
Think I got a D grade in it.

tr0llface

LawdyLad wrote: »

Listening was good except for one or two questions from part A-B and a lot of part E was tough. The reading was also okay except for the last 2/3 which got a good bit harder. The note was okay also but the letter was difficult. Would be delighted with an A But I think I got a high B!

preach

i was really disappointed with my letter ugh

legocrazy505

I got up not feeling positive about the idea of an easy paper, how right I was. Listening was great besides part E which had about 3 tough questions. Comprehension great until the last 1 which was very tough, couldn't get 2 of them out. I normally do well in both those sections anyway so I was waiting for the nightmare section III. I was expecting a note and felt I did ok in it, not excellent or perfect though.

Then came the letter, thankfully the superintendent gave us all extra paper for rough work, I think she was desperate to get rid of it :P. Too many mistakes on the letter I felt and I really got caught for vocabulary (this is why learning letters and notes doesn't work).

I was aiming for an A before 3rd year and the teacher change but I honestly feel I got a B, I signed up to do German too at the end of 1st year so French wasn't my choice either...