*****2014 LC English Paper One - all levels - June 4th 2014*****

Microphone Head

What was Heaney doing on paper 1

Daniel2590

****ing heaney on paper one!

Poliana.xo

Well would you look at that Heaney on paper 1, I wonder what paper 2 is going to be like. I thought it was quite a nice paper tbh

Stazza

What was the theme?

MrAweesome

It was a really good paper I nearly died when i seen heaney, damn that

peekachoo

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

Hahaha just checked in here to see how yere getting on, nice to see I'm still being talked about a year on

Always




LOL heaney ain't coming up tomorrow hehehehehe Dickinson :pac:

Microphone Head

Stazza wrote: »

What was the theme?

Influences

chatterboxxx95

THAT WAS HORRIFIC.

aleatorio

I had a feeling Heaney would show his face today!! knew I made the right decision not doing his poetry XD

Did the A on Text 1, the B on text 3 and the story about a ghostly presence
Went so, so well

peekachoo

aleatorio wrote: »

I had a feeling Heaney would show his face today!! knew I made the right decision not doing his poetry XD

Did the A on Text 1, the B on text 3 and the story about a ghostly presence
Went so, so well

I did A on text one as well but B in text 2.
I did the sci-fi mutant essay!!! Oh the imagination :pac:

Lovely paper overall

aleatorio

peekachoo wrote: »

I did A on text one as well but B in text 2.
I did the sci-fi mutant essay!!! Oh the imagination :pac:

Lovely paper overall

Text one was lovely for the A part :')
Was debating doing text 2's B part but I love formal letters too much :pac:
I had a plot for a story involving a ghost thought up from last night so the title worked perfectly

a0ifee

I think my whole school answered question A on text 1 :pac:

Nice paper overall! Wanted to do the letter but couldn't decided if it was formal or not so I did the talk

Gaw_

Seamus Heaney showing up on Paper 1.. The plot thickens.

Kyro

I laughed when I saw Heaney. Now Dickinson surely has to come up haha.

What were the choices for the B parts? I remember last year someone mentioning how an obituary was a likely option and of course I went to learn it because it was strange yet interesting :P

peekachoo

[Deleted User] wrote: »

What were the choices for the B parts? I remember last year someone mentioning how an obituary was a likely option and of course I went to learn it because it was strange yet interesting :P

Of course youd love that! :P
a news bulletin, a class talk and a formal letter!

aleatorio

[Deleted User] wrote: »

What were the choices for the B parts? I remember last year someone mentioning how an obituary was a likely option and of course I went to learn it because it was strange yet interesting :P

Radio talk, Talk, Formal letter :P

Smash The House

Why are you assuming Heaney won't come up tomorrow? Maybe putting him on paper 1 was to make him unexpected on paper 2...

Regardless...still going in with my four poets and Heaney is one of them

peekachoo

peekachoo wrote: »

Of course youd love that! :P
a news bulletin, a class talk and a formal letter!

What can I say? T'is my inner emo shining through!

Class talk is always a favourite for me. Class talk about the influence someone had on your life I'd guess?

Kyro

Seems like most people did A from Text 1? I did mine from Text 2 and B from Text 1.

Kyro

Deleted User wrote: »

What can I say? T'is my inner emo shining through!

Class talk is always a favourite for me. Class talk about the influence someone had on your life I'd guess?

The positive and negative influences on young people in society, I believe.

peekachoo

[Deleted User] wrote: »

What can I say? T'is my inner emo shining through!

Class talk is always a favourite for me. Class talk about the influence someone had on your life I'd guess?

#neverforget
Influences in the lives of young people today, positives and negatives. Easy peasy :P

sifnband

Regret doing my A question from text 3 :L loved the short story titles!

iWin1010

Well I'm glad that's over!
It actually was a fairly nice paper.
I did Text 1 Section A, Text 2 Section B and Ghost short story.
My timing went out the window however but I managed to finish all 3 sections
Only problem is I didn't have time to read over my answers..

Striving470

Smashing paper.

peekachoo

peekachoo wrote: »

Influences in the lives of young people today, positives and negatives. Easy peasy :P

I'd actually be so disappointed to do that as a question B because it came up as a personal essay in 2003 (possibly 2005) and I wrote such a good essay I wanted to frame it :P

Calvin

SEC taking the piss by putting Heaney on paper 1 instead of paper 2....rats :pac:

a0ifee

I loved the article about irish people's obsession with weather!!

Saskatchewan

Got a mention in paper 1.... Who knew I was so famous

K6Y

Omg those essays were horrible, I was looking through the past 10 years yesterday and there was always at least one decent personal essay or article but this year they were all rubbish.. ended up doing a badly written 4 page descriptive essay (which I've never done before) on the 'exotic things in life'... fml

TaiHusky

okay, it has to be dickinson then.

peekachoo

Saskatchewan wrote: »

Got a mention in paper 1.... Who knew I was so famous

I actually noticed that I was laughing away to myself :P

onethreefive

Can someone please tell me for the letter to a well-known person were we supposed to put your own address in the top right and then the well-known persons address under it on the left? Please I'm freaking out I did it wrong.

Microphone Head

What a plot twist

Saskatchewan

peekachoo wrote: »

I actually noticed that I was laughing away to myself :P

Haha, same, everyone just starred...

Aspiring

God bless the SEC! Lovely paper.

Peregrine

Marteh wrote: »

I did A too :P so is everyone that did heaney mainly cacking themselves? :L

I was planning on doing Heaney but thankfully, I didn't study any poetry. Now I'm going to study Larkin and Dickinson. So I didn't really waste any time.

Moral of the story: it pays off being a lazy bastard.

Saskatchewan wrote: »

Got a mention in paper 1.... Who knew I was so famous

I knew I had seen that name before :P

onethreefive

Can someone please tell me for the letter to a well-known person were we supposed to put your own address in the top right and then the well-known persons address under it on the left? Please I'm freaking out I did it wrong.

Shaunicus

I did question B on the first text and question A on the second. Finished off with the mutant story.
Nearly lost my life when I saw Heaney

peekachoo

So I did the sci fi short story, and there was a plot line etc but it was essentially about this tiger that takes on the physical attributes of his prey after eating it. For example in the story we see him eating a small colourful bird and after his fur reflects the colours of the bird and stuff...
that's not too bizarre for sci fi, right? :rolleyes::P

Peregrine

90% of my school did Text 1 Question A, Text 2 Question B and the ghost one for composing.

I thought Section I was really nice. I did Text 1 B and Text 2 A. The composing topics were horrible though I did the weather one.

JDOC1996

Please let paper 2 be as nice! Heaney could still easily come up tomorrow guys. Be prepared.

Badwulf

So what did everyone do for the comprehending? I picked the science fiction novel one. Ripped a comic I read before and I basically wrote a story about how the world was getting really over crowded in the year 2027 so the goverment decided to send a ship filled with plants and cockarcoaches to mars, ship would open up and spread them all everywhere and the plants and seeds would spread and the roaches would help maintain the humus and terraform the planet. So 78 years later a team of scientists go to check out how mars is and its all beautiful and shiiz next thing yanno they cant find any roaches so they all go back to base and then this giant roach, man,....mutant thing breaks into the base and kills nearly everyone, main guy escapes and offs himself. I basically ripped off this

http://terraformars.wikia.com/wiki/Terra_Formars_Wiki

Cept made it a BITTTTT more realistic, was kind of a mix of sci-fi and horror :pac: also why did anyone elses paper have seamus heaney on it? Like wtf? I think it was a mistake, we probably got a sample paper 1 from the 80's or somthing by accident....right?

Calvin

onethreefive wrote: »

Can someone please tell me for the letter to a well-known person were we supposed to put your own address in the top right and then the well-known persons address under it on the left? Please I'm freaking out I did it wrong.

I did it that way! It's a formal letter, pretty sure that's how you do it.

robman60

I did the A question from text 3, B question from text 1.

I thought the B question on the Heaney text was pretty horrible. I loved the disappearance question though, so I was satisfied.

I did the speech on young people exerting their influence on issues. I mentioned Malala (the girl who got shot by the Taliban) and the Arab Spring uprisings which were orchestrated mainly by young people. Overall I think it was pretty good. I think I've written better stuff previously but for the first day of exams I'll take it gladly.

I'm convinced Heaney won't come up tomorrow. I've had an inkling all year he won't appear as the fact that he appeared in the comprehension today consolidates that belief.

onethreefive

Calvin Leong wrote: »

I did it that way! It's a formal letter, pretty sure that's how you do it.

Oh my God thank you! The worrying I did over that throughout the exam was not fun!

JD244

Heaney coming up in Paper 1 might have no effect on Paper 2, the SEC probably trying to screw us over create a bit of worry amongst us, the dastards!

But then again if he doesn't come up that's better for myself garunteed either Yeats or Larkin!

Calvin

Did Question A on text 2 and question B on text 3 then did the light-hearted article about Irish people's obsession with the weather for composing....oh how I love to take the p*ss and be awarded marks for it :pac:

Huell

I had a great whinge about the weather

Shane15

Huell wrote: »

I had a great whinge about the weather

Hahah same, I loved that article actually, was happy with mine. :P

I did part A on text 2, and part B on text 3. Nearly had a heart attack when I saw Heaney's face.

LiverpoolLad95

I did the personal essay about encountering interesting characters.

Anyone know what classifies as interesting? I did a mate from College, a old teacher, a brawl and a couple who broke up. The impact it had on me was that it made want to change my life :P