English P1 HUGE MISTAKE

Seymour101

I wrote a personal essey thinking it was a short story and had me as the main character how much will I get penalised for this? Will I get 0?!!!

Digital Society

What was the essay about?

Seymour101

Digital Society wrote: »

What was the essay about?

Essay title was meeting unusual people make an impact on your life

And I wrote about me going to prison and how inmates affected my life within prison

LiverpoolLad95

Digital Society wrote: »

What was the essay about?

Holy Sh1t, I did the exact same thing. You had to write about meeting new people and I wrote it in first person, saying who I met and how it affected me.

Seymour101

LiverpoolLad95 wrote: »

Holy Sh1t, I did the exact same thing. You had to write about meeting new people and I wrote it in first person, saying who I met and how it affected me.

I did exactly that ! Got too excited when I saw the essay title

Neeson

Seymour101 wrote: »

Essay title was meeting unusual people make an impact on your life

And I wrote about me going to prison and how inmates affected my life within prison

The examiner will probably just think you spent a few years in prison then? It'll be OK.

LiverpoolLad95

Seymour101 wrote: »

I did exactly that ! Got too excited when I saw the essay title

I'm sh1tt1ng it now, surely we should be covered????!!!!!

LiverpoolLad95

Thank Christ, this from 2013,

the storyteller’s connection to his audience.” (TEXT 1)
Write a personal essay in which you explore the storytelling evident in music and song and its
impact on you as a listener.

Candidates may adopt a variety of approaches (formal, informal, anecdotal, etc.), but they should include a reflective element, and engage with “the storytelling evident in music and song, and its impact” on them as listeners.

I hope a variety of approaches can mean first person.

peekachoo

LiverpoolLad95 wrote: »

Thank Christ, this from 2013,

the storyteller’s connection to his audience.” (TEXT 1)
Write a personal essay in which you explore the storytelling evident in music and song and its
impact on you as a listener.

Candidates may adopt a variety of approaches (formal, informal, anecdotal, etc.), but they should include a reflective element, and engage with “the storytelling evident in music and song, and its impact” on them as listeners.

I hope a variety of approaches can mean first person.

A personal essay is supposed to be in first person!
But it's supposed to be an insight into the mind of a Leaving Cert student.

LiverpoolLad95

peekachoo wrote: »

A personal essay is supposed to be in first person!
But it's supposed to be an insight into the mind of a Leaving Cert student.

Thank jaysus,

Do you have to say you're doing your leaving, I wrote about being up at Dublin

EDIT: I also wrote about my own personal experience. Would this make for a boring read is it what their looking for? I

peekachoo

LiverpoolLad95 wrote: »

Thank jaysus,

Do you have to say you're doing your leaving, I wrote about being up at Dublin

Nah you don't have to actually mention that, It's more that the examiner should feel like they're reading the perspective of a teenager about the given essay! And yeah they want to know about your experiences :pac:

LiverpoolLad95

peekachoo wrote: »

Nah you don't have to actually mention that, It's more that the examiner should feel like they're reading the perspective of a teenager about the given essay! And yeah they want to know about your experiences :pac:

Its boring, like I went up to Dublin and met me mates, its so obvious it happened and described how meeting them actually felt. Would this set me in good stead? Its a bit boring but its true.

Jones82

Seymour101 wrote: »

I wrote a personal essey thinking it was a short story and had me as the main character how much will I get penalised for this? Will I get 0?!!!

Well your first mistake was writing a short story in first person, so I guess it now sort of works in your favour that it was a personal essay.

LiverpoolLad95

Jones82 wrote: »

Well your first mistake was writing a short story in first person, so I guess it now sort of works in your favour that it was a personal essay.

Is it also alright to write a personal essay in the present??

Flaregon

Seymour101 wrote: »

I wrote a personal essey thinking it was a short story and had me as the main character how much will I get penalised for this? Will I get 0?!!!

You wrote something "relevant " which is the key word here, don't care What anyone says, u awnsered the question, u can't get a zero for that and u won't lose to many points if any.

Seymour101

Will I get marked of 0 so? I wrote my essay in the first person but not as if I was a leaving cert student?

Or would I only get penalised a small bit?

LiverpoolLad95

We got through this Seymour, thank God

And we kept our cool :P

Seymour101

LiverpoolLad95 wrote: »

We got through this Seymour, thank God

And we kept our cool :P

Haha I know! Did fine in the whole paper overall was just looking over and saw my mistake. Hopefully doesnt set me back too much and we get a nice paper tomorrow be world of good best of luck and like myself read the question clearly from now on!!! Hahaha

peekachoo

Jones82 wrote: »

Well your first mistake was writing a short story in first person, so I guess it now sort of works in your favour that it was a personal essay.

I always do short stories in first person?
A lot more effective imo, easy to give insights into the character and understand what they're feeling/thinking.

LiverpoolLad95

peekachoo wrote: »

I always do short stories in first person?
A lot more effective imo, easy to give insights into the character and understand what they're feeling/thinking.

Thank God your here

Cheers for your help.

jazz101

Don't worry boys. In the mocks, I wrote a "personal essay" in which the entire planet committed suicide due to a philosophical shift in humans. I got 100/100 for it.

You guys are safe. They are very, very lenient on what a "personal essay" entails, as long as it focuses on a self of some description.

MightyMandarin

jazz101 wrote: »

Don't worry boys. In the mocks, I wrote a "personal essay" in which the entire planet committed suicide due to a philosophical shift in humans. I got 100/100 for it.

No offence or anything, but 100/100 sounds like bull**** marking to me.

jazz101

MightyMandarin wrote: »

No offence or anything, but 100/100 sounds like bull**** marking to me.

Eh, it was that "tour de force" thing where they stop being arsed halfway through and just give you 100. No offence taken - the essays I write for school are purple as **** and highfalutin, designed to impress. All I'm trying to point out here though is that markers are flexible as all hell about the definition of a question.

Like, if there was a title like "write a story about a place of great importance", I could easily see someone getting away with something as cheap as "the drug den was an important place" in their first line and going on to write the druglord story they had prepared.

Canard

Jones82 wrote: »

Well your first mistake was writing a short story in first person, so I guess it now sort of works in your favour that it was a personal essay.

Eh, have you ever read a book? Writing in first person is fine.

Terri26

Seymour101 wrote: »

I wrote a personal essey thinking it was a short story and had me as the main character how much will I get penalised for this? Will I get 0?!!!

Don't worry too much. The SEC are much stricter the other way around, that is if you wrote a personal essay and it was supposed to be a short story.

Mayo4sam14

I wrote about people ive met and what impact they had on me. Is that alright?

Terri26

what was the title?

Terri26

you definitely will not get zero. Don't worry!

Terri26

Seymour101 wrote: »

Will I get marked of 0 so? I wrote my essay in the first person but not as if I was a leaving cert student?

Or would I only get penalised a small bit?

You definitely will not get zero, don't worry.

Tombo2001

Seymour101 wrote: »

Will I get marked of 0 so? I wrote my essay in the first person but not as if I was a leaving cert student?

Or would I only get penalised a small bit?

You wont get penalised at all. They are looking at how well you can write. its not a quiz question.

Mayo4sam14

Terri26 wrote: »

what was the title?

The personal essay about interesting or unusual people you encountered

Terri26

Mayo4sam14 wrote: »

The personal essay about interesting or unusual people you encountered

Yes that's fine and your examiner will be happy with that!