***JC 2014 Irish Papers - Thu. June 5th 2014 - all levels***

spurious

Irish (FL, OL and HL)
Thursday June 5th 2014

All discussion and questions about Irish papers goes here, following the exam. Please do not post predictions or discussion here before the exam.

Usual rules apply. Anyone slagging off another poster about the level they did, or a mistake they made, will be banned for the duration of the exams.

Please keep off-topic chat elsewhere.

Good luck all.

MissCupcake

I did a fire and the essay was meant to be something funny

pizzamad

I did the interesting dream one...well I hope it was that...

gavindowd

I did three different scéals because I was unsure of what 'scoilse' meant

Beca19

No scéal came up that I could use my fire/robbery/car crash vocab for had to the the aiste about an awful holiday I went on.. I've never written one before it was so awful :L

Beca19

gavindowd wrote: »

I did three different scéals because I was unsure of what 'scoilse' meant

Yeah what does I mo scoilse mean anyone?:L

Gerrymandering

It went way better than the Mocks. Listening was good

Xgracie

Wrote my eachtra on a car accident because what else could I do I said I was on the way to a comedy show in school and afterwards in hospital my room was full of friends and teachers and we were laughing! Totally crashed under pressure of having to think of something, bye bye A

airbus125

for some reason i though greannmhar was something funny and i wrote about my friend that ran over in the school yard...... thats awkward, hopefully i won't lose too many marks

ComputerKing

Beca19 wrote: »

No scéal came up that I could use my fire/robbery/car crash vocab for had to the the aiste about an awful holiday I went on.. I've never written one before it was so awful :L

Same but I ended up writing about a fire on my holiday and said I'd had to spend my whole holiday in the hospital. Does anybody know how many marks I'm going to lose.

Oisin4

Anyone have Is Cuimhin Lion an Sneachta by Sean Mac Fheorais? I need it for paper 2

Beca19

Gerrymandering wrote: »

You should've been prepared, Just make sure you do well in Paper 2 and you'll be grand.

Well obviously that's not very helpful :L our teacher only prepared those stories with us and told us we could always squeeze it into something.. But turns out we can not

MissCupcake

Xgracie wrote: »

Wrote my eachtra on a car accident because what else could I do I said I was on the way to a comedy show in school and afterwards in hospital my room was full of friends and teachers and we were laughing! Totally crashed under pressure of having to think of something, bye bye A

I did my fire one had no other choice luckily there is only 8 marks going for abhar ( the topic/subject) most marks(40) are going for your gaeilge

pizzamad

in my school

Beca19

pizzamad wrote: »

in my school

Really? Thought that would be just i mo scoil or scoile is that a T.G. rule or what?

Gerrymandering

I can't believe I lost 2 marks for a really stupid mistake. I forgot that triogh doesn't change

pizzamad

I did my getting run over by a car in the aiste about an interesting dream! Just added some stuff like getting run over by a car and then my mamó gave me an instealladh up mo thóin hahahahaha

kmmsf

Beca19 wrote: »

No scéal came up that I could use my fire/robbery/car crash vocab for had to the the aiste about an awful holiday I went on.. I've never written one before it was so awful :L

I wrote that I was walking home and I bought some sweets, then the shop got robbed

gavindowd

Anyways I managed to wangle one when you were playing music in your school into it. I also did a match for the first one.

ECM1234

Brilliant paper !!!! Listening, comprehension and grammar part were amazing, I wrote about Kim Kardashian and Kanye West coming to my school, he got hit in the face with a football, and she fell off the plane... Hope the examiner likes it and sees the funny side!

smiles_1998

Did anyone else think that the last question on the first comprehension (the conprehension about the hobbit) was a bit vague? It was the question about why the manager of the shop was happy with the night.

ECM1234

smiles_1998 wrote: »

Did anyone else think that the last question on the first comprehension (the conprehension about the hobbit) was a bit vague? It was the question about why the manager of the shop was happy with the night.

It was, but all you had to do was go to the end of the second paragraph and quote what he said.

emersyn

I did the greanmhar one, I wrote about playing a funny joke on my teacher on April Fool's Day which led to me getting suspended and sent home, and on the way home a car crashed into my bike and I went to the ospidéal. At least it was fairly long...

Msrebeckyxo

Listening was okay, comprehensions were okayyy, Trialacha teanga was a bit of a fail for me but my story was decent! Said the principal got hit by a ball and went unconscious and we all laughed at him :P

MissCupcake

jesus that eactra was a disaster

Beca19

MissCupcake wrote: »

jesus that eactra was a disaster

Hahaha I agree

smiles_1998

ECM1234 wrote: »

It was, but all you had to do was go to the end of the second paragraph and quote what he said.

Yeah I did that...I eventually copped what I was meant to do about five minutes before the end! My essay was about how my class played a trick on the teacher by turning the tables the wrong way around and not talking to him...not very funny but watevs :L

ECM1234

smiles_1998 wrote: »

Yeah I did that...I eventually copped what I was meant to do about five minutes before the end! My essay was about how my class played a trick on the teacher by turning the tables the wrong way around and not talking to him...not very funny but watevs :L

Sure look, we still have paper 2

MissCupcake

Beca19 wrote: »

Hahaha I agree

I did a fire the only thing that is making me feel better is that the topic is only worth 8 marks

Caiseoipe19

Anyone have the actual titles of the scéalta that came up in JCHL?

nanook5

Lads I did the holiday one and wrote about my car breaking down

What did ye do for this one?

ECM1234

nanook5 wrote: »

Lads I did the holiday one and wrote about my car breaking down

What did ye do for this one?

The funny thing at school, Kim K and Kanye West visit, she falls and he gets hit in the face. Such creative thinking on my part..

MissCupcake

ECM1234 wrote: »

The funny thing at school, Kim K and Kanye West visit, she falls and he gets hit in the face. Such creative thinking on my part..

I still did a fire!

ECM1234

MissCupcake wrote: »

I still did a fire!

All I can think about reading that, is the song "We didn't start the fire"

pizzamad

The topic is 10 and the gaeilge is 40 and if you're off topic (like in the letter) your gaielge is reduced so...

TheEdgeofGlory

Wrote a sceal about my friend tricking me into believing there was a disco at school and following that my other friend got shot by a tall man and was taken to hospital and then that friend had surgery etc and it was all over the news and the man got sent to prison and then my friend confessed that she was kidding me towards the end! My Irish was near perfect and I used a sheanfhocal and I wrote lots of descriptive sentences( 2 pages), but I'm so worried now!

MissCupcake

pizzamad wrote: »

The topic is 10 and the gaeilge is 40 and if you're off topic (like in the letter) your gaielge is reduced so...

what do you mean?

MissCupcake

pizzamad wrote: »

The topic is 10 and the gaeilge is 40 and if you're off topic (like in the letter) your gaielge is reduced so...

by how much?

smiles_1998

TheEdgeofGlory wrote: »

Wrote a sceal about my friend tricking me into believing there was a disco at school and following that my other friend got shot by a tall man and was taken to hospital and then that friend had surgery etc and it was all over the news and the man got sent to prison and then my friend confessed that she was kidding me towards the end! My Irish was near perfect and I used a sheanfhocal and I wrote lots of descriptive sentences( 2 pages), but I'm so worried now!

Wow...that is one cool essay :-D

TheEdgeofGlory

smiles_1998 wrote: »

Wow...that is one cool essay :-D

Haha, thanks. Terrified I did something wrong with it though..

smiles_1998

TheEdgeofGlory wrote: »

Haha, thanks. Terrified I did something wrong with it though..

I'd say it's fine I am screwed for paper 2 if happiness or something like that comes up in the studied sections!

Chloee98

I misread the title, it was supposed to be an essay beginning with 'my manager called me from the sideline' but I didn't know what sideline meant so I said that my manager called me from the sideline and said come to the pitch in ten minutes I need to talk to you about something and then the rest was fine (car crash on the way to the pitch) but I'm wondering will I lose many marks for the fact that it doesn't make sense?:(

Xgracie

MissCupcake wrote: »

I did my fire one had no other choice luckily there is only 8 marks going for abhar ( the topic/subject) most marks(40) are going for your gaeilge

Oh thank GOD, my Irish was pretty perfect, like a few mistakes but nothing bad

MissCupcake

Xgracie wrote: »

Oh thank GOD, my Irish was pretty perfect, like a few mistakes but nothing bad

same if its true then i have hope of gettinf the A

MissCupcake

MissCupcake wrote: »

same if its true then i have hope of gettinf the A

tbh the fire may have been off topic but better than doing a stupid essay with basic irish ya sir you would get the 8 marks but not the irish

pizzamad

MissCupcake wrote: »

what do you mean?

Im not sure how much but for example in the letter its 10 for abhair and 17 for gaeilge and 3 for oayout...so just say you leave out a point (2 marks in abahar)....you're abhair is 8/10 and gailge is a max 14 ... so on the letter everyone point you leave out three gailge marks are deducted!

MissCupcake

pizzamad wrote: »

Im not sure how much but for example in the letter its 10 for abhair and 17 for gaeilge and 3 for oayout...so just say you leave out a point (2 marks in abahar)....you're abhair is 8/10 and gailge is a max 14 ... so on the letter everyone point you leave out three gailge marks are deducted!

so if my essay was really good but off topic (I did fire in the school and it was meant to be funny but it wasn't) how much marks could I get 30/50?

MissCupcake

what were the answers to the alts?

pizzamad

MissCupcake wrote: »

so if my essay was really good but off topic (I did fire in the school and it was meant to be funny but it wasn't) how much marks could I get 30/50?

I'm not sure but as far as I know its something like that ... dont know whats the maximum marks!

MissCupcake

pizzamad wrote: »

I'm not sure but as far as I know its something like that ... dont know whats the maximum marks!

thanks totally blanked and forgot what greannmhar was what an idiot I am bye bye A anyway

coolerboy

MissCupcake wrote: »

what were the answers to the alts?

I said alt 3 of the first and alt 4 for the second in the leamhtuiscint