Do you lose marks in Junior Cert. English if your essay doesn't match the title?

Aideen98

I did my essay about a journey I took and the title was "My life changed in 90 minutes". I thought it was kind of implied that the journey took 90 minutes so I didn't write that down, but when I told my friend she thought that the corrector won't understand that and that it makes no sense.

I think its a pretty good essay and I'd say I'll get a lot of marks for it, but if the corrector doesn't think the story matches the title, will I lose marks?

Thanks!

kwestfan08

You'll lose some I think for not matching the title but it's not many. For the LC out of 100 I think 5 are for matching into the title of the essay so even if it doesn't match there's still more than enough on offer for an A

ECM1234

Aideen98 wrote: »

I did my essay about a journey I took and the title was "My life changed in 90 minutes". I thought it was kind of implied that the journey took 90 minutes so I didn't write that down, but when I told my friend she thought that the corrector won't understand that and that it makes no sense.

I think its a pretty good essay and I'd say I'll get a lot of marks for it, but if the corrector doesn't think the story matches the title, will I lose marks?

Thanks!

Depends on your marker, I'd still say they'd give you the majority of marks though!

Aideen98

Oh God I hope so!