!! English 2016 Higher Level Paper 2 - Discussion / aftermath

randylonghorn

Let's keep it all to one thread folks ...

Consonata

Good luck all. Let's hope for Yeats.

TSMGUY

Consonata wrote: »

Good luck all. Let's hope for Yeats.

An Irishman Foresees his Leaving Cert Paper 2

All the revision ahead seemed a waste of breath/
A waste of breath the revision behind.
In balance with this exam, this fail.

DublinArnie

Consonata wrote: »

Good luck all. Let's hope for Yeats.

Yeats? If Yeats was my only option I'd cry.

Bishop or Durcan please!

siebey123

Good luck everyone hope everything goes well

Peregrine

Best of luck, lads and lassies.

Is Plath on the course this year? Has anyone predicted her yet? :P

TooMuchWork

If Durcan doesn't come up I'll cry. I love his poetry.

DublinArnie

GOD ANSWERED MY GRANDMOTHER'S PRAYERS.

Love that paper.

unknowngirl!!

DublinArnie wrote: »

GOD ANSWERED MY GRANDMOTHER'S PRAYERS.

Love that paper.

What came up?

DublinArnie

unknowngirl!! wrote: »

What came up?

Durcan and Bishop like the whole country anticipated.

I think Dickinson and Eliot were the two other poets.

Literacy Genre and Cultural Context for the comparative.

Nice king Lear questions!

jty0yt

Cultural context and literary genre, durcan, bishop, dickinson, durcan, elliot.

user53

unknowngirl!! wrote: »

What came up?

Eliot,Dickenson,Bishop,Durcan
CC and LG for comparative

user53

What was the unseen all about though :rolleyes:

LFC CONNAUGHTON

user53 wrote: »

What was the unseen all about though :rolleyes:

Books last longer than people? I've no idea I bluffed it as always

siebey123

The most beautiful paper I have ever seen

jty0yt

The immortality of books and mortality of men.. thats what I gathered. Amazed I got the question done in 15 minutes.

unknowngirl!!

Thanks Hope you are all happy!

Does anyone know what the Gatsby questions were like?

cmegzc

What was the single text King Lear options?

Jdoe

Gatsby:

(i) Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby possess a variety of character traits that contribute to the dramatic and tragic aspects of the story. Agree/Disagree

(ii) Fitzgeralds effective use of a range of contrasts helps to create a clearly unequal world in the course of the novel. Discuss

TSMGUY

Delighted with everything except the cultural context's constraining phrasing (people in power, effing hell, you prepare all of these quotes and then you have to write some bollocks about the people in power, barely mentioned Othello the character once throughout the whole damn thing!)

Did 24 pages and stopped because I couldn't think of any more sh** to say. Beautiful paper, f*** Larkin for not coming up though.

emersyn

Really nice paper! Predicted CC/LG and all the poets except Yeats, Bishop's question was lovely. Lear questions much nicer than they could have been. Unseen poetry was strange but I got an answer down anyway. Went much better than yesterday

DublinArnie

emersyn wrote: »

Really nice paper! Predicted CC/LG and all the poets except Yeats, Bishop's question was lovely. Lear questions much nicer than they could have been. Unseen poetry was strange but I got an answer down anyway. Went much better than yesterday

Agree!

TheOwl12

24 pages? I never had the intention to get even close to that

koolis02

Very weird im finished english after spending so much time on it these past few weeks/months...
overall i think this was a really good paper....
Lear was beautiful, definitely my favourite part of the paper. A lot of my classmates hated it but i thought it was really nice :P so happy with that
I did Durcan for poetry, raging Yeats didnt come up because he was my favourite by a long shot but I didnt mind doing durcan, lovely question but I hope I understood the narrative part correctly
Cc i did the split question, this was okaaaaay I guess.... could've been worse. I've definitely done nicer CC questions in the past tho :pac:
Soooo glad I never have to never learn another King lear quote again

TSMGUY

TheOwl12 wrote: »

24 pages? I never had the intention to get even close to that

neither did I lol. Could've been 24 pages of total ****e, don't take it as a boast

CathalRyano

Paul Durcan I love you

Giotar

That was absolutely gorgeous. Had a perfect Bishop answer prepared for a question like that, and got 7 solid pages written on LG. I picked the Wuthering Heights question I knew less about because it looked more enticing at first. Realised halfway through I could've aced the other one. I'll be furious if I end up getting a B1 knowing it could've been an A but sure **** it, one of my most despised papers out of the way. Roll on HL Maths!

siebey123

hm did anyone else think that the CC was quite specific? Maybe a little bit too specific? They're usually more broad...

Oh well it's over now! No more poetry, single text, comparative ever again now guys!!!

TSMGUY

siebey123 wrote: »

hm did anyone else think that the CC was quite specific? Maybe a little bit too specific? They're usually more broad...

Oh well it's over now! No more poetry, single text, comparative ever again now guys!!!

tfw you're repeating and you told yourself you'd never have to do a comparative again.

AND YES, THAT COMPARATIVE WAS BULLS***

MomijiHime

Giotar wrote: »

Roll on HL Maths!

Roll away more like!

TSMGUY

Am I the only one who likes Larkin, by the way?

MomijiHime wrote: »

Roll away more like!

thisx10000000000

Giotar

MomijiHime wrote: »

Roll away more like!

Hahaha, I meant it a bit sarcastically. I'm dreading it!

emersyn

siebey123 wrote: »

hm did anyone else think that the CC was quite specific? Maybe a little bit too specific? They're usually more broad...

Oh well it's over now! No more poetry, single text, comparative ever again now guys!!!

I did think they looked tougher than previous years - literary genre is my favourite though and the second question for that was lovely so thankfully I didn't have to attempt it!

Johno2474

Hey did does anyone know how many pages have to write for 40 mark qs in CC I only wrote about 2 and half for qs 2 (B) is that enough or to short?

CathalRyano

Johno2474 wrote: »

Hey did does anyone know how many pages have to write for 40 mark qs in CC I only wrote about 2 and half for qs 2 (B) is that enough or to short?

It's grand.

legocrazy505

Wasn't particularly keen on King Lear and CC questions but I got stuff out on them. CC ran out of time on though but did technically answer the question and was on page five. Poets, I hate learning poetry but Dickinson was there and it was a nice enough question. I prefer her poetry just because they're shorter poems and the intense experiences were pretty much in every poem.

Unseen poem look bad at first glance but it was interesting once I got round to it.

user53

LFC CONNAUGHTON wrote: »

Books last longer than people? I've no idea I bluffed it as always

Yeah so did I. I said something like the immortality of books in contrast to mortality of people

Giotar

user53 wrote: »

Yeah so did I. I said something like the immortality of books in contrast to mortality of people

Yep I did the same. "stories are passed on through generations, whereas people are not". Probably not the best wording but surely they'll see I half-understood it xD

siebey123

emersyn wrote: »

I did think they looked tougher than previous years - literary genre is my favourite though and the second question for that was lovely so thankfully I didn't have to attempt it!

Lucky! I hope all went well

We never covered LG so CC was my only option. It took me at least 3/4 reads to wrap my head around it ngl but the predictable poetry section compensated us all I think ahaha

randylonghorn

Nice to see no-one weeping and wailing after Paper 2! :pac:

TSMGUY

randylonghorn wrote: »

Nice to see no-one weeping and wailing after Paper 2! :pac:

just wait until August

Edrees98

I'm sooooo happy I don't have to study English ever again !!!!!!

TooMuchWork

A lovely question on The Great Gatsby. I had to stop myself because I was spending too much time on it, that's how much I liked it!

Durcan question was fairly handy if you had his narrative poetry ready.

CC question was bollix.

koolis02

What did people mention for the narrative part?

louisoc

koolis02 wrote: »

What did people mention for the narrative part?

I did Sport, Father's Day, MacBride Dynasty, and Wife Who Smashed Television. I just spoke about how he used humorous, simple anecdotal narratives to explore complex issues -father/son relationship in Sport, marital dysfunction in Father's Day, the whole Maud Gonne situation in The MacBride Dynasty, and justice system & americanisation of Irish culture for Wife Who Smashed Television.

lumosteph

Anyone else think the unseen poem was far too easy? My Lear and Bishop question went grand but the cultural context question messed up my whole flow and it definitely might have cost me a grade. Why was it so narrow?¿

Hana98

I can't believe how well that went!
Lear was amazing! I love LG and was delighted it came up although it was slightly restricting with the setting part. Poetry was so predictable except Yeats didn't come up. I must have been the only person who loves and did Eliot! Unseen poem was grand.
My only regret was that I didn't write more. I had loads in my mind left to write but I filled nearly the whole book.
At this moment I am in disbelief!!! My hand could literally fall off any second.

louisoc

lumosteph wrote: »

Anyone else think the unseen poem was far too easy? My Lear and Bishop question went grand but the cultural context question messed up my whole flow and it definitely might have cost me a grade. Why was it so narrow?¿

I didn't have much to write about re: unseen poem, but it was deep enough I thought. I also had to keep finding new and inventive ways of referencing the poet without using gender-specific pronouns cause I didn't have a breeze whether it was a man or woman hahah

Hana98

lumosteph wrote: »

Anyone else think the unseen poem was far too easy? My Lear and Bishop question went grand but the cultural context question messed up my whole flow and it definitely might have cost me a grade. Why was it so narrow?¿

That poem was so easy! The first read over it was slightly confusing. I was honestly expecting a harder unseen poem.
Cultural context was extremely restricting. Part of the reason why I didn't pick it.

Bangdiggy

TheOwl12 wrote: »

24 pages? I never had the intention to get even close to that

24? Wow I had 12

randylonghorn

I wouldn't pay much attention to pages, some people have big writing, some small.

Mate of mine in Uni used to go through answerbooks like he had a vendetta against trees, but he had such big sprawly handwriting that in the end he started writing on every second line of them, otherwise one line kept crossing with the other.