!! Irish OL 2016 - Discussion, aftermath

randylonghorn

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emersyn

What does everyone think about paper 2? I'm predicting Spailpín Fánach/Colscaradh for filíocht and Gnáthrud/Cáca Milis for the prós... Of course they might just put on Hurlamaboc and Oisín again

lumosteph

How risky am I being completely avoiding Oisin and Hurlamaboc...

Johno2474

lumosteph wrote:

How risky am I being completely avoiding Oisin and Hurlamaboc...

I'd recommend at least learning one of them just in case

emersyn

I'd say you're safe enough it'll be a nationwide scandal if they come up again

lumosteph

emersyn wrote: »

I'd say you're safe enough it'll be a nationwide scandal if they come up again

That's what I was thinking! I might glance over the summaries but that will be it.

legocrazy505

Can I just say now that I hate Irish? Can't wait to be done with it for good. Hopefully that story about Jimmy comes up.

Johno2474

For paper one with the blog stories and all that how many pages should I write atleast?

Boaty

One page would be the minimum

DublinArnie

Boaty wrote: »

One page would be the minimum

I got told 3/4 of a page is enough?

ConorD21

I have no idea what i need to know for paper 2, ive done stories like cursai eitilt , gafa re o leighis, fluent dysphasia etc in class but what do i need to know?

Boaty

Some peoples idea of what 3/4 of a page is seems to be different so roughly a page is a good idea, because if you have don't 3\4 of a page you'll be on a reduced marking scheme.

TheOwl12

I don't really intend on counting Irish so I'll probably learn off a few key words and hope for the best. Usually gets me a B2. Although my oral was terrible so that will bring it down a bit

Jdoe

Anyone have any ideas what to expect in the blogs and email section for paper 1 ? I was going to learn something about Ireland for the blog section - hopefully something about culture will come up, email will be grand !

emersyn

Jdoe wrote: »

Anyone have any ideas what to expect in the blogs and email section for paper 1 ? I was going to learn something about Ireland for the blog section - hopefully something about culture will come up, email will be grand !

A lot of the time the blogs are about things you would have prepared for your oral - last year had sports, 2014 was friends/music, 2013 was films/your area/the weekend, so I'm just having a look over my oral copy and hoping for the best

Lucky Leprechaun

How many words should you write for the blog/ letter?

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Well Paper 1 went grand, not brilliant though I think. Found the listening section kind of difficult. The accents on some of them!

lumosteph

The blog/letter topics were the most beautiful I have ever seen

emersyn

The compositions were amazing... No details in the questions at all, there was so much scope to twist everything into prepared topics
The listening was fine, about average I think - was it me or was the more northern accents this year??

Gahv

What was the telephone number in the listening ?

TheBiz

Gahv wrote: »

What was the telephone number in the listening ?

I was busy fixing an answer the first time around and barely caught it the second.
I got something like 09045608

legocrazy505

Listening was dodgy as expected by I got my usual 50% or around that. I'm terrible with Irish accents even if they're speaking English (You'd think after 14 years here I'd be better). The letter and conversations were really nice. Used all my oral phrases for the conversation on country life and city life.

Nikitaforte

How much are the pros and filiocht actually worth? Like if I didn't answer them how bad would it be?

Curb Your Enthusiasm

TheBiz wrote: »

I was busy fixing an answer the first time around and barely caught it the second.
I got something like 09045608

Thought it was an 01 number.

Gahv

Who died in gnáthrud?

Vilas

Paper 1 was pretty good but I misunderstood the story about the train but I'm pretty sure I could argue that my story is relevant if I had to.

Anyone have short summaries of Dis, Caca Milis and Gnathrud? My teacher's ones are 3/4 of a page long and that is such an overkill. Themes and such are fine, just the summaries. Would really appreciate it.

Conorh123

Hi last minute studying here - I'm wondering have any of u any predictions for the pros and poetry sections thanks

Johno2474

Paper 2 was so nice can't believe dis and caca Milis came up the predictions were right. So happy and hope this paper can help boost my grade up in irish

legocrazy505

So glad I'm done with Irish. The most painful subject for me. Poems were nice ones as were the comprehensions. I don't like any of the stories on the course so no matter came up I am unhappy with them.

emersyn

Still no Gnáthrud! Everything still fine though, no tricky questions and got to leave early to study topics that ended up not appearing at all on the Biology paper :O

DublinArnie

emersyn wrote: »

study topics that ended up not appearing at all on the Biology paper :O

This x1000

TheBiz

Curb Your Enthusiasm wrote: »

Thought it was an 01 number.

You could be right, I literally just took a stab at it.

jamie124

Paper 1 went fairly okay I think although the listening was slightly difficult to understand as the accents were absolutely appalling!! And mostly Northern Ireland and at a speed of 1,000!!
Paper 2 was my enemy however but the comprehension a were lovely at least! But the pros Agus Filiocht sections are always my worst anyways so I just attempted them as best I could and I will admit, a lot of it was pure waffle! But all in Irish! all we can do is hope for the best...

Martin98

For the scéal i didnt put the opening sentence at the start of my answer, Does this mean i get no marks for that part?

Johno2474

Martin98 wrote:

For the scéal i didnt put the opening sentence at the start of my answer, Does this mean i get no marks for that part?

I'd say so I'm not to sure that's what my teacher said aswell

emersyn

Martin98 wrote: »

For the scéal i didnt put the opening sentence at the start of my answer, Does this mean i get no marks for that part?

Did you label it as question Bi/Bii? If you labelled it surely they would know which question it was and mark it normally as long as your story was relevant to the opening sentence, not sure though

Martin98

yes, and aswell the sentence is included in the middle of the sceal