English - The aftermath.

Creamy Goodness

just home on a quick lunch,

tell us your thoughts on both papers, tonight.

Johnerr

P1 was ok, but i tink i did a **** essay, how does 2 and 1/2 pages sound??? not good right?


going into do PII now, best of luck all!

chillywilly

ye 2 and a half pages isnt de best but i only did 3 so its all good! I thought it was easy enough but my had is killin me!!

im fooked for p2!!

Gileadi

with spelling and grammar like that your worse off than you could imagine

roxy

Gileadi wrote:

your worse off than you could imagine

Indeed.

Pot, kettle, black.

Vikings

Paper 2 was just perfect. I didn't do A quality but a high C or B is in store for me hopefully.

ONLY studied dickinson beforehand, and BOOM! She came up, worked backwards on paper 2, seen poetry, then unseen, comparative then hamlet. All worked out well, let myself down on hamlet but overall im pretty happy with how I did.

Paper 1 was ... well, paper 1. I did text 2 section A, text 3 section B and i did essay 7 (a) and used picture 3.

Overall today wasnt bad.

Cannibal Ox

Paper 2 was just perfect. I didn't do A quality but a high C or B is in store for me hopefully

I almost wet myself when I saw Dickinson and Boland. Getting that got me off to a great start, did a good essay on Dickinson, Hamlet was great (did the 1st Q on the appeal of Hamlet to a 21st Century audience...best question I could get, I used every quote I knew) and my Compariitive was at least good enough to get half marks for it.

Paper 1 was alright, I'm not to sure about the length of some of my answers. I did the Diary one for Q B, and was only doing around a page per diary entry (I couldn't figure out how to do any more! I was pulling everything out of the texts, there just didn't seem to be enough for me) but my A Q was fine (did the Celebrity lifestyles one)
And I went off on a rant about Iraq for the personnal essay.

So yeah, good paper. Reckon a C1 at worst, which is alright. Let's hope the rest are like that.

Binomate

Still half an hour left to go on paper 2. I'd hate to be back in there now. I left an hour early. Got to do maths now!

I think I got around a B2 for Paper 1.

For Paper 2, I left about 40 minutes early, and yet I think I got an A1!!!!!

Binomate

The exam was simple. For some reason a soon as I entered th exam hall I needed to take a leak! That motivated me to write fast. I was dying for a p1ss the whole way through both exams! I'll no longer be drinking water in between the exams.


Thank christ I'll never have to write about hamlet ever again!

Fortinbras'

Just back after doing both papers

My essay was great 6.5 pages i discuss it here

I did q. a on sect 1 wrote over a page for each question handy enough hard to do 20marks worth for last q. though i discussed violent imager/ appeal to sense of taste /smell

For sect b. I did the ist photo
discusses
shows emotion/love
horrific nature of war as they are split up
the humanness of soldiers (is that a word?)
and how it poses the question, how can we let this happen.

Paper 2. was lovely

Loved the 1.st lit genre question kept being like It is important to consider..
I will be discussing..
etc.
5 pages

hamlet I did q on weaknesses loved it but may not have discussed his strengths enough
6.5 pages

Emily Dickinson - great that she came up but had to discuss a lot due to q. my impact
language
imagery
her personality
5.5 pages

The unseen was terrific the healing power/ inspiraton falling from the moon in the form of moon rain! 2 pages

Gileadi

roxy wrote:

Indeed.

Pot, kettle, black.

a good thing i dont have to sit english then isnt it ^^

roxy

Gileadi wrote:

a good thing i dont have to sit english then isnt it ^^

It certainly is.

But when posting sarky remarks about other people's grammar it's always worth giving a second glance before committing. It saves you from looking silly y'know?

I'm dissapointed with how I did. I didn't even finish paper 2.

Africa

Ach. It was ok, my essay, comparitive and SST answers were reall good, my poetry has let me down big time, the rest...well...meh. Should be good enough to get over 75.

MACCER

Congrats to all you people happy with the paper, but wasnt there anyone else relying on Wordsworth coming up? Couldnt believe it when i saw 2 women poets on the paper, what the hell is this an equal society or what? :eek:

JackKelly

was really happy with that paper. All in all, it was good.

Hamlet question (1st one) at first was a bit of a wtf, but than i realised i could say anything at all and it would be grand. Hamlets character was also a grand one id imagine.

The department were pretty sound putting, Dickinson Yeats and Boland on. No suprises thank god. Did yeats myself.

General Vision and Viewpoint was grand. All preprepared so was grand.

Paper one was also ok. Did ques A on the Butcher one, and B on the letter to the photgraphy magazine. Essay was on the obsession of people with celebrity.

Was pretty damn happy all in all. Worst over with now. The first was always going to be hardest!

Con9903

How long did you spend writing your essays. I wrote my essay in an hour. It was 6 pages. Paper two was grand too.

Call Me Jimmy

IncredibleBulk wrote:

Paper 2 was just perfect. I didn't do A quality but a high C or B is in store for me hopefully.

ONLY studied dickinson beforehand, and BOOM! She came up, worked backwards on paper 2, seen poetry, then unseen, comparative then hamlet. All worked out well, let myself down on hamlet but overall im pretty happy with how I did.

Paper 1 was ... well, paper 1. I did text 2 section A, text 3 section B and i did essay 7 (a) and used picture 3.

Overall today wasnt bad.

Omg everthing here is exactly I MEAN EXACTLY what i did/think

Best. Exam. Ever.

exiztone

Couldn't have hoped for better papers. Lovely exam!

Africa

yeah overall wa a fantastic exam. Thanks dept, now make sure the rest are fine!

Wait...if we all did good in the english...that means we got high points in it.....

HOPE I GET MY POINTS!

IncredibleBulk

IncredibleBulk wrote:

Paper 2 was just perfect. I didn't do A quality but a high C or B is in store for me hopefully.

ONLY studied dickinson beforehand, and BOOM! She came up, worked backwards on paper 2, seen poetry, then unseen, comparative then hamlet. All worked out well, let myself down on hamlet but overall im pretty happy with how I did.

Paper 1 was ... well, paper 1. I did text 2 section A, text 3 section B and i did essay 7 (a) and used picture 3.

Overall today wasnt bad.

how did you the 2nd exam in an hour?

Vikings

Uhh ... I finished at just before 4, and we started at 1:30. You have a lot of work to do for the morning man .

you posted at3:16!how could expect to get a high b!yeah i need help.im doing honours maths

Vikings

16:16 actually.

BraveheartGal

David Lynch wrote:

Best. Exam. Ever.

right on


do ya know for the hamlet question about his weaknesses
i wrote about his weakness and strengths and said why everyone ,loved him
is that right?the question, i dunno, it kinda put me off

zAbbo

Heard that one of the titles on the JC paper was 'Travelling on a School Bus'

BraveheartGal

it was
ok granted it might have upset those kids in navan and my heart goes out to them
but i reckon its jus the parents council kickin up a fuss like they always do
i really do sympathise with the kids and my heart goes out to them but isnt it blown outta proportion?

Haedes1987

Likewise - Unreal

UncleFester

Thought the papers were o.k and most of it went fine except maybe comparative - but i always hated that question anyway!

Beau

I did well, wrote a rubbsh essay though. I wish I made a plan out for every question at the start because by the time I got to the poetry question I just got a big blank on Yeats, even though I had been studying him all year and should`ve been well prepared. So i wrote on Dikinson instead, but forgot alot of detail for "A slant of light"

BraveheartGal wrote:

it was
ok granted it might have upset those kids in navan and my heart goes out to them
but i reckon its jus the parents council kickin up a fuss like they always do
i really do sympathise with the kids and my heart goes out to them but isnt it blown outta proportion?

No man it should`nt have been on the paper. They tell us that there are other papers at the ready if there is a leak of the origional paper. Why not do this? A girl was killed from Junior Cert that tragic day, imagine if you were a Junior Cert in Loreto, Navan and you saw that come up? Its hard enough as it is, I`d be shocked if that came up in the leaving.

I go to St Pats Classical School, Navan by the way.

Vikings

Why should there be uproar about an essay about travelling on a school bus yet absolutely no problem with essays about war and conflict? Tell me that.

randomfella

BraveheartGal wrote:

it was
ok granted it might have upset those kids in navan and my heart goes out to them

well then thats the point, isn' it? Sorry but i really think it was an awful mistake. Especially knowing they could have changed it. I think this was very disrespectful and apology should be made.

Beau

IncredibleBulk wrote:

Why should there be uproar about an essay about travelling on a school bus yet absolutely no problem with essays about war and conflict? Tell me that.

I understand where your coming from, there are 100s od victoms of war everday.

However this accident was closer to home and its only natural that something like that could hurt people more than war. Remember the accident only happend over 2 weeks ago.

Put yourself in a 15 year olds shoes who has just lost one of their friends in a school bus crash. What would your state of mind be going into an exam?

Beau

randomfella wrote:

well then thats the point, isn' it? Sorry but i really think it was an awful mistake. Especially knowing they could have changed it. I think this was very disrespectful and apology should be made.

spot on.

chump

You all shouldn't be so concerned about how many pages your essay was. A 2.5 - 3.5 page essay is an ideal length. Quality rather than quantity...

charmedmad

IncredibleBulk wrote:

Paper 2 was just perfect. I didn't do A quality but a high C or B is in store for me hopefully.

ONLY studied dickinson beforehand, and BOOM! She came up, worked backwards on paper 2, seen poetry, then unseen, comparative then hamlet. All worked out well, let myself down on hamlet but overall im pretty happy with how I did.

Paper 1 was ... well, paper 1. I did text 2 section A, text 3 section B and i did essay 7 (a) and used picture 3.

Overall today wasnt bad.

This is exactly the same way I reacted to the test, Great minds think alike, I couldnt of asked for a better paper, The hamlet question let you basicly pick the question, I was dreading this test but i had nothing to worry about

Con9903

chump wrote:

You all shouldn't be so concerned about how many pages your essay was. A 2.5 - 3.5 page essay is an ideal length. Quality rather than quantity...

2.5 pages wouldn't be sufficient.
Personally I think they're making a big deal about the bus question. But they probably should've used another paper just to be safe.

chump

I'm afraid you're wrong Con. Well unless things have changed since my day.

Con9903

righteo

Scarinae

I thought both papers went really well for me. I thought the choices for the comprehension on paper 1 kinda sucked, there was no way I was going to write about wanting to interview a stupid celebrity, I had great fun ripping apart text 3 in my part A tough (Do you like this style of writing? NO!! I just got into a big rant about how crap and badly written it was) I thought the essay titles gave us a nice choice as well.
Paper 2 was lovely, in my opinion - I was so happy to see that Dickinson question, as I had all my quotations perfect for it. The comparative was predictable and quite straightforward, the Hamlet questions were a bit strange but doable. Overall, I was very happy with how English went for me!

jacksie

i thought the paper was kinda easy, so they'll prob mark it hard. comp choice imo was good, i wrote about 4+1/2 pages on the other peoples expectations, was pretty good aswell. dickinson came up, a total relief, knew her like the back of my hand

randomfella

Fishie wrote:

I thought both papers went really well for me. I thought the choices for the comprehension on paper 1 kinda sucked, there was no way I was going to write about wanting to interview a stupid celebrity, I had great fun ripping apart text 3 in my part A tough (Do you like this style of writing? NO!! I just got into a big rant about how crap and badly written it was) I thought the essay titles gave us a nice choice as well.
Paper 2 was lovely, in my opinion - I was so happy to see that Dickinson question, as I had all my quotations perfect for it. The comparative was predictable and quite straightforward, the Hamlet questions were a bit strange but doable. Overall, I was very happy with how English went for me!

just curious how u criticised the writing? i didn't think it was great at all either, but felt it was easier to support than criticise.

jacksie

indeed t'wood want to be a solid arguement.. not a great idea sometimes..

IrL3

What I don't get is why people say "oh I wrote 6 pages for my essay."
My essay was less just over 3 pages, but it had nearly 1000 words. A friend wrote over 6 pages, but they write about 6 words per line, so I probably wrote more than him. What's your average words per line? That's what you go by, not how many pages you wrote.
In the Ed-Co exam papers it says the average for an essay is 750-1000 words. But I completely agree with chump, its quality rather than quantity.

Anyways I don't know how I did in Paper Two, I think Paper One was fine, I wrote my first ever non-short story, so hopefully that went well...
But I was not prepared for the comparison and I really don't think I did well in that, and the Hamlet question, although easy, knocked me back a bit, and I didn't do as well as I know I could.
But it's in the past now, roll on next week!

captain_frances

Not too bad. I was a bit stuck for time, and I'm sure everyone's hand was cramping up. Anyone know what that diary entry to the meat market was about? Poxy!

*Angel*

captain_frances wrote:

Anyone know what that diary entry to the meat market was about? Poxy!

That's the one I did ...