what questions did u answer?

Strokesa

Did anyone else think the personal writing titles were ****? I did Cinderella for the fairytale one, but it was just a whole loada **** about a kenyan cult...
I didnt get paper 1 finished cos i spent waaaaay too long on the reading, and that wasnt good cos the media studies wasnt too easy...i only had a 4 line answer 4 part c!
On paper 2 it was better, i thought the drama and fiction questions were ok but poetry wasnt 2 great and i dont think my answer was very relevant!
Did u pick the shakespeare or modern drama? I did the modern for the 1st time ever cos i was liking the whole voices in his head thing!
But anyway i guess its over now anyway, 1 down, 9 to go(or 8 if your lucky!)
Each exam brings us that bit closer to summer!WOOHOOOOO!!!!

Irishstabber

I got the whole thing done with 20 mins to spare .....only done 7 and a bit pages though.....how many you all do?

I done the best or worst holiday option for personal...I believe I wrote a good one. :rolleyes:

Flashling

I did the speech, for reasons previously disposed. I got stuck on an ending for the functional writing though, and ended up saying "...and remember, you cant spell salad without lad, and lad is in glad, so I'm glad you listened" It just came out!

Irishstabber

lol now that youve reminded me. That question(I done the food pyramid) was a disaster for me...out of 30 or so marks given I'd say I got bout 12-16 :eek:

Strokesa

Lmao hopefully the examiner will have a sense of humour!I did that one too cos i could not write anything even remotely interesting about a couple of seagulls!
I dont no how many pages i did, but i didnt need extra paper or anything.
I was planning on doing the debate but i started planning it and was already boring myself to death so i had to improvise..

Hey can i steal your "you cant have salad without a lad..." thing for my signature? Pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssseeeeeeeee

Flashling

Sure, but if you get virtually beaten up, DONT COME CRYING TO ME!

alanoc9

i wrote 24 pages for the 2 papers.did anyone eles think the functional writing was crap

Flashling

I wrote 10. And a half. Way to make me feel bad! A girl in my year wrote 31.

Irishstabber

Yes functional writing was crap.....24 PAGES...I dont bout 7 in first paper and I got bout same in second

Casserine

Personal Writing I did the My Mouth Went Dry....one. I made up some odd yoke about a Dublin gang based in Bray. I think it was alright, humerous with a decent plot. Functional Writing I did the Food Pyramid, I couldn't think of anything exciting to do with seagulls either.

Media Studies was a load of ****, I thought.

I did the Other Drama (Ted Hughes rocks) and the conflict scene for Romeo & Juliet. I was fairly happy with Drama overall, I know Act 3 Scene 1 pretty off by heart so I could quote loads from it.

Poetry...sham. I hadn't a clue for that. I used the Youth/Old Age thing and wrote about Mid-Term Break (don't ask). I'm sure I made up a lot of crap that wasn't in the poem, but hopefuly it was plausible crap.

Fiction..eugh. I hate The Love Bean (I read it last year) so I was annoyed it came up. I think I managed to do a good enough answer. I also hate my novel, Wings Over Delft by Aubrey Flegg, but I hope I was able to sound convincing on the changing character one.

I think I did okay overall, about 18 pages.

Strokesa

I did Midterm break too...but for the question about setting...which is completely irrelevant! I should have done youth!
Thank you for the signature im still virtually healthy...but for how long??

Raphael

Those essay titles were pretty sweet, didn't get to look at the rest of the paper

Hugh Hefner

The Personal Writing options this year were brilliant compared to previous years. I chose the, "my heart beat so hard....," or what ever it was, question.

I was a woman being attacked in an ally and but I killed the guy with some glass through the eye and then I went home to my wife-beating husband. I tried to wash off the blood but i couldn't get some from under my nails so I had to lick it out. Then my husband threw me into the bedroom cos' I lied about there not being pancakes at the store. He left after 5 mins., after he was finished (rape).
Then while lying naked on the bed I decided to get a knife, kick in the television and give my husband a knife to kill me with.

Sure t'was all in good fun!

I left Paper 1 30 mins. early and Paper 2 20 mins. early.

I did the food pyramid question and I think I did fairly well on that.

For Paper 1 I did about 7 pages and for Paper 2 I had 1 page left blank in the booklet so I don't know how many pages that is.

The poetry went really well for me. I had some good ideas about the unseen. For the seen I did To A Child Dancing In The Wind by W.B. Yeats and I used it for the Youth question. It was perfect for it.

Mimikyu

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Hugh Hefner

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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Dulce Est Decorum Est is a brilliant poem but how does it go with the place question at all? Heh.

I wasn't allowed but the examiner said I could get it tomorrow. However that might have been becasue I left early.

Irishstabber

t'was, your not allowed take em unless your there at the end...
I dont dulce et decorum est for the setting too....couldnt think of any other peom with a setting

Mysteryfish

well, english over and done with. over all i think it went pretty well. For my personal writing I did the my mouth went dry thing. I made out this plan and then decided not to do it and crossed it out. I wrote aboute this girl and she was sneaking into a house because she was looking for something. It went grand.

The functional writing wasn't hard but I was kinda annoyed. Couldn't they have just given the nice bog standard formal letter? Anyway, I did the food pyramid one and put in all this "information" and "facts".

The unseen poetry was so ****! There was nothing in it! Nothing you could comment on. All my words I had prepared like 'assonance' and 'onomatopoeia' were wasted becuase there was NADA to comment on. In the end I just said I liked it because it told a story and was about someone the same age as me.

I'm pretty pleased with the English exam. I think I did well, and hopefully I'll get an A (I want one so bad. I was 3% off in my mock).

philologos

Hugh Hefner wrote:

Dulce Est Decorum Est is a brilliant poem but how does it go with the place question at all? Heh.

I wasn't allowed but the examiner said I could get it tomorrow. However that might have been becasue I left early.

I answered on Dulce Et Decorum Est too and I did fine in it. The poem has an unique setting and the setting (disturbing adjectives) makes the poem effective it fits in perfectly m8

Irishstabber

Me, Im jusr hoping to get over 70%. English, I can never comprehend how to write the way your meant to...I waffled a LOT in that test...I got 65% i think in mocks.
Just cross fingers and hope for a sloppy examiner, maybe do mine last and mark it good

Rozabeez

I already had "jack and the beanstalk" rewritten...so I used the plot and made it better than before!

Strokesa

At the end of the unseen poetry did the dude learn a lesson? Like he couldnt believe that the motorcyclist nearly died yet just got right back on? Or am I missing something???

Hugh Hefner

I thought the whole this was an allogory of a lonely kid looking for companionship. He finds the motorcycle but then the cyclist gets up and his life is lonely once again.

Irishstabber

That was one really bad poem...asked if i liked it...I said no but had nothing to back it up.
So I said no i hate thet peom but the language used is good and babbled on about that.
As for learning a lesson I haven't a breeze...deciphering poems is not for me

Mysteryfish

THat's the thing, no one in my school was sure whether that was the case, like the poem actually did have a deeper meaning and we were all just missing it? Or was it actually as simple as it appeared?

Strokesa

Hmmm...that theory about him losing him companian is good.
But i guess they cant mark u wrong 4 what you interpret it to be, can they?

knifey_spoonie

On the Spainish add was i the only one not to notice the Marks on the feet of the people.I waffeled on about it being great for familys and how you could become closer to you child.

For eassy i did a case of mistaken identity , i was mistaken for a hit man and hooked up to torrure machine.

Irishstabber

I seen it I seen it!!!!!!
I waffle on about the same things but for the marks on the feet I said that the climate, obvious with the beach and all, is great for tan and that the tan lines tell us that these are two tourists not locals(thats wont get any marks though )

Flashling

Irishstabber wrote:

That was one really bad poem...asked if i liked it...I said no but had nothing to back it up.

I had that problem too! So I said that there was no sibilance etc., fthis could be seen in stanza one...I'm REALLY bad at english.

modular

And why was the last stanza of unseen poetry just one line long? How are you supposed to answer that?

"It's one line long, because there were only four words in it. Splitting it into separate lines would look stupid."

Hugh Hefner

It's one line long becasue the poet's trying to draw attention to it and emphasise it. The lack of adverbs too makes it stand out as opposed to the more descriptive lines. Plus the separation of it from the other lines mirrors the poet's feelings of lonliness.

Flashling

modular wrote:

And why was the last stanza of unseen poetry just one line long? How are you supposed to answer that?

"It's one line long, because there were only four words in it. Splitting it into separate lines would look stupid."

Didn't you realise it "Signified the end, the end of this defining moment in the poets young life"? Well, I thought THAT was obvious!!

Irishstabber

I wrote everything you said there except lonliness..DAMN

modular

Yeah, I wrote that it showed how the ordeal ended abrubtly, etc.

knifey_spoonie

it was there to form a sonnet which is a love poem which shows his love affair with motorcycles
God the rif raf we get here

Hugh Hefner

But that's not a sonnet's structure.

Diarmsquid

I got something completely differnent.
The way i saw it, the boy found the motor bike and was tempted to ride it (ride it, ha ha funny, not) and since he was only fifteen it made the temptation even greater, but he overcame the temptation that was so high because he was at the experimental age of fifteen.

Made a lot of sense at the time...

Anyone else get that?

Diarmsquid

knife_fighter wrote:

On the Spainish add was i the only one not to notice the Marks on the feet of the people.

Don't feel bad, i was one of the only ones who spotted them in my school. I felt so proud at the time

PurpleFistMixer

Heh Hugh Hefner, my story had rape in it as well. Only it was just implied because I was afraid of them hating me...
Picked the dry mouth thing, wrote a weird story about hallucinations and a girl being tied up in the boot of a car. Meh. It made no sense, was incredibly sappy at the end, but I am reasonably proud of the writing nonetheless.

I found the reading way easy! I mean, the one about comparing the Marines to My Little Pony camp was just such an easy question...

Did the article for Functional Writing, somehow rambled about the Egyptians for half a page, but I swear it was somehow relevant.

Media studies I found annoying. It was easy enough, but my god we could have done no media studies all year and been able to answer it. None of our stuff came up...


Paper two, I was pleasantly surprised. The drama and fiction studied questions we'd BOTH prepared and that was great. The poetry question was reasonably awful. NONE of the poems I'd learned fit either of the questions. Which was strange. I was so calm about the poetry, and then that happened.
Well, I took my crazy World War 2 poem, twisted it horribly to try and make it fit a setting, then rambled incoherently for almost 2 pages about it.

The unseens were in general okay. Did The Shakespearean. I didn't even read the modern drama, tbh, since we'd never done one before and the Shakespeare looked pretty easy.

That stupid 'Fifteen' poem was GODDAMN annoying. It was pathetic. Although I did have some .. strange theories about what it meant, vaguely along those lines mentioned (although if I'd remembered the word 'lonely' it would have made my descriptions a lot more coherent) I didn't explain particularly well, and assumed they already understood my own interpretation of the poem.
Oh well. It's over now.

Fiction was okay. It was easy enough to come up with reasons and explanations although I would personally have just put that down once I hit "five (fabulous) minutes". And come on, what's with the stupid title. 'The Love Bean'??

Hugh Hefner

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Heh Hugh Hefner, my story had rape in it as well. Only it was just implied because I was afraid of them hating me...
Picked the dry mouth thing, wrote a weird story about hallucinations and a girl being tied up in the boot of a car. Meh. It made no sense, was incredibly sappy at the end, but I am reasonably proud of the writing nonetheless

Yeah, I never actually said the word "rape". It was all just strongly implied. Imagine watching up to the ear cutting scene in Reservoir Dogs but watching no further and you've got the idea. Like, you know I was raped but there's roomo for interpretation.

Actually I still laugh about how I came up with it: I sat there and tried to think of a story to fit the line. I thought the line was quite violent and that's when this string ran through my head, "What would Tarantino do?!" And it bloody worked! I was actually imagining the whole story playing out in my head as a film. It was so cool! And I think it was very well written to. Too bad they burn the booklets.

Diarmsquid

Hugh Hefner wrote:

Too bad they burn the booklets.

THEY BURN THE BOOKLETS?

But i wanna argue that i got more marks than i did! :mad:

Hugh Hefner

Well they don't burn them for like a year.

PurpleFistMixer

Yeah, I shed a silent tear for my story after I sealed the envelope. Of course it might just have been me crying from the taste of that gum. But I quite liked my story. Had some nice phrases I may have accidentally stolen from William Gibson but will just have to hope the examiner has not read any of his stuff...

Big Ears

Strokesa wrote:

At the end of the unseen poetry did the dude learn a lesson? Like he couldnt believe that the motorcyclist nearly died yet just got right back on? Or am I missing something???

I also interpreted the poem like this although looking back at it I think I may be wrong , but remeber its how you argue your view not what it is .

I did the 'my mouth was dry and my hearth was beating so fast I thought it would ?????? out of my chest'

I did mine about boxing , in the past violent stories havn't always worked well for me but they did include guns and this one doesn't , when I looked back at my story I think it was actually very well written and im farely happy with it .

Too bad I couln't have the same title as in the mocks 'I have a Dream' , thats just pratically giving you full marks .

Big Ears

alanoc9 wrote:

i wrote 24 pages for the 2 papers.

I don't mean to scare you but you will probably seriously piss off the examiner unless thats 24 pages of brilliance .

PurpleFistMixer

Oops. I almost filled both my answer booklets. With much ranting. Well, paper one wasn't too bad because a load of it was my story.