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English- How did your first day go?

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  • #32
    KatCookie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,635 ✭✭✭KatCookie


    Neon-Circles wrote: »

    glad I had my JC last year!!

    same here!!

    in relation to the essay or formal letter thing.. dont think it mkes TOO much of a difference.. but then again, you never know cos u dont get back the papers!!


  • #33
    winner92
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭winner92


    Im fairly happy with english which is a major suprise!!!! I didnt like the darwin passage however!!!!! I thought that the unseen shakespere was fairly good!!! Best of luck 2mw!!!:D:p;)


  • #34
    aine92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 468 ✭✭aine92


    Yeh it was okaly i thought, Paper One was fine but the studied poetry questions were really crap, left us with very little choice and i had studied them :mad:


    How easy was the modern drama?! So shocked!!!


  • #35
    Animalxerman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Animalxerman


    Meh. Question. In the English essay 'Its only 3 days away, im so excited' or something like that, I said i cant wait to go on a Voyage with charles darwin, and Took reference from the reading comprehension once or twice.. do i lose? :<


  • #36
    Smartly Dressed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Smartly Dressed


    Animalxerman wrote: »
    Meh. Question. In the English essay 'Its only 3 days away, im so excited' or something like that, I said i cant wait to go on a Voyage with charles darwin, and Took reference from the reading comprehension once or twice.. do i lose? :<

    I also chose that option and wrote it as a first person narrative (does that make sense). Basically, it was just about me and what I did in the 3 days leading up to the exam. The idea was good but I don't think I wrote it very well.
    Reckle wrote: »
    LaVaughn!!!!!!!! hahaha hated that and the poem :(
    it was so crap a bit no sensical tbh but id around 15 mins to answer the whole fiction section cause ms thick here fecked up on her time :(

    LaVaughn was extremely boring. I even got to the point where I thought to myself whether or not it was worth finishing! Luckily, I did finish it.:D

    The poem was incredibly easy. Definitely the easiest poem I have come across in my Junior Cert course and although I understood it, I'm not sure my answers were written very well, though.


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  • #37
    Animalxerman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Animalxerman


    Animalxerman wrote: »
    Meh. Question. In the English essay 'Its only 3 days away, im so excited' or something like that, I said i cant wait to go on a Voyage with charles darwin, and Took reference from the reading comprehension once or twice.. do i lose? :<

    Sorry, i meant to say 'do i lose marks?'


  • #38
    cork*girl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 702 ✭✭✭cork*girl


    KatCookie wrote: »
    same here!!

    in relation to the essay or formal letter thing.. dont think it mkes TOO much of a difference.. but then again, you never know cos u dont get back the papers!!



    i also am glad i had the JC last year..even though I thought it was a laugh doing it! poetry looked deadly!!:eek: essays looked good though!:cool:


  • #39
    ithoughtitwasap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭ithoughtitwasap


    I thought it was handy enough, though everyone seems to have found Paper 2 harder then Paper 1.

    For the personal writing, I chose the unfairness one, wrote about a homeless lad in Moscow. Homeless people are easy as hell to write about.

    And I found it hard to get the NASA thing into just 200 words.

    Good luck tomorrow!


  • #40
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,420 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Animalxerman wrote: »
    Sorry, i meant to say 'do i lose marks?'
    No, each question is marked on its own, not in relation to other sections.
    You used a bit of cop-on.


  • #41
    shantow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭shantow


    anyone do the debate speech?

    i thought it was easy:pac:

    does it matter if you got the format of the report slightly wrong?


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  • #42
    ch252
    Closed Accounts Posts: 668 ✭✭✭ch252


    I found paper one easy, it all just went perfectly, paper two didn't suit but I managed!


  • #43
    JodJunior
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭JodJunior


    My essay was brillant , twas about world war 2 - at least 55 marks on essay but PAPER 2 was a balls i fecked up big time - them questions were gay


  • #44
    TessaGotGame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭TessaGotGame


    Well i thought English Paper 1 was a Beaut:pNothin Hard a tall.. the essay titles were really general..:D..The reading comprihension was alriiiiiiiiiight.. it was a hardish?? but it was okay.. managable like.. Functional Writing was grand and The Media Studies was grand too:D....

    Paper 2.. Mehhh was hard enough.. The Poetry was fairly hard.. The questions were difficult.. The Fiction was graaaand..:o..The "Other" drama was fine.. d one bout gopal n anja..

    Sooooo Paper One was grand And Paper Two was Harder:(..


  • #45
    RMD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,662 ✭✭✭RMD


    Smartly Dressed wrote: »
    I've no idea how some people managed to write a 4 page essay as I only had 15 minutes left for the last question and I only wrote two pages for the essay on Paper 1.

    Did you do a plan for your essay? My teacher told me to spend 10 minutes at the start creating a plan. It really helps if you want to write a long / good story.

    Anyone do the NASA question? After finishing it I decided to count how many words I wrote, by complete coincidence I wrote 199 words lol


  • #46
    tracker-man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 706 ✭✭✭tracker-man


    I think I had about 199 words in the NASA thing too!! Although I may have missed a word or two cause I was just speed counting it! I doubt they'll penilise you for having it slightly over the 200.

    Paper 1 for me was B-E-A-Utiful. Paper two was a disaster. The questions on the studied poetry and studied novel and studied play just didn't suit me, even though i had them studied :(


  • #47
    oisin238
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭oisin238


    i so agree with you on paper 1 and paper 2 i just waffeled on about stuff an di did the nasa one to think i got 197 words but like you i was speed counting.


  • #48
    highlydebased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    The examiner is not going to be counting for the exact word count.

    Its a general quota not an exact goal.


  • #49
    stop_the_craze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭stop_the_craze


    As regards the NASA Question, I think the question stated that answers should be 170-200 words. It didn't say anything like "Answers should not exceed 200 words". I think they just said it like that so people dont write tiny 100 word answers but don't waffle on for ages about how they want to see moon rocks :D.


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