What did you think of the exams?

sammypsammy · 03-06-2009 07:45PM

I suppose, some of those 10 markers would have been pretty hard to draw out

jumpguy · 03-06-2009 07:47PM

Did anyone get the error in Paper 1 read out? It was such a waste of time, a missing comma!

A quick questions, in Paper 2, the unseen fiction. For question one it asks
"From your reading of this passage what impression of OD's life do you get?"

and

"What do we learn about the relationship between Nance and OD? Support your answer with reference to the extract."

(I kept my papers). In question one (the former) do you have to give quotes? Because it doesn't say anything about reference to the passage. Whereas it does in question 2 (the latter). I didn't give quotes for question 1 but I did for 2.

Hiccuper · 03-06-2009 07:50PM

Paper one was good, for personal writing, I twisted the picture given to a near future, where the ozone layer has been destroyed, most of the earth's population has been killed by the ultraviolet radiation. The story was called "One Hour in Hell". The guy walking across the muddy field is the main character, he's wearing a sheet over his head to protect from the UV rays, he climbs into one of the long abandoned tents and checks his watch, 11:15, he plans to stay there for a few hours to avoid the midday sun. He hears bandits searching the tents, one of them spots him and chases him with a golf club and a butcher knife, he runs and escapes by pretending to drown in a river. When the men leave he checks his watch, 12:15, he realises he's survived another hour in hell. I didn't really explain the setting enough though IMO.

Paper 2 was annoying as hell, the drama was alright, I nearly jumped for joy when war came up as a theme (Does it Matter - Siegfried Sassoon) but I was running out of time for fiction, which didn't make sense so I scribbled a few answers, puked onto the page and rambled about Goodnight Mr Tom for 10 minutes.

Hoping for that B

Namlub · 03-06-2009 07:56PM

jumpguy wrote: »

Did anyone get the error in Paper 1 read out? It was such a waste of time, a missing comma!

A quick questions, in Paper 2, the unseen fiction. For question one it asks
"From your reading of this passage what impression of OD's life do you get?"

and

"What do we learn about the relationship between Nance and OD? Support your answer with reference to the extract."

(I kept my papers). In question one (the former) do you have to give quotes? Because it doesn't say anything about reference to the passage. Whereas it does in question 2 (the latter). I didn't give quotes for question 1 but I did for 2.

Haha yep, I was just getting into it then all you hear-'Everyone listen, there's a missing comma'
I was wondering that too, I think I put a few quotes in to be on the safe side but it was hard to find any because it was a terrible extract, to be fair...

Dub973 · 03-06-2009 08:16PM

Paper 1 was pi*s easy,nothing hard in it at all. Paper 2 was more difficult alright but I didn't have any trouble with it. In all other English exams I messed up,but today was the first time I think I did savage. Mobile phone debate was sooo easy in the personal writing

soccymonster · 03-06-2009 08:27PM

sammypsammy wrote: »

OMG, Dulce Et Decorum Est has been belted into our heads too...
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your not in my class are you...:rolleyes:

u live in clare???:p
ya never know..

jumpguy · 03-06-2009 08:34PM

Awwww fuuuuuuuuck. I'm after realising a mistake I made in poetry. "Choose two of your favourite images relating to the sound of the poem." I just banged out any old images. D'you reckon it'd be worth a 5 or something?

soccymonster · 03-06-2009 08:42PM

jumpguy wrote: »

Awwww fuuuuuuuuck. I'm after realising a mistake I made in poetry. "Choose two of your favourite images relating to the sound of the poem." I just banged out any old images. D'you reckon it'd be worth a 5 or something?

Dunno, you didn't answer the question so how can they give you the marks? maybe a few attempt marks..
I dunno if I even picked the right images that relate to sound?????
i kind of bulls**ted my way through that..

GirlsAloud · 03-06-2009 08:49PM

jumpguy wrote: »

Did anyone get the error in Paper 1 read out? It was such a waste of time, a missing comma!

LMFAOOO yeah!!! She was like.. there should be a comma there.. everyone just laughed. hahaha.
xxxxx

sammypsammy · 03-06-2009 08:59PM

soccymonster wrote: »

u live in clare???:p
ya never know..

Awww.... oh well! My english teacher is from clare though

soccymonster · 03-06-2009 09:13PM

sammypsammy wrote: »

Awww.... oh well! My english teacher is from clare though

:pac:
what area? or are you enough of a stalker to know that??:p

sammypsammy · 03-06-2009 09:26PM

soccymonster wrote: »

:pac:
what area? or are you enough of a stalker to know that??:p

Fraid not... He's a ledge though!

animalcrazy · 03-06-2009 09:37PM

I thought the second one was harder because we never learned what water shed was, the shoe one was piss, everyone I asked wrote the same thing so I'm confident it's right

Rexsplode · 03-06-2009 09:41PM

animalcrazy wrote: »

I thought the second one was harder because we never learned what water shed was, the shoe one was piss, everyone I asked wrote the same thing so I'm confident it's right

What did ou say for the shoe question? Not sure I said the right things.

omgz · 03-06-2009 09:48PM

I thought the choices for the essay were crap!!

When I saw a war poem.. uh i was so mad.
I put so much effort in learning all the poems.. and barely learned 'Base Details'
But luckily i managed to remember some quotes and blabbered on...

omgz · 03-06-2009 09:50PM

Rexsplode wrote: »

For the studied poetry I did Base Details by Siegfried Sassoon.

Ahh thats how you spell the poets name?
I couldn't remember how to, so I spelled it wrong..
Will I lose many marks?

Rexsplode · 03-06-2009 09:51PM

omgz wrote: »

Ahh thats how you spell the poets name?
I couldn't remember how to, so I spelled it wrong..
Will I lose many marks?

I think you get 1 mark for the poets name so I don't think you missed much. Don't quote me on that though.

fkt · 03-06-2009 10:07PM

soccymonster wrote: »

I hate that poem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never liked it, never will..

:pac:

And who does like poems?:)

fkt · 03-06-2009 10:09PM

Quick question, was the letter in the functional writing meant to be formal or informal? Didn't do it myself but loads were arguing over it. Anyone know for sure?

Ambrosia · 03-06-2009 10:13PM

I should think it would be formal, since you didnt know th man personally. I did it formally anyway.

Overall thought paper was a lovely thing, wrote well over 30 pages but still think ill get a B

partyatmygaff · 03-06-2009 10:21PM

Ambrosia wrote: »

I should think it would be formal, since you didnt know th man personally. I did it formally anyway.

Overall thought paper was a lovely thing, wrote well over 30 pages but still think ill get a B

How did your hands not get tired?

I wrote 24 pages over both, I kept losing focus and started to fiddle around with pens and crap in paper 2 because I was stuck for ideas but at the end of the day my head, eyes and hands were in so much pain.

Ambrosia · 03-06-2009 10:22PM

My hands are ok actually but Im exhausted after it, did hardl any study for tomoz.

omgz · 03-06-2009 10:25PM

OMG 30 PAGES !?!Thats crazy.. how would you have the time?In total of the two papers.. I only done about 17 pages...And I felt thats a lot?

Ambrosia · 03-06-2009 10:27PM

I dont really remember, it just seemed to whizz by, I am an incredibly fast writer so that helped some.

omgz · 03-06-2009 10:33PM

Ambrosia wrote: »

I dont really remember, it just seemed to whizz by, I am an incredibly fast writer so that helped some.

Wow..well done! Lol.You must be very smart..I found it hard to think of the answers.. and then it was hard to drag it out!

animalcrazy · 03-06-2009 11:32PM

Rexsplode wrote: »

What did ou say for the shoe question? Not sure I said the right things.

Well for the target audience thing everyone said it was aimed at young people because the style of shoe is mostly worn by young people etc.

For how to get young people interested in talk-raidio or whatever it was called, I talked about having competitions, talking about topics teenagers are interested in e.g. sports, music, fashion. Having a ring-in and text-in service etc.

Rexsplode · 04-06-2009 12:13AM

animalcrazy wrote: »

Well for the target audience thing everyone said it was aimed at young people because the style of shoe is mostly worn by young people etc.

For how to get young people interested in talk-raidio or whatever it was called, I talked about having competitions, talking about topics teenagers are interested in e.g. sports, music, fashion. Having a ring-in and text-in service etc.

That's exactly what I wrote.

Now time for sleep.

partyatmygaff · 04-06-2009 12:33PM

Maths paper 1, I did all the questions

botched about 1/6 of them.

Im really f*cked if paper 2 is difficult

iam_serpentine · 04-06-2009 12:40PM

Everyone said Maths 1 was hard, I didn't find it TOO bad.

Did anyone figure out the question on the swimming pool? :S I couldn't do it, and my mother can't figure it out either, lol.

partyatmygaff · 04-06-2009 12:52PM

iam_serpentine wrote: »

Everyone said Maths 1 was hard, I didn't find it TOO bad.

Did anyone figure out the question on the swimming pool? :S I couldn't do it, and my mother can't figure it out either, lol.

I did figure it out RIGHT AFTER I LEFT THE ROOM :mad:

Annoying, you know how its 3 hours for both to fill the pool?
The big pipe fills a quarter of the pool per hour, so therefore the fourth remaining quarter is tooken care of by the small pipe meaning it takes 12 hours as x.

ffs, was so pissed off after that exam.

What did you think of the exams?

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