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What did you think of the exams?

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  • #152
    Dicksboro_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭Dicksboro_man


    Dancing-Ferret wrote: »
    becuz it asks 4 both, you dont have to show correct or incorrect.
    my teacher is one of people who check marking is correct, and she said you get all marks if you just left the two answers

    so is the answer 0.37 and -1.37 correct?


  • #153
    daisy17
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭daisy17


    RE Geography predictions: I think Coastal erosion/depostion came up as Q2 on the long qs last year (2008) so is unlikely to reappear as a long q this year - but you never know!


  • #154
    McPooHead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 ✭McPooHead


    does anyone know what exactly a 'section' is?
    i wrote about the first chapter in 'of mice and men'
    is that right?


  • #155
    daisy17
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭daisy17


    McPooHead wrote: »
    does anyone know what exactly a 'section' is?
    i wrote about the first chapter in 'of mice and men'
    is that right?
    Yeah I'd say so - I was writing about Pride and Prejudice so I wrote about 3 events over like 4/5 chapters, but they really just make up the 'climax' of the novel, which I suppose is a section.


  • #156
    iheartboosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭iheartboosh


    Okay, so I have checked of all of the themes that have come up in both the pros and filiocht sections.

    In the pros (drama) section gra,bron,fearg,uaignes,ead and eagla all seem to be popular themes. For anyone who studied "Dunmharu ar an Dart" like me, the themes seem to be pretty easy to answer on. :)

    In the filiocht (poetry) section gra,teaglach, dulra/nadur, ainmhi, ead, uaigneas and greann are pretty repetitive throughout the past exams. Poems like Bean Paidin, fear lasta lampai, duilleoga ar an life, mac eile ag imeacht and an gabhar sa scoil should be okay to answer on :)

    lol anyways both questions are only worth 15 marks each so even just by writing the name of the author/ poet and the name of the story/poem you'll pretty much have 2marks already in the bag xD


    good luck everyone! hope you all did well in paper 1 today :cool:


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  • #157
    iheartboosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭iheartboosh


    McPooHead wrote: »
    does anyone know what exactly a 'section' is?
    i wrote about the first chapter in 'of mice and men'
    is that right?

    I answered on to kill a mocking bird for that question and i just talked about the last section of the book with tthe death of tom robinson and bob ewell and the contrast between both good and evil when boo radley kills bob ewell.
    What you've written about sounds grand too, as long as the section plays an important part in the story you'll do fine!


    lol i thought the paper was grand though xD Loved the personal writing in paper 1!


  • #158
    Setheme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭Setheme


    Weird, I though I did pretty good on maths, but it seems otherwise... Ah, whatever :p

    Ok... I think I should start studying that geography..


  • #159
    animalcrazy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 470 ✭✭animalcrazy


    Pass maths and pass Irish here...

    I thought maths was hard but seriously I really can't do maths, I have had crap teachers all my life.

    Irish, sailed throught it hopefully will get my A.


  • #160
    Dub973
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Dub973


    In the sets question I forgot to add the 5 who did not like any. I understand I'll lose a mark or two in the drawing but I was wondering if I went on and conpleted the question using the figures from part 1,will I be penalized in each part 1 can you just be penalized once


  • #161
    soccymonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,553 ✭✭✭soccymonster


    Dub973 wrote: »
    In the sets question I forgot to add the 5 who did not like any. I understand I'll lose a mark or two in the drawing but I was wondering if I went on and conpleted the question using the figures from part 1,will I be penalized in each part 1 can you just be penalized once

    OMFG! ME TOO!!!
    So sickened when i thought of it!:(


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  • #162
    Dub973
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Dub973


    Dub973 wrote: »
    In the sets question I forgot to add the 5 who did not like any. I understand I'll lose a mark or two in the drawing but I was wondering if I went on and conpleted the question using the figures from part 1,will I be penalized in each part 1 can you just be penalized once


    Well can anyone shed some light on this?


  • #163
    loveroflight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭loveroflight


    Haven't seen the paper but usual routine in marking is to lose mark in part (i) and accept that answer from part (i) in part (ii) so full marks in part (ii) possible


  • #164
    jumpguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    Dub973 wrote: »
    In the sets question I forgot to add the 5 who did not like any. I understand I'll lose a mark or two in the drawing but I was wondering if I went on and conpleted the question using the figures from part 1,will I be penalized in each part 1 can you just be penalized once
    I think I might have done the same in the equation now that I think about it... It'll probably be a slip (-1 mark)


  • #165
    daisy17
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭daisy17


    Dub973 wrote: »
    In the sets question I forgot to add the 5 who did not like any. I understand I'll lose a mark or two in the drawing but I was wondering if I went on and conpleted the question using the figures from part 1,will I be penalized in each part 1 can you just be penalized once

    This would probably be counted as a slip (-1mark) or possibly a blunder (-3).

    Looking at 2007 sets q, you may be penalised with a slip on the diagram, and the sum after too, but that's only -2 marks so you will still get most of them!


  • #166
    soccymonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,553 ✭✭✭soccymonster


    http://www.examinations.ie/index.php?l=en&mc=en&sc=ep&formAction=exam

    todays papers uploaded!


  • #167
    jumpguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    soccymonster wrote: »
    http://www.examinations.ie/index.php?l=en&mc=en&sc=ep&formAction=exam

    todays papers uploaded!
    I brought all my papers home :P


  • #168
    soccymonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,553 ✭✭✭soccymonster


    jumpguy wrote: »
    I brought all my papers home :P

    well for people who didnt lolz:p


  • #169
    Namlub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭Namlub


    The pool question in maths killed me, I haven't seen anything like that come up in recent papers and I didn't know if x was time or a percentage or what. AND there was no interest/tax type question. I actually completely got the ratio thing in part c though. The Irish questions were fairly piss, cuid d of the listening and the essay choices weren't the best though.


  • #170
    iheartboosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭iheartboosh


    Namlub wrote: »
    The pool question in maths killed me, I haven't seen anything like that come up in recent papers and I didn't know if x was time or a percentage or what..
    I was the exact same.
    Have never seen a question like that before! I literally just wrote anything I could so i could get attempt marks at least :P
    I hope they'll go easy on us for paper two..but judging from past papers it'll be tough D:

    oh well...


  • #171
    ianjeno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭ianjeno


    that has got to be the easiest maths paper 1 since they started doing this test in 2003. i mean it was simple. Irish was pretty easy as well. Could be looking at 3 As! Fingers crossed.


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  • #172
    Dub973
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Dub973


    ianjeno wrote: »
    that has got to be the easiest maths paper 1 since they started doing this test in 2003. i mean it was simple. Irish was pretty easy as well. Could be looking at 3 As! Fingers crossed.


    I know what you mean,so far every paper has been below the standard of other years. Must say,I've been delighted with every paper so far. And also don't forget,the 3 we have done are said to be the hardest


  • #173
    Dicksboro_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭Dicksboro_man


    We'll see about P II in Irish tomorrow. If its as easy as Paper One then its obvious that the exameners wanted not to put too much pressure and stress on the students because of the recession :pac:


  • #174
    kayleigh_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭kayleigh_


    I hateeeed the Irish, I really should have done ordinary level! :/


  • #175
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Dicksboro_man wrote: »
    We'll see about P II in Irish tomorrow. If its as easy as Paper One then its obvious that the exameners wanted not to put too much pressure and stress on the students because of the recession :pac:
    Or they are pulling us into a false sense of security, to prepare for their ultra difficult CSPE exam....
    lol
    Imagine actually studying for cspe :s


  • #176
    kayleigh_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭kayleigh_


    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    Or they are pulling us into a false sense of security, to prepare for their ultra difficult CSPE exam....
    lol
    Imagine actually studying for cspe :s


    Hahahaha... I can't even imagine it! :P


  • #177
    Dicksboro_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭Dicksboro_man


    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    Or they are pulling us into a false sense of security, to prepare for their ultra difficult CSPE exam....
    lol
    Imagine actually studying for cspe :s
    Haha. Imagine if there was a pass level in cspe xD


  • #178
    jumpguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    Dicksboro_man wrote: »
    Haha. Imagine if there was a pass level in cspe xD
    Haha, I could imagine. "Write down was C.S.P.E. stands for. HINT: It is written on the front of the paper."


  • #179
    kayleigh_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭kayleigh_


    jumpguy wrote: »
    Haha, I could imagine. "Write down was C.S.P.E. stands for. HINT: It is written on the front of the paper."

    If someone had to take the pass paper then they probably wouldn't even be able to get that!


  • #180
    Dicksboro_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭Dicksboro_man


    Yeah. For short Qs there'll be "tick the box" questions... with only one box.


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  • #181
    Zipp101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 391 ✭✭Zipp101


    Dicksboro_man wrote: »
    We'll see about P II in Irish tomorrow. If its as easy as Paper One then its obvious that the exameners wanted not to put too much pressure and stress on the students because of the recession :pac:

    Ha possibly.

    Paper 1 is so short!
    I'm excited for Geography..counting on it for an A :D


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