Junior Cert Predictions Thread 2012

IceCreamGirl · 04-06-2012 05:13PM

fascal treaty!

tornados2111 · 04-06-2012 05:13PM

IceCreamGirl wrote: »

can anyone please tell me the poems they've learned and the theme of the poem please?

What book are you using? No point in me posting what poems I'm doing if you don't have the book we are using.

spurious · 04-06-2012 05:15PM

Ciaraaaa wrote: »

If you do higher level history in question 6 (political developments in Ireland) one of the accounts is meant to be The Civil rights movement in Northern Ireland. Good luck!

Beware of Northern Irish questions - they and the social history are generally badly answered. Only attempt either if you know your stuff.

Ciaraaaa · 04-06-2012 05:15PM

Pidge96 wrote: »

Irish History won't come up it was all over the 2011 paper
Geography's very topical so any notable weather events that happened this year might come up, don't ask me which ones :P Earthquakes were all over the news in 2011 and what came up?

You're an idiot, it comes up every year TWICE in Q6!

spurious · 04-06-2012 05:17PM

Ciaraaaa wrote: »

You're an idiot, it comes up every year TWICE in Q6!

I appreciate you're new here, but DO NOT call people here names.
Do it again and you won't be posting here again.
If you've nothing helpful to post, don't post at all.

IceCreamGirl · 04-06-2012 05:18PM

tornados2111 wrote: »

What book are you using? No point in me posting what poems I'm doing if you don't have the book we are using.

i dont have any books
im just gonna get notes from google.

Ciaraaaa · 04-06-2012 05:19PM

Lads, clam down about English. Just learn your quotes for your poetry, drama and your novel, that's what most marks are going for in each question.

spurious · 04-06-2012 05:20PM

Ciaraaaa wrote: »

Lads, clam down about English. Just learn your quotes for your poetry, drama and your novel, that's what most marks are going for in each question.

OK, now you are giving false information.
Ciaraaaa banned for one month.

IceCreamGirl · 04-06-2012 05:30PM

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IceCreamGirl wrote: »

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Sentid · 04-06-2012 07:15PM

Is it necessary to use quotes in your studied fiction? I have never been told to but it probably would make sense, except for the fact that the novel is so long quotes might be irrelevant.

bluemusic97 · 04-06-2012 07:58PM

iliketwixbars wrote: »

Prose:

Cairdeas (friendship) last came up in 2009. There is a good chance it will be there this year.

Loyalty, I think this is dílseacht (correct me if I'm wrong) has never come up, it s unlikely to be honest. However, love (similar to loyalty) comes up most years.

Poetry:

Love comes up ALMOST every year. It SHOULD be there this year, I hope it is!

Your back-up "family life" usually only comes up in the prose section (rarely, if ever in the poetry). I would recommend learning something different to this.

Hope this helps.

Sound out

Junokevv · 04-06-2012 08:10PM

Sentid wrote: »

Is it necessary to use quotes in your studied fiction? I have never been told to but it probably would make sense, except for the fact that the novel is so long quotes might be irrelevant.

Yes, you need to have a fair few quotes for each studied section.

I'm planning on using about 6 maximum for each 30 mark piece.

IceCreamGirl · 04-06-2012 09:00PM

do you think there will be a poem about animals?

IceCreamGirl · 04-06-2012 09:10PM

can anyone please just give me the title of the poems and poet please
i dont have my english book with me

just the title and poet and i'll just google it up myself

Two poems by different poets that deal with the same topic

AND

two poems by the same poet that deal with different topics.

jd6920s · 04-06-2012 09:24PM

War poems - Base Details by Siegfried Sassoon and Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen .

Seamus Heaney - Mid Term Break and The Early Purges

Thats what I would use if that question came up

dalta5billion · 05-06-2012 08:40AM

IceCreamGirl wrote: »

can anyone please just give me the title of the poems and poet please
i dont have my english book with me
just the title and poet and i'll just google it up myself

Two poems by different poets that deal with the same topic

AND

two poems by the same poet that deal with different topics.

You could also do:

Death: Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden, Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

Also, if "Loss" comes up, Blackberry Picking by Heaney can work along with those two if you're stuck.

All the poems have lots of themes/ questions that can be answered with. E.g. poem with interesting title, poem with a change in emotions, love (if you're a good debater you can work ANYTHING into love

)

It's all really about arguing why the poem is X , so even the two poems that are similar could be worked into an answer about two poems by the same poet that are different.

I personally pretend that I'm a posh philosopher when writing my answer :P (JK)

Best of luck to everyone tomorrow, get some sleep and drink lots of water.

lynchy101 · 05-06-2012 03:27PM

Does anyone know what is due to come up for the novel question(To Kill A Mockingbird)?

IceCreamGirl · 05-06-2012 04:01PM

QUESTION!

what if we dont have enough time to finish the paper?

tornados2111 · 05-06-2012 04:15PM

IceCreamGirl wrote: »

QUESTION!

what if we dont have enough time to finish the paper?

Nothing you can do then. Thats why you need to plan out the amount of time you spend on each question and even if you don't finish a question move onto the next one. What you don't want to happen is get 3 out of 4 sections done, your losing out on marks big time. You'd be better of doing all questions but not completed because it gives you higher marks for the base of the answer. For paper 1 go for something like 1 hour for personal writing and 30 mins for the rest of the sections and for paper 2 spend 50 mins on each sections. Remember, don't leave the exam early, use all of your time

lynchy101 · 05-06-2012 06:14PM

Does anyone else think the opening/ending question will come up for seen fiction?

Hasn't come up since 2005.

Also It will be the Reformation for Q5

dalta5billion · 05-06-2012 06:22PM

BTW, ignore everyone who leaves paper 2 early. They'll get C's and D's.

paddyzk · 05-06-2012 06:26PM

dalta5billion wrote: »

BTW, ignore everyone who leaves paper 2 early. They'll get C's and D's.

Leaving early in general is pretty stupid.

EatRowSleep · 05-06-2012 06:36PM

English HL:

For some reason im thinking key scence for studied drama (hasnt been since 2009 and before that 2002).. or why you'd recommend the play (which i cant seem to find at all in my papers so that means more than 10 years aago)

Im thinking love for studied poem (since 2004)

And opening for novel...

well thats what im hoping for

IceCreamGirl · 05-06-2012 06:40PM

EatRowSleep wrote: »

English HL:

For some reason im thinking key scence for studied drama (hasnt been since 2009 and before that 2002).. or why you'd recommend the play (which i cant seem to find at all in my papers so that means more than 10 years aago)

Im thinking love for studied poem (since 2004)

And opening for novel...

well thats what im hoping for

do you have any notes for the opening of To Kill a Mockingbird?

EatRowSleep · 05-06-2012 06:43PM

IceCreamGirl wrote: »

do you have any notes for the opening of To Kill a Mockingbird?

Sorry, didnt do that novel

IceCreamGirl · 05-06-2012 06:46PM

EatRowSleep wrote: »

Sorry, didnt do that novel

WHY NOT? HUH? WHY?

(((((((((((((

kidding.

okay then
good luck

IceCreamGirl · 05-06-2012 06:50PM

The story takes place during three years of the Great Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb, Alabama. It focuses on six-year-old Scout Finch, who lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer. Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt each summer. The three children are terrified of, and fascinated by, their neighbor, the reclusive "Boo" Radley. The adults of Maycomb are hesitant to talk about Boo and, for many years, few have seen him. The children feed each other's imagination with rumors about his appearance and reasons for remaining hidden, and they fantasize about how to get him out of his house. Following two summers of friendship with Dill, Scout and Jem find that someone is leaving them small gifts in a tree outside the Radley place. Several times, the mysterious Boo makes gestures of affection to the children, but, to their disappointment, never appears in person.

^
would that be a good opening?

Elmoko · 05-06-2012 06:55PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/
brilliant website

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