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Leaving Cert 2012 Predictions.

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  • #782
    Dapics
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 568 ✭✭✭Dapics


    Namlub wrote: »
    Well it's not as if the marking scheme will say 'Mark Plath harder' but say the corrector gets 50 papers, 40 of them are on Plath and most of them are roughly the same standard, they're bound to tighten their marking up a bit

    Perfect explanation.

    If you are very good at english, then it may be worth taking a bit of time from your other sections and chose a poet which you have studied but feel is a very hard question, if you approach it correctly and constantly make reference to question then you are indeed bound to get a higher mark than someone who writes a pre-learned monotonous essay on Plath which is of a similar standard.

    Its all to do with how the human mind works, they say you can screw the system but what they mean is that you are able to psychologically manipulate the examiner into giving you higher marks.

    Diversity/Differing Point of View would IMO beat pre-learned/similar Point of view.


  • #783
    hugokatie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭hugokatie


    does any thinks its significant that heany and boland appeared on paper one today ???


  • #784
    TheCassman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭TheCassman


    Lads theres a woman on every year so just study the women, I feel its going to be Plath, Kinsella, Heaney and Rich but i would love it Boland came up!


  • #785
    Cian_Collins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭Cian_Collins


    Poets for pass English any hints ?? Hope and pray Plath will come up and oh I know its not till fri but can someone please help me with economic processes in the elective in geography I donno what to study ..... Please HELP:confused:


  • #786
    HeaneyBabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 288 ✭✭HeaneyBabe


    hugokatie wrote: »
    does any thinks its significant that heany and boland appeared on paper one today ???

    I doubt Boland is coming up.. 1 because she was up last year and there has never been a repeat. 2 because they named one of her poems on our course.


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  • #787
    skyscraperblue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 747 ✭✭✭skyscraperblue


    HeaneyBabe wrote: »
    I doubt Boland is coming up.. 1 because she was up last year and there has never been a repeat. 2 because they named one of her poems on our course.

    There have been repeats tons of times. Last year included a repeat - Yeats was up in '10 and '11.


  • #788
    HeaneyBabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 288 ✭✭HeaneyBabe


    skyscraperblue wrote: »
    There have been repeats tons of times. Last year included a repeat - Yeats was up in '10 and '11.

    How did I not notice that??


  • #789
    Nitsuj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 176 ✭✭Nitsuj


    screeeewed wrote: »
    Mentioning boland and heaney in the comprehention...hmm..clue does anyone think..?
    The guy on 2xm just said it doesn't necessarily mean anything.


  • #790
    MattHelders
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭MattHelders


    On the theme of corruption. Would you be able to talk about how Hamlets and Ophelias minds have been corrupted by the goings on in Denmark?


  • #791
    Laura.12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 ✭Laura.12


    What are people learning for Hamlet? So far I have Hamlet character and soililquys - should that get me through? :p


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  • #792
    iDavex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭iDavex


    Laura.12 wrote: »
    What are people learning for Hamlet? So far I have Hamlet character and soililquys - should that get me through? :p

    Just learn quotes and you can do any essay!


  • #793
    Glitt_123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭Glitt_123


    guys please tell me that gvv is coming up??


  • #794
    HowAreWe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 659 ✭✭✭HowAreWe


    Glitt_123 wrote: »
    guys please tell me that gvv is coming up??


    gvv is coming up.


  • #795
    CaoimheCweeva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭CaoimheCweeva


    I'm sure as long as you know sufficient quotes for Hamlet, and know them correctly, you can pretty much flesh out any character question .. the themes, I'm not particularly fond of, wouldn't mind something similar to the women question that came up in the mocks ...

    If Rich comes up tomorrow I think I'll die of happiness, wouldn't mind Heaney either, and know Kavanagh a bit but wouldn't like to answer a question on him .. and if none of those 3 come up, then I am SCREWED

    Used to think GV&V was my favourite question, but now I'm not so sure .. I don't like the comparative


  • #796
    reznov
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 921 ✭✭✭reznov


    screeeewed wrote: »
    Mentioning boland and heaney in the comprehention...hmm..clue does anyone think..?

    Yup. He appeared on the English paper already and won't show up in paper two. :D

    (joking)


  • #797
    leavings
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭leavings


    are you sure he wont be up because of that?? i thought paper 1 didnt affect paper 2? im screwed if he or plath doesnt come up!!


  • #798
    Raeone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭Raeone


    I got a feeling that because Boland and Heaney were on paper 1, it would be too predictable to put both on tomorrow or put neither, so they will put one of them on and won't put the other. Since odds are its heaney, I say heaney will be on it and Boland wont be.


  • #799
    hugokatie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭hugokatie


    leavings wrote: »
    are you sure he wont be up because of that?? i thought paper 1 didnt affect paper 2? im screwed if he or plath doesnt come up!!

    i agree!!! i was told by my teacher to ignore the fact that they were in the comprehension but ya never no, is it a hint? if it is a hint , is it a hint in which direction .. does it mean there gna b cumin up and u better go study them or is it more lik there not goin to be up ?? ahhh there messin with our head! ;( :L haha


  • #800
    jr blank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 ✭jr blank


    anyone have anything on lasers for engineering


  • #801
    leavings
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭leavings


    i hope it doesnt mean anything. im freaking out here now!! why would they mess with our heads like that :(


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  • #802
    Raeone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭Raeone


    Hoping it will go my way tomorrow!


  • #803
    SureYWouldntYa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,877 ✭✭✭SureYWouldntYa


    Cian_Collins wrote: »
    Poets for pass English any hints ?? Hope and pray Plath will come up and oh I know its not till fri but can someone please help me with economic processes in the elective in geography I donno what to study ..... Please HELP:confused:

    Paper 2 is tomorrow ??


  • #804
    aislingmajella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭aislingmajella


    brickin it 4 2mora :( would i be covered with plath rich kavanagh and heaney?


  • #805
    Vetton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭Vetton


    An Irish poet is always up on the paper, for either gender, and always a woman as someone already noted.
    HowAreWe wrote: »
    gvv is coming up.

    Personally, I wouldn't bank on it. It's the one I'm not looking at whatsoever. As long as you study two of them (gvv & t/i (those two have never appeared up together before though) or gvv and lit.gen) you'll be okay.


  • #806
    Cian_Collins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭Cian_Collins


    SureYWouldntYa wrote: »
    Paper 2 is tomorrow ??
    Really I never new (Joke) Im not that bad now , Im on about geography on fri the economic processes any clue?


  • #807
    Cian_Collins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭Cian_Collins


    What title will come up on pass english does anybody think for the comparitive :o


  • #808
    Vetton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭Vetton


    Cian_Collins wrote: »
    Really I never new (Joke) Im not that bad now , Im on about geography on fri the economic processes any clue?

    Central Place Theory and the effects and measurements of earthquakes look like winners for Geography.


  • #809
    iluvgreenday246
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 ✭iluvgreenday246


    Guys to be honest the exam people probs wont even notice the mention of Boland and Heaney.... Yer thinkin waaaaaaaay "too precisely on the event"..... ;)


  • #810
    iluvgreenday246
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 ✭iluvgreenday246


    Vetton wrote: »
    Central Place Theory and the effects and measurements of earthquakes look like winners for Geography.

    thats the human elective dude


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  • #811
    QueenOfLeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,109 ✭✭✭QueenOfLeon


    Vetton wrote: »
    An Irish poet is always up on the paper, for either gender, and always a woman as someone already noted.

    That's not a rule set in stone, they could decide not to conform to that any time. Don't depend on just learning those!


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