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Leaving Cert 2012 Predictions.

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  • #812
    haro124
    Closed Accounts Posts: 684 ✭✭✭haro124


    This time tmrw we will know whether they really have made the lc unpredictable ! Seeing that half my class have ONLY prepared Plath this could be disastrous:eek:


  • #813
    Vetton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭Vetton


    iluvgreenday246 wrote: »
    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"..... ;)

    I didn't notice until I read this thread. :lol: I choose my questions before I read the extracts to save time on the one I don't use.


  • #814
    Vetton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭Vetton


    QueenOfLeon wrote: »
    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!

    I know, but what poets I've studied should work for me. Plath, Rich, Boland and Kavanagh I'm looking for.


  • #815
    Vetton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭Vetton


    iluvgreenday246 wrote: »
    thats the human elective dude

    Sorry, I meant that Central Place Theory was also likely to appear on the 'paper', too. (:
    Another thing to watch out for in the Geography paper is keeping your answers to the point; I've been an abuser of flowering.


  • #816
    skyscraperblue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 747 ✭✭✭skyscraperblue


    Vetton wrote: »
    I didn't notice until I read this thread. :lol: I choose my questions before I read the extracts to save time on the one I don't use.

    Same here! I did the comprehension on 1 and the part B on 3, didn't even look at Mary Robinson's thing.


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  • #817
    Pete123456
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Pete123456


    So are people banking on deception and the women as characters? Deception hasnt come up before, i dont think, and women appeared in 2002... Claudius will hardly come up again will he? and Polonius and Laertes, even together is stretching it for a question... I really dunno...


  • #818
    Laura.12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 ✭Laura.12


    I have nothing done on deception or role of women :/ im banking on hamlet character...


  • #819
    Pete123456
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Pete123456


    Laura.12 wrote: »
    I have nothing done on deception or role of women :/ im banking on hamlet character...

    On its own? or have you other stuff done?


  • #820
    Vetton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭Vetton


    skyscraperblue wrote: »
    Same here! I did the comprehension on 1 and the part B on 3, didn't even look at Mary Robinson's thing.

    I answered them the other way about, but glad to hear I'm not the only one who uses that method! ^_^ I didn't enjoy the paper though, for a change. The comprehensions were pretty heavy.


  • #821
    skyscraperblue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 747 ✭✭✭skyscraperblue


    Vetton wrote: »
    I answered them the other way about, but glad to hear I'm not the only one who uses that method! ^_^ I didn't enjoy the paper though, for a change. The comprehensions were pretty heavy.

    Yeah, they were quite nasty comprehensions actually, really didn't like them. And I'm starting to get that nasty what-if feeling that I should have done them the way around you did (the letter and the Text 3 questions), which is a sign that my brain needs to shut up.


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  • #822
    Vetton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭Vetton


    Pete123456 wrote: »
    So are people banking on deception and the women as characters? Deception hasnt come up before, i dont think, and women appeared in 2002... Claudius will hardly come up again will he? and Polonius and Laertes, even together is stretching it for a question... I really dunno...

    Have a look at the comic aspects, and imagery and symbolisim too; they're quite easy to write about and worth knowing.


  • #823
    cocopopsxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 261 ✭✭cocopopsxx


    I only have Plath,rich , larkin and boland done. I honestly do not get any other poets on the course. What should I do? :/


  • #824
    Pete123456
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Pete123456


    Vetton wrote: »
    I answered them the other way about, but glad to hear I'm not the only one who uses that method! ^_^ I didn't enjoy the paper though, for a change. The comprehensions were pretty heavy.

    I agree... i felt there wasnt much choice in the essays...


  • #825
    Vetton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭Vetton


    skyscraperblue wrote: »
    Yeah, they were quite nasty comprehensions actually, really didn't like them. And I'm starting to get that nasty what-if feeling that I should have done them the way around you did (the letter and the Text 3 questions), which is a sign that my brain needs to shut up.

    Nah, always stick with your gut instinct. It's just hearing what other people did that can set you off with those questions. (:


  • #826
    skyscraperblue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 747 ✭✭✭skyscraperblue


    cocopopsxx wrote: »
    I only have Plath,rich , larkin and boland done. I honestly do not get any other poets on the course. What should I do? :/

    You don't have time to learn anybody new now. I'd say, as an absolute last resort, just do Frost's 'The Road Not Taken' - you've probably done it for Junior Cert - and if none of the ones you did come up, just write about that one poem. You will get something for it, as opposed to a zero if you don't write anything! Frost's probably easiest to understand of the others, you could look at one or two other poems too if you wanted, but don't stress yourself out over it. And you're 99% likely to be grand since you did all the women. :D


  • #827
    Pete123456
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Pete123456


    cocopopsxx wrote: »
    I only have Plath,rich , larkin and boland done. I honestly do not get any other poets on the course. What should I do? :/

    If we were to base whats coming up on the odds and predictions on this http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056593524# then you should be fine... but thats never a good idea.... then again, its the night before and if youre stuck, just go over what youve done...


  • #828
    Laura.12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 ✭Laura.12


    Pete123456 wrote: »
    On its own? or have you other stuff done?

    I also have theme of revenge and soliliquys, hopefully ill be able to adapt them to different questions :P


  • #829
    Dapics
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 568 ✭✭✭Dapics


    cocopopsxx wrote: »
    I only have Plath,rich , larkin and boland done. I honestly do not get any other poets on the course. What should I do? :/

    Your sound, I only have Plath and Kavanagh fully learnt.
    I'm using Heaney as a back-up and only have a mind-map that I have memorized to rely on should he come up.
    I'm only doing these three poets, you doing four should be safe. I would hardly imagine they would put up boland again, she has appeared around 3 times since the start of this course i think, perhaps a themed question on her may come up? I dunno and either way I dont really care.... Im banking on what I percieve to be the most rational and economical choices for my poets.... I have better things to be doing such as Maths.


  • #830
    Pete123456
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Pete123456


    Laura.12 wrote: »
    I also have theme of revenge and soliliquys, hopefully ill be able to adapt them to different questions :P

    The soliloquys you can use almost everywhere alright... revenge came up last year though... but with the SEC the way they are, whose to say it wont come up again? either way, in less the 24 hours it will all be forgotten about...


  • #831
    skyscraperblue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 747 ✭✭✭skyscraperblue


    Am I the only person who didn't learn soliloquys as a topic?!


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  • #832
    Pete123456
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Pete123456


    skyscraperblue wrote: »
    You don't have time to learn anybody new now. I'd say, as an absolute last resort, just do Frost's 'The Road Not Taken' - you've probably done it for Junior Cert - and if none of the ones you did come up, just write about that one poem. You will get something for it, as opposed to a zero if you don't write anything! Frost's probably easiest to understand of the others, you could look at one or two other poems too if you wanted, but don't stress yourself out over it. And you're 99% likely to be grand since you did all the women. :D

    Thats a good point actually, they have to put a women on or theyd be shut down with phonecalls haha


  • #833
    Laura.12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 ✭Laura.12


    Pete123456 wrote: »
    The soliloquys you can use almost everywhere alright... revenge came up last year though... but with the SEC the way they are, whose to say it wont come up again? either way, in less the 24 hours it will all be forgotten about...

    To be honest im not too worried about english..its my worst sublect so i prob wont be counting it in my points, unless one of the other papers goes very badly :p what poets have you done?


  • #834
    Pete123456
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Pete123456


    skyscraperblue wrote: »
    Am I the only person who didn't learn soliloquys as a topic?!

    Nah, i dont have them done, but have a very basic knowledge of them... theyre handy cause they can be shtuck in if youre stuck...


  • #835
    skyscraperblue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 747 ✭✭✭skyscraperblue


    Pete123456 wrote: »
    Nah, i dont have them done, but have a very basic knowledge of them... theyre handy cause they can be shtuck in if youre stuck...

    That's okay then :) I know the actual soliloquys, as in I can quote them and talk about them in a sort of general way, but I haven't studied them to the level of answering an "importance of soliloquys" question.


  • #836
    Pete123456
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Pete123456


    Laura.12 wrote: »
    To be honest im not too worried about english..its my worst sublect so i prob wont be counting it in my points, unless one of the other papers goes very badly :p what poets have you done?

    Plath, Heaney, Frost, Boland and Kavanagh... so i kinda want plath or heaney to be up, seen as hes not been up since '03 but im not looking forward to the question, cause it could well be tricky...


  • #837
    Pete123456
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Pete123456


    So do quotes for Hamlet have to be really long? or can you get by on the short ones?


  • #838
    Vetton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭Vetton


    Pete123456 wrote: »
    Plath, Heaney, Frost, Boland and Kavanagh... so i kinda want plath or heaney to be up, seen as hes not been up since '03 but im not looking forward to the question, cause it could well be tricky...

    The questions are more or less the same, except they can go down a specific route of their poetry, but if you know the poems and the poet's thought process, then you should be grand.


  • #839
    Pete123456
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Pete123456


    Vetton wrote: »
    The questions are more or less the same, except they can go down a specific route of their poetry, but if you know the poems and the poet's thought process, then you should be grand.

    ok so, a little off topic but this annoys me... do the poets sit down to write this complicated knot of techniques and metaphors? or do they just throw a few lines together?


  • #840
    Vetton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭Vetton


    Pete123456 wrote: »
    So do quotes for Hamlet have to be really long? or can you get by on the short ones?

    As long as they're relative to your points and correct, their size doesn't matter. Just don't use really long quotes to fill up your answer because the examiner might spot it.


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  • #841
    Vetton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭Vetton


    Pete123456 wrote: »
    ok so, a little off topic but this annoys me... do the poets sit down to write this complicated knot of techniques and metaphors? or do they just throw a few lines together?

    Haha, no, it's more like a sentence or some form of a sentence comes to the poet. I don't know how to explain it. My mum's a published poet and all I see is her running for a pen to jot things down at the most random times.


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