Classics

Sawa

Hey I know loadsa people like the idea of "predictions", I know I do, its kinda nice to have some idea of what to learn especially at this stage so here's a list of "predictions" from an Institute teacher, apparantly he got most of them right last year. Although I showed them to my teacher and he said, "Well you've got most things covered there anyway."

So here ya go anyway:

Alexander:
-alexanders coastal policy
-egypt
-the battle of the hydaspes river (my teacher agrees with this one)
-the 2 mutinies
-Darius the king
-a general Q on the character of Alexander

Medea:
-The importance of children in the play
-The murder scene
-the 3 jason scenes

Oedipus:
-the teiresias scene
-creons character
-a comparasion of creon and oedipus

Prometheus Bound:
-The portrayal of Zeus
-The Io scene
-prometheus, the tragic hero

Odyssey:
-the maturation of telemachus
-the polyphemos incident
-calypso and circe
-penelope and the suitors
-the role of pallas athene

Aeneid:
-the nissus and euryalas scene (this has never come up)
-turnus
-dido and aeneas
-the role of juno
-juno and poseidon
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Orizio

The only problem with Classics to me is the time-8 essays in 3 hours is tricky.Everything but Plato is quite easy.Considering the difficulty people have with Geography,History etc I really don't get why people don't do this subject more often.Its such a small course compared to some other subjects.

Plus a whole week free before the exam:D .I can see a good B here at least.

Your predictions look on point btw.

grimloch

Orizio wrote:

The only problem with Classics to me is the time-8 essays in 3 hours is tricky.

I disagree. Granted I'll be doing the Roman Art and Architecture questions but I think 8 questions/essays is very managable. Much more so than business for example.

I don't know why more people do it either, it is the highlight of my academic week.

Orizio

I barely got it down during the pres.However,since I am a terrible writer,what I put down was barely legible even for a teacher who has been teaching me for two years.

Its different for everyone of course,but I had serious problems with English and History as well during the pres.

BTW Business to me is one of the easier subjects time wise.

ThrownAway

grimloch wrote:

I don't know why more people do it either, it is the highlight of my academic week.

I don't even think my school has the subject. It seems intresting though.

Business is really easy considering we've 3 hours. Pass Irish paper 1 is a joke too.

Orizio

My old school didn't have it either,nor did it have Ag.Science or Home ec.I had to go to the city to study it,and even then I had to cover the course in one year because they refused to take 5th years into the leaving cert class.

grimloch

Orizio wrote:

BTW Business to me is one of the easier subjects time wise.

ThrownAway wrote:

Business is really easy considering we've 3 hours.

Whilst running the risk of dragging this thread wildly off topic, I'd consider Business to be a bigger press for time than English paper 2 for example.

Now Biology and French are two fine examples where we are given miles too much time. For my mock French; I did a comprehension, sat around for ten minutes and then proceeded to do another comprehension. I then sat around for a further 25 minutes before milling into the reaction questions and I then left early.

The next day, during Business, I nearly had a hole burnt in both the paper and desk I was scribbling so furiously.