English Paper One

Raphael

How did everyone get on? I thought mine went well, stayed in till 20 minutes from the end.

Part A: Text 2, Ghost Writing
Part B: Text 1, the Diary
Composing: "It was mad...ridiculous" - 4 guys cheating in their Leaving Certs

Edit: I did Higher Level

NADA

yeah very decent paper. Timed it prefectly
Did question A text one
question b text 3
and the essay on the importance of romance in our lives.

Thank God its over though.

Kwekubo

Raphael wrote:

How did everyone get on? I thought mine went well, stayed in till 20 minutes from the end.

Part A: Text 2, Ghost Writing
Part B: Text 1, the Diary
Composing: "It was mad...ridiculous" - 4 guys cheating in their Leaving Certs

Mate, you'll get very few people on here till after Paper Two! I'm not doing English since I'm repeating so that's my excuse. Get on your sample answers pronto!

EyeDeeOne

yo

did ordinary level

part a text 1
part b text 2
part c number 6

yeh!

Raphael

NADA wrote:

yeah very decent paper. Timed it prefectly
Did question A text one
question b text 3
and the essay on the importance of romance in our lives.

Thank God its over though.

Great paper, the texts were actually interesting

Orizio

Yeah I'm thinking maybe a B paper.My essay was very strong(question 5),the rest less impressive but it was undoubtedly better then paper 2.

Lord Oz

Good paper, nice essays. Did anyone get the farscape reference?

Raphael

THAT'S WHO SHE WAS DRESSED AS! Thank you, I;ve been trying to figure out why I recognised that costume for hours.

michelle_ie

Yay it went good me thinks!

Section A - question 1
Section B- the letter! hahaha i wrote to Dan Brown!
Essay- it was mad ridicolous- a short story about a drug addict...

Attractive Nun

Nice enough paper, texts were quite enjoyable and there were a few nice essays in there.

I did Part A on text 1, decent answers, but a little disappointed because I usually nail the comprehension bit.

Part B's weren't fantastic for me, I did the letter from text 2. I hilariously wrote a letter to Gary Lineker. A surprisingly good letter, too, despite that, if a tad short.

I nailed the essay, did the speech to world leaders, same as my mocks, and improved it significantly.

Happy enough, but could have done better on section 1.

Orizio

Attractive Nun wrote:

I nailed the essay, did the speech to world leaders, same as my mocks, and improved it significantly.

Same here.Did it on casual racism and its impact on social integration,world poverty and Islamic terrorism.

OctavarIan

Text 1 Question B
Text 3 Question A
Essay Q 2

Went well, had to rush the essay in 45 mins cos I went for perfection on the first two parts, but it was still solid.

grimloch

I did pretty shite in this paper to be honest. My A questions were vague and a bit waffly. My report wasn't really a report and my essay was of poor quality.

smemon

Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature British beef.

The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

used those three on paper one that oughta get a few laughs. nailed paper 1, apart from, the report, i fcukd up the layout but i won't lose much, still on for an A on paper 1.

just hope a can scrape an A for paper 2 also.

Raphael

smemon wrote:

Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature British beef.

The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

used those three on paper one that oughta get a few laughs. nailed paper 1, apart from, the report, i fcukd up the layout but i won't lose much, still on for an A on paper 1.

just hope a can scrape an A for paper 2 also.

Except for the fact that that list is very well known and the corrector will almost certainly know you copied them from it.

tweetypie

Text 1 - Question B (diary entry)
Text 2 - Question A (ghost writing)
And i did the first essay!:)

smemon

Raphael wrote:

Except for the fact that that list is very well known and the corrector will almost certainly know you copied them from it.

ah well, at least that show i learned for the exam! i twisted them about a bit anyway to make them more personal.

i'd never heard of them 'til i read them on here so i doubt an old examiner who doesnt use the net will have either at least that's what im telling myself after your latest revelations

Section 1
Part A Text 2
Part B Text 1

Section 2
Personal essay about honesty.
(same as tweetypie!)

i've never sat a better paper to be honest. Will be pushing for an A, at the least a B2

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV

paper 1

text 1 :A
text 2 :B
section 2 :Q4 (get rich scheme article)

did great in text 1 and 2 then screwed my article i think!

CrimE

Didn't like the essays at all and forgot to lay out report properly, oops!

Faerie

Raphael wrote:

How did everyone get on? I thought mine went well, stayed in till 20 minutes from the end.

Part A: Text 2, Ghost Writing
Part B: Text 1, the Diary
Composing: "It was mad...ridiculous" - 4 guys cheating in their Leaving Certs

Edit: I did Higher Level

Weird I did exactly the same...except of course for the actual story in the essay. Mine was about a murder and an incestuous relationship....not sure where I get my inspiration from!

Rockerette

i didnt like the essays. not at all. big pile of bollocks for me personally...

i looked at them first, and they put me in a bad mood for the rest of the exam...

usually one sticks out for me, but i could barely get 4 pages on it, somethign about the stresses young people are under.



comprehensions were grand, did the Ghost Writer questions, and the Diary entry.



im not too happy with it all, both papers. i need a B3 for the course i want, got B1 in the mocks, was hoping for an A to boost up my points, but i dont think so. not after that essay, which set the tone for all of it.. i'll be lucky to get a B3 i'd say. gah im a bit annoyed.
aah well.


you guys dont really care about my tale of woe though

Gangsta

Very nice paper.

Text 1: Question A
Text 2: Question B - I love Thierry Henry
Essay Q7. - Growing up make believe was the toy I never got tired of playing with AAAAAAA!!!

OctavarIan

Rockerette wrote:

but i could barely get 4 pages on it, somethign about the stresses young people are under.

I did that one, and barely got 3 pages, if even that! But that was because I only had 45 mins to do it, and I don't like to rush myself.

CrimE

Rockerette wrote:

i didnt like the essays. not at all. big pile of bollocks for me personally...

i looked at them first, and they put me in a bad mood for the rest of the exam...

usually one sticks out for me, but i could barely get 4 pages on it, somethign about the stresses young people are under.

I know exactly how you feel! I've never written such random crap in my life

Gangsta

OctavarIan wrote:

I did that one, and barely got 3 pages, if even that! But that was because I only had 45 mins to do it, and I don't like to rush myself.

Tis about the quality

godfather69er

Saw pretnce at thought what the **** is that twas ok paper to be honest, i wonder if any muppets did 50c for a get rich scheme, my essay was about the street gangs in nyc in the 1980 if ya have seen the warriors you'l know xcept i was smart and made my own story and gangs,

GrumPy

I did text one, question B
text 3, question A
and the essay on get-rich ideas.

smemon

Rockerette wrote:

usually one sticks out for me, but i could barely get 4 pages on it, somethign about the stresses young people are under.


you guys dont really care about my tale of woe though

yeah initially i though the essays where a load of tripe, then just picked the one your on about and wrote 5 pages

i covered money, work, alcohol, decision making, peer pressure.... all in a humourus way though, the examiner will be in bits reading it if they have a sense of humour, if they don't i could well get a C or something cause it might sound pretty stupid

anyway, i battled on through it and kept a steady head. A1 hopefully. (i wish) B2 at worst though imo.

Lord Oz

I wrote the get-rich essay, just hope the examiner doesn't steal my idea.

NADA

Yeah I hoping for an a1 but a b3 minimum. It could go anyway. If I get a C I will be pissed off to be honest. That was the best English paper in a long time.