Question about Syllabus for Irish Exam. Please read!

michelle21

Hi guys,

I'm unsure about what I have to study for it. I'm not sure whether

- I have to learn the four texts and only one will be on the paper
OR
- I have to only learn one text and all four texts will be on the paper and
I can choose


Also, how long is a "short excerpt" - a page?


I'm only starting the studying now, crikey! So, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks a million, Michelle.

Robbo

There's extracts from all 4 texts on the paper. Half a page of an extract or thereabouts.

tombren

i posted this awhile ago about the irish exam should be some help:




irish exam is seriously handy, i sat it last june,
my irish level would be poor enough, did honours irish for the leaving but that was 12 years ago, so really forgot everything
didnt do the gcd course but got the manual from a friend and everything u need is in it,
as far as i can remember, the paper usually goes like this

1) write a sort essay from one of four choices, these are usually something like, a letter to mary harney, or myself in 5 years or a trip i took etc but if u dont fancy doing this instead they give u the choice of writing a book review of an irish book that u read. the griffith manual has a book review done out in it, just learn it off, write it out in the exam and you're laughing

2) there are 4 books on the syllabus, the exam paper sets out 2 passages from each book, one in irish and one in english, u must choose one of the four and translate the irish passage to english and the english passage to irish,
the griffith manual sets out all the available passages from just one of the books (only certain pages are asked) each passage is about five lines, again just learn by heart what's in the manual and transcribe it in the exam

and that's the written part, really easy, exam is three hours long, i and most of my friends were out after 45 minutes, the 'rumour' is that they only actually look at your written paper if your oral is really bad,

oral is again very do-able, u can learn off some key phrases, lasts about 3 minutes, there girl who examined me was very sound, about my age, asked where i lived, with who, did i work, what i did in my spare time, we chatted about gigs for a few minutes and that was it,

if you've any level of irish at all and u can learn stuff off pretty easy (which i presume u can otherwise u wouldnt be doing fe1s) you'll be grand. only ever heard of 1 person failing it, she's english and the last set was her third attempt but she got it

michelle21

Thanks a mill guys.