How did you find paper one?

Parsley · 04-06-2008 2:17pm

laura* wrote: »

AND OTHELLO:
im thinking:
Othello- his downfall
Iago- how he manipulates people!

What do ye suggest?

I'm thinking they could do a sort of combined question- How othello's downfall wasn't JUST down to iago's manipulation or somesuch. Get you to talk about his tragic flaw.

turgon · 04-06-2008 2:17pm

I wrote five pages in total for question A. Is that too much???

Then B - 2 pages, Essay 6 pages.

alan4cult · 04-06-2008 2:18pm

laura* wrote: »

found the B part trickey,
as i don't think i answered enough on EXACTLY what the question asked!
used some humour too, which probs wasn't the appropiate registar!!

Yes, I have the exact same feeling. I more or less talked about myself as a teenager and then talked about the freedoms, oppurtunities of teenagers. Not sure did I really talk about teenage culture but it was my own opinion throughout.

alan4cult · 04-06-2008 2:18pm

Parsley wrote: »

I'm thinking they could do a sort of combined question- How othello's downfall wasn't JUST down to iago's manipulation or somesuch. Get you to talk about his tragic flaw.

I'd love that question.

Peleus · 04-06-2008 2:19pm

BJC wrote: »

How do you write diary extracts? I did those and am not sure I did it right.

dear diary and date is all i suppose.
i dont think they give you too many marks for the layout. as long as the body of the text and the register is ok.
all i wrote regarding layout for my letter was dear Jon. i didn't put the date and place because i didn't want the examiner knowing where i was from. should have put the date at least

laura* · 04-06-2008 2:20pm

random chatbox wrote: »

Mark my words they will both come up.More positive about mahon

Peleus wrote: »

ok paper 1:

Section A: text 3 on the rooms. seems like not too many people did that one so maybe ill stand out. i was sorta ****ting my way through most of it but i came up with somethin interesting.

Section B: wrote a letter to yer man about teenagers. Praised him for his essay (didn't even read the extract properly), then went on to say that i liked the way he described the teens of our parents generation as many teens nowadays are under the impression that they are unique, that they are the first generation of rebellious teens. Then i said that i asked my mum about her teens and she said she was in love with elvis and fantasized that she'd marry him one day. and i copared this to the countless teen girls who want to be the next Ms. Usher and Ms. JayZ. lol. then i just waffled on about teens being more political nowadays and how the adults these days respect us a lot more. (give the examiner a bit of praise)

Essay: Described a beautiful place. had an essay on my childhood prepared and in that essay, i basically described the fun I had with my friends running through leaves and being chased in a block of apartment blocks beside my house. Written like a narrative and as if it was written by a child. really innocent language. I said that it was amazing that even after traveling to so many beautiful places abroad. The most beautiful scene i ever saw was the green in that that apartment block on a summers day.

i really hope i got an A in that. Before going in i thought i was gonna fail but it went so well that maybe these exams aren't all they're cracked up to be. I'm ****ed for paper two so ill probably get a B2 overall. WOO!

well done

i done the same for B
praised him lots!
didnt really know what they were REALLY looking for!
but i said Usher was sending out the message girls WILL 'MAKE LOVE IN THIS CLUB'
:pac:

your essay sounds fun!
good luck tomrrow !!

JamieK · 04-06-2008 2:21pm

carpothepunk wrote: »

****ing class paper.

Did my essay on the Beautiful View. Wrote it about DBH. Went class.

Did my A Question on the violin,grand.

Did my B Question on We Are What We Wear. Ripped into stereotypes. Loving it.

OMG perfect....went into stereotypes too....saying that we all get judged on what we where....saying i could be classed as a scumbag or a hurler seen as i wear tracksuits and like...emos, preppy ppls and stuff like that....nice enough summary at the end though basicly saying not to judge on first impression...sweet!!!

:D

BJC · 04-06-2008 2:21pm

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

BJC: As far as I'm aware there is no set format for a diary extract, so long as you do it believably in their voice. Just informal, personal thoughts, descriptions of what happened maybe.

Ah brilliant, I was afraid that I missed something important structure wise, I did write the date of course. Cheers!

laura* · 04-06-2008 2:22pm

The-Rafalution wrote: »

yano for the letter
is the format dear jon yours sincerely or dear sir yours faithfully.......or does it matter?

i said faithfully !!

Timans · 04-06-2008 2:23pm

Yeah, I didn't really talk about teenage culture myself. I just wrote about how it was refreshing that he wrote about teenagers without mentioning ASBO's and other terms which the media has made synonomous with teens. I ended on quite a good note. My worry is that I messed the structure of the letter up. I did it like this:

____________________ [My Name,
____________________ Address Line 1
____________________ Address Line 2]
____________________
____________________[John Savage,
____________________Address Line 1
____________________Address Line 2]

Dear John Savage,

________I am writing etc etc etc

I originally forgot to put in my address at all, but went back and changed it. However, it's all messy and I had to do the John Savage Address really small and put an arrow leading underneath where I wrote my address.

Hmmm..

gaz d · 04-06-2008 2:24pm

Did the Letter in Text one and the part A in text 3, then used a pre-prepared essay for the 17 year question. needed a bit of tweeking as i wrote it but worked out brilliant imo. it was 4 pages and a quarter

HELLO132 · 04-06-2008 2:24pm

HELLO132 wrote: »

HELP!
I struggled finishing the essay on time, the essay itself was okay but would i of been better off:
a) Leaving it the way it was(without an ending) with a moderatly good essay
or
b) Finishing the essay with an abupt(crap) ending not making too much sense

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE ANSWER ME?

BJC · 04-06-2008 2:25pm

The-Rafalution wrote: »

yano for the letter
is the format dear jon yours sincerely or dear sir yours faithfully.......or does it matter?

Yes, for a letter appropriate vocab is extremley important. And it's a formal letter so dear Jon will get you marked down Im afraid. Dear Mr. Savage (which is a class name) is whats expected of you for that. And the end shoudl be either:
Your sincerley
Regards
Yours etc.

Thats type of thing, feck all marks going for it though so I wouldn't worry about it.

laura* · 04-06-2008 2:25pm

alan4cult wrote: »

Yes, I have the exact same feeling. I more or less talked about myself as a teenager and then talked about the freedoms, oppurtunities of teenagers. Not sure did I really talk about teenage culture but it was my own opinion throughout.

ya cause it said write about your reaction to his article
and your own personal views!

was definately abit iffey!

so MAYBE the correctors will see that,
call a big conference
and MARK it EASY

:D:D

Soby · 04-06-2008 2:25pm

For the diary i just did the date..i didnt think a Dear Diary type thing was needed..did those of you who did it notice it was set in January??.i just put down the 7/1/08 then noticed in the last paragraph on the first page she mentioned it was Jan

laura* · 04-06-2008 2:27pm

alan4cult wrote: »

Yes, I have the exact same feeling. I more or less talked about myself as a teenager and then talked about the freedoms, oppurtunities of teenagers. Not sure did I really talk about teenage culture but it was my own opinion throughout.

HELLO132 wrote: »

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE ANSWER ME?

I'd say finishing it badly
cause you could pretend you're all clever and give a wired ending!...

like, 'but it never really happened, i woke up'
not that, but you know what i mean!

hope it was ok

BJC · 04-06-2008 2:27pm

HELLO132 wrote: »

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE ANSWER ME?

If your ending was "and then we got in the scissors postion till the break of dawn" it would be better than no ending at all.

laura* · 04-06-2008 2:29pm

alan4cult wrote: »

Yes, I have the exact same feeling. I more or less talked about myself as a teenager and then talked about the freedoms, oppurtunities of teenagers. Not sure did I really talk about teenage culture but it was my own opinion throughout.

HELLO132 wrote: »

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE ANSWER ME?

Parsley wrote: »

I'm thinking they could do a sort of combined question- How othello's downfall wasn't JUST down to iago's manipulation or somesuch. Get you to talk about his tragic flaw.

cool thanks

i have an answer wrote out like that from before
so i'll look over it

DO YOU NOT THINK the timing is bad for PAPER 2
cause it's gona take forever to structure your answer,
not only Othello,
everything else! :eek:

JC06 · 04-06-2008 2:30pm

Ahhhh no!! I wrote is was June

Ah well, here's to hoping the examiner won't notice haha!

Soby · 04-06-2008 2:33pm

ah im sure they wont be harsh but did you not notice the snow? lol

Diarmsquid · 04-06-2008 2:33pm

I strongly approve of the inclusion of Vanessa Hudgens in the Leaving Cert. More of that please.

BJC · 04-06-2008 2:34pm

Soby wrote: »

For the diary i just did the date..i didnt think a Dear Diary type thing was needed..did those of you who did it notice it was set in January??.i just put down the 7/1/08 then noticed in the last paragraph on the first page she mentioned it was Jan

sh*t, I wrote November and only because of the mention of snow. B0llox!

Caoimhe89 · 04-06-2008 2:35pm

laura* wrote: »

DO YOU NOT THINK the timing is bad for PAPER 2
cause it's gona take forever to structure your answer,
not only Othello,
everything else! :eek:

I dunno... The timing is just enough really. After history (5/6 a4 pages in about 35 mins) I think that English is really sorta... relaxing... no rush!

BJC · 04-06-2008 2:37pm

Caoimhe89 wrote: »

I dunno... The timing is just enough really. After history (5/6 a4 pages in about 35 mins) I think that English is really sorta... relaxing... no rush!

+1, when you take history and geography into account, english paper two has ample time.

EDIT - You don't need to write 5/6 pages in 35 minutes. Gross misconseption!! Quality over quantity!!

JC06 · 04-06-2008 2:38pm

Soby wrote: »

ah im sure they wont be harsh but did you not notice the snow? lol

I actually did lol...but in my nervousness I forgot...and wrote down the date I'm finished- June 17th

Parsley · 04-06-2008 2:38pm

Diarmsquid wrote: »

I strongly approve of the inclusion of Vanessa Hudgens in the Leaving Cert. More of that please.

Yeeeurt! Put me right at ease, that did.

daithi_student · 04-06-2008 2:43pm

Timans wrote: »

Yeah, I didn't really talk about teenage culture myself. I just wrote about how it was refreshing that he wrote about teenagers without mentioning ASBO's and other terms which the media has made synonomous with teens. I ended on quite a good note. My worry is that I messed the structure of the letter up. I did it like this:
____________________ [My Name,
____________________ Address Line 1
____________________ Address Line 2]
____________________
____________________[John Savage,
____________________Address Line 1
____________________Address Line 2]

Dear John Savage,

________I am writing etc etc etc

I originally forgot to put in my address at all, but went back and changed it. However, it's all messy and I had to do the John Savage Address really small and put an arrow leading underneath where I wrote my address.

Hmmm..

Format of the letter isn't counted for marks its more gettin the tone and language right!

wooo! Thank gods thats over i was dreading it! i did text 2 part A (easy enough) text 1 B (did loads on responding to the extract nearly nothing on my view of teenagers! disaster!) essay Q7 (preprepared perfect essay! boo-ya!)

Quick Question: does the theme of identity carry over to paper 2? if so plaths a banker for the poetry!

BJC · 04-06-2008 2:45pm

daithi_student wrote: »

Format of the letter isn't counted for marks its more gettin the tone and language right!

wooo! Thank gods thats over i was dreading it! i did text 2 part A (easy enough) text 1 B (did loads on responding to the extract nearly nothing on my view of teenagers! disaster!) essay Q7 (preprepared perfect essay! boo-ya!)

Quick Question: does the theme of identity carry over to paper 2? if so plaths a banker for the poetry!

That's a damn good observation and a damn good question to boot....anyone??

Caoimhe89 · 04-06-2008 2:47pm

BJC wrote: »

EDIT - You don't need to write 5/6 pages in 35 minutes. Gross misconseption!! Quality over quantity!!

Ah yeah, but at the same time, you'd want to have actually answered the question... it always takes around 5 pages to answer the question! That and my writings pretty big...

And I'm not saying quality over quantity. I just like both!

Peleus · 04-06-2008 2:47pm

The-Rafalution wrote: »

yano for the letter
is the format dear jon yours sincerely or dear sir yours faithfully.......or does it matter?

techincally it should be yours sincerely. yours faithfully is when you are wrriting to an unknown person with a request. it doesnt matter.
is just wrapped it up and said "from a teenager".

How did you find paper one?

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