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  • 10-05-2009 7:10pm
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    niallthegreat
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    Hey,

    Just wondering what did the teachers predict would come up in the exams i heard there predictions are usually correct. I would love to know what poets they predicted would come up in english. Just thought this would be a useful post for people
    to have


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    SarcasticFairy
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    I've never been near the Institute, but most people seem to be predicting Bishop, Keats, Longley and Walcott to come up :)


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    Fince
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    What Institute?


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    poisonated
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    For the Macbeth question,there is talk about deception... of course maybe thats all it really is.How acurate would you say these predicitons are?


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    spurious
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    poisonated wrote: »
    How acurate would you say these predicitons are?

    They are purely based on guesswork and looking at previous papers.

    There is no way anyone actually involved in setting would indicate what a question is on. There would be fairly serious legal ramifications for anyone doing so, plus they would never get to do any work for the SEC again. The teams of setters change regularly too, so even looking at styles of questions in the past doesn't help.

    Don't restrict yourself to just one poet/theme/whatever. The more options you cover, the more choices you'll have in the exams.


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    Jammyc
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    SarcasticFairy wrote: »
    I've never been near the Institute, but most people seem to be predicting Bishop, Keats, Longley and Walcott to come up :)
    Damn I really want Mahon to come up.

    Hes the only poet whose work I have enjoyed.


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    SarcasticFairy
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    Jammyc wrote: »
    Damn I really want Mahon to come up.

    Hes the only poet whose work I have enjoyed.

    Well I'm not God :P.... He might come up!


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    Jammyc
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    SarcasticFairy wrote: »
    Well I'm not God.... He might come up!
    Your not??:(
    Hope he does!


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    unknown13
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    I hope Longley doesnt come up because I doubt he will come up next year, if he came up


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    K4t
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    OP: I can tell you what's going to come up! ;) Seriously though, I pride myself on my predictions!

    English:
    Poetry - Bishop, Longley (one of those two will DEFINITELY appear)
    Macbeth - Kingship, Deception, Sympathy (I'd be surprised if one of those three don't appear)


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    rcaz
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    What about Supernatural stuff for Macbeth?


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    Jammyc
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    Im fairly sure Keats will come up, I mean they usually pick a classical poet, and hes the only on our course, so Im guessin it makes sense for him to.


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