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English Paper 2 Leaked- Keep All Discussion to this thread- DUPLICATE THREADS LOCKED

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    #1922
    xOxSinéadxOx
    Registered Users Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭xOxSinéadxOx


    why did yer man/one not follow procedure. did they really think nobody would find out? :pac:

    I was bit pissed off yesterday but now I find it all really hilarious


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    #1923
    overmantle
    Registered Users Posts: 870 ✭✭✭overmantle


    They're bound to go easy on the marking of English this year.


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    #1924
    UnknownSpecies
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    xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »
    why did yer man/one not follow procedure. did they really think nobody would find out? :pac:

    I was bit pissed off yesterday but now I find it all really hilarious

    im the exact same :pac: its hilarious at this stage, wont make a difference, just have to give up my saturday morning lie in now :p


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    #1925
    phic
    Registered Users Posts: 342 ✭✭phic


    overmantle wrote: »
    They're bound to go easy on the marking of English this year.

    it wont make a difference though, they still have to have the right number of a's, b's etc...


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    #1926
    Fad
    Registered Users Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    The shot of St.Oliver's really reminded me of Chernobyl!

    It was so empty!


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    #1927
    overmantle
    Registered Users Posts: 870 ✭✭✭overmantle


    I suppose the old self protection mechanism kicked in and yer man thought (foolishly) that it wouldn't get out. In the days before Boards.ie, twitter etc, he may have gotten away with it.


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    #1928
    Claypigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 660 ✭✭✭Claypigeon


    overmantle wrote: »
    They're bound to go easy on the marking of English this year.

    Well if you know how the system works, it is somewhat inevitable if this is as big a deal to this many people.

    The exams are marked, but then if people are falling down on certain things (ie a lot of people may balls up the poetry) they'll re-draft the marking scheme a number of times to compensate and keep grades proportional to each other rather than the first marking scheme.

    This happens in every subject regardless of any slip-ups such as last nights.


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    #1929
    SligoBrewer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭SligoBrewer


    If by Rudyard Kipling wrote:
    If you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
    But make allowance for their doubting too,
    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

    ....
    Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
    And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
    :D


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    #1930
    Frolick
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭Frolick


    overmantle wrote: »
    They're bound to go easy on the marking of English this year.

    Not a hope. Two words "Grading Curve"

    I was on TV (>*_*)> ^(*_*)^ <(*_*<)


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    #1931
    Claypigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 660 ✭✭✭Claypigeon


    Frolick wrote: »
    Not a hope. Two words "Grading Curve"

    Wrong. If a huge amount of people all screw up on the same thing it will be slackened. It's how the LC marking works. They re-draft the marking schemes a number of times.


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    #1932
    phic
    Registered Users Posts: 342 ✭✭phic


    overmantle wrote: »
    I suppose the old self protection mechanism kicked in and yer man thought (foolishly) that it wouldn't get out. In the days before Boards.ie, twitter etc, he may have gotten away with it.

    Yeah i'd say its actually happened fairly often, this year it just spread really fast!
    we are both blessed and cursed by technology!


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    #1933
    overmantle
    Registered Users Posts: 870 ✭✭✭overmantle


    I remember there was a cock up with Leaving Cert Chemistry several years ago (with the actual paper). There was uproar about it but the grades in Chemistry were actually very good that year. They were obviously afraid of repercussions.


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    #1934
    Piste
    Registered Users Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    From Facebook: "Breaking News: Production of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows cancelled after the full script was handed out instead of the engineering paper at St. Olivers Community College. Louth youve done it again."


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    #1935
    DogPawHat
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    Heh, paper two gets leaked and everybody happens to be on there social network of choice at the time instead of studying.

    Mind you, we might have gotten away with it if it haven't been for that one parent calling the school. the first texts and posts went unnoticed for nearly an hour.


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    #1936
    OpenYourEyes
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,068 Mod ✭✭✭✭OpenYourEyes


    After 134 or so pages i presume someone has said this already, but since the examiner had little or no intention of reporting his mistake to his bosses, do the students in that Louth school realise that had they kept their mouths shut about the whole thing that they would have been extremely well prepared going into that exam today, wouldv been worth a good 10-20 points extra to even the laziest of students!


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    #1937
    phic
    Registered Users Posts: 342 ✭✭phic


    Claypigeon wrote: »
    Wrong. If a huge amount of people all screw up on the same thing it will be slackened. It's how the LC marking works. They re-draft the marking schemes a number of times.

    thats what a grading curve is...


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    #1938
    Frolick
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭Frolick


    Claypigeon wrote: »
    Wrong. If a huge amount of people all screw up on the same thing it will be slackened. It's how the LC marking works. They re-draft the marking schemes a number of times.

    Ya but the grade will still follow the grading curve... They ease the marking if we all do bad but there will still be the same amount of A, B and Cs etc


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    #1939
    Claypigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 660 ✭✭✭Claypigeon


    phic wrote: »
    thats what a grading curve is...

    He's saying it _won't_ be marked more easily. Because of the grading curve.


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    #1940
    kevogy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 189 ✭✭kevogy


    hey what was the charactor question about macbeth,
    i heard it was banquo but im not certain,
    what sort of question could they as about him?


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    #1941
    haloauto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭haloauto


    OpenYourEyes wrote: »
    After 134 or so pages i presume someone has said this already, but since the examiner had little or no intention of reporting his mistake to his bosses, do the students in that Louth school realise that had they kept their mouths shut about the whole thing that they would have been extremely well prepared going into that exam today, wouldv been worth a good 10-20 points extra to even the laziest of students!

    I'm guessing it was one of the other students in the room that didn't get the paper told.


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    #1942
    Claypigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 660 ✭✭✭Claypigeon


    Frolick wrote: »
    Ya but the grade will still follow the grading curve... They ease the marking if we all do bad but there will still be the same amount of A, B and Cs etc

    Yup but the people who would have gotten A's most likely still will. You will not fly from an A1 to a C3 or anything like it with this change of paper.


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    #1943
    Fad
    Registered Users Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    DogPawHat wrote: »
    Heh, paper two gets leaked and everybody happens to be on there social network of choice at the time instead of studying.

    Mind you, we might have gotten away with it if it haven't been for that one parent calling the school. the first texts and posts went unnoticed for nearly an hour.


    What IDIOT told his/her mum though


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    #1944
    Claypigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 660 ✭✭✭Claypigeon


    kevogy wrote: »
    hey what was the charactor question about macbeth,
    i heard it was banquo but im not certain,
    what sort of question could they as about him?

    Banquo and deception came up afaik. However, I doubt they could get yet another question out of Banquo. I'm focusing on Macbeth himself as a character.


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    #1945
    Claypigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 660 ✭✭✭Claypigeon


    Fad wrote: »
    What IDIOT told his/her mum though

    Idiots are honest people who don't want a small sect of students undermining a system that 50,000 other people are relying on for their futures, their careers and their life choices now? Paint me red and shove a crowbar up my nose, I'm a friggin' idiot, too.


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    #1946
    Extrasupervery
    Registered Users Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭Extrasupervery


    That's so true, and people are forgetting. If everyone is likely to drop a grade then we will, but there has to be so many A's so maybe those who would've gotten A's yesterday and will get a B1 on Saturday will be...bumped up? Hope that makes sense.


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    #1947
    coffee_cake
    Registered Users Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Dumbledore wrote: »
    I live on the southside and have never heard of one. In fact I go to an international school and there are only 3 Jews in the year and only one is doing the LC. the Jewish representative on Joe Duffy said there would be less than ten students doing it though I would have thought it would be more than that.

    stratford college


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    #1948
    Frolick
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭Frolick


    Claypigeon wrote: »
    Yup but the people who would have gotten A's most likely still will. You will not fly from an A1 to a C3 or anything like it with this change of paper.
    Ya well if you get a A1 or about to get a A1 in english you won't be worried about this mishaps


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    #1949
    xOxSinéadxOx
    Registered Users Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭xOxSinéadxOx


    OpenYourEyes wrote: »
    After 134 or so pages i presume someone has said this already, but since the examiner had little or no intention of reporting his mistake to his bosses, do the students in that Louth school realise that had they kept their mouths shut about the whole thing that they would have been extremely well prepared going into that exam today, wouldv been worth a good 10-20 points extra to even the laziest of students!

    that's stupid louth people for ya :pac:

    It's incredible that the only way they found out was cos a parent rang the school! kind of funny as well that there was only one moral parent out of all the people


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    #1950
    overmantle
    Registered Users Posts: 870 ✭✭✭overmantle


    Just wondering if this is the longest and most viewed thread on Boards.ie ever???


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    #1951
    phic
    Registered Users Posts: 342 ✭✭phic


    Claypigeon wrote: »
    He's saying it _won't_ be marked more easily. Because of the grading curve.

    well it wont really, cos you'll still have to have the right amount of people getting a's or whatever, so its not like everyones gonna do great, some people have to make up the c, d,e,f part of the curve


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