Will they mark Boland alot harder....

TheDenominator · 10-06-2010 11:48am #1

....considering alot of people are doing her? If that's the case I'll hopefully be able to do Yeats or Kavannagh..... annoying thing is I know Boland quite well!:pac:

johnmcdnl · 10-06-2010 11:49am

if they use the bell curve graph then we could be in for a hard time... i'm hoping not to have to do her if i can at all... i wouldn't bank on her because i'm just afraid it's WAY to obvious.. too good to be true

Finical · 10-06-2010 11:50am

I doubt it, they mark each one separately. Obviously though you answer would have to be a bit different than everyone elses. Just my opinion, I'm not 100% sure.

dyeti · 10-06-2010 11:51am

Why is everyone so sure she's coming up?

johnmcdnl · 10-06-2010 11:53am

there's been a women every year for the last 9 years so... and rich was up last.. i think people are being optimistic about her coming up because she's easier than rich so it's trying to convince yourself that she's coming up...

if she comes up a lot of people are gonna be happy lol

Mwah · 10-06-2010 11:53am

Because they put a female poet up every year, they dont have to, but they do. It's between her and rich and rich was up recently so people are predicting its going to be her

TheDenominator · 10-06-2010 11:57am

Yeah exactly it's a bit dangerous to be banking on a female poet for definite. Think I'll do Yeats if its a choice between him and Boland....

dyeti · 10-06-2010 12:00pm

I'm only doing Yeats, Boland and Longley. I'm kinda worried if none come up.

dodgystuff · 10-06-2010 12:01pm

Yeats, Longley, Kavanagh pour moi. Hoping for Longley

J.D.R · 10-06-2010 12:03pm

They son;t mark you harder, cause they have a set marking scheme set out by the SEC, but the examiner will not award you any favours if its the 125th boland question they've corrected in the last hour

Shanotheslayer · 10-06-2010 12:04pm

johnmcdnl wrote: »

if she comes up a lot of people are gonna be happy lol

Cheers of ''YES'' will be shouted around the examination room

Bob the Builder · 10-06-2010 12:09pm

dyeti wrote: »

I'm only doing Yeats, Boland and Longley. I'm kinda worried if none come up.

At least two of those will come up. Worry not.

christina_x · 10-06-2010 1:29pm

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

Cheers of ''YES'' will be shouted around the examination room

This happened in my exam hall last year when we checked our poets

because of the change of papers we were even more unsure what would come up, so it was such relief when we checked the poets and the poets we wanted came up, we actually started talking and the examiner had to tell us to shut up that the exam had started :P

leesmom · 10-06-2010 3:08pm

johnmcdnl wrote: »

there's been a women every year for the last 9 years so... and rich was up last.. i think people are being optimistic about her coming up because she's easier than rich so it's trying to convince yourself that she's coming up...

if she comes up a lot of people are gonna be happy lol

rich wasnt up last, bishop and rich were on the course last year and bishop came up

dambarude · 10-06-2010 5:20pm

I'd say they'll be marking you very hard if you wrote on Boland, seen as she wasn't on the paper... that's a bit of a nasty surprise.

ya-ba-da-ba-doo · 10-06-2010 5:35pm

Bahahaha

Melena · 10-06-2010 5:39pm

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

Cheers of ''YES'' will be shouted around the examination room

i heard alot of 'fcuk' coming from my exam hall!! was grand though i knew rich feel sorry for ones who relied on her though!

KingLear · 10-06-2010 5:48pm

Hahahahahahhahaha o god this thread looks so funny now

curlypops · 10-06-2010 5:49pm

haha.. everyone in my hall said sh*t..
and then we all laughed..
(there is only like 15 people in my hall)

and the examiner looked wile confused and asked what was wrong..
and we all said.."boland didnt come up"

i have to say i was never so glad to have Kavanagh as my back-up
and then that absolutely lovely question came up!
great exam!