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decisions

And (as long as you are not crawling through it, I would assume that's bad) less general conversation

Eurovisionmad

decisions wrote: »

My teacher says 4 min? Which seems long to me?

When I was in Irish college last Summer they got a Oral examiner in to talk to use and give us some pointers for the exam, she did say 4 minutes altogether including questions, and that the biggest problem they've been having is that people are going way over that and like 1 minute extra or so per person adds up in the end, and that examiners will most likely start getting strict this year, in that they might even start cutting people off from their account if more than 3 minutes have passed (and they're not reasonably close to the finish) and just get them to start on the questions! Which I think is terrible cause it's really put me off if they did that!

11Charlie11

Is there a timer or something in the exam so we know how long we are spending??

Slow Show

If you go over the time set out for them (4 mins as far as I know) you'll be deducting time from your comhra so yeah you could get 80/80 but you'd lose marks in the comhra which is not what you want. This is what my teacher told me who does the orals but still, open to correction. Although I'd make an effort to draw it out for 4 mins, I know I speak very quickly so I could have some down in 2.30ish but better to aim for 4 if you don't want a painfully long comhra.

That could all be really wrong though! But it's what I heard anyway.

ray2012

Jade. wrote: »

My teacher said it takes about 6 minutes in the real thing

6 minutes? :eek: I think that's a little too much time for the SP? I'm timing myself here and I'm getting in between 2:45 - 3:15 (excluding the questions). It will take a minute maybe for the questions.

Jade.

ray2012 wrote: »

6 minutes? :eek: I think that's a little too much time for the SP? I'm timing myself here and I'm getting in between 2:45 - 3:15 (excluding the questions). It will take a minute maybe for the questions.

I thought that too but she said when she's examining it people take a minute to look over it 3-4 minutes for the talking and another minute for the questions.

When I time myself I'm always about 2 and a half minutes :P

peekachoo

Is it a minute you get to look at it before you start? In my practice oral with a real examiner he gave me 30 seconds. And I add it is a painful 30 seconds, I'd rather just get straight into it.

ray2012

Oh yeah I forgot about the time to look over it before saying it! :P
It's around 30 seconds, there isn't really a set time. I dread those 30 seconds though! All I do be thinking is ''Ok just remember the first sentence''..

decisions

Brownie in a mug *drools*

Parawhore.xD

decisions wrote: »

Brownie in a mug *drools*

I've been in the mood for something chocolatey, thanks for the inspiration

MGMTea

Here lads what can do if you've no motivation/hate most of the subjects and not interested in studying them? Got accepted into a PLC and its looking mighty attractive right now.

decisions

Parawhore.xD wrote: »

I've been in the mood for something chocolatey, thanks for the inspiration

They're an addiction of mine :O

Jade.

I don't even have the motivation to clean nevermind say study :P

internet_user

i actually cant be bothered to do anything...

peekachoo

Same. My friend is dragging me to the library tomorrow to study but even then I probably won't!

Eurovisionmad

Jade. wrote: »

I don't even have the motivation to clean nevermind say study :P

Ironically I always find I've the most motivation for cleaning when I've no motivation for study

Also on the topic of sraithpictiurí we ended up doing the 2000 aural there last Friday cause our teache had run out of others to give us an in one of the concersations one guy describes perfectly the story in the first sraithpictiur, all about having an accident during his driving because he was waving to someone on the side of the road! What he also said though was that he was very embarrassed cause he found out that the girl was waving at her father in the car in front rather than him!

BarrySeoighe

Does anyone have any good Art History notes? or constructions studies notes? i can trade Engineering notes.

internet_user

peekachoo wrote: »

Same. My friend is dragging me to the library tomorrow to study but even then I probably won't!

I wish i was given specific work to do but all our teachers said to do was study!! I can't even bring myself to read over oral notes!!

Lord Ned Stark

did a small bit today finding it very hard considering was given no specific work for easter which i found surprising considering last year i had about 3 months worth of stuff to do( im a repeat)!
just gave up after a while tbh more interested in working on my blog tbh! did anyone check it out?

CookieMonster.x

internet_user wrote: »

I wish i was given specific work to do but all our teachers said to do was study!! I can't even bring myself to read over oral notes!!

I got like 5 English essays to do! I haven't done anything at all today, just don't feel like it but I really need to

Prodigious

Lord Ned Stark wrote: »

did a small bit today finding it very hard considering was given no specific work for easter which i found surprising considering last year i had about 3 months worth of stuff to do( im a repeat)!
just gave up after a while tbh more interested in working on my blog tbh! did anyone check it out?

Link?

Jade.

Eurovisionmad wrote: »

Ironically I always find I've the most motivation for cleaning when I've no motivation for study

Wish that was the case for me I decided to clean because I thought it would motivate me to study but nah now I have half my room on my bed... :P

peekachoo

BarrySeoighe wrote: »

Does anyone have any good Art History notes? or constructions studies notes? i can trade Engineering notes.

The most popular Art book on the market is very good, I use it over my teachers notes!

peekachoo

internet_user wrote: »

I wish i was given specific work to do but all our teachers said to do was study!! I can't even bring myself to read over oral notes!!

Either did we! My friend is making me practice oral tomorrow :P

Ps sorry for the double posting, blame my phone :pac:

Lord Ned Stark

Prodigious wrote: »

Link?

http://alwaysrunningalwaysdreaming.wordpress.com/

Jade.

peekachoo wrote: »

The most popular Art book on the market is very good, I use it over my teachers notes!

That the Red one your taking about? Appreciating art? Art history kills my art grade

peekachoo

Jade. wrote: »

That the Red one your taking about? Appreciating art? Art history kills my art grade

yeah! But I only use it combined with my teachers notes. Because some of her notes are excellent and then some aren't so good.
I got an A on the pre paper. But my appreciation question brings me down, I got like 35/50 whereas in the first two questions I got 48/50 and 50/50.

Any good appreciation notes around?

decisions

Fuse taken out of TV, laptop charger put in garage (battery is fully charged, about 6 hours use in it) and my phone is next to go.

I really need to get a lot done befor the end of the break

Jade.

peekachoo wrote: »

yeah! But I only use it combined with my teachers notes. Because some of her notes are excellent and then some aren't so good.
I got an A on the pre paper. But my appreciation question brings me down, I got like 35/50 whereas in the first two questions I got 48/50 and 50/50.

Any good appreciation notes around?

My teacher doesn't give us any notes she's useless! The only thing we have is sample answers on a gallery visit. I decided to use the mocks thread for my pre cause I didn't have a clue and everything I found in that for the paper wasn't even on it so I got 38% :P Luckily it was the only exam I used it for.

I would love to be getting that in my history because Im always around a B1 with everything else

peekachoo

Jade. wrote: »

My teacher doesn't give us any notes she's useless! The only thing we have is sample answers on a gallery visit. I decided to use the mocks thread for my pre cause I didn't have a clue and everything I found in that for the paper wasn't even on it so I got 38% :P Luckily it was the only exam I used it for.

I would love to be getting that in my history because Im always around a B1 with everything else

So what artists have you covered? I can send you a few if you'd like