English Paper 1

seanh12

What'd ye all think of it? :P

Digits

Section a and b were grand...essays wernt the best but i coped through it.

peckingduck

Theme was very odd. Was expecting something along the lines of motivation/hope...The comprehension on cats, I did with a struggle, but overall was happy with my diary entry and essay.

Honestly it could go anyway marking wise for me...

What did everyone else think?

cocoshovel

The pass was pretty easy. I did B on text 1, A on text 2 and number 6 for the essay.

I was surprised no visual came up for text 3 though. I wouldn't of done it anyway.

FreshTillDeath

I thought it was a very good paper to be honest! Done Part A of the first comprehension about the crazy cat lady and Part B on the enduring appeal of mysterious in books and films. Tough choices for the composing section but luckily i could work in my learned off short story Overall very pleased for my first exam. Bring on dickinson!

TheFullDuck

Comp on tight-rope was ok, got a bit bogged down though,
Sec B diary entry was grand.
Did the technology essay, I think nearly everyone did!

higgz

Text 2 - A - Tight Rope. Very nice questions.

Text 1 - B - a bit difficult. I've never written anything similar before but I managed it. I talked about America (I've actually never been .)

ESSAY - 2 - Discrimination and Tolerance. I talked about travellers, women, the poor, immigrants and most importantly PUBLIC SERVANTS. It was a lick ass ending but if a trade unionist corrects my exam, I'll get great marks

peckingduck

Really? Nearly everyone I spoke to did the talk on something indispensable - we'd all prepared essays on hope etc.. so managed to work that in!

BillabongMad

It was beautiful.
The part b on text one was perfect as I'm off to Japan soon and know loads about it
The text part a Was brilliant as I'm good with pictures and text combo
and the personal essay was amazing cause well, it was clothes :L

Gumbi

Not brilliant, but quite manageable.

Framble

Did text 2 questions and they were great... Text 1 question B was kind of hard, I wrote about Malta which I know next to nothing about so hopefully the corrector won't either cause I made it all up. I did the mystery short story which pretty much fit into a story I prepared yesterday. So if the corrector likes my style I'm pretty sure it will get a good grade

babynice

It was way easier than I expected! I was delighted that the diary entries were on it! :-D

LilMissCiara

Theme put me off! Question As were a bit iffy! Text 3, question b was absolutely lovely!

Essay #1 was brilliant as well..! I'm thrilled at how it went!

soccymonster

It was a nice paper the essay titles were abit meh but I got out alive on the back of a decent technology essay so it's grand.

RonyPonyBah

Was grand ! i have the paper scanned in, would i be allowed to post it ?

Rabbitandcavy

I did part A on the tight rope extract and part B I did the diary entries
Comprehension- Descriptive writing on the city

All in all, I'm not sure if I did great or not

C__MC

It was grand dissapointed with my question 2 on the images of the tight rope got bogged down on it. Did the essay on clothes diary entry was grand did a page and a half , is that enough??:pac:

UL

so dissapointed

dillo2k10

It wasn't the best. I was surprised by the Comprehensions, there was none that let you use the images. I done question 7. I had a load of short storys prepared and strangely a mystery was not one that I had prepared.

I managed through it though.

I done Question A on the tight ropes and Question B on the Diary entry. Both of which were okay.

I wrote a total of 15 pages. My hand is killing me.

Daire92

C__MC wrote: »

It was grand dissapointed with my question 2 on the images of the tight rope got bogged down on it. Did the essay on clothes diary entry was grand did a page and a half , is that enough??:pac:

Page and a half? i got 6 and half done on the Mystery essay, worked in my learnt off war story, was delighted. Comprehensions were ****e though, got through em easily but they were stupid all the same

polka dot

Theme really threw me off. Rank.

Did Question A on that old woman creeping on Sarah.
Question B was the talk to the school book club. I either look like the biggest wannabe-nerd ever or just a movie hater. Really hard to write. Had no idea WHAT to write.

Section 2 was the best bit. Wrote about discrimination and tolerance. Had all my figures prepared last night on homosexuality so eh... whole essay is about that now! :P Threw in Glee at the end.

Donerkebab

Theme was a bit too general. The questions on the comps were not the best and engaging. The essay titles were okay. Suppose im still on for a B hopefully.

unknowntoown

i did question A on text 2 about the tight-rope
question B on text 1 about where id like to go, i said china been there before and studied it so i had alot of information on it but didnt put down too much info other wise itd seem like i went their :L haha

for Composing i did the technology impact on young people

overall it wasnt a bad test , the theme quite took me by surprise but i got through it easy enough
got bogged down on the tight-rope questions though lucky i knew alot about china without having to think other wise i wouldnt of finished the paper

good luck everyone for tomorrows test going to kill me it is ha

karkar athlete

TheFullDuck wrote: »

Comp on tight-rope was ok, got a bit bogged down though,
Sec B diary entry was grand.
Did the technology essay, I think nearly everyone did!

Did the exact same question as you!!!
but how was the OP finished and had this up at 11:40am?????

Rabbitandcavy

karkar athlete wrote: »

Did the exact same question as you!!!
but how was the OP finished and had this up at 11:40am?????

I was thinking this too lol! Out and posted up on boards 40 minutes early

Fireball07

That was handy out.

Section A on weird woman on the train, perhaps not perfectly answered but I felt I dealt with it fairly well.

Section B was the Book Club speech...I wrote 3 pages, thought it was really easy. Might have overdone it though.

Did the short story where a mystery was solved. It was good but maybe a bit predictable because I slightly forgot I was writing a mystery and was left with only one credible option. But the writing itself was good.....sometimes I get bogged down and know I'm writing ****.

Bloc Party!

Never want to read about cats again... :pac:

BrendaN_f

dillo2k10 wrote: »

It wasn't the best. I was surprised by the Comprehensions, there was none that let you use the images. I done question 7. I had a load of short storys prepared and strangely a mystery was not one that I had prepared.

I managed through it though.

I done Question A on the tight ropes and Question B on the Diary entry. Both of which were okay.

I wrote a total of 15 pages. My hand is killing me.

chose the exact same questions as you. i wrote about 8 pages in total though haha

Iceboy

I didn't get enough time to finish
got everything done besides comprehending (c) part on text 1, only wrote about 5 lines. I must be a really slow writer or something. I wrote non stop for the whole thing i didn't feel like i was goin slow for time was getting at me. I wrotes like 4 1/2 pages for essay 7, 1 1 n a 1/2 for question b and 2 for comprehending

Aoifums

Text 1, Question B - Did it on Egypt. Realised in my second last paragraph that there were riots/stuff there :rolleyes: Fudged my last little bit to include that. I felt like such a tool for forgetting about it.

Text 3, Question A - Nicest comprehension ever!!! I'm usually **** at them, it takes about an hour to do. Got it finished in 45 minutes.

Personal essay on clothes. Couple of paragraphs were a bit dodgy. Not sure how it came across overall.

I don't think I did too badly overall. Home Ec and Paper 2 will be the death of me

flyaway.

I was super happy with it.

Did the question A about the woman on the train and I think I answered it really well.
Did the question B about a place you'd like to go to and was very happy with my answer
Did the modern fairytale story and got 7 good pages done, very pleased with it.

Had plenty of time to look over everything and check my spellings which was a bonus.

Quite a few of my friends didn't finish their essays though.