English Paper 1

easkey92

i never knew the english paper had a theme until today

GV_NRG

flyaway. wrote: »

Guess it depends on the person. I wrote 7 pages for my story and none of it was unnecessary. I didn't aim for 7, my story just ended up there.

id love to know where people are finding the time to write this amount of pages?? im not even sure if its a good idea.. think about it if you were correcting like 200 scripts and you come across a script with eg 17 pages you would be pretty pissed befor youd even start

AdamD wrote: »

Standard writing is like 10-12 words per line

actually the standard accepted amount is 7 -9 words per line

J_E

DessieMG wrote: »

I went for question 6 , the descriptive piece, i wrote 5 and a half pages and it was fairly descriptive, i didn't include the heading in my piece, does this make a difference?

Nah, the quote thing is just to give you an idea of what it's about.

partyatmygaff

DessieMG wrote: »

I went for question 6 , the descriptive piece, i wrote 5 and a half pages and it was fairly descriptive, i didn't include the heading in my piece, does this make a difference?

No. It's just a stimulus, it doesn't have to be included in the essay.

RHunce

AdamD wrote: »

Standard writing is like 10-12 words per line

I wouldn't have thought it would be that much tbh, maybe 9 at a push, def not 12 unless you have midget writing.

Anyway lads, it's QUALITY not quantity

shofukan

Higher:
Text 2, Question A (3 Pages)
Text 3, Question B (2 Pages)
Essay, Clothes: (3 Pages)

I laid it out nicely so hopefully that might score a few extra marks...
I was disappointed that there was no photodocuments question (I know it was kind of covered in text 2) 'cause I always do that one!

ak4

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!

exact same as me :P

sh__93

Did question A on the tight-rope boyo - Questions were good but i didn't explain them that well

Question B i picked the diary entry - Was a piece of piss and said my dad died, my mum was an alcoholic and that's why i was running away to Dublin

Composition - I picked the personal essay on clothes, wrote all about how we judged people on their appearance and not their personality.. A hape of bulls@!t but it read well

higgz wrote: »

PUBLIC SERVANTS. It was a lick ass ending

Reminds me of my Irish oral when she asked me what would i do if i was minister for education..?
Started off by saying i'd cut teachers wages then i copped on that she was a teacher... so of course i said i'd raise teachers wages because teachers have a hard job and don't get enough respect for the work they do I'm hoping my brown nosing will pay off

nikkaypandarr

Yeah it was grand. 1st comprehension was a bit stupid, 2nd one was a breeze, 3rd one was good too. Did the part A in text 2 and part B in text 3. I think the majority did the diary entry.

Essay titles were a bit rubbish but I managed to throw a short story together on a modern fairytale...bit worried though that it doesn't really fit in with the brief. Aw well.

dillo2k10

Heres The higher level.
They are low quality though and I dont know how to resize them

Grindylow

I did the essay about 'my city' but I did it mainly informative with 2/3 pages on aesthetic so I hope the descriptive part wasn't too specific..

RHunce

Noel2k9 wrote: »

I did the essay about 'my city' but I did it mainly informative with 2/3 pages on aesthetic so I hope the descriptive part wasn't too specific..

I did it on Philadelphia :rolleyes:

floutingmaxims

I did the questions on text 1 and was pleased with those! Dont even like cats but shite talked away anyway! I did the diary entries on text 3 as well and those were grand. The essay was a killer though, i did no.6 on the city. I dont know what happened to me, i dont even know where i thought i was going with the essay so im sure the examiner is going to be quite puzzled by it.. thought evoking id call it now if he/she marks me bad on it :pac:

Heres to a hopefully handy out Paper 2!

nikkaypandarr

I forgot to put a title on my short story! Does that make a difference in marks?! Freaking out now.

irishgirl10

What is the descrpitive?? I did that too, like its very descriptive but I found it to be more of a short story when I think back on it ... like ''when i arrived'' and ''i was astounded'' if you get me?

Shanee.

I did the Article about the place you would recommend people to go and stay in. The questions about Sarah and the old lady who was a pest :P and finally question 4 about an article on technology.. Never before did an article in my life but did 2 today.. Hoho boy!

J_E

nikkaypandarr wrote: »

I forgot to put a title on my short story! Does that make a difference in marks?! Freaking out now.

Heh, I did one worse, and forgot to number my composition. As soon as I sealed it I realised! Managed to scrape in a 1. into the sheet just as the superintendant picked it up :P

niamhallen

Question A: Text 3
Question B: Text 2
Essay: Short Story (7)

Honestly not too ecstatic But its hard to know how to feel about the paper.
I don't think I wrote enough but no point in post morteming

Roll on Paper 2 :P

partyatmygaff

nikkaypandarr wrote: »

I forgot to put a title on my short story! Does that make a difference in marks?! Freaking out now.

No difference.

irishgirl10 wrote: »

What is the descrpitive?? I did that too, like its very descriptive but I found it to be more of a short story when I think back on it ... like ''when i arrived'' and ''i was astounded'' if you get me?

You'll be fine so long as you maintained the descriptive element of the question. I made it somewhat of an anecdote.

shelbourneTID

Think I forgot to number my comprehension answers but quoted from extract will I lose all my marks?

partyatmygaff

shelbourneTID wrote: »

Think I forgot to number my comprehension answers but quoted from extract will I lose all my marks?

You'll be fine. The examiner may be a bit annoyed but once they read your answer they'll know what text you're talking about.

Eoin MurMur

Cydoniac wrote: »

Heh, I did one worse, and forgot to number my composition. As soon as I sealed it I realised! Managed to scrape in a 1. into the sheet just as the superintendant picked it up :P

Oh no...

Jenvict

Did 2A - the comprehension about the tight rope. part (iii) was a bit hard as the information i could give became quite scarce

Did 3B - the diary entry. This was very easy I thought:)

And in Section II I did question 6 and wrote about Dublin haha

Was easy overall though the theme did make me kinda disinterested at the beginning but I soon got into it:)

Grindylow

RHunce wrote: »

I did it on Philadelphia :rolleyes:

I did it as a general view bringing in the recession for most of it! :P

sh__93

AdamD wrote: »

Any particular reason why people wrote 7/8 page essays? We were told 4-6 was the guideline.

Because their writing is probably visible from space :rolleyes:

Daniel S

Question A: Text 2
Question B: Text 1 (Wrote about Siberia, wtf I know...)
Essay: Q4 Technology

Didn't do too well tbh, only wrote a little over 3 pages on technology
What I wrote wasn't too bad though.

dannyirishman

Does a talk require a title!?

polka dot

dannyirishman wrote: »

Does a talk require a title!?

... I hope not. I wrote "Books" :P

AdamD

dannyirishman wrote: »

Does a talk require a title!?

I didnt use one anyway, its a talk..why would it

HxGH

RHunce wrote: »

2 pages is frighteningly short for an essay :eek:

I know