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English Paper 1
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Just asking one thing, in the 100 mark question did you have to put the quote provided in the question into the essay?
In my mocks i wrote a 5 page essay and got 0 marks because i didnt put the quote in and didnt base the story around the quote
Today, i didnt have alot of time to do my essay and bearly got 3 pages, but I rushed the story at the end and didnt get to completely finish it off, and because of the rushing, i forgot to put the quote in.
Will i get 0 marks again ?
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Just asking one thing, in the 100 mark question did you have to put the quote provided in the question into the essay?
In my mocks i wrote a 5 page essay and got 0 marks because i didnt put the quote in and didnt base the story around the quote
Today, i didnt have alot of time to do my essay and bearly got 3 pages, but I rushed the story at the end and didnt get to completely finish it off, and because of the rushing, i forgot to put the quote in.
Will i get 0 marks again ?
Cheers
No don't think your required to, its just there to give you ideas0 -
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Just asking one thing, in the 100 mark question did you have to put the quote provided in the question into the essay?
In my mocks i wrote a 5 page essay and got 0 marks because i didnt put the quote in and didnt base the story around the quote
Today, i didnt have alot of time to do my essay and bearly got 3 pages, but I rushed the story at the end and didnt get to completely finish it off, and because of the rushing, i forgot to put the quote in.
Will i get 0 marks again ?
Cheers
.... I didn't use the quote. And I'm pretty damn sure you don't have to...
That's just cold.. Zero for something like that..0 -
No. It's not necessary to include the quote in your essay. Whoever marked your mock needs to find another job.Just asking one thing, in the 100 mark question did you have to put the quote provided in the question into the essay?
In my mocks i wrote a 5 page essay and got 0 marks because i didnt put the quote in and didnt base the story around the quote
Today, i didnt have alot of time to do my essay and bearly got 3 pages, but I rushed the story at the end and didnt get to completely finish it off, and because of the rushing, i forgot to put the quote in.
Will i get 0 marks again ?
Cheers0 -
Thats what i said, but the teacher then said that it was one of the top examiners who marked ours. To be fair i thought my mocks were marked really hard.partyatmygaff wrote: »No. It's not necessary to include the quote in your essay. Whoever marked your mock needs to find another job.
The quote was "i grew up on the windswept plains" and it said write a short story in which the background setting has an influence on the main character.
I wrote about a teenager whos dad gets murdered because hes surrounded by a drug ridden community, run down area etc and got 0 marks.
Lets hope that doesnt happen again
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I'm a repeat leaving cert this year and to be honest I thought that paper 1 this year was a lot nicer than last years paper...
Overall was pretty pleased with it..
I done Question A on text 1 ..the cat lady
Question B on text 3 diary entries which I was soo happy to see
Composition was 3. the fairytale... which I thought went okay I was pretty pleased with it...could have been a bit better but hey nothing I can do about it now....I felt I was kind of running out of time towards the end but I got all done thank god...
I am dreading tomorrows paper though....guess I better start cramming for tomorrow...:P:p0 -
Thats what i said, but the teacher then said that it was one of the top examiners who marked ours. To be fair i thought my mocks were marked really hard.
The quote was "i grew up on the windswept plains" and it said write a short story in which the background setting has an influence on the main character.
I wrote about a teenager whos dad gets murdered because hes surrounded by a drug ridden community, run down area etc and got 0 marks.
Lets hope that doesnt happen again
You should have gotten more than 0. Did you link "windwept plains" to "drug-ridden community"?
Also, I felt our pres were marked too easily (I pulled around 65% in Paper 2 witht page and three qurater compartive, 2 and a half page hamlet, but good poetry answers, got 69% overall). I felt I deserved way less for Paer 2. I asked my teacher what he thought of our marker, and he said we couldn't possibly get a better one, as he marks the Leaving every year; I got it re-checked and nothing was changed. Who was I to complain Hopefully he was a good marker. 
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One of my friends, who hasn't been in the past two weeks, came in and took the ordinary paper. I couldn't exactly shout at him from across the room "NOOOO!!!!!!!!!!".
He's in so rarely that he doesn't realise that Honors and Ordinary do completely different poets, single text etc. He's doomed.
Dramatic much? No they don't, the list of single texts for HL and OL completely overlap and half of the OL poems are taken from the HL course. He's not "doomed" :rolleyes:chicgroovy101 wrote: »I actually specifically named Harry Potter as a book of enduring appeal of mystery. (or whatever it was)
Never talked in general at all! Didn't realise I was supposed to.
That's fine; you've just based your talk on one specific example of "the mysterious in books, films etc". It's a bit narrow, yes, but if it's well-written, you'll get away with it.0 -
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Hey guys. I feel terrible right now. To be honest, paper one was easy than any other papers I've seen. But I screwed it up. When I tell you how much pages I used, you'd be speechless. I only used four pages. :(I wrote half a page for each parts in ques a. ( I did text A ) and rarely wrote anything for b. Lastly, for composition, I wrote two pages. My writin ain't that big though. Seeing people using more than seven pages makes me feel depressed. Sigh* I'm really slow at writing when it comes to paper one but in paper two I do much much better. I can't stop crying...
Hey, I know its not easy, but try not to worry about it too much You need to concentrate on paper 2 now, you have almost a full day to look over everything for it. Paper 1 is only half the exam! So you didn't write all that much, but if your content was good quality and fits in with the requirements they're looking for, its better than people who may have wrote reams and reams of waffle! Don't dwell on it, its best just to move on and start preparing for the next exam 0 -
Hey guys. I feel terrible right now. To be honest, paper one was easy than any other papers I've seen. But I screwed it up. When I tell you how much pages I used, you'd be speechless. I only used four pages. :(I wrote half a page for each parts in ques a. ( I did text A ) and rarely wrote anything for b. Lastly, for composition, I wrote two pages. My writin ain't that big though. Seeing people using more than seven pages makes me feel depressed. Sigh* I'm really slow at writing when it comes to paper one but in paper two I do much much better. I can't stop crying...
aww u poor thing, dont cry, its over u cant change it, head up and ul ace tomorrow 0 -
Listen. It's not the end of the world. Do not decide that you've failed. If you do a halfway decent Paper 2, you're going to be okay. Wipe the tears away, you've done it, it's over. Stay strong, it will be okay, trust meHey guys. I feel terrible right now. To be honest, paper one was easy than any other papers I've seen. But I screwed it up. When I tell you how much pages I used, you'd be speechless. I only used four pages. :(I wrote half a page for each parts in ques a. ( I did text A ) and rarely wrote anything for b. Lastly, for composition, I wrote two pages. My writin ain't that big though. Seeing people using more than seven pages makes me feel depressed. Sigh* I'm really slow at writing when it comes to paper one but in paper two I do much much better. I can't stop crying... 0 -
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Overall I think I did ok. The theme really suprised me though! Did text 2 and 3 - so glad when the diary came up The composition suprised me a bit and the only one I felt comfortable with was the clothes one, would have loved to do a short story. Anyway its paper 2 to be concerned about now!!!:D 0
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