* French Higher Level Aftermath * (1 thread only please)

PaddyP056

For the criminals essay, I just wrote about how all criminals in Ireland are foreigners turning saying that it was because we were racist but now the examiner is just gonna think Im a racist in thinking that....idiot!!

Salty

deao wrote: »

They wont be that tight as to dock marks of ya for too much writting will they? :L i know they're meant to or whatever and it doesn't look goos but surely they know your only trying :L

They don't dock marks for them being too long, but the more you write, the more mistakes you're liable to make, therefore you could lose more.

canto464

For the question about what are the goverment doing to combat the student accomadation problem, could you say turning the old military barraks into accomadation even though it was a minister that said that?

Dan2407

nollid wrote: »

@electrictrad, re. plus-que-parfait:

Était déjà plongée and était classés are NOT examples of the plus-que-parfait. Neither plonger nor classer is conjugated with être. These are both examples of the past participle being used as an adjective, as in the English 'was plunged' as opposed to 'had plunged'

In était plongée I agree with you, but I'd say était classés is actually in the passif of the plus-que-parfait i.e. the files were organised by someone (an action has occured) . . . not that it matters at all

I may have just taken grammar too far . . . sorry!

nommm

Lads, I just realised that I took the imparfait out of the 2nd paragraph instead of the third. fml

Belmono

Dan2407 wrote: »

In était plongée I agree with you, but I'd say était classés is actually in the passif of the plus-que-parfait i.e. the files were organised by someone (an action has occured) . . . not that it matters at all

I may have just taken grammar too far . . . sorry!

The passif would actually have been 'avaient été classés'

Now THAT's taking grammar too far:pac:

Bogger_92

Quite happy overall! Very nice paper! although I would be happier if I didnt muck up my oral! Oh man it was a total blank! I was just back from a medical interview with bristol uni and literally had a day to prepare! haha and I blanked :P

cocopopsxx

I was just wondering that can I still get an A if I didn't use many stand out phrases in the writing pieces? I threw in one or two here, but that's it, otherwise it was all simple French with a few sunjunctives. Is it possible to still get an A?

higgz

cocopopsxx wrote: »

I was just wondering that can I still get an A if I didn't use many stand out phrases in the writing pieces? I threw in one or two here, but that's it, otherwise it was all simple French with a few sunjunctives. Is it possible to still get an A?

I'd say so. I never try hard to use impressive language. They ask me to talk about an issue and I'll do so just like I would in English. I got over 80/100 in the mocks for the written. I also used some subjunctive too!

LittleMissLost

I was really tired during the exam and COULDN'T remember for the life of me if you put an "s" on the end of leur if the noun that comes after it is plural. I left it as not and I must have had "leur enfants" "leur ordinatures" etc written all over the place Obviously straight after the exam I realised how stupid I was and that was SO BLOODY OBVIOUS! :mad:

I was hoping for a B1 mimimum and now am so annoyed at how stupid I was not to agree them!

I thought the 1st comprehension was fine, the second one was a bit tricky, oral was great, aural was fine and the written expressions were ok except for that stupid grammar mistake!

Is there still a possibility I could get an A2/B1?

red_red_wine

LittleMissLost wrote: »

I was really tired during the exam and COULDN'T remember for the life of me if you put an "s" on the end of leur if the noun that comes after it is plural. I left it as not and I must have had "leur enfants" "leur ordinatures" etc written all over the place Obviously straight after the exam I realised how stupid I was and that was SO BLOODY OBVIOUS! :mad:

I was hoping for a B1 mimimum and now am so annoyed at how stupid I was not to agree them!

I thought the 1st comprehension was fine, the second one was a bit tricky, oral was great, aural was fine and the written expressions were ok except for that stupid grammar mistake!

Is there still a possibility I could get an A2/B1?

My teacher always tells the story of one of her students a few years ago, who throughout her entire paper had 'j'ai allée', which is about as large a mistake as it gets :P. She ended up getting 94% in her written paper

Tbh, I think we have to try and force ourselves to move on from these little mistakes. I spent the entire of Wednesday afternoon dwelling on the 20 marks I threw away in my French paper by somehow skipping comprehension questions.

In my Irish paper, I bizarrely decided in the last five minutes to change every ' an íomhá' to 'an t-íomhá' throughout my entire paper. That's at least thirty mistakes right there.

We all do stupid things when it comes to exams. I'm hoping that the examiners will put these kind of idiotic mistakes down to exam stress, if the overall standard of the paper is good

LittleMissLost

red_red_wine wrote: »

My teacher always tells the story of one of her students a few years ago, who throughout her entire paper had 'j'ai allée', which is about as large a mistake as it gets :P. She ended up getting 94% in her written paper

Tbh, I think we have to try and force ourselves to move on from these little mistakes. I spent the entire of Wednesday afternoon dwelling on the 20 marks I threw away in my French paper by somehow skipping comprehension questions.

In my Irish paper, I bizarrely decided in the last five minutes to change every ' an íomhá' to 'an t-íomhá' throughout my entire paper. That's at least thirty mistakes right there.

We all do stupid things when it comes to exams. I'm hoping that the examiners will put these kind of idiotic mistakes down to exam stress, if the overall standard of the paper is good

You're so so sweet thank you so much! :)

And the an t-íomha thing, it's like 10% for grammar in that WHOLE paper so if thats the only grammar mistake you have you're only going to lose like 1%

Dan2407

Belmono wrote: »

The passif would actually have been 'avaient été classés'

Now THAT's taking grammar too far:pac:

That'll teach me to try and be a smartass!

(Possibly in the imparfait passif)

mockshelp

@LittleMissLost:
They only count a mistake you make once. If you make the exact same mistake again they won't count it. That's what I heard once.

NotExactly

red_red_wine wrote: »

We all do stupid things when it comes to exams. I'm hoping that the examiners will put these kind of idiotic mistakes down to exam stress, if the overall standard of the paper is good

Hopfully this will be the case. But they'll only give marks for something that's correct. After reading the Biology aftermath thread I discovered for a few questions I knew the answer but I put down a wrong answer.:(

J_E

NotExactly wrote: »

Hopfully this will be the case. But they'll only give marks for something that's correct. After reading the Biology aftermath thread I discovered for a few questions I knew the answer but I put down a wrong answer.:(

We all do stupid things in exams. I'm sure they'll be accommodating and realise you do know the answer, just stressed, and will try compensate those lost marks elsewhere.

YodaBoy

nommm wrote: »

Pour, a and du are the prepositions

Are you sure?!!

Is it not a word that located something ie."dans"??
Well, thats what I said?..

LilMissCiara

I had a nightmare about the French Leaving Cert last night..! It was very strange!

YodaBoy

LilMissCiara wrote: »

I had a nightmare about the French Leaving Cert last night..! It was very strange!

I might yet have nightmares about almost every other paper but french and english were dreams and I won't let you say a bad word about that beautiful paper! :P

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

So how did people do in French?? Was delighted with a B1, all thanks to the easy paper of course:)

Fireball07

B1 but I'm slightly disappointed.

I'm sure if I look back through the thread I'll find a post from me saying I found it really easy and expected an A...

partyatmygaff

B1 as well.

I really wanted an A2. I'm gonna check the script and see if i'm borderline enough to warrant an appeal.

higgz

A1 - delighted, it was my only A1.

B_Fanatic

C1 My principal/french teacher basically said, "This is bull****" and wants to get everyones rechecked. In all fairness we put in a lot of effort all year and the highest being a B1 and the brainbox of the class getting a D1 sounds a bit dodgy to me.

AnneElizabeth

B1, also disappointed, felt I could've got an A, it was an easy paper but then again my written work wasn't brilliant.

Patri

A2 deligted

flyaway.

I got a C2. I'd been really worried about it because I need a C3 for my course so I was very happy to see C2 on the page.