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** English Paper 1, 9:30-12:20 Wednesday 6th June - Before/After Thread
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QueenOfLeon wrote: »Similar to partyatmygaff, I had 2.5 for A, 3 for B and 5 for the essay. Don't worry about the amount you wrote, like you said, all about the quality
OMG that's the exact same as I wrote, I'm so getting an A1 loooool!!
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Wahey! Did Q. 3A, 1B, and the 7 essay. Wrote a narrative letter for 1B about Nepal, my being from there etc (trolol) gotta love getting into character
My essay was 6 pages of pure crazyness.
The story:
Teenage boy, 14 years old, loves with his dad in some s**thole. The dad beats him and sexually abuses him regularly. The mum left the father when the boy was a baby. The boy smokes a lot of weed to forget about his problems. He goes to Portland to go to university when he's 18, and gets a job in a bookstore, where he can smoke weed all the time and where his french housemate works too. He's still getting over being abused. At some point, the manager of the bookstore comes in while he's rolling a joint and gives him the revelation - she's his mother! omg! Some time passes and the mother and the boy go back to the s**thole town to find the father and bring him to justice. The mother knocks on the door and the dad's having a party. The son is in the shadows with a knife in case s**t gets real. The dad smashes a bottle of rum over the mums head then the sun jumps out and stabs him five times in the chest. Then the cops arrive (they were killed because of some silly s**t that happened at the party). The son passes out and wakes up in a jail cell, where the story starts being told as a retelling, by the son, who hopes the paper is not seen so he'll get a really lenient sentence. He writes out the story just to pass the time while he waits to get out of jail :L Pretty fun story IMO, and 6 pages too so I'm happy enough with it! 0 -
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For the people who did the letter question B from Text 1, how long was yours? Mine was 2 and a half pages. Tried to keep it short because it was a letter and they're not typically long...just wondering how everyone else handled it?
2 pages and a little bit, that's usually enough to net you full marks if the quality is good 0 -
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Definitely is, especially for a letter. It was a handy question, you could get by on descriptive writing and relating to her text.Dwellingdweller wrote: »2 pages and a little bit, that's usually enough to net you full marks if the quality is good0 -
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WarZoneBrother wrote: »I done this essay, I made it that I myself went off to Perth and used a story which I had already learned and added it into it.. Wonder would you be marked down as I said damn all about leaving apart from that I was actually leaving...
LOL Just read your bit there and see you done basically the same about moving to Australia...
Also in the letter do you just use the address and date? How many pages did everyone put for the letter?
Lol yeah I only added it in right at the end so it was a normal story about a boy's fear of diving up until the climax where he saves a womans life and then the next day dives in his lifesaving class . I just mentioned about his life ahead moving to Australia. That's so funny we both used Australia.
I only had 2 pages and a bit. I did your address I made something random adding Dublin at the end. I forgot to write a date. I skipped a line wrote their address I made it like something ,Vancouver, Canada . I answered it informally then and used yours faithfully to end it. I hadn't a clue what to write for most of it I just compared the weather and the countryside to the city. I haven't a clue how it went.0 -
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Mysteriouschic wrote: »Lol yeah I only added it in right at the end so it was a normal story about a boy's fear of diving up until the climax where he saves a womans life and then the next day dives in his lifesaving class . I just mentioned about his life ahead moving to Australia. That's so funny we both used Australia.
I only had 2 pages and a bit. I did your address I made something random adding Dublin at the end. I forgot to write a date. I skipped a line wrote their address I made it like something ,Vancouver, Canada . I answered it informally then and used yours faithfully to end it. I hadn't a clue what to write for most of it I just compared the weather and the countryside to the city. I haven't a clue how it went.
Where you copying my exam, I am onto you
I don't know why I chose Australia though, heat of the moment I suppose .. I am dreading tomorrow though Engineering and Paper 2 this is going to be a disaster... 0 -
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Coeurdepirate wrote: »Not overly happy with that paper tbh. The comprehensions were fine, but the speech title was awful imo. I wrote about 2 good pages and then struggled through another page and a half of waffle.
I wish I did Q1 instead.
Hey, I just thought I'd thank you for your usernme/help. I was listening to Coeur last night and she was in an interview and i think she said she was from Quebec in Ontario so i was delighted. Thanks
you're a saviour. 0 -
wow, i didn't think time was tight at all! wrote 5.5 pages on composition in 1 hour, done 3 pages on a and 2 pages on a letter..and had 15 minutes to spare not sure if I did great though! Hopefully it was fine now bring on paper 2!!! 0
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degausserxo wrote: »Did anyone else do the proposal for part b?
Yep, although I just wrote essentially a letter without any address ... 0 -
I'm Absolutely Dejected.
Gave what I believe is an A1 answer on Section A from Text 3,for Composition, i chose Q7 and wrote a fantastic account of a young mans life during the easter rising 1916 and his subsequent enrollment in the British army where he dies on his back reflecting on his troubled life.
The reason I am dejected is due to running out of time whilst answering Section B from Text 1.... I got a page wrote with a conclusion, with the 2nd half of the page an absolute mess due to me rushing..... i am revolted..... I will be dejected if the reason i didnt get 460 points is because of that mistake
Don't worry about the messy writing, I doubt anyone's writing is perfect today, if the examiner can read it then they will grade it. If you are happy with your essay and your question A, your question B won't ruin the whole paper. You will probably get more marks than you think even just for a page! Most people write between 1.5-2 for the Question B, so you weren't that far behind
Nobody can spout out their best answers on the first day of the Leaving Cert and the correctors know this. You still have half the exam still to sit, so go study for that! :P0 -
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