**HL Irish Paper 2...Before/After**

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ChemHickey wrote: »

Great paper. Comprehensions were the easiest ever.
Am I the only one here who did A Thig na Tit orm? Question wasn't great but got like 4 pages on it. Good day good day.

Yeah I did that. hadn't looked at it in months, got almost 2 pages of an answer on humour and the insight Maidhc Dainín gives into the life of a young person in the past. :L Be grand, I'll probably get 20-something for it.

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Wanchor wrote: »

Was anyone really pissed of when they decided to give you the English word for "cinneal" in question 6 on the second comprehension? I mean, come on SEC, I could've found at least 8 harder words in other questions.

I think they were clarifying. They did that in the sample papers too, translated it as genre I mean. "cineál" on its own, as in "type", would make the question a bit vague imo.

Tankosaur

What did people say for their question 6 in the comprehensions?

I said people are respectful of people like this for their athleticism but they still mock him due to his indian heritage

and for the 2nd one I said it was written in the form of a discussion as he gave details from his own personal experiences and also that he summarised the facts and gave his opinions on them in the end.

Any thoughts?

David1994

ChemHickey wrote: »

Great paper. Comprehensions were the easiest ever.
Am I the only one here who did A Thig na Tit orm? Question wasn't great but got like 4 pages on it. Good day good day.

Ye the A Thig Na Tit Orm was very nice question Got 3 pages on it. Hurlamaboc there too not bad I say!

Tankosaur

David1994 wrote: »

Ye the A Thig Na Tit Orm was very nice question Got 3 pages on it. Hurlamaboc there too not bad I say!

I loved that hurlamaboc question.

I went into such detail saying that lizin is representative of society as she puts too much emphasis on physical appearences et all and that the women on the street symbolise how everyone in society conforms and wears masks to hide their true selves.

Got 3 pages out of it

David1994

Tankosaur wrote: »

I loved that hurlamaboc question.

I went into such detail saying that lizin is representative of society as she puts too much emphasis on physical appearences et all and that the women on the street symbolise how everyone in society conforms and wears masks to hide their true selves.

Got 3 pages out of it

Fair play I did 2 on that :P In my mock I did barely 1 and lost about 3 marks...Hope Irish goes good as Biology didn't go my way

cailindana

Fergus_ wrote: »

But didn't it say a modern poem that you have studied for the other option?

I dont know why they didnt write the instructions at the top of this question to stop students making the mistake! I know at least one other person who did q 3b..

Tankosaur

David1994 wrote: »

Fair play I did 2 on that :P In my mock I did barely 1 and lost about 3 marks...Hope Irish goes good as Biology didn't go my way

I found I had too much time during this exam.

I did both comps in maybe an hour total, the spent 35 mins on an tearrach thiar and got maybe 3 pages out of it (too much I know, I wrote 2 pages for the 14 mark question)

The the danta breise took me about 40 mins and I got just over 3 pages.

Spent 30 mins on hurlamabuc and got 3 pages again.


Had 20-25 mins left to read over everything despite writing more than enough for each question.

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Tankosaur wrote: »

What did people say for their question 6 in the comprehensions?

I said people are respectful of people like this for their athleticism but they still mock him due to his indian heritage

and for the 2nd one I said it was written in the form of a discussion as he gave details from his own personal experiences and also that he summarised the facts and gave his opinions on them in the end.

Any thoughts?

I said that it was factual because he gave facts and used suitable language...hahaha, that's the exact answer I use for every genre question. I think it's a fair argument though. He DID use facts. :L

RedTexan

finality wrote: »

I said that it was factual because he gave facts and used suitable language...hahaha, that's the exact answer I use for every genre question. I think it's a fair argument though. He DID use facts. :L

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOaZYhTd2BU Facts

rosualt

QUESTI0N wrote: »

Er… correct me if I'm wrong but did I spot a grammatical error on the Hurlamboc question?

Déan plé air sin

I thought, but I might be wrong here, that 'ar' should have been used in that case? If so then scarlet for the SEC

"Déan plé air sin" is right, it's like it should really be "chomh maith leis sin" instead of "chomh maith le sin" but people use both.

Naomi00

finality wrote: »

You're joking, right?

Think they're talking about QB on poetry, I think you can do anything for that.

Tankosaur

finality wrote: »

I said that it was factual because he gave facts and used suitable language...hahaha, that's the exact answer I use for every genre question. I think it's a fair argument though. He DID use facts. :L

I said it was a report at first, but then I changed and said it was a discussion (plé).

The reason i opted away from report was it was too personal, a report should be objective but this was from personal experiances and he gave his opinions.

leaveiton

For the Q6 of the second comprehension I just said it was a mixture between an insint and a personal article or something. Didn't give any characteristics or features, just waffled on a bit in hope of a couple of marks :L

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Naomi00 wrote: »

Think they're talking about QB on poetry, I think you can do anything for that.

Except what they did, use one of the prescribed ones. :P

Tankosaur

leaveiton wrote: »

For the Q6 of the second comprehension I just said it was a mixture between an insint and a personal article or something. Didn't give any characteristics or features, just waffled on a bit in hope of a couple of marks :L

My first instinct was narrative because 1 it was written in the amsir chaite and 2 it was personal

But then after the 2nd paragraph it became more factual , impersonal and the tense changed to the aimsir lathrach.


It was........... strange...

HeaneyBabe

I cannot believe my ears when I hear people saying they got 6 pages for the Paper 1 essay, then like 3 pages for hurlamaboc, 4 for an triail etc.

EDmon

Tankosaur wrote: »

My first instinct was narrative because 1 it was written in the amsir chaite and 2 it was personal

But then after the 2nd paragraph it became more factual , impersonal and the tense changed to the aimsir lathrach.

.

Can you say the genre was argumentative or is that completely wrong?

SeanMadd

Anyone else think both papers were just beautiful? Everything I wanted came up(don't really like Hurlamaboc but whatever) and the comprehensions were actually easier than ones I've done before! However it was annoying how they slipped in 2 questions for every part b ;O Some people didn't get them finished because of that!

validusername1

Fergus_ wrote: »

I really hope I passed at this stage with 30 marks down the drain already

I did well in the comphrensions though.... Ahhh I feel so stupid

Sure the poetry section is only worth 5% of the entire exam, I wouldn't worry much!

opticalillusion

What story did people use for this?

Maidir leis an sliocht as an úrscéal roghnach a ndearna tú staidéar air le linn do chúrsa, déan plé
gairid ar an bpríomhthéama atá ann, agus ar fhorbairt an phríomhthéama sin sa sliocht.
I couldn't think of the authors name on the day - would you lose a lot of marks for that?

Maidir le dán nua-aimseartha a ndearna tú staidéar air le linn do chúrsa

Oh. Fook. I used Geibheann, will they not give you any marks at all?

haro124

opticalillusion wrote: »

What story did people use for this?

Maidir leis an sliocht as an úrscéal roghnach a ndearna tú staidéar air le linn do chúrsa, déan plé
gairid ar an bpríomhthéama atá ann, agus ar fhorbairt an phríomhthéama sin sa sliocht.
I couldn't think of the authors name on the day - would you lose a lot of marks for that?

Maidir le dán nua-aimseartha a ndearna tú staidéar air le linn do chúrsa

Oh. Fook. I used Geibheann, will they not give you any marks at all?

Fraid so