**2013 English Paper 1 official thread**

Vito Corleone

Thought the comprehensions were quite difficult myself, must have spent at least an hour on them. Got over a page on them all I think. B question was okay and I flew though it. Short story titles weren't the best but thought I had a good beginning and middle to my story, ended quite weak due to the time constraints. Didn't get to read over my paper at the end either.

suitcasepink

I dont think I ever wrote an article before..
But I did one today.





*This is not a good thing

RML

deise_girl wrote: »

I dont think I ever wrote an article before..
But I did one today.





*This is not a good thing

Ditto!
Did you do informal?

Vito Corleone

RML wrote: »

Ditto!
Did you do informal?

Do you mean the tourist one? I did that and mine is very informal and light hearted.

ScummyMan

Am I the only one to do an article on urban and rural living?

I thought twas grand!

Slow Show

I didn't like the paper tbh. That's not to say I did badly, I think I did grand but I too hope I got the balance between formal/informal right for my QB (introduction). Comprehension was alright, wrote loooads for them but the 20-marker I did felt a bit shaky, was a bit messy, and I haaaated all of the essay titles but I think I did alright in the end with what I settled for.

No idea how I did! Not too badly I hope.:p

hitchcock

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

Am I the only one to do an article on urban and rural living?

I thought twas grand!

Yes I did that too! Did you take a light hearted or serious approach to it?

suitcasepink

RML wrote: »

Ditto!
Did you do informal?

Omg I didnt even think of that.
I did 2 articles today.. My first and 2nd, oh god >.< :pac:
Both my B (and Q6) were pretty formal tbh, tho my B less so, with a few sarcastic and silly comments along the way.

Im on a bit of a downtrod after this tbh.. However Ill remain hopeful for tomorrow

RML

I did the article on the rural and urban lifestyles. Mine was informal and light hearted too
I basically pointed out the reasons of the advantages of rural and urban lifestyles... Was I going on the wrong path?

YoursSincerely

Am I the only one who did a descriptive essay on glimpsed moments? I had done an essay that fit that title so perfectly i practically wrote it word for word, I'd say half the country did the talk on Tv/Radio, But still I'm quite happy

peekachoo

Simples! Got to recycle the only A1 essay I ever did.
I got carried away though I literally wrote the last word on my paper when she said time up

Glee_GG

Vito Corleone wrote: »

Do you mean the tourist one? I did that and mine is very informal and light hearted.

i did the same, mine was pretty casual, didn't use any formal language tbh

was pretty happy, did first comp wasn't thrilled with my style answer but sure what can ya do. Did the first essay on the unheroic world and disagreed

Scuid Mhór

An alright paper. Composing was, so was section B. Thought the comprehensions were tricky enough though!

Copper_pipe

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

Am I the only one to do an article on urban and rural living?

I thought twas grand!

I did that too

RML

deise_girl wrote: »

Omg I didnt even think of that.
I did 2 articles today.. My first and 2nd, oh god >.< :pac:
Both my B (and Q6) were pretty formal tbh, tho my B less so, with a few sarcastic and silly comments along the way.

Im on a bit of a downtrod after this tbh.. However Ill remain hopeful for tomorrow

I asked my teacher whether it was formal or informal and she said either of them would be correct for a popular magazine. How long was your Q6?? I only managed to do 3 and a quarter pages, ran out of ideas

hitchcock

RML wrote: »

I did the article on the rural and urban lifestyles. Mine was informal and light hearted too
I basically pointed out the reasons of the advantages of rural and urban lifestyles... Was I going on the wrong path?

No yours sounds right! I said I was writing for a fashion magazine so my target audience was twenty something fashionistas, haha, what have the exams done to me? :P

suitcasepink

RML wrote: »

I asked my teacher whether it was formal or informal and she said either of them would be correct for a popular magazine. How long was your Q6?? I only managed to do 3 and a quarter pages, ran out of ideas

Mine was four and a half but Id have slightly larger than average handwriting! My friend did it too and she wrote just under 4 pages so Id say a lot of people struggled to get much length out of it

Copper_pipe

I think my essay was too short, 3 pages 10 words a line?

A Funky Unicorn

Did the article loved it

RML

hitchcock wrote: »

No yours sounds right! I said I was writing for a fashion magazine so my target audience was twenty something fashionistas, haha, what have the exams done to me? :P

Hmm my target audience was for newly married couples to old aged people :rolleyes:

hitchcock

RML wrote: »

Hmm my target audience was for newly married couples to old aged people :rolleyes:

They'll accept any target audience because of "popular" magazine

peekachoo

My essay was almost 7 pages!
I've slightly large writing but tbh I got carried away with the story and I'm fairly confident with it, it's a real


Cliff hanger

No seriously if I ever write the word cliff hanger again I will puke

Lcstudent2013

I done the introductory to the book, never done one before so don't know if I done it correct or not. I thought it was a bad choice of QB's !
How much pages did ye all do?
I done One page each for the comprehension, 2 pages on QB and 4 pages on my personal essay about the treadmill

I done the cliff hanger comprehension, was alright. What did everyone else think?

shootie

I really hated that story telling theme. I hoped for something about identity or unity. I did the Q A on the text with the short story author and my B on the role of TV+Radio in young people's lives. I was really happy that story telling in music question came up, I could of wrote for days on that!

Overall pretty chuffed. I think I did quite well to get around 11 pages in altogether. Reckon I B'd it.

Equil

I did the talk on television and radio for question B, question A from text 3 and the personal essay about the treadmill of life. Got the timing perfect.
2 pages for question A, 3 pages for B and 5 for the essay.

Quality before quantity

007driver

I liked the tv and radio question, it was like the question in the french mock, I just had to write a lot more on it. Hopefully paper to stays easy like paper 1!!!!!!!!

11Charlie11

Lcstudent2013 wrote: »

I done the introductory to the book, never done one before so don't know if I done it correct or not. I thought it was a bad choice of QB's !
How much pages did ye all do?
I done One page each for the comprehension, 2 pages on QB and 4 pages on my personal essay about the treadmill



I done the cliff hanger comprehension, was alright. What did everyone else think?

I did the treadmill essay aswell how did u find it? What did u write about .. I think I did it wrong

Lads, I referenced 50 shades of Grey, Geordie Shore and porn (slightly, never explicitly stated) I think you'll all be fine :P

Lcstudent2013

Equil wrote: »

I did the talk on television and radio for question B, question A from text 3 and the personal essay about the treadmill of life. Got the timing perfect.
2 pages for question A, 3 pages for B and 5 for the essay.

Quality before quantity

What topics did you talk about in the treadmill of life essay? And what did they mean by "gilded of life?"

RoutineBites

Well that was grand. I can attest that NOTHING is more annoying than having someone with a runny nose sitting next to you in an exam hall, but apart from that it was absolutely fine.