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English essay title

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  • 05-06-2013 5:25pm
    #1
    sotisme
    Registered Users Posts: 453 ✭✭


    Can someone please tell me how many marks you lose if you don't label your essay?!

    I picked: write a story including the following: He had the audience's undivided attention and included this sentence in my story but i never wrote that i had chosen this as my title!

    Please answer me if you can help!

    Thanks


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    Cr4pSnip3r
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    I'm pretty sure none. Unless you mean not specify which one you picked, in which case, I'm sure they could figure it out.


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    sotisme
    Registered Users Posts: 453 ✭✭sotisme


    Cr4pSnip3r wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure none. Unless you mean not specify which one you picked, in which case, I'm sure they could figure it out.

    Yeah I didn't label the question or specify which essay title I'd chosen! I'm feeling so stupid right now :(

    Thanks for the reply and if anyone else knows anything I'd be very grateful!


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    CaileAN!
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭CaileAN!


    In the mocks my friend lost about 40 marks in history because he did not label the question correctly, but hopefully not all examiners are like that.


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    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,188 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    CaileAN! wrote: »
    In the mocks my friend lost about 40 marks in history because he did not label the question correctly, but hopefully not all examiners are like that.

    You would never lose 40 marks in the real JC History for not labelling a question.


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    sotisme
    Registered Users Posts: 453 ✭✭sotisme


    spurious wrote: »
    You would never lose 40 marks in the real JC History for not labelling a question.

    Thank you! Honestly, how many marks do you think i have lost?


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    onlinenerd
    Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭onlinenerd


    None if the examiner can figure out he topic in the writing but .................


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    CaileAN!
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭CaileAN!


    sotisme wrote: »
    Thank you! Honestly, how many marks do you think i have lost?
    Hard to say, I'm sure they figured out that is was that essay. But worst case scenario you could lose all your marks allocated for that section (70) :/


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    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,188 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    sotisme wrote: »
    Thank you! Honestly, how many marks do you think i have lost?

    I really don't know about English and I've been looking in old marking schemes to see, but I would guess less than 5 marks, particularly if it is obvious from your essay which one you meant.

    It's the learned off random 'don't fit in to any title' essays that lose more.


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    #10
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,188 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    To all the naysayers, the JC is about giving you marks, not keeping them from you. You will be fine sotisme.


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    FShiwani
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭FShiwani


    If they can find the phrase in the essay, I doubt they will mind


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    sotisme
    Registered Users Posts: 453 ✭✭sotisme


    ok thanks a lot everyone! :)


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