**HL Irish Paper I - Before / After **

shawnanana

Ah here.. all yee with your 5 and 6 page essays and me here delighted with my 2 and 3/4 page one

0mega

Writing 5-6 pages is a really bad idea.. the more Irish you write, the more potential for mistakes, the more marks for Gaeilge you will lose.

I know what's done is done now but I just don't understand that..

HPMS

0mega wrote: »

Writing 5-6 pages is a really bad idea.. the more Irish you write, the more potential for mistakes, the more marks for Gaeilge you will lose.

I know what's done is done now but I just don't understand that..

It all depends on your standard of Irish though,if you make very few grammar mistakes as it is then the length of your essay shouldn't pose a problem.

Generally, if you are able to write long essays you gave a fairly good fluency in Irish and grammar.

thisguy145

Was the first essay topic stuff that effect you in life?

Lucan Bohs

0mega wrote: »

Writing 5-6 pages is a really bad idea.. the more Irish you write, the more potential for mistakes, the more marks for Gaeilge you will lose.

I know what's done is done now but I just don't understand that..

Not really. If you don't write enough then you'll lose marks for writing nothing rather then lose marks for grammar mistakes. They say 500-600 words but that'd need to be a high standard of Irish I'd imagine.

Lc20133

Ok i did the aiste on emmigration, i talked about how there used to be emmegration long ago and things picked up and it stopped with the celtic tiger, but nowdays it back, i talked about how crime and drugs make ireland a unideal country which cause emmegration , also how parent realise the high level of underage drinking and leave with their familys to countries with better standerd of living and then i talked a little about recession and lack of jobs , finally i mentioned these problems must be overcome to stop emmigration. I wrote 5 pages. Just wondering will i get the majority off the marks with that??

Slow Show

0mega wrote: »

Writing 5-6 pages is a really bad idea.. the more Irish you write, the more potential for mistakes, the more marks for Gaeilge you will lose.

I know what's done is done now but I just don't understand that..

Meh. I did nearly 6 pages and read over it three times. I have a high standard of Irish and a rather wide vocabulary, and I think this would've shone through with the fact that I could write so much. Obviously I could've missed a few but I don't think I made very many mistakes in those pages. Different strokes for different folks, I do know six was excessive and possibly a bit pointless but there's no need to come on and say, hours after the exam, that it was a terrible idea either. People are stressed enough as it is without that. :P

thisguy145

Slow Show wrote: »

Meh. I did nearly 6 pages and read over it three times. I have a high standard of Irish and a rather wide vocabulary, and I think this would've shone through with the fact that I could write so much. Obviously I could've missed a few but I don't think I made very many mistakes in those pages. Different strokes for different folks, I do know six was excessive and possibly a bit pointless but there's no need to come on and say, hours after the exam, that it was a terrible idea either. People are stressed enough as it is without that. :P

I wrote 3 and 3/4 of a page I thought I was delighted with myself, so if you wrote nearly 6 fair play to ya

Leaving Cert Student

The first question in the listening... sclêap or something??

Acciaccatura

Leaving Cert Student wrote: »

The first question in the listening... sclêap or something??

Scléip, it's another word for fun, I think there actually is some small Irish organisation by that name.

Leaving Cert Student

Acciaccatura wrote: »

Scléip, it's another word for fun, I think there actually is some small Irish organisation by that name.

Damn would scléap get it do ya think?

Hirish

Acciaccatura wrote: »

Scléip, it's another word for fun, I think there actually is some small Irish organisation by that name.

Oh I think I wrote scaip?

Acciaccatura

Leaving Cert Student wrote: »

Damn would scléap get it do ya think?

Ah yeah, sure once you've written something that would sound like it, they'd give you it, they don't dock marks for spellings of names if the gist of it is there

Acciaccatura

Hirish wrote: »

Oh I think I wrote scaip?

Don't worry about it, I'm sure you'd get something

kevin12345

Acciaccatura wrote: »

Scléip, it's another word for fun, I think there actually is some small Irish organisation by that name.

I actually wrote that down! I honestly thought I was making up a word or something. :P

yournerd

kevin12345 wrote: »

I actually wrote that down! I honestly thought I was making up a word or something. :P

Yeah that's correct

0mega

Slow Show wrote: »

Meh. I did nearly 6 pages and read over it three times. I have a high standard of Irish and a rather wide vocabulary, and I think this would've shone through with the fact that I could write so much. Obviously I could've missed a few but I don't think I made very many mistakes in those pages. Different strokes for different folks, I do know six was excessive and possibly a bit pointless but there's no need to come on and say, hours after the exam, that it was a terrible idea either. People are stressed enough as it is without that. :P

Sorry, you're right! I didn't think of that. I was just shocked by how much it was.

sianconway

The HL paper was absolutely lovely, in my opinion. I was delirious when I say the piosa cainte on the education system; I honestly thought they wouldn't put something as generic on for HL. I've done that essay at least three times since February so it was a great advantage.
The listening was good, too. In class, I often struggled with them, but I think this one went very well.
Fingers crossed that paper 2 goes well for everyone!