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English LC 2014 - Heaney

  • 31-08-2013 12:35am
    #1
    cathalio11
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    First of all, it's very disappointing to hear of his death and the coverage he is getting is a testament to his achievements.

    With the exam papers being made next month, and current affairs have been known to play a part in the drafting of these papers at times, do you guys and girls think that studying Heaney as one of the poets is a no-brainer now?


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  • #2
    spurious
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    Why do you think the exam papers are being 'made' next month?
    The drafting and setting process is well underway at this stage.
    That's not to say they may not change some questions, but the process started a good while ago for 2014.


  • #3
    cathalio11
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    A few teachers in my school have spoken about October/November being the months where you should keep an eye on the news and read the newspapers, especially in Economics.

    Obviously, I was mis-informed?


  • #4
    spurious
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    Or they were.
    Some papers have their initial drafts in Athlone shortly after the exams of the previous years finish.


  • #5
    randylonghorn
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    cathalio11 wrote: »
    ... do you guys and girls think that studying Heaney as one of the poets is a no-brainer now?
    In any case, consider these possibilities:

    a) The SEC / paper setters realise the whole country is expecting Heaney and deliberately leave him out. I'm not sure they would be that deliberately nasty tbh, but ... who knows.

    b) The SEC / paper setters realise the whole country is expecting Heaney and set a tough question that separates those who actually know their stuff inside out from those who only able to parrot off a few pre-prepared essays.

    c) Heaney is on the paper (nice or tough question), and 90% of students do him. Correctors are bleeeeeaaaaarrrrrrrryyyyy-eyed from wading through Heaney. Suddenly ... a paper with Mahon / Yeats / whoever! What a relief!! No matter how correctors try to be scrupulously fair, they are human ... do you honestly not think that those who do not go with the majority will end up being rewarded for it, no matter how sub-consciously?


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
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    The SEC have also said that when they pick out the poets that will be on the paper that it is completely random and picked from a hat. Obviously we don't know how true this is but when you see what poets came up some years, you wonder where they got that combination from :p
    That being said, they do like to be current (if there is an earthquake in the world, Geography will probably ask them) and Adrianne Rich came up the year of her death.
    To sum up, you can't tell at all really.


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