Leaving Cert 2014 OT v2.0 - Official Bitch & Moan thread

aleatorio

Everyone seems to be forgetting that a poet they like may come up, with an impossible horrible question :pac:

I've Dickinson and Larkin/Kinsella learned, style and themes for Dickinson, and just themes for Kinsella and Larkin, and I have Yeasts style learned
Fingers crossed we get nice questions and not something like
'Dickinsons poetry was defined by her use of commas' Discuss. :pac:

wallace2

Banking so much on Yeats coming up!

Odrevan

aleatorio wrote: »

Everyone seems to be forgetting that a poet they like may come up, with an impossible horrible question :pac:

I've Dickinson and Larkin/Kinsella learned, style and themes for Dickinson, and just themes for Kinsella and Larkin, and I have Yeasts style learned
Fingers crossed we get nice questions and not something like
'Dickinsons poetry was defined by her use of commas' Discuss. :pac:

But dem hyphens though

Hollister11

Ahhh OL life.

Poliana.xo

Ah I'm sure we'll get a lovely paper and we'll be grand :P Good luck everyone, I'm off to do the last bit of cramming :pac:

deedeebb

QUICK QUESTION. is it enough to talk about the opening/closing scenes and the setting for GV&VP

Aspiring

little sis... wrote: »

Was that intentional or?...:rolleyes:

Nope :pac: meant to say Plath! Oh well guess I'll just do Yeats twice

3 pages of comparative in 30 mins, boom

Aspiring

Aspiring wrote: »

There's no rule to say a poet can't come up twice though, the SEC do what they want

Plath came up 03 and 04. Perhaps another double in 13 and 14, ten years apart? :P

Aspiring

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Plath came up 03 and 04. Perhaps another double in 13 and 14, ten years apart? :P

I'd like that, but as the lads said she's up next year so it'd be obvious that she wouldn't come up thrice :pac:

Peregrine

He has a point.

She came up in the exam in 03 and 04. She was still on the course in 05. Anything can happen.

peekachoo

Do ya think the SEC would actually have the balls to not put on any women poets?

peekachoo

peekachoo wrote: »

Do ya think the SEC would actually have the balls to not put on any women poets?

I posted about it in The Grads but I think this may be an all male year considering we got 2 females.

peekachoo

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I posted about it in The Grads but I think this may be an all male year considering we got 2 females.

fuuuuucccckkkkkkk

Aspiring

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

He has a point.

She came up in the exam in 03 and 04. She was still on the course in 05. Anything can happen.

I see. Nice.

Think female has to come up. Imagine the feminists giving out.

FatRat

Notice how last year a few poets from our course was on the paper? Imagine if none of them were, then we would be very uncertain of who was coming up! So take for example that Yeats, Dicknson and plath are the only poets on our course that are on next year too.... well then I'm certain 2 or 3 of them will come up this year to give next years English students a chance!


So basically Dickinson and Yeats will both be on the test come 2 o clock. There is on off-chance that Plath may be too....

peekachoo

Aspiring wrote: »

I see. Nice.

Think female has to come up. Imagine the feminists giving out.

If one doesn't I'm gonna turn into a feminist for a day and rain down a massive ****storm on the SEC :P

sammydev

Maybe i'm looking too much into it but in 2010 yeats, rich, kavanagh and eliot came up then in 2012 rich and kavanagh were repeated with kinsella and larkin
So in 2014 could it be kinsella and larkin?!?

Aspiring

sammydev wrote: »

Maybe i'm looking too much into it but in 2010 yeats, rich, kavanagh and eliot came up then in 2012 rich and kavanagh were repeated with kinsella and larkin
So in 2014 could it be kinsella and larkin?!?

I don't think there's actually a pattern. The SEC just love playing mind games.

sammydev

Aspiring wrote: »

I don't think there's actually a pattern. The SEC just love playing mind games.

True, I wouldn't be surprised to see plath on the paper, if there trying to get rid of predictions dickinson and heaney maybe too obvious

Hotale.com

Got an hour and a half to learn 5 poems, this will be fun :rolleyes:

Striving470

I've decided I'm taking the risk.Dickinson and Heaney it is. If it doesn't work out,contact me if in need of discount vouchers for Dunnes Stores.

aleatorio

I wouldn't be surprised if the poets were just picked out of a hat tbh.. no patters, no evil SEC trying to screw us over, just randomness and probability :P

Peregrine

Okay..I'm going with these predictions:

Dickinson
Yeats
Heaney
Plath

Plath might be ridiculous and maybe Heaney too after yesterday but oh well, that's the ones I'm revising.

Aspiring

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Okay..I'm going with these predictions:

Dickinson
Yeats
Heaney
Plath

Plath might be ridiculous and maybe Heaney too after yesterday but oh well, that's the ones I'm revising.

Keep saying Plath, if we say it enough she has to come up. The law of attraction and all that

Peregrine

Is it the sea you hear in me,
Its dissatisfactions?
Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness?

Plath for 2014









May settle for Heaney or Dickinson

peekachoo

Id be happy with Plath or Dickinson.
Although I did Plath last year so it may be nice to change it up :pac:

peekachoo

peekachoo wrote: »

Id be happy with Plath or Dickinson.
Although I did Plath last year so it may be nice to change it up :pac:

Plath forever
Just remember if your whole class will most likely answer on the same poet then make yours stand out.
May the poets be ever in your favour

Aspiring

I love how it seems we're the only people in the country wanting Plath :pac:

If she does reappear then I doubt the question would be as nice as last year's though

peekachoo

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Plath forever
Just remember if your whole class will most likely answer on the same poet then make yours stand out.
May the poets be ever in your favour

Everyone's doing Dickinson!
If it so happened that both Plath and Dickinson came up I'd go with Plath.

Indeed. Include me in your lamentations, if they don't come up. :P