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

peekachoo

cferry3 wrote: »

When does the man put up his predictions on YouTube, Eoin I think he's called, desperate times call for desperate measures!

He put up english last night, heaney and dickinson. I could have told ye that like :pac:

oncex

peekachoo wrote: »

He put up english last night, heaney and dickinson. I could have told ye that like :pac:

I think hes very obvious and unaware. Like i remember for biology he said ecology photosynth respiration and genetics would come up.... duh.


Edit: Just watched his predictions video for english... pointless. It's as if only one poet comes up.

bb1234567

oncex wrote: »

I think hes very obvious and unaware. Like i remember for biology he said ecology photosynth respiration and genetics would come up.... duh.

lol those chapters have never not come up, whats the youtube guy called? I might check him out anyway

peekachoo

Eoin Jackson!

Ah he's grand to be fair to prioritise for last minute cramming. Actually he was good for the aul geography predictions last year!
but obviously just dont study what he says cos it's impossible to actually know what's on the papers!

cferry3

Anyone got a link to the English one, can't find it anywhere!

Hotale.com

cferry3 wrote: »

Anyone got a link to the English one, can't find it anywhere!

Literally all he says is "Seamus Heaney, or failing that, Emily Dickinson", then some creepy LSD music comes on.

aleatorio

Would 21 'comparisons' in a GVV essay be enough..?

bb1234567

aleatorio wrote: »

Would 21 'comparisons' in a GVV essay be enough..?

Obviously haha probably about 15 would be good enough

*and speaking of this, are you all learning 3 out of the 4 possible question types? Like we were only taught cultural context, GVV and theme of conflict. Are any of you doing that 4th type of Q that comes up sometimes in comparatve?

Hotale.com

bb1234567 wrote: »

Obviously haha probably about 15 would be good enough

*and speaking of this, are you all learning 3 out of the 4 possible question types? Like we were only taught cultural context, GVV and theme of conflict. Are any of you doing that 4th type of Q that comes up sometimes in comparatve?

I don't think literary genre is on our course this year... Or else we're only doing 3 in school, I dunno :P

aleatorio

bb1234567 wrote: »

Obviously haha probably about 15 would be good enough

*and speaking of this, are you all learning 3 out of the 4 possible question types? Like we were only taught cultural context, GVV and theme of conflict. Are any of you doing that 4th type of Q that comes up sometimes in comparatve?

Ok, I had literally no clue how many was expected XD that said some of them are very weak observations :pac:

There's 4 'modes of comparison' in the English curriculum, but only 3 are prescribed for study each year, as in, literary genre will NOT come up, same as how say, Shakespeare won't come up in our poetry even though he was on last year :pac:

I'm only studying GVV and Cultural Context, one of them is guaranteed to come up :P

oncex

Hotale.com wrote: »

I don't think literary genre is on our course this year... Or else we're only doing 3 in school, I dunno :P

nope LG is not on our course this year. Learn 2 , and 1 will be guaranteed to come up.

thelad95

bb1234567 wrote: »

Obviously haha probably about 15 would be good enough

*and speaking of this, are you all learning 3 out of the 4 possible question types? Like we were only taught cultural context, GVV and theme of conflict. Are any of you doing that 4th type of Q that comes up sometimes in comparatve?

Literary Genre isn't on the course this year. It was on last year. It was kinda hard to write about. If you did a play you had to talk about how it was done on stage. Horrific.

The quality of the links is more important. You could have 20 superficial, waffly links and get a D or you could have ten good links and get an A.

aleatorio

thelad95 wrote: »

Literary Genre isn't on the course this year. It was on last year. It was kinda hard to write about. If you did a play you had to talk about how it was done on stage. Horrific.

The quality of the links is more important. You could have 20 superficial, waffly links and get a D or you could have ten good links and get an A.

Well see I'm finding it hard to know what a good link is
Can I get some clarification:
'despite these poisonous relationships, both Sive and HMMTB contain more poignant, gentle relationships' good link/bad link?
'However this opening is significantly less dramatic than the other two texts, as we the audience are less likely to take this instance of childhood bullying as seriously when juxtaposed against the image of a man awaiting death (HMMTB) or the vile words of a dysfunctional family interaction (Sive)' good link/bad link?

Would simply pointing out similarities and differences be enough or would stuff like that second one be better?

LoveLamps

aleatorio wrote: »

Well see I'm finding it hard to know what a good link is
Can I get some clarification:
'despite these poisonous relationships, both Sive and HMMTB contain more poignant, gentle relationships' good link/bad link?
'However this opening is significantly less dramatic than the other two texts, as we the audience are less likely to take this instance of childhood bullying as seriously when juxtaposed against the image of a man awaiting death (HMMTB) or the vile words of a dysfunctional family interaction (Sive)' good link/bad link?

Would simply pointing out similarities and differences be enough or would stuff like that second one be better?

The second sentence, despite it making sense, is waay too long. Torture when my teacher was trying to get me to break up my sentences. Is it coherence it comes under?

thelad95

aleatorio wrote: »

Well see I'm finding it hard to know what a good link is
Can I get some clarification:
'despite these poisonous relationships, both Sive and HMMTB contain more poignant, gentle relationships' good link/bad link?
'However this opening is significantly less dramatic than the other two texts, as we the audience are less likely to take this instance of childhood bullying as seriously when juxtaposed against the image of a man awaiting death (HMMTB) or the vile words of a dysfunctional family interaction (Sive)' good link/bad link?

Would simply pointing out similarities and differences be enough or would stuff like that second one be better?

Those are good imo but some people might say something like 'in both HMMB and Sive there is a husband and wife who argue regularly' which is just waffle.

aleatorio

LoveLamps wrote: »

The second sentence, despite it making sense, is waay too long. Torture when my teacher was trying to get me to break up my sentences. Is it coherence it comes under?

Well obviously not all my sentences are that long, one or two surely can't be the end of the world, I generally get good coherence marks so I don't think it's an issue :pac:

aleatorio

thelad95 wrote: »

Those are good imo but some people might say something like 'in both HMMB and Sive there is a husband and wife who argue regularly' which is just waffle.

Ahhh ok, I think I'm safe so :pac:

Hollister11

In geography If you only learned biomes or soils not both would you be ok?
Because both always come up

bb1234567

thelad95 wrote: »

Those are good imo but some people might say something like 'in both HMMB and Sive there is a husband and wife who argue regularly' which is just waffle.

Whats wrong with that? LIke I wouldnt say it in those words it doesnt sound that good but Im going to talk about the dysfunctional marriages and their fighting:P

bb1234567

Hollister11 wrote: »

In geography If you only learned biomes or soils not both would you be ok?
Because both always come up

Nahh you need both. Im learning 3. Biomes and soils always come up yes but in different ways. You could learn the biomes characteristics essay but that wouldnt cover you for the biomes human interaction essay yanno

Striving470

Theme or cultural context?

Hotale.com

What's the biomes and soils option like? I've a friend doing it and he says it's piss easy compared to atmosphere & ocean (he does biomes and soils in grinds, A&O in school).

The only reason we do A&O in school is because our teacher says it's easier to get full marks in if you study it properly because so few schools do it :P

Striving470

bb1234567 wrote: »

Nahh you need both. Im learning 3. Biomes and soils always come up yes but in different ways. You could learn the biomes characteristics essay but that wouldnt cover you for the biomes human interaction essay yanno

Sooo...would I be fine with human interaction with a biome,and characteristics of biome(climate,soil,flora,fauna)...like just them two?

bb1234567

Hotale.com wrote: »

What's the biomes and soils option like? I've a friend doing it and he says it's piss easy compared to atmosphere & ocean (he does biomes and soils in grinds, A&O in school).

The only reason we do A&O in school is because our teacher says it's easier to get full marks in if you study it properly because so few schools do it :P

Hard af. You have to learn like 2 A4 pages worth of notes 3x times over its impossible gahhh

bb1234567

Striving470 wrote: »

Sooo...would I be fine with human interaction with a biome,and characteristics of biome(climate,soil,flora,fauna)...like just them two?

I think you would be ,yes. My teacher advised us to do the two soils questions and biome characteristics question so idk

thelad95

What essays are people doing for Geoecology? The one's I have are:
Characteristics of a Biome
Characteristics of a soil type(latosols)
Human interaction with soil

Whats human interaction with Biome like? I'm thinking of learning off a sample answer for it.

bb1234567

thelad95 wrote: »

What essays are people doing for Geoecology? The one's I have are:
Characteristics of a Biome
Characteristics of a soil type(latosols)
Human interaction with soil

Whats human interaction with Biome like? I'm thinking of learning off a sample answer for it.

IM doing the exact same three, except brown soil characteristics not latasols

Hotale.com

bb1234567 wrote: »

Hard af. You have to learn like 2 A4 pages worth of notes 3x times over its impossible gahhh

A&O has about 15 four page essays to learn off...

thelad95

Hotale.com wrote: »

A&O has about 15 four page essays to learn off...

WTF?!?!?!?

bb1234567

Hotale.com wrote: »

A&O has about 15 four page essays to learn off...

How does your teacher expect you to learn that tho