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

aleatorio

Aspiring wrote: »

Are you going for 625 in the leaving? :P

Well shure isn't everyone

Nah I'll be very happy with 570+, I have a 'modest' goal of 2A1s and 4B1s which will get me my course hopefully, after that I couldn't care tbh

courtney95

onethreefive wrote: »

I only know four poems for each poet that I've studied. Is that enough?

my teacher told us that 4 is plenty as you will most likely struggle with timing etc if you do 5+... (Insitute of education)

Aspiring

aleatorio wrote: »

Well shure isn't everyone

Nah I'll be very happy with 570+, I have a 'modest' goal of 2A1s and 4B1s which will get me my course hopefully, after that I couldn't care tbh

Ah I see, 570 would probably get you any course in the country anyway :P

Aspiring

courtney95 wrote: »

my teacher told us that 4 is plenty as you will most likely struggle with timing etc if you do 5+... (Insitute of education)

I usually do 5 and while I agree if you struggle with timing it would be difficult, if you write quickly it is possible. In our mocks Paper 2 some people didn't even make it to poetry. Thankfully I got it finished, but it was 20 pages and the most intense exam I've ever done I think I'll answer on 5 poets next Thursday. How many pages do all of you do for poetry? I try aim for 5.

aleatorio

Aspiring wrote: »

Ah I see, 570 would probably get you any course in the country anyway :P

Well the course I want was 560 last year and it'll probably rise, but hopefully 570 is enough

wallace2

Aspiring wrote: »

I usually do 5 and while I agree if you struggle with timing it would be difficult, if you write quickly it is possible. In our mocks Paper 2 some people didn't even make it to poetry. Thankfully I got it finished, but it was 20 pages and the most intense exam I've ever done I think I'll answer on 5 poets next Thursday. How many pages do all of you do for poetry? I try aim for 5.

I normally only get about 3.5 to 4

bb1234567

courtney95 wrote: »

my teacher told us that 4 is plenty as you will most likely struggle with timing etc if you do 5+... (Insitute of education)

Which teacher do you have?

and 5 pages is much too much! I only did 3.5 pages and I got 42/50 and Im no literary genius

courtney95

bb1234567 wrote: »

Which teacher do you have?

Frank Cleary

aleatorio

Aspiring wrote: »

I usually do 5 and while I agree if you struggle with timing it would be difficult, if you write quickly it is possible. In our mocks Paper 2 some people didn't even make it to poetry. Thankfully I got it finished, but it was 20 pages and the most intense exam I've ever done I think I'll answer on 5 poets next Thursday. How many pages do all of you do for poetry? I try aim for 5.

4-5 for poetry, 4-5 for Macbeth and 5-6 for the comparative - in my opinion that's more than enough for each, I hear some crazy figures like 8 for comparative or 7 for Macbeth but realistically, a well planned and structured essay without any waffle that leaves you time to actually think and plan is better than 'word-vomiting' a hape of pages and rushing through the whole thing

courtney95

Aspiring wrote: »

I usually do 5 and while I agree if you struggle with timing it would be difficult, if you write quickly it is possible. In our mocks Paper 2 some people didn't even make it to poetry. Thankfully I got it finished, but it was 20 pages and the most intense exam I've ever done I think I'll answer on 5 poets next Thursday. How many pages do all of you do for poetry? I try aim for 5.

Only about 3.5 pages!

bb1234567

courtney95 wrote: »

Frank Cleary

Same, I wouldnt pick him again if i repeated

Hotale.com

Aspiring wrote: »

I usually do 5 and while I agree if you struggle with timing it would be difficult, if you write quickly it is possible. In our mocks Paper 2 some people didn't even make it to poetry. Thankfully I got it finished, but it was 20 pages and the most intense exam I've ever done I think I'll answer on 5 poets next Thursday. How many pages do all of you do for poetry? I try aim for 5.

I try to get 6-7 pages on everything....

courtney95

bb1234567 wrote: »

Same, I wouldnt pick him again if i repeated

I had him for Poetry and Comparative! Most boring man I've ever came across, the classes were painful haha

Aspiring

wallace2 wrote: »

I normally only get about 3.5 to 4

That's probably enough for poetry really. We had a test there a while ago on poetry. My friend wrote 5 pages and was really confident he'd wrote enough to get an A. My other friend only got 3 pages (maybe not even) and she didn't even get a chance to answer on all of the poems. First guy got around 45%, the girl got a B. Goes to show quality always trumps quantity

bb1234567

Hotale.com wrote: »

I try to get 6-7 pages on everything....

Thats so much unneeded stress though like. 5 pages for poetry is even too much never mind 7

Aspiring

Hotale.com wrote: »

I try to get 6-7 pages on everything....

6-7 pages on unseen poetry? What's wrong with you?

bb1234567

courtney95 wrote: »

I had him for Poetry and Comparative! Most boring man I've ever came across, the classes were painful haha

Oh my god I feel asleep in 8.30 poetry sooo many times hahah and his comparative classes were always packed i could never even hear him!

Hotale.com

bb1234567 wrote: »

Thats so much unneeded stress though like. 5 pages for poetry is even too much never mind 7

Nah, anything less and I feel like I'm not detailed enough

thelad95

Hotale.com wrote: »

I try to get 6-7 pages on everything....

Good luck with that. Typically I aim for the following:

Poetry 4 pages
Macbeth 5 pages
Comparative 6 pages
Paper 1 essay 5-7 pages (Quality more important than quantity!!)

Poliana.xo

17 pages in 3h20min, that sounds mad when you think about it :rolleyes: But to be honest under pressure in an exam I don't even feel it, write like a mad yoke :pac:

courtney95

bb1234567 wrote: »

Oh my god I feel asleep in 8.30 poetry sooo many times hahah and his comparative classes were always packed i could never even hear him!

I had him for poetry at 2:30 on a Monday and I honestly felt like crying the classes dragged!
I wish I had a warning on which teachers not to pick before I started ha

Hotale.com

I could write 50 pages on Macbeth and still feel like I could do more :pac:

thelad95

Poliana.xo wrote: »

17 pages in 3h20min, that sounds mad when you think about it :rolleyes: But to be honest under pressure in an exam I don't even feel it, write like a mad yoke :pac:

Works out at one page every 11 minutes ish. English paper 2 is hell. I feel sorry for the people who used to have both English papers on the first day :eek:

Aspiring

I try to get:
Comparative: 6-7
Macbeth: 4.5-5
Poetry: 5
Unseen: 2

thelad95

Hotale.com wrote: »

I could write 50 pages on Macbeth and still feel like I could do more :pac:

Aren't you cool.

Hotale.com

thelad95 wrote: »

Aren't you cool.

Yes.

aleatorio

Wonder if we'll make it to a third OT before the exams are over :pac:
I'd say by the time the results come out and we're booted out of here we will have anyway

Aspiring

50 pages of drivel of top class writing? :P

Hotale.com

Aspiring wrote: »

50 pages of drivel of top class writing? :P

Drivel, obviously.

Peregrine

I'm aiming for:

Macbeth - 2.5 pages
Prescribed poetry - 2 pages
Unseen poetry - 1 page
Comparative - 3 pages

And I know I won't have time to write all that. I'd struggle to write 7/8 pages in 3h20m :pac: Only aiming for a C1 or B3 though.