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***JC 2014 English Papers - Wed. June 4th 2014 - all levels***

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  • 03-06-2014 4:06pm
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    spurious
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    English (FL, OL and HL)
    Wednesday June 4th 2013





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    pizzamad
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    ....That was a beautiful paper.


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    nanook5
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    pizzamad wrote: »
    ....That was a beautiful paper.

    Not the reading .....


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    S_Hick12
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    Was that really 2 and a half hours?!? Felt like half an hour... Im drained already, god give me strength for paper 2 :(


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    coolerboy
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    The reading was impossible. But everything else was grand.


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    ConorFTW
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    The media studies was horrible..


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    nanook5
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    ConorFTW wrote: »
    The media studies was horrible..

    I thought it was nice :)


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    coolerboy
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    nanook5 wrote: »
    I thought it was nice :)

    I agree


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    Liordi
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    I thought it was grand. :)


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    ComputerKing
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    Paper was grand let's hope paper 2 is the same.


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    #11
    Liordi
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    I've got no quotes learned for either the play or the novel but I know the whole story..should I be grand?


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    Cillixnn
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    Ordinary paper was too easy, wish I done higher :-/


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    #13
    Liordi
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    Would love to see the ordinary paper. :)


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    coolerboy
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    Which essays did youes do?
    I done the debate thought it was easy enough.


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    Liordi
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    Did the one on panic. :D


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    nanook5
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    "Everything changed in 90 minutes" . I was on the bomb disposal team :)


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    ComputerKing
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    Liordi wrote: »
    I've got no quotes learned for either the play or the novel but I know the whole story..should I be grand?

    You should be OK if you know a bit of the quote just bs the rest of it.


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    nanook5
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    That paper 2 was not nice to me. I didn't get answer about 3 questions fully ughh


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    ECM1234
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    nanook5 wrote: »
    That paper 2 was not nice to me. I didn't get answer about 3 questions fully ughh

    Had to skip q2 on unseen fiction to get studied done :(


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    MissCupcake
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    ECM1234 wrote: »
    Had to skip q2 on unseen fiction to get studied done :(

    got it all done but that was the worst paper 2 of my life


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    pizzamad
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    That was SO weird like what


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    yvngceebs
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    Paper 1 was amazing! So shocked!!

    Paper 2.......should I even comment?? The unseen poem?? What the hell was that about?


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    ECM1234
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    Did 2 speeches on paper 1, was delighted with them !! :D


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    ECM1234
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    yvngceebs wrote: »
    Paper 1 was amazing! So shocked!!

    Paper 2.......should I even comment?? The unseen poem?? What the hell was that about?

    It was the strangest poem I e'er did see!!


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    MissCupcake
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    ECM1234 wrote: »
    Did 2 speeches on paper 1, was delighted with them !! :D

    did the 90 mins one and speech


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    ECM1234
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    coolerboy wrote: »
    Which essays did youes do?
    I done the debate thought it was easy enough.

    Same here!! Did the speech for the functional part too!!


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    #27
    coolerboy
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    What did youse say for the unseen poetry questions.


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    koolis02
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    unseen poetry?? wtf?? i said it was optimistic!! apparently its god making the world... not sure though????


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    ECM1234
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    coolerboy wrote: »
    What did youse say for the unseen poetry questions.

    Something along the lines of, "the poet believes that you cannot lose knowledge" or something.


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    MissCupcake
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    coolerboy wrote: »
    What did youse say for the unseen poetry questions.

    Q1 boy is intelligent(lots of ideas) and sneaky (plan to stop piano lessons)
    Q2 repitition of an entirely emphasises how its nothing me could imagine
    and river upwards - bizzare and imaginative
    Q3 yes ideas are optimistic and so many people have heads - they can come up with ideas optimistic


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    coolerboy
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    ECM1234 wrote: »
    Something along the lines of, "the poet believes that you cannot lose knowledge" or something.

    I said that the boy has knowledge, is intelligent and has went through lot of events


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