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

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    #62
    ECM1234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 225 ✭✭ECM1234


    MissCupcake wrote: »
    my friend is an A grade student, a helpful good friend and does charity work

    My friend, saved an animal from abuse by students in the school, and showed honour, integrity and bravery :L


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    #63
    ElmW13
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭ElmW13


    For those of you saying the poem was short. There was one year where the poem had six lines...

    Paper one was okay. Seems like many people I know ranted about one direction in the speech. Paper two. Okay I never want to write again.


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    #64
    Beca19
    Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭Beca19


    Thought paper 1 was lovely, did the debate and the student speech :) the radio ad for media studies was quite nice as well.
    Paper 2 for me was pretty awful, I was so tired by the end:/ all my studied sections were me bull****ting and the unseens were probably not that great either..
    Doubt I can get an A again, our mock was way easier :(


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    #65
    coolerboy
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    ECM1234 wrote: »
    For the seen poetry, I did q2 and talked about dulce et decorum est and but you didn't (had to pick two poem with the same theme)

    I did dulce and base details they both had the theme of war and conveyed the negative aspect s of war


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    #66
    nanook5
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    MissCupcake wrote: »
    I was going to pick that but it wasn't 'ordinary life' as such

    I guess I worked my way around it by saying that death was a part of ordinary life for soldiers.


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    #67
    MissCupcake
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    ECM1234 wrote: »
    My friend, saved an animal from abuse by students in the school, and showed honour, integrity and bravery :L

    wow! lol


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    #68
    Xgracie
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    Paper 1 was beautiful!
    Paper 2 was a total b*tch, what the hell was that studied novel & poetry Q :(


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    #69
    Beca19
    Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭Beca19


    ECM1234 wrote: »
    My friend, saved an animal from abuse by students in the school, and showed honour, integrity and bravery :L

    My friend climbed mount blanc in aid of Alzheimer's and runs a soup kitchen hahahah


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    #70
    Oisin4
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    MissCupcake wrote: »
    who didn't finish?

    Me!!! I put like I two lines for unseen fiction q2


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    ElmW13
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    Suddenly my friend sounds really dull...

    Or english teacher even said the poem was hatd so...


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    #72
    Beca19
    Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭Beca19


    Did anyone answer on roll of thunder? Which question did you do and what did you write? :)


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    #73
    MissCupcake
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    Beca19 wrote: »
    Thought paper 1 was lovely, did the debate and the student speech :) the radio ad for media studies was quite nice as well.
    Paper 2 for me was pretty awful, I was so tired by the end:/ all my studied sections were me bull****ting and the unseens were probably not that great either..
    Doubt I can get an A again, our mock was way easier :(
    mock was wayy easier


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    #74
    Xgracie
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    coolerboy wrote: »
    What did youse say for the unseen poetry questions.

    I said it was optimistic because "the boy" had wonderful thoughts & the poet said those thoughts couldn't be lost and then went on to say that a lot of people have those thoughts which is good

    How far off the mark was I?!


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    #75
    smiles_1998
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    ECM1234 wrote: »
    For the seen poetry, I did q2 and talked about dulce et decorum est and but you didn't (had to pick two poem with the same theme)
    Haha I did the exact same two poems for that question! :D did you say the theme was war?


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    #76
    yaEHya
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    What did people right for unseen fiction question number 3


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    #77
    Beca19
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    Liordi wrote: »
    Would love to see the ordinary paper. :)

    It's on examinations.ie already!


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    #78
    ComputerKing
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    I think I'm the only person here who actually liked the poem did people really find it that hard. I think I waffled a bit in my studied fiction though. Overall it was a nice two papers and I think I did good depending on the corrector I might hopefully scrape an A.


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    #79
    Beca19
    Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭Beca19


    yaEHya wrote: »
    What did people right for unseen fiction question number 3

    I took the kinda blurb example from key skills that you use in functional writing.. Wrote about an exciting adventure in Malaya hahah probably not very accurate


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    #80
    ECM1234
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    smiles_1998 wrote: »
    Haha I did the exact same two poems for that question! :D did you say the theme was war?
    Yeah :P


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    #81
    yaEHya
    Registered Users Posts: 114 ✭✭yaEHya


    I just kept saying it was an extraordinary adventure that could not be missed


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    Oisin4
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    The unseen drama took me so long! I didn't finish it I had to move on which led me to do two awful answers for unseen fiction which were unfinished. The rest I finished but I gave kind of slopy answers.
    I'm really depressed now because I was aiming for an A (got 83 in the mocks but usually an A student) and I thought paper 1 went excellenty.


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    Mr Rhode Island Red
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Mr Rhode Island Red


    Thank God I learned a second poem yesterday, Mid-Term break would have been absolutely useless to me in paper 2:D

    Overall, beautiful paper 1, bar the reading, which was just strange:confused:

    Paper 2 wasn't nice in many regards. Nasty and vague questions


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    #84
    S_Hick12
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    Paper 1 was easy enough, but what the hell was paper 2? The poem was the weirdest thing i've ever read, i just had to bs that question as i'd hadn't a clue what was going on! Please tell me i'm not the only one who read the unseen play with indian voices in my head lol.


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    #85
    niamhy505
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    Oisin4 wrote: »
    The unseen drama took me so long! I didn't finish it I had to move on which led me to do two awful answers for unseen fiction which were unfinished. The rest I finished but I gave kind of slopy answers.
    I'm really depressed now because I was aiming for an A (got 83 in the mocks but usually an A student) and I thought paper 1 went excellenty.

    That's the exact same as me I got 83 in the mock too but today's paper was way harder :( Loads of my answers were sloppily put together too, but I actually found the poem to be easy! :) hope we can still pull it up to the A </3


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    #86
    MissCupcake
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    Oisin4 wrote: »
    The unseen drama took me so long! I didn't finish it I had to move on which led me to do two awful answers for unseen fiction which were unfinished. The rest I finished but I gave kind of slopy answers.
    I'm really depressed now because I was aiming for an A (got 83 in the mocks but usually an A student) and I thought paper 1 went excellenty.
    they adjust the marking scheme according to the difficulty of the paper!
    Don't worry honestly you cant do anything about it now


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    #87
    MissCupcake
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    Did anyone not do the speech on personal writing?


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    #88
    ECM1234
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    Anyway, what's done is done, now onto irish. Tus Maith leath na hoibre!!!


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    #89
    VG31
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    MissCupcake wrote: »
    Did anyone not do the speech on personal writing?

    I did question 1 - the short story. I think it was "Everything had changed in 90 minutes".


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    #90
    nanook5
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    VG31 wrote: »
    I did question 1 - the short story. I think it was "Everything had changed in 90 minutes".

    Me too


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    #91
    Liordi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭Liordi


    Remember, they have to have the bell curve.
    So, regardless of the paper only a certain number of people get A's anyway.


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