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Irish Marking Scheme

  • 01-02-2015 11:48pm
    #1
    abutler101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭


    Hi.

    My Irish teacher is telling us that we can be docked marks in the JC in the cluistuisceant and the comprehension questions for giving extra information in answers.

    Like if the question asks for two pieces of information about something and you give 3 or 4 pieces, you will lose marks. The same for the tape, if you give additional info other than what is asked you will lose marks. Is this true?

    It doesn't really make sense to me, as most of my other teachers have told me to write down as much info as possible for questions. I tried looking at the marking scheme, but it is all in Irish and I can't make sense of it.

    Thanks
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  • #2
    emersyn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭emersyn


    The only reason I can think of to justify losing marks for extra information would be that seeing as the questions are in Irish, the examiner may think you didn't understand the question properly (i.e. if you write three pieces of information instead of two it could indicate that you didn't understand the number), so I suppose that could justify losing marks for the listening. I doubt they would take more than one or two marks off though, and as far as I know that system isn't even in place.
    For the comprehension you can get penalised for adding extra information only if you rewrite a whole paragraph for the answer, like if you have a vague idea of where the answer is in the text so you write down four or five sentences directly from the comprehension in the hopes that the answer will be in there somewhere rather than actually answering the question. Again, you still wouldn't lose all of the marks as long as the answer is in there.


  • #3
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,240 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    You will not lose marks for giving three answers where two were asked for.

    You will lose marks if you blindly copy out two or three sentences of the comprehension, hoping to hit the right answer somewhere in there.


  • #4
    abutler101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭abutler101


    Thanks a million


  • #5
    DaleyBlind
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭DaleyBlind


    I think what she might mean is that if you put down 3 instead of 2 you might risk getting 1 wrong and will only get 1 mark. Other than that I don't really know.


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