Predictions

Scarinae

*Angel* wrote:

Well it looks like I'm doing Dickinson, Yeats, Kavanagh, Heaney and Longley.

We're doing the same poets! I hope four of them come up, cos that'd rock chairs!!

I have no intention of answering on Kavanagh... I hate the man...

*Angel*

Fishie wrote:

I have no intention of answering on Kavanagh... I hate the man...

huh, he's my favourite poet on the course, Yeats being a close second.

Camogie Playa

Has Longley a very good chance of coming up?
I'm doing Dickenson, Longley, Yeats and Kavangh.
Know Dickinson fairly well, must learn Lonlgey, Yeats and Kavanagh. Are ye just learning personal responses?
Four should be safe enough?..............Please tell me itll be safe!!

I could write and write on Yeats!!!Detest Boland and Heaney!!

Africa

Well, basically i am going to be doing Boland, Dickinson, Longley and Wordsworth. Do you think these are wise choices? I always remember them all as being my favorite poets, i pretty much hated the others. I may do Yeats as a 5th...

Scarinae

Camogie Playa wrote:

Four should be safe enough?..............Please tell me itll be safe!!

There is a possibility, albeit very small, that the four poets you haven't learned will come up. Five is really the minimum you can do while knowing for sure that you will be able to answer at least one of the questions, since four out of eight come up each year. You can do four if you want, and you'll probably be grand, but there is still a risk

randomfella

Irish -higher- Maidhc Dainin

His youth in Daingean and maybe some general theme that occurs throughout like greann, ceol no ciniochas.

Just predictions based on past papers and sample ones aswel.

Scarinae

DinnyC wrote:

so far in Irish our teacher reckons: Faoilean, Mac eile ag Imeacht and Fiosracht Mna.

Is that higher or ordinary irish?

Freak Of Nature

I know its getting a bit late but here goes...

Geog (H) ; the Sea is practically guaranteed
Eng (H) ; Boland and Wordsworth or Dickinson and Yeats.
Irish (H) : Fiosracht Mhna, Ruraiocht, Cath Cheim an Fhia, all you'd expect
Chem (H) ; as above, and Water of Crystallisation expt

*Angel*

It's never too late, last minute cramming is what I'm relying on.

randomfella

^^^
me 2

BraveheartGal

Oh, and a question about the Irish paper - I heard that Faoilean definitely won't come up because the poet, Michael Davitt, was caught using child pornography and there was a court case and stuff. Did anyone else hear about this? I hope it's not true because it's such an easy poem



yeah i heard that too and i was bullin cos thats the one i know the best, but my mate has this savage private irish teacher and he said its def not gonna come up because of that

randomfella

aren't all the pass poems easy though?
Studying the stories is really tedious, i've heard fiosracht mhna is the best bet to come up.

I couldn't be bothered learning amuigh liom fein, risky to leave out 2?

I couldn't be bothered learning amuigh liom fein, risky to leave out 2?

I don't think so. I'm doing the same.

randomfella

what 2 are u leaving out?

the smiley one

randomfella wrote:

aren't all the pass poems easy though?
Studying the stories is really tedious, i've heard fiosracht mhna is the best bet to come up.

I couldn't be bothered learning amuigh liom fein, risky to leave out 2?

There's no point really, I mean, all you have to do is learn off some vocab and your done? easy, non?

BraveheartGal

fiosracht mná is really easy to learn
jus give out bout the gal and her nosiness

clann lir is quite nice too


any tips for the aural?as in any topics that were popular in the news at the time of print?
(anyone know what the irish for eu enlargement is? or french for that matter! ooh and head scarves as in the french schoolkids)

Camogie Playa

Was Michael Davitt caught with the porn before the papers were set in September?Because i couldnt see them changing the papers after they were set!
Wonder what other poem could come up instead?Would love Treall to come up.
A thig na tit orm is the hardest thing to predict, theres just so much that they could pull out of the hat

randomfella

Camogie Playa wrote:

Was Michael Davitt caught with the porn before the papers were set in September?Because i couldnt see them changing the papers after they were set!Wonder what other poem could come up instead?Would love Treall to come up.
A thig na tit orm is the hardest thing to predict, theres just so much that they could pull out of the hat

why not? They do do it, especially for something like this. Remember they are set in november printed in February. After that u can forget about changes, apart from corrections.

Anyway i think it was early last year he was caught not sure though.

Cina

Since nobody has put it down.
Maths(H) - Proofs - The co efficient rule in Differentiation (u/v) is the only proof on the course never to be up and there's big bets it'll be on this year, most likely in a B part, with 15-20 marks.

Oh and apparently that .. Fuubanachi thingy in the Da Vinchi Code ( 1, 3, 8, 11 etc) is a big bet in either probability or the Mac Laurin Series, I'm sure there's a lot more stuff that's supposedly coming up but I can't remember at the moment!

Rredwell

Cina wrote:

Since nobody has put it down.
Maths(H) - Proofs - The co efficient rule in Differentiation (u/v) is the only proof on the course never to be up and there's big bets it'll be on this year, most likely in a B part, with 15-20 marks.

I think you mean the quotient rule!

Cina wrote:

Oh and apparently that .. Fuubanachi thingy in the Da Vinchi Code ( 1, 3, 8, 11 etc) is a big bet in either probability or the Mac Laurin Series, I'm sure there's a lot more stuff that's supposedly coming up but I can't remember at the moment!

You're talking about Fibonnacci numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc. Each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. (Couldn't they also ask that as part of proof by induction? Not that I would base my maths predictions on bestselling thrillers!)

As for poetry: my teacher tells me Michael Davitt got done for that a good while back, and now he is back on the poetry circuit and in favour with the examiner again. So worry not!

In relation to A Thig Ná Tit Orm, I would say something about his youth is going to come up.

Did anyone else get the Exam Brief supplement in the Independent today? Good, isn't it? We all know the stuff, it's just a question of revising it thoroughly so we have it at our fingertips.

BraveheartGal

Rredwell
Did anyone else get the Exam Brief supplement in the Independent today? Good, isn't it? We all know the stuff, it's just a question of revising it thoroughly so we have it at our fingertips.


speak for yourself!


Oh and apparently that .. Fuubanachi thingy in the Da Vinchi Code ( 1, 3, 8, 11 etc) is a big bet in either probability or the Mac Laurin Series, I'm sure there's a lot more stuff that's supposedly coming up but I can't remember at the moment!

soz, dont really understand what youre on about, how cld the question be asked?

the smiley one

Rredwell wrote:

You're talking about Fibonnacci numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc. Each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. (Couldn't they also ask that as part of proof by induction? Not that I would base my maths predictions on bestselling thrillers!)

erm..............how would you do that using the MacLaurin series???!!!
or using induction for that matter..............?

*warning* may be having a blonde moment

Scarinae

randomfella wrote:

I couldn't be bothered learning amuigh liom fein, risky to leave out 2?

I don't know if you're doing higher or ordinary Irish, but if you're doing higher, yes that is risky because the way the paper is you HAVE to answer on whatever story is in the second question

BraveheartGal

Fishie wrote:

I don't know if you're doing higher or ordinary Irish, but if you're doing higher, yes that is risky because the way the paper is you HAVE to answer on whatever story is in the second question

rotten isnt it
i wldnt leave amuigh liom fein out
if you had to leave one out leave out lasair chiolle

sabriel

I was told that 4 features might be required for either the sea or glaciation insted of the usual 3 but i dont think il bother to learn another at this stage.

the smiley one

sabriel wrote:

I was told that 4 features might be required for either the sea or glaciation insted of the usual 3 but i dont think il bother to learn another at this stage.

ok, please tell me that is some kind of sick joke....They have NEVER asked that in any of the past papers, so why would they start the last year of the course?! madness I tells ya...

*has suitably convinced self*

randomfella

something like that would piss me off so much. By the way have u heard that if u do have a problem with something in ur leaving or think its too hard a question to be asked u should write it in ur booklet, and if enough people complain.... something will happen. Heard a few things happened down through the years. Remember they made a mistake on a maths question and if u attempted it u got full marks, obviously only a part (b) or (c) i can't remember but a bit mad i thought.

Shyster

yeah i think basically if you attempt things that seem to you like they could be wrong, then you'll get marks, ie. biology paper last year, lots of marks floating around for any attempt at all!

MadOne!!

Thanks a mil those predictions look good, if they come up it'll be the best thing ever. I was thinking Norway might come up in geog?

MadOne!!

Thanks a mil for those predictions. If they come up it'll be great i's getting so scared. Any predictions on Irish poetry???!!