Irish paper 2

eoghan h

I thought that was a really easy paper. The poems were easy and so was the reading thing about the refugee. What did everyone else think of it?

Diarmsquid

Simple!
The unseen prose was like a dream come through.
I understood everything. Poetry- First poem was hard so i answered the 3 questions about the other one. All the right themes came up for seen prose and poetry.

The 4 small comprehension things were evn easier than previous years.
Letter - good.

Overall, what a legend of an exam (never thought i'd say that)

Rozabeez

My letter was pretty good, I kinda messed up writing about the poem I studied, other than that the whole thing was a doss! I mean the "fill in the gaps" thing...hah!

eoghan h

The whole paper was simple. Cspe should be easy enough

modular

I understood the unseen prose but thought it was hard.
Kind of understood the poems, think I did OK on questions.
Had heard the Fill In The Gaps as a joke before, that helped. Other mini-comprehensions were easy enough.
Letter was easy.
I think I did grand on the studied stuff, but realised after the exam I used the wrong words for some things in it. Oh well.

Strokesa

The unseen prose was so easy i understood it all...and that never happened with the past papers.
Studied prose and poetry were perfect for the themes which i had studied(which were very limited) so i was really lucky.
I didnt understand **** all on the unseen poetry, seriously i thought that was really hard? What the hell were they about???
And the comprehensions were ok but 4 the squirrel one i said that the red squirrel eats the green squirrel...whoops...
I cant believe they had a comprehension about HILARY DUFF! "Like oh my god im totally the same as every girl my age, i love shoes and clothes and my favourite hobby is shopping! Like TOTALLY!"
I didnt want to answer in protest but in the end i had to cos i ddint understand the first one...

Fenny

The squirrel short comprehension was really annoying. I ended up doing the fill in the gaps, which I think was simpler than past years. The prose was great; I think I did pretty well on that, although my poetry was a little off. My themes came up - I could have cried with relief! All in all, a decent paper.

Holly Golightly

Can someone please tell me what the second poem was about? I think I did OK on it but I didn't really get it, lol.

Fobia

It was about Seán O Leocháin being a twat, I hope . Nice exam but too easy (I never thought I'd say that, but there can only be a certain number of B's, so I hope my handwritting wont lose me those precious few marks).

Fenny

^ Amen to that. Towards the end of it, my handwriting started to swirl crazily and there was a whole lot crossed out, so I'm pretty sure I'll lose a few marks for handwriting. Damn.

PurpleFistMixer

For one of the unseen poetry questions (think it was the last B one) I rambled on for about five lines trying to explain what the HELL the second poem was about.

Was it something about the people slagging him 'cause he decided to become a poet?

Otherwise it was pretty good. The letter was lovely, I did the one about the ocáid speisíalta. Options for the studied poetry and prose were great. I wrote about a poem I had never written about before, which may have been a bad idea but meh, I like the poem, felt like doing it.

The unseen prose was great, really simple. Giottaí gearra were pretty good too. Damn squirrels though. Thankfully I already knew about the whole.. grey squirrel taking over red squirrel thing so I didn't have to understand it particularly much.

Fobia

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

For one of the unseen poetry questions (think it was the last B one) I rambled on for about five lines trying to explain what the HELL the second poem was about.

Was it something about the people slagging him 'cause he decided to become a poet?

I meant what I said, I basically wrote in one of the B questions that it's because the poet is a twat . I used "bródúil" alot afaik....

PurpleFistMixer

I don't even know how to say 'twat' in Irish...
My entire vocabulary of Irish just left me during that exam, so I started using really really weird tenses of Irish to make up for it.

Fenny

At one point I contemplated making up a new word and hoping that the examiner wouldn't notice.

PurpleFistMixer

I did that.

"Seinnteoirí" - Musicians. Couldn't remember the actual word.

Diarmsquid

Fobia wrote:

It was about Seán O Leocháin being a twat, I hope . Nice exam but too easy (I never thought I'd say that, but there can only be a certain number of B's, so I hope my handwritting wont lose me those precious few marks).

I said that too.
I said "Is maith leis e fein" (He loves himself) and "Ta se an-broduil do fein"(very proud of himself)

Really easy one i thought

Fobia

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

I don't even know how to say 'twat' in Irish...
My entire vocabulary of Irish just left me during that exam, so I started using really really weird tenses of Irish to make up for it.

Hehe I know the feeling - I forgot how to say "thank you" when writing my aggallamh in paper 1, it ended "is aggallamh mhaith é seo!" "slán"

philologos

erm I ran out of time and couldnt do the letter which was worth 10%
but o well still going for a B hopefully

Casserine

I was pleased with that paper. The comprehension was the easiest in years, I thought. Some of my friends disagreed though. A girl in my class thought it was about a woman who had a secret, she could talk to birds. Haha. Short comprehensions were okay, I did all four just in case. All my themes came up. My letter was decent, I hope. I did the first one. I had to write about something happening in Ireland, so I did the smoking ban. I couldn't remember the word for ban or illegal, so I wrote "Listen, let me tell you about something in Irish life. It's not able to smoke in public! It's against the book. I think it's a great idea, but the country doesn't agree with me."

spiderlegs

Ha! They'll definitely give you marks for trying.I said that our taoiseach had been stabbed by a "stranger in black" Eh does it count if its totally made up??

jennyq

I thought it was grand, except for the unseen poetry, which I didn't understand at all. There was a really good choice of themes for the studied prose & poetry. I did my longest letter ever at almost 2 pages