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Oral - get any "sticky" questions?

  • 28-03-2006 07:08PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭cianclarke


    Did anybody get any stick questions in their oral? I have mine on Friday evening (then German on Monday).
    So far (in Irish) I've heard about somebody being asked about the meaning of the school crest, the meaning of a wrist band (one of those pink "ooh look I donate to charity like all the celebs" things), and why did they get their tounge pierced - was it painful, etc...
    And this is only ordinery level! What are they going to ask the honours crowd? :S
    Ah well, I suppose I'll be grand. Any "post mortems" so far?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 622 ✭✭✭Garret


    cianclarke wrote:
    Did anybody get any stick questions in their oral? I have mine on Friday evening (then German on Monday).
    So far (in Irish) I've heard about somebody being asked about the meaning of the school crest, the meaning of a wrist band (one of those pink "ooh look I donate to charity like all the celebs" things), and why did they get their tounge pierced - was it painful, etc...
    And this is only ordinery level! What are they going to ask the honours crowd? :S
    Ah well, I suppose I'll be grand. Any "post mortems" so far?


    levels don't matter, its the same exam

    many schools send in all students alphabetically irregardless of level


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 531 ✭✭✭Lord Oz


    I'm doing higher irish and got no complicated questions. The thing to do is when they give you an easy question, ie where you live, say as much as you can and then lead it into something else easy, ie caitheamh aimsire. We had a great examiner, she let you say as much as you want and asked nothing complicated. I think I did really well, compared to my crappy mocks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭cianclarke


    Apparently ours is cutting in when she hears a long speil which we could have learnt off, ie caitheamh aimsire. Still, should be grand.

    (Our school has us all listed by class (thus level), then alphabetical.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭Azureus


    our schools alphabetical regardless of level..
    from what ive heard, the examiner for irish in my school is asking realy broad questions but doesnt let you venture into abstract topics that you have obviously prepared and learnt off..
    no particularly tricky questions that i can think of though, someone got asked about the peace process and irelands relationship with america/ bush etc but she had mentioned she'd like to do politics in college so...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 478 ✭✭GretchenWieners


    the hardest asked in our school was the rules of rugby and another guy brought up bird flu.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,805 ✭✭✭Setun


    I got disadvantages of mobile phones, what do I think of the Leaving Cert <pressure etc> and why is Irish as a language not as important anymore. Wasn't too bad, I kind of had most topics prepared already.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭smemon


    i dont do french as i hate french people an everything about them, but i heard the examier was a real em... bad examier.

    one a d lads got asked where his name came from and what's the difference between soccer and gaelic and coronation street and eastenders!

    glad i don't do french. irish should be handy, it's bluffable, just chuck in a few phrases to dazzle the examiner and you'll do well.

    it's like ice skating, dont do anthing stupid or try to be too fancy, just keep skating around without stopping and then just when you feel your petering out, chuck in a few triple axels to shock the examiner and leave him shouting 'encore..... encore'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭abercrombie


    smemon wrote:
    i dont do french as i hate french people an everything about them, but i heard the examier was a real em... bad examier.

    that's just plain ignorance! If i wasn't such a nice person, i'd attack you with some french words that i've aquired over the years...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    smemon, tu est une putain. Tu avais sex pour l'argent. Et tu as le sida.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭smemon


    Raphael wrote:
    smemon, tu est une putain. Tu avais sex pour l'argent. Et tu as le sida.

    you see, i dont even know what your saying but i hate you anyway cuz your speaking french outside of school when it's no forced upon you:D

    'i am a breadloaf, i have sex with my money and im sad', thats my translation of what youve just said.

    anyway, as for the triple axel, i'd say something like this:

    "i mo bharúil tá an tionscal ag claochlú go seasta; taca an am seo cúig bhlian ó shin, d'fhéadfá a rá go raibh an tionscal ag fulaingt, ach na laethanta seo, tá an roth casta deisil".

    you see, im not just a pretty face people. thats some serious stuff :eek: i say that in my oral, and i'll get an a1 for that alone.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 622 ✭✭✭Garret


    smemon wrote:
    "i mo bharúil tá an tionscal ag claochlú go seasta; taca an am seo cúig bhlian ó shin, d'fhéadfá a rá go raibh an tionscal ag fulaingt, ach na laethanta seo, tá an roth casta deisil".

    ?? translation??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    I'm speaking french outside of school because I have to do an oral. ANd because one of the reasons I do a language is so I can have a basic ability to speak it. That and matric requirements for UCD.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭smemon


    Garret wrote:
    ?? translation??

    "i mo bharúil tá an tionscal ag claochlú go seasta; taca an am seo cúig bhlian ó shin, d'fhéadfá a rá go raibh an tionscal ag fulaingt, ach na laethanta seo, tá an roth casta deisil".

    in my opinion, the industry is metamorphasising constantly; this time 5 years ago, you could say it was suffering but nowadays, the wheel has turned.

    stunning irish, compiled by myself. (c) (edited b'cuz aoibheann was laughing at me)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,383 ✭✭✭Aoibheann


    my yourself? :D sorry, it amused me.

    Y'know, the more complicated you put something, the less likely you are to remember it on the day. You could say that much more simply and still impress the examiner. And you wouldn't forget it and get tongue tied.

    I said everything quite simply and concisely in the mock, and it got me an A, so I'll stick with that. Have fun learning all that stuff, I wouldn't want to be in your shoes..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭smemon


    my yourself? :D sorry, it amused me.

    Y'know, the more complicated you put something, the less likely you are to remember it on the day. You could say that much more simply and still impress the examiner. And you wouldn't forget it and get tongue tied.

    I said everything quite simply and concisely in the mock, and it got me an A, so I'll stick with that. Have fun learning all that stuff, I wouldn't want to be in your shoes..

    it's all done my friend. all learned, i wrote that from my head. thats a1 standard. simple stuff won't get you an a1, not when the likes of me are in before you! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,383 ✭✭✭Aoibheann


    Chances are, we won't have the same examiner. :p
    I just use stuff we've learned from essays through the 2 years, social problems, poverty, racism, sports/drugs in sports, education system. I have such a good teacher that I've been learning it the whole way through without realising, and I can use bits and pieces from everything. It's making it up in a way, but it sounds good, the examiner liked it. That's quite awkward for just one sentence, it'll sound much better if you separate it, but that's simple anyway, so never mind that!

    But sure anyway, we'll see how we both get on, I'm sure we'll both do grand. Btw, one sentence does not make an A1.. you need to be consistently good. But of course you're good at everything, aren't you? ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭Feral Mutant


    Raphael wrote:
    smemon, tu est une putain. Tu avais sex pour l'argent. Et tu as le sida.

    I actually understood that.

    My school goes by level but the examiner doesn't what level we're doing. I spent ages learning what I'd do if I won the lottery or was the principal and didn't end up getting anything complicated. It depends on the examiner. My examiner asked everyone about their pets even if the conversation wasn't remotely in that area.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 622 ✭✭✭Garret


    I just use stuff we've learned from essays through the 2 years, social problems, poverty, racism, sports/drugs in sports, education system. I have such a good teacher that I've been learning it the whole way through without realising, and I can use bits and pieces from everything. It's making it up in a way, but it sounds good, the examiner liked it. That's quite awkward for just one sentence, it'll sound much better if you separate it, but that's simple anyway, so never mind that!

    But sure anyway, we'll see how we both get on, I'm sure we'll both do grand. Btw, one sentence does not make an A1.. you need to be consistently good. But of course you're good at everything, aren't you? ;)

    christ i havent even learned about my family yet, never mind abstract ****

    still got a whole weekend in front of me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭abercrombie


    smemon wrote:
    you see, i dont even know what your saying but i hate you anyway cuz your speaking french outside of school when it's no forced upon you:D

    why do you hate people who speak french so much??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,383 ✭✭✭Aoibheann


    If you've done essays on the abstract topics, chances are you can talk about them. :) Seriously, it's annoying having essays drilled into you at the time, but it's so worth it!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭smemon


    But sure anyway, we'll see how we both get on, I'm sure we'll both do grand. Btw, one sentence does not make an A1.. you need to be consistently good. But of course you're good at everything, aren't you? ;)

    well ive been well informed that you cant keep it simple in irish to get an a1, unlike french. you have to have the lingo.

    it's 1 sentence like that which seperates me from you :D i get the a1, you get the a2. provided of course i don't mess up with the simple stuff. but that sentence above is like scoring 2 goals in a minute. only an idiot could throw away an 'A' after saying that sensational piece of art.




  • smemon.. to be honest you sound ridiculously arrogant..

    Charisma is also an essential part of the oral

    good luck with that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,383 ✭✭✭Aoibheann


    smemon wrote:
    well ive been well informed that you cant keep it simple in irish to get an a1, unlike french. you have to have the lingo.

    it's 1 sentence like that which seperates me from you :D i get the a1, you get the a2. provided of course i don't mess up with the simple stuff. but that sentence above is like scoring 2 goals in a minute. only an idiot could throw away an 'A' after saying that sensational piece of art.


    [arrogance]I dunno, my irish is pretty good. :p It's probably my best subject, and I've had brilliant teachers since I've been in school, I've been in the gaeltacht and all that jazz, and I actually love the language.[/arrogance] I think it'll be of benefit to me, and I don't think that sentence is that fantastic that it's a work of art. I've plenty of impressive sentences (like most others :p) that will counteract it. Consistency, like I keep saying, is key.


    Darian Nutritious Jockey: <3!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 302 ✭✭maggie_cork


    did mine today.. im doing pass. we had a woman she was lovely.. got asked the usual.. what u did last week what ul do next week.. parttime job.. where u live. about skool. rules.. what u do for lunch usually.. how u come to school. favourite programme. what u do to relax.. what u tink bout sports(importance). music etc.. social problems and do u tink the gardai av a hard job as a result.. college. and why u wan 2do what u said.. have u pets.. do u watch tg4. do u watch sport on tv.. ect..!!! i was delighted with mine


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭smemon


    smemon.. to be honest you sound ridiculously arrogant..

    i'm not arrogant, im just honest. theres a fine line between arrogance and honesty, thankfully i havn't crossed over the line to arrogant yet.

    roll on next week, can't wait to get in there and hit those questions into touch. i love stalling, pretending i dont know an answer, deliberately buying time, then wham, i come out with a triple axel sentence like the one i posted earlier.
    I don't think that sentence is that fantastic that it's a work of art.

    well i do. credit given where credits due.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭OctavarIan


    My irish went ok i guess. I stalled when I couldn't think of the word for scholarship, when I was trying to describe a movie (Alien) and when I was trying to explain what MSN is.

    I was asked on my area, did i drink, then talking about intel and then to computers and then to school.

    I'd say about half-marks for the lot. I'm not bothered though, it's pass Irish after all, I can easily fly through the written paper.

    I am royally ****ed for french oral though. That's gonna ruin me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,383 ✭✭✭Aoibheann


    smemon wrote:
    well i do. credit given where credits due.


    Credit to yourself? :confused: Oh, ok..

    Er, yeah, have fun with that..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭smemon


    Credit to yourself? :confused: Oh, ok..

    yes, i recognise class when i see it, even if it is my own work :p if nobody else will praise me, i will! what examiner won't be in awe at that? not 1. it's a whow tactic, stun the examiner and leave them thinking - then they tend to forget more about what else your saying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 531 ✭✭✭Lord Oz


    what an unfortunately titled thread.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,383 ✭✭✭Aoibheann


    smemon wrote:
    yes, i recognise class when i see it, even if it is my own work :p if nobody else will praise me, i will! what examiner won't be in awe at that? not 1. it's a whow tactic, stun the examiner and leave them thinking - then they tend to forget more about what else your saying.


    O...kay then. You're an odd person. But yeah, either a complete troll or scarily arrogant. I don't know which is worse..

    I wouldn't be in awe of that sentence. You do realise the examiner will quite possibly have tested people who are fluent/pretty close to fluent in irish? So yeah, the examiner isn't likely to be stunned.


    Lord Oz: :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭fatal


    O...kay then. You're an odd person. But yeah, either a complete troll or scarily arrogant.

    na its more like hes a pussy in real life and on the net hes trying to seem like someone that he clearly is not.....................................
    thats my 2 cents and I know im right peeps;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭smemon


    fatal wrote:
    na its more like hes a pussy in real life and on the net hes trying to seem like someone that he clearly is not.....................................
    thats my 2 cents and I know im right peeps;)

    dammit, my cover is blown. im here to maximise my points by any means necessary, not to make friends.

    i don't need disposable friends to make me feel loved ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭fatal


    smemon wrote:
    dammit, my cover is blown. im here to maximise my points by any means necessary, not to make friends.

    i don't need disposable friends to make me feel loved ;)


    Friends..........who mentioned anything about making them here
    Now that you mentioned it, you might not need "disposable" friends.........but attention maybe?
    By sitting on the net and having 1400+ posts doesnt really show that you are gonna be doin much next October.Have fun serving me my big mac and fries when im in uni next October:D.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    smemon wrote:
    not to make friends.
    No need to worry about that happening, I assure you.

    Incidentally, Bealtriail 0 R4ph 1. Great examiner and no nasty questions. I had one iffy one about what I thought of polotics, but I just went on about the health system and how stupid it is that Mary Harney is minister for health.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭smemon


    fatal wrote:
    By sitting on the net and having 1400+ posts doesnt really show that you are gonna be doin much next October.Have fun serving me my big mac and fries when im in uni next October:D.

    smemon's average posts per day = 1.53
    fatal's average posts per day =2.18

    i take it your doing ordinary maths ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,383 ✭✭✭Aoibheann


    Argh, sorry, but please, "you're" not "your". [/pedantic]


    Hope everyone's orals are going well so far.. one down, one to go!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭smemon


    Argh, sorry, but please, "you're" not "your". [/pedantic]

    yes miss :rolleyes: *throws eyes to heaven behind aoibheann's back.

    your so picky :D;)




  • smemon wrote:
    yes, i recognise class when i see it, even if it is my own work :p if nobody else will praise me, i will! what examiner won't be in awe at that? not 1. it's a whow tactic, stun the examiner and leave them thinking - then they tend to forget more about what else your saying.


    oozing arrogance..

    it's all a little too much for me..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,383 ✭✭✭Aoibheann


    smemon wrote:
    yes miss :rolleyes: *throws eyes to heaven behind aoibheann's back.

    your so picky :D;)



    You won't get that A in English if you're going to ignore grammar. :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 902 ✭✭✭d4gurl


    Ive had german so far!went wel i think!my general questions were great no surprises - got the old past tense question and futer so hopefully got full marks in the old general questions! Did anyone else jus hav the nicest examiner ever!mine wz d best! i got d fekin picture i hate but i jus did it as u do!tá me ag caint as gailge anois mar tá mo scrudu béal triali de Mairt! its so hard to tnk in irish cuz up to now ive jus been doin stupid german!!ahh


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,383 ✭✭✭Aoibheann


    Had an awful cow of an examiner, which I probably said already! One of the girls was lucky enough to have the inspector in too, so the examiner had to be all nice and friendly. Asked some awkward questions..

    Irish on Tuesday here too, you're right, I keep thinking in German too. Fluent german right after my exam of course! ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 531 ✭✭✭Lord Oz


    My German isn't until next thursday fortunately, hope it goes ok. Unfortunately I'm still thinking in Irish after the Irish oral, I can't get it out of my head!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 902 ✭✭✭d4gurl


    viel gluck!ná bi ag burtha!u kno wat my irish is seriously down d drain at d mo!!wenever i try to speak i keep sayin und or ja or nein!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭smemon


    this all works to my advantage... everyone getting mixed up in languages....this week it's unbelievable how many people have said 'huit' to an irish question!

    im loving every minute of it. i dont do foreign languages so can focus 100% on irish, maximise my results in it and overtake french and german students with my substitute subject (geography).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 879 ✭✭✭UU


    Bonsoir! :D

    Oh, I had my French Oral last Monday. It was fine and really easy (then again I'm naturally gifted at it!) Anyway, advice to anyone doing French - DO A DOCUMENT! - I really mean it. I did one on my holiday in Brittany and the examiner just let my ramble on about it for four minutes at the end. I was able to learn off what I intended to say and could remember it. Also, I didn't get ask any hard questions really as I was able to expand on all my answers - that ensures less questions will be asked. The key to a good oral is when the student is speaking more than the examiner. My examiner was so nice and I was very polite to her and asked her "Comment allez-vous?". Although, she asked me what my favourite food was but I had prepared that already and not a single abstract topic! Two girls were asked about their piercings - Pauvre-elles!

    I have my Irish oral on Monday. I'm not too good at Irish unfortunately but will get by by doing some study.

    Bonne chance tout le monde! ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,383 ✭✭✭Aoibheann


    smemon: They've said eight? o_0

    I'd rather have a foreign language, some things require it..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 879 ✭✭✭UU


    Ha! I think that smemon has his head stuck up his arse! Languages are very important to get a place in college. I hope that he fails his oral Irish exam because he is very mean and puts other people down!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭smemon


    UU wrote:
    Ha! I think that smemon has his head stuck up his arse! Languages are very important to get a place in college. I hope that he fails his oral Irish exam because he is very mean and puts other people down!

    yeah they're very important if you going to universities, but im not so i didnt need them. unlike most people, my decision making was flawless in 3rd year and as a result i'll have maximised my results come august :D

    as for irish, if i turn up for the oral i'll pass. ive everything planned to military precision and have links to all areas. it's virtually impossible for me to fail. however, i admire your enthusiasm towards me failing.

    i dont put other people down, i just put me up :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭fatal


    smemon wrote:
    yes miss :rolleyes: *throws eyes to heaven behind aoibheann's back.

    your so picky :D;)


    fatal's total posts=18
    smemon's total posts=1500

    speaks for itself doesn't it;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Attractive Nun


    I had a bast of an examiner. Started off grand enough, until I foolishishly mentioned that I was planning on studying history and politics in college. Then, bam! What do you think of the riots in France? In Dublin? What do you think of the relationship between Winston Churchill and Eamonn De Valera? What do you think of players diving in football? What do you think of Michael McDowell?

    It wouldn't have been so bad, but I had planned an escape route if he ventured into politics involving the pressure of the Leaving Cert, which I thought was foolproof. So I prepared nothing on politics. But it didn't even remotely work and I was left to rely on my own standard of Irish. Ah well, better luck next time.


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