For along time I wondered what the point was in studying for Irish paper II. It’s worth a mere 17% and the work that you must put in order to obtain that 17% is quite heavy! I just didn’t consider it worth my time studying when all I need is a pass in OL as it will be the subject that I’ll be discounting at the end of the Leaving Cert. Nevertheless, despite my views on this section of the exam, I put in about an hour of study last night absorbing all the information I could on “Clare sa Spéir”, “An Cearrbhach Mac Caba” and the poem “An Gealt”.
I opened the paper to see one of my worst fears… Clare sa Speir and An Cearrbhach Mac Caba were merged into the one question which meant that I had to do a question on “An Bhean Og” blindly. Thankfully if you’re ever going to do a question blindly, Irish paper II is where you want it to be with very few marks going for the moderately long answers that are expected of you. I thought that I managed to handle myself relatively well although I was annoyed that I was forgetting some shockingly simple words like “funny” but I handled that by saying “Bhí mé ag gáire nuair a….”.
So of the 17% that’s going for this OL paper, I reckon I’ll be doing well to get 11% which will hopefully supplement the marks I got in my oral, the aural, and paper 1. I have the weekend to myself now and I’ll spending that time studying Maths, Maths and more maths. And History and Biology!
Thats a lie. You’ll spend your time trying out your new flowery shorts by cycling to Dunmore and back…psycho…And the book was called “Lámh Láidir” Jeez
Aye, the examiner told me the answer when i kindly asked her :). I reckon it’s them who break the most rules each year and not us students!
ah it was handy enuff
ahh,what the fuck was with “gealt” coming up?our teacher swore blindly it wouldn`t.”nil aon ni” and “jack” were to come up.and as for the pros….o my fucking god!
I always thought that this paper would have been a bit of a bitch but luckily I stipulated all the thoughts that were running in my head for the ‘Gealt’ question and organized my thoughts into perspective. It was’nt so bad I mean really 17% there is’nt much of a worry there.
i fucking hate this shitty shit
i taut dey wer testings us on irish nt wot we knew abou some shitty irish poems!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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