On Wednesday evening, after the shocking news about the English paper 2 fiasco, I got a text telling me not to panic, that I’d look back on the whole idiotic mix-up and laugh at how flustered I’d gotten. Let me tell you all, there has been no laughter as of yet. This afternoon, there was no “Ah …
I seem to be the only person not overjoyed by English Paper 2. Despite both Theme & Issue AND Cultural Context coming up for the Comparative, despite the Macbeth essay being incredibly vague and open-ended and despite three of the four poets on the leaked paper coming up, I still managed to mess it up. …
ZOOM. Okay, I’m just going to give you an insight as to what it was like being me this morning. I got up at five to read Macbeth quotes like a madwoman. My appropriately towards the poetry went something like this, “shit shit shit shit if Bishop isn’t there I’M GOING TO DIE”. And I …
I don’t think any Leaving Cert paper has garnered as much media attention as this year’s English 2, it has made quite a name for itself. Although many considered the original paper to be a ‘dream paper’, I think it’s fair to say that the contingency model lived up to the hype. There was a …
A few hours after I wrote my meltdown post last night I switched off my laptop, took a few deep breaths and thought about what I could do to maximise my English grade on Saturday. After the initial panicky thoughts of “oh God, that was my dream paper!” I realised that the contingency paper doesn’t …