Shane De Poire

Poetry, 30 marks as well, 5% of the overall grade.

And again, you'll have a choice.

You study five poems, two appear in the exam, you answer on one.

And the only question that is guaranteed on paper two for the study material is the extra literature question.

I focus on a tree that is the most popular one, but a Higg not Hitcher will be, you know, second place behind it.

They're guaranteed to be on the exam.

You have to get a question on those.

There were 40 marks, about 6.5 percent of the exam.

You know what the question is, but you do know it's going to be on it.

You could spend all your time and energy on a poem or a story and it doesn't appear.

At least with a tree or a Higg not Hitcher, you will definitely get a question on them.

Absolutely, start with reading.

I would definitely start with them on Irish paper too.

They're worth half the amount of marks on paper too.

And the answers are in front of you.

And I know that sounds a bit like a cliche, but you can steal the answers for questions.

1 to 6a from the comprehension you don't have to change anything it's a copy and paste exercise so write them down word for word as an examiner that's what I want to see I don't want you putting your own changes in you'll have loads of places to express your opinion but steal them from the comprehension and 6b you must answer kind of like a personal response let's call it about what's been read but you must write that in your own Irish so you're not taking that from the text exactly and that's where 12 marks and that will you know tell me if you're getting a 1, 2 or a 3 basically if you're doing well because

you've got to put your own language to the test there.

Okay, and in terms of the pros, what's the advice for that?

For pros, the big thing is to focus on character behaviour and character analysis.