Firstly, I am very sorry I haven’t been on and didn’t wish everyone good luck – it’s only cause I know that every one of you is/was fine =P

Let’s start from English paper 1 so!! I thought it was a nice paper, but found some of the comprehension questions took ages to answer properly. I answered on the Heaney interview, and got a little carried away! For the question B, I wrote the radio talk-thing about the importance of books… I really enjoyed writing it because I just wrote about Narnia and imagination! I even got to stick in “Once a King or Queen of Narnia, always a King or Queen of Narnia.”

My essay writing was a tad disastrous though! I started on the last topic – the short story where two eccentric characters meet. Then it got a little complicated, which I only realised after reading back over my first page and a half! Ever had ideas that made perfect sense in your head, but on paper it just looks like a crazy jumble of nonsense?? Well that’s what my examiner would have been subjected to had I not changed!! So I wrote a personal essay on freedom in an hour =/

I was a bit more organised (or so I thought) for paper two and stuck rigidly to my timing, even though I had an overwhelming urge to throw my Yeats essay in the bin half way through and try Rich. The thing is, I knew my Rich essay better and have no idea why I chose Yeats!! My Rich essay had gotten an amazing (albeit inflated) 93%, my Yeats 86%. Now I won’t be complaining if I get handed that in August, but that is doubtful! I really would have loved to have seen Longley on that paper but there is no way anyone should have only learned Boland. What if she HAD been on, but with a horrible question?? Although there is no excuse for people to be gloating about it!

To all you out there who think it’s funny to post things like “HAHA I TOLD YOU BOLAND WASNT COMIN UP!!!” I hope Karma comes and bites you in the ass.

I loved both the comparative and Lear questions. I did GV & V and the question suited my texts (Sive, Billy Elliot, The Story of Lucy Gault) perfectly. I’m not usually very good on the auld Lear questions, but this one went ok; I just hope the examiner agrees!!

Maths (OL) was mostly ok. I dropped from honours because it was taking up so much of my time, in December. There were a few tricky part Cs and, embarrassingly, I forgot the compound interest formula but then found it in the log tables!!

I was pretty happy with how it’s been going until I started to think this morning…. I don’t think I’ve done enough and that thought is killing me! I need about 550 for medicine and I just can’t see it coming =( Oh well sure I can only do my best – problem is I’m not sure that’s what I’ve been doing =S

Best of luck for the week ahead =D Its gonna be a little bit like hell I think!!
Irish Paper 2 gives me nightmares so I would hate to have another exam that day too.

To all you out there doing Irish and Business – God love yis!!!

Ta ta

Katie