Leaving Cert 2012-13 *OFF-TOPIC* (hideaway) thread

0000879k wrote: »

Hey I got my subject forms today.. and although I thought I knew what I wanted... now that what I write down on this paper will determine my next 2 years, my leaving cert points and college courses / career.. I'm having some doubts.
If I were to do these subjects I would aim for the grades below.. so the 'hard' should be related to those grades in the subjects..
History - enjoyable? A2
Business - Hard? A2
Physics - Hard/Boring?? B1
Geography - hard?? B1/A2

History has become harder to achieve an A grade in as the essays are marked quite strict.

Business is a definite A1 if you put the effort into it and have an interest in any area of business. The only thing that pulls people off is the work load you have to do but it's a achievable A1 when you do the exam papers.

Source: I have a teacher for resource that told me that she found the papers very easy and she is currently doing a Business Management Master Degree.

Easter holidays

Only 7 more weeks of 5th year for me! Crazy, this year has flown..

How far along are you guys into the courses?

CookieMonster.x wrote: »

Anyone doing anything nice for easter? Or study?

I decided that I'd spent this week just enjoying myself, which is going excellently so far, and next week I'll try spend a few days doing a bit of school-related stuff (something that has never happened during a school holiday before :eek:). Probably really sad and nerdy but meh, I've tonnes of folders to organise, something that I think used to be a desk to tidy and I've found out what's on some of my summer tests, and considering I'll probably be working most weekends between now and the end of the school year, I'd better get cracking now while I have a bit of time...also I'm now 97% sure of what I actually want to do with my life so I suppose it'd be a bit silly not to at least try do something about it. WOO, STUDY! LEAVING CERT! LIFE! BRING IT.

Glee_GG wrote: »

CookieMonster.x wrote: »

Oh cool, sounds fun!
Well I want to do medicine so I need to get mostly As I don't think I'll get them though, TY made me so lazy!

Story of my life right there! where you thinking of doing Med?

Hopefully RCSI! What about you? I think at the moment I'd like to do paediatrics but I'm not really sure yet.
I was so good before TY, even though I get good grades I could do better and need to!

CookieMonster.x wrote: »

I never thought I'd say it but I'm actually bored.. And I'm still so tired
English we've done 2 of or comparatives, Macbeth, 1 poet and on our 2nd now.
Irish don't even ask.. I'd say 3 poems, 3 stories and maybe 3 topics for essays. Also 3 picture sequences.
Maths (hl) algebra, logs, area and volume, sequences and starting differential calculus.
Biology - not really sure but it seems like we have a lot to do next year.
Chemistry - starting rates of reaction soon
Accounting - final accounts and tabular statements.

Apologies for the state of this post, I'm on my iPod and my eyes are about to close I'm that tired..
Anyone doing anything nice for easter? Or study?
Omega, just wondering if ever PMd you back that time? Again I did it on my iPod but PMs I've sent don't appear in my sent box on the computer. Just wondering as it's the same with another person I PMd and well I hope I didn't seem rude.

Hey

I think we've got a tiny bit more covered. English, all 3 comparatives done and in Maths quite a bit more, but we've got nowhere near as much in Irish, only done one essay this year!

I'll probably go out with friends and that, but I've been trying to not waste the holidays sitting around bored and I've been doing about 3 hours of study a day on a particular subject.. just to start me off for Summer exam prep (I want to do well as I was very disappointed with Christmas, only got 1 A) .. so far so good.

I've sent you a PM.

So far we have done:

Maths: Stats, Probability, Complex Numbers, Differentiation & Limits, Trigonometry, Co-ordinate Geometry of the Line (and most of the Circle).
Irish: 4 poems, 1 prose, The Education System, The Status of Irish, The Media, An Triail, some oral topics, 3 Sraith Phictiúr.
English: Macbeth, 3 Comparative Texts (Wuthering Heights, The Constant Gardener, How Many Miles To Babylon?), 2 poets, monthly composition essays, a few comprehensions (A and B questions).
French: I think we've done 4 or 5 topics along with formal letters and some oral work.
Biology: All of the molecular biology (Unit 2 in "Biology"), Human Nutrition, The Scientific Method, Characteristics of Life, Food, and we're beginning Ecology.
History: All of Dictatorship and Democracy, 12 chapters of Sovereignty and Partition, about 10-12 essays.
Music: Bach, 90% of Tchaikovsky, Writing a Bass Line, Melody Writing and a bit of Irish Music.
Applied Maths: Vectors, Uniform Acceleration, Projectiles on the Horizontal Plane, Relative Velocity, Newtons Laws and Connected Particles, Work Energy and Power, most of Impacts and Collisions.
Japanese: Units 1-4 of Nihongo Kantan, all Hiragana Kantan and Katakana Kantan, about 45 Kanji.

I'm also studying for SATs now (anyone else sitting the Reasoning Test on the 5th of May in Andrew's???). Stressful but worth it if I end up getting into a US university

MegGustaa wrote: »

So far we have done:

Maths: Stats, Probability, Complex Numbers, Differentiation & Limits, Trigonometry, Co-ordinate Geometry of the Line (and most of the Circle).
Irish: 4 poems, 1 prose, The Education System, The Status of Irish, The Media, An Triail, some oral topics, 3 Sraith Phictiúr.
English: Macbeth, 3 Comparative Texts (Wuthering Heights, The Constant Gardener, How Many Miles To Babylon?), 2 poets, monthly composition essays, a few comprehensions (A and B questions).
French: I think we've done 4 or 5 topics along with formal letters and some oral work.
Biology: All of the molecular biology (Unit 2 in "Biology"), Human Nutrition, The Scientific Method, Characteristics of Life, Food, and we're beginning Ecology.
History: All of Dictatorship and Democracy, 12 chapters of Sovereignty and Partition, about 10-12 essays.
Music: Bach, 90% of Tchaikovsky, Writing a Bass Line, Melody Writing and a bit of Irish Music.
Applied Maths: Vectors, Uniform Acceleration, Projectiles on the Horizontal Plane, Relative Velocity, Newtons Laws and Connected Particles, Work Energy and Power, most of Impacts and Collisions.
Japanese: Units 1-4 of Nihongo Kantan, all Hiragana Kantan and Katakana Kantan, about 45 Kanji.

I'm also studying for SATs now (anyone else sitting the Reasoning Test on the 5th of May in Andrew's???). Stressful but worth it if I end up getting into a US university

Wow we must be really far behind! Especially in maths, you have so much done!
Not doing the SATs as I really would hate to go abroad for college but I have done the PSAT for CTYI. I don't think there's a huge difference from what I've seen between the two (if I remember correctly, could be wrong). What are you hoping to do in college?

Slow Show wrote: »

Glee_GG wrote: »

nice one! Love to go to UCD, it sounds really good there

http://www.ucd.ie/healthsciences/healthscimedvisit/

Have you heard of this? Found a random pamphlet on my desk from the Open Day about it, it sounds really interesting. I think I'm gonna head up on one of the days during the summer! I'm so unsure about where to actually apply, I'm so torn between UCD and NUIG, so hopefully this might help me decide. Then I just have to worry about actually getting in...

I might go to that too. I think I'd rather RCSI but I missed the UCD open day so I haven't seen it at all yet.

MegGustaa wrote: »

I'm also studying for SATs now (anyone else sitting the Reasoning Test on the 5th of May in Andrew's???). Stressful but worth it if I end up getting into a US university

Oh wow, what/where you hoping to study?

0mega wrote: »

How far along are you guys into the courses?

Maths: Stats, Probability, Geometry 1 and 2, Co-ordinate geometry: the line, constructions, alegebra, indices and logs, area and volume, and something else in book one :L

English: Macbeth, 3 comparatives, couple of comprehensions, 3 poets - Mahon/Hopkins/Wordsworth

Irish: 5 stories, 8 poems (doing the extra poems instead of An Triail), an absolute ton on grammar and verbs, one essay, haven't really done an oral work yet.

Biology: All unit 1, all unit 2 except for genetics, the heart/lungs/horomones/digestion

Chem: Starting rates of reactions when we go back so everything up til then.

Physics: Up to the chapter on potential charge think around Chapter 22 or something like that!

App Maths: Finishing off statics. We're only doing 8 out of the 10 topics because she said circular motion and hydralics take too long. So we've all the ordinary level course done and the higher level part a's

German: couple of random topics

I'm gonna jump on this bandwagon.

Maths - The line, the circle, a fair bit of algebra, trig and probability, differentiation, integration, indices...
English - 2 poets, Macbeth, one of the comparatives, some paper 1 stuff...everyone seems way further along but thankfully the English course isn't too big and intimidating.
Irish - All the poems and prose, a few of the sraith pictúirí, bit of general oral stuff
French - I have no idea how to keep track of what we do in french. More comprehensions than I could ever count, and just random stuff from all over the place.
Biology - Lots. Pretty much all of human biology done (sigh, my favourite part), most of unit 1 and a chunk of unit 2
Chemistry - Atomic theory, Acids and Bases 1, Gas Laws, The Mole, Ionic and Covalent Bonding, Shapes of Molecules and Intermolecular Forces, Acid-Base Titrations, Oxidation and Reduction, Redox Titrations, bit of Organic Chemistry
Accounting - Most of the course, but not in great detail yet.

I really wish all of that information was still in my brain...

Casablanca is on Film 4 today if any of ye are doing it as part of your comparative.

CookieMonster.x wrote: »

Wow we must be really far behind! Especially in maths, you have so much done!
Not doing the SATs as I really would hate to go abroad for college but I have done the PSAT for CTYI. I don't think there's a huge difference from what I've seen between the two (if I remember correctly, could be wrong). What are you hoping to do in college?

Yeah I did the PSAT for CTYI too but in 1st Year so I barely remember it at all. Tbh the only major difference is the length, the essay section and the (marginally) more difficult questions

I'm not entirely sure what I want to do - that's really the appeal of the US. You can take a huge variety of classes in your first two years and don't really have to narrow it down until the last two years. I'm looking at stuff like Maths and Engineering but I'm really not so sure!

Oh and I wouldn't worry too much about how much we've done in Maths - we did Stats, Probability and Complex Numbers in Transition Year so we got a little leg up on it