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Mocks results - How did we do?
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07-03-2012 10:45pm#1
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Maths - 79% B
English - 78% B
French - 70% B
Irish - 73% B
Geography - 85% A
History - 74% B
Science - 73% B
CSPE - 89% A
Home Ec - 81% B
Art - 69% C
All HL, 2 A's, 7 B's and 1 C. I was over the moon with French, always my worst subject, I managed to scrape a B! Delighted. My Art result pissed me off because my teacher had been off on maternity leave for the past year, and I'd been getting up in the 90s while she was gone, and now I'm back down to a C now she's back -_- Was also disappointed with English because that's normally my best subject, until I found out I got the highest in my class lol. Idek where I lost marks though.
Relied pretty damn heavily on the Mock spoilers thread, especially for Science and History, regretting it cos I don't know I'll cope for the real thing now
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All Higher
Maths 76% B
English 75% B
Irish 90% A
Geography 93% A
History 93% A
French 90% A
Science 84% B
CSPE 94% A
Business 90% A
Still waiting for Religion, German and TG.
Now I have to do it all over again or better :cool:
I had Examcraft and found some of them to be much easier than the past papers
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Maths-79% B ,really happy cause I thought I had failed because of Paper 2!!
English- 79% B, thought I had failed that too
Irish- 81% B
Geography- 94% A, Yay
Science- 87% A, highest in class and only A
French- 91% A
History- 84% B
Business- 85% A
CSPE- 93% A
Home-ec- 98% A, teacher was unhappy because TOO MANY people got A's :L
Religion- 72% B, cannot believe religion was my lowest, its actually really hard!! Markers were scabby aswell...0 -
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I do all higher level except for Irish and I got the following:
English- 57% C
Irish- 79% B
Maths- 61% C
Geography- 61% C
History- 60% C
French- 68% C
Science- 44% D
Woodwork- 79% B
Metalwork- 70% B
Business- 39% E
CSPE- 79% B
Can any of ye please tell me what ye did for English.. I know all my poems and my 'To Kill A Mockingbird' very well. I'm a bit rough on 'Romeo & Juliet' tho any tips on how to get a B or even an A? 0 -
I failed maths :L
But I'm in a better school now and I have a good teacher that knows what she's doing!
All higher:
English - 68
Maths - 27
French - wasn't corrected because I moved
Geography - 73
Science- 57
History - 55 - didn't have course finished in old school
CSPE - 95
Irish - moved schools don't know something in late 60s I was told
Home ec - 76 with mock cookery and 79 without
Art - don't know
Everyone did really well in maths here! Well done! I'm more of a language and history person.
But I feel improvement already! My teacher was talking to the class about study and motivation and she said some people's best is an A, some a B, or a C. You know yourselves what you can get. As long as you do everything you possibly can then you can say to yourself in September you did your best even if it's a C. She said she'd be jumping up and down even if its a C or an A.
I love my maths teacher, she's unreal!
Hopefully everyone is studying by now and don't leave it to Easter break, start NOW. You can do it!!!0 -
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fannyadams wrote: »I didn't do any study for my mocks and they were they results I got.. If i started studying now until June for 2 and a half hours a day would I get all B's? How did you get 68% in english xfabgalx i find it really hard
Start studying now, I didn't study at all for mocks and thats what I got, I got Irish back... 38!! That was the kick in the arse I needed to start studying.. for all subjects.
I hope to get all A's and B's with the exception of HOPEFULLY a C in Irish.
You say you find English hard.. I got an A without any study but it's all essays's and stuff it comes natural to some.. I find Irish hard so I bought Revise - wise ... You should buy a revision book for the subjects you find hard.0 -
fannyadams wrote: »I do all higher level except for Irish and I got the following:
English- 57% C
Irish- 79% B
Maths- 61% C
Geography- 61% C
History- 60% C
French- 68% C
Science- 44% D
Woodwork- 79% B
Metalwork- 70% B
Business- 39% E
CSPE- 79% B
Can any of ye please tell me what ye did for English.. I know all my poems and my 'To Kill A Mockingbird' very well. I'm a bit rough on 'Romeo & Juliet' tho any tips on how to get a B or even an A?
I just posted stuff about R+J on the junior cert study notes forum... check it out.0 -
You say you find English hard.. I got an A without any study but it's all essays's and stuff it comes natural to some.. I find Irish hard so I bought Revise - wise ... You should buy a revision book for the subjects you find hard.
Yes i hope to get all A's and B's but i dont know about English How do you structure your answers in the reading section and how did you study for all of paper 2 0 -
fannyadams wrote: »Yes i hope to get all A's and B's but i dont know about English How do you structure your answers in the reading section and how did you study for all of paper 2
I didn't study much as such.
- I learned my R+J, Roll of thunder and Poems as we went along and thats it.
My first year english book was great and it influenced my answers now.
PQE Point, Qoute, explain.
- state your point,
- back it up with a quote,
- develope the answer.
It's important you write a lot too, for the reading comps on paper 1 I wrote a page for each question.. but dont even try to waffle. Not looks worse than that.0 -
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Art 51% It is art. Its about expressing yourself. Thanks for the confidence boost.
You'll do fine! As long as you put in the effort examiners know some people just struggle with art, its not about self expression really go ask your teacher what the criteria is like what exactly they are grading you on and what you can improve on you can break it down into little elements you can improve on and a student who can show they know what is being sought by the examiners is going to impress!0 -
got four 84%'s so im just going to call them A's.. haha
So I got;
english: 70% B
irish: 73% B
maths: 59% C
history: 96% A (delighted with that!!)
geograhy: 84 'A'
CSPE: 96% A
german: 84 'A'
science: 68% C
home ec: 84% 'A'
Business: 93 A (delighted!:D)
sp overall i got '6' A's, 2 B's and 2 C's...0 -
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Mine were dreadful to be honest but I may as well put them up...
English-74%-Delighted because I didn't study
Irish-52%-Dissapointed but I think I could get a B in the JC.
Maths-32%-Don't have the course finished and our teacher said it was difficult.
History-83%-Thought I would of gotten an A, really disappointed.
Geography-60%-No idea why, I got all As in class tets and Summer tests.
Science-72%-Very happy with that
French-66% and I wrote two lines for the postcard and an opening for the letter
German-65% but we re did a re-do and I got 77%
Music-52%-Again really disappointed.
CSPE-68%. No one in the year got an A... Our opinions were wrong supposedly.
Honestly, really disappointed with them. I want to bring English, CSPE, History and possibly Geo to an A. German, French, Music and Science to Bs. Irish to a C and possibly a C in Maths but I'd be happy with a D.
Mine are awful compared to all of your results. 0 -
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Irish-90-
English-82-
Mathis-92-
Business-90-
Hist-88-
Geog-85-
Religion-85-
Art- not back
Cspe- not back
German-83-
French-91-
Science-87
Many adding mistakes though if I didn't get to see these and say it to the teacher I would have received 3 less a's . 0 -
All higher level
English : 92% Highest
Home Ec: 85% Highest
Maths: 75% Highest
Business: 68% Highest (i did 3 long questions instead of 4 in paper 2)
CSPE: 95% Highest
History: 70% Highest
Geography: 75% 2nd Highest
French: 68% 2nd Highest
im actually really worried about my junior cert now.. 0 -
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English= 71% B(meh,not too happy but did ok)
Irish= 59% C(sigh,same old,same old)
French= 80% B(best in class,MOST unexpected result,seeing as im usually just average at French
Business=75%B (could have done much better)
Science= 51% D (worst result as usual,so glad no more science next year
Woodwork= 78% B (its woodwork,so easy)
CSPE= 95% A (its CSPE)
TG= 75% B(could do much better)
Geography= 73% B (marked soo hard,best in our class was 75)
Math= 56% C(happy enough)
History= 81% B (yessss! thought id be lucky to get a low b,ended up best in class!)
should start studying and go for those 7 or 8 A's i want 0 -
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the problem i have is:
i barely listen in class. i get distracted or it gets TOO boring.
for example:
*incoming rant about my history/geography teacher*
I DONT LEARN ANYTHING IN HIS CLASSES.
im not exaggerating
all he does is let us watch BLACK AND WHITE coloured films about the past and all i do is just sit there, pretending to be interested.
and on MOST days, all he does is sit on his chair and talk about history.
he doesnt even write notes.
all he does is sit there and talk for 30 minutes+ non stop about history.
oh wow i learn so much from him talking non stop about history.
and he even told us what topics will be asked for the mocks.
but we ended up getting the wrong paper.
and for history question 4.People in History, my friend (teacher's pet) wrote a completely different essay than the essays asked.
and she got 18 and 16 out of 20 for both essays.
*same goes to geography, all he does is sit there and talk, not writing notes. or just lets us watch The Deadliest Catch which i think is awesome but i barely learn anything*
*end of rant*
Note: for the junior cert, i will be the only girl in my class doing Higher Level history.
so im kinda worried because of this teacher i have.
if anyone have any history/geography notes, i'd really appreciate it if you can inbox me them or just post it here or in the Notes thread.
ANYWAYS
i dont ask questions in class because i'm very shy.
but i do my homework though
we dont get a lot of homework.
just an average of 3 homeworks a day.0 -
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So make up your own homework. You need at this level to be working towards being an independent learner. There are people with poor teaching skills at LC and at college - you need to learn how to get on despite that.
As a History teacher myself, it sounds like your teacher is showing you primary sources - and you are ignoring them?
Why should he write notes? He already knows the stuff, very well from how you describe he talks non-stop about it.
YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR OWN NOTES - that will help you remember. Otherwise, just go out and buy one of those revision books, where it's all done for you, but you will end up in the same position for Leaving if you don't learn how to make your own study notes. It is much harder remember someone else's notes than ones you made yourself.
40% of those sitting HL JC History get an A or a B. I have corrected it before (not for Mock companies, where the correcting can be really slack, but for the SEC) and I can tell you it's quite difficult to fail. I have seen people pass while leaving whole questions out.
Don't worry so much about the JC, but use the chance to develop yourself as an independent learner in preparation for the Leaving and college.
Hey i completely agree on mostly everything you said there apart from the writing own notes. Saying that thats what i did for history and ended up with 81 percent in my mocks. Our history teacher on the other hand is extremely poor. Really just sits at the top of the class and expects us to just highlight everything , then gives us a pile of homework and expects us to do up the notes. Its only now hes giving us notes and if i didnt love history like most of the class probley would have failed history. It is really possible to give notes on topics and teach the coarse. The method of just highlighting and being expected to do the notes can put alot of hardship on students and if teachers just sit at the top of class expecting kids to highlight the book , they just lose interest in the subject. We had a subsetute teacher in at the start of the year giving us notes in class and kids really started having interest more in the subject. Yet on the other hand, who really wants to spend most of the class writing notes 0 -
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So make up your own homework. You need at this level to be working towards being an independent learner. There are people with poor teaching skills at LC and at college - you need to learn how to get on despite that.
As a History teacher myself, it sounds like your teacher is showing you primary sources - and you are ignoring them?
Why should he write notes? He already knows the stuff, very well from how you describe he talks non-stop about it.
YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR OWN NOTES - that will help you remember. Otherwise, just go out and buy one of those revision books, where it's all done for you, but you will end up in the same position for Leaving if you don't learn how to make your own study notes. It is much harder remember someone else's notes than ones you made yourself.
40% of those sitting HL JC History get an A or a B. I have corrected it before (not for Mock companies, where the correcting can be really slack, but for the SEC) and I can tell you it's quite difficult to fail. I have seen people pass while leaving whole questions out.
Don't worry so much about the JC, but use the chance to develop yourself as an independent learner in preparation for the Leaving and college.
thank you
will you please tell with us your predictions for the junior cert (history)? 0 -
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English- 69 (Great result considering I failed my 2nd year summer exam)
Maths- 55 (Down 30%, Most of it due to paper 2 which I find difficult)
Irish- 76 (O.L as I find it very difficult)
History 65 (Not too shabby)
Science 30 (New teacher and all of our class realized we did nothing with our old one)
German 45 (5th teacher, she is now pregnant so we will be getting our 6th, hopefully will improve)
Geography 69
Business 78
CSPE 65 (Don't know)
All of this was with no study, still haven't begun 0 -
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