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Mocks results - How did we do?
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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.
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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
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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
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