Predictions

xLisaBx · 20-04-2014 5:12pm #1

I know we shouldn't rely on predictions, but teachers will give them before the exams. Maybe we should put them in the one place.
I think An Spailpín Fánach and Dís will be on the HL Irish paper

mmahony18 · 22-04-2014 1:39pm

Well since Lady Macbeth came up on both mock papers, people are taking that as a good indication but I wouldn't be relying on her just! My English teacher was also saying Dickinson is a big contender for poetry, probably Heaney and she also mentioned Larkin I believe.

xLisaBx · 23-04-2014 3:49pm

I'm learning Dickinson, surely she'll come up. Heaney is certain but I hate his work :P

JDOC1996 · 23-04-2014 3:52pm

History ideas anyone?

little sis... · 23-04-2014 4:28pm

Well, I'd say comparative is definitely coming up in english paper 2, like no doubt.

Maths will have a lot of calculations I'd say.

My guess for biology is that there will be a mix of human and plant biology this year.

I have a good feeling chemistry Q1 will be volumetric analysis, not sure though!

I think in business they'll give us some sort of story that we have to answer questions on? a bit odd really...

That's all I can come up with so far, pm me if you have any questions!

Huell · 23-04-2014 4:33pm

Maths will have a sin cos or tan graph and maybe finding the area under that curve...you heard it here first

JDOC1996 · 23-04-2014 5:51pm

No need to be patronising guys :P
Obviously if you rely on predictions, you're a fool, but there are certain things that are more likely to come up than others each year.

robman60 · 23-04-2014 6:04pm

Suspense in section 2 in accounting. I'll be very surprised if it doesn't come up.

little sis... · 23-04-2014 6:08pm

JDOC1996 wrote: »

No need to be patronising guys :P
Obviously if you rely on predictions, you're a fool, but there are certain things that are more likely to come up than others each year.

Yeh there probably are, I wish I knew them :P

Leavingcert179 · 26-04-2014 11:50am

For English poetry - is it enough to learn Heaney, Yeats, Dickinson and Larkin? Or could all of the other 4 poets come up?

robman60 · 26-04-2014 11:53am

Leavingcert179 wrote: »

For English poetry - is it enough to learn Heaney, Yeats, Dickinson and Larkin? Or could all of the other 4 poets come up?

There's always a possibility all four others could come up. Mathematically, it's a 1/70 chance but in reality I'd say it's far, far more unlikely. In my opinion I think you have chosen four poets that are very likely to appear.

thelad95 · 26-04-2014 3:32pm

Leavingcert179 wrote: »

For English poetry - is it enough to learn Heaney, Yeats, Dickinson and Larkin? Or could all of the other 4 poets come up?

I would reckon those will be the four that come up, maybe Kinsella instead of Larkin.

aleatorio · 26-04-2014 3:36pm

thelad95 wrote: »

I would reckon those will be the four that come up, maybe Kinsella instead of Larkin.

Im doing Dickinson, Yeats, Larkin and Kinsella - If one of those dont come up, Ill eat my exam paper :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

thelad95 · 26-04-2014 3:37pm

aleatorio wrote: »

Im doing Dickinson, Yeats, Larkin and Kinsella - If one of those dont come up, Ill eat my exam paper :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

No Heaney :eek: such blasphemy!

robman60 · 26-04-2014 3:43pm

thelad95 wrote: »

No Heaney :eek: such blasphemy!

I think Dickinson is as good a bet as Heaney, if not better. The two other women on our course came last year and if the at least one women thing stays, Dickinson seems like the best bet. I wouldn't be surprised if Heaney's left out to punish those people who only study one poet.

thelad95 · 26-04-2014 3:50pm

robman60 wrote: »

I think Dickinson is as good a bet as Heaney, if not better. The two other women on our course came last year and if the at least one women thing stays, Dickinson seems like the best bet. I wouldn't be surprised if Heaney's left out to punish those people who only study one poet.

True. I wouldn't be surprised if there were one or two nasty shocks. My English teacher is convinced one of Bishop, Mahon or Plath will pop up simply because the paper is so predictable this year.

a0ifee · 26-04-2014 3:55pm

thelad95 wrote: »

True. I wouldn't be surprised if there were one or two nasty shocks. My English teacher is convinced one of Bishop, Mahon or Plath will pop up simply because the paper is so predictable this year.

I'd say plath & mahon are likely just because people have completely ruled them out (i know my logic is amazing) but there's no real way to know. bishop was the unseen poem on our pre, i thought that was cruel

aleatorio · 26-04-2014 4:02pm

thelad95 wrote: »

No Heaney :eek: such blasphemy!

I find Heaney really hard to write about, and his poetry is a bit 'meh' to me, and I have a theory that if he does come up itll either be in the unseen poetry or a crazy hard question, so meh :P

thelad95 · 26-04-2014 4:05pm

aleatorio wrote: »

I find Heaney really hard to write about, and his poetry is a bit 'meh' to me, and I have a theory that if he does come up itll either be in the unseen poetry or a crazy hard question, so meh :P

I find him the easiest but I agree with you about the crazy hard question.

Colour Insanity · 26-04-2014 4:09pm

I know the Institute of Education (the ultimate grinds school in Dublin) are predicting Yeats, Dickinson and Heaney to come up, and they haven't been wrong in like 10 years or something ridiculous like that.

I hate all three of them, it's gonna be a nightmare! :P Plath is my queen - I'm kinda hoping that she'll pop up.

Any idea about the Modes for the Comparative? I need GVV >.<

My Physics teacher has been telling us for a month that the Electricity experiment will probably be Joule's Law too.

aleatorio · 26-04-2014 4:13pm

Colour Insanity wrote: »

I know the Institute of Education (the ultimate grinds school in Dublin) are predicting Yeats, Dickinson and Heaney to come up, and they haven't been wrong in like 10 years or something ridiculous like that. I hate all three of them, it's gonna be a nightmare! :P Plath is my queen - I'm kinda hoping that she'll pop up.

Any idea about the Modes for the Comparative? I need GVV >.<

My Physics teacher has been telling us for a month that the Electricity experiment will probably be Joule's Law too.

If GVV doesnt come up Ill cry...

thelad95 · 26-04-2014 4:14pm

Colour Insanity wrote: »

I know the Institute of Education (the ultimate grinds school in Dublin) are predicting Yeats, Dickinson and Heaney to come up, and they haven't been wrong in like 10 years or something ridiculous like that. I hate all three of them, it's gonna be a nightmare! :P Plath is my queen - I'm kinda hoping that she'll pop up.

Any idea about the Modes for the Comparative? I need GVV >.<

My Physics teacher has been telling us for a month that the Electricity experiment will probably be Joule's Law too.

General Vision and Viewpoint will come up 99% sure about that.

Cutlural Context and Theme/Issue is 50/50.

Anyone with any predictions for Economics? I'm quite worried about this because 2012 was the easiest paper in history according to my teacher and 2013 was the hardest he's ever seen.

Colour Insanity · 26-04-2014 4:15pm

aleatorio wrote: »

If GVV doesnt come up Ill cry...

Same

I get consistent A1s in that essay and like B2s in Cultural Context... It's mental

Colour Insanity · 26-04-2014 4:15pm

thelad95 wrote: »

General Vision and Viewpoint will come up 99% sure about that.

You have actually made my day

thelad95 · 26-04-2014 4:17pm

Colour Insanity wrote: »

You have actually made my day

But there's always that creeping doubt..... :P

Colour Insanity · 26-04-2014 4:21pm

thelad95 wrote: »

But there's always that creeping doubt..... :P

I am obviously going to know both :P But GVV is my personal fave. Just find it easier to write about, especially since my 3 texts all have the same message basically.

For Chemistry, I've heard rumors going around that it's most likely going to be the iron tablet titration.

robman60 · 26-04-2014 4:21pm

Anyone predicting anything for business? I normally try to heed predictions but in business I'm just doing everything and a quick look over units 6 and 7 but if anyone has anything specific that'd be useful.

I'm hoping break-even analysis will come up. I do accounting too, and the Qs in business are just like simplified versions of the accounting Qs.

Calvin · 26-04-2014 4:25pm

please give us theme or issue...only one i properly understand!

For accounting:
Sole Trader, Controls, Reval/Depr, Cash flow, Suspense, Service, Marginal+an extra, Cash budgeting - according to one of the grinds schools that nearly always has it correct and according to my teacher has an "informant" :rolleyes::rolleyes:

thelad95 · 26-04-2014 4:30pm

robman60 wrote: »

Anyone predicting anything for business? I normally try to heed predictions but in business I'm just doing everything and a quick look over units 6 and 7 but if anyone has anything specific that'd be useful.

I'm hoping break-even analysis will come up. I do accounting too, and the Qs in business are just like simplified versions of the accounting Qs.

Could do. If you can nail it, it's the easiest part of the paper.

Any predictions for the dreaded ABQ? Characteristics of entrepreneur is tipped by a lot of people. My teacher is convinced a letter/report/memo will come up as well.

Unit 6 is the devil's work. I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. I find Unit 7 is very straightforward as I do Economics and there's a bit of crossover.

robman60 · 26-04-2014 4:31pm

Calvin Leong wrote: »

please give us theme or issue...only one i properly understand!

For accounting:
Sole Trader, Controls, Reval/Depr, Cash flow, Suspense, Service, Marginal+an extra, Cash budgeting - according to one of the grinds schools that nearly always has it correct and according to my teacher has an "informant" :rolleyes::rolleyes:

In fairness I think most people are predicting those questions for accounting. I could see Tabular thrown in as a 100 mark Q as it hasn't come up since 2011 for 100 marks. It does tend to come up with manufacturing as Q1 though to keep things fair in terms of time.

It would be really interesting if service and suspense came up this year as that would mean four year cycles of section two questions. What I mean is 2009 had Incomplete and Published, as did 2013. 2010 had service and suspense so if we did too it would be ridiculously predictable. I think that's a reasonable possibility but nothing more than that.

Calvin · 26-04-2014 4:32pm

robman60 wrote: »

In fairness I think most people are predicting those questions for accounting. I could see Tabular thrown in as a 100 mark Q as it hasn't come up since 2011 for 100 marks. It does tend to come up with manufacturing as Q1 though to keep things fair in terms of time.

It would be really interesting if service and suspense came up this year as that would mean four year cycles of section two questions. What I mean is 2009 had Incomplete and Published, as did 2013. 2010 had service and suspense so if we did too it would be ridiculously predictable. I think that's a reasonable possibility but nothing more than that.

Please throw in a tabular instead of cash flow!! Cash flows are my weakness...

robman60 · 26-04-2014 4:35pm

thelad95 wrote: »

Could do. If you can nail it, it's the easiest part of the paper.

Any predictions for the dreaded ABQ? Characteristics of entrepreneur is tipped by a lot of people. My teacher is convinced a letter/report/memo will come up as well.

Unit 6 is the devil's work. I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. I find Unit 7 is very straightforward as I do Economics and there's a bit of crossover.

Well characteristics of the entrepreneur has come up as the A part in 04 and 09, the most recent ones we have to go by. I guess that's quite likely. I can't really see unit 1 featuring much in the ABQ, not sure why, just an inclination. Evaluation of management skills seems quite likely or a report perhaps. I'd think a report will come up as a 30 mark piece of the ABQ 22+8 (content, format).

aleatorio · 26-04-2014 4:36pm

thelad95 wrote: »

Could do. If you can nail it, it's the easiest part of the paper.

Any predictions for the dreaded ABQ? Characteristics of entrepreneur is tipped by a lot of people. My teacher is convinced a letter/report/memo will come up as well.

Unit 6 is the devil's work. I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. I find Unit 7 is very straightforward as I do Economics and there's a bit of crossover.

Im thinking characteristics and letter/report for the abq too :P Possibly something to do with the legislation too

And maybe contrasting managers and entrepreneurs? :P

I HATE units 6 and 7, so boring and ugh

thelad95 · 26-04-2014 4:40pm

robman60 wrote: »

Well characteristics of the entrepreneur has come up as the A part in 04 and 09, the most recent ones we have to go by. I guess that's quite likely. I can't really see unit 1 featuring much in the ABQ, not sure why, just an inclination. Evaluation of management skills seems quite likely or a report perhaps. I'd think a report will come up as a 30 mark piece of the ABQ 22+8 (content, format).

Not sure about this. We could see something to do with a contract or co-operative/competitive relationships. Alternatively, something to do with the consumer/industrial relations laws could easily come up. I hate Unit 3 so I hope there's only one part from that. In recent years, one question has come from each unit.

3raser10 · 26-04-2014 7:14pm

I think question 5 in accounting this year is going to be interpretation of accounts! :PP

robman60 · 26-04-2014 7:27pm

3raser10 wrote: »

I think question 5 in accounting this year is going to be interpretation of accounts! :PP

Your prediction is impeccable I'd imagine, yet most won't do the question. I'm still confident about doing the Q despite what's said about it and I think I'd get an A1 on it. People on here have scared me out of doing it though!

JDOC1996 · 26-04-2014 8:43pm

Colour Insanity wrote: »

I am obviously going to know both :P But GVV is my personal fave. Just find it easier to write about, especially since my 3 texts all have the same message basically.

For Chemistry, I've heard rumors going around that it's most likely going to be the iron tablet titration.

Yeah either that, vinegar or water crystals. Bleach could also make an appearance though. But then again, that's nearly all of them :L

Colour Insanity · 26-04-2014 8:56pm

JDOC1996 wrote: »

Yeah either that, vinegar or water crystals. Bleach could also make an appearance though. But then again, that's nearly all of them :L

Apparently Examcraft have predicted the titration for the last 5 years or something, so that's just going from their Mock

Era sure, all the titrations are pretty much the same at the end of the day - they're either self-indicating, phenophtalein, starch or methyl orange *sigh* :P

a0ifee · 26-04-2014 8:58pm

im going to bookmark this thread and come back after the exams to see who was right about what :pac:

Colour Insanity · 26-04-2014 9:03pm

a0ifee wrote: »

im going to bookmark this thread and come back after the exams to see who was right about what :pac:

That's such effort though! :P as far as I'm concerned, the LC will be completely forgotten about until August

SChique00 · 27-04-2014 12:16am

JDOC1996 wrote: »

History ideas anyone?

Can only say based on what topics I'm doing:
Nation States and International Tensions - Wilhelm II's Naval Policy, Church-state relations in Germany/Italy, and maybe something to do with WWI (you know, for the year that's in it)
Movements for Social and Political Reform - Land Reform question, Unionism, and possibly Home Rule post-1890 (I'll be keeping an eye on this one as it's never been asked as an essay before)
Dictatorship and Democracy - SOMETHING on Hitler, purely because he was so blatantly absent last year... also something on British economy, possibly?

As for the Document question? My money - if I had any - would be on the Treaty... Blitz is too straightforward, borderline ordinary level, while there isn't enough fodder in the congress to warrant a decent question. Then again, there's an equal chance any one of them will show up :rolleyes:

Reading the speculation here about accounting is giving me palpatations. I've given up totally on the ratios question purely because I can never get more than 70% in it, so I'm praying that 2 of suspense, cash flow and service/club accounts show up. If tabular/published come up I'm screwed - our teacher's never covered them with us in class and I didn't bother looking at them over the holidays...

Lara_15 · 28-04-2014 7:25pm

I think for accounting
1) Sole trader
60marks- revaluation, control and cash flow
100 marks- Suspense and club/ service
9) a mix of production and cash, and maybe some flexible

buuut, just to be safe i'm going to study
cash flows to 100 marks
Incomplete records
Tabular statements

completely leaving out farm, published and interpretation

mmahony18 · 29-04-2014 7:35pm

Anyone have any predictions for French HL opinion pieces? Think pollution could be contender.

oncex · 29-04-2014 10:00pm

mmahony18 wrote: »

Anyone have any predictions for French HL opinion pieces? Think pollution could be contender.

I go to a grinds school class on Saturdays and theyre predicting Racism/Equality/nelson mandela, terrorism and natural disasters since the opinion qs were very topical last year.

Cailin123 · 29-04-2014 11:45pm

xLisaBx wrote: »

I know we shouldn't rely on predictions, but teachers will give them before the exams. Maybe we should put them in the one place.
I think An Spailpín Fánach and Dís will be on the HL Irish paper

We heard from 'a pretty good source' that it's An tEarrach Thiar and Oisin i dtir na nog, really hope it's spailpin fanach and dis tho!

xLisaBx · 30-04-2014 2:06am

Cailin123 wrote: »

We heard from 'a pretty good source' that it's An tEarrach Thiar and Oisin i dtir na nog, really hope it's spailpin fanach and dis tho!

How?! They both came up last year right?

Shauna1995 · 30-04-2014 5:34pm

I'm learning Dickinson, Heaney ( maybe- i feel its an obvious choice he could come up as an unseen instead since he has passed away) Yeats and I will just know bits about Plath Kinsella cause I dont think they are going to come up, but who knows

Macbeth: I think Kingship but I'm learning everything just to cover my ass no point in taking a risk on something worth so much marks

Comparative: G.V.V I'd say

Biology: Learn Everything

but I'd learn IAA experiment, Fungus

Home Ec: Protein perhaps..maybe on Question A on the long it could be about childhood obesity since there is such a hullabaloo over it so I'd know all about the diet health problems ect

Ag Science: No idea

Maths: No idea O/L

Art History: Could be anything really but we've learned Stone age iron age bronze age, Romanesque/Gothic period, Product and Graphic Design

Irish: No idea O/L

69cokaz · 30-04-2014 6:24pm

English: Heaney and Dickinson are bankers id say, Lady Macbeth, Theme for comparative.

Irish OL: not sure gnathrud and colscaradh maybe

German: my teacher says the conjunctions might come up in the grammer anyway.

Anyone any ideas for geography or physics?

seamonkey92 · 30-04-2014 6:32pm

Heaney! He died this year sure!

omara95 · 30-04-2014 8:49pm

Anyone have any predictions for physics? We have been told that heat and sonometer are tipped to come up.

SChique00 · 30-04-2014 9:53pm

Cailin123 wrote: »

We heard from 'a pretty good source' that it's An tEarrach Thiar and Oisin i dtir na nog, really hope it's spailpin fanach and dis tho!

Know it doesn't technically make a difference, but wasn't Oisín i dTír na nÓg on last year's HL paper?

Personally, my money's on Spailpín Fánach and Dís - neither have been tested on the new course yet, and both appeared on the DEB mock.

Also know that the author of Dís died last year - there's a Heaney-like possibility that she may be remembered by having her story put on the paper; wouldn't like to bank on that factor, though!

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