Leaving Cert '11/'12 Off-Topic 2

KirkCheated09 wrote: »

What's up guys, I'm in JC .. and I'm at a stage where I'm starting to get worried. I'm pretty smart and know I'll do well enough, but I failed my Irish mocks (38%) and that put me off big time.. I was so disappointed and somewhat ashamed... I don't want that to happen again in September when I look down at my results sheet. Any advice from JC veterans? ... thanks.

For JC Irish I just learned off my poetry and story answers by heart and winged the rest.. Got a B so it worked for me! Don't worry about it too much!. The JC is designed for you to do well in so just put in a bit of work and you should be grand!

Nice to know I'm not alone with the Friday thing. :P Transcribing algebra solutions trying to get my head around it, best Friday night ever. :rolleyes:

fewtinsoffroth wrote: »

He switched since the mocks? I didn't know you could do that.

1 person in my year got 0 points and somebody else got 5, which is a bit worse than 0 in a way.

No no start of 6th year, word got back though :L

I know for a fact that an absolute pr*** in my year got 55 points in the Mocks as i'm in everyone of his classes. Then, I heard him telling everybody and told his parents he got 460.

I wouldn't ussually care but he's so persistent that's what he got even though a load of people were in the class as the Teachers gave out **** to him for doing so bad.

I actually just can't understand how you can get less than 100 points in your Leaving at all. He's genuinely quite average, but seriously 55 points?

Keep in mind this person was doing 6 HONOURS , 1 Pass and LCVP. He failed 5 HL Subjects and LCVP, he got like a D3 in Music, D2 in OL Maths. So his total was like 55 points. It's disgraceful. I absolutely hate liars and bull****ters more than anything :mad:

PictureFrame wrote: »

I know for a fact that an absolute pr*** in my year got 55 points in the Mocks as i'm in everyone of his classes. Then, I heard him telling everybody and told his parents he got 460.

I wouldn't ussually care but he's so persistent that's what he got even though a load of people were in the class as the Teachers gave out **** to him for doing so bad.

I actually just can't understand how you can get less than 100 points in your Leaving at all. He's genuinely quite average, but seriously 55 points?

Keep in mind this person was doing 6 HONOURS , 1 Pass and LCVP. He failed 5 HL Subjects and LCVP, he got like a D3 in Music, D2 in OL Maths. So his total was like 55 points. It's disgraceful. I absolutely hate liars and bull****ters more than anything :mad:

Id say some people were like that with their mock results on this, every second person was getting 600

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

Id say some people were like that with their mock results on this, every second person was getting 600

Ah I'd say everyone in this thread was honest though (I know I was). But remember, half those posters getting 600...their only other posts were "WATS ON HL PHYSICS DEB MOCK PLZZZZZZZZ" :rolleyes:

hey i no u sed u dont do fizicz but can u plz find it for me :rolleyes:

It's weird having not done mocks this year just small tests instead. I think I'm doing much better this year. The only LC test I've not sat before is the English HL or Economics. I really hope I won't run out of time on the paper 2 of English as there's a lot to write. I may have to test myself one day to see if I can manage writing 3 essays plus the unseen poem.
How was the time for paper 2? Was it hard trying to get it finished?

JonnyMcNamee wrote: »

Got it done just with about three seconds to spare! Could have been because I spent most of my Hamlet Essay day dreaming about several ingenious ways Hamlet could have exacted revenge though :pac:

Wow no pressure then haha. The comparative takes me the longest to write out of them maybe because I didn't know it as well when was writing it up. Everytime I've written one it takes me at least 2 hours.

Patchy~ wrote: »

Personally I finished about an hour early :pac: I got 65/70, 46/50, 13/20 (had never done unseen poetry, d'oh ) and 48/60 (hadnt revised hamlet in class :L).

I think its all down to knowing what youre gonna write and writing it fastish.

Oh yeah true , hopefully I won't run out of time. I think there's and extra 20mins allowed for English too.

Patchy~ wrote: »

There is I think, but I think thats how its been for the last few years but people still struggle But dont worry, just write fast

I'd like to get up early and study tomorrow but this week has me exhausted. I aimed to do all 30 algebra questions from 2011-1996 but 2011 was so confusing that I gave up

(By doing I mean copying and trying to understand :L)

I'm the same, I hate leaving study til late in the day too. I might go libary early that way I'd have to study not sure though. I have lots of books or folders which I use. I might just go for the morning . I haven't touched maths in a while by myself I just get frustrated.

SlyBacon93 wrote: »

I thought commenting on leaving cert threads would be fun and friendly. All I've gotton is rude and unnecessarily unpleasant comments ?????
Maybe boards isn't for me hmm

You have to remember that what might come across as a light-hearted comment IRL complete with body language may not translate as easily to the net without a small bit of thought as to how to get the tone across.

That said, from a quick glance back, some (normally relaxed) people a tad hormonal at the moment!

I suppose we'll see more of that over the next few weeks as people get more stressed, but everyone try to take deep breaths and not take it out on one another ... there's been a really nice atmosphere around this forum this year, and it would be a pity to see that falter at the last fence.

Haven't been on this in a while, I was just doing so.. much.. work.

Nah I spent the entire day yesterday playing fifa/cod at my friends But yeah next week I'll definitely get my act together and stay focused on my studies!

Funny how I seem to say this to myself every week.:pac:

I'm having quite the productive Study day today!

• I've done a Backing Chords Exercise for Music,
• 2006 Economics Short Questions (97/100 ftw! )
• Revised/skimmed through the whole Business Course and i'm now going to do the entire 2007 paper and give it up to my Teacher Tuesday to correct! It's one of the only papers that has out ABQ Units so i'm going to give that a go!
• Gonna try and revise Heaney and do an Essay,
• revise LG and do an essay
• Finish learning the SW USA today (5 essays ) .
  

Not too bad for a Saturday! :cool:

I can't seem to focus today. I did a few business questions and some economics. I decided to give it a miss for the rest of the day and wait until tomorrow when I'll be more focused.