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Leaving Cert '11/'12 Off-Topic 2

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  • #2702
    Canard
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 8,572 Mod ✭✭✭✭Canard


    PictureFrame wrote: »
    I can't understand how anyone can get an A1 in French :pac: My Teacher was telling me how one of her students last year got an A1 and left an hour before the exam, I was just sitting there in total disbelief at how anyone could manage an A1 in something so unpredictable!

    You got an A1 in the Mock didn't you? Jeez. Well done like!

    I can only manage A1's in Business where it's basically the same questions every year tbh! No thinking necessary! Suits me perfectly!
    Yup, one mark less and I wouldnt have gotten it, the stupid teacher who did my oral was really harsh and probably trying to downgrade me but he didnt know what he was dealing with :cool: :L I find business much harder to do well in, your constant A1s in it baffle me :pac:
    Is it really the same qs every year? Is it better than geography?! :P I havent ever had the chance to do all of them because my teacher just aaaaalways read the book so it wasted a lot of my time :( I've noticed repetition but ahh, the cramming is killing me! :o


  • #2703
    Mysteriouschic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭Mysteriouschic


    Has anyone else got maths modules on your course next year?
    All of mine do apart from the one I applied to in England, which is why I need to get the grades for there lol.


  • #2704
    Canard
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 8,572 Mod ✭✭✭✭Canard


    Dear god no, I was almost going to do a business course til I realized it involved matrices, the one thing we never did in maths so my HL maths would have still been useless to me. Maths can steer clear of me until my potential kids need help with it. :pac:


  • #2705
    Togepi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,813 ✭✭✭Togepi


    Patchy~ wrote: »
    Dear god no, I was almost going to do a business course til I realized it involved matrices, the one thing we never did in maths so my HL maths would have still been useless to me. Maths can steer clear of me until my potential kids need help with it. :pac:

    Matrices are grand, only problem is they're not worth 50 marks! :P


  • #2706
    Canard
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 8,572 Mod ✭✭✭✭Canard


    Togepi wrote: »
    Matrices are grand, only problem is they're not worth 50 marks! :P
    They really dont look so bad, and last year it looked like it said evaluate PIMP :D But the fact that the one thing I hadnt done was cropping up just ripped my soul to shreds :P


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  • #2707
    finality
    Registered Users Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭finality


    PictureFrame wrote: »
    Eww. Just looked at the 2011 Applied Maths Marking Scheme- it looks like my worst nightmare. Serious congrats to anyone who can manage stuff like that, it truly boggles my brain tbh :cool:

    My first applied maths class went completely over my head, I came out of it thinking "what...the...****." :L It starts to come together after a while though! I'd be seriously impressed if it made sense to someone right away.

    Just got a whole Q2 right, on my first attempt :D:D:D I won't sleep tonight until I understand Q2! Then, not going to school tomorrow, I think I'll make it an applied maths day. Starting to want the A1 now, I WILL get it. :pac:


  • #2708
    Fergus_
    Registered Users Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Fergus_


    Just finished school today, thought we'd be finished on wednesday but we got a text so apparently we're done today!

    Not sure how to feel tbh


  • #2709
    Togepi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,813 ✭✭✭Togepi


    finality wrote: »
    My first applied maths class went completely over my head, I came out of it thinking "what...the...****." :L It starts to come together after a while though! I'd be seriously impressed if it made sense to someone right away.

    I was wondering if people would just get it straight away or whether it takes time and practice and all that.



    I'm sure most papers look impossible to people who don't do the subject, the maths and science ones definitely would anyway!


  • #2710
    finality
    Registered Users Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭finality


    Togepi wrote: »
    I was wondering if people would just get it straight away or whether it takes time and practice and all that.



    I'm sure most papers look impossible to people who don't do the subject, the maths and science ones definitely would anyway!

    Even now, looking at the questions we haven't covered in class, I wouldn't have a clue how to do them.

    I think a business paper would seem impossible to me, never did business even for JC.


  • #2711
    PictureFrame
    Registered Users Posts: 3,989 ✭✭✭PictureFrame


    Patchy~ wrote: »
    Is it really the same qs every year? Is it better than geography?! :P I havent ever had the chance to do all of them because my teacher just aaaaalways read the book so it wasted a lot of my time :( I've noticed repetition but ahh, the cramming is killing me! :o

    Well a lot of Business is common sense, so in that regard a lot of the questions are fairly similar each year! I hate Geography, hate it. Got a B1 in the Mocks and did a savage project, but don't think I have enough time to learn everything well enough to get the A2.


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  • #2712
    leaveiton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭leaveiton


    Anyone else ever get those moments where everyone else is talking about a subject and you think "Crap, I really need to study for that!"






    ....And then you realise that you don't actually do the subject in question? :P


  • #2713
    PictureFrame
    Registered Users Posts: 3,989 ✭✭✭PictureFrame


    finality wrote: »
    Even now, looking at the questions we haven't covered in class, I wouldn't have a clue how to do them.

    I think a business paper would seem impossible to me, never did business even for JC.

    Ah Business is a babe <3. Best subject on the Leaving IMO. Here's a couple of questions on a business paper if you wanna satisfy your curiosity! :pac:

    Andd i'll throw in some good 'auld Economics for the crack like! :P


  • #2714
    finality
    Registered Users Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭finality


    PictureFrame wrote: »
    Ah Business is a babe <3. Best subject on the Leaving IMO. Here's a couple of questions on a business paper if you wanna satisfy your curiosity! :pac:

    Andd i'll throw in some good 'auld Economics for the crack like! :P

    Looks like you could nearly guess your way to a pass in business. :P The economics is complete gibberish to me.


  • #2715
    Canard
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 8,572 Mod ✭✭✭✭Canard


    PictureFrame wrote: »
    Well a lot of Business is common sense, so in that regard a lot of the questions are fairly similar each year! I hate Geography, hate it. Got a B1 in the Mocks and did a savage project, but don't think I have enough time to learn everything well enough to get the A2.
    Exactly, thats how I got my B3, waffling about technology I use at home really :L I got a B2 in my geo mock, 4 marks off a B1 but my teacher took 8 marks off my regional because of his weird obsession with headings :S The marking scheme got things wrong, and my teacher doesnt do OC marks in the option for some reason so yeah, I think I deserved an A. With all the stuff youre learning youll be covered!

    I'm determined to get an A2 at least because I hate how geography is so easy but I cant do well in it because my teacher chose the hardest bits to do :( The other class have my English teacher, he isnt even qualified and his grades are the highest of all the classes! >_>


  • #2716
    Togepi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,813 ✭✭✭Togepi


    finality wrote: »
    Even now, looking at the questions we haven't covered in class, I wouldn't have a clue how to do them.

    I think a business paper would seem impossible to me, never did business even for JC.

    I s'pose I'd find Business pretty hard, I only did it in first year. Any subject I don't do would look impossible though. Music, Construction, Biology, etc. Geography would be the one okay one though, I'd have a tiny bit of a clue for some parts. My friends were always revising it last year and I always knew the Junior Cert version of what they were doing which is a start at least! Made me wish I did Geography. :L


  • #2717
    Togepi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,813 ✭✭✭Togepi


    Religion would be alright at Junior Cert level too if you never did the subject. I did it and as a piss take I wrote 'Jesus' as an answer to one of the short questions in my mock. Got full marks for it. :pac:


  • #2718
    FaoiSin
    Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭FaoiSin


    Togepi wrote: »
    Religion would be alright at Junior Cert level too if you never did the subject. I did it and as a piss take I wrote 'Jesus' as an answer to one of the short questions in my mock. Got full marks for it. :pac:

    Religion ended up being my only B "/ I thought I was going to waffle my way through it :P :pac:


  • #2719
    finality
    Registered Users Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭finality


    Togepi wrote: »
    Religion would be alright at Junior Cert level too if you never did the subject. I did it and as a piss take I wrote 'Jesus' as an answer to one of the short questions in my mock. Got full marks for it. :pac:

    In junior cert home ec, in the pre, one of the questions was
    "how do you use a pressure cooker?"
    I had no idea and wrote,
    "you put the food in the pressure cooker, you turn on the pressure cooker, you let the food cook"
    and I got like half marks for it. :L
    Another question was "how do you properly care for a fridge?"
    My answer: "don't slam the door when closing the fridge"

    oh junior cert home ec. Ruined my grade pattern though, I should've done something else instead.


  • #2720
    Togepi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,813 ✭✭✭Togepi


    Remember CSPE lads? <3 If only it was a Leaving Cert subject. :P


  • #2721
    FaoiSin
    Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭FaoiSin


    I dunno I was asked what the letters CSPE stand for in a test before and I didn't know :L


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  • #2722
    finality
    Registered Users Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭finality


    Togepi wrote: »
    Remember CSPE lads? <3 If only it was a Leaving Cert subject. :P

    Finished that exam in 29 minutes and got an A. Proudest moment of my life. Waiting around outside for everyone else to finish was no fun though. :(


  • #2723
    Joey.
    Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭Joey.


    Haven't been around these parts in a while, how's everyone holding up? :)
    Togepi wrote: »
    Remember CSPE lads? <3 If only it was a Leaving Cert subject. :P

    No. I got a B, I'm such a failure :(


  • #2724
    Togepi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,813 ✭✭✭Togepi


    finality wrote: »
    Finished that exam in 29 minutes and got an A. Proudest moment of my life. Waiting around outside for everyone else to finish was no fun though. :(

    I think my A might have taken me 40 minutes. I remember worrying it'd take me an hour because I didn't want to be the last to leave but I still wanted an A. :pac: Ended up being one of the first to leave. :D


  • #2725
    Bears and Vodka
    Registered Users Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭Bears and Vodka


    finality wrote: »
    Finished that exam in 29 minutes and got an A. Proudest moment of my life. Waiting around outside for everyone else to finish was no fun though. :(

    I spent aaages drawing a poster :pac:
    I was artsy back then.

    EDIT: Got an A btw.. may not be much but when someone asks, how many A's did you get in your JC it does make a difference :L


  • #2726
    reznov
    Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭reznov


    finality wrote: »
    Finished that exam in 29 minutes and got an A. Proudest moment of my life. Waiting around outside for everyone else to finish was no fun though. :(


    When I finished I thought I made several mistakes.

    Then I realised it's just CSPE.


  • #2727
    finality
    Registered Users Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭finality


    Togepi wrote: »
    I think my A might have taken me 40 minutes. I remember worrying it'd take me an hour because I didn't want to be the last to leave but I still wanted an A. :pac: Ended up being one of the first to leave. :D

    I was the very first. Nobody else came out for about an HOUR. :mad:


  • #2728
    Togepi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,813 ✭✭✭Togepi


    Joey. wrote: »
    Haven't been around these parts in a while, how's everyone holding up? :)
    Togepi wrote: »
    Remember CSPE lads? <3 If only it was a Leaving Cert subject. :P

    No. I got a B, I'm such a failure :(

    Not bad, yourself? :)

    Ah I know loads who got Bs and Cs, it was a weird subject.


  • #2729
    finality
    Registered Users Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭finality


    subz3r0 wrote: »
    I spent aaages drawing a poster :pac:
    I was artsy back then.

    EDIT: Got an A btw.. may not be much but when someone asks, how many A's did you get in your JC it does make a difference :L

    I specifically didn't do the poster question so I could get out faster :D


  • #2730
    Togepi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,813 ✭✭✭Togepi


    finality wrote: »
    I was the very first. Nobody else came out for about an HOUR. :mad:

    Really? :eek: I went out and I was like 'phew, I'm not the last of my friends to finish!' Our main aim going into the exam was to leave as soon as possible!

    One class in our year had a teacher who took it really seriously and told them not to leave early. :( Poor things! :L


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  • #2731
    Mysteriouschic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭Mysteriouschic


    I didn't really study for the JC until like 2 weeks before .
    Cspe was so boring lol I remember when we had to learn sphe as well that was kinda interesting even though there wasn't a test.


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