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11Charlie11 · 31-01-2013 8:07pm

Ive only had one exam this week so far and that was LCVP. I can honestly say LCVP is the most BORING subject in the world!! Its just a load of pointless questions but yet I stayed writing till the end?

Lets just say I never want to see another LCVP exam in my life!

David086 · 31-01-2013 8:19pm

11Charlie11 wrote: »

Ive only had one exam this week so far and that was LCVP. I can honestly say LCVP is the most BORING subject in the world!! Its just a load of pointless questions but yet I stayed writing till the end?
Lets just say I never want to see another LCVP exam in my life!

LCVP is a doss, an easy 50 points or 70 if your lucky!

kevin12345 · 31-01-2013 8:58pm

Biology went brilliantly! So happy with it. Couldn't get over the specificity of some of the questions, just proves how the exams are going. No room to bluff answers really.

CookieMonster.x · 31-01-2013 9:07pm

Does anyone know if there are any definition you can be asked in maths paper 1?

Eurovisionmad · 31-01-2013 9:15pm

CookieMonster.x wrote: »

Does anyone know if there are any definition you can be asked in maths paper 1?

In the 2011 SEC Sample Paper they asked essentially the definition of a rational number so you never know! But they won't ask the statistics or the theorem definitions in paper 1

CookieMonster.x · 31-01-2013 9:18pm

Eurovisionmad wrote: »

In the 2011 SEC Sample Paper they asked essentially the definition of a rational number so you never know! But they won't ask the statistics or the theorem definitions in paper 1

I think I could handle that.. I'll just have to cram for paper 2 on Monday.. Thanks!

BrownBear11 · 31-01-2013 9:22pm

CookieMonster.x wrote: »

Does anyone know if there are any definition you can be asked in maths paper 1?

I think the only "bookwork" is differentiation from first principles, the volume of a cone and sphere in integration and then the definitions of things rational numbers and integers and stuff like that

CookieMonster.x · 31-01-2013 9:59pm

BrownBear11 wrote: »

I think the only "bookwork" is differentiation from first principles, the volume of a cone and sphere in integration and then the definitions of things rational numbers and integers and stuff like that

Forgot about studying first principles! I think I'll just go through a few sections. Be grand!

11Charlie11 · 31-01-2013 10:29pm

Anyone wanna help me out?? I just caught my sister stealing 20 euro from my mom cause her 'free text ran out' and i asked her about it and she says she will pay it back tomorrow? I dont know if i should tell my parents or not??

Shes 13 and started in first year and failed 6 subjects!
When i asked her about taking the money she begged me not to tell and says she will pay it back and when my mom went out of the kitchen she says that she put a fiver into her purse cause that was all she had, so i decided to look for this fiver.. and there isnt one!!
I dont know if i should tell or not and let her pay it back but the thng is if i didnt find out would she ever pay it back?

Eurovisionmad · 31-01-2013 10:56pm

11Charlie11 wrote: »

Anyone wanna help me out?? I just caught my sister stealing 20 euro from my mom cause her 'free text ran out' and i asked her about it and she says she will pay it back tomorrow? I dont know if i should tell my parents or not?? Shes 13 and started in first year and failed 6 subjects!
When i asked her about taking the money she begged me not to tell and says she will pay it back and when my mom went out of the kitchen she says that she put a fiver into her purse cause that was all she had, so i decided to look for this fiver.. and there isnt one!!
I dont know if i should tell or not and let her pay it back but the thng is if i didnt find out would she ever pay it back?

In all honesty if you're looking for moral advice on Boards, you're definitely in the wrong place!

0mega · 31-01-2013 10:57pm

11Charlie11 wrote: »

Anyone wanna help me out?? I just caught my sister stealing 20 euro from my mom cause her 'free text ran out' and i asked her about it and she says she will pay it back tomorrow? I dont know if i should tell my parents or not?? Shes 13 and started in first year and failed 6 subjects!
When i asked her about taking the money she begged me not to tell and says she will pay it back and when my mom went out of the kitchen she says that she put a fiver into her purse cause that was all she had, so i decided to look for this fiver.. and there isnt one!!
I dont know if i should tell or not and let her pay it back but the thng is if i didnt find out would she ever pay it back?

I'd just basically make her put the money back and tell her that if it happens again you're going to tell them.

I'd be lying if I said I've never taken some money from my parents before without asking when I'm stuck. It's common enough, unless it becomes a regular thing and she's robbing them blind. :pac:

I don't see what the correlation between failing subjects and theft is though?

11Charlie11 · 31-01-2013 11:00pm

0mega wrote: »

I'd just basically make her put the money back and tell her that if it happens again you're going to tell them.

I'd be lying if I said I've never taken some money from my parents before without asking when I'm stuck. It's common enough, unless it becomes a regular thing and she's robbing them blind. :pac:

I don't see what the correlation between failing subjects and theft is though?

Its just since she started secondary school that shes changed so much!

0mega · 31-01-2013 11:02pm

11Charlie11 wrote: »

Its just since she started secondary school that shes changed so much!

Happens to everyone - particularly first year, it's just something that you have to accept and wait for them to go back to how they were.

YoursSincerely · 31-01-2013 11:04pm

11Charlie11 wrote: »

Anyone wanna help me out?? I just caught my sister stealing 20 euro from my mom cause her 'free text ran out' and i asked her about it and she says she will pay it back tomorrow? I dont know if i should tell my parents or not?? Shes 13 and started in first year and failed 6 subjects!
When i asked her about taking the money she begged me not to tell and says she will pay it back and when my mom went out of the kitchen she says that she put a fiver into her purse cause that was all she had, so i decided to look for this fiver.. and there isnt one!!
I dont know if i should tell or not and let her pay it back but the thng is if i didnt find out would she ever pay it back?

if your worried about her, going down a bad path maybe you should just talk to your mother and tell her you think something's wrong with her. Don't mention the stealing but just put it out there that she's changing a lot and maybe something is up?

11Charlie11 · 31-01-2013 11:50pm

Getting ready for a serious cramming session now .. Should be fun

French tomorrow :cool:

Found This Fork Sir · 31-01-2013 11:53pm

My mocks don't start until monday, I am feeling seriously grateful

although I do have a week of them after midterm too, so midterm is ruined :l

Vito Corleone · 31-01-2013 11:59pm

My mocks aren't for ages compared to you guys. I have 2 before the break, and the rest after.

Found This Fork Sir · 01-02-2013 12:03am

I have four before midterm, three after, and then music way off in the distant future because i do it as an extra :P Delighted that maths is on after midterm

Poufsouffle · 01-02-2013 12:09am

bluejaymraz wrote: »

For those of you interested in Part 2 of my maths paper saga, ye'll be glad to know that for the most part Paper 2 was a major success. I'm fairly confident that I've dragged my grade out of the gutter.

Exactly the same for me, so glad maths is out of the way now though.

kingcobra · 01-02-2013 12:35am

I'm in the middle of watching a Facebook fight here unravel, tis quite amusing!

bluejay14 · 01-02-2013 3:29pm

Resisting the temptarion to stay out of the mocks spoilers thread is harder than I thought it'd be.....

Colm! · 01-02-2013 3:43pm

I actually only have two days of school (four mocks) before my midterm - French, Applied Maths, Physics, Business.

bluejay14 · 01-02-2013 4:37pm

I have Monday off and the 1 exam a day for the next 4 days. They're all in the morning aswell so I'll still have to get up at 7.15

In other news, I've just played the piano for the first time in about a month, feels like longer I was so awful.....

BrownBear11 · 01-02-2013 5:24pm

Thought I was going to be sitting a Maths paper today, turns out it was physics and college accountancy :rolleyes:

Eurovisionmad · 01-02-2013 5:45pm

Did Maths paper 1 today thought it was graaaannnddd! But then again other people thought it was fairly disastrous so either I was just lucky to get them all out or my confidence is totally misplaced and I in fact failed dismally

One thing I did notice and it was not just in the pres but in some of the sample papers from the SEC is that they tend to use business terms a lot without clarifying their meaning, which is sort of unfair if you don't have a great grasp or interest in business!

Slow Show · 01-02-2013 6:06pm

Really happy with how my Maths Paper 1 went too, think I got most things right (obviously including a good few blunders and the like as I'm fairly terrible at getting the right answer due to some combination of signs and forgetting numbers exist etc.) and I got English Paper 2 done with a few minutes to spare to my surprise.

I would've always said Paper 1 was my strongest paper but that didn't go too well and Paper 2 went quite well (I hope) so good day really.

Monsieur Folie · 01-02-2013 6:24pm

bluejaymraz wrote: »

Resisting the temptarion to stay out of the mocks spoilers thread is harder than I thought it'd be.....

One eejit came into my school the other day waving around a slip of paper telling everyone he knew what essays were coming up in English.. Making a massive deal out of it and everything, gathering big huddles of people around him, he felt really popular........

....... he was wrong. :P

I don't care too much for predictions any more. If I hear them I'll make sure I know what I've heard just in case, but I don't put any weight in them because then you end up like that fella I just mentioned.

Chemistry was easier than I expected, our teacher really has done a good job with us since fifth year. I know way more than I thought I did!

ray2012 · 01-02-2013 6:34pm

Had my maths paper 1 today as well. It went ok, not as good as I would've hoped! Is it just me or are the questions sometimes HORRIBLY phrased? Certain questions on the paper I couldn't even make out what I was suppose to do!

Monsieur Folie · 01-02-2013 6:45pm

ray2012 wrote: »

Had my maths paper 1 today as well. It went ok, not as good as I would've hoped! Is it just me or are the questions sometimes HORRIBLY phrased? Certain questions on the paper I couldn't even make out what I was suppose to do!

Looking through sample papers I get the same impression. My maths paper 1 is my last mock and it's this Friday, so it's kind of on the long finger at the moment. You're all scaring me! I need to start practising..

Copper_pipe · 01-02-2013 7:19pm

For those have ye that had a DEB paper for maths paper 1, for the

simultaneous equations did ye get

10, 10, 0

Spoilers please

Eurovisionmad · 01-02-2013 7:22pm

ray2012 wrote: »

Had my maths paper 1 today as well. It went ok, not as good as I would've hoped! Is it just me or are the questions sometimes HORRIBLY phrased? Certain questions on the paper I couldn't even make out what I was suppose to do!

Yeah that's intentional though, they want you to 'critical think' about it as they like to say! The best thing you can do is to just transfer the relevant information like figures onto the paper yourself that way it becomes clearly cause you don't have all the window dressing around it as my physics teacher would say!

Eurovisionmad · 01-02-2013 7:23pm

Copper_pipe wrote: »

For those have ye that had a DEB paper for maths paper 1, for the
simultaneous equations did ye get

10, 10, 0

I think so, and isn't that really for the mocks thread?

bluejay14 · 01-02-2013 7:31pm

BrownBear11 wrote: »

Thought I was going to be sitting a Maths paper today, turns out it was physics and college accountancy :rolleyes:

Was that "physics" question about

planets

and the like?

decisions · 01-02-2013 7:40pm

Urgh, the Mocks thread is only 2 clicks away at any one time, this is a lot more difficult than I had expected.

Colm! · 01-02-2013 7:44pm

I'll be opening the IRC channel tonight on the condition that people talk about things other than the mocks there

CookieMonster.x · 01-02-2013 7:49pm

Don't know what happened today.. Felt sick earlier and still sick now and I couldn't do my maths.. I feel awful and so so tired. And the annoying thing is I am actually good enough at maths

I hope I'm not getting sick, study must be done!

BrownBear11 · 01-02-2013 8:04pm

bluejaymraz wrote: »

Was that "physics" question about
planets
and the like?

Yep, that's the one. Literally was a physics question like

You had the same paper, obviously? What ya make of it? The longs were atrocious but the shorts were do-able. Integration was lovely as well. I hope this isn't getting too close to being a spoiler

bluejay14 · 01-02-2013 8:43pm

BrownBear11 wrote: »

Yep, that's the one. Literally was a physics question like You had the same paper, obviously? What ya make of it? The longs were atrocious but the shorts were do-able. Integration was lovely as well. I hope this isn't getting too close to being a spoiler

Practically the whole paper was a nightmare for me.....I' m consoling myself with the fact that we couldn't do 7 or 8 and that paper 2 was beautiful.

I will not mention the mocks on IRC later if I do decide to turn up.

BrownBear11 · 01-02-2013 10:29pm

bluejaymraz wrote: »

Practically the whole paper was a nightmare for me.....I' m consoling myself with the fact that we couldn't do 7 or 8 and that paper 2 was beautiful.

I will not mention the mocks on IRC later if I do decide to turn up.

There's hope then? That at least

Colm! · 01-02-2013 10:58pm

http://webchat.quakenet.org/?channel=lc2013

Setting this up for the night lads. Two rules:
1. Don't discuss the mocks.
2. Banter Banter.

This went very well one night and has been a veritable embarrasment every attempt since, so let's see if we can get this going again.
(for anyone who uses IRC for other things we're #lc2013 on irc.quakenet.org)

ray2012 · 02-02-2013 12:09am

I was just going through the English papers looking at the different questions and one for Macbeth was ''Macbeth is a great example of a compelling drama'' ..

I'm just wondering what could you say for a question like that? How is it a good compelling drama? :P

0mega · 02-02-2013 12:28am

ray2012 wrote: »

I was just going through the English papers looking at the different questions and one for Macbeth was ''Macbeth is a great example of a compelling drama'' ..

I'm just wondering what could you say for a question like that? How is it a good compelling drama? :P

The slow pace at the beginning builds the tension until it reaches the dramatic climax.
We learn valuable lessons on issues such as ambition and power.
We watch Macbeth change from an honest, good person into a malicious tyrant.
We discover how one murder often leads to the next and we don't know where they will end.
How realistic and human the characters were.
How the story is still universal and timeless despite being written hundreds of years ago.
Continues to build right until the end.
Contains elements of the supernatural to add a new exciting layer of unpredictability to the story.
The prophecies established at the beginning pique our interested and leave us wanting to find out whether they will become true.
We see the extent of the power of evil and how it can consume people

etc. etc. etc.

ray2012 · 02-02-2013 12:31am

0mega wrote: »

The slow pace at the beginning builds the tension until it reaches the dramatic climax.
We learn valuable lessons on issues such as ambition and power.
We watch Macbeth change from an honest, good person into a malicious tyrant.
We discover how one murder often leads to the next and we don't know where they will end.
How realistic and human the characters were.
How the story is still universal and timeless despite being written hundreds of years ago.
Continues to build right until the end.
Contains elements of the supernatural to add a new exciting layer of unpredictability to the story.
The prophecies established at the beginning pique our interested and leave us wanting to find out whether they will become true.
We see the extent of the power of evil and how it can consume people

etc. etc. etc.

Thanks! If a question similar to that comes up on my paper 2 on Monday I shall thank you! :pac:

Parawhore.xD · 02-02-2013 12:58pm

History is going to kill me on Monday..

Copper_pipe · 02-02-2013 1:13pm

Irish paper 1 Monday morning but im watching the Superbowl tomorrow night so ya...

11Charlie11 · 02-02-2013 1:50pm

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Irish paper 1 Monday morning but im watching the Superbowl tomorrow night so ya...

Can't wait to see beyonce!!

what time does it start?

Parawhore.xD · 02-02-2013 1:59pm

Just reinstalled twitter on my iPod. Bye bye productivity. :P

kingcobra · 02-02-2013 4:29pm

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Irish paper 1 Monday morning but im watching the Superbowl tomorrow night so ya...

I'm getting the day off Monday just to watch this Super Bowl

The game starts at 23:30

It was some game of rugby today too!

Parawhore.xD · 02-02-2013 4:40pm

kingcobra wrote: »

It was some game of rugby today too!

My heart! :O

Eurovisionmad · 02-02-2013 4:50pm

Ugh I'm worried that by the time the pres are over (the midterm) that Les Mis will be out of the cinema, everyone says it's amazing and I don't want to have to wait for it to come out on DVD

Also I can't find anyone to go with me, everyone has already seen it, am I the only one who can't handle going to the cinema on my own?

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