Which subject did you screw up in?

DEmeant0r · 16-06-2004 11:02pm #1

I think I only screwed only Biology, should be lucky to pass.

mayordenis · 16-06-2004 11:15pm

oh yeah biology was a right bitch

Agent Smith · 16-06-2004 11:17pm

none so far, cause i'm great.....

but i know i will fail classical studies!

subway_ie · 17-06-2004 8:17am

Only major screw-up was business and english - in business I did a question I didn't know anything about, when there was another question I could have done that would've been perfect. In english, I only revised dickinson...bitch. Apart from that, just small fúck ups in maths and obviously the french aural.

Go Figure! · 17-06-2004 8:59am

Originally posted by mayordenis
oh yeah biology was a right bitch

Not much has changed then. When I did honours biology in 1998, people were coming out of the hall crying including myself because it was such a nightmare. I ended up failing it as well.

PrecariousNuts · 17-06-2004 9:54am

German

Mutant_Fruit · 17-06-2004 10:02am

german is tomorrow! theres still time (or so i tell myself)

Swifty · 17-06-2004 10:32am

Geography, only had Spain divided into regions and other variants of Spain learned off and of course it didn't come up. Managed to squeeze some of the spain notes into the "primary industries" question but it wasn't a great answer. I'm terrible at Ordanance Survey also, never really score high on those questions.

Healio · 17-06-2004 5:15pm

FCUKED UP ACCOUNTING BIG TIME

snickerpuss · 17-06-2004 5:21pm

pass maths....
how lame is that?
numbers just ain't my thing.

Mutant_Fruit · 17-06-2004 5:23pm

Tech paper1: goodbye A1. Hello B1

Roller Toaster · 17-06-2004 6:05pm

I feel I could have done better in maths really...not so much that I screwed up its just that I've always been ****ty at trig and it featured reaaally heavily in differentiation/integration.

Kold · 17-06-2004 6:16pm

I could've done better in all of them with the minimum of effort.

English and Biology are the biggest let downs, my best subs throughout the year.

Corona · 17-06-2004 7:02pm

Screwed up Irish paper 2 by only studying for about an hour the night before, and screwed up geography by choosing the wrong regions to study - italy, spain and normay. Gonna be disappointed with my points in August I'd say.

Cathy · 17-06-2004 9:12pm

Probably Biology so far... although I know I could have done better than I have done in most of the subjects so far if I'd done even a bit of work during the last two years...

The Song Thrush · 17-06-2004 9:19pm

I bunged up Bizness and English

Envy · 17-06-2004 11:04pm

English, Paper One.

Minor edit: forgot the French aural. Eesh, how could I forget that?

DS · 17-06-2004 11:05pm

I've been lucky with papers so far. Only thing I ****ed up was the French aural, along with everyone else in the universe. Irish was pathetic actually, but I decided months ago I wasn't counting it.

Roller Toaster · 17-06-2004 11:11pm

Does anyone know what the actual answers to that horrible child ratification section on the french aural? I was on the second playthrough and the page was still nearly completely blank.

DS · 17-06-2004 11:23pm

I wouldn't trust anyone really, given how hard it was, and given that I'd rather not bother counting all the wrong answers, when I know I did **** anyway. Post mortems are all well and good when you did alright, but I'd rather just forget about this

claire h · 17-06-2004 11:23pm

I don't know where to begin. I think I've screwed up every paper in some way or another. Ah well, it's only the... Leaving Cert. Damn.

Originally posted by Roller Toaster
Does anyone know what the actual answers to that horrible child ratification section on the french aural? I was on the second playthrough and the page was still nearly completely blank.

190 countries, French children can depend on their parents to provide for them up until they're 25, German kids sued for invasion of privacy and parents going through their rooms and such like, kids have the right to play and the right to health, third world kids are deprived of medical care and there was something about child soliders, apparently, and children have the right to be born free and equal. Didn't get half of that when I was doing the thing, though.

Envy · 17-06-2004 11:27pm

French children can depend on their parents to provide for them up until they're 25

Was it 25? Dammit, I put down 18.

Twenty-five? Yikes, talk about freeloaders.

Roller Toaster · 17-06-2004 11:33pm

I put down 180 for the number of countries

Maybe Discharger is right after all.

claire h · 17-06-2004 11:38pm

Originally posted by Roller Toaster
I put down 180 for the number of countries

Me too. And then everyone told me there was a 'dix' tagged on to the end of it. And I sighed. Stupid French.

DEmeant0r · 18-06-2004 12:05am

Originally posted by claire h
Me too. And then everyone told me there was a 'dix' tagged on to the end of it. And I sighed. Stupid French.

I got the 90 bit, but didn't hear the 100, I completely ****ed up my Aural, probably failed it.

[Edit]Er correction, I didn't **** it up, the fuzzy tape did, and the fact that when the superintendent noticed it was fuzzy she then proceeded to turn the volume too low[/EDIT]

subway_ie · 18-06-2004 8:29am

Originally posted by Demeant0r
[Edit]Er correction, I didn't **** it up, the fuzzy tape did, and the fact that when the superintendent noticed it was fuzzy she then proceeded to turn the volume too low[/EDIT]

Write a letter of complaint to the Chief French Examiner, State Examinations Commission, Cornamaddy, Athlone. But do it soon.

Third_Echelon · 18-06-2004 9:20am

Originally posted by Go Figure!
Not much has changed then. When I did honours biology in 1998, people were coming out of the hall crying including myself because it was such a nightmare. I ended up failing it as well.

yeah that was a bitch of an exam in 98... i thought i had it nailed, but if i remember correctly, a guarenteed question that came up every year didnt come up and people went crazy over that...

i ended up getting a D, but what the hell.... its all over now thank god...

Suaimhneach · 18-06-2004 10:50am

Bar french things have been okay. But only okay. Not great I don't think.

I'll let you know in a few months!

claire h · 18-06-2004 11:36am

Originally posted by Jesjes
Bar french things have been okay. But only okay. Not great I don't think.

I'll let you know in a few months!

Exactly two months today...

subway_ie · 18-06-2004 12:08pm

Originally posted by claire h
Exactly two months today...

Only 61 days. 1457 hours. 87412 minutes.

DS · 18-06-2004 12:36pm

Can't wait to open that envelope. I'm gonna do it slowly, one subject at a time. My hands'll be shaking like mad I'd say. But they do that anyway.

subway_ie · 18-06-2004 12:55pm

Damn vice-principal in our school has them all read beforehand, so there's no anticipation or anything opening the enveope... he tells you most of it before you get a chance. At least I'll be able to tell him to STFU, since I'm not in the school anymore.

Kold · 18-06-2004 4:57pm

Aurals are stupid, if they want to keep it I think the board of education should shell out for a quality sound system in every exam hall.

nesthead · 18-06-2004 5:46pm

when the superintendent noticed it was fuzzy she then proceeded to turn the volume too low

why the **** arent they on cd now? the department would probably say that some schools cant afford cd players or some bolox. blanck cds are cheaper than blank tapes too.

anyway the exam i ****ed up was biology. damn over-confidence and lack of insight into new paper type

munkeehaven · 18-06-2004 5:52pm

anyway the exam i ****ed up was biology. damn over-confidence and lack of insight into new paper type

you probably didnt do as bad as you thought ..you should have seen me --i wanted to fecking jump in a river after that exam--cos i studied like a MF despite being in a ****ty class with a crap teacher--but you know the way it is--you could do 10 leavings and get totally diff results....best way is to get to some alternate universe where you are doing a different exam structure or whatever--if only.

thats whaat i hate about this damn lc--makin me act neurotic....hmmm idea for a thread...

senordingdong · 18-06-2004 8:55pm

Physics-Im so ****ed.

DEmeant0r · 18-06-2004 9:01pm

Originally posted by subway_ie
Write a letter of complaint to the Chief French Examiner, State Examinations Commission, Cornamaddy, Athlone. But do it soon.

I'm going to do that soon. Everyone who's tape was fuzzy should do the same please!

mattg · 18-06-2004 9:04pm

Messed up Accounting, business(just a little), Maths(should have got an A1 in pass, but I know I didnt), and I will probably mess up Economics :dunno:

subway_ie · 18-06-2004 9:06pm

Originally posted by Demeant0r
I'm going to do that soon. Everyone who's tape was fuzzy should do the same please!

Don't blame it on the "fuzzy tape". If that was the problem, then the superintendent should have written it on the exam scripts. The main problem was the delivery - the diction was terrible, mumbling, incoherent, too much details and information to pick the answer from. Time constraints, etc. Just don't blame it all on bad facilities.

senordingdong · 18-06-2004 9:07pm

Originally posted by subway_ie
Write a letter of complaint to the Chief French Examiner, State Examinations Commission, Cornamaddy, Athlone. But do it soon.

Can you do that for other subjects aswell? Like....history and or geography maybe?

subway_ie · 18-06-2004 9:13pm

Originally posted by senordingdong
Can you do that for other subjects aswell? Like....history and or geography maybe?

Yeah, just replace "French" with "History"/"Geography". But like I said, do it soon. The marking scheme conferences should be coming up very soon ( in the next 1 - 2 weeks).

senordingdong · 18-06-2004 9:27pm

Originally posted by subway_ie
But like I said, do it soon. The marking scheme conferences should be coming up very soon ( in the next 1 - 2 weeks).

Pfh...Ill need about a month to devise how i wish to complain. Jk.

Would i be correct in assuming that im to use my own name, and not my exam number?
Also, i wanted to coplain that i am a slow writer and ended up having to leave out a question on each paper in order to keep my writing legible. Would that be taken seriosuly or just dismissed as bull****?

subway_ie · 18-06-2004 9:30pm

Originally posted by senordingdong
Would i be correct in assuming that im to use my own name, and not my exam number?
Also, i wanted to coplain that i am a slow writer and ended up having to leave out a question on each paper in order to keep my writing legible. Would that be taken seriosuly or just dismissed as bull****?

I just used my own name, didn't make any reference to exam numbers/centres/school or anything like that. I wouldn't mention the handwriting thing... that's a personal issue, not their problem - they can't make you write any faster. If they were to make the exam longer, then they'd have to add in more questions. When I mentioned "time constraints" I meant the speed of the speakers on the aural tape, not the actual lenght of time of the exams.

PrecariousNuts · 18-06-2004 9:34pm

Wow I made a really accurate prediction for German. I did so badly its not even funny. I'd take a D right now if I was offered. Thank god for science and maths though, I'd have a rubbish result otherwise

senordingdong · 18-06-2004 9:48pm

Originally posted by subway_ie
I I wouldn't mention the handwriting thing... that's a personal issue, not their problem - they can't make you write any faster. If they were to make the exam longer, then they'd have to add in more questions.

No i mean that we are expected to write too much (in history anyway) and the "average" student cant finish the paper in time.

The Song Thrush · 19-06-2004 1:29am

Originally posted by subway_ie
Damn vice-principal in our school has them all read beforehand, so there's no anticipation or anything opening the enveope... he tells you most of it before you get a chance. At least I'll be able to tell him to STFU, since I'm not in the school anymore.

Well why not just read your results online?

subway_ie · 19-06-2004 7:44am

Originally posted by The Song Thrush
Well why not just read your results online?

Isn't the whole point of doing it in school so that you can meet up with friends, lots of anticipation, general atmosphere, get some "closure" and all that? A bit more exciting then visiting examinations.ie

The Song Thrush · 19-06-2004 6:09pm

Originally posted by subway_ie
Isn't the whole point of doing it in school so that you can meet up with friends, lots of anticipation, general atmosphere, get some "closure" and all that? A bit more exciting then visiting examinations.ie

well if you don't get the points it won't be a good atmosphere. and you'd be spared the embarassment...:rolleyes:

subway_ie · 19-06-2004 6:16pm

Originally posted by The Song Thrush
well if you don't get the points it won't be a good atmosphere. and you'd be spared the embarassment...:rolleyes:

Well for all they know I want to do an AQA course... so it doesn't really matter. As for embarrassment... I'm gonna get what I deserve, no reason to be embarrassed over that.

Which subject did you screw up in?

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