who else is doing it this year?

JBoyle4eva

Hey all,
I'm in 3rd year(won't say what school) and I'm actually already getting a bit annoyed already with the juniour cert!

I've been told to start studying for it by my mum, which I'll start tonight. :rolleyes:

So, if anyone wishes to announce they're doing it(Or if they just wanna show off next week with their results) by all means, this is the place to post it!

Good Luck with J.C. 2005!

PurpleFistMixer

*puts up hand*
Arr, I'm in 3rd year. (Never thought I'd say that.)
However, everyone except for my school has been telling me the junior cert means NOTHING, and I generally don't trust my school, so I'm not planning on getting too worked up over this thinger.

Study is evil... if I ignore it it'll do it itself...

Raphael

It's a waste of time. Trust me, it isn't worth worrying over.

Signed:
A Miscellaneous 5th year

PurpleFistMixer

Not a waste of time if you can GET stuff for getting 10As!

Raphael

What kinda stuff? Coz 10A's = no life till after the exams, and doing a WHOLE lotta work

PurpleFistMixer

Originally it was a guitar and a laptop, but my parents had selective memory so I'm still working on the written contract. *mutters darkly*
The work thing is a problem, (I already have that no life thing down pretty well) but ehh, I did pretty well in my summer tests (nothing lower than a and I didn't study for them, so studying for the JC just a tad may improve upon that...

Raphael

Make sure they're a damn good laptop and guitar, otherwise it won't be worth it

6 days till i get my results. Woohoo, I can hardly wait ¬.¬

PurpleFistMixer

Oh most definitely. I was thinking of throwing in an i-pod too because my CSPE teacher is dire...

I hear all the JC parties have been cancelled.

Stormfox1020

You lucky Fúck, I wish my parents gave me money or presy's for my JC results. Mind you the only A in got was in Science and Tech Graph.

PurpleFistMixer

I never said I'd actually GET any of the stuff, now.
I think the only reason my parents are at least SLIGHTLY considering making such a deal is that they believe strongly I won't get 10 As...

coconutmonkey

I am doing it too this year, unfortunately. All my teachers are telling us how important it is, but the having a brother in 6th year kind of puts it into perspective. If you're talking about dire teachers, than i've got one for you. Its my history teacher.. He's a nice guy and all.......but we skip chapters he doesn't feel are important, or else he gives us one page summaries of them.He's at least 5 minutes late for every class, and when we have him first class he opens his post and leaves to get himself a cup of tea. Some days he just occasionaly wanders in for a couple of minutes, but then leaves again. We also have him for CSPE. The other day we asked him what we were doin for our action project and he said to us 'i havent a bloody clue to be honest'. I didnt expect much though, as he had my brother before, and they did they're action project 2 weeks before the JC. But he's a nice guy.....most of the time.

Raphael

Unless your planning on bringing JC to the Leaving Cert, you can actually afford to ignore chunks of the course. I never did the french revolution for instance, and I think I did well (pending next wednesday)

PurpleFistMixer

History and CSPE are both evil subjects anyway...
My CSPE teacher looks to be doing that; she hadn't even mentioned action projects before this year...
Other than that I think my teachers are relatively competent... (French teacher would probably be one of the worst, an amazing amount of people failed their french summer test because she didn't even tell us what was on the bloody paper) even if we are behind.

My poor sister (in 6th year), some of her teachers (I think it's Irish and French) are just giving them masses of stuff to.. learn off. Ugh. -.-

My English teacher can't spell. It's irritating for grammar people like me.

Raphael

I got my action project done in 2nd year. Woo!

PurpleFistMixer

Eh I'll just make it up!
*mutters about incompetent CSPE coot*

JBoyle4eva

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

My CSPE teacher looks to be doing that; she hadn't even mentioned action projects before this year...

Mine hadn't either! But, I like CSPE!

PurpleFistMixer

JBoyle4eva wrote:

Mine hadn't either! But, I like CSPE!

Ewww, politics!
Actually CSPE is mostly comprised of normal current affair day to day common knowledge so it's easy enough. I just hate it because of the teacher. (And the fact I like living under a rock and reading newspapers goes against the grain)

Big Ears

Im doing mine , thats all I gotta say really .

coconutmonkey

The other day in CSPE he had this little book of exercises we should do, and one of them was that we all had to sit in a circle and pretend to be passing around a sleeping puppy, trying not to wake it. So basically we just kinda cupped our hands and moved them around. I was not happy! He's normally above that! He's very against the stupid rules in my school. I got a new French teacher this year, and the other day she gave us a 'test' on the regular present tense. To be honest, i was quite insulted. Did she think we were her first year class?

PurpleFistMixer

coconutmonkey wrote:

I got a new French teacher this year, and the other day she gave us a 'test' on the regular present tense. To be honest, i was quite insulted. Did she think we were her first year class?

Some people in my class don't even know the present tense... And we're all supposed to be doing honours...

coconutmonkey

Are they those people who just sit in the back of the class all day writing on the tables in tipp-ex, and talking about drinking at 'the wezz'? I dont want to sound nerdy but its like come on! Just listen for a second!

Boston

Yea I'm doing the Big JC this year, very nervious about the hole thing, it like one of the biggest and mostest importantest exams I'll ever sit. My mummy and daddy have promised to bring me to disney land though if I do well, yea.

Ps, anybody know how to factorise yet, it seems so hard, and I need all the help I can get.

coconutmonkey

Em....I dont really know how to reply to that, so i'll just smile and laugh.

PurpleFistMixer

coconutmonkey wrote:

Are they those people who just sit in the back of the class all day writing on the tables in tipp-ex, and talking about drinking at 'the wezz'? I dont want to sound nerdy but its like come on! Just listen for a second!

Yeah, exactly. Ugh.
And then (to sound nerdy) they just HAVE to say "UH MISS I DUN NO D ANSWER UHH UR STUPID" or whatever and slow the rest of the class down when we DIRELY need to actually get past the 50th page of the 2ND YEAR book.
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coconutmonkey

I know exactly how you feel!!!!!!!1 And then she asks them a question and they're like 'em........sorry?' trying to be all cute and polite.....well you're not! You're just stupid!!!! And then we have to do everything again!! Bah humbug!!!!!!! :mad:

PurpleFistMixer

Yeah!! *bitter angriness*
And what's the deal with whenever these people get called out to be given out to they give everyone else in the class a dirty look before leaving as if it were THEIR fault that they didn't listen and subsequently know NOTHING!?

coconutmonkey

I just hate the way our teacher would be in a fun good mood, then they would be all stupid and so would get her in an angry, irritated mood! Its like, you're stupid, we know, but dont ruin our fun because of it!

Raphael

Boston wrote:

Yea I'm doing the Big JC this year, very nervious about the hole thing, it like one of the biggest and mostest importantest exams I'll ever sit. My mummy and daddy have promised to bring me to disney land though if I do well, yea.

Ps, anybody know how to factorise yet, it seems so hard, and I need all the help I can get.

Who wants to play whack-a-troll?

PurpleFistMixer

Raphael wrote:

Who wants to play whack-a-troll?

*wields +3 mace*

Boston

Raphael wrote:

Who wants to play whack-a-troll?

Not infront of the kids. meet me behind the bike shed at three.

Raphael

O.O!

During class?? You rebel!

Corruptedmorals

I did it in june. All honours subjects, bah. They start lecturing you and doing countdowns from the first day of 3rd year and give you loads of homework to try and scare you. Its all crap. Seripusly, theres no need to study until AT LEAST the mocks, if that.

I started to actually study 4 months before the JC

Piste

I'm in 2nd year, right, and on our first day back we were being told to start studying for the JC NOW! Like, come on, I know its a damn academic school and all, but really, I have another year to even start thinkin about studying. Grrrrrrrr.

PurpleFistMixer

If they tell you to start studying in second year, they actually expect you to start studying about a year and a half later, because they know you'll only study at the last minute. And if it's weighing on your mind for a whole year you'll become more and more inclined to do it.

(I lie through my hat or whatever that expression is. They told us to that everything we learned in first year was essential and really we should begin preparing for the JC then, but study? Pah! Last minute is the best.)

Shoolaboola

im in 3rd yr too and the work is drivin me mad already, not a day goes by without a teacher goin all j.c on me.

Raphael

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

(I lie through my hat or whatever that expression is

I think it may be teeth....

HAT?!?!?

Shoolaboola

does anyone else have at least one idiot in their honours classes that sits a the back making strange noises?
or a home-ec teacher thats old and crazy?

PurpleFistMixer

Shoolaboola wrote:

does anyone else have at least one idiot in their honours classes that sits a the back making strange noises?
or a home-ec teacher thats old and crazy?

Those are standard issues in each school. It wouldn't really be a school without it. Although my home ec teachers are all fairly unold and the majority of them aren't crazy... But we have plenty of people making weird noises in all of the classes.

Raphael wrote:

I think it may be teeth....

HAT?!?!?

There's an expression with hat in it!

Somewhere.

Big Ears

talking through his hat ????

PurpleFistMixer

That's the one.

Shoolaboola

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Those are standard issues in each school. It wouldn't really be a school without it. Although my home ec teachers are all fairly unold and the majority of them aren't crazy... But we have plenty of people making weird noises in all of the classes.


There's an expression with hat in it!

Somewhere.

i think it's "well i would eat my hat" or something like that. hah i missed double science and home-ec today after lunch

PurpleFistMixer

No, eating one's hat is a different expression.

I didn't miss double science. But I got to make circuits and set things on fire. =D

Shoolaboola

yeah well there is the downside of being sick and then someone ringing me and waking me up to scream her results down the phone (which by the way were very good)
right so im new on here will sum1 be my friend? *puppy dog look*

Corruptedmorals

You told me to ring you.

And I had to scream, everyone else was around me.

*looks hurt*

Shoolaboola

Im sorry, im sick and cranky, and had -8 negative points, plz give me positive ones, love ya

Corruptedmorals

I did. You give me some now

Shoolaboola

liar, they havent changed at all. im nice im still gonna give you some...

Corruptedmorals

Shoolaboola wrote:

liar, they havent changed at all. im nice im still gonna give you some...

no, you took away 2. now I have 8. Gah.

Rozabeez

psst. its me. over.

Mysteryfish

I'm in 3rd year too. I have like a really confusing mixture of advice. My sister is in college and she's all like, the JC is nothing and don't worry about it. As are my parents. I don't think they would care if I failed everything, they'd probably just sit me down and make me "talk" about why I wanted to fail (i don't but they'd say it was subconcious). And then my year head is putting pressure on us about the MOCKS! I mean if the JC is nothing than surely the mocks are even less important. So I've just decided to not worry about the JC till after Christmas. The happy times before the bad.

Rozabeez

Mysteryfish wrote:

I'm in 3rd year too. I have like a really confusing mixture of advice. My sister is in college and she's all like, the JC is nothing and don't worry about it. As are my parents. I don't think they would care if I failed everything, they'd probably just sit me down and make me "talk" about why I wanted to fail (i don't but they'd say it was subconcious). And then my year head is putting pressure on us about the MOCKS! I mean if the JC is nothing than surely the mocks are even less important. So I've just decided to not worry about the JC till after Christmas. The happy times before the bad.

when do your mocks start? mine are january 31st