U'll be fine

QueenOfTheQuad

To everyone doing state exams and the Bac (thats you George) I want to wish you the very best of luck.

Just finished my finals recently and if I've learned anything its that pancing only makes things a whole lot worse. The secret it to stay positive and u'll be fine.

Best of luck to those returning to DCU this summer,

Bertie.

LiamD

Bertie ya lad how the hell are ya?

Of course we'll be fine we're all talented and such malarky.Cheers for the good luck!

Acid_Violet

Thank you deary! *hugs and never stops* Your so lovely, though I know I'm going to **** up because I'm evidently on the net when I should be studying. Love ya ya lovely ting ye!

Piste

Oh Bertie you are such a sweetheart, thanks for the good luck

Good luck also to all ctyiers soing the aul' JC/LC this year, my thoust'll be with you when I'm panicing during whatever subjects I've forgotten to study for.

Raphael

Cheers Bertie! Hoping I won't be needing to rely on luck though!

To anyone else doing the state exams, Douglas Adams said it best: Don't Panic! You'll be grand, this is where all the work pays off. Just take it easy and get them out of the way.

Chowburger

Raphael wrote:

all the work

Ahahahahaha.
*freaks out*

Twinkle-star15

If you don't see it, it's not real.

*shuts eyes*

La-dee-dah-dee-dum.......

Feral Mutant

My Leaving Cert starts in less than forty one hours and I'm on the internet. Not to worry though, I have a perfect plan. During the exams I'll hide under a pile of coats and hope that somehow everything will turn out fine.

Still, worst come to worst, I don't get my first choice. They do the same course in another university. I'd just have to go to Cork.
. . . . .
OH CRAP
*runs off to study*

JenLorigan

Thanks Bertie. Much heart

Also good luck to all. (I don't believe in luck, but it's the thought.)

Now, back to outting English to the back of my mind

Crash

If its any consolation, college exams are never as stressful.

Really, they should be, but they're not

Garret

Cheers man

Chowburger

So how'd English go for everyone? Thank GOD Bishop came up for the poetry... I'd be dead otherwise. And those were some wonderful essay titles in paper one, no?

Raphael

Great essays, I did the "it was mad...ridiculous" one. Plotline was 4 guys trying to cheat in their Leaving certs

The Longely question was fantastic, imho. Absolutely useless to anyone who'd learned off their essay, because they would have had to change every single use of pronouns, and they'd probably miss one or two.

LiamD

Ahah, not if you had the Ashfield notes! Fair fcuks to them they predicted that a letter to Longley would come up, gave out sample answers and low and behold, Joe Griffin's your uncle.

Acid_Violet

Did anyone else find JC Maths 1 surprisingly easy?

Piste

Yep, does this mean Paper 2 will be equally easy or more difficult just to spite us?

me no likey paper two.

Acid_Violet

Piste wrote:

Yep, does this mean Paper 2 will be equally easy or more difficult just to spite us?

me no likey paper two.

Paper two is easier, just learn off everything religiously over the weekend. I doubt they'll make paper 2 harder, most people found paper 1 hard enough anyway.

Twinkle-star15

Acid_Violet wrote:

Did anyone else find JC Maths 1 surprisingly easy?

Yes. I did. So did most of the people I was talking to. I just hope that that doesn't mean that I completely screwed everything up. Maybe they'll mark it harder or something.

Raphael

LiamD wrote:

Ahah, not if you had the Ashfield notes! Fair fcuks to them they predicted that a letter to Longley would come up, gave out sample answers and low and behold, Joe Griffin's your uncle.

Really? They said to watch out for it in Yeats in Waterford too.

Feral Mutant

Raphael wrote:

Great essays, I did the "it was mad...ridiculous" one. Plotline was 4 guys trying to cheat in their Leaving certs

That sounds a lot like my essay. I did the mad/ridiculous one too. It was about a group of friends who break into the place in Athlone where the exams are and steal the papers. To make sure I wasn't marked down for straying off the topic, every second paragraph had a mention of madness.

Twinkle-star15

Do you get marked down for straying off topic in the Junior Cert? Because I did something about second chances for my story and didn't actually mention second chances until the last 3 paragraphs. And the story was 5 pages long...

Raphael

I just had one bit it in it where, after one of the lads had explained his plan, the other three went "that's mad!" "It's completely ridiculous!" "It might just be stupid enough to work..."

And there plan involved sneaking in answer books with notes on them.

Acid_Violet

Raphael wrote:

I just had one bit it in it where, after one of the lads had explained his plan, the other three went "that's mad!" "It's completely ridiculous!" "It might just be stupid enough to work..."

And there plan involved sneaking in answer books with notes on them.

I'd to try to re-assert the relevancy of my essay by going on at the end 'if I could live that day again........', the title being 'a day I'd like to live again.'

Maths 2 was **** for the JC, as Liz suspected, I just tried to make up with attempt marks, but there goes my dreams of an A into the pit of ridiculous Geometry and mistakes in Pythagoras's theorem.:(

Raphael

I got an A in maths when I did my wasteoftimecert...still have the paper around here somewhere too.

It wasn't me!

I got a B, and now I'm well on track to fail my Leaving Cert next year thanks to maths.

Raphael

Just don't try and get by on rote learning. As we saw testerday, it leads to getting fucked in the ass.

JenLorigan

I was happy with maths. Pythagoras is pwnt.

... or at least until I get my result. :rolleyes:

Piste

I only learned two theorems, both of them came up, and then another mini-theorem which was one of the easy ones I could learn with cop-on. Paper II was the downfall of what could have been a good grade.

But hopefully I wont be dissapppointed come September

Raphael

...disappointed? By then you won't care.

Twinkle-star15

I've a feeling a got a D-E in maths 2, but if I get around what I think on paper 1, I can still get a C! Yayage!

Acid_Violet

I'm in the same boat as Liz but I fear I'll be disappointed with maths and english come September. French today went really well and history was ok.

Acid_Violet

Raphael wrote:

Just don't try and get by on rote learning. As we saw testerday, it leads to getting fucked in the ass.

That's just the D4 Institute kids, primarily, with more money then sense who try to learn everything off without comprehending it so they can get into college without being intellectually able for the course.

guX

I actually thought Paper One in Maths was more challenging than Paper Two. I didn't have any problems with either of them, I aced them both, I thought the first one was more challenging than the second.

Piste

Acid_Violet wrote:

That's just the D4 Institute kids, primarily, with more money then sense who try to learn everything off without comprehending it so they can get into college without being intellectually able for the course.

Well a lot of courses require high points not because they require great intellect, but because there's such a high demand for them, so if people learn by rote and get the points they can still be well able for the course.

Acid_Violet

Piste wrote:

Well a lot of courses require high points not because they require great intellect, but because there's such a high demand for them, so if people learn by rote and get the points they can still be well able for the course.

I know but the Institute has a 60% first year drop-out rate. Some people, for the most part, dont know how to learn for themselves and they just get spoon-fed so learning by rote to get into college obviously doesnt always work.

Raphael

No, it's just that they go from an environment of extreme pressure to learn to college, wherr the lecturer doesn't give a fuck

Incidentally, *does the Leaving Cert over dance*

Feral Mutant

Raphael wrote:

Incidentally, *does the Leaving Cert over dance*

Damn you Aonghus, I still have two more exams *grumble* I get off at five pm on the very last day *grumble*.

Chowburger

I'm off at 12 on the last day, which is sort of depressing, because so many people I know finished after Art History last Thursday. Urgh.

Chemistry in T minus an hour and a half... Kill me now, but after that it's just Japanese, which'll be plain sailing.

THE END IS IN SIGHT!

doonothing

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halenger

Then onto 4+ more years of exams that are just as serious as the Leaving Cert. Wheeee.....

Piste

Why must you ensadden us so

smiley_knees

Uck, all these JC kids here! I feel old...
Incidentally, the last time I felt this way was being a Nev last year at camp....

Yeah, a in math in JC was fun, though it meant I'd to do the math olympiad after which was totally gay
What I was supposed to do there: Learn math at a fast paced and higher level
What I actually did: Count all the holes in the ceiling... 216,514

Mocha One Sugar

ah Bertie god bless you and your cuteness
yeah the JC was a piece of piss, just glad it's over but DREADINg the results!!!!
oh well it's my 16th birthday today!!!!

yay!!!

Piste

Is it? Ah cool, Happy Birthday Fiodhna!