Leaving Cert Religion

emmet101

What's coming up in this year's exam? Any ideas at all?!

smemon

ha ha ha, religion

Q.1 "tell me how great god is"
Q.2 "List the 10 commandments"
Q.3 "the catholic church is always right.... discuss"

netanyahu

omg what the hell did they actually bring in a leaving cert religion exam
o_O thats absolutely, ridiculous.

Sawa

What happens if you do religion and music? are they not at the same time? there has to be people who do both??

smemon

imagine failing religion

do you get barred from churches or something

has to be the easiest subject to pass, i mean it's all based on hocus pocus stuff that nobody can prove so it's easily bluffable.

every answer has to be right unless you go in talking about the devil

eamoss

Two of my mates put down religion on them sheets we all had to fill out saying what levels we are doing for the craic. They had to hand in a project of some kind i think a few weeks back. They are both doin music but I think music is on in the mor & religion on in the afternoon. If you have two exams on at the same time you do the 1st one then you wait behind for an hour with the examiner then you have your 2ed exam but you cant leave ur centre.

EDIT:
exam paper
http://www.examinations.ie/archive/exampapers/2005/LC223ALPO00EV.pdf

Sawa

I did it for my junior cert in my old school, we did a mock for the department and had to fill in a questionaire at the end saying how we thought it was . i got an A in the mock, you had to draw a picture of a "room of reflection" for one of the questions!!
but then i think i got cocky and got a B in the jc!
still easiest grade i got!

wish my new school did it! but then i'd be in the predicament of doing music and religion!
what do people do then?!

emmet101

Hey, all jokes aside, religion isn't that easy. All through 5th and 6th year me and my friends were getting As and Bs in the tests and the we only got low Cs in the mocks! And we never got any past or sample papers from the Dept. Its a freakin joke.

Mordecai

it's all about philosophy of religion isn't it? theology, i suppose...

sully-gormo

Just looked at that exam paper... It aint no walk in the park that paper is hard

Imagine Socrates and the Sophists were alive today
and taking part in a TV chat show.
Based on your knowledge of the thinking of Socrates
and the Sophists -
a. What questions about life do you think they would raise in today’s world?
(40 marks)
b. What views do you think they would hold on these questions? (40 marks)

SECTION J RELIGION AND SCIENCE
“Religion without science is blind; science without religion is lame…” – Albert Einstein
Discuss this statement with reference to points of similarity and points of difference
between religion and science.
(80 marks)

NADA

To be honest I got an A at JC religion. I hated it. But that's beacsue it was all about mass. I'd be interested in the philosophical side of it!

GrumPy

NADA wrote:

To be honest I got an A at JC religion. I hated it. But that's beacsue it was all about mass. I'd be interested in the philosophical side of it!

LMAO! you had to do religion in JC? haha

RagShagBill

I'm not a religious person at all, I don't believe in a God, but I would have liked to study this subject. It's more or less philosophy and bibilical studies, which is - in many ways - just an sub-catagory of history and English. In my opinion, you're not really educated (in the old sense of the word) unless you can quote and draw upon the bible and its stories. It looks like a challenging course with a challenging paper; if I repeat, which I'm almost positive I won't, I'll be looking to take this course. I'd imagine, if you put some enthusiasm into it, it could prove rather fulfilling.

emmet101

sully-gormo wrote:

Just looked at that exam paper... It aint no walk in the park that paper is hard

What exam paper? Mock?

arctic lemur

smemon wrote:

imagine failing religion

do you get barred from churches or something

has to be the easiest subject to pass, i mean it's all based on hocus pocus stuff that nobody can prove so it's easily bluffable.

every answer has to be right unless you go in talking about the devil

Actually its not that easy to pass, the morality sections are quite hard. i used to teach it and studied it for 4 years!

arctic lemur

sully-gormo wrote:

Just looked at that exam paper... It aint no walk in the park that paper is hard

You should be able to get the text of the Oxford Debates on-line. They discussed the dilemma regarding the co-existence of science and religion as well as creationism and the origns of life. They are quite logical, divided into pro and con and will be handy when preparing exam questions.

Njamin

smemon wrote: »

imagine failing religion

do you get barred from churches or something

has to be the easiest subject to pass, i mean it's all based on hocus pocus stuff that nobody can prove so it's easily bluffable.

every answer has to be right unless you go in talking about the devil

You are my friend an idiot. The religion course requires actually thought process not just trivial memory skills.

Njamin

Njamin wrote: »

smemon wrote: »

imagine failing religion

do you get barred from churches or something

has to be the easiest subject to pass, i mean it's all based on hocus pocus stuff that nobody can prove so it's easily bluffable.

every answer has to be right unless you go in talking about the devil

You are my friend an idiot. The religion course requires actually thought process not just trivial memory skills.

*actual

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