The Leaving Cert

bolliwoodi

I have noticed a major difference in the effort put into the leaving cert when i did it and this year

I remember when i did mine(2004) NO ONE seemed to study at all-The liabrary would be empty and after an exam everyone would head off to the cinema or bowling etc

Came out of the gym about an hour ago- and there was about 20 kids sitting outside the liabrary studying- And i looked into the liabrary and the place was choc a block in there

And the exams were over for the day and they were still studying for the one the next day

Must say its a welcome change

aidan_walsh

Thats nice.

bolliwoodi

In a weird way you have too much power

bolliwoodi

if anyone else posted this it wouldnt be moved

Im mearly saying it makes a nice change and im talking to people who have done the LC not the people doing it so shouldnt be in the LC forum(Which is for talking about what will cum up etc):rolleyes:

Guy:Incognito

Bloody Foreigners.

zuutroy

Weird thread....you see people studying, ergo there's a major difference in motivation from 3 years ago? That's bad science.

Mossy Monk

bolliwoodi wrote:

if anyone else posted this it wouldnt be moved

YOU ARE A VICTIM

event

perhaps if you had done more study, you could spell library

Mrs. MacGyver

When I did mine nearly 10 years ago people studied like mad, the days wre as sunny and glorious as now and we sat in the courtyard of the convent, eyes glued to the books eating sparkles ice lollys. i noticed over the years when i was teaching that people seemed o have a more relaxed attitude to study in recent years (they still worked hard all the same).

Caliden

They have to. There's only a certain quota of A1's,A2's etc. they can give out so even if your paper sucked, as long as everyone elses in the country was **** as well you could get a good grade

Corruptedmorals

Stupid bell curve. It better not screw up my points.

Time Magazine

Corruptedmorals wrote:

Stupid bell curve. It better not screw up my points.

Erm, are you being serious?

JC 2K3

Caliden wrote:

They have to. There's only a certain quota of A1's,A2's etc. they can give out so even if your paper sucked, as long as everyone elses in the country was **** as well you could get a good grade

Wrong.

The LC isn't marked to a curve, however, the law of averages states that results will reflect a bell curve every year. Each corrector initially corrects about 20 or so scripts out of around 200 and sends the results to the Dept. If the results are on average too high or low the marking scheme is adjusted to be tougher or easier and the scripts are marked again. When the results reflect a bell curve there is an extremely high probability that students have been properly assessed, which is why the department keeps on changing marking schemes until the results reflect such a curve.

And there can't ever(well it's HIGHLY improbable to the point of dismissing the notion as impossible) be a year that is "really good" or "really bad". There will be sight deviations obviously, but again, law of averages, intelligence levels don't deviate much from year to year.

Time Magazine

JC 2K3 wrote:

The LC isn't marked to a curve,

It is, with a certain amount of limits.

however, the law of averages states that results will reflect a bell curve every year.

There is no law of averages.

Each corrector initially corrects about 20 or so scripts out of around 200 and sends the results to the Dept. If the results are on average too high or low the marking scheme is adjusted to be tougher or easier and the scripts are marked again.

Exactly, if the marks are too high they adjust the marking scheme to adjust the average grade.

[QQUOTE]which is why the department keeps on changing marking schemes until the results reflect such a curve.[/QUOTE]So they do mark to a curve..

JC 2K3

Not as such. Not the way some students seem to describe it. Marking to a curve like they do in America would involve rounding people up or down to reflect the curve, which doesn't happen.

Basically, no year is massively different to the last, you can't get "screwed over" by the way the papers are marked.(Like some students would seem to assume)

bolliwoodi

zuutroy wrote:

Weird thread....you see people studying, ergo there's a major difference in motivation from 3 years ago? That's bad science.

No they were studying sitting outside a public building in the middle of a busy street THATS what i ment

bolliwoodi

Mossy Monk wrote:

YOU ARE A VICTIM

Thank you

bolliwoodi

event wrote:

perhaps if you had done more study, you could spell library

That supposed to be funny? Cos it wasnt:p

Pighead

bolliwoodis sig reported for being shit. Sorry for being a cnut bolliwoodi but Pighead took exception to the shitness of that sig and after minutes and minutes of deliberating decided it warranted a reporting.

bolliwoodi

Pighead wrote:

bolliwoodis sig reported for being shit. Sorry for being a cnut bolliwoodi but Pighead took exception to the shitness of that sig and after minutes and minutes of deliberating decided it warranted a reporting.

And? Your point is?

Pighead

bolliwoodi wrote:

And? Your point is?

Pigheads point is simple. Get rid of the bloody thing. Jesus, you kids need everything spelt out to you nowadays.

Listen doll, just click the edit signature link, delete the piece of **** sig and change it to something cool, like Pighead rocks or Sarkys a cnut. Minimal fuss, everyones happy. Cheers

scojones

Thread closed. It's been AHified so there's no point in moving it to the Leaving Cert forum. Obtain your postcount++ elsewhere.