LCpredictions

Yuugib

Now ladies and gents, why dont we talk about some thing very useful, that is predictions for the lc this year.

Many of us have mock comming up very soon, so i think it'll be usefull if we share the information of what has more chances of comming up in the papers.

For example i might start with accounting,
Club accounts
Cash flows
were the two qs our teacher told have a high chance of comming up ems.. not very sure about anything else.. aww and i think the manufacturing acc. too.

Economics - Sub-Prime lending related qs would be very highly expected.. so far.

Chemistry - Clove oil experiment hadnt come up in ages.. mmm

Anybody else have somethin in mind?

betsymagoo

ooh this is a good thread.... i like your thinking.....

i also think for acc. that incomplete type 2 will come up and for the financal marginal costing....

our irish teacher thinks dat an toilean has a good chance of coming up....

PurpleFistMixer

I hear algebra's got a good chance of coming up this year in maths.

SRFC90

english HL poetry: mahon and boland almost certain to come up:)

Xhristy

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philologos

SRFC90 wrote: »

english HL poetry: mahon and boland almost certain to come up:)

If Boland comes up, I will be forced to smack my head off the nearest desk. I'm hoping for a bit of Frost personally whether it's likely or not is another matter.

Yuugib

awww.. no chance for donne then? pff

eoghan h

Frost has came up for the last 2 years so unlikely! This is Bolands last year on the course so she is definately going to come up. I personally hope Montague comes up....had english xmas exam today and i aced the montague q

For Irish I don't think Cearrbhach Mac Cába will come up

Timans

Is it Eavan Bolands last year on the course for definite?!

If so, it would make my life a lot easier as it is quite likely she'll come up.

Although, isn't this Rich's first year? Therefore, I'm expecting to see her.

alan4cult

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

I hear algebra's got a good chance of coming up this year in maths.

I doubt it, it came up last year I think?

Here's me:
Accounting:
Manufacturing
Cash Flow (100 Marks)
Suspense (100 Marks)
Budgeting/Marginal Costing

English:
Literary Genre (and possible Cultural Context)
Mahon
Larkin
Donne
Rich

Languages:
Drugs should be a "hot" topic in German/Irish/French.

If my Junior Cert (2005) is anything to go by, something strange will happen like a formal letter in JC French! I couldn't believe it.

PurpleFistMixer

I hope Boland/Mahon come up, they're win. Mahon in particular. I just love Antarctica, and squeezing it into essays about other poets would be tricky. Same for Boland and Love, really.

1huge1

I don't know about the mocks but im sure in the LC something will come up about drugs (cocaine especially) in Irish, German & English.

And business the ABQ could have something to do with sub prime mortages.

In English

I hope we get Boland and Donne.

Mars Bar

eoghan h wrote: »

Frost has came up for the last 2 years so unlikely! This is Bolands last year on the course so she is definately going to come up. I personally hope Montague comes up....had english xmas exam today and i aced the montague q

For Irish I don't think Cearrbhach Mac Cába will come up

Montague came up last year but I would cry with happinness if he came up...I plan to do him myself as I already did him last year. That'd be a 7th poet...

Crania

Oh I like this thread.

So people are thinking Boland and Mahon in English? I thought Rich was likely to come up because this is her first year on the course and the Dept. tried for years to get her on. But I'd be delighted with Mahon.

For Economics, I can't really see how anything to do with Sub-Prime Mortgages will come up. There isn't anything about them on the course. What do others think about which Market Form and which Factor of Production will come up. I'm thinking maybe Monopoly(hasn't come up since 2004) or maybe Oligopoly, which came up in 2006. Perfect Competition and Imperfect Competition both came up last year, so they're less likely to come up this year I suppose. For the FOP's, I would say Enterprise(hasn't came up since 2004) or Land(2005) are most likely.

Yuugib

Im not sure about all the economics course but the sub prime lending has a high chance of comming up on the current issues part. they have to stick that in at some point.. imho

Fuascailt

Hmmm...

English i'd say... Donne-the oldish one, Boland/Rich as the women, Mahon as the Irish and Larkin as the misc one.

History- De Valera has been quite topical, what with Diarmuid Ferriters book... I'd love Collins though.

SRFC90

Fuascailt wrote: »

English i'd say... Donne-the oldish one, Boland/Rich as the women, Mahon as the Irish and Larkin as the misc one

just to clarify, we have to pick how many......?

sdanseo

Xhristy wrote: »

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If it's anything like last year he may come up in History too

kisaragi

SRFC90 wrote: »

just to clarify, we have to pick how many......?

You do one out of four poets (from a possible eight).

SRFC90

kisaragi wrote: »

You do one out of four poets (from a possible eight).

Cheers, and those 8 being from mahon, montague, frost, boland, larkin and who else?

Mars Bar

rich, plath and donne

pljudge321

Here's some Lc tips from someone who did it last year.

English.

- Don't neglect to practice comprehensions and essays, a lot of people including me assume that they are easy to get the high marks in whilst paper 2 is the tough one. Not true. I mostly studied poetry and the literary pieces. Got an A2 in the exam. Checked the paper. I got 96% in paper 2 and 80ish% in paper 1. And also remember, in the poetry section, at least one Irish poet and a female poet come usually come up but don't bank on this. And most importantly don't learn off essays, the examiners can spot that from a mile away and a lot of the time people forget parts and it makes the essay look ham fisted. The examiners also seem to want to get a sense of appreciation from you for the pieces you study so mention how much you like the poets work, but don't come off like a suck up.

Maths (honours)

- Do as may past papers as possible. Also don't look through past papers and decide which questions/topics you are going to skip. The people who make the papers often like to mix it up a bit and incorporate bits of topics into other questions. i know that at least two people from my class screwed themselves out of an A by neglecting certain questions only to have the topic pop up in a question they had banked on getting high marks in.

General tips

-Don't stress out and ignore how much study other people are doing. There's always at least one person how does five hours at night and eight at weekends

-Past papers are the best way to study, especially for maths,physics, chemistry and other subjects like them.

-And don't worry about the exams, the general consensus in my school was that doing the exams was by far the easiest part. They feel really chilled out and most of the examiners are really easy going.

Woop_01

what about for history and economics ??? anyone

SRFC90

Woop_01 wrote: »

what about for history and economics ??? anyone

or business n geo! 2 subjects packed full of info that needs learnin!!

eoghan h

kisaragi wrote: »

You do one out of four poets (from a possible eight).

You do 5 five!

If you 4 theres a very slight chance that none of your poets will come up.

We're doing 7

SRFC90

eoghan h wrote: »

You do 5 five!

If you 4 theres a very slight chance that none of your poets will come up.

We're doing 7

so the realistic minimum to study is 5, then i n the exam i pick one and go to town??

pljudge321

SRFC90 wrote: »

or business n geo! 2 subjects packed full of info that needs learnin!!

In geography if you forget any figures or need another signifigant relative point for your answer its a fairly safe bet to make it up, as long as you are in the right ballpark.

e.g why India is suitable to argriculture

A mean temp of 28C in the Ganges valley is perfect for crops such as rice.

You can do the same sort of stuff for other topics such as manufacturing.

Alot of geography is common sense despite what your teacher tells you.

Me and one of my friends both got a1s in the mocks and then a2's in the real thing with practically no work whatsoever.

Of course this advice is only really helpful if your head works like mine and is good at spewing random facts out.

DmanDmythDledge

Larkin hasn't come up since 2001 so he's almost certain to come up. Last year was Montague's first year on the course and he came up then so maybe Rich won't be on the paper as it might seem to obvious.

The Hitman

Accounting: Club and Published are major predictions.

Economics: Elasticity Q.
FOP:Enterprise, maybe with a bit of capital
Market Structure: Monopoly with Oligopoly being 2nd favouite.

Woop_01

The Hitman wrote: »

Accounting: Club and Published are major predictions.

Economics: Elasticity Q.
FOP:Enterprise, maybe with a bit of capital
Market Structure: Monopoly with Oligopoly being 2nd favouite.

Thx :)

SRFC90

pljudge321 wrote: »

In geography if you forget any figures or need another signifigant relative point for your answer its a fairly safe bet to make it up, as long as you are in the right ballpark.

e.g why India is suitable to argriculture

A mean temp of 28C in the Ganges valley is perfect for crops such as rice.

You can do the same sort of stuff for other topics such as manufacturing.

Alot of geography is common sense despite what your teacher tells you.

Me and one of my friends both got a1s in the mocks and then a2's in the real thing with practically no work whatsoever.

Of course this advice is only really helpful if your head works like mine and is good at spewing random facts out.

nice one, cheers! i'd say ya did some work now! hoping to get an 'a' in it as it's one of my more favourable subjects as the work aint too heavy.

anybody have any ideas for ordinary irish regarding the stories n poetry??:)

Mars Bar

The Hitman wrote: »

Accounting: Club and Published are major predictions.

That'd be nice...

1huge1

SRFC90 wrote: »

nice one, cheers! i'd say ya did some work now! hoping to get an 'a' in it as it's one of my more favourable subjects as the work aint too heavy.

anybody have any ideas for ordinary irish regarding the stories n poetry??:)

Could'nt agree more I love geography but if I'm ever stuck for a point I always bring in my own knowledge into it, for instance we had a exam question on overpopulation, had to get 15 srp's so I started going on about what I knew on tokyo and the netherlands and mali (saying how its underpopulated) etc and got full marks while the rest of the class were complaining to the teacher about not having enough srp's in the notes and thats why they done badly.

Course if your stuck you could just as easily make up figures (assuming there not to retarded and you'll get the points)

pljudge321

1huge1 wrote: »

Could'nt agree more I love geography but if I'm ever stuck for a point I always bring in my own knowledge into it, for instance we had a exam question on overpopulation, had to get 15 srp's so I started going on about what I knew on tokyo and the netherlands and mali (saying how its underpopulated) etc and got full marks while the rest of the class were complaining to the teacher about not having enough srp's in the notes and thats why they done badly.

Course if your stuck you could just as easily make up figures (assuming there not to retarded and you'll get the points)[/QUOTE]

Thats why geography is easily one of the best subjects to do for the Lc. It actually rewards some intelligence and common sense, plus its pretty easy if you have a head for random facts.

Da Bomber

Eng: Mahon & Rich(hate her with a passion)

Eco:Market Form-PDM/Oligopoly
FOP-Capital

carrig2007

I am fairly certain than PUBLISHED 100 marker will come up in accounting. MARK MY WORDS

Yuugib

uh we had publish for christmas.. i thought they were quite nice quite easy too .. so.. mm me definitely marking ur words

u2livecd

Yuugib wrote: »

uh we had publish for christmas.. i thought they were quite nice quite easy too .. so.. mm me definitely marking ur words

i was thinking of giving grinds in Accounting. Do you think there is much of a market? Are many of your friends getting accounting grinds? and if so, what areas are people struggling in?

Yuugib

My friend seems to be struggling in accounting, she just doesnt seems to get why the figures and things go where they supposed to go, if u know what i mean.
I tried to help her, but unfortunately it didnt work out well )

The rest of the class are not in the better position, we have two classes in the year and there is only about 5 of us aming for a1.. so khm.. anyways i think there is deffinitely market for it, as long as u can explain it well :P

Beatrice

Has any1 any geography or history predictions?? Ur all very good at the phychic thing

Corruptedmorals

English- whichever female/Irish poets that aren't Plath or Montague. Question B's- difficult, to make up for last year's ridiculously easy smoking ban letter..woo that was great. Question A's, a language question, there weren't any last year.

History- probably more of an emphasis on the easy topics Hitler etc. than the abstract ones that were all over the paper last year. The topic thing- 1913 strike and lockout, or possibly the 1885/6 elections if they want to be mean.

Geography- a fecking language/religion question instead of 'migration' in the option. Similar to last year..it's pretty difficult to deviate. Yes, make up stuff to get the SRP quota, as long as it sounds right.

Doing 7 poets is ridiculous, obviously other parts of the course are being neglected. Out of the long questions, it's worth the least. We did 5, I focused on 2, one came up (Plath).

natrisioga

Just wondering if anybody has any ideas on the topic that will be asked in the Irish music essay section of the music paper!?

gaeilgegrinds

Do 5 poets...not 4

Iano2K8

Okay.... english.....

Boland i reckon for the woman poet... did rich as well but doubt it cos shes on for the next 3 years... Larkin and Mahon n possibly Donne as well

Accounting...

Cash flow is too easy for a hundred marker....
dont be shocked if manufactor doesnt come up.... sole trader is possible.... manufactor came up in 1997,2001,2005 and predictively not again until 2009....

Club accounts n published... n maybe suspense as 100 marker.

Job costing has to come up in section three...

Irish... reckon lig sinn i gcathu n clare sa speir... n fiche bhlian ag fas..

Nil aon ni hopefully not...

Honours... Oiche Nollaig Na mban & B'fheidir aris dar gcumman...

Yuugib

aw we havent done job costing yet
Marginal costing has a high chance of comming up as well.. god i hope its going to be either it or production budget btw i cant remeber if a wrote about the depreciation accounts.. well they have the highest chance of comming up

and one more qs that had been bothering me for ages now.. u know the way teachers write mock papers.. well .. do they actually take into account the stuff that had came up already? or they can just put whatever they want?

Iano2K8

Job Costing is so easy! We have only ever done 2 exam questions and basically they throw the 80 marks at ya!

Teachers i think put on what they think has the highest chance of coming up in the real thing... that what my teachers told us anyways....

DAEDULUS

oh dear i love this thread

DAEDULUS

this thread shouldnt fall, predictions give us more motivation

hatrickpatrick

I hope Donne comes up in English, his poetry's the best by far of any of the poets...

Classical Studies - my teacher is widely tipping the Parthenon in Temples and the battle of Granicus for Alexander... Anyone agree?

From what I've heard, in history (for the documents):
Vietnam War - most likely by far, Bus Boycott running a very close second, and, apparently, the moon landings are almost certain NOT to come up...

betsymagoo

hey anyone got any ideas for honours irish... poetry, history or the novel question depending on which you do....

we are doing maidhc dainin... not very exciting fella but there is very little that can be asked really...
- Ireland, England and the State in the 50s and 60s
- People that influence Maidhc
- His Youth
- Relationship with his parents
- Racism in the States....

Yuugib

Aw now decided on economics few weeks ago, my 4 qs will be :

1. Elastisity
2. Demand + Cost
3. National Income
4. International Trade

other than that
5. FOP with capital and possibly enterprise.. hm well if they are to be v. mean they ll stick it in land
6. Money and Banking

Anyways that just me will be writing later with more subj