Leaving Cert 2008 Timetable

Peleus

Just noticed the timetable for 2008 hasn't reared its ugly face here. So i thought I'd post it. I've only included the normal Leaving Cert part, so sorry for all you leaving cert applied people.

here's the original PDF file: http://examinations.ie/exam/Written_LC_EV_%202008.pdf

KeyLimePie

ooer! boo, im one of teh few unlucky people who has to do chemistry:(
but i'll have all my exams finished by the thursday! hurrah!

Peleus

my timetable turned out pretty sweet, but i do applied maths, so ill be doing the very last exam this year. boo

Creamy Goodness

ohh how i'd wish this timetable was around when i was doing the leaving

1huge1

Finish on friday the 13th haha, that can't be good the timetable for me works out very like my pre's did, a lot of half days and one day off

Mars Bar

I only have English Wednesay and Thursday and have Friday off, that's a nice long weekend...
only have Irish Monday and Tuesday...French and History on Wednesday! My only full day! Biology on Thursday and Accouting on Tuesday...
This is much better than last years timetable!

Cokehead Mother

I wish I was born a year earlier.

Peleus

Cokehead Mother wrote: »

I wish I was born a year earlier.

dont you mean a year later? i assume you're in first year college now

Cokehead Mother

Peleus wrote: »

dont you mean a year later? i assume you're in first year college now

No I mean a year earlier. I'm in sixth year now.

1huge1

Cokehead Mother wrote: »

No I mean a year earlier. I'm in sixth year now.

Take it you dont like the timetable

donmeister

my timetable works out savage,but economics!boooourns!cant wait for that thursday woo!:)

Peleus

Cokehead Mother wrote: »

No I mean a year earlier. I'm in sixth year now.

oh sorry, i thought you did the leaving last year but wished you were doing it now cos of the new timetable. neva mind.

Jen Pigs Fly

I have to wait for music on the 19th!!! Scag! And thursday the 12th isn't nice for me at all ... biology and then art history .... typical really haha!

daggy

sickener. yeah I'll have to wait for music too... I will have 4 empty days before it,it's so stupid what am i gonna do to study for it like!
In fact , question : how the hell do you study music? I have never studied it in my life and tried to this afternoon and it was a big shambolic failure..

SRFC90

my second last exam (French on the 11th) is a full 9 days before my last one (Engineering!!!!)

plenty of tim to study for that then!!:D:D

does mean tho that i'll have 9 exams in 6 days leading up to that!:(

1huge1

SRFC90 wrote: »

my second last exam (French on the 11th) is a full 9 days before my last one (Engineering!!!!)

plenty of tim to study for that then!!:D:D

does mean tho that i'll have 9 exams in 6 days leading up to that!:(

I know a few people in a situation like that

lucky indeed

kevin216

they should really change agr science and Applied maths from being on at the same time,it happens every year people have to stay around till seven o clock

Jen Pigs Fly

daggy wrote: »

sickener. yeah I'll have to wait for music too... I will have 4 empty days before it,it's so stupid what am i gonna do to study for it like!
In fact , question : how the hell do you study music? I have never studied it in my life and tried to this afternoon and it was a big shambolic failure..

Sure don't study, just do wat i do and wing it on the day, sure the only thing you really have to know is your essay (and it's easy enough to wing that like) and set works are a piece of Piss!!

PurpleFistMixer

Just listen to music to study it. : p Easy. Look over notes on your set works if you've got them. I suspect I'll be too busy cramming Applied Maths to worry much about Music at that point.

Jen Pigs Fly

I never went to music class, so I've no notes (damn going on the hop all the time haha) But I got like 78% in the halloween exams by winging it ... sure we'll all see when the results come out haha!!

annie19

i dont get why ppl have to hang around till 7pm just cause ag science and applies math r on @ d same time??!

PurpleFistMixer

If you're doing two subjects which are on at the same time, you have to do them back to back and you're not allowed leave, so you have to stay in later to do the second one after the first.

annie19

that sounds awful! its not very fair either! I wonder does it happen much? I mean unless your a bionic it gives one an disadvantage cause it has to affect ones grade! wat da ya think?

PurpleFistMixer

I imagine you get a break, but yeah, it's quite unfair. I think considering it's the very last day of exams, they shouldn't have any exams running concurrently, to eliminate the possibility of it happening. It's likely, however, that they chose the subjects specifically because so few people do both of them.

annie19

ya ur right, less than 3000 do ag science and im sure theres a low figure for applied math!

annie19

you do appled math?!! Whats it like? I mean compared to normal math that the rest of us are used to (r maybe not so used 2!!)

PurpleFistMixer

I actually know a fair number of people who do/did applied maths, but maybe I've just got nerdy friends.
It's like a combination of maths and physics. I think people tend to assume it's just harder maths, but it's different, it is, surprising and all, maths applied to the real world. You know, projectiles, speed, distance, gravity, friction and forces and all that stuff.

1huge1

annie19 wrote: »

ya ur right, less than 3000 do ag science and im sure theres a low figure for applied math!

wow that all, Its quiet a popular subject in our school

2 full classes so 50ish people.

Peleus

annie19 wrote: »

you do appled math?!! Whats it like? I mean compared to normal math that the rest of us are used to (r maybe not so used 2!!)

i do applies maths. im good at maths, so applied maths is easy for me. you know when your in maths class doing differentiation or intergration and you ask yourself "when am i ever going to use this?". in applied maths you basically use everything you did in maths over the years to work out, for example, where a ball will land if you shot it into the air at 5 m/s at an angle of 30degrees. its great and alot more fun that maths.

daggy

xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

I never went to music class, so I've no notes (damn going on the hop all the time haha) But I got like 78% in the halloween exams by winging it ... sure we'll all see when the results come out haha!!

See my music teacher is such a pathetic joke,that you are doing yourself a favour by not going to class. She covered the "wrong" stuff with us for traditional music , but being the bright wee spark she is, she only realises this the day we got our mid-term holerrrdays. And this was only becasue i put up my hand and said, sorry what are you talking about we never covered seanos ..and to think I wasted my time in 5th year writing essays about the harping tradition thanks to the fool...
but yes, the set works are a piece of "piss" , and you really can get away with a B from doing sweet feck. hurrah!

JSK 252

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

If you're doing two subjects which are on at the same time, you have to do them back to back and you're not allowed leave, so you have to stay in later to do the second one after the first.

I never knew you could do this. Was this arramgement always around? because a few years back agricultural science and biology were timetabled the same time and my friend who was picking subjects at the time ( back in ty) for the lc wasnt allowed do both.

Do you get any break at all between the exams??

JSK 252

I sit just my eyes or has the chemistry and home economics papers been moved becuase I thought chemistry was on the first day? it now appears to be on the second day.

boobookitty

Not so bad for me, I'm a bit happier. I have 3 days to revise for History But I don't like French/History and Art/Biology. When is Art practial? (Life composition, Imaginative composition)

PurpleFistMixer

JSK 252 wrote: »

I never knew you could do this. Was this arramgement always around? because a few years back agricultural science and biology were timetabled the same time and my friend who was picking subjects at the time ( back in ty) for the lc wasnt allowed do both.

Do you get any break at all between the exams??

I'm not sure if it's always been the case, but that sounds more like it'd be something the school arranged.
(Though it's possible ag science and biology aren't compatible, like, you're not allowed do both PhysChem and Chemistry (or Physics), for obvious reasons...)

I'd say you get a break, like, I've no personal experience of this, this is just what I've heard, but they couldn't expect you to do two exams in a row with no break. It'd be a supervised break I'd say, so you couldn't cheat etc.


Art is the 8th and 9th of May, I think.
Timetable of Practicals/Orals: http://www.examinations.ie/exam/Pract_LC_08_EV.pdf

rainbowtrout

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

I'm not sure if it's always been the case, but that sounds more like it'd be something the school arranged.
(Though it's possible ag science and biology aren't compatible, like, you're not allowed do both PhysChem and Chemistry (or Physics), for obvious reasons...)

I'd say you get a break, like, I've no personal experience of this, this is just what I've heard, but they couldn't expect you to do two exams in a row with no break. It'd be a supervised break I'd say, so you couldn't cheat etc.

Until the biology course changed a few years back, the biology and ag science courses were considered too similar so you couldn't count both for points, so there was no point offering both in schools. It's now possible to do both and is quite a popular choice in schools where both exist ( a lot of my ag science students also do biology) so it was moved on the timetable.

There are just over 4000 students doing Ag and only about 1200 doing App Maths so the likelihood of a person doing both is smaller than a combination of either with a more popular subject.


I heard of a school a couple of years ago where the examiner gave out the wrong english paper, so the students had to do English paper 2 in the morning, and were then kept in for a supervised lunch and did paper one in the afternoon so they couldn't communicate with anyone who would have done the exams in the correct order, I imagine it's the same for the small few students who do combinations of minority subjects

spurious

There are certain combinations of subjects which are not allowed, but in a case where someone is doing two minority subjects that are timetabled against each other, the SEC (and Exams Branch before them) have always allowed for special arrangements. If this did not happen it would have been because the school did not apply for it, or had not actually entered the candidate for both subjects.

The SEC will also make similar arrangements for people who suffer the loss of a parent/close relative and need to sit a 9.30 exam, say, starting at 7.30am to be able to attend a funeral. I supervised a young lad once who had just lost his mother and was in doing an exam before her funeral. I also almost supervised a young woman and her boyfriend who had just become parents in the Rotunda - another supervisor got there before me.

smiler89

I got home ec and chemistry aswell as english nd maths paper one in the first three days!!!:(

Peleus

smiler89 wrote: »

I got home ec and chemistry aswell as english nd maths paper one in the first three days!!!:(

at least you'll get them over quickly. i only have one day where i have two exams. Maths II and Irish I i think. thats gonna be a tough day.

EDIT: hey why was my signature removed. gay

1huge1

Peleus wrote: »

at least you'll get them over quickly. i only have one day where i have two exams. Maths II and Irish I i think. thats gonna be a tough day.

EDIT: hey why was my signature removed. gay

Your signature is there, assuming you didnt put up a new one

Overheal

1huge1 wrote: »

wow that all, Its quiet a popular subject in our school

2 full classes so 50ish people.

Same story in Clare actually: its to do with all the Farmer country out that way.

1huge1

Ya I suppose theres a fair bit of farmers around my way, it county limerick myself which is nothing like the city

Fibonacci23

Peleus wrote: »

i do applies maths. im good at maths, so applied maths is easy for me. you know when your in maths class doing differentiation or intergration and you ask yourself "when am i ever going to use this?". in applied maths you basically use everything you did in maths over the years to work out, for example, where a ball will land if you shot it into the air at 5 m/s at an angle of 30degrees. its great and alot more fun that maths.

damn, i love maths (hence my nerdy name..) but our school is only introducing an applied maths class for next years fifth years! So unfair!! And 6th year is jammers with mathematically brained people! Life...

PurpleFistMixer

My school doesn't do applied maths at all (hell, we only do chemistry/physics every other year or so)... find somewhere to do it outside school. It's really handy if you do physics.

Fibonacci23

1) i dont do physics....

2) I doubt i'd get the course done in the next 11 weeks!

Mars Bar

They don't do it in our school either. They always asks who wants to do it and then leaves them in limbo.

Fad

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Until the biology course changed a few years back, the biology and ag science courses were considered too similar so you couldn't count both for points, so there was no point offering both in schools. It's now possible to do both and is quite a popular choice in schools where both exist ( a lot of my ag science students also do biology) so it was moved on the timetable.

are you sure? its made quite clear by the dep of education(and college prospectuses dont allow the combination for points), that you CANNOT do both of them,

rainbowtrout

Fad wrote: »

are you sure? its made quite clear by the dep of education(and college prospectuses dont allow the combination for points), that you CANNOT do both of them,

yes i am quite sure, I'm a biology and ag science teacher.

you can do both, but some colleges do not accept both for requirements. Points wise this is not a problem, points will be accepted from both, but if you are doing biology and ag some colleges may not accept them as separate sciences for entry to some degree courses if the course requires 2 sciences, the college may want biology or ag with chemistry/physics/app maths etc.

Colleges can have whatever entry requirements they want, it's got nothing to do with the department.

The only combinations (that I am aware of) that are not allowed for points purposes are

Economics/ Agricultural Economics
Agricultural Science/Agricultural Economics
Physics/Physics and Chemistry
Chemistry/Physics and Chemistry

there is nothing to stop you taking any of the above combinations but you cannnot count both for points.

The biology/ ag science combination has been allowed since the new biology course came in in 2003.

Chunky Monkey

We had applied maths in fifth year. Twas great craic. Then we had a different teacher who only showed up a few times at the start of sixth year and that was that. Principal said he couldn't find anyone else. I failed my exam

Ahh I hate how they changed the english thing. I would just prefer to have english all on one day like last year.
Now ive to do english and the stupid waste of time subject that is home ec on wednesday! arghhhhh!!!!! :mad:


But wooo! Finish thursday 12th!! Booo yeah!