Mock results

Yuugib

So, anybody want to share the results?)
Where you satisfied with them?
Did you think the mocks where harder/easier than you thought they would be?
Whats your overall impression?
How many more points are you hoping to get in the real thing?
Did you cheat?

I know that some people are still doing them and some havent even started, but what about the rest of you?

LayLay

I'll share mine results [well what I have got so far] and thoughts.

Basically, I've done ****e so far. =(

I've gotten 4 back. In 2 I got D's and in the other 2, I failed. But you know what, it is only the mocks, so I'm not that bothered really. However, my mam is a different story. She is going made! :eek:

Well, I was happy that I past those two subjects I passed but not my other two. I knew I would of failed one which was Irish. But I thought I would of passed the other one.

At the time, I was thinking, they are not as bad as I thought but now that I have some back, I'm think that they were bad. I wasn't prepared. I hadn't studied enough. I didnt seem to care and I completely regret having that attitude now. :rolleyes: Now I know that I have to work extra hard because I want to do well in the actual exam. My main goal was to at least pass everything in the mocks, which I havent so that kinda sucks. Oh well...

For my course it should be around the 300 mark. It was 305 last year and 330 the year before. Who knows what it will be this year. I'm hoping to get what I need though. I really hope I do.

Overheal

Take the results with a pinch of salt but remember that was the last mulligan you're going to get: the Exams are right around the corner and its time to buckle into your desk, lads.

Cokehead Mother

I did shíte. I need about 300 more points for my first choice. But I don't really want that so all's good I guess.

Overheal

If you're doing under 200 points........ yeah, be afraid. No TV for you.. I even recommmend dismantling key computer components lest the infernal machine distract you from studying.

KeyLimePie

I've gotten one back, Chemistry seventy something percent :P
Doing good so far!

jakedixon2004

got about 280 points without studying
Failed irish though and that means a failed leaving cert....God i hate irish:mad:

ian.f

Starting mine tomorrow and you lads aren't exactly inspiring me. Praying for a bit of John Donne on paper 2! He's the only one I really know ...

Patrickisperfec

KeyLimePie wrote: »

I've gotten one back, Chemistry seventy something percent :P
Doing good so far!

If you fail Irish you dn't fail your LC, only i you fail Béarla or Mata

Istrancis

Cokehead Mother wrote: »

I did shíte. I need about 300 more points for my first choice. But I don't really want that so all's good I guess.

Em... then why is it your first choice? Seriously, find something you actually want and work toward it, the rewarding feeling is INCREDIBLE!

And KeyLimePie, seventy percent in chemistry is very good, well done! Keep that up and you could bring it all the way to an A.

All I've got back so far is Business.. I'm majorly pissed.

I got a B3.

Cokehead Mother

Deleted User wrote: »

All I've got back so far is Business.. I'm majorly pissed.

I got a B3.

That could be an A1 by June. Cheer up.

illiop

i got 310 points but i still have history to get bac so i'm pretty please but if this was the real thing i'd be goin' nowhere because i only got 29% in maths(and pass at that, how depressing)

Last year.. I got about 9% in maths in my mocks.

In the leavin I got a C3. I was shocked to say the least.

Dont worry. Maths really is a breeze once you practise it.

Cost Boy!!

I just got my geography back today and i got an A i'm so happy with it!

oleary91

Got D1 in Maths and Irish...both pass..I think its ok really cause in the mock Irish we didnt do one of the poems that came up yet and a story aswell...In maths it was hard so pleased that i passed...Was way harder than the questions u see in the exam paper....Hoping the get a B in the L.C...and i did get the highest in the class:D lol

jennyq

I've gotten 4 back so far & I've got 340 points from them so I'm happy enough so far. Ranging from 77-89. V happy with my French A2

ln-1

I got 585. B2-German. B1-English. A1-Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Maths, Irish. I haven't done a mock in my other subject(applied maths) so it might be good:)
I was pretty damn happy- had to be celebrated.
THey were definitely easier than expected-except for German and Physics.
Overall impression. Piece of piss. I'm hoping for that, or anything near it!!!! Course is 570 here, 525 in England.
No cheating for me. People kept talking about mock papers but I deliberately waited until they were over to join.

straight_As

ln-1 wrote: »

I got 585. B2-German. B1-English. A1-Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Maths, Irish. I haven't done a mock in my other subject(applied maths) so it might be good:)
I was pretty damn happy- had to be celebrated.
THey were definitely easier than expected-except for German and Physics.
Overall impression. Piece of piss. I'm hoping for that, or anything near it!!!! Course is 570 here, 525 in England.
No cheating for me. People kept talking about mock papers but I deliberately waited until they were over to join.

****ing hell, that's impressive.

Well done.

Course=570=medicine?

ln-1

straight_As wrote: »

****ing hell, that's impressive.

Well done.

Course=570=medicine?

thanks. Yup thats the one. I already got an offer in England. So just aiming for it here now

Cokehead Mother

ln-1 wrote: »

A1-Irish.

Holy crap.

Where you hoping to do med btw?

ln-1

Cokehead Mother wrote: »

Holy crap.

Where you hoping to do med btw?

That Irish grade scared me, I thought I'd get a different vowel.
Hopefully Trinity just because of the MBCho. 2nd choice-UCD. Or if I change my mind and get the points England.

PurpleFistMixer

Skillz and a half.
And there was me happy with my 82 in Physics. Hopefully I'll get more back tomorrow...

Aoibheann

ln-1 wrote: »

That Irish grade scared me, I thought I'd get a different vowel.
Hopefully Trinity just because of the MBCho. 2nd choice-UCD. Or if I change my mind and get the points England.

Come to RCSI! I'm in first med there.. It's fun, and you'll skip into first med with 2 sciences, the current premeds are fairly awesome and you'd be with them plus all the others who go directly into first med. If you want to know about course material and suchlike here, let me know!

Alternatively, ask students in the various colleges about the courses.. I've heard some not-so-great stuff on the Trinity course, but I have no idea if any of it's true - you'd be better off finding someone there!

Oh, as for the degrees, they're all the same in terms of letters.. M.B. B.Ch. B.A.O. as far as I know? Maybe I'm wrong.

chrissydeex

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

Skillz and a half.
And there was me happy with my 82 in Physics. Hopefully I'll get more back tomorrow...

Whats the key to getting such a high grade in physics??

Da Bomber

chrissydeex wrote: »

Whats the key to getting such a high grade in physics??

Yea fuckin hell that paper was impossible i'd say i got near enough full marks on the experiments and still managed to fail it:mad::mad:

PurpleFistMixer

I dunno if I had the same paper as you, but it was tricky enough alright. My physics teacher did really good revision with us, she'd give us all the exam paper questions from all the years on a particular topic (say optics), then give us a test on it. Handy enough, had most of the revision already done before the mocks began so I didn't have to study during them.
Doing applied maths doesn't hurt either. : p

I lost 6 marks because I didn't use graph paper though. Bit annoyed about that. Alright, only 6 marks, but my graphs were better than my friends (she had her axes wrong), and she got full marks because she used graph paper. Alas.

The Walsho

ln-1 wrote: »

I got 585. B2-German. B1-English. A1-Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Maths, Irish. I haven't done a mock in my other subject(applied maths) so it might be good:)

Very impressive, well done.
I had the DEB physics paper, and it was quite tough alright. Section A was a breeze but section B was a nightmare!
Just finished my mocks on Wednesday so haven't gotten any back just yet

jennyq

I got 81 on the DEB paper (Damn 1% ) mostly by doing any question with maths involved that I possibly could. I literally didn't have my definition for Archimedes principle learned properly but still managed to do fairly well in the question because I got the problems right. It kinda seems like people avoid questions with problems sometimes but it's often a lot easier to pick up marks in them if you can manage to get them mostly right, because they can be really picky about theory questions & getting exactly what points they're looking for in the answer.

PurpleFistMixer

I made up the experiment for the archimedes question, it was frankly embarassing. I tend to go for the mathsy ones, writing spiels is a lot more subjective. Then again, if you get your formula wrong, you're screwed, whereas you can waffle a bit otherwise.

Cokehead Mother

jennyq wrote: »

I got 81 on the DEB paper (Damn 1% ) mostly by doing any question with maths involved that I possibly could. I literally didn't have my definition for Archimedes principle learned properly but still managed to do fairly well in the question because I got the problems right. It kinda seems like people avoid questions with problems sometimes but it's often a lot easier to pick up marks in them if you can manage to get them mostly right, because they can be really picky about theory questions & getting exactly what points they're looking for in the answer.

That's normally how I feel, but in the mock I made a balls of all the maths parts for some reason. Managed to get the entire mechanics question wrong beside a definition despite getting a B1 in the applied maths mock.

But at least I learnt I can't depend on Q6 and Q12(a) and it's better to learn lessons now than in June.

jennyq

Cokehead Mother wrote: »

That's normally how I feel, but in the mock I made a balls of all the maths parts for some reason. Managed to get the entire mechanics question wrong beside a definition despite getting a B1 in the applied maths mock.

But at least I learnt I can't depend on Q6 and Q12(a) and it's better to learn lessons now than in June.

Yeah, to be honest you can't really ignore either the theory or maths parts. I know now that I have to basically just put in the effort & learn the stuff even if it bores me a bit so I won't be disappointed in the end :rolleyes:

peteballagh

Maths B3
Applied Maths D2
Physics/Chemistry C2

All Hons.

Mark200

jakedixon2004 wrote: »

got about 280 points without studying
Failed irish though and that means a failed leaving cert....God i hate irish:mad:

Eh no. It doesn't mean that. That only applys for Maths and English as far as I know.

nerdysal

So chuffed with how I've done so far. I missed 2 months of sixth year and alot of fifth year so was expecting to barely pass. But I got a C3 in Maths(H), C2 French(H), C2 Biology (H), C1 Business (H) and C1 Irish (O). So thats 290 so far. I need 300. If I get C1s in my other two subjects, Home Ec and English, I will have 400, so I would be thrilled with that! Fingers crossed... and toes!

daggy

humm.. Got one back so far and i was drreading it. Maths (higher) was expecting a pure fail, around 30% but i somehow managed to swing a C2- wtf! And you know what is bizarre... i got the EXACT same mark in both papers. There's only nine girls doing honours and a lot failed ops.

nerdysal

There's only 3 girls in my year doing honours maths. Thankfully we all passed the mock though!!!
I've got all my exams back now. I got 420, I'm delighted!! Not bad considering I had surgery in the middle of sixth year!

Tan90'

Hey Ugh we had our mocks the week before and the week after mid term and still haven't gotten back any results Any ideas when i can expect to get 'em back?

MaltEagle

Depends on the correcter, and how quick they are, and how much they have to correct. Oh, and when they were sent I suppose.

PurpleFistMixer

I still haven't gotten three of mine back, and I did my mocks over a month ago. Sigh.

orangetictac

That DEB physics paper freaked me out! Would love a C


But 98 in business(H) and 95 in Maths paper 1 (H) (All we've got back)
completely made up 4 it.

Our physics teacher has never used the exam papers, given us homework, or given us a test(other than xmas and summer obviously):eek:

BJC

290 in the mocks with ord. level maths, Irish nd German. Not too bad, want arts in maynooth so I need to push up to 360 or so to be safe.

Liam90

I have done very very bad, I think college is out of my reach at this stage. My teachers aren't exactly giving me very much confidence and have now no motivation when it comes to school.:(

sd123

ln-1 wrote: »

I got 585. B2-German. B1-English. A1-Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Maths, Irish. I haven't done a mock in my other subject(applied maths) so it might be good:)
I was pretty damn happy- had to be celebrated.
THey were definitely easier than expected-except for German and Physics.
Overall impression. Piece of piss. I'm hoping for that, or anything near it!!!! Course is 570 here, 525 in England.
No cheating for me. People kept talking about mock papers but I deliberately waited until they were over to join.

Pretty impressive alright, I got 515 in the mocks and that was including applied maths, I did very little after that but somehow managed to get medicine in TCD this year after the second round offers. As a matter of interest, where in England were you offered a place? You should probably come to Trinnerz if you can, pretty good university with a pretty good med course.

Chunky Monkey

Jaysus look at all these As! Congrats Just make sure ye don't get a big head now and think you don't need to study any more. In my own experience the mocks were a lot easier than the real thing which was a shocker cos I was told it's the opposite.

Whereabouts in the UK have you got an offer ln? I got an offer for Peninsula though like yourself hoping to go here, would be more affordable.

Liam don't beat yourself up. I got Ds and fails in my mocks but tbh it doesn't matter. It's only a test run to get used to the format of the exam and to have an idea of what areas you need to improve on in the various subjects. The results themselves mean feck all as a lot of you won't have even finished covering many of your subjects.

Comparing your results to others isn't going to help. Concentrate on your own results and see what needs to be improved for what you want to do.

Mars Bar

I got a C3 in bio and that's the only exam I have got back yet and it was our teacher who corrected it! We are going into our 5th week after doing them on Monday. It's absoloutely outrageous!

nerdysal

Tan90' wrote: »

Hey Ugh we had our mocks the week before and the week after mid term and still haven't gotten back any results Any ideas when i can expect to get 'em back?

We had ours before and after midterm too. What did you think of that? Everyone in my school was so burnt out after the first week that they were too tired to study for midterm and were all completely unprepared for second week!

Casserine

I've only recieved a few back so far; Irish A2, French A1, Geography A1, Biology B2. I'm happy enough.

Parsley

I'm in the middle of mine now! Done all of english, and maths one. German and geography tomorrow... I forgot how to get the volume of a sphere by integration!

Got Irish back today! Got a B2. Wooo!

Thought I was completely ****ed on that one.

Tan90'

nerdysal wrote: »

We had ours before and after midterm too. What did you think of that? Everyone in my school was so burnt out after the first week that they were too tired to study for midterm and were all completely unprepared for second week!

Hmm i was a bit aprehensive tbh because it's not really simmilar to the conditions in June so i felt we were a bit disadvantaged. But we had english after mid term and we needed the mid term to do paper 1 stuff because we hadn't started any!!! I know ridiculous right? Mid term was dreadful!! I felt under pressure to work really hard and took NO breaks so i was wrecked after it!! I just started getting back results today so you'll probably get them soon!!!

Gaeilge - A1
Maths - A2 - Pit peeved causes i intend to count it but if i take out the q we hadn't done it's an A1