IMPORTANT MESSAGE to all Leaving Cert Students

turgon

Important message regarding
Staedtler Pens in the Exams

It has recently come to my attention that Staedtler pens are highly inefficient. In a test* carried out I have discovered that the pens will fail at least once every three lines. This, combined with the amount of time needing to fix the ink flow, means that it takes 25% longer to write with Staedtler pens than other brands.

It is of vital importance that you do not use these pens in the Leaving Cert exam. They will decrease your exam performance and directly effect your grade!

Method of Destruction

I would recommend you take measures to permanently destroy these pens. The method is as follows

• Find an A4 pad with at least fifty sheets.
• Take off the cover of the pen, and place the pen in your hand with your thumb fully covering the top.
• Raise you hand about 50cm above the A4 pad and strike down in one quick movement.

This will force the tip back into the pen and put it out of use. It is essential you follow these guidelines.


*"Test" - me practicing for Wednesday writing some prose. Got very annoying.

The Walsho

That really wasn't important enough to warrant two words in all caps in the title, but thanks anyway.

BarryDoodles

i adore steadler pens and plan to use them in the leaving cert as i have done for the past year. Thank you for the warning though i may bring a single bic pen although i might add the ones you buy in the 'eiro shop' or in the 'save money multi pack' are alway faulty.

Peleus

Is anyone bringing two calculators into the mathsy exams? I heard if your calculator breaks during an exam it's tough luck.

tasha1

I Like Those Pens!!

And I'm Bringing Two..

Ordinary And Natural Display..

Mark200

Once every 3 lines?

I really doubt that

Peleus wrote: »

Is anyone bringing two calculators into the mathsy exams? I heard if your calculator breaks during an exam it's tough luck.

Yeah I am. I got my mam to go out and buy me a second one even though the current one has never caused me any problems. Just in case.

turgon

No really, I was being serious. If I could scan in an image of my writing that piece, you see the pen stopping to write every few lines. Its ridiculous.

And I know that post was ott. Just to see how many people would read it

SmashingPilot

Staedtler pens, who needs them.:cool:

I'll be heading down to the bookies tomorrow for a fresh supply of top quality pens. :rolleyes::p

I definitely need to invest in a calculator though.

Mars Bar

Must bring my sisters calculator into accounting...the 0 button is a bit dodgy in mine. Thanks for reminding me!

kaki

Haha, brilliant post
Reminds me of the "counterfig roll" ad on the radio atm...

BaRcOe

SmashingPilot wrote: »

I'll be heading down to the bookies tomorrow for a fresh supply of top quality pens. :rolleyes::p

Too right you are pilot! I will join you!

BIC IS DA s*it FO SHO!

SmashingPilot

barcoe4 wrote: »

Too right you are pilot! I will join you!

BIC IS DA s*it FO SHO!

Well just don't be late. I like to start early and if we have time maybe study some form.

Might come in handy if the results aren't in my favour. :rolleyes:

Bic definitely are the bomb. I'm fanning myself with some right now. Oh god, it feels so good. :D:D:D:D

Overheal

You only need One Pen for your exams:



OP is right though. Those pens are shyte.

SmashingPilot

Oh right, who brought the smart guy in here. lol!!!

Overheal

SmashingPilot wrote: »

Oh right, who brought the smart guy in here. lol!!!

I lurk now and then to make sure kids arent getting smarter behind me. That way I know how long I can slack off before I have to worry about yous stealing my job

BaRcOe

Overheal I agree with you 100%, who doesn't have one of those 4 in 1's!
If you don't where have you been the past 5 years?

Although, You are NOT meant to write in Red OR Green!

As the examiner corrects in red and if you want a re-check on your paper in August, They use Green, so DO NOT USE Red OR Green!

turgon

Very interesting. I assume its all right for numbering questions though.

Doctor DooM

In my college (which is where you may go if you use bic brand pens) you are not allowed to use pencils in the exams. Mad or wha'?

Parsley

barcoe4 wrote: »

Overheal I agree with you 100%, who doesn't have one of those 4 in 1's!
If you don't where have you been the past 5 years?

Although, You are NOT meant to write in Red OR Green!

As the examiner corrects in red and if you want a re-check on your paper in August, They use Green, so DO NOT USE Red OR Green!

Actually if you write in red, they correct in blue or black. Writing in green's just silly though.

philologos

turgon, they are usually good, but the last set of these I've got are pure rubbish.

turgon

TBH Jackass the reason I bought them was cause I like the colour of the blue! The bic is a bit dark for me. But they were just so unreliable. With all the pressure and that I just went ballistic - belting holes in two A4 pads, snapping one in half, and getting a rather sore cut on my thumb. Nuts!!!

PurpleFistMixer

I find they're not too bad if you keep writing. It's when you stop that things go bad. Bics ftw anyway, though I bought some fancy gel ink pens for the exams.

turgon

Yeah I got stingy in the shop today. The nice ones were €3. The bic were €0.35. No guessing which ones I bought!!

Parsley

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

I find they're not too bad if you keep writing. It's when you stop that things go bad. Bics ftw anyway, though I bought some fancy gel ink pens for the exams.

Fancy gel ink pens ftw. You can write so much faster with em.

BaRcOe

Listen to yourselves, talking about f**king BIC Pens.

Who gives a Shi*?

We've come to the conclusion that BIC are the best!

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Overheal

I like Uniball too for when im in a fanciful mood

lobsterstag

as a fully fledged member of the citog(left handed!!) family im firmly in favour of the non-smudging good old fashioned biro, be it bic or any other brand!!:pac::pac:

SmashingPilot

lobsterstag wrote: »

as a fully fledged member of the citog(left handed!!) family im firmly in favour of the non-smudging good old fashioned biro, be it bic or any other brand!!:pac::pac:

Amen brother...........I used to hate it in primary school with cartridge pens. More ink ended up on my hand than on the page.

Mimikyu

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Timans

Whatever you do don't write in your own blood.

Examiners apparently find that sort of thing strange.

The Walsho

Timans wrote: »

Whatever you do don't write in your own blood.

Examiners apparently find that sort of thing strange.

My teacher said bodily fluids are encouraged

Soby

Overheal wrote: »

You only need One Pen for your exams:



OP is right though. Those pens are shyte.

We're not all rich you now!!!!:p

PurpleFistMixer

Timans wrote: »

Whatever you do don't write in your own blood.

I was imagining myself running out of pens during my last exam (applied maths), and stabbing myself in the arm to continue. I'll probably be bleeding from the ears by then anyway, so it'll be grand. I'll bring a quill to be safe.

Timans

I'm bringing a dead bird into the exam with me.

Plenty of feathers to go around then.

boobookitty

I heard writing in Tippex/Semen is encouraged also.

genericgoon

Peleus wrote: »

Is anyone bringing two calculators into the mathsy exams? I heard if your calculator breaks during an exam it's tough luck.

You could always use the log tables and having to do your arithmetic the old fashioned way:p

Overheal

Soby wrote: »

We're not all rich you now!!!!:p

Its still better than 4 pens

muffinman

I'm bringing 6 blue Staedtlers, 2 red Bics, a Tippex pen and 2 calculators. My old casio natural display is kinda dead (maybe battery) and I have to smack it every time I want to turn it on.. Same thing seems to have happened with a lot of people, so I've just bought a new one to bring with it..

Overheal

if you need tippex then youre doing it wrong

Kurtosis

No, but seriously, don't use tippex. Just cross out whatever you don't want and put parentheses around it. This way, the examiner can still give you marks for it, whereas if you tippex it or scribble the life out of it, they won't be able to see it!

Also, it'll save you having to wait until the tippex dries or worse still, forgetting to go back and fill in the right thing.

tramoredude

Peleus wrote: »

Is anyone bringing two calculators into the mathsy exams? I heard if your calculator breaks during an exam it's tough luck.

Im buying a second calculator tomorrow

Timans

tramoredude wrote: »

Im buying a second calculator tomorrow

:eek:

What happens if you need it for English?

Overheal

if you lose your calculator during an exam, that is just awful luck. I've had the same beat-up calculator for 5 years and its got me through every exam ive ever had.

muffinman

penguin88 wrote: »

No, but seriously, don't use tippex. Just cross out whatever you don't want and put parentheses around it. This way, the examiner can still give you marks for it, whereas if you tippex it or scribble the life out of it, they won't be able to see it!

Also, it'll save you having to wait until the tippex dries or worse still, forgetting to go back and fill in the right thing.

I'm only going to be tippexing out little mistakes in English/Irish/Geography where I write the wrong word by mistake or something along those lines. Obviously if a maths problem doesn't work out I won't try tippexing out 7 lines of integration

PurpleFistMixer

Tippex means changing pen, and waiting for it to work! Valuable seconds lost messing around. If you write a wrong word, stick a line through it, continue.

That said, in my Irish paper 1 exam I had so much time I rewrote my entire léamhthuiscint answers to make them all neater. But ideally you shouldn't have such excesses of time.