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On the page where they discuss the LC has anyone noticed how theyre actually quoting Boards?

seriously take a look at the bottom of the page from either today or yesterday (dunno about the day before that paper was thrown out)

tdc

yeah i saw that, a few quotes from here and leavingcert.net or something.

Blogwatch

By students in their own words

How did maths go?
JUST finished maths Paper 1 at 10.30, Thought it was a lovely paper, went brilliant . . . so happy with it!!

. . . Thought it was grand. Dropped down to Ordinary about three weeks ago and haven't done anything since, but I pretty much breezed through it and left just before 11. Hopefully I didn't miss half the questions or something . . .

. . . Hoping you are all Ordinary level heads, as I found higher paper to be quiet difficult. The Intergration Q which is normally fairly handy was a monster. I got the answer out for Q1 and Q2 but thought they were fairly hard compared to normal. But what about Q5 C WTF, maybe it was obvious but it looked pretty strange to me.

The verdict on the timetable
. . . Just been hearing a lot of negative comments towards the new leaving cert timetable, that Hanafin has 'punished' the people who do home ec and chemistry. I do chemistry, yes I had 3 hours of English, and then 3 hours of chemistry, but thought it was fine. There's 60,000 people doing the leaving cert, there's obviously always going to be someone upset. . .

. . . New timetable is crap for me. Yeah I get 3 half-days to start off with, but next week I've 3 full days, 6 exams. It hasn't changed anything . . .

. . . A friend of mine does Home Ec and Chem, but she was saying it wasn't that bad. She got feeling back in her hand during the first hour of break, so it didn't really affect her in that sense. Considering that I don't do either, I did kinda love the extra half day's time to study for paper two

Calculator questions
. . . Got a sweet ass sharp write view el-w531 calculator today (allowed, right?) Well, it can do things such as tell me cos of 2 pi over 3 is minus a half, just like that. Would it be very unwise to write it down like that in an exam, even if it's a Q such as complex numbers? If you get the correct answer, do they break marks off for work not shown? This calculator even looks like it can do crap like standard deviation. Do any of you use it for that? How? It can't pop up what the formula for standard deviation is, right, and that's what makes it legal in the LC? . . .

. . . Hey, I have that calculator too and I heard that you're allowed to use it. Apparently it even solves quadratics. However, the examiner will notice if you put down an answer without working it out fully . . . But yeah you are allowed to use that calculator. The only ones you're not allowed are ones that you can programme formulas and notes into . . .

. . . Eh HELLLO peoples!! The examiner won't know if you've used a super-fancy calculator!! As long as you write the model of a legal one in the space, then fair feck to ya I say!! . . .

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At least they're referring to boards.ie at the bottom...

PurpleFistMixer

This is the third thread about it. : p

It's bizarre that the board is busier now than it has been all year (save during that cheatfest that was the mocks...), and people should ideally not be online.

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PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

This is the third thread about it. : p

It's bizarre that the board is busier now than it has been all year (save during that cheatfest that was the mocks...), and people should ideally not be online.

really? eek

PurpleFistMixer

Yeah, sorry, what I forgot to say was that... Because it's so busy, threads are getting pushed back pages in a day or less, so missing them is understandable.

Fad

yeah i think itd be an idea to find that search function ive heard so much about:)

~Candy~

hee!! time to share this ..=)

http://skoool.ie/uploadedfiles/study_guides_050208/21-01-08_IT_TSZ_13.pdf

The A1 student

......Business is not a hard subject. Don’t be afraid of
taking time out if you’re mind starts to wander. Last year I
joined boards.ie, a message board where people in the
same boat as you talk about things; you can ask
questions about anything on business there and coming
up to the mocks we had our own quiz.

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~Candy~ wrote: »

hee!! time to share this ..=)

http://skoool.ie/uploadedfiles/study_guides_050208/21-01-08_IT_TSZ_13.pdf

The A1 student

......Business is not a hard subject. Don’t be afraid of
taking time out if you’re mind starts to wander. Last year I
joined boards.ie, a message board where people in the
same boat as you talk about things; you can ask
questions about anything on business there and coming
up to the mocks we had our own quiz.

so boards actually has a function and isnt just the ultimate procrastination tool YAY i havent been wasting my time

Lil' Smiler

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

This is the third thread about it. : p

It's bizarre that the board is busier now than it has been all year (save during that cheatfest that was the mocks...), and people should ideally not be online.

Yeah it's funny that people sign up so close to/ during the exams.

I even noticed myself that http://www.zulunotes.com where I go and add my leaving cert notes up there that it's gotten a hell of a lot busier in the last few days with people being nice enough to add their own notes too!!

Can't say I miss the leaving cert myself. What did they do with the timetable? I keep reading that they changed it?

SimpleLogic

hehheh was flicking through the Irish times and noticed i was quoted

LizT

I was quoted too for the calculator forum! So proud...

NaiveMelodies

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

This is the third thread about it. : p

It's bizarre that the board is busier now than it has been all year (save during that cheatfest that was the mocks...), and people should ideally not be online.

Bizarre??
Not really, you would expect people to be on it more during the exams to look for tips, predictions and see how every1 got on.

JC 2K3

~Candy~ wrote: »

hee!! time to share this ..=)

http://skoool.ie/uploadedfiles/study_guides_050208/21-01-08_IT_TSZ_13.pdf

The A1 student

......Business is not a hard subject. Don’t be afraid of
taking time out if you’re mind starts to wander. Last year I
joined boards.ie, a message board where people in the
same boat as you talk about things; you can ask
questions about anything on business there and coming
up to the mocks we had our own quiz.

Ooh, I wonder who Paul Carty is....

NaiveMelodies

JC 2K3 wrote: »

Ooh, I wonder who Paul Carty is....

you?

ZorbaTehZ

JC 2K3 wrote: »

Ooh, I wonder who Paul Carty is....

Cson !

Edit: or maybe not... seems he's a casey

bitterstudent

Yeah they've been using my blog leaving-cert.net a bit in the times. Its great to see my name in a national newspaper. Hope everyone can relate to it as I think I'm a pretty average student. Low expectations, ordinary level maths, not great at English! :P

Diarmsquid

I just saw one of my quotes. It feels so good.
:cool: