LC Results

LegacyUser

I got my leaving cert results like four weeks ago. I did really well and did alot better than i expected. I was expecting around 500 and got 560 so i was very happy. Though heres the problem. I hang around with a load of guys who for some strange reason think they're alot smarter than me. They're under the impression that I'm an idiot even though they know that I'm good in school. The reason for this is that i never try to be smart. I'm not the type of guy who corrects people, gives out random facts or who shows off his intelligence. It's because of this that they think I lied about my Leaving Cert results.

The night after results night they asked me for my Exam number. I told them my exam number and asked why they wanted it. Then they asked for my pin code for checking the results online. I told them i threw it out because i never planned on checking them online and they all gave each this look as if to say "suuuuuuurre". I just thought nothing of it. I didn't really care if they thought I lied cos i knew i got what I got.

But then recently we were out on the piss. We met up with this girl who i get on really well with. I was talking to her about the French exam and i told her i got an A1 (which i did, she got an A1 as well). When I told her, my mates instantly glanced at eachother thinking i was lying. I ignored it. Next thing they asked me to translate a sentence in French. I translated it, then realised i made a mistake, then tried to correct it, then went completely red. Then I knew that she now thought i lied.

At the start i didn't really care if they thought i lied about my results. but now it's really getting to me. I just know they're spreading rumors about me and telling all my friends that I lied about my leaving cert results. The annoying thing is that two of them have actually seen my results sheet and seen that i got 560 but still seem to be spreading rumors. I'm worried that my reputation is being ruined just because thee idiots don't believe me.
What should i do. I dont want to have to bring my results out and show them to all my friends because then i'll come across as a bit of a showoff. Sorry for the long post. Can anyone help?

Catari Jaguar

Firstly, well done and congrats on your results.

Your "friends" are jealous, immature retards. Ditch them and ignore the comments. You don't have to justify yourself to them. You'll be heading off to college soon and meet a whole load of decent interesting people that won't try and make you feel like an idiot, or bitch about you or cock block you.

Heisenberg.

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Ishmael

It seems that they're continuing to do this because they can see that it gets to you. Just show them that what they're doing is not really getting to you even if you have to pretend. Brush it off with a joke about their results or something. In a few months, nobody will even care anymore what you got in the leaving cert.

Smyth

These people sound like idiots.
My advice is to drop them like flies. You're off to college and you'll meet such a variety of people that you'll look back and laugh at them.

Similar to the poster above, I haven't spoke to 99% of my secondary school "friends"

They were similar in levels of twatness.

LegacyUser

Just show them that what they're doing is not really getting to you even if you have to pretend. Brush it off with a joke about their results or something.

The thing is, they dont know that i realise they think I'm lying. If you get me. They're doing this on the sly. They're basically afraid to ask me straight up if i was lying. If it was out in the open and they literally said to me "Did you lie about the leaving results" then it would be grand. But they're doing all this behind my back and not even giving me the opportunity to prove it to them.

I would just forget about it but I know they've spread the rumor to all my good friends. My proper friends think i lied and think that i don't know that they know. I just wanna prove to them that i got what i got.

ChocolateSauce

Best advice I can give is that friends from school are rarely worth keeping. Most people I know hate most people in their class.

Deadeyes

Well done on the LC, but 560 points doesn't make you intelligent it means your good at exams. If you were really intelligent you would realise that you don't have to prove anything to anyone and that these friends, from the picture you paint, don't really appear to be friends.
Now with 560 points I'm sure your heading off to college and after one week you'll have a whole load of new people to hang around with who won't give a toss about LC results.

They sound like a bunch of muppets, but you sound REALLY easy to wind up and pretty oversensitive. Relax. You'll make new friends in college. I haven't seen a single one of my school mates in 5 years.

Solair

Congratulations and well done on the results!

Frankly, I would just ignore them. They sound a bit like a pathetic bunch of losers if you ask me. Your leaving cert results are your own business and also they're not going to be the thing that defines your life, nor are they going to define theirs. You've done exceptionally well, be proud and just don't take any notice of these guys, they're just bullies.

There's no way I'd allow anyone to access my exam results. They're private, and only of relevance to you and your teachers really. The same goes for university results!

Go to university, meet some nice people and have a blast!

Surprisingly enough in the real world you'll tend to find that no one will actually ask or care what you got in your Leaving Cert. In most instances you'll also find that no one really asks what grades you got in your undergraduate or post graduate degrees either. They just tend to accept that you're qualified and are far more concerned about your ability to do a job i.e. work experience, personality, skills etc..

MagicMarker

ChocolateSauce wrote: »

Best advice I can give is that friends from school are rarely worth keeping. Most people I know hate most people in their class.

I concur with this...

At the same time, they're only messing with you, just try not to take it to heart.

humanji

Why not call them on this, OP? Next time you're talk to them ask them straight are they telling everyone you lied. Tell your good friends that these guys are spreading lies about you. Let everyone know that they're the a$$holes. If people don't believe you then f*ck them, they're not your friends. If you still have the slip with your results on it, you can even present that as evidence.

It really isn't that big a deal though. As others have said, these guys aren't worth bothering over and you'll meet a lot of people in college.

spinandscribble

photocopy your results and hand it to them, tell them they're jerks for not believing you and just leave them there standing there like idiots. usually i'd promote the 'don't bother with them' but you seem like this is really bothering you and its a quick fix.

Red Alert

Mistakes don't correlate with knowledge. I know the maths I work with very well, but I'm clumsy by nature, so I make a lot of mistakes. Relax, you'll be the one finding it easier to get jobs and college offers with your results than they will

Wurly

Eh, these pack of gimps aren't your mates.

Break away from them, ignore their insults. Laugh them off even if you feel like screaming inside. They will soon get bored.

It's amazing to me that they have nothing better to do with their time.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

If they show you up in public again say - 'would you listen to them? Grow up lads ffs' and just laugh.

If its just a glance say - 'sorry guys, did you want to say something?'. If they say anything, use first sentence.

You don't have to prove your results to anyone. Least of all these simpletons. The whole thing is so immature, its embarrassing. Seriously though, make new friends. These guys are NOT friends.

Lastly - Congratulations on your results. That's amazing....:D:D:D

Overheal

Knowledge is power: cant you just mind meld with them and melt their brains?

560! Make me feel inferiror will you!

2 words for you: Fuck Them. Its just pisstake anyway. Dont let it get to you.

miss no stars

Go to college, make new friends, simple as.

Nobody in college thinks twice about leaving cert results.

At the start of my year in college we were shown a table of LC results Vs 1st year exam results and it's quite striking. There was almost no correlation between good leaving cert and good college exams and that followed through when we all got our results this year. The reason being that a lot of the LC is simply regurgitating very often mindnumbingly boring sections of information whereas in college you have to understand. People might ask once or twice but that's about it, nobody genuinely cares.

As for your friends, why do you even care? They're acting like children so nothing them. If they start up, just say "yeah sure, whatever, like I need to pretend I did better than I did" and leave it at that. Don't respond and do NOT show them your results. They've no right to see them at all and if you show them to them you're only bringing yourself to their level. Think of it this way, as well as leaving school with good exams, you've also left school an adult. They left with whatever results they got but they left as children.

The Sweeper

I had a friend in school who used to compete with me on exams. Seems ridiculous now - she had her talents, I had mine. She did honours maths, for instance, whereas I need a calculator to add up more than two figures.

When our leaving cert results came out, I got 470 and was very happy with it. That's what I needed for the course I wanted, and it accurately reflected the amount of work I had done (a lot for some subjects, not much for others). My friend told everyone she got 520 points. She was delighted by it (and indeed why wouldn't you be). She was really sticking it to me for a while though, until it emerged she was counting the results from all seven of her exam subjects. She actually got 450 points.

The plot thickened then - I did six honours subjects, and pass maths. If you included my pass maths result as a seventh subject, my LC points were 510.

Once the "You're counting seven subjects, not six" thing came out, and my friend realised I'd scored 20 points higher than she had, she persisted in counting seven subjects for herself, AND for me, because then the scores were 520:510 in her favour.

The moral of this story: 15 years on, the thing I remember most about my leaving cert results is that they made my best friend go mental.

randylonghorn

Minesajackdaniels wrote: »

The moral of this story: 15 years on, the thing I remember most about my leaving cert results is that they made my best friend go mental.

I seem to be out of thanks, but MAJD, that story is classic!

Could I suggest a different moral though? ... that there's so much bloody hype around the LC, that it turns even nice people into nutters!

OP, one way or the other, don't let it get to you.

Either ignore completely, or "accidentally" drop a photocopy of your results in one of their houses ... preferably someone gossipy but basically decent / truthful. Either way, forget about it after that.

Overheal

randylonghorn wrote: »

Could I suggest a different moral though? ... that there's so much bloody hype around the LC, that it turns even nice people into nutters!

OP, one way or the other, don't let it get to you.

Too right. Every other year theres some sob story in the paper about a JC/LC grad throwing themselves off the train tracks because they didn't do as well as they expected. Its symptomatic of how much importance is placed on those exams. Its over now. Hey look a sunny day: run along now, and give it no further thought.

bangersandmash

Deadeyes wrote: »

Well done on the LC, but 560 points doesn't make you intelligent it means your good at exams. If you were really intelligent you would realise that you don't have to prove anything to anyone and that these friends, from the picture you paint, don't really appear to be friends.

Was that attack really necessary? It's quite likely that the OP is in fact intelligent. But it's also quite likely that, like many people of that age, the OP simply lacks the confidence and self-esteem to ditch fake friends.

OP I'd agree with what most people have said here. In a few weeks you'll have met many new people who won't care about what school you went to, or how your LC exams went. By next year, you'll probably never see your former friends any more. Why not just make the break now, stop seeing/calling these so-called friends over the next few weeks, and get yourself in a good frame of mind for college?

Most people lose or break-off contact with people from secondary school. And everybody forgets about LC results once they go to college. In a very short time you'll wonder why the LC ever seemed like a big deal.

tinkerbell

Ok, first off CONGRATS on your amazing results! You did great.

Secondly, those "friends" of yours are not friends - if they were friends, they wouldn't be going around spreading lies about you. This would actually really piss me off if I was in your position! I'd probably be like "what is your problem, you're just jealous", then whip out a copy of your results, shove it in their faces so they can see your amazing marks, then tell them to go shove it and then just walk away.

You don't need friends like that in your life - total jealous begrudgers. You're off to college now and you'll make loads of new friends, great ones who won't treat you like an idiot. I see like 3 friends from school now not very regularly but a few times a year to be honest. My friends now are ones I made in university. People move on with their lives - the friends you make in college usually are the ones that last.

challengemaster

Ditch the jealous losers, find some proper mates. Well done

Cuddlesworth

Congrats on your results. But if what you are saying is true you need to realise that the LC isn't that big in the scheme of things. If you can truly understand that then nothing your friends can say will get to you.

As people have said, in 6 months you will have lost contact with around half of them. This time next year it will be mostly all of them.

Deadeyes

bangersandmash wrote: »

Was that attack really necessary? It's quite likely that the OP is in fact intelligent. But it's also quite likely that, like many people of that age, the OP simply lacks the confidence and self-esteem to ditch fake friends.

It wasn't meant as an attack, but re-reading it, it does come across overly harsh. Apologies to the OP if your bothered by what I said. But these people are doing nothing positive for you it's time to move on.

Toots

Congrats on the great results!

Honestly, it sounds like they're just jealous of your good results. Just cos they go around spouting random facts and figures doesn't make them smart. In fact, they probably come off as being conceited and annoying.

I had a "friend" in secondary school who did this and she wrecked everyone's heads. She did get good results in her LC and told anyone who'd listen. Another girl in the class didn't get what she wanted and this smartass came up to her and said "hate that! you probably should have studied harder!" Needless to say she didn't win any friends with that! On the other hand there was one girl in the class who actually got 600, but we only found out weeks later. She didn't mention her results to anyone on the days after they came out cos she knew some people didn't get what they wanted and didn't rub want to rub their noses in it.

It didn't matter anyway, cos the girl who was going around boasting didn't get the course she wanted. It went up 30 points so even with her 'amazing' results she didn't get it. TBH, as most people have already said, you'll probably find that in four years from now, you might still be in touch with maybe one or two people from your class. I know there's two from mine who I keep in contact with, I couldn't give a toss about most of the others. You'll make some great friends in college (where you'll find that nobody gives a crap about the LC results anyway) and just forget about these immature losers.

gaybitch

They're just jealous, or else trying to annoy you as lads do. Why are you letting it get to you?

Just ignore them!

Trying to prove it to them won't do any use - as you say, some of them know for a fact what results you got, and are still "spreading rumours". At the end of the day, there's one thing they're trying to do - wind you up. And you're letting them! Rise above it.

dan_d

Congrats on your results.I'm guessing most of your friends didn't do as well as you and are jealous.If not, big deal.By Christmas,you'll have forgotten your results,as will they. You're going to meet a completely different group of friends in college, who will be your friends for life.I wouldn't even waste the time of day talking to your so-called friends, let alone trying to prove yourself to them. As long as you're happy, that's all the matters.Plus let's face it, if you did better than them, you pretty much have the last laugh!Life's too short to worry about people like that...in a very short period you'll find that you've got a whole new life in college, and what you're doing will pretty much speak for itself.:)