Christmas tests

Aisling(",)

right any of you other lc'ers getting them?

last year our 6th years didnt but weve been told ours are starting on the 28 of november...not even the same month as fecking christmas!!:mad:

so thats somethings lovely to look foreward to in the next 25 days.

so much study so little time:(

Fad

Aisling(",) wrote: »

right any of you other lc'ers getting them?

last year our 6th years didnt but weve been told ours are starting on the 28 of november...not even the same month as fecking christmas!!:mad:

so thats somethings lovely to look foreward to in the next 25 days.

so much study so little time:(

We have them too, but our are kinda closer to Xmas, ya know, in december oddly. Not looking foroward to em, but they shouldnt go too badly.

Piste

Nah we dont get Christmas exams, we get extra class while the rest of the school is having exams in December, then we have the Mocks around February.

timmywex

We have them, near to christmas, naturaly enough, exam on the 23th of december this year, how fricking cruel!

Gavin "shels"

Ours exams are in 2 weeks.:eek:

Davidius

Yep, we have Christmas tests. Not sure when. Though I think they'll be a bit of a time waster as preparation for Christmas tests has always cut into class time.

We should really be getting stuff covered for the mocks.

ironictoaster

I think mine begin on the 7th of December.

eoins2345

Mine begin 2moro!

phasers

Teachers have the choice of giving us exams or block classes, and all of them are giving us exams

K4t

I don't know whether you guys are genuinely disappointed or just trying to appear 'cool'? :pac:

Surely Christmas tests are an advantage during 6th year. It's your last year at school and you should want to do the best you can. Christmas tests will be an advantage in that regard. They'll show you and your teachers how you're coping with your subjects. It gets you studying too. And if you do poorly, you will more than likely get a reality check and roll your sleeves up for the mocks.

The majority of my teachers voted against having them but the principal vetoed them! And I'm glad he did.

Pigwidgeon

we never get them in our school, everyone just has exams at the same time as the mocks

crunchycorner

They had no x-mas tests last year in our school but they said it was a bad idea so we're gettin them this year. I think they're in 6 weeks...just before x-mas. I'm glad we have them cos its making me think about starting to study now!! Probably would hav left it until the mocks otherwise!!

Fringe

They haven't been planned yet but we should have them in 6 weeks. They're on the weeks before the holidays.

Aisling(",)

gah teachers are telling me what stuff to start revising as well as what were donig now.
i need to do way more then 3 hours a night to get this stuff done but i need a life!

ironictoaster

It's taking me 3 hours to do homework let alone study. I like the Christmas tests...it makes/forces me to work

macroman

We do ours just before the Christmas break, and mocks around Easter time, and general in class assessment tests in between (every month or so). Generally no pressure with them, just trying to better the result each time :rolleyes:

Jello

Yeah we have them during the week before we get our holidays. Christmas exams in November though is just wrong!

degausserxo

Mine start December 3rd, and they're after school, dammit!

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xOxSinéadxOx

we don't have them, the mocks are so soon after sure

Aisling(",)

our mocks are before midterm so i can chill.thank iosa

SarcasticFairy

Yeah, Christmas Exams... Ughh, starting on the 25th, of November obviously.

But our mocks are also before our midterm, which is great because my birthday is the Sunday ta the start of the midterm! So glad the mocks aren't after the midterm! Thta would have just been depressing, and a really crappy birthday!

Jay P

We have Christmas exams starting the friday before christmas and ending on the tuesday, the 23rd! Feicin ghey.

bythewoods

I actually had no idea, but this thread prompted me to find out.
Seemingly they start on December 3rd and are essentially the same as the mocks.
Fock.

Fad

Damn mocks are after mid term, I fúcking hate the rugby calender, ruins everything.

Jay P

Fad wrote: »

Damn mocks are after mid term, I fúcking hate the rugby calender, ruins everything.

Could be worse. They could be at the very start of February like us :eek:

The Christmas tests are grand though, just one paper for each subject and its only 2 hours long. Simple!

Fad

Jay P wrote: »

Could be worse. They could be at the very start of February like us :eek:

Oh yeah i know what you mean, but i like having a reason to resent my schools affiliation with sweaty ball chasing.

cautioner

Pah! I had my "Christmas" exams in Ocotber. Don't know why they were so early this year - possibly something to do with the school Christmas concert, I think loads of 6th years did crap in their C. tests last year cos they were off writing and rehearsing dramas or songs.

Aisling(",)

eeep
im in the middle of mine now so far ive had three test
Irish:history topics,leamthuiscint,an trial and a poetry question im quite confident about this one
Chemistry:spent a whole week just studying it,at least 16 hours but i definietly failed it.couldnt even answer one full question:(
Englsih:we had two hours to do a macbeth question and a comparitive question.got my macbeth done and was happy with it but was only on the 3rd paragraph of my comparitive.

french tomorow ewww

challengemaster

Mine started friday. Oh the fun. Over on wednesday.. >_<

bythewoods

Mine are starting tomorrow actually.. I think.
I don't know what I have though. Forgot to bring home my timetable and didn't go in today.
I'm a disgrace

SarcasticFairy

So glad mine are over... Scary how much there actually is to learn :O

Getting results this week...eeeek! But sure, they're only Christmas exams!!

Fad

Mine start this day 2 weeks, Xmas Oral for French tomorrow :S

Hate french!

Paradoxaholic

Mine started today. Oh the joy! It was english, and oh boy.. good luck to the poor teacher who tries to read my writing. The last page was rushed.. (Poetry) and i didnt even get to finish, so i spent my last 30 secs jotting down reasons why the question wasnt done. Heh. Im also screwd for the geography exams. Thanks to inefficiency on the teacher's side of course. Economic geography just has the be the most daunting part of the course. ARgh. :eek:

Paradoxaholic

Fad wrote: »

Mine start this day 2 weeks, Xmas Oral for French tomorrow :S

Hate french!

Orals just have to be my weakest point in the subject. A million and one things begin to pop up in my head, that is NOTHING to do with the francais. C'est incroyable =/

Fad

Paradoxaholic wrote: »

Orals just have to be my weakest point in the subject. A million and one things begin to pop up in my head, that is NOTHING to do with the francais. C'est incroyable =/

French I am screwed for, Irish though, im actually looking forward to :S

bythewoods

Fad wrote: »

French I am screwed for, Irish though, im actually looking forward to :S

I actually love irish orlas too!
They're a right oul' laugh.

French ones are, unfortunately, disgusting.
The first question I was asked in my actual oral last year was about the health service. Seriously! Not even anything about my family- the freakin' health service.

Paradoxaholic

Fad wrote: »

French I am screwed for, Irish though, im actually looking forward to :S

Hm. WELL...... The looking forward to irish orals most definitely doesnt apply to me. Im pretty sure that i ll start mouthing off some french phrases instead of irish. Its happened on a few occassions =/
But, im not worried. I can safely say irish wont be counted in my leaving cert

Paradoxaholic

bythewoods wrote: »

I actually love irish orlas too!
They're a right oul' laugh.

French ones are, unfortunately, disgusting.
The first question I was asked in my actual oral last year was about the health service. Seriously! Not even anything about my family- the freakin' health service.

:O
And what did you say??

ironictoaster

Started today as well. Biology was fine but, English went tits up. Irish next.

Paradoxaholic

creggy wrote: »

Started today as well. Biology was fine but, English went tits up. Irish next.

Haha. I like expression. Why did english go wrong??
Hm, Bio is on wednesday for me and i still have a few things to go over..which i should really try and cover tonight.:o

bythewoods

Paradoxaholic wrote: »

:O
And what did you say??

I had an answer prepared, luckily, because I want to study medicine so thought I'd be asked it. She wouldn't have known that at that stage though!
I didn't even have a document...
That damn wench asked everything.. anorexia, obesity, bertie aherne's makeup expenses (Yep)... everything!

Paradoxaholic

bythewoods wrote: »

I had an answer prepared, luckily, because I want to study medicine so thought I'd be asked it. She wouldn't have known that at that stage though!
I didn't even have a document...
That damn wench asked everything.. anorexia, obesity, bertie aherne's makeup expenses (Yep)... everything!

Gosh.. EW!
That was unfortunate. =.= So what happened? You didnt get the points you needed? Well, im assuming that you are repeating. Forgive me if im wrong.

bythewoods

Paradoxaholic wrote: »

Gosh.. EW!
That was unfortunate. =.= So what happened? You didnt get the points you needed? Well, im assuming that you are repeating. Forgive me if im wrong.

That is indeed the case!
Although, judging by my massive procrastinating ways I'm not going to do better this year.
Christmas tests- tomorrow?! Just found out I've english and french. French! The bane of my existence.

Why am I here!?

phasers

God I hate my school...

"Oh girls you know that your Christmas tests start tomorrow, right?

...uh, no miss, we don't, because YOU DIDN'T TELL US
gulp

Paradoxaholic

bythewoods wrote: »

That is indeed the case!
Although, judging by my massive procrastinating ways I'm not going to do better this year.
Christmas tests- tomorrow?! Just found out I've english and french. French! The bane of my existence.

Why am I here!?

Youre here for the same reasons as im here. muahaa.. escaping glorious study. I have my biology book in front of me and if i dont get off this, im dead on wednesday.
Also, think positive! Im also applying for medicine this year, but hmmm.... Whether or not i ll get is the issue.
English, you can probably waffle. Although, that d oesnt work for me..... French.. uhm. can offer you sympathy, but im sure you ll be fine.

Stev_o

50 minute maths test today after school only 4 questions i was fairly happy about it. Then the teacher gave everyone the answers for the questions and it was just argghhhhh f*ck off

Paradoxaholic

phasers wrote: »

God I hate my school...

"Oh girls you know that your Christmas tests start tomorrow, right?

...uh, no miss, we don't, because YOU DIDN'T TELL US
gulp

Haha. well, i can say youre not the only one that happened to. We didnt get out timetable until LAST WEEK!.. and, we only got the list of possible questions on our geo test, TODAY! and the test is TOMMOROW morning! The joys! Im alreadyy resigned to my fate.

Paradoxaholic

Stev_o wrote: »

50 minute maths test today after school only 4 questions i was fairly happy about it. Then the teacher gave everyone the answers for the questions and it was just argghhhhh f*ck off

I dont get it?

Stev_o

Paradoxaholic wrote: »

I dont get it?

Cause i hate seeing whether i was right or wrong right after a test it really really gets to me mental and puts a downer on my day it was really the last thing i needed to see and then i get worried whether i failed or past so yeah =/ i just threw it in the bin once i got near one.

Got a short german test in the morning aswell as Irish listening and a geography test on rivers...oh the joy of it all.

Paradoxaholic

Stev_o wrote: »

Cause i hate seeing whether i was right or wrong right after a test it really really gets to me mental and puts a downer on my day it was really the last thing i needed to see and then i get worried whether i failed or past so yeah =/ i just threw it in the bin once i got near one.

Got a short german test in the morning aswell as Irish listening and a geography test on rivers...oh the joy of it all.

Oh, yeah i know the feeling of that. And i would have done the same too. Short german test? Good luck in that. Test on rivers? Someone is lucky..Geo test tommorow.. and im SCREWED! all physical and economic. I guess its going to be exam style questions but im hoping that the things ive studied comes up... or else.... EEK.:eek::eek::eek:

ironictoaster

Paradoxaholic wrote: »

Haha. I like expression. Why did english go wrong??
Hm, Bio is on wednesday for me and i still have a few things to go over..which i should really try and cover tonight.:o

Ah questions on the comprehension wore very fugly.