Worst sections of courses

Aisling(",)

So what topics are making you want to scream,throw your book out the window burn it and then jump on the ashes?

History: Parnell and anything to do with that evil irritating fecker!
Irish:leamthuiscints.
French: opinion pieces
English:Adreienne rich.theres a special place in hell reserved for people that irritating.
Biology:respiration and photosynthasis.most confusing parts
Chemistry:any sort of equation throws me miles off

so what about you?

Fad

Irish:Paper 2 in general
French:All
English:Comparative (for me anyway)

Not much else really.

Back Prince

Maths: differation how gay is this section like wtf
English: Adrienne Rich wat a boring person keats ftw
Irish: higher level in general espeshially(english shockin:D) the listening
Biology: none love it
Geo: F__ckin regional geography
German: everything shockin teacher
Buisness: another shockin one learn more history than business in that class

So im feiced in 3 subjects o joy

phasers

Maths:ALGEBRA. Am I the only person in the world that can do everything on the HL Maths course except Algebra? My teacher is completely mystified by it.
French: The question 1s. I hate them I hate them!
Irish: Everything
Biology: Plant biology
English: Poetry in general, it's easy but just so boring.

Aisling(",)

phasers wrote: »

Maths:ALGEBRA. Am I the only person in the world that can do everything on the HL Maths course except Algebra? My teacher is completely mystified by it.
French: The question 1s. I hate them I hate them!
Irish: Everything
Biology: Plant biology
English: Poetry in general, it's easy but just so boring.

whats question one in french?
i really should learn the layout by now

SarcasticFairy

Hmmmm....

Maths: Anything to do with having to draw stuff/angles, circle/line/trig/geometry, that sort of stuff...

Irish: All the poetry!

French: Opinions!

Biology: Photosynthesis, plant stuff in general.

They're the main ones anyway!

timmywex

Adrienne rich, despise the woman:( No notes and all her poems couldnt be stright forward, theres always other meanings!

Maths: Geometry, absolutely hate it, it's too boring.

English: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, the worst book I've ever read.

Irish: All of it.

Physics: Hate anything to do with electricity, find it too boring.

Chemistry: Titrations and Tests for Anions.

Geography: Regional Geography.

DCG: I like pretty much all of it, so far anyway.

App. Maths: Can't say I hate any of the course to be honest!

And thats about it!

SarcasticFairy

phasers wrote: »

Maths:ALGEBRA. Am I the only person in the world that can do everything on the HL Maths course except Algebra? My teacher is completely mystified by it.

I'm a bit confused too really... surely to be able to do the rest of the HL maths course you need a good standard of algebra, to an extent anyway?!

I seem to the opposite to most people! I like regional geography! Most of my regions are similar anyway so I can just learn a couple of headings and then adjust the examples to fit whatever region! Don't particularly like physical though...

phasers

SarcasticFairy wrote: »

I'm a bit confused too really... surely to be able to do the rest of the HL maths course you need a good standard of algebra, to an extent anyway?!

That's what my teacher always says too, but I just can't do algebra... Always fail algebra tests but get Bs in everything else

lilmissprincess

History: Parnell. That whole book basically.
Economics: Costs. Markets. That whole half of the course really. Like oh my god how boring.
Music: Seachanges. And melody writing.
Irish: Has to be Stair. Its just tedious.
English: Comprehensions.
French: Q 1 on Production Ecrit.
Maths: Circle.

SarcasticFairy

phasers wrote: »

That's what my teacher always says too, but I just can't do algebra... Always fail algebra tests but get Bs in everything else

Well I suppose you'll be fine in the real thing then, you can just leave out the two algebra questions, and fly through the rest!

Oh I just remembered that I don't like management/leadership in business. Sooo long! It's not even that it's hard, I just remember it going on forever and ever!

~Candy~

err..

French, all...
Applied , all..i can't understand it

Maths, straight lines and transformations, and algebra( sometimes)
business, community development, and the EU section
accounting, THAT type of cash budget!!! and control a/c( we are doing them now and they are really confusing)

an_upstart

Maths- trigonometry is like being in the Bermuda triangle - lost and suicidal

English- comparative essay

History- anything in between the Big Bang and 2008

Biology- the Scientific Method... seriously??

Art- Bronze & Iron Age..?

German- hmm...

Chemistry- if I hear anything remotely related to organic chem my head will explode:)

Stev_o

For some reason i just hate the Irish part on the course its just beyond boring to me and doesnt interest me like European and American history for some reason its just all really flawed and i mean really flawed logic with ridiculously stupid ideas!

Piste

Maths: The binomial theorem and those things with lots of n!s in them. It's pretty sneaky, using ! to try and make maths seem more exciting.

English: I really like English, but I guess my least favourite section would be paper one as you can't really prepare it before hand so it really comes down to the day of the exam.

Irish: Some of the poetry is a bit dire, you can tell they were just trying to find any Irish poetry when they stuck it on. We haven't done dírbheathaithneas (or however it's spelled) yet but I suspect I wont like it.

Biology: Anything to do with ecology, dear god, how boring.

Chemistry: Not so keen on the first part of the course, all the atomic theory stuff is a bit boring, as is thermochemistry.

Music: I hate composing. Harmony is alright, but melody writing is soooo bad.

French: The worst for me would have to be the oral and the aural, I tend to confuse myself a lot when I speak.

German: Some of the written can be a bit dodgy as my grammar and spelling does be all over the shop.

JSK 252

Piste wrote: »

Maths: The binomial theorem and those things with lots of n!s in them. It's pretty sneaky, using ! to try and make maths seem more exciting.

English: I really like English, but I guess my least favourite section would be paper one as you can't really prepare it before hand so it really comes down to the day of the exam.

Irish: Some of the poetry is a bit dire, you can tell they were just trying to find any Irish poetry when they stuck it on. We haven't done dírbheathaithneas (or however it's spelled) yet but I suspect I wont like it.

Biology: Anything to do with ecology, dear god, how boring.

Chemistry: Not so keen on the first part of the course, all the atomic theory stuff is a bit boring, as is thermochemistry.

Music: I hate composing. Harmony is alright, but melody writing is soooo bad.

French: The worst for me would have to be the oral and the aural, I tend to confuse myself a lot when I speak.

German: Some of the written can be a bit dodgy as my grammar and spelling does be all over the shop.

I thought from my memory you were doing the drama An Triail in Irish. Im doing the direbeathaisneas A thig na Thit Orm.

You dont like Hess's law? I love the feeling of just crossing the compounds out!:)

Piste

Yeah the equations are easy enough to do, it's just a bit boring! Do we not have to study the history of some Irish writers aside from stái litríocht na Gaeilge? If not, happy days!

andyman

Maths: Differentiation by parts. The only part of the Maths course that I've come across so far that I've no cluer what to do.
English: Poetry in general. Only poet I'm able to write a book about is Derek Mahon. The rest them are just, ugh!
Irish: Scothscéalta. I absolutely hate them. I hate them, I hate them, I hate them! Why couldn't we do A Thig Ná Tit Orm or An Triail??
German: Those bloody dialogues! I do OL and they're very very complicated!
Geography: Nothing really, drawing out the outlines of the countries probably. I really don't see the point in doing that whatsoever.
Chemistry: Atomic Theory. So bloody boring.
Accounting: Interpretation of Accounts. Too many formulas to learn off and those reports are chores as well.

ironictoaster

English: Poetry - Really get confused by it all..
Maths: Algebra - I can never do it.
French: Nothing, love it ^_^
Biology: Plant reproduction - biggest load of **** ever.
Geography: Physical - Extremely boring.
History: Parnell & Co. - Very tedious
Irish: All of it >_<

Davidius

Maths - There can't be a worst section is maths, it's too good.
Irish - Everything
English - Poetry, I just don't get it. Why can't they just say what they mean.
French - Oral/Listening
Physics - Mirrors, easy but boring.
Chemistry - Is all equally interesting, there's no worst section.
History - I like all of it.
Applied Maths - See maths.

PurpleFistMixer

To the people saying they hate Adrienne Rich... for all her weirdly militant lesbian feminist ways, she's really easy to talk about because there's so much in her poetry... They're just all about society. Commence intelligent-sounding waffle.

Piste - yes, melody writing is SATAN. It's basically what's putting me off doing grade 8 music theory... you have to write some hideous, hideous things. Harmony is like a fun puzzle, though.

I always hated probability in maths. Okay, it wasn't too hard, but it was just so messy. The less English in my maths problem, the better, thank you.

Oh, and the bit on the French paper where you have to write something in English. What a ridiculous and often stupid question. Sometimes laughably easy, sometimes essentially unanswerable.

Piste

Oh yeah, those question 5s are always a bitch!

K4t

Ordinary Irish - Words fail me when it comes to describing how shockingly bad this course is.

I actually cannot wait to put a lighter to my irish book after the LC.

An absolute disgrace of a subject.

Gloom

Art: Still life! I'm never in the mood to draw stiff life (I love life drawing) It's so boring.
Biology: MRNA and crap. I've gotten a lot better at crosses, just the whole protein synthesis bit.
Business: Just the vast amount needed to know.
History: 1921-1948! BORING STUFF. Dev sucks :pac:
Maths: Probability = lame.
English: I love english but my least favourite part is probably um the poetry question. My interpretations are usually weird or "out there". There has been many a time where I'd give my opinion on a line in class and everyone would be like ":eek: Did he just say that?"
Irish (last year when I did it): Tape! I have no attention span!
French: Same as irish. HATE THE TAPE SO MUCH.

cautioner

Maths - Differentiation is not my friend. Also, infuriatingly, the part c's of algebra almost constantly stump me.

Irish - I love speaking Irish but hate the class. Oh jesus the filiocht... When we first read Gealt? in class I couldn't believe it. Oooh, it's about prejudice and junk, oh go f*ck yourself.

Biology - Plants bore me.

Chemistry - Organic Chem confused the hell out of me at first, but with the help of grinds it's slowly beginning to click. Also, Bohr's spectra ****e.

French - I am so screwed for the oral. I used to be a right little francophone but somehow 4 successive Gaeltacht courses over the years have nudged all the french out of my head. I still quite often slip in the odd focal when I try and speak french.

Music - Melodies are the thorn in my side. According to my teacher, most people only get the hang of it around April or May though.

English - I'm on top of most things but I frequently write absolute drivel for the short story/essay. I'll never understand how people can write a well structured, interesting story pretty much off the top of their heads in an exam... bleh.

Dante

MOST DEFINATLY SEA CHANGES IN MUSIC...WORST THING IVE EVER SEEN/HEARD ON A SUBJECT COURSE!

KnockHoops

i failed my three opinion pieces in french in the christmas exams

Jay P

Geography: The part on migration. Bleugh.

Physics: I don't like electricity that much, but that's just cos I don't get it. PArticle physics though, I can't wait for that!

Irish: I don't like any of it

English: Love it all! Except Rich actually. Bleugh.

French: Oral.

Maths: What's not to love?! There's no better feeling than getting out an exam question!

Applied Maths: It's kinda hard. Nothing I don't like though.

Music: Harmonies.

Dubs

maths: coordinate geometry... cannot stand the stuff

Irish: listenning

English: MacBeth... i dont mind the story in general but i hate the language

Biology: lurve it

Geography: regional is a bit of a pain, but its all easy enough

Physics: electricity and lenses/mirrors are just so boring

French: dont mind it that much any more... it isnt too hard once you learn off the verbs

Chemistry: i have a deep hatred for Le Chatalier now

Fringe

Maths - The Circle: I actually hate this section so much. It's so stupid.
Also hate probability. Just don't like it and the worst is when they throw some really dodgy question at you.

Chemistry - Water: This is a really stupid section as well. Doesn't deal with the chemistry of water at all and just focuses on treating water and sewage.

Applied Maths - Relative Velocity: Just don't get it. It's too confusing trying to imagine.

Biology - Don't mind Ecology since it's so easy. You have to do so little study for it. I hate unit 3 though. It's just learning so many random processes and bores me so much.

mardybumbum

Fringe wrote: »

It's just learning so many random processes and bores me so much.

Theres nothing random about the human body boi! :cool:

p1akuw47h5r3it

Aisling(",) wrote: »

So what topics are making you want to scream,throw your book out the window burn it and then jump on the ashes?

History: Parnell and anything to do with that evil irritating fecker!
Irish:leamthuiscints.
French: opinion pieces
English:Adreienne rich.theres a special place in hell reserved for people that irritating.
Biology:respiration and photosynthasis.most confusing parts
Chemistry:any sort of equation throws me miles off

so what about you?

Irish- Everything bar the oral, so many tenses, so many rules... The pros and poetry are especially bad

Biology- Think resperation and photosynthesis are the easiest parts!! Prob be all the stuff about glands and that kind of thing but apart from that nothing!!

French- Do pass so it's piss easy

Maths- Triganometry, jus not goin to do it

English- poetry, love ppr 1 tho

Economics- where to begin... it's pretty easy jus extreeeeeemely BORING

LCVP- Same as Economics, but work exp. was worst part (don't ask)

Bus.- don't know cause didn't listen to a thing!!

Fad

Alden Rhythmic Plan wrote: »

Irish- Everything bar the oral, so many tenses, so many rules... The pros and poetry are especially bad

While the literature section is sooooo vast, I love bullshítting on about poems in exams..............no idea why.

p1akuw47h5r3it

Fad wrote: »

While the literature section is sooooo vast, I love bullshítting on about poems in exams..............no idea why.

Yeah you can jus learn off answers... I jus find it so boring and painful... and theres so many poems aswell

Know what your sayin tho

Fad

Alden Rhythmic Plan wrote: »

Yeah you can jus learn off answers... I jus find it so boring and painful... and theres so many poems aswell

Know what your sayin tho

I have never/will never learn off a poetry answer.........

Theres not THAT many we have 12, 6 Pass, 6 Dánta Duailgise Breise. You're meant to do 36 in English.

I didnt like any of them last year, but I dont really mind the poems this year.

I mean theres poems like An Mhathair which lack all concepts of coherency.

That said on the Irish course the worst is An Bhean Óg, NOTHING happen whatsoever in that story. (Still managed to get a 2 page essay out of it though )

carlmango11

Maths: Logs, Further Calculus (Maclaurin Series WTF)
Irish: ...absolutely everything
Music: The theory
English: Essay
Accounting: Any question with alot of theory, Published Accounts, Company Assesment. And the lack of time in the exam
French: Doing pass, loving it Comprehensions can be quite tough though
Art: Irish history.... wtf this isnt even art!!!!
Biology: Like most of it but I missed respiration in class so its always been patchy

The Irish course seriously needs to be revised. Its so funny that its the Irish course thats so slow to change and dated :p:p Poetry from the 17th Century though, what are they thinking! They need to make it more like the French course

Mycroft H

Accounting - basically every thing - any long account, club, or tabs - ratio questions are handy tho

mikeglee

Art: Everything apart from the history. And I hate the teacher
Music: Harmonies
Geog: Regional Geog
Maths: Meh...
English: The Curious Incident of the autistic gob ****e
Chemistry: ALL OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Twinkle-star15

History: France. Normally I hate any form of racist jokes, but since this course I've made exceptions for these f*ckers.
Music: DEANE!! WHY OH WHY do we have to listen to that high pitched shíte??
English: Bishop. Just don't like her poetry. And any question that asks you to describe how someone's poetry made you feel. Wtf kind of stupid question is that?
Irish: Comprehensions
French: the document for the oral
RE: the transcendent, divine revelation in Islam/Christianity/Judaism, ethical vision of Jesus, right relationship, proofs for the existence of God, atheism... the list goes on!

Why does everyone hate the melody writing? It's basically formulas- learn the solfa, write out your cadences/ good progressions, couple of inversions here, passing notes there, a modulation, a sequence and you're done! I'm really lucky 'cause I'm not very melodic, but I have a really good teacher.

Des23

English: Comparative because its pointless, and the texts can be a pain.

Maths: Not too mush wrong with it imo, but the teaching methods should lean far more towoards understanding what you are doing, then far more people might be able to do part cs correctly rather than just staring blankly at the page because all they have learnt is how to do a particular type of question and not in what context they are using it.

Irish: I'm struggling with pass (after 14 years it must be the systems fault that I can't string a scentence together correctly, not mine:P) but I wouldnt be eligible to comment really.

Physics: Optics is easy but soul-destroyingly boring. The latter stuff with the photoelectric effect and Induction is quality though.

Chemisty: Water, if I wanted to memorise lists I would have done biology.

German: Angewantte Grammatik. How many different meanings can 'die' have?!

DCG: ugh, the project. I love technical drawing, but you seem to spend three quarters of the time avaidable learning solidworks, sketching etc. then you have to turn round and draw. It feels like 2 subjects forced together.

Applied Maths: Linear accelerated motion, simply because its very bitty and theres a few questions where the only way to get an answer is to differentiate, which just shows how anything can be thrown at you so you really have to be on your game. On the whole though it's a lovely subject.

my 2 cents

Parsley

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

To the people saying they hate Adrienne Rich... for all her weirdly militant lesbian feminist ways, she's really easy to talk about because there's so much in her poetry... They're just all about society. Commence intelligent-sounding waffle.

Her appearance on last year's paper is probably why I got an A in English. She's SO easy to write about! You can work in so many things when you're discussing her, like how her form and experimentation develop, and about her father, and if I don't stop here I'll probably regurgitate my whole LC essay about her.. :pac:

Metamorphisis

phasers wrote: »

Maths:ALGEBRA. Am I the only person in the world that can do everything on the HL Maths course except Algebra? My teacher is completely mystified by it.

nopers! i find everything else in the exam pretty easy but my mind just locks up for those two questions! i don't know why..

aside from that:
German: roleplays! argh!!!
English: the essay (i mean the paper 1 one...)
DCG: geologic geometry
Physics: nuclear stuff... how can be something that dangerous be that boring at the same time?

Richard Cranium

English: Comprehensions.Sometimes journalists just write waffle. There is no explanation needed.

Irish: This entire course is crap. The language itself kicks tóin though, I think.

Maths: I cannot for the life of me understand proof by induction.

French: If all French people spoke with Irish accents, the tape would be grand. No problems with French really.

Accounting: The lack of time. Incomplete Records where you start with the balance sheet. The ten mark questions at the end that no one learns the answers to.

Physics: Electricity is crap.

Chemistry: History of the atom and periodic table and all that. Don't see the point of examining it.

Waaahhh

English: The Comparative section. Our teacher chose 3 crappy texts so finding it hard to get a good answer strung together.
Irish: stair.... come on!
Maths: Probability, absolutely hate it. Luckily our teacher does too so spending loads of time with other p.2 Qs
Chemistry: The Water chapter....literally SHTINK
Physics: particle physics.... bosons, masons, leptons...martians?!
History: teacher never bothered doin the french bit, had a quick look at it, she was rite!
German: Bildergeschichten.... were they drawn 30 years ago??

challengemaster

French: all

Physics: Electricity, circular motion

Chemistry: um...

Biology: plants...

Jammyc

Peig

Hands down, just peig.

K4t

Des23 wrote: »

English: Comparative because its pointless, and the texts can be a pain.

I'd say that the comparative is the most worthwhile part of the English course, and the most enjoyable. It's just a pity they don't give you enough time in the exam to write the answer.

Ordinary Irish - The whole cirriculum
Higher Irish - I'll go by what a friend of mine says. He is the best speaker of Irish in the school but he's not going to get an A because he doesn't spend hours learning off pages and pages of crap.

Ordinary Maths - = JC Higher Level Maths. Why must I sit through this class for hours every week. Why must I sit an exam in it when I did the course a few years ago. When am I ever going to use linear programming or probability again considering I have no intention of doing anything maths related in my future career. Mind boggling.

English - The essay writing - the title should be broader. It's not as if the people who get good results in it make the essay up on the day anyway. There's no way in hell that the stories that got As we are shown were thought up and written on the day of the exam in less than an hour and a half.

History, Business and English - An extra 20 minutes in each would do fine.

Irish - An hour less would do fine. I could go on another ordinary irish rant but I think everybody knows at this stage how flawed the whole thing is, except of course the SEB.

ya-ba-da-ba-doo

biology.... plants
french.... its all ****
business...... whole thing makes ye go to sleep
accounting.... final accounts & published accounts
english..... poetry
maths.... probability
irish..... everything!

sock puppet

challengemaster wrote: »

Physics: Electricity, circular motion

Funnily enough I was looking through the past papers and a lot of the time you can do almost the whole section B knowing just those two sections.


History-The American book. Not really to do with the content I just hate answering the document question.

Maths-Trigonometry. I absolutely hate this section. Though for some reason I'm okay on the part Cs. It's the as and bs that I can't get a lot of the time.

bythewoods

K4t wrote: »

English - The essay writing - the title should be broader. It's not as if the people who get good results in it make the essay up on the day anyway. There's no way in hell that the stories that got As we are shown were thought up and written on the day of the exam in less than an hour and a half.

I made my essay up on the day of the exam last year, got an A.
I also made it up on the day of the Pre this year, got an A.

Just saying. *shrugs*
Not everyone has one memorised.