Official Pre/Mocks Leaving Cert Results thread 2009

Reilly616

Post your results here, preferably in points form, based on the LC points system.

Possibly compare this to your x-mas results, and also to what you hope to get in the real thing.

Motorbreath

Only gotten Bio back so far, A1 so I guess that's a good start.

Then again it was that piss easy Examcraft Paper so I can't say I worked hard to achieve it. Hoping to get an A1 in the real thing

Imallin9989

Motorbreath wrote: »

Only gotten Bio back so far, A1 so I guess that's a good start.

Then again it was that piss easy Examcraft Paper so I can't say I worked hard to achieve it. Hoping to get an A1 in the real thing

:eek::eek::eek:
Theres somethng fishy about getting an A1 in biology, a course which you would not have even finished.. Did you know what was coming up?:cool::cool:

Fad

Imallin9989 wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek:
Theres somethng fishy about getting an A1 in biology, a course which you would not have even finished.. Did you know what was coming up?:cool::cool:

You dont have to do the entire course............

There is, you know, choice on the paper:pac:

gotabi

i have finished it too, weeks ago

ohthebaby

A nice round 80% in chemistry!

Woo 85 points to far! Down a bit from christmas but you know, things can only go up!

Hopefully!

Piste

"official", eh? :pac:

I have gotten enough for a full Leaving Cert back, that's to say 6 subjects. I'd have gotten 500 points overall which isn't nearly enough! Still have to get back Irish and German though, and add on my music practical marks which will hopefully pull me up a bit!

I only got 80% in the examcraft mock paper, but apprently the corrector wasn't even a biology teacher, just a corrector who was given a marking scheme and told to mark from that, as there are several answers on my paper that are blatantly right but either marked as wrong or not marked at all =/

SarcasticFairy

So far I've only got two back, English and Biology.
I got a B2 in English, an exam I was expecting an A2 in, but appparetnly they were marked quite hard, so she's going to go through them.
And I got a B1 in Biology, the DEB paper. I need an A1 in the real thing, but I'm quite pleased with that.
Supposed to be getting Irish back tomorrow. She can keep it tbh.

Reilly616

I think everyone should include levels too.

Pigwidgeon

i've gotten 3 back so far

maths (o) 80% - happy with that, should easily be able to bring that up to an A for the real thing
geography (h) 50% - not including the fieldwork, and the highest in the class was 65% so i don't mind too much.
irish (h) 38%, that is without the oral though, am really annoyed about it, failed paper 2 miserably, need to get my as$ in gear for it now for june

timmywex

All higher level.

French - 67%
DCG - 88%
Applied Maths - 80%
Irish - 48%

Little disappointed with french but going grand otherwise, couldnt give a damm about irish!

~Candy~

got 2 back so far..

maths(H)...48 % i am really depressed o_o didn't think i was that bad =( ? i must have been that bad..omg i couldn't get over it...:(

business(H) 77% ahh, they marked it really hard, i was hoping for an 80 at least....will see what the teacher says tomorrow..

i am gonna get french english home ec and possiblely app maths back tomorrow...oh and possibly accounting ...

Des23

All HL, all Examcraft

Maths P1: 89.33% (1 more mark out of 300 would have rounded me up to an A1!). Alas, my P2 did not go as well as the first one so if I could hold on for the B1 I'd be delighted.

Physics: 83% content with it I suppose, I'd be hoping for an A1 come June, but the paper really didn't appeal to me for some reason. I didn't have any choice etc.

Chemistry: 87% again pretty happy, I'd be hoping for an A1 in the summer I think.

Unfortunatley I got my three best subjects back first....it's all downhill from here!

Reilly616

HL Accounting; 86%

2nd highest in class, highest was 89%. I'm up from a bad test of 76% at X-mas. With a bit of work I should get the A1 for leaving. Very happy with it, especially considering I only studied the night before each exam in the pres.

SarcasticFairy

Got my Irish (HL) back, and including everything (Aural and oral) I got 65%, which I'm more than pleased with as I was expecting about 45%. However, my teacher said that my oral will be much better (in a couple of weeks? Eeek!) and the leamhthuiscints and aiste were marked particularly hard. I don't care, I'm just happy to pass!

My maths teacher has had our papers 5 weeks now. There are only 6 of us in the class, and she just keeps telling us she's not finished with them yet. I reckon she ate them, tbh.

DmanDmythDledge

Des23 wrote: »

All HL, all Examcraft

Maths P1: 89.33% (1 more mark out of 300 would have rounded me up to an A1!). Alas, my P2 did not go as well as the first one so if I could hold on for the B1 I'd be delighted.

You don't get rounded up in the LC. If you get 89.999999% that's still considered an A2.

JSK 252

English 84% B1 Bizarrely ended up with the same mark in both papers

Gaeilge 84% B1 Content. Want an A2 in June

Maths 60% C2 Content considering the paper overall was an absolute disgrace
in terms of what they demanded per 25 minutes of each
question. Had to skip bits because questions were too long.

French 87% A2 Again content. Im hoping for this grade in June.

Chemistry 83% B1 Made stupid idiotic mistakes which are uncharacteristic. For
example I typed the wrong figures into my calculator when I wrote them down correct on the page. I should get an A1 in June.

Biology 84% B1 Anybody notice that 14 (c) of the DEB paper should not be examined as students do different

enzyme experiments. The marking scheme was very specific in its answers for this question assuming that you did use a catalase enzyme. I thought the questions were examining it as though you knew a superificial treatment of catalase. We used amylase and Id say most of ye would have used it aswell for doing the temp, ph and denaturation experiments.

So I automatically lost 20 marks ( 5% ) which really I should have gained if an enzyme of your choice was asked.

Geography 86 1/2 % My teacher submitted in the

biome question on the negatives and POSITIVES.

ahaha I heard that this caught out a lot of ye. I got 80/80 for it. Some of the short answer questions were diabolical. How do you measure the gradient of a slope. wtf?

EDIT: For God's sake, PLEASE use spoilers when reffering to specific questions, it's really not that difficult!- Piste

Motorbreath

Got a few more back:

English DEB (H) - B2 : Was marked pretty hard and didn't finish PII :pac:
History Examcraft (H) - C3 : Again marked very harshly but still not too disappointed considering I didn't do the last essay.

Hoping to bump both up to an A in June. Keeping those fingers crossed..

SarcasticFairy

DmanDmythDledge wrote: »

You don't get rounded up in the LC. If you get 89.999999% that's still considered an A2.

Seriously? I didn't know this

Des23

DmanDmythDledge wrote: »

You don't get rounded up in the LC. If you get 89.999999% that's still considered an A2.

Honestly didn't know that, doesn't make much sense tbh.

Reilly616

If you got 89% in the LC then the examiner would most likely give you an arbitrary extra mark of "neatness" or whateder. They do round up, they just do it by finding an extra mark.

Reilly616

JSK 252 wrote: »

English 84% B1 Bizarrely ended up with the same mark in both papers

Gaeilge 84% B1 Content. Want an A2 in June

Maths 60% C2 Content considering the paper overall was an absolute disgrace
in terms of what they demanded per 25 minutes of each
question. Had to skip bits because questions were too long.

French 87% A2 Again content. Im hoping for this grade in June.

Chemistry 83% B1 Made stupid idiotic mistakes which are uncharacteristic. For
example I typed the wrong figures into my calculator when I wrote them down correct on the page. I should get an A1 in June.

Biology 84% B1 Anybody notice that 14 (c) of the DEB paper should not be examined as students do different enzyme experiments. The marking scheme was very specific in its answers for this question assuming that you did use a catalase enzyme. I thought the questions were examining it as though you knew a superificial treatment of catalase. We used amylase and Id say most of ye would have used it aswell for doing the temp, ph and denaturation experiments. So I automatically lost 20 marks ( 5% ) which really I should have gained if an enzyme of your choice was asked.

Geography 86 1/2 % My teacher submitted in the biome question on the negatives and POSITIVES. ahaha I heard that this caught out a lot of ye. I got 80/80 for it. Some of the short answer questions were diabolical. How do you measure the gradient of a slope. wtf?

What levels are these?

Des23

Reilly616 wrote: »

What levels are these?

Yeah, if all HL congrats thats excellent. Especially doing so well in such a broad range of subjects.

Also the standard of correcting on my chemistry paper was poor I went up about 7%.

One girl in my years OL maths went from 62% to 95%, now thats bad marking!:eek:

JSK 252

Des23 wrote: »

Yeah, if all HL congrats thats excellent. Especially doing so well in such a broad range of subjects.

Also the standard of correcting on my chemistry paper was poor I went up about 7%.

One girl in my years OL maths went from 62% to 95%, now thats bad marking!:eek:

Oh yah they are all higher level.:pac:

Im all rounder as they would say!

Thanks.

DmanDmythDledge

Reilly616 wrote: »

If you got 89% in the LC then the examiner would most likely give you an arbitrary extra mark of "neatness" or whateder. They do round up, they just do it by finding an extra mark.

It's happened to loads of people I know. One guy got 84.25% and 89.75%. Someone else was 1 mark away from an A1 in their Physics paper last year. It's fairly common.

celtic723

Chemistry (h) 58
Physics (h) 58
Biology (h) 73
Maths (o) 75
Irish (h) didnt get it back yet
French (h) 77
English (h) P1: 67 P2: didnt get it back yet

Reilly616

DmanDmythDledge wrote: »

It's happened to loads of people I know. One guy got 84.25% and 89.75%. Someone else was 1 mark away from an A1 in their Physics paper last year. It's fairly common.

And many others get rounded up. The markers are your friends. They want you to do well

Fringe

I've only gotten two so far since we only finished today.

Maths(H - DEB) - 97%. Really happy with this. Paper 2 got me down since I made loads of mistakes and it got really messy. I was really surprised with my Paper 2 result when I got it.

Chemistry(H - DEB) - 94%. Really happy with this too. This paper was really hard and I'm satisfied with what I got. There were some really tough questions thrown all over the place.

I should get an A1 in Biology too. It was very easy. My teacher made her own one though from past mock papers.

~Candy~

errr one more to go...haven't got applied maths back yet..
not even sure if i want it ...:rolleyes: don't even have an ag ec pres..



English 75% (o) 40 pts
French 53% (H) 55 pts
Maths 48 % (h) 50pts :(:(
Home ec 88% (h) 90pts
business 77 % (h) 80 pts :(
Accounting 84% 85 pts


only 400
i mean ok, i didn't work hard...was way too busy with my love life :oi should be better in the real thing..otherwise i am screwed..i am getting none of my options with this pt

QueenOfLeon

Fringe wrote: »

I've only gotten two so far since we only finished today.

Maths(H - DEB) - 97%. Really happy with this. Paper 2 got me down since I made loads of mistakes and it got really messy. I was really surprised with my Paper 2 result when I got it.

Chemistry(H - DEB) - 94%. Really happy with this too. This paper was really hard and I'm satisfied with what I got. There were some really tough questions thrown all over the place.

I should get an A1 in Biology too. It was very easy. My teacher made her own one though from past mock papers.

Wooooaaahhh....97 in HL maths?? and paper 2 brought you down?? Wow well done, i think id be happy with half that for the mocks!! So if your only finished today, how long did it take those first 2 to come back?

Daemos

Anne-Marie!! wrote: »

Wooooaaahhh....97 in HL maths?? and paper 2 brought you down?? Wow well done, i think id be happy with half that for the mocks!! So if your only finished today, how long did it take those first 2 to come back?

You bet me to it. Jesus Christ, 97%, that's incredible. I'm usually fairly good at Maths, but I'd be happy weith a pass for what I did in the mocks.

Bloody hell, congrats, I mean it.

K4t

Mock results don't matter that much imo. You don't want to peak too early.

Lucet

Only biology came in today. Got 63% (HL, DEB). I'm quite happy about this, thou I'm hoping for at least a B1 in a real exam.

JSK 252

I got maths bumped a percent to 61 because of a marking error.

I got biology marked up a percent to 85 and got the A2 because of a marking error.

My teacher gave me 85 instead of 84 in english just for the hell of it and the fact that it was bizarre to end up with the same mark in both papers.

So finally:

English 85 A2
Irish 84 B1
Maths 61 C2
French 87 A2
Chemistry 83 B1
Biology 85 A2
Geography 86 and 1/2 A2

xOxSinéadxOx

^ you're doing really well, I've only got a few back but I'm not doing too good

JSK 252

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

^ you're doing really well, I've only got a few back but I'm not doing too good

Its 530 which I must give myself a pat on the back for. I was slightly dissapoited that I didnt get at least 1 A1. I have to realise that there is a good 3 months left. Thats still a long time in the grand scale of things.

Pharmacy was 555* in UCC last year so Im aiming for 565. I will hopefully get it. My dream would be 580.

xOxSinéadxOx

well you seem well capable of getting it, hope it works out for you!

bythewoods

JSK 252, you're doing so so well.
In my mocks last year I got 535, got a little complacent, and only went up 15 points.

Say no to complacency! It's an easy trap to fall into tbh.

I have't got any of my results back yet, only finished on Tuesday and haven't been in since...
Hopefully I did alright! Really want them back, but I assume it'll be ages yet.

irishmonkey

English (H) C1 - 70
Irish (O) A2 - 50
Maths (O) C1 - 30
French (H) D2 - 50 <1 mark off a D1!!> :mad:
Biology (H) D2 - 50
Music (H) C1 - 70
Home Ec (H) B3 - 75

Total : 365

I'm short about 90-100 points.

Should have gotten
A's in H. Ec and Music,
High B in Eng, and Maths, Irish
And high C's in French and Bio

Lucet

Higher level business - 53%. Best result in class, but I'm really unhappy about this .

JSK 252

bythewoods wrote: »

JSK 252, you're doing so so well.
In my mocks last year I got 535, got a little complacent, and only went up 15 points.

Say no to complacency! It's an easy trap to fall into tbh.

I have't got any of my results back yet, only finished on Tuesday and haven't been in since...
Hopefully I did alright! Really want them back, but I assume it'll be ages yet.

Thanks.

Are you repeating your leaving cert? If so, with the goal of getting what second time?

SarcasticFairy

Geography - 95%.
I fell down on the short questions. Who does that? Gets everything else right, but completely fecks up the easy bit!

Des23

SarcasticFairy wrote: »

Geography - 95%.
I fell down on the short questions. Who does that? Gets everything else right, but completely fecks up the easy bit!

I'm the same with maths, I spend too much time studying the difficult part c questions, in my pre I lost almost all my marks in either the part a or b. Its my own fault, I just get an idea in my head when I'm studying that if i can do the hard stuff then the relatively easier stuff should just take care of itself, which unfortunatley is not the case!:mad:

p.s. I am aware it's way too early to be on the internet, but I'm not a wierdo I swear! I was fasting all yesterday and I got up to have breakfast...MMMMMMMMM pancakes!!:D

-Aviron-

Maths HL 91%
English HL 90%
Irish HL 88%
French HL 86%
Physics HL 94%
Biology HL 94%
Accounting HL 99%

No way in hell I'll manage anything like that in June though..

Calum196

Just have a few bits got back so far...

Ag. Science - 96%
German Oral - 83% my written paper was an abomanation though !.

I got 525 at christmas, hopefully I got about the same at the pre's, I need about 570 though.

bythewoods

JSK 252 wrote: »

Thanks.

Are you repeating your leaving cert? If so, with the goal of getting what second time?

I'm aiming for at least 580. I'd like higher, but meh.
I'm being too complacent. Again.
Bah!

meathawk

Maths 65%
French 60%
Classics 60%
Geography 65%
Irish 88%
English 70%
Physics 51% :S

overall I am happy enough I suppose .....I thought physics would be a lot better however but some people failed and many got lower Ds

K4t

Lucet wrote: »

Higher level business - 53%. Best result in class, but I'm really unhappy about this .

:eek: Did you do the DEB paper because I'm doing that one on wednesday and your post isn't instilling confidence in me!

Lucet

K4t wrote: »

:eek: Did you do the DEB paper because I'm doing that one on wednesday and your post isn't instilling confidence in me!

Yeah, DEB . The paper was quite ok, but I still didn't find wtf does

charismatic management style

mean, because it's not in our book. So, I just had to use common sense...

K4t

Lucet wrote: »

Yeah, DEB . The paper was quite ok, but I still didn't find wtf does

charismatic management style

mean, because it's not in our book. So, I just had to use common sense...

It's in our book - ability to inspire enthuasiasm among employees blah blah blah - comes under autocratic style of leadership.

Was it marked hard?

Lucet

K4t wrote: »

It's in our book - ability to inspire enthuasiasm among employees blah blah blah - comes under autocratic style of leadership.

Was it marked hard?

I wrote quite similarly to this, but I got, just four marks for this.
IMO it was marked quite hard. I thought I was quite ready for business... Still, three more months, I'm willing for at least 75%.