Religion

ash.c

My teacher reckons St.Paul will definatley come up. This i the year of St.Paul so she thinks it will come up in some way

daisy17

I have no idea what's gonna come up.
Our teacher always gave away what would come up for all our other exams (even the mock!) so doing this one without knowing will be different!

I used to think religion was really easy but only after my mock did I realise that you have to have really good answers to get good marks!!

partyatmygaff

Tbh, you could easily get a B in religion without studying, study for an hour and get an A. Its like CSPE except about religion. I can understand all the questions about actual religions but all that morality and community crap is basically just 20 questions asking you the exact same thing in a different way.

j'aime

is saint paul lik.. saint vincent de paul by any chance?? :P

partyatmygaff

No saint paul like formerly known as Saul.


Vincent de Paul is a whole different guy from hundreds of years after.

Hit the books

j'aime

orite we have never done him so ....... fr. partyatmygaff :P

daisy17

St Paul as in "St Paul on the road to Damascus" St Paul.

http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=91 <-- sorry random religiousy site but it says exactly who he is!

soccymonster

ash.c wrote: »

My teacher reckons St.Paul will definatley come up. This i the year of St.Paul so she thinks it will come up in some way

who the hell is St.Paul?

Namlub

We completely left out Christianity, basically the biggest and most important section in the book, and it makes no difference in the exam, that's how much of a joke subject religion is.

soccymonster

My teacher is the biggest retard going.!
She couldn't control the class & now I might just fail religion..

ILuvGreenDayOx.

soccymonster wrote: »

My teacher is the biggest retard going.!
She couldn't control the class & now I might just fail religion..

That sounds exactly like my geography teacher!

squishness

just fill all the lines down to bottom =]
if you get stuck, rephrase what you've already said
you really don't need to study that much.
maybe just your definitions and stuff?

animalcrazy

soccymonster wrote: »

My teacher is the biggest retard going.!
She couldn't control the class & now I might just fail religion..

This was what happened to me in Business, I defo failed it.

kayleigh_

Mahahaaaa, moved schools at the start of this year to a school that doesn't have Religion as an exam subject! I was delighteeeed! Have fun guys!

Nettie

Seriously, this is the most pointless subject ever.
I don't count it but the school made me do it.
I don't actualy know where my book is.
I've done well in all other subjects and don't care at all what happens tomorrow in religion.
For me, I've only one more subject, and it's science.

And I don't even find it that hard.
I got 79% in the Pre with this attitude and lack of work.
So who knows what I'll get tomorrow but whether it's an A or an F, I don't care.

Terri26

hey guys - i teach religion and correct it so can offer some advise! firstly the poster whi did not do christianity - dont worry, you only have to do two two of the first 3 (cof, christianity, world religions)

• yes, religion is a tough exam there is a lot to cover, but if something you know comes up you dont have to write a whole lot
• as with all subjects make sure you read the questions properly, keep going back to it to see if you are going off topic.
• dont be smart in your answers and give the impression you dont care - this will annoy a corrector.
• in the short questions answer more than 10 - the corrector will give you the best of 10 questions. if you dont know a tick the box question take a chance!

good luck!!!!!!!!!!!! any questions just ask wil be online for a little while

markopantelic

hahah remember this, religion for junior cert lmao.

terri why is religion thought in our educational system do ya know? funniest thing is you have to bring in a bible to the exam

partyatmygaff

markopantelic wrote: »

hahah remember this, religion for junior cert lmao.

terri why is religion thought in our educational system do ya know? funniest thing is you have to bring in a bible to the exam

Religion is a part of life, maybe not your life but alot of other peoples lives, you have to be educated on stuff in the world... so yeah

You don't have to bring a bible to the exam, that would be cheating sorta

Terri26

religion is an exam subject in lot of other countires. it is considered one of the top subjects as in difficulty wise at A level. as a subject it teaches you how to analyse - being able to step back and look at differnt thought processes in a differnt manner, how to interpt how to be philospohical. it wanst been taught properly until it became an exam subject. i find teh course very interesting and each year lean something new when i am teaching it. I especially love the morality section as it really seperates the students who do well in it. i like world religions to as it is interesting

Halla Basin

Funny how religion and science, the two great enemies in the search for truth, are on the same day.

and INORITE its so stupid how religion is in the JC it shouldn't be in there lol

Sheepy99

got 99% in the mock so hopefully will get an A today.........

ash.c

well st. paul didnt come up after it was the only thing i decided to study since "its definatley coming up" accordin to my teacher!!! grrr
shes gettn a piece of my mind when she sees me!!!

soccymonster

I didn't study anything.. opened my book and closed it during lunch and amzingly enough I looked at the page on religions (eg.)athiesm etc. and holy sweet mary, doesnt that come up in an essay question!!!..
so i just did that..:D since i didnt know the answers to the rest anyways..
Think I managed a pass..

squishness

Copuld they have asked any more about communities of faith and challenges to religious belief?
They were all the same thing

soccymonster

squishness wrote: »

Copuld they have asked any more about communities of faith and challenges to religious belief?
They were all the same thing

Yeah! challenges to religous belief? lik wtf?
Please could someone explain this? because i don't think it looked like I fully understood the Question in my answer..

mantom

squishness wrote: »

Copuld they have asked any more about communities of faith and challenges to religious belief?
They were all the same thing

Damn right! WTH is that about? Just the same questions over and over. 'Outline how Atheism challenges a person's religious belief'', ''How does Humanism challenge a person's religious belief?''

I bascally wrote the same thing for all of them. I9 did the Atheism/ Agnosticism essay. I don't get it, because nearly everyone finished at like 3-3:30. Only like 4 of us stayed there until 4, and I was like rushing it at the end. There was so much bloody writing!

soccymonster

mantom wrote: »

Damn right! WTH is that about? Just the same questions over and over. 'Outline how Atheism challenges a person's religious belief'', ''How does Humanism challenge a person's religious belief?''

I bascally wrote the same thing for all of them. I9 did the Atheism/ Agnosticism essay. I don't get it, because nearly everyone finished at like 3-3:30. Only like 4 of us stayed there until 4, and I was like rushing it at the end. There was so much bloody writing!

I was finished really early:D..
Maybe beacuse i just wrote down any s**t that came to my head..

animalcrazy

Thought it was handy enough, by challenges to belief they mean exactly that. I just bull****ed my way through it so hopefully!

Halla Basin

ash.c wrote: »

well st. paul didnt come up after it was the only thing i decided to study since "its definatley coming up" accordin to my teacher!!! grrr
shes gettn a piece of my mind when she sees me!!!

INORITE!?

donvito99

ash.c wrote: »

My teacher reckons St.Paul will definatley come up. This i the year of St.Paul so she thinks it will come up in some way

lol..what a pointless prediction

McPooHead

i thought it was great i looked through all that 'challenges to religious belief' during lunch ...
i did the sacred text essay and i think i did really well
hoping for an A

LoonyLovegood

I'm gonna kill my religion teacher. She told us not to learn the section on atheism and agnosticism, that it NEVER comes up. Lo and behold, it's worth A HUNDRED MARKS today. I'm so screwed it's not even funny. ****ing bitch.

elaine93

Religion exam aka the waffling Olympics.

I lost a ton of marks for using the word 'supposedly' in relation to miracles in the mocks. Bad idea. Learnt my lesson this time, not a hint of balance to be seen.

animalcrazy

CTYIgirl wrote: »

I'm gonna kill my religion teacher. She told us not to learn the section on atheism and agnosticism, that it NEVER comes up. Lo and behold, it's worth A HUNDRED MARKS today. I'm so screwed it's not even funny. ****ing bitch.

There was a choice so you can't kill the teacher you had loads to choose from so not her fault if you could do nothing else

LoonyLovegood

animalcrazy wrote: »

There was a choice so you can't kill the teacher you had loads to choose from so not her fault if you could do nothing else

No, her exact words were 'Learn Islam and communities of faith and you'll be fine. No, CTYIgirl, atheism and agnosticism are never asked, don't bother learning them.'

From that, and what was on the paper, I didn't really have a choice..:(

partyatmygaff

CTYIgirl wrote: »

No, her exact words were 'Learn Islam and communities of faith and you'll be fine. No, CTYIgirl, atheism and agnosticism are never asked, don't bother learning them.'

From that, and what was on the paper, I didn't really have a choice..:(

Come on like, question two about palestine at the time of jesus was easy....

Just waffle about the sanhedrin and how romans ruled the land and the jewish groups.

Waffle and a few facts make a religion answer.

The questions are basically all the f*cking same aswell, you answer a question and the next question is asking the same in MORE detail after you struggled to even get 4 lines in the first question.

soccymonster

In my class, when everyone has their test handed up then we get to leave..
so in relgion, my friend was the last one finishing up her test looking over it and everyone was making faces at her to move on so we could leave!..
so anyways she looked at the back of the paper and noticed that she didnt have the essay question done!!!!
so she wrote half a page in a rush and handed it up..
afterwards i asked her why she didnt do the essay and she said because i and everyone else were giving her evil faces..:p

guessed she missed out on 70marks!

Halla Basin

elaine93 wrote: »

Religion exam aka the waffling Olympics.

I lost a ton of marks for using the word 'supposedly' in relation to miracles in the mocks. Bad idea. Learnt my lesson this time, not a hint of balance to be seen.

Really? I don't get it, why would you lose marks for that?

elaine93

Because nuns don't like it when you say that theres a doubt as to whether Mary really did show up at lourdes.

nowimtalking

ash.c wrote: »

My teacher reckons St.Paul will definatley come up. This i the year of St.Paul so she thinks it will come up in some way

No saint Paul:S

nowimtalking

I found that the paper was easy and i answered all of the questions but i felt like all of the questions were gearing towards the one thing!

The morality section was not as it usually is and neither was the foundations of christianity!

I answered all short questions and all picture questions too so im hoping for a B anyway maybe i will scrape an A.

I had Mary in my pocket, a rosary said and a relative in lourdes praying for me so maybe god will look down on me and say i deserve it:D:cool::P

Terri26

CTYIgirl wrote: »

I'm gonna kill my religion teacher. She told us not to learn the section on atheism and agnosticism, that it NEVER comes up. Lo and behold, it's worth A HUNDRED MARKS today. I'm so screwed it's not even funny. ****ing bitch.

are you sure she did? challenges to religious belief like this comes up in some format most years.

pretty fair paper I have to say. most things I predicted came up - next years group will be my first doing teh exam but their 2nd year summer test was pretty similar to the same sections on this years paper. let's hope my prediction skills will be as good next year

skyscraperblue

elaine93 wrote: »

Religion exam aka the waffling Olympics.

I lost a ton of marks for using the word 'supposedly' in relation to miracles in the mocks. Bad idea. Learnt my lesson this time, not a hint of balance to be seen.

I know, the religion paper is so biased. I mean, if you weren't Christian, it would put you at such a disadvantage for the subject. And they ask questions in such a roundabout way too. (Or maybe that's just me... I hate the way they phrase stuff, it puts me off completely.)

LoonyLovegood

Terri26 wrote: »

are you sure she did? challenges to religious belief like this comes up in some format most years.

pretty fair paper I have to say. most things I predicted came up - next years group will be my first doing teh exam but their 2nd year summer test was pretty similar to the same sections on this years paper. let's hope my prediction skills will be as good next year

Yeah...she only went through humanism and secularism out of that whole section...and that was in the last 20 minutes of the last class. My dad's made an appointment with the principal to talk about her, it's not the first time my class has been screwed over thanks to her. I had her for first and second year French, she gave us the summer and Christmas exams every year.

Namlub

Gotta love how biased the exam is though 'Tell us why atheism is wrong because God so totally does exist'

skyscraperblue

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Come on like, question two about palestine at the time of jesus was easy....

Just waffle about the sanhedrin and how romans ruled the land and the jewish groups.

Waffle and a few facts make a religion answer.

The questions are basically all the f*cking same aswell, you answer a question and the next question is asking the same in MORE detail after you struggled to even get 4 lines in the first question.

You couldn't talk about the time of Jesus for that question...
It was Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism or Judaism...

partyatmygaff

Namlub wrote: »

Gotta love how biased the exam is though 'Tell us why atheism is wrong because God so totally does exist'

Not really, it just asks how it challenges belief.

partyatmygaff

skyscraperblue wrote: »

You couldn't talk about the time of Jesus for that question...
It was Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism or Judaism...

No it wasn't, it specifically asked for palestine during Jesus' time... Definitley like I have the paper here.

skyscraperblue

partyatmygaff wrote: »

No it wasn't, it specifically asked for palestine during Jesus' time... Definitley like I have the paper here.

Are you sure? I looked up the exam paper on the SEC website. Maybe I'm looking at a different question... are we talking about the long questions, Q3? That's the only one where Palestine at the time of Jesus could possibly fit except it doesn't have Christianity in the list. Or do you mean the parables / development of Gospels question?

partyatmygaff

Huh? You sound pretty confused man. I said Q2, palestine or any place could never fit in Q3 thats about a sacred text.

http://examinations.ie/archive/exampapers/2009/JC220ALP000EV.pdf


Long questions Q2...

skyscraperblue

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Huh? You sound pretty confused man. I said Q2, palestine or any place could never fit in Q3 thats about a sacred text.

http://examinations.ie/archive/exampapers/2009/JC220ALP000EV.pdf


Long questions Q2...

Q2:
A a. Name one parable that Jesus told his early followers.
b. Outline two points that Jesus taught his followers about the Kingdom of God in a parable you have studied.
B. a. Explain two reasons why the Gospels are described as documents of faith.
b. Outline what was involved in three different stages in the development of the Gospels.

How is this Palestine at the time of Jesus?