Home Ec is upon the horizon..

claudtreacy

Any clue as to what's coming up?:)

Peter1016

its hard to say..it changes every year for short questions but one thing that always comes up is the evaluate this product as q1 in long q's so. Anyone else have any ideas?

Eoin MurMur

I'm ****ed :pac:

I'd love an A so much just to rub in my teachers face

Yes any predictions?

soccymonster

Why is everyone so scared?
We have 50% of the exam done.!
How much harm can ya do now?
Get A C!?

j'aime

i want an A .. havn done a tap yet tho ! :P .. got an A in my mocks .. and i had a class project and good cookin !

mantom

I think I'm OK for it. I got a C in the Mocks, which I didn't get at all. I thought I did really well but my teacher did correct it then, and she's a b***h. She's a coeliac, she has like everything wrong with her you could possible think of and she never stops talking about herself.

Overall, I hope I do good. I have to say, I made one hell of a soup and fruit salad in the cookery.

Bobalicious93

It's my last exam so I'll probably just rush through it so I can leave

kayleigh_

Bobalicious93 wrote: »

It's my last exam so I'll probably just rush through it so I can leave

Ha, same here!

I'm pretty sure I'll do grand!

Echo72

Bobalicious93 wrote: »

It's my last exam so I'll probably just rush through it so I can leave

Yeah, me too! I'm not doing it next year so I'm not too pushed. I got a cushion and cooking skills out of it. What more could you want??

soccymonster

Echo72 wrote: »

Yeah, me too! I'm not doing it next year so I'm not too pushed. I got a cushion and cooking skills out of it. What more could you want??

yea.! I'm not doing it either.. its SO boring (the theory!)
Im just gonna attempt everything (alot is common sense!) and I'll pull a C I'd say.! (: thank god 50% is done though or I'd be s**tin it..

mantom

Thought that went pretty well. It was my last exam too, so I was itching to finish it early and get the hell out of there. Finished at 3:30..:D

McPooHead

what was that symbol on Q2?

soccymonster

McPooHead wrote: »

what was that symbol on Q2?

i didn't have a clue.! i just said that it tells us that our food has been processed??
say i pulled a B.! Went well although i found the short questions quite difficult and question 1 was tiny bit offputing wit the layout of the question and the way we didn't get a recipe to evaluate.!

Namlub

Ha, I was so prepared for evaluating ingredients and then...nothing. Some of the short questions were a bit obscure and 'give 4 examples of credit purchasing' could have meant anything, doesn't matter though because I never have to do home ec again!

soccymonster

Namlub wrote: »

Ha, I was so prepared for evaluating ingredients and then...nothing. Some of the short questions were a bit obscure and 'give 4 examples of credit purchasing' could have meant anything, doesn't matter though because I never have to do home ec again!

yea what did you say for that credit question?
i said higher purchase, credit card, buying goods on credit and something else?? i just made up anything?

nowimtalking

I thought it was a good exam!
I got a B in the mocks and was hoping for the A so even tough it was the last exam i stayed until the end, wrote every last second of it!
I had something like 18 pages:S
I want to do professional cookery in Athlone so hopefully....

lorcol

What exactly came up on the paper? It is not up on examinations.ie and i would really like to know

McPooHead

lorcol wrote: »

What exactly came up on the paper? It is not up on examinations.ie and i would really like to know

the circulatory system, the regular consumer stuff, food preservation, fridges, red meat and minced meat, meat substitutes, coronary heart disease etc.

Namlub

soccymonster wrote: »

yea what did you say for that credit question?
i said higher purchase, credit card, buying goods on credit and something else?? i just made up anything?

I said a car, a house and all that, as in things you would buy on credit but yours sounds more right tbh. Such a stupid question anyway.

lorcol

Hi again, I am a Home Ec teacher and usally the State Examinations Comission put the paper up on their website 2 hours after the exam but they haven't for JC HE. Just wondering was there a letter in the consumer studies question? Also what was the textiles question like? Was question 1 the standard food label and discuss the nutritive value?

yellowbelly16

Hi
I love home ec but thought the paper was different this year. I really hope I did well.

Question 1 was meat.
Instead of nutritional value it was the composition of meat.
It asked about tenderising etc.

Question 2 this was all about food preservation/ (btw the symbol was the irradtion symbol meaning gama rays had been passed through it to deactivate any microorganinsms)

Question 3
Circulatory system
label heart
difference between veins and valves
coronary heart diesease

Question 4.
Consumer
Letter came up but gave no details with it except a mobile phone was broken I thought was very poor.
consumer rights etc

Question 5.
Technology in the home

Question 6
Was textiles was asking the properties etc for curtains/carpet I think.

Will check and post back
Hope this helps.

Hollaylay

The Short questions were very vague and I wasnt sure what they were actually looking for but I tried my best. I thought the long questions went pretty well so I think Im ok. I got 97 in the mock and did a quilt and a fairly good practical so Im hoping for a high grade

lorcol

Yellowbelly, thank you very much, it seems that it was as predicted. I hope you all did very well, thanks again