Hell over religion in Irish independent

D.R cowboy · 21-06-2009 11:29am #1

Finding the meaning of life in some tricky questions

There was a piece in Irish independent on the religious It quoted "It was not clear weather founding story referred to the creation of the earth or the foundation of Christianity?"

"University level philosophy" said Mr martin of ASTI

They say it will be marked easy but I don't think so

What do you all think of the religious exam??

errlloyd · 21-06-2009 11:33am

Agreed, it was hard and for no good reason.

spurious · 21-06-2009 11:34am

Once they start correcting the scripts, if there is a lot of confusion in the answers, the marking scheme will be adjusted.

Fad · 21-06-2009 11:42am

D.R cowboy wrote: »

What do you all think of the religious exam??

My ass was handed to me.

Literally couldnt answer the Xtianity section, so I did the Moral Decision Making one instead

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errlloyd · 21-06-2009 11:43am

Was anyone else disappointed that questions they could write 3 or 4 pages for were only worth 20 marks?

D.R cowboy · 21-06-2009 11:49am

Guys I wrote about animal sacrifice for Q1 on section one as a rite
Do ye think that was a good idea, no way of writing about plato i suspect

degausserxo · 21-06-2009 3:13pm

I thought section one was ridiculous in general tbh.
The only question I'm confident I did even remotely well in is religion and gender, and even then, 'well' is pushing it.

jumpguy · 21-06-2009 3:30pm

In religion you're asked to find the meaning of life? In the middle of an exam?

Fad · 21-06-2009 3:55pm

jumpguy wrote: »

In religion you're asked to find the meaning of life? In the middle of an exam?

I would honestly write, "There is none", and move on.

D.R cowboy · 21-06-2009 7:55pm

Fad wrote: »

I would honestly write, "There is none", and move on.

On a bright note i will ask how were your projects guys???

Fad · 22-06-2009 8:10am

D.R cowboy wrote: »

On a bright note i will ask how were your projects guys???

:pac:

Very well.

Feels like such a wasted effort now.

poisonated · 22-06-2009 11:56am

Hey
does it matter how much you wrote....I only wrote just over 5 pages and after having talked to other people about it,they seem to have written much more...Is it quality over quantity?:o
hopefuly...ah sure I am only aiming for a d anyway...the right questions came up and I was well able to answer them but I did not think that you had to write so much on each topic!
Thanks

also...not to sound patronising here but...the way the leaving cert works is that they aim to have a certain amount of a's b's etc...so they will adjust the marking scheme accordingly

Jeebus · 23-06-2009 7:19am

You guys ever met one of those really intense, serious religion teachers ? They come in all sorts of varieties, but they all have one thing in common.

"I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW, THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS SUBJECT AND YOU NEED TO STUDY FOR IT, OR YOU WILL GO TO HELL".

They come in RE, PE, CSPE, SPHE and LCVP varieties. Basically, if your subject has an acronym its probably a load of bollocks, but your teacher won't see it this way.

I'd say this was the kind of teacher who set the RE exam this year. A needlessly hard test, set by an examiner who lit up with glee at the thought.."I'll teach those students...and they all laughed at me when I said they would need to study during the Junior Cert! Bwahahaha....".

Anyway, sorry, I didn't sit the RE exam, but by all accounts it was quite hard. Hope you all did well !

Hell over religion in Irish independent

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