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6th Year

  • 23-07-2009 4:31pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭


    Who on here is gonna be doing the LC this year?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Fringe


    Haha, hate to be doing the LC!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,429 ✭✭✭✭star-pants


    Fringe infracted


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 676 ✭✭✭ayumi


    im doing the leaving cert dis yr 2010


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭timmywex


    Loads of people will randomly start using boards next year looking for advice anyways


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭ciano1


    Yaaay...LC 2010

    Cant wait !!:D

    :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,127 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    me too, part of me is dreading it and another part says its going to be fine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭unknown13


    I will be and not looking forward to the King Lear question.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭Ibrahimovic91


    Fringe wrote: »
    Haha, hate to be doing the LC!

    wow what a fag


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭DancingQueen:)


    I am :( and don't really know what to do after school..
    hope the year goes as slow as possible!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,429 ✭✭✭✭star-pants


    Ibrahimovic91 take a break


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,127 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    unknown13 wrote: »
    I will be and not looking forward to the King Lear question.
    Im ok with king Lear but cannot get my head around wuthering heights.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭christina_x


    I am :( and don't really know what to do after school..
    hope the year goes as slow as possible!!

    awh sure i still dont and im waiting on my results! It'l all work out one way or another!:)


  • Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Once I put the work in I should be OK anyway. 5th year report was alright with a few things to improve on, Namely Chem,Irish,English.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 925 ✭✭✭RHJ


    This post has been deleted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,429 ✭✭✭✭star-pants


    RHJ you have +1'd yourself to an infraction


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭RandomIrl


    the year flies by so fast you sit at the end of it..wondering where the time went!!
    exams etc aside 6th year is one of the best if not the best years in school!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭DancingQueen:)


    awh sure i still dont and im waiting on my results! It'l all work out one way or another!:)

    Thanks and Good Luck! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 925 ✭✭✭RHJ


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭monaghanmissus


    18ths weekend in, weekend out will keep me sane :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Jammyc


    unknown13 wrote: »
    I will be and not looking forward to the King Lear question.
    Ah I wouldnt worry about it too much. I thought that I was completely screwed for the Macbeth question this year but it was grand. I found it easier to put to good use the knowledge I had of the play rather than learn in depth analysis of it all. I learned off a feck load of quotes and knew what they meant. Used a good few of em. Just remember, dont summarise the play!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49 notnormal


    whoever's going to be doing it...ye poor craters!

    Sorry, that was scary. The exams themselves are fine, its the year in school that'll be hell. Teachers and students will cause panic. May is the worst. If you can handle stress well, the leaving's no bother


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 358 ✭✭johnfaul


    im doin it too!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Fringe


    notnormal wrote: »
    whoever's going to be doing it...ye poor craters!

    Sorry, that was scary. The exams themselves are fine, its the year in school that'll be hell. Teachers and students will cause panic. May is the worst. If you can handle stress well, the leaving's no bother

    I didn't think it was that bad. The year was a very good year with lots to do. Definitely the best year out of them all. I wouldn't worry about the entire year. May though is a very very depressing month.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭Saul-Good


    6th year was unreal, it is by far the best year you'll have. Everything changes, teachers seem better, classmates are friendlier it's class. Then it gets even better when you're finished, total sense of freedom, but I'm still discovering how unreal that is!

    To sum it all up, it's an intense year both emotionally and in terms of work but you have everything to look forward to.

    Good luck to all you guys with it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,900 ✭✭✭Eire-Dearg


    I am.

    /tear


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,127 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    Im not worried about it at all exept for maths which im having problems with.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭Fince


    Saul-Good wrote: »
    6th year was unreal, it is by far the best year you'll have. Everything changes, teachers seem better, classmates are friendlier it's class.

    Good luck to all you guys with it.

    completely agree. you realise that the teachers are actually there to HELP you, contrary to popular belief before 6th year. there can be a great sense of camaraderie between all the classmates as well.

    basically, 6th year would be the best year ever, if it wasn't for those dastardly exams at the end of it.

    also, as someone else said above, time does fly. don't put off doing anything. if ur considering doing something (study wise), have the discipline to follow through with it.

    try to decide what ur putting on ur cao as soon as possible as well. it does help to have a proper target, a real number to aim for. it'll only distract you if your still trying to decide what to put on it right up till July 1st.

    thats my two cents. good luck... bring on the 12th of august.

    remember, "procrastination is a female dog"

    last thing, one year of hard work, could save you from 47 years of mind numbing work


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,001 ✭✭✭p1akuw47h5r3it


    wow what a fag

    It was only a joke take a chill-pill mate:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭Ibrahimovic91


    sorry from one bohs fan to another :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 873 ✭✭✭Four-Percent


    sorry from one bohs fan to another :)


    Gwan bohs!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭Ibrahimovic91


    Nutsy Fenlons red black army!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭JW91


    Would everyone just chill out about the Leaving Cert.

    It's a simple exam. Genuinely. I done it this year and I found it simple. Just do a decent amount of homework. No real need to study. By a decent amount of homework I mean about an hour a night. No more than that.

    The last thing you want to do is get too stressed out about it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,109 ✭✭✭QueenOfLeon


    JW91 wrote: »
    Would everyone just chill out about the Leaving Cert.

    It's a simple exam. Genuinely. I done it this year and I found it simple. Just do a decent amount of homework. No real need to study. By a decent amount of homework I mean about an hour a night. No more than that.

    The last thing you want to do is get too stressed out about it.

    Do you realise how patronising you're starting to sound? In nearly every thread here you're talking about how easy the LC is....maybe it was to you, but do you think its helping when theres other people who are worrying about results? Seriously, good for you if you flew through it without studying and are gunna get your 500+ points, but really, tone it down a bit maybe?

    As for "no real need to study"?...uh huh. Sure, its not the toughest exam we'll ever do, but at the same time, its not simple. In order to get high points, the majority of people will have to study...and more than 1 hours homework a night, imo. Advising people to relax and avoid stress is good, but advising them not to study? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 782 ✭✭✭tootyflutty


    JW91 wrote: »
    Would everyone just chill out about the Leaving Cert.

    It's a simple exam. Genuinely. I done it this year and I found it simple. Just do a decent amount of homework. No real need to study. By a decent amount of homework I mean about an hour a night. No more than that.

    The last thing you want to do is get too stressed out about it.

    :rolleyes: don't you mean did? After doing the leaving cert. it's something you should be getting correct, no? Especially considering how easy it was for you.

    As for the rest of you 6th years to be, don't stress now, take this time to chill whilst you can. You needto rest now, it's a very tiring year ahead of you. Try and rest as much as you can, get out and get excercise, go to the cinema, do what you can, you have to seperate your study time from rest time.
    The year itself is ok, the work load can seem a bit much at first. I did have the fall apart scenario in October, thought everything was too much, but it's ok. Just keep up with it as much as you can, keep on top of your homework and that will really benefit you come the mocks.
    The exams are fine, just keep your head down and avoid the worry warts on the first few days. And before you know it the exams will be over. One year from now you will be sitting just as nervously as we are now, thinking that year flew and dreading your impending results! :(
    This is the worst bit. . .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭RandomIrl


    take this time to chill whilst you can. You needto rest now, it's a very tiring year ahead of you. Try and rest as much as you can, get out and get excercise, go to the cinema, do what you can, you have to seperate your study time from rest time.

    seriously for the last couple of weeks for the holiday REST..Im STILL catching up on sleep from 6th year.just after waking up from a 12 hour sleep..and also..insomnia and exam nightmares are plaguing most at this time so sleep doesnt come that easy either!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭Ibrahimovic91


    JW91 wrote: »
    Would everyone just chill out about the Leaving Cert.

    It's a simple exam. Genuinely. I done it this year and I found it simple. Just do a decent amount of homework. No real need to study. By a decent amount of homework I mean about an hour a night. No more than that.

    The last thing you want to do is get too stressed out about it.

    ye mate i reckon ill get 400 points easy prob more, its the leaving cert not rocket science.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭JW91


    :rolleyes: don't you mean did? After doing the leaving cert. it's something you should be getting correct, no? Especially considering how easy it was for you.

    As for the rest of you 6th years to be, don't stress now, take this time to chill whilst you can. You needto rest now, it's a very tiring year ahead of you. Try and rest as much as you can, get out and get excercise, go to the cinema, do what you can, you have to seperate your study time from rest time.
    The year itself is ok, the work load can seem a bit much at first. I did have the fall apart scenario in October, thought everything was too much, but it's ok. Just keep up with it as much as you can, keep on top of your homework and that will really benefit you come the mocks.
    The exams are fine, just keep your head down and avoid the worry warts on the first few days. And before you know it the exams will be over. One year from now you will be sitting just as nervously as we are now, thinking that year flew and dreading your impending results! :(
    This is the worst bit. . .

    Haha yeah your right. Well in fairness I wrote that after a rake of pints so if that was my only mistake then I didn't do too badly.

    Ibrahimovic91, your spot on. It's not rocket science. It's the leaving cert.

    Ok I'll try to pass on advice without making any reference to how little study should be done.

    Genuinely the most important thing is don't stress and don't worry about it at all. Once your finished your homework or whatever don't think about school or study at all. Just don't think about it at all other than the time you spend studying.

    Many people get really caught up in how much study they should be doing and how little they have done. Even if you have nothing done in 5th year you can still easily catch up.

    Another thing I'd advise you all is to do pass maths unless you are very good at maths or you need it for your college course.

    I did honours maths but I'm lucky in that I'm very good at Maths so I didn't need to put much work into it. But I know of some people in my class that did honours and they weren't great at maths and they ended up probably putting as much work into maths as they put into all the rest of their subjects combined.

    It's a course that I found to be very easy but several other people struggled with it and I think ultimately they would have been better off doing pass and concentrating on the rest of their subjects.

    If you are doing honours Irish make sure to stick with it. It requires very little work if you have a reasonable command of Irish.

    That's the best advice I can give you anyway


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