Geography results....yay or nay?

catchthepigeon

so basically im really disappointed with my geog result....got a B3 - down from an A1 in the mock. I didnt get lazy cause of the high result. I think the papers were marked either badly or hard in my school as the highest was a B2. Definetly goin to appeal

did anybody else think the paper was a marked hard reflecting their result and how they thought they did after the exam? I thought i got around a B1

leesmom

i thought i got at least an A2 ,got a B1, will view my paper and see .although my loss of 5 points there was made up elsewhere. my geog teacher told us to view them as hes found before theyve sometimes left entire qs out of the mark or even the project

Futurism

I got an A1. I don't know if I deserved it though. I would like to actually have my teacher look at the paper purely out of interest but don't want to embarrass myself as she is very happy with the result.

JSK 252

Delighted with the A1 as the exam was tougher, especially the shorts but my teacher was great as he is an advising examiner ( the guy who corrects in green ), so he knows what hes on about. He is the man!:pac:

herisson

i think they were marked weird i though i got a b but i got a c2 im going to appeal it no way i got that

holadivaldfe

i'd have to say yay!

i got an A1 and i was terrified i wouldn't!

meathawk

I thought the marking wasn't fair, many people I know who went by the book purely learning off statistics and such got B3s and B2s.I on the other hand made up statistics that looked somewhat accurate and I took examples from places I had been on holidays and somehow got an A1.I was delighted.Making stuff up and getting away with it was leaving cert geography for me.

holadivaldfe

meathawk wrote: »

I thought the marking wasn't fair, many people I know who went by the book purely learning off statistics and such got B3s and B2s.I on the other hand made up statistics that looked somewhat accurate and I took examples from places I had been on holidays and somehow got an A1.I was delighted.Making stuff up and getting away with it was leaving cert geography for me.

i have to agree with you there, a lot of what i wrote came from my general knowlegde of places and i have friend who studied a lot who have B3s and B2s. albeit the ability to rely on you're own life education in an exam is often awarded. well, thankfully it was with geography.

JSK 252

holadivaldfe wrote: »

i have to agree with you there, a lot of what i wrote came from my general knowlegde of places and i have friend who studied a lot who have B3s and B2s. albeit the ability to rely on you're own life education in an exam is often awarded. well, thankfully it was with geography.

Sure I mentioned for Egypt's tourism ( sub continental ) that a new highway is being built through the dessert from Cairo to Luxor.:)

Futurism

meathawk wrote: »

I thought the marking wasn't fair, many people I know who went by the book purely learning off statistics and such got B3s and B2s.I on the other hand made up statistics that looked somewhat accurate and I took examples from places I had been on holidays and somehow got an A1.I was delighted.Making stuff up and getting away with it was leaving cert geography for me.

I took the same approach. I was inspired by bythewoods' post in another thread about how she was going to do it. I thought, I may as well just make a lot up.

meathawk

I talked about toyota macquiladoras on the boarder of san diego and tijuana.I made a lot about the mistreatment of workers and made nearly all of it up.

manutd4life

i found geography quite hard.after the exam i expected to get a c.in the end i got a c1.

Kournikova

I got a B3 but got a B2 in the mock so kinda the same, obviously that pre submitted thing didn't help me much or my standard of geography dropped emensly.

SugoiHito

I have been an A1 geography student in 5th and 6th year and got an A1 in the mocks and revised loads for the leaving cert and i ended up with a C1...im getting it rechecked!Even though i got my points off another subject i just think that theres no way i could have dropped to a C1,since i also felt confident about my paper and didnt think it went bad at all!

Dubs

got a B1 and really not happy with it, most people in my class were not happy with theirs either

technoman

I came out of the exam crying and ended up getting an A1 I was shocked, I wrote the most amount of bull. :D:D

ironictoaster

I got a C1 quite surprised, I thought the whole exam was a disaster for me especially the option question.

Poxyshamrock

What ****ed me up was the english 2 fiasco.
Spent all of the thursday revising English 2 (again) when I could have been doing Geography

Only got a C2.
I was gutted
Was an A student.

madheaded

I got an A in the mocks and at parent teacher meetings the teacher said he expected me to be getting an A in leaving cert I got a B1 not happy at all definatly getting it re checked. We had a class teacher only 1 person failed his class in like 25 years two other people who he thought wud get As aswel only got B's or C's. There's no way we all dropped down from the mocks like that

Jammyc

Likewise. A few in my class were expecting to get the A, I dont think any did. I was hoping for it too and got a B3.

dungeon

Not very inspiring for people to choose Geography as a subject for Leaving Cert.

dungeon

What is the percentage for A1 in the Leaving Cert this year and is that up or down on last year?

Zonda999

Bit disappointed here too. Got a B1 but was expectin an A2 at least. Looking forward to viewing my paper next week because i'm interested in seeing where i lost those marks, did a good project and i though the paper went every well. Its generally known to be very difficult to get an A in geography though!

rainbowtrout

Just wondering if all the people who are disappointed with their Geography mark had their mock grade based on the written paper only or had a project mark added in by their teacher, based on what their teacher thought the project was worth( but not necessarily what it got in June). It might explain the drop in marks for a lot of you.

The other thing is and there have been plenty of threads about this in the past, if everyone was doing very well on the exam (ie a higher percentage of A grades than the Dept would like) then the marking gets quite strict to bring down the percentage of As - but it is applied across the board so some people might end up with a grade lower than they expected.

I don't believe that the papers were marked badly as was mentioned in one post, not when there are so many people complaining about the marks. Correctors have a marking scheme and they have to stick to it, they just can't decide what they will or won't accept.

Back Prince

i was delighted with geo got a d2 in the mocks and i just tried me best at it after and got a b3 woot

TanG411

Very very disappointed.

for every test in school since 5th year, I got a B2. That includes the mocks.
And then in the real thing I got a C3:mad:

I'd like to get it checked but there's no need really as I got my course.

daniel91

have say i'm delighted got a d1 in the mocks but ended up with a b1 in the leaving. from what i remember after doing the exam i was thinking the most i could of got was a c1.

happydayz182

geography....didnt looka at a book for two years but did a good project and a night of cramming got me a b1...bit of a pisstake of a subject

SarcasticFairy

Always been an A1 student, got an A2. Little bit disappointed. Think I fecked up my shorts, because I walked into the exam crying, after Maths 1 (was convinced I'd fail miserably) and an incredibly stressful journey to the exam hall after lunch, so I couldn't concentrate at all for the first while, until I calmed myself. Interested to see the script.

JSK 252

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Just wondering if all the people who are disappointed with their Geography mark had their mock grade based on the written paper only or had a project mark added in by their teacher, based on what their teacher thought the project was worth( but not necessarily what it got in June). It might explain the drop in marks for a lot of you.

The other thing is and there have been plenty of threads about this in the past, if everyone was doing very well on the exam (ie a higher percentage of A grades than the Dept would like) then the marking gets quite strict to bring down the percentage of As - but it is applied across the board so some people might end up with a grade lower than they expected.

I don't believe that the papers were marked badly as was mentioned in one post, not when there are so many people complaining about the marks. Correctors have a marking scheme and they have to stick to it, they just can't decide what they will or won't accept.

Last year my teacher ( advising examiner ) had to correct a whole bundle of scripts for a forth time as the A grade rate was too high. All the assistant examiners also had to remark scripts for a forth time too!

rainbowtrout

JSK 252 wrote: »

Last year my teacher ( advising examiner ) had to correct a whole bundle of scripts for a forth time as the A grade rate was too high. All the assistant examiners also had to remark scripts for a forth time too!

Yep, I've been there and done that plenty of times, soul destroying work!

GallowsGhost

I was happy with my result; B2, thought it was fair.

Xtina!!

dungeon wrote: »

What is the percentage for A1 in the Leaving Cert this year and is that up or down on last year?

3.8% as far as I remember. Around the same as english and business.
Didnt do geography myself, but the teacher said that its vy hard to get an A1 in it. I think business was marked very hard aswell. Got an A2, not bad I know, but thought I got an A1.

char087

I was delighted with my geog result, got a B2 which was a suprise as when i came out of the exam i thought i had failed it! no lie!

MmmmmCheese

happydayz182 wrote: »

geography....didnt looka at a book for two years but did a good project and a night of cramming got me a b1...bit of a pisstake of a subject

I hate when people say that geography is only bout rocks and rivers. There's so much more to it, its really a fairly detailed subject, lots of information to learn off.

I got a B1. In fairness i knew when i came out of the exam that i probably didn't get an A but my geography teacher told me i should get it rechecked and said he could guarantee that i'd go up a grade. And he's a fantastic teacher so i trust his opinion. He said there were 29 B1's in the year and there's usually only around 5 so it was very unusual.