Mocks for everyone else?

MunchkinKid

Hi guys.
Just wondering are everyone else's mocks on the same time in the whole country? Ours start on the 3rd of Feb!

Is it the same everywhere else?
Oh and does anyone know how many actual different mock papers there are?! Like some schools get different mock papers to others!?

Conor108

Well I'd say they start at the discretion of the school so probably different dates. No idea though, open to correction! Mine are around the start of February, they haven't given us the date yet

And as far as I know theres a bunch of companies that produce mock papers so whichever supplier your school uses will be different to another supplier.

theowen

They vary a bit. I did mine in mid March last year. You'll see by March all of the mock papers on here no doubt for the late mockers(?).

DancingQueen:)

Mine start Feb 1st, which is in a month :eek:

Conor108

And I need to do some serious DCG project work (Deadline Feb 12th) so my mock studying may take a hit

discostick12

Yeah the do vary depending which supplier your school is using as another poster said.

But they usually start the end of Jan and finish up around March. Never heard of any school doing them after that although I could be wrong.

Good luck with them in any way.

ayumi

mine start on the 1st and end on the 12th,then midterm for 7 days

Seloth

Mine are in March,But my old school hasthem in 4 weeks as well.

spurious

Some schools don't do mocks at all.

I know of at least three nationwide suppliers of mock papers, there may be others. The quality of papers varies greatly. Some companies have ridiculous questions on mock papers that would never be asked on an SEC paper. There have been cases where commercial mock papers contained questions on topics that were not on the syllabus.

The quality of correcting by mock companies reflects the amount they pay correctors. Some teachers just give a past paper and correct them themselves.

The mock paper companies are businesses, they couldn't give a damn about the real exams. Their purpose is to make money, which they do.

LovexxLife

Mine start the 29th of January:( and we are finished then for the mid-term

Jammyc

There are two main suppliers DEB and Examcraft. Examcraft have a tick on the front of their papers (IIRC).

Just so ye know when youre all swapping papers like we did last year. But jesus, dont forget to use spoilers or the mods will beat ye to a pulp

3_BOoYA_X

Mine start the 1st Feb.. And DCG due in the 12th, going to be crazy. :eek:
How much are people paying for theirs, in my school its €105ish, bit over the top tbh.

DancingQueen:)

3_BOoYA_X wrote: »

How much are people paying for theirs, in my school its €105ish, bit over the top tbh.

Havn't heard anything about prices yet but i'm sure i'll find out as soon as i go back, that seems very steep but then again mine could be the same if not dearer.

NufcNavan

i'm screwed for mine.

Conor108

NufcNavan wrote: »

i'm screwed for mine.

Same but at least there'll still be about 3 months to the real thing afterwards. I can't wait until the whole thing is over!

partyatmygaff

There are 2 main ones. Examcraft and DEB.
Examcraft have a tick at the front of them and DEB have a barcode in the top left.

Mary007

Mine are 90 euro and are starting the 4th of Feb right up to mid-term

spurious

partyatmygaff wrote: »

There are 2 main ones. Examcraft and DEB.
Examcraft have a tick at the front of them and DEB have a barcode in the top left.

There is also a new one this year called something like 'Munster Examining Board'.
I can't remember the exact name.

MunchkinKid

Oh ok thanks a mill for all that! Didnt actually know it wasnt the people that make the real exam papers that do the mocks.. We paid €115 for ours around november time.
Well good luck to everyone doing the mocks and thanks for replying! Dont worry too much about them its the real thing thats important!
Happy new year!;)

laura93

I think mine start the 2nd of February
We haven't been told anything about paying for them though

spurious

If they are being sent out to be corrected, the mock companies charge between 6 and 7 euro for the correction of each script. It adds up - a nice little earner (for the businesses - I suspect the correctors are not paid anything like that rate).

irish_man

Hi my teacher showed us the examcraft paper
we are doin deb
on examcraft there is a essay on Lear nd his journey
I cnt remember the other one
vision nd viewpoint came up
poetry was kavanagh, Yeats, boland nd Keats
bit odd to have 3 Irish bt that's the way it is!!

We have to find out what is coming up in Irish deb paper especially the essay part!!!
Hope this helps!!!

Orlaladuck

You just told us our mocks . Well the possibility. Oh my god.

spurious

No doubt he/she will be as helpful with the real thing.

I suspect not.

Piste

irish_man wrote: »

Hi my teacher showed us the examcraft paper
we are doin deb
on examcraft there is a essay on Lear nd his journey
I cnt remember the other one
vision nd viewpoint came up
poetry was kavanagh, Yeats, boland nd Keats
bit odd to have 3 Irish bt that's the way it is!!

We have to find out what is coming up in Irish deb paper especially the essay part!!!
Hope this helps!!!

Seeing as you're relatively new year, I'll let you away with tihs warning: the policy on the LC forum is that while we do allow discussion of what's on your mocks, such discussion must be put in spoiler tags, so that people who don't wish to know what's on the mocks don't accidentally read it. To wrap spoiler tags around text you need to type [spoiler4] in front of the text you want to hide and [/spoiler4] afterwards (without the 4 after spoiler, it's just there to stop the tags from showing).

Please adhere to this rule as it's not fair on people who want to mocks to remain unknown like the real exams.

Professional Griefer

Ours aren't till March.:D

Orlaladuck

Lucky duck >=[!

pfannkuchen

Start February 2nd and finish the 12th - but some of my friends and I were thinking that they might need to be pushed back because of the whole weather situation? :eek:

3_BOoYA_X

spurious wrote: »

If they are being sent out to be corrected, the mock companies charge between 6 and 7 euro for the correction of each script. It adds up - a nice little earner (for the businesses - I suspect the correctors are not paid anything like that rate).

Im paying like €105 to sit 6 papers.. thats crazy, company getting €17.50 per subject off me :eek: Yikkees, Recession??

highlydebased

Mine are in 4 weeks also. Might not go the best for me but will see how it goes sure...something to break the monotony at teh moment anyway.

They are bound to be corrected stupidly- found that in the JC at least...

cork*girl

ours start on the 22nd of feb! cant wait for June 24th though...... FREEDOM!

irish_man

Sorry!! I didn't mean to offend ya
it seems like I commited a crime

randylonghorn

irish_man wrote: »

Did you?

If the point of the mocks is to give you an opportunity to do a dry run for the real thing, and to give you some kind of indication of how your preparation is coming along, how does it "help" if someone tells you what is coming up?

Think about it.

Lawliet

Off-topic mocks related story: Last year some idiot in my Irish class asked the teacher about what to write for some random essay a week before the mocks. Naturally that very same essay was what was on our mock paper. Our teacher absolutely ate the heads of us afterwards, she thought all of us were in on it and knew everything that was on the paper...

Anyway if you are going to look up the papers, be clever about it because your teachers aren't morons.
But really lads, at the end of the day you're not doing yourselves any favours by cheating. The mocks don't count for anything, so you might as well just take the bad grade; after all you want your points to go up from the mocks, not down.

gant0

mine don'y start until the 22nd of february!!!:(....guess i don't get to enjoy the february midterm!!

bub123

here its a waste of time just debating whats right/wrong to do, everyone has their own opinion. anyway those of you who think its wrong for us "cheaters" to cheat, ye're the ones benefiting from this because ye MIGHT end up doin better than us in the real thing! so if anyone has mock papers and wants to share, just put them up and use spoilers mine are kinda early -4th feb, but if anyone has any idea for either of the companies (if their teacher told them, hinted, etc) please let us know thanks:)

yenoBAYUB

Mine start on the 10th. 3 days of mocks, midterm, another week of them. Not sure whether its a good or bad thing? Was hoping the febraury mindterm would be relaxing. I probably would of been freaking out about study anyways so at least i have an exucse now i guess lol

Colm C

Mine arent until the week after the mid-term.Mid Feb i think.

Professional Griefer

Lawliet wrote: »

Off-topic mocks related story: Last year some idiot in my Irish class asked the teacher about what to write for some random essay a week before the mocks. Naturally that very same essay was what was on our mock paper. Our teacher absolutely ate the heads of us afterwards, she thought all of us were in on it and knew everything that was on the paper...

Anyway if you are going to look up the papers, be clever about it because your teachers aren't morons.
But really lads, at the end of the day you're not doing yourselves any favours by cheating. The mocks don't count for anything, so you might as well just take the bad grade; after all you want your points to go up from the mocks, not down.

Quite a valid point, btw my mocks don't start still around mid March, anyways, I plan to study for them, and that will include getting the mock papers from my old school as well.
They can tell me that I 'cheated' or that my results done mean much, but that thing is that I'm going to learn it all in anyways so I'll probably have a good idea should a similar Q. come up in June, sure it isn't the honest way of doing things, but I won't lose any sleep, it still counts as studying to me, and regardless of the mocks results, I won't be any different for the following months leading up to the LC as regards the work I do.

Rich1691

Mine are starting the 23rd of february so we've got the mid-term to study, its a pity we're losing the break but I suppose it'll be handy leading up to them to get some last minute work in!

NufcNavan

Mine start February 9th, witht the midterm to study for the 2nd half of exams. Not too bad. Trying not to get too worried about them.

Bhoy_

I'm screwed for mine. They start 12th of February which I believe is a Friday, makes sense...Then we have a week off, the same week I'm off to Bavaria skiing, then back in for mocks for the whole next week. While everyone is studying, I'll be on holidays, which worries me a bit, but hey, it's a good excuse.

laura93

Mine start the 1st of Feb and I'm not ready at all for them

Professional Griefer

I have no idea when mine start. I know they're in March, sometime. Start of I think, so we SHOULD have them back for easter so we can go over them but some of them weren't back in that time last year. As soon as they start the rest of our time till the LC should fly. I can see that the next 2 months(till my mocks) are gonna be slow as hell.

DB10

laura93 wrote: »

Mine start the 1st of Feb and I'm not ready at all for them

Same.

Havent started studying Business,English, or Irish bar one tape. All HL as well...:eek:

almostnever

Mine are the week after the mid term,which is grand really. Although I could use a break when they're over...
Anyway, I'm kinda worried about them because I haven't done anything for them yet but hopefully with a bit'a cramming I'll do okay. They're not really important to me; I am working towards the Leaving Cert and especially in subjects such as English where the course changed for me this year, it doesn't really matter what results I get. Still,I hope to get into the spirit of it even if just a little, so I study and get into the habit of doing so.

DancingQueen:)

I find it fine studying the subjects i like or topics that i'm interested in but for some other subjects i just get bored really easily an end up taking more an more breaks. I'd love to know the timetable for my mocks (in two weeks:eek:) then i think it would become more real.

Ste234

Two of my teachers that I get along quite well said to me that there's only two and other teachers told me they were getting both mock papers which insinuates there are only two. Mine start 2nd of feb and my friend's in another school start the 25th of January..

spurious

There are at least three national suppliers of mock papers (I know because I order them in our school). All of the following sent me samples and order forms:

Dublin Examining Board
Examcraft
and Munster Examining Board.

There is also the possibility that teachers will make their own mock paper up and many do.

butlervant

could u tell wat de spoiler s i cant see it.. tanx

Professional Griefer

butlervant wrote: »

could u tell wat de spoiler s i cant see it.. tanx

Did you try and highlight it? ie, click and drag the mouse over it? That should show you.