Leaving Cert 2010 predictions?

misskerrie09

Has anyone any predictions, random guesses or anything helpful as to what might come up on the leaving cert this year? And for all the people who have completed their leaving cert is the mock paper harder than the real thing? And how close in topics is it to the real thing?

I'm looking for predictions in:
English (H)
Irish (O)
Maths(O)
French (O)
Biology (H)
Geography (H)
Business (H)

:D:D

Orlaladuck

misskerrie09 wrote: »

I'm looking for predictions in:
English (H)
Irish (O)
Maths(O)
French (O)
Biology (H)
Geography (H)
Business (H)

:D:D

Well english predictions are somewhere back in another thread but I'd hoping for Boland and Longley, Irish I'm not too sure actually. I know for the higher level I'm praying for An Chead Drama but for pass i'm not too sure.
Math's never changes so you can't really predict it, french pass is Simples! Just some easy letter!
Bio - unpredictable, noway of telling what'll come up. as for the other two I don't do myself so couldn't tell ya!

misskerrie09

Thanks, yeah i have a feeling a female poet is gonna come so thats not too bad, the worst thing in the world would be Keats! Nightmare!

Orlaladuck

I love keats!:pac: He's easy. And a female poet comes up every year but I'm predicting it'll be Boland. I could be wrong!

knwaca

Praying for Longley and literacy genre!
Our Bio teacher is really highly connected with bio leaving cert commitee or something, calls the chief superindent reguarly, anyway she predicts a definte gentics question, one on either plant or human reproduction, one on respiration or photo synthesis, something on viruses (swine flu), and the rest is chance!
Business, you don't need predications you just need some common sense and your guaranteed a good mark!
Thats all I do of your list,

Orlaladuck

Are you serious about the Bio?! !

Professional Griefer

If your serious about the Biology then dacent. Hate respiration and photosynthesis though but sure.

Economics for anyone wondering is always pretty much the same.
A elasticity Q. The market Q. probably will be Oligopoly. Would love a Economic Development Q as well.:D

knwaca

course i'm serious, why would you bother make this stuff up? but like i say, its only her prediction..

misskerrie09

Had a look at the english leaving cert papers last night and Boland has come up a couple of years but rich has never ever ever come up!
hint hint!

Orlaladuck

Really? I thought she came up recently. Well we won't know until June 9th!

pfannkuchen

Rich came up in 2008.

I'm PRAYING for Kavanagh!

Orlaladuck

I Knew she did! I'm certain Boland is way more likely. 2008 is pretty recent =/.

DancingQueen:)

I need Boland to come up, wouldn't mind if Kavanagh was there either.

yenoBAYUB

pfannkuchen wrote: »

Rich came up in 2008.

Hmm, even my english teacher isnt sure about Rich, she was on the course for 2008, 2009 and now 2010. She came up in 08 but not in 09? So hes not sure, but al the predictions he made last year were perfect.

misskerrie09

pfannkuchen wrote: »

Rich came up in 2008

Oh your right guess I missed that one!

trishwithafada

Boland, An Chead Drama!!
Any tips on Music? French? Ag??

Tinytot91

Went to a revision course in leeson street during xmas and out of all the 8 poets he only went through Boland,Kavanagh and longley!

Professional Griefer

Tinytot91 wrote: »

Went to a revision course in leeson street during xmas and out of all the 8 poets he only went through Boland,Kavanagh and longley!

I'm only gonna learn Boland and Yeats, and maybe Kavanagh. Boland will defo be on the paper this year. Which is sweet cause shes nice and easy.

I swear to god, vision and viewpoint better come up, or else I'm gonna be very, very, very screwed.

Tinytot91

Ha im in the same boat..Screwed if literary genre doesnt come up:eek: Yeah Boland is Luvly to learn,shes the only poet im learning for the mocks:p Buut I have a friend who actually goes to leeson street and she said her poetry teacher is predicting Rich and Eliot!:rolleyes:

Professional Griefer

Tinytot91 wrote: »

Ha im in the same boat..Screwed if literary genre doesnt come up:eek: Yeah Boland is Luvly to learn,shes the only poet im learning for the mocks:p Buut I have a friend who actually goes to leeson street and she said her poetry teacher is predicting Rich and Eliot!:rolleyes:

I doubt Rich would come up, even though its very possible. I mean she was on, was it 06 or 07? I'm not sure, but very recently. I'd say Boland, just for measure, i'll learn the other two as well. I hate Elliot with a passion. God his poetry made me hate poetry for a while last year.
I don't really mind if LG comes up, we did a essay on it. I lost it, from last year, did VV this year, so hopefully that'll come up, I rather like it TBH.
I hate the English course. I can see myself walking out that thursday after paper 2 with my arm killin' me, probably thinkin I did really well then get something like a C, always happens:(

DancingQueen:)

I've only covered Boland, Kavanagh and Eliot and then did three poems on Yeats but wouldn't be able to write about him so really hoping either Boland or Kavanagh comes up. I've done the three comparision headings but didn't do any essays so not really sure how to answer any of them!

Tinytot91

Feckn same..happened to me in the JC.."Best paper iv ever written.blah blah blah!" Got a C!:p Haha..Yeah I hate English so much I just cant deal with it!I kinda like Eliot,hes an absolute madman:P Wudnt fancy writing an essay on him tho :rolleyes: Ah im sure ul be fine for Vv, everyone thinks its coming up!

cork*girl

Boland would be sweeet! Love her.. Yeats is a possiblity I think aswell! Dont mind either General Vision and Viewpoint would suit me grand for the comparitive. We have only done "changes in Lear" for King Lear so I guess I hope that will come up.. hopefully we will cover some more King Lear before the pre's.

Music - Its pretty clear that Seachanges is due to come up as the long question!! Tis grand to answer questions on.. not to listen to though!!

Geography - meh, the paper doesnt really seem to change? same kind of questions all the time.

Tinytot91

cork*girl wrote: »

Boland would be sweeet! Love her.. Yeats is a possiblity I think aswell! Dont mind either General Vision and Viewpoint would suit me grand for the comparitive. We have only done "changes in Lear" for King Lear so I guess I hope that will come up.. hopefully we will cover some more King Lear before the pre's.

Music - Its pretty clear that Seachanges is due to come up as the long question!! Tis grand to answer questions on.. not to listen to though!!

Geography - meh, the paper doesnt really seem to change? same kind of questions all the time.

Im pretty much the same as far as lear goes..Teachers in my school are stressing Evil or pessimisim for a Q in our mock paper! Myt be worth a look if the chances are we get the same one!

Home ec - Iron!Iron!Iron!

Professional Griefer

Tinytot91 wrote: »

Im pretty much the same as far as lear goes..Teachers in my school are stressing Evil or pessimisim for a Q in our mock paper! Myt be worth a look if the chances are we get the same one!

Home ec - Iron!Iron!Iron!

Oh god. I've bascially completely forget I have to study for Home Ec. That won't be hard considering all we've done this year is Family, Vits, Proteins, Carbohydrates, Lipids, that kinda stuff, and some general stuff on things like CHD and Bord Bia and stuff. Not alot. We spent way too much time on the Journals and move so slowly. Why can't my class behave?!:(
Only just started something and resource management.

I would be very suprised if Patrick Kavanagh didn't appear.

I love the man, and love writing about him so I'd also be heartbroken if he didn't!

**Timbuk2**

When are the papers written? Around November/December? I'd be surprised if the H.L. Irish didn't contain something to do with flooding!

I assume it's too late for the Haiti Earthquake to feature on any papers?? Although I would know the vocab, just in case it's asked in one of the orals (it was asked in my Irish mock oral, and I kept saying the disaster in Haiti as I didn't know the word for earthquake!) I think les tremblements is earthquakes in French (open to correction!).

unknown13

I expect Yeats and Longley to come up. Longley was on the cancelled paper and was not on the real paper last year. There is some anniversary for Yeats in 2009 but he wasn't on last years course, so they couldn't put him on the paper.

Keogg

misskerrie09 wrote: »

Has anyone any predictions, random guesses or anything helpful as to what might come up on the leaving cert this year? And for all the people who have completed their leaving cert is the mock paper harder than the real thing? And how close in topics is it to the real thing?

I'm looking for predictions in:
English (H)
Irish (O)
Maths(O)
French (O)
Biology (H)
Geography (H)
Business (H)

:D:D

For Biology, there's nearly always a question on genetics and on reproduction, but the short questions are completely random really. Oh and there's always something on the whole ecology section too
can'thelp with much else I'm afraid, no idea about English, and do honours for the rest

Lcstudent

Ive been using mocks.ie 2 help me practice for my mocks :eek: its good cus u can see what areas u need to work on what your actually doing good in. I even praticed for my orals on it!

Tinytot91

Ix Deadmau5 wrote: »

Oh god. I've bascially completely forget I have to study for Home Ec. That won't be hard considering all we've done this year is Family, Vits, Proteins, Carbohydrates, Lipids, that kinda stuff, and some general stuff on things like CHD and Bord Bia and stuff. Not alot. We spent way too much time on the Journals and move so slowly. Why can't my class behave?!:(
Only just started something and resource management.

Ah that seems like a good bit covered..All the improtant bits anyways!:pYeah my class is full of dopes too :mad: I think they think home ec is easy like for JC..What are ye doing for your elective?

Niall09

1 female poet has come up every single year, and there's only 2 female poets on our course this year. So Boland or Rich :]

Niall09

Niall09 wrote: »

1 female poet has come up every single year, and there's only 2 female poets on our course this year. So Boland or Rich :]

And probably Boland, Rich was on 2007.

Professional Griefer

Tinytot91 wrote: »

Ah that seems like a good bit covered..All the improtant bits anyways!:pYeah my class is full of dopes too :mad: I think they think home ec is easy like for JC..What are ye doing for your elective?

Theres yet another thing. I don't have a clue. Our teacher hasn't mentioned anything. The only ones in our class who know whats on the papers are repeat students. Our class is a joke. All that messing should be left back @ the JC days. LC is important for loads of us, then theres like 4/5 people in our class who know themselves that they're gonna do rubbish so might as well have a laugh while they get there.

eeefa

Tinytot91 wrote: »

Went to a revision course in leeson street during xmas and out of all the 8 poets he only went through Boland,Kavanagh and longley!

These are the 3 I think will come up!

I was pretty confident about Boland but you never know...they may stick Rich on. I have a feeling about Kavanagh, I really think he'll come up and I hope he does. Anyway, students concentrate too much on the poetry when they should be looking at the other areas...it is only worth like, 10 % after all...I think.

Vision and Viewpoint is a cert, I'd say.

acer_2010

What is the possibility of Rich coming up against Boland?
Can the two come up?

Basically, i'm screwed for my mocks!

Tinytot91

acer_2010 wrote: »

What is the possibility of Rich coming up against Boland?
Can the two come up?

Basically, i'm screwed for my mocks!

Two women have come up before, But its very unlikely it will happen again!

window_licker

ahh its been said that this year may be the year of the males when it comes to ENglish poetry! My dad reckons they wont put a female poet on the paper this year, because people generally learn the female poet really well, and use it as either a back up if they get a nasty question on their first choice of poet or if there first choice doesnt come up! Or else they use the female as their first choice. if that makes anysense! Anyways, he keeps telling me it'll be the year of the males lol

Messi 10

Lcstudent wrote: »

Ive been using mocks.ie 2 help me practice for my mocks :eek: its good cus u can see what areas u need to work on what your actually doing good in. I even praticed for my orals on it!

I've never posted on this before but I've read it a lot. I decided to set up an account just to point out that it is incredibly obvious that you either own Mocks.ie or work for mocks.ie

You've had 2 posts both singing the praises of mocks.ie. You have some connection to it I reckon

yourmother

Messi 10 wrote: »

I've never posted on this before but I've read it a lot. I decided to set up an account just to point out that it is incredibly obvious that you either own Mocks.ie or work for mocks.ie

You've had 2 posts both singing the praises of mocks.ie. You have some connection to it I reckon

I'd just like to say I'm in complete agreement with you! And, I had looked at mocks.ie and thought it was an alright idea. Having seen all the posts by this person I would never order off them! How sly.

What are the chances of Cultural Context coming up this year? I know it was on last year, and it has come up a lot in the past, but they do often appear twice in a row. I'm clinging to some sort of hope that we'll get Literary Genre and Cultural Context, because I really hate General Vision and Viewpoint, even though it's most likely to appear

justaday

economics-deflation or a question on nama.

randylonghorn

Messi 10 wrote: »

I've never posted on this before but I've read it a lot. I decided to set up an account just to point out that it is incredibly obvious that you either own Mocks.ie or work for mocks.ie

You've had 2 posts both singing the praises of mocks.ie. You have some connection to it I reckon

yourmother wrote: »

I'd just like to say I'm in complete agreement with you! And, I had looked at mocks.ie and thought it was an alright idea. Having seen all the posts by this person I would never order off them! How sly.

Messi, yourmother, if you have a problem with a post report it, don't engage directly with the poster.

LCstudent, we get that you like mocks.ie

Given that that is all you have talked about in your 2 posts, I'm sure you can see why people are raising their eyebrows. I have no doubt that the next posts I see from you will be on very varied topics.

yourmother

How do you report it?

randylonghorn

click on this sympol on the left bottom of the post you want to report.

(Please note that LCstudent's posts have already been reviewed)

G_R

For english i'd say the comparative will be LG and Vision and Viewpoint. I'd be very surprised if Cultural Context comes up. As for poets, i'm hoping beyond hope for Longley or Boland, i dont really like any of the others.

Irish, i dont like it so i dont really care

Maths, i'm doing higher so can't help.

Biology, my teacher keeps goin over genetic engineering and (as)sexual reproduction in plants, so i'm hoping she knows something i dont

Business, i would say if you learn units 2 3 and 4 (ABQ units) and international trade you are pretty much sure to have 4 long q's covered, ur ABQ and half of the shorts. I'm sure you could blag through the rest ha.

I dont do geog so cant help.

--EDIT--
Forgot french, i'd say the essay topics will prob be something to do with unemployment or economic downturn, cant predict the comprehensions, other than one will prob be an article, other extract from a book

yesplease!

The maths and english mock papers are way harder than the real thing, had maths and english today and yesterday and they were nothing as easy as the real thing!

Stevez

definte gentics question, one on either plant or human reproduction, one on respiration or photo synthesis, something on viruses (swine flu), and the rest is chance!

..There is no Plant or Human Reprodution...Respiration or photosynthesis...There ALL certain to come up..! they come up every year,do you not check past exam Q's???

tracker-man

Anyone want to share their Physics HL predictions?
Or Chemistry HL?

Stevez

misskerrie09 wrote: »

Had a look at the english leaving cert papers last night and Boland has come up a couple of years but rich has never ever ever come up!
hint hint!

Rich came up in 2008/07...? She Definetly has come up before dude

Professional Griefer

Stevez wrote: »

Rich came up in 2008/07...? She Definetly has come up before dude

2007 I believe. I think I'm only gonna learn Boland + Kavanagh and Vision and Viewpoint. I'll either be supersickened or delighted. More than likely the latter.:rolleyes: