Mocks/Pres Discussion Thread

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Well, as we're all starting/have started our mocks this month, we can discuss our exams here.

No asking for answers/what papers you got/what came up, it against JC charter rules!

Good luck to those of you who have started!

WanderingSoul

Thanks Damien. Mine started today with Maths Paper 1 and French (so boring by the way). Luckily, I'm not in tomorrow though (don't do the subjects) though I'm back in on Wednesday.

What about you guys? When did / do yours start?

Jackobyte

WanderingSoul wrote: »

Thanks Damien. Mine started today with Maths Paper 1 and French (so boring by the way). Luckily, I'm not in tomorrow though (don't do the subjects) though I'm back in on Wednesday.

What about you guys? When did / do yours start?

Mine start thursday. Think I'm in everyday until (and including) the following friday!:eek:

padocon

Mine on Thursday!

DKZ can a also say no answers on this thread is a good policy?

WanderingSoul

I was in today and will be in everyday until Friday the 12th except tomorrow and a half-day next Tuesday.

WanderingSoul

DKZ wrote: »

Well, as we're all starting/have started our mocks this month, we can discuss our exams here.

No asking for answers/what papers you got/what came up, it against JC charter rules!

Good luck to those of you who have started!

padocon wrote: »

Mine on Thursday!

DKZ can a also say no answers on this thread is a good policy?

It already says that, pad.

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Mine start on the 10th with English & Maths Paper 1. Easy enough.

We have a week's break for mid-term in between our exams, so I'll spend all that week studying. I've done virtually nothing yet!

padocon

WanderingSoul wrote: »

It already says that, pad.

Oh I know I was actually just acknowledging it was a good idea.
Again good luck in the mocks.

Where will we discuss how we found each mock? New thread for each mock?

WanderingSoul

Opps. Sure why not? It will mean different subjects will be easy to find.

padocon

WanderingSoul wrote: »

Opps. Sure why not? It will mean different subjects will be easy to find.

Coolio

Luno

Mine start Monday, a week before and after midterm!:(

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padocon wrote: »

Oh I know I was actually just acknowledging it was a good idea.
Again good luck in the mocks.

Where will we discuss how we found each mock? New thread for each mock?

That was my intention for this thread.

WanderingSoul

M&S* wrote: »

Mine start Monday, a week before and after midterm!:(

I'm kind of happy mine are so early because it means I can relax during Midterm.

Jackobyte

WanderingSoul wrote: »

I'm kind of happy mine are so early because it means I can relax during Midterm.

Mine will be finished the friday mid-term starts!:P

WanderingSoul

Jackobyte wrote: »

Mine will be finished the friday mid-term starts!:P

Lucky! As do mine but you have less days than me!

padocon

DKZ wrote: »

That was my intention for this thread.

But if all the subjects go on in one thread then I could be saying that I found the geography question on volcanos very hard and you might not have done the geography mock yet. So you know what is on it.

WanderingSoul

padocon wrote: »

But if all the subjects go on in one thread then I could be saying that I found the geography question on volcanos very hard and you might not have done the geography mock yet. So you know what is on it.

That goes against this though:

No asking for answers/what papers you got/what came up, it's against JC charter rules!

padocon

What is to discuss so?

WanderingSoul

When you have them, how long you will be doing them for, general, broad, comments like "I found Geography very hard." etc.

Luno

Yeah WanderingSoul your right! It would be better to just have it more in general!!

Whats everyone least looking forward to?
Mine would probably be maths and tech graph...

WanderingSoul

Irish 1 & 2, English 2 (don't know any quotes :eek: ).

Luno

What poems are you doing for Irish??

I am so terrible at English can never remember quotes from Romeo & Juliet - get words mixed up and the whole thing ends up in a mess!

padocon

WanderingSoul wrote: »

When you have them, how long you will be doing them for, general, broad, comments like "I found Geography very hard." etc.

And in return I can't say "What did you find hard?"

WanderingSoul

Ugh, I'm doing R&J too. I have quotes for that and my novel, but not peotry.

Irish: An tOzon and other ones which I can't remember.

WanderingSoul

In a particular subject like Geography, no, although you could probably say that and I could answer something like "I found Q5d part 2 very hard." but no specifics like "the volcanoes question".

padocon

WanderingSoul wrote: »

Ugh, I'm doing R&J too. I have quotes for that and my novel, but not peotry.

Irish: An tOzon and other ones which I can't remember.

Come to think of it I must learn some poetry quotes. All I have is R&J quotes.

Luno

WanderingSoul wrote: »

Ugh, I'm doing R&J too. I have quotes for that and my novel, but not peotry.

Irish: An tOzon and other ones which I can't remember.

I'm not even sure of my english poems or what they are

An tOzon!!! I love that poem not sure why its easy to understand, and you can be all fancy and say stuff about personification!

Jackobyte

WanderingSoul wrote: »

Ugh, I'm doing R&J too. I have quotes for that and my novel, but not peotry.

Irish: An tOzon and other ones which I can't remember.

Irish poetry-An tOzon, An Ghaoth, An Riomhaire, Teilifis, there is more but I can't remeber them! Not Good!

English-Have about 12 poems! :eek:

Did R&J too, alright at quotes I guess.

Novel=Oh no! can hardly remember storyline

padocon

What novels are yee doing?
Im doing Roll of Thunder

Jackobyte

padocon wrote: »

What novels are yee doing?
Im doing Roll of Thunder

"Buenos Noches, Señor Tom"

Sorry, Inhouse joke!

Goodnight Mr. Tom

Luno

Jackobyte wrote: »

Irish poetry-An tOzon, An Ghaoth, An Riomhaire, Teilifis, there is more but I can't remeber them! Not Good!

English-Have about 12 poems! :eek:

Did R&J too, alright at quotes I guess.

Novel=Oh no! can hardly remember storyline

12 poems? We done . . .Base Details by Siegfried Sassoon, Shall I Compare Thee b Shakespeare, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by W.B Yeats, Truant by Phoebe Hesketh, The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Thats it I think, suprised I knew all them actually lets see if I can do the same for Irish

An tOzon, An Chead Brog, Fear Lasta Lampai, and another one which I don't know the name of

padocon

We did bace details, dulce et de coreme, the king of the kurzel. Can't remember the rest.

Luno

padocon wrote: »

We did bace details, dulce et de coreme, the king of the kurzel. Can't remember the rest.

Dulce et de coreme sounds french? Strange to do it for english :pac:

Jackobyte

M&S* wrote: »

12 poems? We done . . .Base Details by Siegfried Sassoon(We did a different Siegfried poem), Shall I Compare Thee b Shakespeare(We did), An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by W.B Yeats, Truant by Phoebe Hesketh, The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost(We did)
Thats it I think, suprised I knew all them actually lets see if I can do the same for Irish

An tOzon, An Chead Brog, Fear Lasta Lampai, and another one which I don't know the name of

Did you not do a poet? We did Seamus Heaney becuase they can ask it ask it as a poet question. "You can invite a poet of your choice to your school. Name the poet and explain your choice. Which reference to his works... blah blah blah"

Luno

Jackobyte wrote: »

Did you not do a poet? We did Seamus Heaney becuase they can ask it ask it as a poet question. "You can invite a poet of your choice to your school. Name the poet and explain your choice. Which reference to his works... blah blah blah"

What do you mean a poet? :pac:
I done poems but poets were never really brought up in class?
Just that you would want to include it in your answer...
Hopefully that doesn't come up!!

Jackobyte

padocon wrote: »

We did bace details, dulce et de coreme, the king of the kurzel. Can't remember the rest.

We did "Dulce et decorum est" by Wilfred Owen. Is that the same poem you did padocon?

Meaning-"it is sweet and proper" and part of a LATIN quote from a poem by horace sometime in ancient greece. Full quote is "Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori" or something like and can be found in the last two lines of poem, meaning "It is sweet and proper to die for the fatherland(your country)"

WanderingSoul

For my novel I did To Kill A Mockingbird. Couldn't be bothered to list my poems!

Luno

We done The Lord of The Flies as our novel

bluejay14

WanderingSoul wrote: »

Irish: An tOzon

We did that too.We only did 2 other ones aswell: Duilleoga ar an Life and An Tigh Nua

Jackobyte wrote: »

We did "Dulce et decorum est" by Wilfred Owen. Is that the same poem you did padocon?

We did that one too.I can't really remember the rest.The only one that I remember the names of are that one, The Thinness of Ice and The Lake Isle of Innisfree.

padocon

Thats the one!

bluejay14

'Tis.

Blue_Seas

We did one poem in Irish (Teilifis) and one story/prose/whatever it is (An Punk). We have one essay learned off (Timpiste) and some people don't even know that. Seem to be okay on grammar but...
We're screwed as a class, aren't we? Mocks at the end of this month, they start right after midterm.

bluejay14

You think you're screwed?! Try starting tomorrow!!

I should really go learn those music factfiles.....

Luno

bluejaymraz wrote: »

You think you're screwed?! Try starting tomorrow!!

I should really go learn those music factfiles.....

What are . . music factfiles?

bluejay14

oh they're just basically lists of stuff about each song like name, category, type,form, musical features, tempo, mood etc, etc.

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How'd you all get on today?

Mayoegian

I hope everybody is doing and will do well in your Mocks! Don't worry if you feel you haven't done well or got a bad mark-it's the Junior Cert that counts, and from my experience, Mock papers are generally(and probably deliberately) harder than the actual Junior Cert!

Good Luck Everybody!:)

Luno

bluejaymraz wrote: »

oh they're just basically lists of stuff about each song like name, category, type,form, musical features, tempo, mood etc, etc.

Oh I see, was getting worried thought there was something we hadn't covered!

WanderingSoul

Thank you, MaighEoGoDeo.

WanderingSoul

So, who has exams tomorrow? I have Business 1 and CSPE.

Mayoegian

WanderingSoul wrote: »

Thank you, MaighEoGoDeo.

You're welcome Wandering Soul! I had a huge long post made out the last day about timings etc. in the exam and plenty of advice, but I deleted it by accident!:o Oh well, I'll try to do another one soon again!:D

You have a nice exam tomorrow anyway-CSPE-which is the best! Do you know some of the Party Leaders faces e.g. Enda Kenny, Brian Cowen?:)

Once you know these, and a few key words such as Discrimination and Parole(came up last year), etc. for the fill in the blanks you'll be grand! The rest is just giving your opinion!:) As for Business, once you know the Layouts for the accounts-you're doing mighty! Practise the Short Questions in your exam papers because believe me, they get repeated! The IT terms, or some Business Organizations usually come up in Section A, i.e. what does ICTU stand for? etc.!

You'll be grand! What exams did you have today?