L.C.V.P. Exam

*giggles*

Fellow L.C.V.P. students - whose ready for the exam on Wednesday? :eek:

Any ideas on what will come up on the case study? More importantly, have you any work done for it? Luckily I do business so I'm slightly better off than the poor creatures who don't know what enterprise is.

Advice, suggestions most welcome. Any questions, just shout and I'll try to answer.

Best of luck

unknown13

I am not ready but I will do most of my prep on Tuesday.

*giggles*

+1 on that. My (3) teachers said my portfolio is good, and that I could get a distinction if my written paper is good. *fingers crossed*

How about yourself?

unknown13

I do business at Higher level and I have been getting good results in it this year, which is what the exam is pretty much. I am very confident in my portfolio aswell. I will just practice a few questions using a copy of my portfolio and I should get decent marks on wednesday.

ldxo15wus6fpgm

any chance someone could scan the case study/point me to a link? I was absent the day it was handed out and my teacher was being an ass when I asked for it and said no, I should have been in.

unknown13

try examinations.ie or lcvp.ie

*giggles*

Business is going well enough for me this year. Trying to ignore Unit 1 at all costs. Mucho prefero Units 6 and 7.

Case study - possible questions?

Link: http://lcvp.slss.ie/

MaggieNF

http://lcvp.slss.ie/resources/c/12/23/LCVP%20Online%20-%20Mindmap.pdf


the mindmap actually includes the entire course

and i wouldn't sweat it, got 89 in the pre without study :P

unknown13

MaggieNF wrote: »

and i wouldn't sweat it, got 89 in the pre without study :P

I got 50 in the mocks in LCVP. It is not that easy.

MaggieNF

i beg to differ but ok

seanbmc

Have any of your teachers done much work with you on the written part? I do business so it`s ok I guess,but for the mocks I went in totally oblivious to what was on the paper and got 69.

Didn`t really like the subject anyway,the best part was the week off for work expierience,otherwise it was a piss take tbh.

Anyone else feel the same?

ldxo15wus6fpgm

seanbmc wrote: »

Anyone else feel the same?

F*CK YES.

I hate the way the teachers (mine anyway) seem to think it's actually more important than other subjects e.g. english or biology.
I find it annoying that the amount of work expected for it is way out of proportion to the possible points you can get.
Another thing that irritates me is the way it's essentially business studies for those who couldn't be bothered to actually take the subject.
I think it's stupid the way we're given nearly 2 years notice of what we need for our portfolio for this, but for proper subjects, e.g. engineering we barely get a quarter of that. And yet more pressure is placed on us (at my school anyway) for this.

/rant

seanbmc

Lennon Thousands Snail wrote: »

F*CK YES.

I hate the way the teachers (mine anyway) seem to think it's actually more important than other subjects e.g. english or biology.
I find it annoying that the amount of work expected for it is way out of proportion to the possible points you can get.
Another thing that irritates me is the way it's essentially business studies for those who couldn't be bothered to actually take the subject.
I think it's stupid the way we're given nearly 2 years notice of what we need for our portfolio for this, but for proper subjects, e.g. engineering we barely get a quarter of that. And yet more pressure is placed on us (at my school anyway) for this.

/rant

Another thing is my teachers gave us barely any notice for our recorded interview. He came up to me an hour before and told me that I needed to learn these questions for the interview.

Chris_J92

Couldnt agree more teachers think its the most important subject and everytime you would hand up your folio to be looked at a different teacher would change it

highlydebased

Hate LCVP with a passion- glad the exam will see an end to it. Not bothered about what result I get it, not counting it.

freeze4real

L ao
I hate lcvp as all but I need the points
I handed me portfolio on Friday and I manged to finish it

I do business so it easy for me. I got 83% in the mocks there's still tlroomfor improvement.
I have the case study that's for the exam. I'm guessing we all get the came.
I looked at it and it comes with a population table. Anyone know how to interpret it as my maths is pretty poor.

goldenlady131

unknown13 wrote: »

I got 50 in the mocks in LCVP. It is not that easy.

Exactly a distinction won't come without work and arrogance will get her no where. :rolleyes:

goldenlady131

freeze4real wrote: »

L ao
I hate lcvp as all but I need the points
I handed me portfolio on Friday and I manged to finish it

I do business so it easy for me. I got 83% in the mocks there's still tlroomfor improvement.
I have the case study that's for the exam. I'm guessing we all get the came.
I looked at it and it comes with a population table. Anyone know how to interpret it as my maths is pretty poor.

83% is grand don't be so hard on yourself! I only got 76% which is only a merit.

And since you got that you are almost guaranteed to get the same/if not better in the actual, so don't sweat it.
And as for maths, i'm pretty poor on them as well and i'm hoping they won't have anything too tricky. The ol' calculator will be on hand though. :P

freeze4real

I hate lcvp maybe it's because it caused my first suspension of my life from school.
Even though I hate the subject it's easy. The only though thing about lcvp is te portfolio. The exam questions are repetitive. Just go through the one of 2007 - 2009 to be on the safe side.
If you do business you musnt fail it. Lol

goldenlady131

@MaggineNF a distinction won't fall into your hands like.

freeze4real

Yup it won't. I have my exam tomorow and I'm just doing the past exam papers.

I hope nutin strange comes up especially on the population table.

MaggieNF

goldenlady131 wrote: »

Exactly a distinction won't come without work and arrogance will get her no where. :rolleyes:

funny orla, funny

goldenlady131 wrote: »

83% is grand don't be so hard on yourself! I only got 76% which is only a merit.

And since you got that you are almost guaranteed to get the same/if not better in the actual, so don't sweat it.
And as for maths, i'm pretty poor on them as well and i'm hoping they won't have anything too tricky. The ol' calculator will be on hand though. :P

76%? strange my friend got that too :O

goldenlady131 wrote: »

a distinction won't fall into your hands like.

i believe it wouldn't either, cos you don't get the paper just your marks, and its handed to you



as for the population thing on the bottom, its not like they would ask you to calculate the difference between populations over the years thats maths, thats probably just to back up the point that all the young people are moving away?!?!?!?!

Darran Loves Lauren

is der any chance someone could copy and past da case study up here, its just da link requires me to have specific software to download it and i dont have it!! so could someone just paste it up here???? dat would be great?:)

goldenlady131

freeze4real wrote: »

Yup it won't. I have my exam tomorow and I'm just doing the past exam papers.

I hope nutin strange comes up especially on the population table.

Oh no that wasn't meant for you i was aiming that at

MaggieNF

And yeah I'm doing the same, we were giving like all the marking schemes so i'm basically reading over them . I'd be delighted with a distinction but a merit wouldn't be too bad either like.
And yeah I wouldn't be too worried about that but ya never know!

Good luck in yours

goldenlady131

MaggieNF wrote: »

funny orla, funny



76%? strange my friend got that too :O


i believe it wouldn't either, cos you don't get the paper just your marks, and its handed to you

Interesting stuff you speak off, very interesting. Alls I was saying was maybe you can get a distinction without study but it doesn't fall into people's hands without no work whatsoever, and aren't you so witty. :P

goldenlady131

freeze4real wrote: »

I hate lcvp maybe it's because it caused my first suspension of my life from school.
Even though I hate the subject it's easy. The only though thing about lcvp is te portfolio. The exam questions are repetitive. Just go through the one of 2007 - 2009 to be on the safe side.
If you do business you musnt fail it. Lol

It is easy but yeah really repetitive and the portfolio was a proper pain mainly because our teacher kept making us take it home and re-do it till it was word perfect- like there could be a capitol letter missing and we'd have to do it all over again-:eek:,
but yeah the portfolio once done right can get you good marks and as for the exam questions well same questions but worded differently so it shouldn't be too bad. And yeah it's rather business ordinated so i hear, I don't do it so I dunno!

MaggieNF

goldenlady131 wrote: »

It is easy but yeah really repetitive and the portfolio was a proper pain mainly because our teacher kept making us take it home and re-do it till it was word perfect- like there could be a capitol letter missing and we'd have to do it all over again-:eek:,
but yeah the portfolio once done right can get you good marks and as for the exam questions well same questions but worded differently so it shouldn't be too bad. And yeah it's rather business ordinated so i hear, I don't do it so I dunno!

ya know i read my exam papers today :O

paper is only 40%, makes sense as to why MOB made us have portfolio perfect. do bad in that and the paper won't matter a damn...


thought you were studying? besides you did well

Darran Loves Lauren

what the hell is with the population table?????????



what could we be asked on dat!! majorli startin to stress out


and dnt have exam papere :-(

*giggles*

OK children, calm down. We need to organise what we have left to do. We do have circa 19 hours left . Advice would be most welcome. Exams hints, possible topics coming up etc. No arguing please.

66% in the mocks, if anyone asks

ldxo15wus6fpgm

Judging by flicking through a few past papers, I'd look at how to do a SWOT, characteristics and skills of an entrepreneur, advantages of businesses for local areas/the economy, benefits of teamwork/good communications etc.

I'm not going to bother studying for it tonight though, I have other commitments, and I do business studies so I think I'm safe on cruise control.

*giggles*

Good work. Now for some study to do...... Business Units 2 to 5 should cover most bases right?

ldxo15wus6fpgm

That is pretty much all that would possibly come up, with the exception of community development in unit 7! Happy studying

MaggieNF

*giggles* wrote: »

OK children, calm down. We need to organise what we have left to do. We do have circa 19 hours left . Advice would be most welcome. Exams hints, possible topics coming up etc. No arguing please.

66% in the mocks, if anyone asks

we're friends really

if onyl you knew our teacher


i would say though that with the emphasis puts on funding for projects and with this being a recession and all, there may be something about that. don't know what way but i would say its fairly likely.


also the usual swot analysis, questionairre and that jazz

freeze4real

Lennon Thousands Snail wrote: »

Judging by flicking through a few past papers, I'd look at how to do a SWOT, characteristics and skills of an entrepreneur, advantages of businesses for local areas/the economy, benefits of teamwork/good communications etc.

I'm not going to bother studying for it tonight though, I have other commitments, and I do business studies so I think I'm safe on cruise control.

I gotta hand it to you mate all what u is bang on.
Swot analysis is definately up
community development
different agencies like FAS county enterprise boards etc
work experience bnefits challenges

Bascially everything in exam paper 07 - 09

It's good to see that it's not only me that's freakn out about the population table.
I think this is the first time that it came up.

goldenlady131

Haha children? But yeah you said it it should be grand

highlydebased

What did people think of it?

I'm not bothered about it, not using it for points, but out of all the papers I've seen it was probably the easiest.....the questions about the work contract and the SWOT were nice ones to get- hate the ones about "describe how you organised work experience" -.-

Crow92

I thought it was grand, mainly cop on, started watching the video at 10:00 finished the whole thing by 11:30

ldxo15wus6fpgm

So easy. I can't believe you can get 70 points for that.

G_R

Crow92 wrote: »

I thought it was grand, mainly cop on, started watching the video at 10:00 finished the whole thing by 11:30

Don't know how you managed that. I started at 10 and was writing till 12:29 and I only did 4 General Questions.

Overall exam was good, pretty simple tbh. Good to have it out of the way

MaggieNF

i thought it was pretty good, video was a bit weird :L


i was running short on time and the video wouldnt work at first so we started late


thats the first of our leaving cert exams :O

Crow92

dannym08 wrote: »

Don't know how you managed that. I started at 10 and was writing till 12:29 and I only did 4 General Questions.

Overall exam was good, pretty simple tbh. Good to have it out of the way

Maybe i just answered everything really badly I dunno took me about 5-10 minutes to answer the case study and about 8 minutes for each question. I just thought of it as I was writing, but sure I easily could of messed it up lol

Liveit

well it is an easy exam, but marked very very hard so it kinda balances out.
Its 50 points anyway in the bag

aine92

It was so easy, its ridiculous that thats 70 points! The Audio Visual was HILARIOUS, everyone was just laughing at the acting!

People who think it went badly, honestly I got 89% in the mock and I literally hand on heart did nothing for it, at the end of the day its just common sense and you always do better than expected!

1 down, 11 to go

Dannym08, I did 5 questions too and still left 10mins early so!

*giggles*

How did we all get on? That case study was a bítch:( Still writing like a bad thing at 12.30 but got it finished eventually. Phew.

Orlaladuck

The case study was a nasty all right but not that bad. We had the funniest ordeal with the audio visual. First the computer we were watching it on wasn't updated so it wouldn't play, got another laptop for it. Then halfway through the computer decided to update itself and turn off. It was hilarious. So we got to see it a sneaky extra time :L

freeze4real

aine92 wrote: »

It was so easy, its ridiculous that thats 70 points! The Audio Visual was HILARIOUS, everyone was just laughing at the acting!

People who think it went badly, honestly I got 89% in the mock and I literally hand on heart did nothing for it, at the end of the day its just common sense and you always do better than expected!

1 down, 11 to go

Dannym08, I did 5 questions too and still left 10mins early so!

To be honest I found the video and the case study challenging infact evrything was.

I'm laughing at those who think it's 70points in the bag. Why well according to teachers 1 out of 10 get 70 points. So it wud be better if you said 50points in the bag.

Remember this exam is 40%. I'm sure you cud do the maths and figure out how many percent the portfolio is.

Good luck

MaggieNF

freeze4real wrote: »

To be honest I found the video and the case study challenging infact evrything was.

I'm laughing at those who think it's 70points in the bag. Why well according to teachers 1 out of 10 get 70 points. So it wud be better if you said 50points in the bag.

Remember this exam is 40%. I'm sure you cud do the maths and figure out how many percent the portfolio is.

Good luck

haha HAAA


chill out like

its just LCVP

and people are allowed have opinions

callaway92

aine92 wrote: »

It was so easy, its ridiculous that thats 70 points! The Audio Visual was HILARIOUS, everyone was just laughing at the acting!

People who think it went badly, honestly I got 89% in the mock and I literally hand on heart did nothing for it, at the end of the day its just common sense and you always do better than expected!

1 down, 11 to go

Dannym08, I did 5 questions too and still left 10mins early so!

COOL DUDES

callaway92

btw 3 people out of Leaving Cert in my school got a distinction last year..Links is not easy

freeze4real

callaway92 wrote: »

btw 3 people out of Leaving Cert in my school got a distinction last year..Links is not easy

No way lucky. I need the points so I need a distinction badly.

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Quote of the day:
“opinons are like asshole evryone has one"
They all stink

0.M.GXX

ok so that lcvp exam wasnt easy at all.. the case stdy was impossible and some of the general questions werre all buisness.. which didnt help me at all as i dont do buisness.. anyone feeel the same...
anyone know if LEADER is a stakeholder?,.,,

x:eek: