Early leavers

BarnhallBull

Wat do ye make of them? Annoying? Stupid? Cool as f*ck? What's the earliest you've had, any have people leaving English after 30 mins? :rolleyes:

Personally, if i'm finished and happy with what i've done i'll leave, i'm ot one of these to sit there for 40 minutes re-reading the thing 50 times and trying to squeeze out an extra few questions. What does irritate me is the people who race to finish the paper before the final 10 minute cut-off period so they can leg it out before the end...

EuropeanSon

I left maths 1 after 2 hours. I was done all 8 questions after an hour and a half, but I read over it and reread over it for any mistakes first.

I'm always inclined to do an extra Q if I can rather than leave, but I'm not usually finished very early, except in OL Irish.

FyeaG

...I got a class mate, hes ****in weard, he sits beside me, but he always leave early, maths, geography, english, and the point is he writes alot, and gets all the questions done, he wasnt like a good student tru the year, but like one month left befo exams he just stuck into it, i bet he studied 24/7 and got everythin in his head now, good for him, lucky bastard

DancingQueen:)

I havn't had much time to leave early. I finished maths really quickly but spent the rest of the time re-doing questions. I'm definitely going to leave early in Irish though, in the mocks I did every question on Paper 2 and was still finished with tons of time to spare. I'm not counting it so it won't harm me at all. Someone in english left after an hour and a half, couldn't believe it :eek: I was writing until the last minute.

Lawliet

I had someone in my exam centre last year who asked to leave five minutes in biology. I think she only did like one short question. She wasn't allowed leave of course, so she just sat there with her arms folded for the next half an hour. Don't know why she bothered coming in.

XXRachelXX

It's kinda funny in a way, they usually make a big deal out of leaving but you know yourself that they probably didn't do too well

UrbanSea

Why would people leaving early annoy you?
If they want to leave,let them leave. Free country.

EuropeanSon

greetings wrote: »

Why would people leaving early annoy you?
If they want to leave,let them leave. Free country.

Maybe they are making noise?

Corkfeen

A friend of mine left English paper 1 after an hour.....

irondragons

people who leave early are so cool

Victoria.

I'll be leaving ordinary Irish early on Monday. Got the paper done in about 45 mins in the mocks so won't be sitting there for 2 more hours. They wouldn't let us leave in the mocks but it must have been annoying for the honours people trying to concentrate, all these people clicking pens and shuffling around arguing with the teachers to let us leave.

lovelabel

EuropeanSon wrote: »

I left maths 1 after 2 hours. I was done all 8 questions after an hour and a half, but I read over it and reread over it for any mistakes first.

so did I!

EuropeanSon

Victoria. wrote: »

I'll be leaving ordinary Irish early on Monday. Got the paper done in about 45 mins in the mocks so won't be sitting there for 2 more hours. They wouldn't let us leave in the mocks but it must have been annoying for the honours people trying to concentrate, all these people clicking pens and shuffling around arguing with the teachers to let us leave.

Honours is similar. Paper 1 takes nobody more than 2 hours, and few take that long.

DaveyDave

People can't help but make noise, especially if everyone is sitting quietly doing exams.

So far I've only finished early in Foundation Maths Paper I, I finished after an hour and spent half an hour double checking everything because I wasn't expecting to finish so early, who needs two and a half hours to do Foundation Maths Paper I?

**Timbuk2**

I've never understood it. Everytime I see somebody leave, they just end up waiting in the yard for their friends to come out.

Or another annoying thing - one person leaves, and then their friend leaves. It's the LC - stay and do an extra question don't just leave because your friend did so you can talk about how 'shít that was'

DaveyDave

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

I've never understood it. Everytime I see somebody leave, they just end up waiting in the yard for their friends to come out.

Or another annoying thing - one person leaves, and then their friend leaves. It's the LC - stay and do an extra question don't just leave because your friend did so you can talk about how 'shít that was'

I remember in the Junior I waited for a friend to leave and left when they did, only because I had finished and didn't want to be labelled a retard for leaving early so I waited lol.

Though a guy in my class left Ordinary maths after 40 minutes and halfway through the English exams...

Burswood

DaveyDave wrote: »

who needs two and a half hours to do Foundation Maths Paper I?

People who aren't good at maths? I would certainly think so.

DaveyDave

Burswood wrote: »

People who aren't good at maths? I would certainly think so.

Even still, the paper is extremely short. I think I used 4 pages in the whole thing and it was pretty much all done on a calculator. It took me an hour to do it and that was with some mistakes, and taking it slow. I guess Paper II could take a long time though.

Diabhal Beag

I always laugh. The "rebel" early leavers are always the thick ones who think its cool. Then they have to repeat or get into 0 courses.

For the sake of looking cool to people not paying attention to the Leaving Cert exams.

**Timbuk2**

Actually, here is another weird thing. Of course I am probably judging, but anyway.

For the Maths exam, there were quite a few 20 year olds (well there was about 5) in my hall sitting the exam. Some of them left after 45 minutes. Only 1/5 stayed until the end. Now I may be rushing to judge them, but if they are repeating only maths, then that means they need it for a job, and/or they didn't get it right the first time. You think they would just stay until the end and give it their best shot. They were all doing Ordinary as far as I know.

EuropeanSon

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

I always laugh. The early leavers are always the thick ones who think its cool. Then they have to repeat or get into 0 courses.

For the sake of looking cool to people not paying attention to the Leaving Cert exams.

Ok, I take big issue with this. I got 93% in my HL maths mock, I took part in the Olympiad programme, and I'm aiming to go straight into a Masters programme in maths next year, and I left maths early. Not to show off, but because I'd done all 8 questions in 1.5 hours and then looked back over EVERYTHING. There was no need to stay, yet suddenly I'm a "thick one" or I'll have to repeat? What a ridiculous, stupid, jealous sounding post.

Diabhal Beag

EuropeanSon wrote: »

Ok, I take big issue with this. I got 93% in my HL maths mock, I took part in the Olympiad programme, and I'm aiming to go straight into a Masters programme in maths next year, and I left maths early. Not to show off, but because I'd done all 8 questions in 1.5 hours and then looked back over EVERYTHING. There was no need to stay, yet suddenly I'm a "thick one" or I'll have to repeat? What a ridiculous, stupid, jealous sounding post.

I meant early leavers as in "rebels". Sorry I offended you.

BarnhallBull

You're aiming to go straight into a Masters programme in Maths and you only scraped an A1? Not trying to pick a fight, but a masters is a teeny bit of a step up from LC...

EuropeanSon

We hadn't even covered the course at the time, so i'd say 93% is pretty damn good. It's a 4 year programme, basically condensing 5/6 years into 4, in St. Andrews, Scotland.

muffinz

Nobody in my room has left for any exams, theres one girl that gets up to pee pretty often but thats it! Im so annoyed that irish tape is after the irish paper 1... I do ordinary level irish and i know i will be finished in an hour no doubt, and if I leave early, all I can do is sit around and wait for the tape, so annoying

**Timbuk2**

EuropeanSon, don't be offended - you know you are an exception :P The majority of the early leavers just go outside to complain how crap the paper was and enjoy the sunshine. Most honours people stay until the end, in my experience

gant0

Im definatly going to leave early for Irish paper 2 OL....too bad the aural is on after it tho.Can't go home just have to relax I suppose

Dr. Ring

People have actually left my exam centre after an hour, for BOTH English papers madness haha

I will definately be leaving Irish paper 2 after an hour, maybe an hour and a half, literally just wanna pass my paper 2, hate irish

Mayoegian

BarnhallBull wrote: »

You're aiming to go straight into a Masters programme in Maths and you only scraped an A1? Not trying to pick a fight, but a masters is a teeny bit of a step up from LC...

Are you aware of how unbelievably jealous that post sounded?

EuropeanSon

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

EuropeanSon, don't be offended - you know you are an exception :P The majority of the early leavers just go outside to complain how crap the paper was and enjoy the sunshine. Most honours people stay until the end, in my experience

A moderator's reply if I ever saw one.

Don't worry, I won't cause trouble. :P

Killio9

i love early leavers just love them,this thread is so stupid

Cian92

EuropeanSon wrote: »

Maybe they are making noise?

The guy next to me, can't keep his ****ing leg still! It seems to be on vibrate the whole bloody time, black shoes on a lino floor = hell. I actually got a headache from it during English Paper 2 :mad: So I can't wait untill he leaves! It is usually an hour before at least. So the last hour is bliss!

Jack Leahy

DaveyDave wrote: »

People can't help but make noise, especially if everyone is sitting quietly doing exams.

So far I've only finished early in Foundation Maths Paper I, I finished after an hour and spent half an hour double checking everything because I wasn't expecting to finish so early, who needs two and a half hours to do Foundation Maths Paper I?

Anyone who does Foundation Maths can't be great at it in fairness :P

FyeaG

Cian92 wrote: »

The guy next to me, can't keep his ****ing leg still! It seems to be on vibrate the whole bloody time, black shoes on a lino floor = hell. I actually got a headache from it during English Paper 2 :mad: So I can't wait untill he leaves! It is usually an hour before at least. So the last hour is bliss!

Tell him that, i had the same thing, after the exam i found him in the school yard and told him that, so it was choice for him, either stop it, or spend some time in hospital while the exams on

storm2811

I'm only doing the JC and I know it's not as important but the other day this fella got caught with his phone or something and got kicked out,5 minutes later his facebook status was:
"Finishd geog in haf hr!lols!":rolleyes:

EuropeanSon

storm2811 wrote: »

I'm only doing the JC and I know it's not as important but the other day this fella got caught with his phone or something and got kicked out,5 minutes later his facebook status was:
"Finishd geog in haf hr!lols!":rolleyes:

Lol. That's optimism for you.

challengemaster

EuropeanSon wrote: »

Ok, I take big issue with this. I got 93% in my HL maths mock, I took part in the Olympiad programme, and I'm aiming to go straight into a Masters programme in maths next year, and I left maths early. Not to show off, but because I'd done all 8 questions in 1.5 hours and then looked back over EVERYTHING. There was no need to stay, yet suddenly I'm a "thick one" or I'll have to repeat? What a ridiculous, stupid, jealous sounding post.

I think you might be slightly misinformed? You have to be a graduate to do a masters.

EuropeanSon

challengemaster wrote: »

I think you might be slightly misinformed? You have to be a graduate to do a masters.

No, I'm not. It's a four year, condensed Masters programme. Look up st-andrews.ac.uk if you want confirmation, it's in the prospectus under Maths.

**Timbuk2**

challengemaster wrote: »

I think you might be slightly misinformed? You have to be a graduate to do a masters.

In the UK, as far as I know, you can decide to do a masters or a degree before you start. Or at least you could for most of my UCAS choices anyway.

For the record, I think the Irish CAO is better than the UK's UCAS - it's much fairer

EuropeanSon

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

In the UK, as far as I know, you can decide to do a masters or a degree before you start. Or at least you could for most of my UCAS choices anyway.

For the record, I think the Irish CAO is better than the UK's UCAS - it's much fairer

My personal statement was the greatest piece of self promotion ever written, it was spectacular, made me sound like an able bodied Stephen Hawking/Gandhi hybrid.

It is unfair though, especially for people who are uncomfortable with promoting themselves, or simply not good at essay writing.

Ditzie

one fella keeps leaving 30mins after each paper but he always gives a liitle cough when he gets up :mad: i end up losing my train of thought because im thinking of how "cool" he is :rolleyes:. jk

CasualLiKE

I'm a rampant early leaver, everyone knows leaving early makes your penis grow immensely. The earlier you leave the bigger it grows.

LOL



But for serious, There was guy sitting across from me and he left 20 minutes into English Paper 2- he was doing HL btw. I just looked at him with a grin and he laughed under his breath. He knew he failed. Sad really....

randylonghorn

challengemaster wrote: »

I think you might be slightly misinformed? You have to be a graduate to do a masters.

That's more normal, certainly.

However, some (longer) courses go straight to Masters level, rather than Bachelors + add-on = Masters.

Pretty uncommon in Ireland though.

BarnhallBull

I'm not jealous in any way Mayoegian, maths isn't my thing, i'm happy enough with I can do though :cool:

My post was meant as a friendly warning/piece of advice for the poster, I know people who breezed through HL maths in secondary school and who've struggled consistently with University maths in their first 2 years even though it's slightly "dumbed down" as part of a science course rather than a full on maths degree. Thought i'd share a bit of insider knowledge with guy is all, but certainly not jealous

monaghanman10

im doing 7 honours and hoping for near 600 but im doin pass french and i plan on leaving after half an hour

orangetictac

monaghanman10 wrote: »

im doing 7 honours and hoping for near 600 but im doin pass french and i plan on leaving after half an hour

People from Monaghan getting 600!??!?!?!?!?!?!? lol


I KEED. I KEED.

monaghanman10

now now its happened before

Cipango

lovelabel wrote: »

so did I!

Dont know why English and Geo dont give enough time and then Irish gives us hours to spare! Ha

Cipango

Im sickened that ive to stick around on monday for the Aural! So inconvenient!!

Shanotheslayer

Deleted User wrote: »

except in OL Irish.

Join the club mate.

I've left every exam about 15-10mins before hand. After I was finished and happy with it. As for Irish... Im expecting myself to be done in 30mins, dreadful at it I am.