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"A Student" Selling His Notes On eBay

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    #92
    leavingcert
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭leavingcert


    aine92 wrote: »
    I know this guy and I wouldnt buy a bag of lollipops off him, personally speaking. He used to call himself Cool Cillian.

    I agree with you aine!
    I've seen his notes too... they're awful!
    There'a about one folder of them
    All the teachers in our school are raging


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    #93
    Hatred
    Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭Hatred


    He got 7As, so what? Just give them away to people who need it. And saying that notes will get you an A is stupid. I studied mostly from my books and got 5 As notes just helped a bit.


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    #94
    randylonghorn
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 29,509 Mod ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Less of the vitriol, people, please!


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    #95
    RolandIRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    Final Bids
    1,100 French
    140 Irish
    192.50 History
    1,020 Maths
    271.87 English
    120 Music

    Total 2844.37

    so if the people are actually serious, he stands to gain almost €3,000. :eek: doubt he'll actually get it. i pity him if he thinks he'll get all this money.


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    #96
    aine92
    Registered Users Posts: 468 ✭✭aine92


    I know somebody said it already but its completely true, in the subjects I got my As in my notes are a complete match to me and what suits me, I wasnt into abbreviations or anything and all my notes are in separate copies with the fully drawn pics and stuff, but thats not to say they'd suit everybody! Imagine paying that much for french notes and they're crap!


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    #97
    boardbuyer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭boardbuyer


    leavingcert wrote: »
    I agree with you aine!
    I've seen his notes too... they're awful!
    There'a about one folder of them
    All the teachers in our school are raging, they're all their notes.
    He is such a media whore

    ...He got well over 100 more points then you did?:D.....
    anyway who else here got 7 As?:confused:
    if the notes are so bad then why did he get more points then you?


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    #98
    felic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 229 ✭✭felic


    whiteman19 wrote: »
    Final Bids
    1,100 French
    140 Irish
    192.50 History
    1,020 Maths
    271.87 English
    120 Music

    Total 2844.37

    so if the people are actually serious, he stands to gain almost €3,000. :eek: doubt he'll actually get it. i pity him if he thinks he'll get all this money.
    Whatever about History, Irish, maybe Maths.. what good are his English notes when they will be on different plays and novels? That amount for French is ludicrous!


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    #99
    JamesJB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 143 ✭✭JamesJB


    boardbuyer wrote: »
    ...He got well over 100 more points then you did?:D.....
    anyway who else here got 7 As?:confused:
    if the notes are so bad then why did he get more points then you?

    I did almost as well (7 subjects, just got a B in art, the one subject I should never have picked) and I can tell you that 'notes' are only a very small part of success. Buying expensive notes that likely came at least in part from teachers (and therefore from sources you could locate for free) is probably a waste. He probably used notes, the internet, his books, friends, teachers etc. to get those grades.

    tl;dr notes alone aren't enough. Even if they're brilliant notes it won't get you those grades unless you apply proper learning techniques...and if you're doing that you might as well make out your own notes. Or use Anki!


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    #100
    felic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 229 ✭✭felic


    I agree... notes are only a small part of the process. Its whats in your head and what comes up on the papers that matter. His notes will be no different to any of those revision books that can be bought for less than a tenner in Easons! ANd the whole point of notes is that the student creates them him or her self and knows them inside and out.
    Im still amazed that this made the headlines! Wonder will there be a follow up on his 'winnings'. Entrepreneur my arse! Total money grabber more like! As if this is like some huge new massive business plan? The next Microsoft for the country. Its quite clear the country has nothing going on to see this type of nonsense makes it on the news and the papers!


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    #101
    Lawliet
    Registered Users Posts: 2,761 ✭✭✭Lawliet


    JamesJB wrote: »
    tl;dr notes alone aren't enough. Even if they're brilliant notes it won't get you those grades unless you apply proper learning techniques...and if you're doing that you might as well make out your own notes. Or use Anki!
    Okay, lets cut the crap. How much are they paying you? :P


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    #102
    YohanCabeye7
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭YohanCabeye7


    whiteman19 wrote: »
    Final Bids
    1,100 French
    140 Irish
    192.50 History
    1,020 Maths
    271.87 English
    120 Music

    Total 2844.37

    so if the people are actually serious, he stands to gain almost €3,000. :eek: doubt he'll actually get it. i pity him if he thinks he'll get all this money.


    He was on Galway Bay FM news @ 1pm, sounding very happy about the finals bids, so he thinks he's getting the money anyway :eek: so a bit of a shock awaits him.

    Still a nice pot if he doesn't get french and Maths, ( which he wont :P )


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    #103
    YohanCabeye7
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭YohanCabeye7


    As I speak, they are talking about it on 2fm, convinved he's getting the 3k.


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    #104
    Lawliet
    Registered Users Posts: 2,761 ✭✭✭Lawliet


    Ultimate proof that getting 600 points doesn't equal high intellect?


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    #105
    JamesJB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 143 ✭✭JamesJB


    Lawliet wrote: »
    Ultimate proof that getting 600 points doesn't equal high intellect?

    Yep.
    Lawliet wrote: »
    Okay, lets cut the crap. How much are they paying you?

    I only found Anki in late May. It would have made life so much easier...It's a great tool and I just...I don't want anyone else to suffer, is all! :rolleyes:


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    #106
    boardbuyer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭boardbuyer


    Lawliet wrote: »
    Ultimate proof that getting 600 points doesn't equal high intellect?
    did you get 600?:p
    because if thats true then half of the leaving cert students would have got over 500.:pac:
    did they?


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    #107
    Lawliet
    Registered Users Posts: 2,761 ✭✭✭Lawliet


    Who said anything about me getting 600 points? I was talking about Cillian Fahy


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    #108
    JamesJB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 143 ✭✭JamesJB


    boardbuyer wrote: »
    did you get 600?:p
    because if thats true then half of the leaving cert students would have got over 500.:pac:
    did they?

    Not too sure what's meant by that, but believe me when I say that academia and regular intellect actually can be mutually exclusive. I've known people to get high points and they wouldn't even identify themselves as intellectuals; they just did well on tests and were studious.

    As someone once said (and I honestly cannot recall who) being educated and being intelligent are very different things.


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    #109
    randylonghorn
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 29,509 Mod ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    JamesJB wrote: »
    ... being educated and being intelligent are very different things.
    Indeed ... and neither are automatically linked to having common sense.


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    #110
    L1m1tless
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 2,165 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1m1tless


    boardbuyer wrote: »
    ...He got well over 100 more points then you did?:D.....
    anyway who else here got 7 As?:confused:
    if the notes are so bad then why did he get more points then you?

    Is that you Cillian? :cool:

    Your adverts ads also say your based in Clare


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    #111
    Lawliet
    Registered Users Posts: 2,761 ✭✭✭Lawliet


    randylonghorn wrote: »
    Indeed ... and neither are automatically linked to having common sense.
    Oh! I don't suppose we could derail this thread into one where we talk about all the stupid people who got high points?!
    Cause I know this girl who got 550, but four months ago she didn't know what the word 'striker' meant. She also once asked my chemistry teacher how much carbon (as in the actual rock) humans made during respiration. Good god that girl was a moron.

    ..Sorry


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    #112
    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,028 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    And such is the calibre of next year's "freshers"...


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    #113
    Piste
    Registered Users Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    What a great idea, I just put up a load of my old JC and LC books online, as well as a bunch of LC essays for English which got me As at the time.


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    #114
    leavingcert
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭leavingcert


    boardbuyer wrote: »
    ...He got well over 100 more points then you did?:D.....
    anyway who else here got 7 As?:confused:
    if the notes are so bad then why did he get more points then you?

    I never said my notes were better.
    I never boasted about getting on better than Cillian
    I never said I got 7 A's
    There question here isn't one of me getting less pints than Cillian, it's of the quality of the notes
    i'm saying that as an onlooker and somebody else looking at the notes they're impossible to understand?
    :confused:


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    #115
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    There is not a hope of Cillian getting his money.
    When people disagree with auctions they put in fake bids.

    Happens in GAA finals and rugby games every single year when people see touting.

    Cillian isn't touting of course but the auctions are going to attract time wasters.

    Does he realy think he'll get 1,100 euro for French notes?
    Not a chance


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    #116
    seany2929
    Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭seany2929


    He actually got the money:eek:

    http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/bid-battle-for-notes-leaves-cillian-2844-better-off-129503.html


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    #117
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    Oh wow you have to laugh at the naivety of the parents that bidded on the "A1-giving" notes.


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    #118
    Lawliet
    Registered Users Posts: 2,761 ✭✭✭Lawliet


    **Timbuk2** wrote: »
    Oh wow you have to laugh at the naivety of the parents that bidded on the "A1-giving" notes.
    You can only hope that their kids have more sense


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    #119
    ANXIOUS
    Registered Users Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭ANXIOUS


    He is going to be on tv3 in a few minutes talking about selling the notes.


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    #120
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    6 sets of notes and he's been paid for 5.

    Only one left is the 1,100 for French, he was with Matt Cooper last night


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    #121
    TheReverend
    Registered Users Posts: 710 ✭✭✭TheReverend


    oh wow, people actually paid


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