Leaving Cert 2011/2012

leavingcert.

Well it's a bit early but sure why not :rolleyes:

General discussion thread for the leaving cert class of 2012..:pac:

What subjects ye doing?

How much study are ye doing?

Whats the plan after the leaving cert?

How's the social life? :cool:

etc....etc

LittleMissLost

Nooooooooooooooooooooo! You can't take over our forum until the results at least?

LOL joke, but come on? It's raw enough yet.. :cool:

LilMissCiara

LittleMissLost wrote: »

Nooooooooooooooooooooo! You can't take over our forum until the results at least?

LOL joke, but come on? It's raw enough yet.. :cool:

Until the end of September when we finish discussing our newlyfound college lives! :P

LittleMissLost

LilMissCiara wrote: »

Until the end of September when we finish discussing our newlyfound college lives! :P

I concur :P

leavingcert.

LilMissCiara wrote: »

Until the end of September when we finish discussing our newlyfound college lives! :P

haha sorry :P just count yerselves lucky yer finished with it! and good luck with results:D

LilMissCiara

leavingcert. wrote: »

haha sorry :P just count yerselves lucky yer finished with it! and good luck with results:D

Nope... not until 12 hours 45 minutes time!

Got a facebook mail today that a local pub sent out telling me the Leaving Cert was over and they're having a party... I was like

:P

LifesaverNiall

same.. except it was off ucd telling me i should concentrate on sorting out my CAO.. too bad im not finished until 5:20 tomorrow

LilMissCiara

LifesaverNiall wrote: »

same.. except it was off ucd telling me i should concentrate on sorting out my CAO.. too bad im not finished until 5:20 tomorrow

Oh yeah, got the yesterday as well I think..

It was dated the 22nd (wait I got it on the 22nd? weird) so it's not as if it was sent to arrive on Friday or anything!

LifesaverNiall

yea i know! what have you got tomorrow anyway?

._.

LifesaverNiall wrote: »

same.. except it was off ucd telling me i should concentrate on sorting out my CAO.. too bad im not finished until 5:20 tomorrow

lol yeah, I got a letter being all like "now that the leaving cert is over...". I was like, I still have two exams

LilMissCiara

LifesaverNiall wrote: »

yea i know! what have you got tomorrow anyway?

Applied Maths..! :eek:

I've been going around all day saying FML... and I hate that phrase..! :L

But tomorrow night =

SDTimeout

YES, HA! HA! NEVER AGAIN DO I HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THIS AGAIN. IT'S ALL AHEAD OF YOU.

stealinhorses

Yeah, enjoy the worst year of your lives :]

LittleMissLost

stealinhorses wrote: »

Yeah, enjoy the worst year of your lives :]

I actually didn't mind it at all! Get treated like a semi-equal for the first time by teachers?

stealinhorses

There's nothing you can really say that would make me go do it all again :P.

cocoshovel

Jaysus lads. You have most of the summer left, so rest and have fun while you can and worry about that stuff come September.

Grindylow

LittleMissLost wrote: »

Nooooooooooooooooooooo! You can't take over our forum until the results at least?

LOL joke, but come on? It's raw enough yet.. :cool:

LilMissCiara wrote: »

Until the end of September when we finish discussing our newlyfound college lives! :P

I always think you guys are the same person! :P

KizzyMonster

I'm sitting the LC in June 2012 (Repeating to get into medicine, should have done this four years ago!)...

Am doing English, Irish, French, Biology, Chemistry and then I can't decide whether to do ordinary level Maths and higher Geography or drop Geogo and do higher level maths...



I took ordinary level maths when I did the LC in 2007 and I'm also taking up Chemistry (Dropping Music) this year so I think I might stick with it ordinary even if it means and extra subject...

LilMissCiara

Noel2k9 wrote: »

I always think you guys are the same person! :P

:eek: I'm the coolest Leaving Cert Boardie (or whatever we're called) EVER.. :P

LittleMissLost

LilMissCiara wrote: »

:eek: I'm the coolest Leaving Cert Boardie (or whatever we're called) EVER.. :P

Excusé moi?

Jorda 12

Does anyone know what date the leaving cert 2012 finishes ? I set up a thread asking this and for some reason after a few answers it was closed .............Anyone know why that would be ? So i cannot reply to it

LittleMissLost

^^ www.examinations.ie

Hue.G rection

Ah lads, im dreading the leaving! Haha jk i just finished the leaving!

Jorda 12

Cheers LittleMissLost, but i must be going blind, I have searched that website on numerous ocassions and still can't see when the leaving cert finishes in 2012

LilMissCiara

Jorda 12 wrote: »

Does anyone know what date the leaving cert 2012 finishes ? I set up a thread asking this and for some reason after a few answers it was closed .............Anyone know why that would be ? So i cannot reply to it

You were told it starts June 6th and ends 13 weekdays later. How much more of an answer do you need?

Jorda 12

LilMissCiara wrote: »

You were told it starts June 6th and ends 13 weekdays later. How much more of an answer do you need?

:eek: Oh Sorry ! I was told probably So the person didn't know for sure.Thanks for the reply anyway !

Geo10

KizzyMonster wrote: »

I'm sitting the LC in June 2012 (Repeating to get into medicine, should have done this four years ago!)...

Am doing English, Irish, French, Biology, Chemistry and then I can't decide whether to do ordinary level Maths and higher Geography or drop Geogo and do higher level maths...



I took ordinary level maths when I did the LC in 2007 and I'm also taking up Chemistry (Dropping Music) this year so I think I might stick with it ordinary even if it means and extra subject...

I'd say do HL Geography. Chances are you'll get way more points in that than in maths. Geography, unlike maths, is actually interesting and relevant to real life! IMO, Geography is the most beneficial subject you can study and OL maths is easy if all you need is a pass (assuming this if you're using your 6 HL subjects for points).
HL maths is irrelevant to life, very difficult, boring and in no way beneficial.

AnnaKin

well since the original question was about the leaving cert class of 2011/12:
ummm i havent studied at all in the last two months..nor do i intend to, although i will attempt to get my notes and all that up to date and organised :pac:
but yeah i dont know if actual study is a good idea - only because IMO it'll just be forgotten by me in the first place yanno?
as for the social life, cramming as much going out as i can into the last few weeks of summer

so yeah... if i do attempt study, it'll only be light so the first week of sixth year isnt a shock to my system

and as for any other people in this situation- are yous dreading it as much as I am??!!!
god i feel so unprepared :pac:
and as for the present leaving cert students - Good Luck with your results

ChemHickey

Has any other Leaving cert class of 2012 people looked at any of the exam papers from this year?? :O I know it might be a bit early for predictions but i presume Larkin and Heaney willl come up in english... But.. i suppose its WAAAAAAAAY to early to think of that.. but im fuming with Accounting.. our teacher told us that all the topics we do this year is defo coming up for us in 2012... And ALL and I'm not exxagerating at all, all the topics we did this year came up this year... it'll be a mess... :L But to answer your quetions... Im not really studying yet.. doing a bit of english here and there ( its my worst subject so trying to pick up work) and I'm not reli dreading it... just looking forward to meeting all my friends again! :L Hah..

AnnaKin

ahh @ChemHickey
uhh i looked at the papers (was an attendant so looked as soon as i could've) yeah the english was EASY... but if heaney comes up i'll be happy- what makes ya think they will anyway??

ChemHickey

Ya i was an attendant too and I thought that their English paper was easy too, like a theme of Mystery was very broad! :L I don't like Heaney as much as Kavanagh, but I'd say he'll come up as he wasnt on the course last year, or next year... so they still want him to be in circulation for the year 2014 and to make sure he isn't a guarantee for the 2014's... same reason with Larkin.... Haven't studied Larkkin yet, but hopefully by looking at some of his work it doesn't seem too bad... :L I hope Plath comes up (haven't studied her yet either but she seems grand writing about nature and animals and etc is more of my area! :L )
Do you have any ideas in any subject? What subjects do you do?

PictureFrame

ChemHickey wrote: »

Ya i was an attendant too and I thought that their English paper was easy too, like a theme of Mystery was very broad! :L I don't like Heaney as much as Kavanagh, but I'd say he'll come up as he wasnt on the course last year, or next year... so they still want him to be in circulation for the year 2014 and to make sure he isn't a guarantee for the 2014's... same reason with Larkin.... Haven't studied Larkkin yet, but hopefully by looking at some of his work it doesn't seem too bad... :L I hope Plath comes up (haven't studied her yet either but she seems grand writing about nature and animals and etc is more of my area! :L )
Do you have any ideas in any subject? What subjects do you do?

Plath is a brilliant poet, she is very easy to write about and her poetry is actually insanely interesting! She doesn't really deal with the theme of animals/nature, your probably talking about the poem "Pheasant", this poem actually circulates around the theme of the unfair balance between the sexes, and how men seemed to be able to dominate realationships. She uses great imagery and themes in her poetry which makes her very enjoyable to study! We studied her as our first poet, fingers crossed she makes an appearance in June! , we've also studied Rich, Boland and Kavanagh. I Loved Rich, but surprisingly hated Kavanagh and Boland, it's unusual because she's normally everyones favourite!

ChemHickey

Ya>? Well, I'm hoping that Plath comes up anyway! I have read Child and Mirror and they were enjoyable... but I do like Kavanagh... Just something i like about him... But we seem very far behind in english! We have only done 3 poets (Frost, Heaney , Kavanagh ) Hamlet, And one of our comparitives ( The kite runner ) And thats it.. no work on paper 1 at all!!! :O And no work on unseen poetry... it'll be an epic Fail next june! :L
Whats your comparitives?

AnnaKin

i'm doing: english,french,irish,maths, home ec, art, and geography...

well i was thinking Kinsella MIGHT come up...though we're fecked if he does since he hasnt ever been in the papers... He was ok to do actually!! Rich is a complete tool :pac:... i hated writing about her stuff..granted some of her poems are ok...but it gets repetitive o.O
i want to do plath too!! heaney was ok-ish and i dont even know if we'll cover larkin!!

as for comparative- i'm doing Dancing At Lughnasa, As You Like It and Lamb...

And Hamlet- he's epic :pac:...and as far as predictions go...the only one that i have that could be of use is that the predicted questions on Hamlet are:
1)whether or not hamlet is a hero or a villain (i know everyone practices this but apparantly the mocks from 2011 are a good guideline for 2012 or whatever)
2)The importance of Ophelia and Gertrude (hope this is a wrong prediction tbh)

ChemHickey

Ya our teacher told us Kinsella hadn't come up in years, but he's on next years curse, so there is a strong chance he'll come up... I am doing the kite runner lamb and I'm not scared (an Italian movie) for Comparitives... Im doing English irish maths biology chemistry french accounting and music... :L
Hamlet is grnd... I hope that the women in Hamlet comes up! I wrote an essay for my summer exam on that!! :L Thats my best question.. but id say villain will come up as usual! :L

Call Me Lia

ChemHickey wrote: »

Has any other Leaving cert class of 2012 people looked at any of the exam papers from this year?? :O I know it might be a bit early for predictions but i presume Larkin and Heaney willl come up in english... But.. i suppose its WAAAAAAAAY to early to think of that.. but im fuming with Accounting.. our teacher told us that all the topics we do this year is defo coming up for us in 2012... And ALL and I'm not exxagerating at all, all the topics we did this year came up this year... it'll be a mess... :L But to answer your quetions... Im not really studying yet.. doing a bit of english here and there ( its my worst subject so trying to pick up work) and I'm not reli dreading it... just looking forward to meeting all my friends again! :L Hah..

Same for me! Just looking at the exam paper now: debtors control accounts, incomplete records, club accounts, the budgeting q, we did them all and very few others, and they all came up! Unfortunately, our class is split up between ordinary and higher level and that really slows down progress, as the teacher has to divide her time between us. I've a feeling that she's been mainly concentrating on the ordinary level this year, and hopefully next year she'll look after us a bit better. Hopefully...:rolleyes:

Subjects: English, Irish, Maths, French, Chemistry, Physics, Accounting, and Applied Maths. Hi to everybody!

PictureFrame

The comparative i'm doing is Dancing at Lughnasa, How many miles to Babylon and Inside i'm dancing!

Subjects: Irish, English, Maths, French, Business, Music, Geography, Economics, LCVP!

AnnaKin

i swear, i'll probably die from all this writing for english...i think i'm allergic:pac:
ahh jeesh sure i suppose if we worked... :eek:

ChemHickey

Same for me! Just looking at the exam paper now: debtors control accounts, incomplete records, club accounts, the budgeting q, we did them all and very few others, and they all came up! Unfortunately, our class is split up between ordinary and higher level and that really slows down progress, as the teacher has to divide her time between us. I've a feeling that she's been mainly concentrating on the ordinary level this year, and hopefully next year she'll look after us a bit better. Hopefully...

Ya thats the exact same here! Our class is split into Honours and Pass... but there is only 6 in our class anyway! And i think the pass person is moving school! :L But it doesnt help that the teacher is redeployed too!!

What do people think of the new Project maths and the new irish curriculum? Imo i'd still prefer the old maths course and have the project maths one as a choice instead of the old one!! What do people think of the other subjects too? Any predicitons yet? :D

lainey108

the new irish is terrible, well it is for pass anyways , especially the oral section they have added in 20 picture stories. so its not just a general chat anymore. i honestly dont see the point in project maths, its the same topics that we would be doing anywyas only they added a bit of colour!

i really hope plath comes up this year i love,love,love her!!
and my friend told me that a woman nearly always comes up and i think they got bloand this year so it only really leaves plath and rich and they are both easy.
i quite prefer female poets to maleoets as i find that i can connect more with their poetry which makes it eassier and more enjoyable for me.

im also doing wuthering heights, which i finished reading during the summer becuase i love it so much , i seriously think every person should just read it, its amazing!

apart from that iv done hamlet and inside im dancing, so far we have actually covered alot in english.

accoutning kind of confusses me, how many topics do we have to do , because i dont feel like iv actually done that much this year so im freaking out over that as i want to get really good marks in it.

subjects im doing are: english,irish,maths,german,home ec, business,accounting and lcvp

teenagedream

ChemHickey wrote: »

Ya i was an attendant too and I thought that their English paper was easy too, like a theme of Mystery was very broad! :L I don't like Heaney as much as Kavanagh, but I'd say he'll come up as he wasnt on the course last year, or next year... so they still want him to be in circulation for the year 2014 and to make sure he isn't a guarantee for the 2014's... same reason with Larkin.... Haven't studied Larkkin yet, but hopefully by looking at some of his work it doesn't seem too bad... :L I hope Plath comes up (haven't studied her yet either but she seems grand writing about nature and animals and etc is more of my area! :L )
Do you have any ideas in any subject? What subjects do you do?

Everything's easy when you don't have to do it

Grindylow

You guys do realise when a paper is easy, it's marked a lot harder than usual to balance out the difference? A tough paper will be marked easy, an easy paper will be marked hard.

teenagedream

Also guys predictions are bad news. Especially at the start of the year, if you're ever going to use predictions then do it the night before an exam fopr quick revision purposes. Don't ever solely study the poet that will definitely come up or an experiment that your teacher "guarantees". Nothing is guaranteed otherwise we'd all get A1's. This year saw thousands of people relieved over the poets that came up. But it also saw thousands dismayed when the wrong case study came up in history.


Predictions=the stupidest thing you will do this year.

LifesaverNiall

Such good advice!
Last years poets, i was convinced Wordsworth was going to come up.. was his first time coming up on the new english course, hes not up for your leaving cert.. all the teachers in my school were certain he was coming up.. had an A1 essay ready for him..
didnt show up on the day, you just never know!

ChemHickey

Of course predictions aren't guaranteed, and i do think people are just completely stupid to rely full heartedly on them but they do give an accurate representation of what to expect to come up, and usually they do pay off in some way or another... They can't mark papers like English particularly "harder" as such because it is the most subjective exam going really, but I do agree that some papers do get marked easier than others in some situations. And I do say that English was an "easy" paper (I know as you have said I didnt take the exam, my views might be slightly altered)as the theme given for Paper1 was "Mystery" - quite broad IMO, and for paper 2 the poets were quite predictable and the Hamlet questions were "basic" enough... but, still, It would have seemed a lot harder than it is if i was doing the Leaving cert this year I'd say.

All in all, I can say that IMO, predictions are good if used carefully- I use them for most exams and for the majority (almost all the time) they pay off.

teenagedream

ChemHickey wrote: »

Of course predictions aren't guaranteed, and i do think people are just completely stupid to rely full heartedly on them but they do give an accurate representation of what to expect to come up, and usually they do pay off in some way or another... They can't mark papers like English particularly "harder" as such because it is the most subjective exam going really, but I do agree that some papers do get marked easier than others in some situations. And I do say that English was an "easy" paper (I know as you have said I didnt take the exam, my views might be slightly altered)as the theme given for Paper1 was "Mystery" - quite broad IMO, and for paper 2 the poets were quite predictable and the Hamlet questions were "basic" enough... but, still, It would have seemed a lot harder than it is if i was doing the Leaving cert this year I'd say.

All in all, I can say that IMO, predictions are good if used carefully- I use them for most exams and for the majority (almost all the time) they pay off.

While the poets that came up may have paid off for a lot of people, statistically the most likely poets to come up this year were Hopkins and Wordsworth neither of which appeared. And the examiners will very easily be able to pick out the learned off Boland and Frost answers.

As for Mystery being an easy theme, believe me the essay topics this year were far from easy!

ChemHickey

Ya? Well, I would have thought of Boland to be one of the poets due up... and for the essay titles... :O They seem grand! (IMO) For me, I would have loved that paper... :L Writing about a story in which a mystery is solved or the impact of technology in the lives of the youth! But as I said -- IMO-- I would say it depends on the person really, some one might have found the paper easy while others found it impossible and the same person who found english easy might have found maths impossible... :pac:

teenagedream

ChemHickey wrote: »

Ya? Well, I would have thought of Boland to be one of the poets due up... and for the essay titles... :O They seem grand! (IMO) For me, I would have loved that paper... :L Writing about a story in which a mystery is solved or the impact of technology in the lives of the youth! But as I said -- IMO-- I would say it depends on the person really, some one might have found the paper easy while others found it impossible and the same person who found english easy might have found maths impossible... :pac:

Haha believe me once you have every english paper for the last ten years done you'll see the essay titles were very different from previous years. And yes Boland might have been an obvious choice but the question that came up wasn't. Would have been very hard to get a prelearned answer into that.

degausserxo

Never thought I'd find myself round these parts again! Did the LC in 2009, started studying Irish and German in TCD, dropped out, and now I'm going back to repeat in the Institute.

leavingcert. wrote: »

What subjects ye doing?

Irish, English, German, maths, history, chemistry, biology, ag science. All HL except for OL maths.

How much study are ye doing?

At the minute, not a whole lot, maybe 7 or 8 hours a week.

Whats the plan after the leaving cert?

Vet med in UCD, hopefully!

How's the social life? :cool:

.. grand? Well gonna disappear during the year though.

etc....etc

AnnaKin

lainey108 wrote: »

the new irish is terrible, well it is for pass anyways , especially the oral section they have added in 20 picture stories. so its not just a general chat anymore. i honestly dont see the point in project maths, its the same topics that we would be doing anywyas only they added a bit of colour!

i really hope plath comes up this year i love,love,love her!!
and my friend told me that a woman nearly always comes up and i think they got bloand this year so it only really leaves plath and rich and they are both easy.
i quite prefer female poets to maleoets as i find that i can connect more with their poetry which makes it eassier and more enjoyable for me.

im also doing wuthering heights, which i finished reading during the summer becuase i love it so much , i seriously think every person should just read it, its amazing!

apart from that iv done hamlet and inside im dancing, so far we have actually covered alot in english.

accoutning kind of confusses me, how many topics do we have to do , because i dont feel like iv actually done that much this year so im freaking out over that as i want to get really good marks in it.

subjects im doing are: english,irish,maths,german,home ec, business,accounting and lcvp

wuthering heights- bloody epic- i bought that i dont know how many years ago and still love to read it ^_^

ChemHickey

the new irish is terrible, well it is for pass anyways , especially the oral section they have added in 20 picture stories. so its not just a general chat anymore. i honestly dont see the point in project maths, its the same topics that we would be doing anywyas only they added a bit of colour!

i really hope plath comes up this year i love,love,love her!!
and my friend told me that a woman nearly always comes up and i think they got bloand this year so it only really leaves plath and rich and they are both easy.
i quite prefer female poets to maleoets as i find that i can connect more with their poetry which makes it eassier and more enjoyable for me.

im also doing wuthering heights, which i finished reading during the summer becuase i love it so much , i seriously think every person should just read it, its amazing!

apart from that iv done hamlet and inside im dancing, so far we have actually covered alot in english.

accoutning kind of confusses me, how many topics do we have to do , because i dont feel like iv actually done that much this year so im freaking out over that as i want to get really good marks in it.

subjects im doing are: english,irish,maths,german,home ec, business,accounting and lcvp

Ya? Well, I think the course is almost identical to the honours irish one.. I like the poems, and the stories,.. except for An Gnáthrud... I am looking forward to covering plath.. she seems fun!! :L

Ya.. i read wuthering heights b4 and begged the teacher to do it in english but in our class, us boys dominate against 4 girls i think so she thought we wouldnt "understand" it as such... ;/

For accoutning, it is very strange... there is no real list of what to do and what not to do i think? You just do what you think... This year, we covered : Club/Service/Farm accounts
Tab accounts
Incomplete records (all 3)
Debtors/Creditors Control
Part of the budgeting course too..

Next year, we hope to cover
Ratios
Suspense
Depreciation/Revaluation
Other ones too i think! :L

Its an awfully weird course! :L