Your proudest moment of the leaving cert?

ElvisChrist6

Your moment to brag!:P
What was the thing you were proudest of throughout the leaving cert? Doesn't even necessarily have to be part of your results! Maybe one particular part of maths you were finally able to grasp or answer completely on the paper? Your Irish oral? Just something you'll be still smiling about for a good while, thinking back on it!

Mine personally was my music exam! The reason I was quite proud was because I decided I wanted to do English and Music in Maynooth (arts) around October in 6th year, so I started studying music around Christmas, with some help from my girlfriend who gave me her notes and stuff! I had to do most of the prescribed works myself (the girlfriend helped a lot with Tchaikovsky as it was the one she'd already done in school, being only in 5th year, and gave me her notes on Rhapsody, couldn't have done it without her really). I decided to do the listening elective instead of practical as I get a bit nervous playing for people and was afraid it would bring me down! If I had to do it again, I wouldn't choose it this time! There is absolutely NOTHING online or in books to help you do the listening elective! But anyway, I did it on 1920s-30s jazz standards. In the end, anyway, after 5/6 months of study... I got a C2! I was so happy!

paulmclaughlin

Made up my own formula in my ordinary level math exam. I dunno if it worked but hey, I got an A2!

Got a B1 in HL maths after struggling with it for 2 years.

The rest was fairly dissapointing so ill hold onto that :P

jonaldinho

Writing a joke in my english exam. Cant remember how it went, but i can remember sitting there in the exam hall with a big smile on my face for quite a while.

flyaway.

Honestly just sitting the exams at all. I've been quite sick for 5th and 6th year and was in hospital just a week before the exams. So I'm proud of myself for not giving up! And I was delighted with a C1 in maths and getting my first choice university course.

Sunny!!

a B in maths:D

Skintwin

Either my A (when I worked it out) in my Irish oral, not failing French, getting a B1 in maths, after struggling along for 4 years, getting a (completely unexpected) B1 in English or geting 100% in my History project!

( A lot of unexected proud moments, especially since I missed from before christmas to the second week of February (swine flu), two weeks from when I hurt my knee (sprained AGAIN!!) and missing about another three months of the leaving cert course in total!

Gadhafi

How do you know what you got in your history project skintwin?

Skintwin

Gadhafi wrote: »

How do you know what you got in your history project skintwin?

I went to view my scripts after the results came out and I'd gotten the full 100 marks (25%) in my project. Made all the late nights SOOO worthwhile! :cool:

partyatmygaff

Getting an A1 in my Business mock after teaching myself the course from November onwards.

That and my Engineering project successfully working. My two proudest moments.

partyatmygaff

Skintwin wrote: »

I went to view my scripts after the results came out and I'd gotten the full 100 marks (25%) in my project. Made all the late nights SOOO worthwhile! :cool:

How'd you manage to do that?

paperpackages

A2 in HL French after wanting to move to pass, being the worst in the class for 2 years and having a teacher who, while being the best teacher I had, didn't have much faith in me. I showed her. Also getting the same grade as people who got a million grinds was quite sweet!

polka dot

Surviving honours maths for 2 years and coming out with a D1 (thinking I'd failed the whole thing :rolleyes:) then coming out the other side of it and being told I possibly have a mild form of dyscalculia. :pac: I feel accomplished.

brian93

Personally getting a B1 in English. My teacher told me if I worked hard from the mocks onwards I could get a high C, so I decided not to work much at it and concentrate on my other subjects. Can't wait to see him, and his reaction! He use tell me every second day after the mocks that I was 'gone to the dogs recently!'

As a year, seeing as we were such a small and close year, it would have to be that 5 out of the us 13 Geography students got an A1, even though the national average is only 3%!

Also, 11 of the 38 of us got 500+, a higher percentage then the €5,000 pa grind school, who have their percentages advertised in every local publication and newspaper. We did unreal for a small, urban school.

Fergus_Nash

B1 in English without finishing a little bit of Paper 1 and the poetry question in Paper 2. Not failing Physics too.

Skintwin

partyatmygaff wrote: »

How'd you manage to do that?

Well I did my leaving last year, so when there was an option to view the scripts in September, (I think) I rang up the school to get them to bring my papers down for me to see them. That's how I figured i got an A in my Irish oral too

Griffen262

My Construction Studies teacher hardly believing I built the project myself after I rendered and topped it up a bit out of his sight! :pac:


Feckin' cúnt of a thing in the end!

Korvanica

Finished Ordinary Level maths paper 1 in 16 minutes, and having a race after the hour passed with my mate to see who could get out of the exam hall first. I won . Got an A1 aswell

Doing the same for Technical Graphics, finished both papers in under an hour each. A1.... Sweet

floutingmaxims

Getting 355 points and finding out my first course of choice was exactly 355. Insanely lucky!

That180Guy

My A2 in higher Business :pac:

poisonated

i was just deligted to have sat my exams. i was having a rough few years and for me to come away it a decent result in the leaving cert has made me feel much better about myself. The true test of endurance will be when I graduate from university though.

LilMissCiara

My A2 in Physics, I got the highest in the class which is such an achievement considering I always got average grades in class tests and house (Christmas and Summer) exams. My teacher also thought I'd never be capable of an A!

My B2 in English was sweet aswell. In essays and house exams I always got Cs (and usually C2s and C3s at that) so a B2 was such an achievement - I didn't even do much work for it!

what.to.do

Its either quoting Pirates of the Caribbean in my Hamlet essay, or skipping study to try on costumes and "get married" in the costume room.

Do you know how fun it is to run through the corridors in school, at eight in the evening, in a wedding dress with friend a suit trying to avoid getting caught on camera or by anyone? I do. Its awesome.

Smartly Dressed

Probably when I managed to mention my favourite book (Catch-22) and my favourite chapter (Milo the Militant) in my 100mark English essay without doing it in a clumsy way. Don't ask me why but I'd aimed to do it since December when I'd first read it.

I got an A2 in the end so I guess my examiner must have enjoyed Catch-22 as well.

Shanee.

Fraping my teacher during a DCG class.. and getting a c2 in the honours maths after failing every maths paper for a solid 2 years

Eoin Cunniffe 94

paperpackages wrote: »

A2 in HL French after wanting to move to pass, being the worst in the class for 2 years and having a teacher who, while being the best teacher I had, didn't have much faith in me. I showed her. Also getting the same grade as people who got a million grinds was quite sweet!

How did you manage that ?

Solus01

Getting an A1 in Higher English and just knowing that all my hard work was worth it And to top it off I think I got the only A in my year, certainly the only one to get an A1

Aoifums

I think I'm proud of myself just for making it through. I've wanted to quit school so much over the last 12 years and I'm just glad it's over and I came out the other side.

I think I'm proud of myself for getting an A1 in OL maths. It was the only subject I really adored and the exam didn't go too well but I managed
I'm glad I did well in everything else but I'm not proud of myself for doing it as it wasn't planned and I wasn't expecting it.

spurious

A million years ago of course, but I was most proud of going up a grade from JC to LC in HL Irish.

electrictrad

Getting 4 A1's in the "Maths" subjects (accounting, maths, app. maths, physics) after consciously picking options based on the amount of maths in them!. . .

. . .Not breaking down mentally was also a bit of a bonus. . .

ElvisChrist6

electrictrad wrote: »

Getting 4 A1's in the "Maths" subjects (accounting, maths, app. maths, physics) after consciously picking options based on the amount of maths in them!. . .

. . .Not breaking down mentally was also a bit of a bonus. . .

Wow, that's probably one of the things that impressed me most on this! :P

LittleMissLost

Getting an A2 in HL Irish after only moving to the country and starting Irish when I was 10, in 4th class.
I'd been seriously considering dropping to OL right up to the mocks

Also opening the results. My guidance counsellor, was convinced I wouldn't get enough points for a level 7 because of my "circumstances" at home. When I got the second highest points in the school she appologised to me nice one

Mountainlad

LittleMissLost wrote: »

Getting an A2 in HL Irish after only moving to the country and starting Irish when I was 10, in 4th class.
I'd been seriously considering dropping to OL right up to the mocks

Also opening the results. My guidance counsellor, was convinced I wouldn't get enough points for a level 7 because of my "circumstances" at home. When I got the second highest points in the school she appologised to me nice one

Now that is inspiring

floutingmaxims

ElvisChrist6 wrote: »

Wow, that's probably one of the things that impressed me most on this! :P

Here now, my 355 points is clearly as impressive as it gets!

soccymonster

Surviving honours triple maths class in 5th year. Oh god, bane of my life. I used to literally cry before I entered that class. But LOOK, I'm still alive

PseudoFamous

I came out of maths paper one and only cried for an hour.

rainbowtrout

A good while back now, but getting a B3 in Irish when my Irish teacher spent all of fifth and sixth year trying to kick me out of the honours class even though I never failed a test. Never got higher than a D either, but that was hardly the point at the time.

ElvisChrist6

Cawcheen wrote: »

Here now, my 355 points is clearly as impressive as it gets!

Yeah, I said ONE of the things!

monaghanman10

getting 100% in irish paper 2

sunbabe08

well i did my leaving 9 years ago, but the proudest i ever felt was actually going in doing the exams itself. i got sick with vertigo in fifth year right through into 6th year, there was days i couldn't get out of bed. i was told i could wait until the following year to do them, but said no, so i got my own room on the ground floor and my own supervisor. very proud of my self for just passing my leaving, even prouder for passsing irish


also while managing to get a c3 in geography higher level when only did 3 questions when i was supposed to do 4. woot

paperpackages

Eoin Cunniffe 94 wrote: »

How did you manage that ?

Studied like a mad divil for the Oral...the thought of being recorded in a room and not knowing what to say scared the life out of me, so for 2-3 weeks I purely studied French. I looked up things online and learned off loads of phrases. Like I said my teacher was brilliant too and she gave me some practice work. Our Oral examiner was a dote, asked really easy questions and I ended up not using most of the material. Then in June it all came flooding back.

I also did a million comprehensions and learned how easy they are to answer without knowing what they're about! A nice listening helped too.

PadraicEgan

Getting an A2 in Higher Ag Science. Now I get to run the farm!

gOst

Came home after construction exam convinced I'd made a balls of it..... turned out I got the 3rd highest grade in the country.

PseudoFamous

gOst wrote: »

Came home after construction exam convinced I'd made a balls of it..... turned out I got the 3rd highest grade in the country.

How did you work that out?

polkabunny

Surviving school, haha

Nah, has to be that B1 I got in HL Art, really wasn't expecting that
And blood, sweat and tears went into that damn LCVP, but it all worked out when I saw that distinction

mpdg

A2 in German after struggling through every bloody class for five years! I had thought I could say goodbye to a high B after my oral - was very impressed altogether

Cian59

I guess mine was really getting the course I wanted

gOst

PseudoFamous wrote: »

How did you work that out?

I did the leaving a few years ago. I had started college and was in the middle of a lecture when I got a call from the principle. I had to go to an awards ceremony! It was organised by these guys http://www.technoteachers.ie/j/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=57

Noon_

This will sound really weird, but failing HL Chemistry and still getting my first choice of psychology was awesome From Christmas onwards when I got my UCAS offer I literally didn't do a scrap of revision for it because I didn't need it - that and I hated my teacher with an absolute passion. What a bitch. God help the poor First Years that get her for science in the morning

The other one was opening my results and seeing an A2 in HL English because I didn't learn off anything at all except Boland quotes

spurious

Noon_ wrote: »

The other one was opening my results and seeing an A2 in HL English because I didn't learn off anything at all

Probably why you did well.

Nagikami

Rewriting Jack and the Beanstalk for my English essay and getting an A1