Mocks results - How did we do?

0000879k

By now most people should have there results back - post them here!:D

I myself only have a couple;

Maths 44% D
Irish 38% E
TG 72 % B
English 88% A
Geography 78% B
Woodwork 68% B
all are at higher level, i'll post the rest when i get them.

Layzerman

I have all mine back - yaay :P

All Higher

English - 85% A
Maths - 58% C
Irish - 76% B
Geography 88% A
History 92% A
Science 92% A
Religion 85% A
CSPE 90% A
Woodwork 92% A
Business 72% B
German 56% C

So that's 7 As 2 Bs and 2 Cs .. not too shabby :P

whoopsadaisy

Maths - 79% B
English - 78% B
French - 70% B
Irish - 73% B
Geography - 85% A
History - 74% B
Science - 73% B
CSPE - 89% A
Home Ec - 81% B
Art - 69% C

All HL, 2 A's, 7 B's and 1 C. I was over the moon with French, always my worst subject, I managed to scrape a B! Delighted. My Art result pissed me off because my teacher had been off on maternity leave for the past year, and I'd been getting up in the 90s while she was gone, and now I'm back down to a C now she's back -_- Was also disappointed with English because that's normally my best subject, until I found out I got the highest in my class lol. Idek where I lost marks though.

Relied pretty damn heavily on the Mock spoilers thread, especially for Science and History, regretting it cos I don't know I'll cope for the real thing now

dalta5billion

Quite upset with some of the marking from Examcraft. A couple of fits were had.

Irish 79% (B) Incorrect marking on Letter and general dislike of me
Maths Paper 1 98% (A) So happy!
Maths Paper 2 87% (A) Not too shabby
Science 73% (B) Haven't got script back, 10 failed though, so quite happy.

No attempt marks were given in Maths, so nearly everyone's exam had to be recorrected. No acknowledgement of the huge mistake in Exam craft Irish Paper 2 Poetry section.

Speaking of which, is anyone else being hit with new mocks from the other bar codes?

Sentid

All Higher

Maths 76% B
English 75% B
Irish 90% A
Geography 93% A
History 93% A
French 90% A
Science 84% B
CSPE 94% A
Business 90% A
Still waiting for Religion, German and TG.

Now I have to do it all over again or better :cool:
I had Examcraft and found some of them to be much easier than the past papers

theginger

Maths-79% B ,really happy cause I thought I had failed because of Paper 2!!
English- 79% B, thought I had failed that too
Irish- 81% B
Geography- 94% A, Yay
Science- 87% A, highest in class and only A
French- 91% A
History- 84% B
Business- 85% A
CSPE- 93% A
Home-ec- 98% A, teacher was unhappy because TOO MANY people got A's :L
Religion- 72% B, cannot believe religion was my lowest, its actually really hard!! Markers were scabby aswell...

Big Johnson

English 76% B
Science 75% B
History 92% A
Maths 65% C
Irish 78% B
Geography 93% A
French 87% A
Religion 85% A
CSPE 94% A
Business 77% B
German 80% B

Not too bad for doing barely any study except for my maths result.

Drama101

I have only received a few of my pres back. All higher.
Irish Paper 1 82%
Maths Paper 1 63%
Maths Paper 2 75%
Science 69%
German 66%
Art 51% It is art. Its about expressing yourself. Thanks for the confidence boost.
English Paper 1 76%
Geography 71%

fannyadams

I do all higher level except for Irish and I got the following:
English- 57% C
Irish- 79% B
Maths- 61% C
Geography- 61% C
History- 60% C
French- 68% C
Science- 44% D
Woodwork- 79% B
Metalwork- 70% B
Business- 39% E
CSPE- 79% B
Can any of ye please tell me what ye did for English.. I know all my poems and my 'To Kill A Mockingbird' very well. I'm a bit rough on 'Romeo & Juliet' tho any tips on how to get a B or even an A?

xfabgalx

I failed maths :L

But I'm in a better school now and I have a good teacher that knows what she's doing!

All higher:

English - 68
Maths - 27
French - wasn't corrected because I moved
Geography - 73
Science- 57
History - 55 - didn't have course finished in old school
CSPE - 95
Irish - moved schools don't know something in late 60s I was told
Home ec - 76 with mock cookery and 79 without
Art - don't know


Everyone did really well in maths here! Well done! I'm more of a language and history person.
But I feel improvement already! My teacher was talking to the class about study and motivation and she said some people's best is an A, some a B, or a C. You know yourselves what you can get. As long as you do everything you possibly can then you can say to yourself in September you did your best even if it's a C. She said she'd be jumping up and down even if its a C or an A.
I love my maths teacher, she's unreal!

Hopefully everyone is studying by now and don't leave it to Easter break, start NOW. You can do it!!!

fannyadams

I didn't do any study for my mocks and they were they results I got.. If i started studying now until June for 2 and a half hours a day would I get all B's? How did you get 68% in english xfabgalx i find it really hard

0000879k

fannyadams wrote: »

I didn't do any study for my mocks and they were they results I got.. If i started studying now until June for 2 and a half hours a day would I get all B's? How did you get 68% in english xfabgalx i find it really hard

Start studying now, I didn't study at all for mocks and thats what I got, I got Irish back... 38!! That was the kick in the arse I needed to start studying.. for all subjects.

I hope to get all A's and B's with the exception of HOPEFULLY a C in Irish.

You say you find English hard.. I got an A without any study but it's all essays's and stuff it comes natural to some.. I find Irish hard so I bought Revise - wise ... You should buy a revision book for the subjects you find hard.

0000879k

fannyadams wrote: »

I do all higher level except for Irish and I got the following:
English- 57% C
Irish- 79% B
Maths- 61% C
Geography- 61% C
History- 60% C
French- 68% C
Science- 44% D
Woodwork- 79% B
Metalwork- 70% B
Business- 39% E
CSPE- 79% B
Can any of ye please tell me what ye did for English.. I know all my poems and my 'To Kill A Mockingbird' very well. I'm a bit rough on 'Romeo & Juliet' tho any tips on how to get a B or even an A?

I just posted stuff about R+J on the junior cert study notes forum... check it out.

fannyadams

0000879k wrote: »

You say you find English hard.. I got an A without any study but it's all essays's and stuff it comes natural to some.. I find Irish hard so I bought Revise - wise ... You should buy a revision book for the subjects you find hard.

Yes i hope to get all A's and B's but i dont know about English How do you structure your answers in the reading section and how did you study for all of paper 2

0000879k

fannyadams wrote: »

Yes i hope to get all A's and B's but i dont know about English How do you structure your answers in the reading section and how did you study for all of paper 2

I didn't study much as such.
- I learned my R+J, Roll of thunder and Poems as we went along and thats it.

My first year english book was great and it influenced my answers now.

PQE Point, Qoute, explain.

- state your point,
- back it up with a quote,
- develope the answer.

It's important you write a lot too, for the reading comps on paper 1 I wrote a page for each question.. but dont even try to waffle. Not looks worse than that.

fannyadams

The PQE answers ain't that bad i find it hard to use big words to get the good marks Thanks for all your help anyway

saa

Drama101 wrote: »

Art 51% It is art. Its about expressing yourself. Thanks for the confidence boost.

You'll do fine! As long as you put in the effort examiners know some people just struggle with art, its not about self expression really go ask your teacher what the criteria is like what exactly they are grading you on and what you can improve on you can break it down into little elements you can improve on and a student who can show they know what is being sought by the examiners is going to impress!

EatRowSleep

got four 84%'s so im just going to call them A's.. haha


So I got;

english: 70% B
irish: 73% B
maths: 59% C
history: 96% A (delighted with that!!)
geograhy: 84 'A'
CSPE: 96% A
german: 84 'A'
science: 68% C
home ec: 84% 'A'
Business: 93 A (delighted!:D)

sp overall i got '6' A's, 2 B's and 2 C's...

Pen Rua

I've just got a few back;

• English - 69%; C. (I am happy with this, though so close to a B. My teacher commented that all the exams were marked a bit too tough...)
• CSPE - 91%; A. (CPSE... 'nuff said.)
• Geography - 89%; A. (Delighted!)
• Business - 93%; A. (Really happy with this. My Accountancy got full marks in both questions on Paper II)
• Irish - 83%; B. (I am so happy with this! I thought I got a highish C to a low B. I was not expecting such a high B at all!)

That's all I've gotten back thus far. No word on the rest...

dazzadazza

I only did a few because i was sick for most of them. All higher except irish as im Italian.
English 70 B (it was marked so tough that they were considering remarking; no impression marks were awarded meaning that she only gave marks if your point was on the marking scheme if not you got 0 even if your point was relevant).
maths 66 C confident i can get an A as i didnt really study for it.
Irish 83 B
Geography 85 A
History 84 B nearly an A :P
Art 54 D i drew up to the knees on the model so i didnt really answer the questions and therefore i was heavily penalized. Guess i wont be making that mistake again.

caoi8

Pass maths- 44%
French- 84% B (SO CLOSE!)
English- 73%
Irish- 69%
History- 71%
Geography- 60%
Business- 50%
Science- 50%
Art- idk yet but my teacher said nobody got As, hopefully a high B.
CSPE- can't remember but it doesn't matter anyway

I hardly studied so I'm happy with my averagy results lol

Troxck

Mine were dreadful to be honest but I may as well put them up...

English-74%-Delighted because I didn't study
Irish-52%-Dissapointed but I think I could get a B in the JC.
Maths-32%-Don't have the course finished and our teacher said it was difficult.
History-83%-Thought I would of gotten an A, really disappointed.
Geography-60%-No idea why, I got all As in class tets and Summer tests.
Science-72%-Very happy with that
French-66% and I wrote two lines for the postcard and an opening for the letter
German-65% but we re did a re-do and I got 77%
Music-52%-Again really disappointed.
CSPE-68%. No one in the year got an A... Our opinions were wrong supposedly.

Honestly, really disappointed with them. I want to bring English, CSPE, History and possibly Geo to an A. German, French, Music and Science to Bs. Irish to a C and possibly a C in Maths but I'd be happy with a D.

Mine are awful compared to all of your results.

KirkCheated09

I got;

English-A-Happy
Irish-E-very dissapointed
Maths-D-Not complaining, we did not finish the course or do any revision and I didn't study so...
Science-C-Happy enough, didn't study a tap, should get High B or A in Jine(after study:P)
Geography-B-Dissapointed with, should have got an A
Business-C-Dissapointed, but did no study so..Hopefully A in June
French-B-OUTRAGED. Did brilliant in everything except written. I got 13/30 in postcard and 24/50 on letter, I answered all the points(well) and added extra! My teacher said I easily should have atleast gotten 25/30 and 40/50
Woodwork-C-Long Q's didn't go my way!! Was gonna do the TG one but the teachers took away the drawing equipment, so I was forced to answer a Q I knew nothing about.
TG-B-Dissapointed, should get an A in June.


If anyone has any Irish tips that'd be great.

DaleHyland

English =86%
Irish = 66%
Religion = 85%
T.G 58%
Business 72%
Geography = 93%
History = 98%
German 85%
Science = 94%
Maths paper 1 = 87%

7A's . T.G is now a matter of timing. I did fairly well in the Questions I did. Irish I still don't know what happened, have yet to see it. Business wasn't my fault. We haven't done any accounts apart from T,P and L /App account.
Still work to do!

Examking

Irish-90-
English-82-
Mathis-92-
Business-90-
Hist-88-
Geog-85-
Religion-85-
Art- not back
Cspe- not back
German-83-
French-91-
Science-87

Many adding mistakes though if I didn't get to see these and say it to the teacher I would have received 3 less a's .

IceCreamGirl

All higher level

English : 92% Highest
Home Ec: 85% Highest
Maths: 75% Highest
Business: 68% Highest (i did 3 long questions instead of 4 in paper 2)
CSPE: 95% Highest
History: 70% Highest
Geography: 75% 2nd Highest
French: 68% 2nd Highest

im actually really worried about my junior cert now..

KirkCheated09

thats only 8 subjects

spurious

KirkCheated09 wrote: »

thats only 8 subjects

So?
Some people do 6, some do 8, some do 12.

Shane Gillespie

English= 71% B(meh,not too happy but did ok)
Irish= 59% C(sigh,same old,same old)
French= 80% B(best in class,MOST unexpected result,seeing as im usually just average at French
Business=75%B (could have done much better)
Science= 51% D (worst result as usual,so glad no more science next year
Woodwork= 78% B (its woodwork,so easy)
CSPE= 95% A (its CSPE)
TG= 75% B(could do much better)
Geography= 73% B (marked soo hard,best in our class was 75)
Math= 56% C(happy enough)
History= 81% B (yessss! thought id be lucky to get a low b,ended up best in class!)

should start studying and go for those 7 or 8 A's i want

IrishLoriii

English-83% B
Maths-77% B
Irish-69% C
Cspe-98% A
Home Ec-65% C
Business- 55% C
geography- 63% C
Science- 45% D
Religion-77% B
French- 65% C
History- 61% C

IrishLoriii

Oh i should mention i done honours everything except for pass maths and irish and common Cspe :P

Black Mamba2k12

English 72% B
Irish 70% B
Maths 67% C
History 92% A
French 85% A
Geography 93% A
Science 75% B
CSPE 94% A
German 80% B
Religion 86% A
Business 81% B

All higher

IceCreamGirl

how can i get straight A's for the junior cert?

i really want to get straight A's for the Junior cert.


i'm only doing 8 subjects
home ec, business, geography, cspe, french, english, history, maths.

i got 3A 4B 1C for the mocks (with the help of the junior cert mocks thread)
all honours.

i hate history
any studying tips for that as well?
please?

xfabgalx

Em well you should start off by studying a history topic you kind of enjoy and if you see something linked to another topic, look at that topic next. Then make your own notes of that chapter and answer, say, a question 6 about that topic.

Mind maps work for me for science.

Home ec is pretty simple just go through every year and answer all the questions.

CSPE doesn't really require study, as its kind of useless and I'm sure you wouldn't care if it was one B on your results just for CSPE. Its a joke really.

English - write out about 5-10 quotes for each character. I'd recommend 10 for each as you'll most likely only remember a few. Read your book for studied fiction and try to picture an image of every character and their traits as you read, and note these, then test yourself. For comprehensions, try and get used to understanding different kinds of texts. Then there's personal writing, where you should really make use of the grammar you've collected over the past, what, 10 years?! Also, when doing studied drama, I often find it difficult to use a variety of words, so I look up synonyms on an online dictionary which can be useful in essays.
Just practice makes perfect.

Geography - You should get a revision book and just take notes where it says to.

Maths- practice, practice, practice and formula noting.

French - practice, reading and taking notes, learning useful verbs and how to use them in different situations and learn useful phrases. Also translate comprehensions if doing honours.

Irish - If you're doing Irish. people, what I do is learn sample answers of. I haven't checked out edco sample answers yet but I took the codes off a friend. So if you don't have edco exam papers, ask a friend if you could take down the codes. Same goes for every subject, I suppose. Just learn and practice. Its also expected that sports will be a big topic this year, as the Olympics are taking place!

So that's the tips I have. If anyone can help me with my art support studies, that would be great.

Drama101

English paper two 68%(best in class)

Irish paper two 75%
French 71%(second best in class, only behind girl in my class who speaks fluent french)
History 84%(1% behind an A, )

xfabgalx

meant that as a thumbs up

IceCreamGirl

from now until the junior cert, how many hours a day should i study?

spurious

IceCreamGirl wrote: »

from now until the junior cert, how many hours a day should i study?

It very much depends what you call studying.
Some people sit staring at textbooks, others practice questions from old exam papers, others make their own notes/mind maps/reference cards.

• Listen properly in class.
• Never leave a class with a question about something you did in that class.
• Do your homework to the very best standard you can.

If you do the above, especially the first one, then you just need to revise.

The bottom line is that the Junior Cert. as an exam is designed to maximise your success. The examiners and the marking schemes want to give you marks, you have to leave out questions or parts of questions to do badly.

You will do better than you think.

IceCreamGirl

the problem i have is:

i barely listen in class. i get distracted or it gets TOO boring.
for example:
*incoming rant about my history/geography teacher*

I DONT LEARN ANYTHING IN HIS CLASSES.
im not exaggerating
all he does is let us watch BLACK AND WHITE coloured films about the past and all i do is just sit there, pretending to be interested.
and on MOST days, all he does is sit on his chair and talk about history.
he doesnt even write notes.
all he does is sit there and talk for 30 minutes+ non stop about history.

oh wow i learn so much from him talking non stop about history.

and he even told us what topics will be asked for the mocks.
but we ended up getting the wrong paper.

and for history question 4.People in History, my friend (teacher's pet) wrote a completely different essay than the essays asked.
and she got 18 and 16 out of 20 for both essays.

*same goes to geography, all he does is sit there and talk, not writing notes. or just lets us watch The Deadliest Catch which i think is awesome but i barely learn anything*

*end of rant*

Note: for the junior cert, i will be the only girl in my class doing Higher Level history.
so im kinda worried because of this teacher i have.

if anyone have any history/geography notes, i'd really appreciate it if you can inbox me them or just post it here or in the Notes thread.

ANYWAYS

i dont ask questions in class because i'm very shy.
but i do my homework though
we dont get a lot of homework.
just an average of 3 homeworks a day.

spurious

So make up your own homework. You need at this level to be working towards being an independent learner. There are people with poor teaching skills at LC and at college - you need to learn how to get on despite that.

As a History teacher myself, it sounds like your teacher is showing you primary sources - and you are ignoring them?
Why should he write notes? He already knows the stuff, very well from how you describe he talks non-stop about it.

YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR OWN NOTES - that will help you remember. Otherwise, just go out and buy one of those revision books, where it's all done for you, but you will end up in the same position for Leaving if you don't learn how to make your own study notes. It is much harder remember someone else's notes than ones you made yourself.

40% of those sitting HL JC History get an A or a B. I have corrected it before (not for Mock companies, where the correcting can be really slack, but for the SEC) and I can tell you it's quite difficult to fail. I have seen people pass while leaving whole questions out.

Don't worry so much about the JC, but use the chance to develop yourself as an independent learner in preparation for the Leaving and college.

paddzdaman

spurious wrote: »

So make up your own homework. You need at this level to be working towards being an independent learner. There are people with poor teaching skills at LC and at college - you need to learn how to get on despite that.

As a History teacher myself, it sounds like your teacher is showing you primary sources - and you are ignoring them?
Why should he write notes? He already knows the stuff, very well from how you describe he talks non-stop about it.

YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR OWN NOTES - that will help you remember. Otherwise, just go out and buy one of those revision books, where it's all done for you, but you will end up in the same position for Leaving if you don't learn how to make your own study notes. It is much harder remember someone else's notes than ones you made yourself.

40% of those sitting HL JC History get an A or a B. I have corrected it before (not for Mock companies, where the correcting can be really slack, but for the SEC) and I can tell you it's quite difficult to fail. I have seen people pass while leaving whole questions out.

Don't worry so much about the JC, but use the chance to develop yourself as an independent learner in preparation for the Leaving and college.

Hey i completely agree on mostly everything you said there apart from the writing own notes. Saying that thats what i did for history and ended up with 81 percent in my mocks. Our history teacher on the other hand is extremely poor. Really just sits at the top of the class and expects us to just highlight everything , then gives us a pile of homework and expects us to do up the notes. Its only now hes giving us notes and if i didnt love history like most of the class probley would have failed history. It is really possible to give notes on topics and teach the coarse. The method of just highlighting and being expected to do the notes can put alot of hardship on students and if teachers just sit at the top of class expecting kids to highlight the book , they just lose interest in the subject. We had a subsetute teacher in at the start of the year giving us notes in class and kids really started having interest more in the subject. Yet on the other hand, who really wants to spend most of the class writing notes

IceCreamGirl

spurious wrote: »

So make up your own homework. You need at this level to be working towards being an independent learner. There are people with poor teaching skills at LC and at college - you need to learn how to get on despite that.

As a History teacher myself, it sounds like your teacher is showing you primary sources - and you are ignoring them?
Why should he write notes? He already knows the stuff, very well from how you describe he talks non-stop about it.

YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR OWN NOTES - that will help you remember. Otherwise, just go out and buy one of those revision books, where it's all done for you, but you will end up in the same position for Leaving if you don't learn how to make your own study notes. It is much harder remember someone else's notes than ones you made yourself.

40% of those sitting HL JC History get an A or a B. I have corrected it before (not for Mock companies, where the correcting can be really slack, but for the SEC) and I can tell you it's quite difficult to fail. I have seen people pass while leaving whole questions out.

Don't worry so much about the JC, but use the chance to develop yourself as an independent learner in preparation for the Leaving and college.

thank you
will you please tell with us your predictions for the junior cert (history)?

spurious

I have no idea what will come up. I don't do predictions as it's pointless.

The main thing I would say is make sure you do the right number of questions and answer the question you are asked.

It is frightening how many candidates leave entire questions out or answer the wrong combinations.

IceCreamGirl

can anyone please list the important chapters/points i should study for history?

i have too many things to study for history. i just dont know where to start.

paddyzk

IceCreamGirl wrote: »

can anyone please list the important chapters/points i should study for history?

i have too many things to study for history. i just dont know where to start.

Study all the 3rd year stuff really well, you're be set for question 6 then.
You should also study all the second year stuff ,especially the end of the chapters (consequences) you'll be set for question 5.Know like 10 of the people in histories,so you're going to get one of them on the day.For the documents/pictures just take your time with them, you don't need to know much

The whole paper is 180m so lets say you get full marks in question 6 that's 60m + 20m for one people in history and you attempt the second one(let's say 10m)
Then full 30m for question 5.Pictures/Documents you can get 20/30m and then short questions 20m.
That adds up to 150m out of 180m,that's 83%,a high B.

Good luck.

IceCreamGirl

thank you. you've given me the motivation to finally start studying history.

give me important chapters to study and i'll study them right away.

Eazzah

English- 69 (Great result considering I failed my 2nd year summer exam)
Maths- 55 (Down 30%, Most of it due to paper 2 which I find difficult)
Irish- 76 (O.L as I find it very difficult)
History 65 (Not too shabby)
Science 30 (New teacher and all of our class realized we did nothing with our old one)
German 45 (5th teacher, she is now pregnant so we will be getting our 6th, hopefully will improve)
Geography 69
Business 78
CSPE 65 (Don't know)
All of this was with no study, still haven't begun

Junokevv

History-99(?)
Geography-94
Irish-93
CSPE-93
Science-88
French-85
English-83
Art-83
Business-76
Maths-61

cjf97

All Higher:

Maths - 54% D
English - 81% B
CSPE - 100% A
German - 76% - B
French - 80% - B
History - 66% - C
Geo - 75% B
Science 56% C
Irish 76% B

KateNolan96

I got all mine back
English: 87%
Irish: 78%
Maths: 86%
History: 96%
Geography: 82%
Science: 91%
Spanish: 89%
Religion: 79%
CSPE: 90%
Music: 94%
Art: 84%

TadhgSk

English 75%
Irish 78%
Maths 67%
Business 86%
French 76%
Geography 93%
German 70%
History 92%
Science 77%
CSPE 94%
Religion 87%