What is your biggest worry for the LC?

certifiedcrepe

What scares you about it? Are you not completely finished the course of a subject you're doing? Or do you not understand a subject no matter how hard you try? Or even if the actual exam hall and superintendents scare you. I'd love to know how others are feeling
For me, I don't have the full Geography and Biology courses finished. I'm also worried about freaking out in the exam hall and my mind going completely blank.

0mega

Not understanding a question on poetry/prós for Irish, considering you no longer get a choice.

Getting essay titles in English where I just blank completely and can't think of anything.

Togepi

One fairly scary thought is that I could easily happen to be sick during the Leaving and there'd be nothing I could do about it. That's probably the worst one!

Chuchoter

I'm worried I'll get sick or they'll ask some mad off the wall question somewhere, physics throws a lot of curveballs or I'll go completely blank in my English and forget all my quotes.
I've ended up finishing one of my courses by myself because we were so behind so thats a worry too, then maths we got told to do a whole topic by ourselves over easter or it won't get done.

Bears and Vodka

Yeah getting sick or somehow missing the actual exam is the biggest worry. Very unlikely but you know, **** happens

Mysteriouschic

If the paper will be hard for certain subjects even ones I would consider to be a test I'm usually good at.
I'm not letting the worries get the better of me , I'm just going to make sure I feel fully prepared for each exam . I don't think I was quite prepared last year and started quite late, might have been thinking more negatively which probably didn't help.
I'm just going to try and do the best I can and keep positively thinking and just continue to study preparing.

Canard

Failing maths first and foremost.
English - not being able to do a good story on the day or an awkward comparative question.
Irish - not understanding the titles.
Geography - a bad atmosphere-ocean question, its really the worst thing possible because no one else would be affected by it...
History - no eucharistic congress!
Business - a bad ABQ I guess.

And of course, getting sick :eek: I'd drag myself in :L

spurious

What is the worst that can happen?

There's always another way/chance to get into the course you want.

The Leaving is not the be all and end all.

Canard

Thats true, but the idea of spending two years working and one year constantly stressing only to have to do it again is a nightmare.

JonnyMcNamee

Patchy~ wrote: »

Failing maths first and foremost.
English - not being able to do a good story on the day or an awkward comparative question.
Irish - not understanding the titles.
Geography - a bad atmosphere-ocean question, its really the worst thing possible because no one else would be affected by it...
History - no eucharistic congress!
Business - a bad ABQ I guess.

And of course, getting sick :eek: I'd drag myself in :L

God help us all if this doesn't come up!

JonnyMcNamee

Failing Maths or getting a really abstract Physics paper. I doubt I'll sleep the night before Maths :pac:
Getting an awful question on Barry or a minor progression in composition for the Music paper would probably throw me aswell

LoonyLovegood

I'm not fussed if the EC doesn't come up in history. I'm worried about Biology, we're only gonna be finished with a week to go.

Wesc.

This sounds weird, but no matter what I really think that the night before English paper 1 my light bulb is going to go when I'm about to do something important :L

And yes, getting sick is also a worry. :P

Reprazent

Accounting is going to be a filthy kick to ****

Other then that I'm to laid back at this stage.. A cheeky Spanish paper would be bad also I need a C1 in that bad boy!

Dwellingdweller

History! Sticking to the whole 40 minutes per question mullarkey and getting the whole bloody thing finished at the same time is going to be a bitch :P

David1994

Dunno about ye lads but I am absolutely DREADING chemistry... My teacher is the worst and at this point I would be soooooo happy with a C1/B3

Meowth

The orals !!! The one thing I've dreaded since starting secondary school!!
Unbelievably scary :O once they are over, a huge weight will be lifted off my shoulders
And of course i'm worried about whether the papers will be nice or not but sure I'll make the most outta whatever I get

Weetbix

RELIGION AM ****TING IT

Medicine333

Historykitten wrote: »

The orals !!! The one thing I've dreaded since starting secondary school!!
Unbelievably scary :O once they are over, a huge weight will be lifted off my shoulders
And of course i'm worried about whether the papers will be nice or not but sure I'll make the most outta whatever I get

Not as bad as they're made out to be!
You will be fine!
Trust me on that one:)

Togepi

I'm actually equally worried for nearly every subject I think. Scared I'll fail Maths but realistically I should be sound. DCG is also a massive worry. I'm hoping the English papers are fairly nice and that I do well, hopefully the expected poets won't come up, then I'll be happy! For Irish and French I'm not worried at all apart from worrying that I won't do as well as I can in both. And hopefully I'll be able to answer all of the Phys/Chem paper, if I can do that then I'm sorted!

Medicine333

It's human nature to be worried and expect the worse. It's a good think because it means you are prepared to face all eventualities.


I know what you're going through, but believe me, and I know it's hard to believe:

Put your head down, focus, study and keep a well-balanced routine and diet.

Do this and the Leaving Cert. will sort itself out:)

jumpguy

It's pretty unlikely that you're gonna sit probably around 10 papers at least and nothing will go wrong in any one of them. In English, I blanked on the name of one of Robert Frost's poems and in maths I hadn't a bog how to do the integration part C (last year).

You really need to start building coping mechanisms to act best and stay calm in unfavourable circumstances, just take your time (for example, in maths paper 1, you've 25 minutes per question - if you need the 25 minutes, use it, but don't exceed it!) and try to think it out.

devilxangel

I'm afraid of my mind going completely blank due to nerves and stress during the exam... and I know I will be short on time for English and maths is a real problem as I find Project maths very hard and it has no choice at all ( except for Q6).

Namlub

Pursuit of Sovereignty section in History...while everyone else is hoping the Eucharistic Congress will come up, we haven't even done it yet. And just generally messing up my timings as I don't think I'm physically capable of doing three essays and a documents question in less than 3 hours...

Canard

Namlub wrote: »

Pursuit of Sovereignty section in History...while everyone else is hoping the Eucharistic Congress will come up, we haven't even done it yet. And just generally messing up my timings as I don't think I'm physically capable of doing three essays and a documents question in less than 3 hours...

You havent done it?! :eek: Its really easy, a load of waffling tbh, but if it comes up everyone will do it. Agreed on timing though, its absolutely ridiculous that the exam is so short.

JonnyMcNamee

Namlub wrote: »

Pursuit of Sovereignty section in History...while everyone else is hoping the Eucharistic Congress will come up, we haven't even done it yet. And just generally messing up my timings as I don't think I'm physically capable of doing three essays and a documents question in less than 3 hours...

It's pretty simple, I'd say you could cover it in your own time And as Patchy said you can waffle aload about stuff like cultural identity etc.

Namlub

Yerra I was thinking of going over it myself at the weekend cos I'd say we'll be rushing through all that after the mid-term. Sure you get three hours for biology, makes no sense...

JonnyMcNamee

It's almost like the History and English exams aren't even there to test your skills in producing an answer but instead they wanna test your writing speed. It's pure shí*e imho. :mad:

Canard

Am I the only one who had absolutely no time pressure in English, at all? :pac:
Dreading that that might have been a fluke and I'll end up being too relaxed in the real thing :eek:

Mysteriouschic

I've not sat the honours english paper before so I hope I'll be able to manage the paper in the amount of time. So slightly worried about that more on paper 2 as theres hamlet, the comparative and the poetry essay.
I probably should test myself on the papers just to see if I can do it in the amount of time given.

JonnyMcNamee

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

I've not sat the honours english paper before so I hope I'll be able to manage the paper in the amount of time. So slightly worried about that more on paper 2 as theres hamlet, the comparative and the poetry essay.
I probably should test myself on the papers just to see if I can do it in the amount of time given.

I found it pretty tough going on timing but that's probably just because I can't condense my answers :pac:

Mysteriouschic

JonnyMcNamee wrote: »

I found it pretty tough going on timing but that's probably just because I can't condense my answers :pac:

Yeah I can end up writing too much at times. It takes me like an hour at least writing each essay and the comparative takes me even longer .
I've only written a few so far. I'm still using my notes I need to start learning off. I'm quite behind in Hamlet. I'm not quite sure what essays completely I should know.

snoreborewhore

I actually have a recurring nightmare of the Eucharistic Congree or Rise of Sinn Fein not coming up..



(I'm not even joking)

PictureFrame

I actually have a list

• Economics- Oligopoly coming up
• Business- Break Evens Coming up, and time pressure
• English- A really weird Paper I Essay, and a weird comparative
• French- Not being able to understand the written questions
• Geography- Time again..

Fergus_

An awkward comparative study in English

The French/Irish oral exam

Not understanding the Irish questions

Having a french topic come up that I haven't covered well

The thoughts are endless

elsewhere

Worried about getting a really difficult Spanish and/or French papers as I really want A1s in both and will be so upset if I don't get them.

Freaking out about both orals as well, I know I'm good at the languages I'm just terrified of panicking then messing up or going completely blank!

Chemistry in general is just stressing me out, I effing hate the subject

Also yeah, getting sick either the week before so I can't study or during the leaving..

Also just scared generally about not getting my 1st/2nd choice of course cause I really don't want to do anything else and I couldn't stand the thought of repeating!

Argghh... I just can't wait for this year to be over

leaveiton

- The orals, specifically Irish. German is okay, but I'm really dreading Irish.

- Something going wrong in the music practical. I'm playing the drums and I'm only going to get a chance to bring them to school a few days before the practical, so that doesn't give me much time to set them up properly and tune them so that they sound okay in the music room. Terrified my CD with backing tracks will skip. A lot can go wrong :P

- The German aural. Absolutely hate this part of the course, can never hear it properly I'm fine with the Irish one, but the German is the bane of my life

- Not understanding the questions in Irish/German

- Being stuck with poets I don't like in English. I'll be preparing at least five because I'd be silly not to, but so far we've only done five and I hate three of them :P I'll study them, and I'll be able to write on them, but it wouldn't be as easy as writing on one I like

- A crap English paper 1

- Maths. Nothing more to be said, just maths :P

- Bad essay titles in Irish paper 1

You get the picture... :P

TheStook

Im in 5th year right now but my biggest worry would be my pen running out strangely enough

Canard

TheStook wrote: »

Im in 5th year right now but my biggest worry would be my pen running out strangely enough

And that is why you bring in more pens to the exam hall than you've ever had in your life

siobhan93

Really afraid of what will come in irish in the poems/pros and the essay aswel!
Also, in english for what will come up in Hamlet such a large amount of questions that could be asked.. im focusing on four but gonna glance over the others.. kinda risky

Coeurdepirate

Failing everything.

airmax87

I havent studied, I only need five passes though but still, I'm fcked for the Irish oral,All I've done to start was fill out all of that ar agaiadh libh book.

Zaffy

The thing is, I'm fairly set to have a good LC, I'm just worried that I'll choke and won't get my course...

Stalin and rugby

Zaffy wrote: »

The thing is, I'm fairly set to have a good LC, I'm just worried that I'll choke and won't get my course...

What are you hoping to do? Hope it's not the same as me

smithy77

English - Bad paper 1 essay titles and Hamlet.
French - Not understanding written questions.
Maths - Not getting a C3 for my course.
Accounting - Everything:p

Business, biology, ag science isnt too bad though:D

ChemHickey

smithy77 wrote: »

English - Bad paper 1 essay titles and Hamlet.
French - Not understanding written questions.
Maths - Not getting a C3 for my course.
Accounting - Everything:p

Business, biology, ag science isnt too bad though:D

I agree

English - getting a complete blank and having a breakdown...

Irish - horrible essay titles

Music - having a complete blank with the compositions and not being able to hear it in my head:-(

biohaiid

Im dreading home ec and biology. Theres just so much!
And geography I guess. I know the stuff im just afraid i wont get the timing on the day, and I could really use an A.
Oh. And timing for English paper 1.

fizzyorange

Physics- not enough beautiful beautiful optics and mechanics questions.

English- the comparative. Mostly just quotes for the comparative. Or a ****ty Hamlet question.

German- something weird coming up and a crappy aural.

Biology- section 3 stuff coming up that I didn't revise really well or do a load of exam paper qs on.

Geography- everything. And no biome q.

Actually the entire thing frightens me. To the dole queue I go!!

Zomg Okay

I find the thought of no technology of warfare in History and no Plath or LG in English terrifying! Maths Paper 2 doesn't exactly scare me, it just bugs the shíte out of me. Paper 1 is so much more straight forward!

Wesc.

Mods, please delete this thread. It's not helping anyone :pac:

Bears and Vodka

Just generally blanking out from all the worry.
Also bad essay titles in English Paper 1, really weird questions in Physics, ridiculous drawings in Construction, not getting an A1 in Russian.