***** Back-up paper to be used for LC Irish - no change to exam date / time. *****

biohaiid

My friend has it on twitter that the Irish CD was played to some Junior Certs today by mistake, and that we're getting a new cd and paper.
Anyone else hear about this!?!?



Details here: ** Please read carefully!! **

R.

haro124

Just read out on the 2fm news ! It's going to be horrible if the essay titles are crap all I'll be thinking will be what if they hadn't screwed up!!!!!

biohaiid

Awh no, it's real.
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Actually, when I think about it I was doing the completely opposite to all the predictions, and don;t care what title comes up.
Bit of a b*tch still though

Togepi

Yeah it's all here.

Namlub

Why do they have to do a new paper as well?

Togepi

Namlub wrote: »

Why do they have to do a new paper as well?

Because they're a shower of bastardíns. :cool:

imelle

hopefully the backup paper will be the one with the nice essay titles!

earwax_man

Ah come on now.

bazinga_

surely it doesn't make any difference to us at all, i mean no one knows what was on the paper given out by accident

Princessxx

This might sound like a retarded question but does this effect ordinary level as well?

biohaiid

Was it definately the higher paper, yeah?

bazinga_

biohaiid wrote: »

Was it definately the higher paper, yeah?

yeah

leaveiton

The aural's the same for higher and ordinary papers so I'd imagine it affects both.

imelle

is it really that hard for the examiner to read the front of the papers before they hand them out?

earwax_man

You'd think they'd have learnt their lesson from 2009.

biohaiid

Ohwell, nothing we can do now.
If this means all the predictions aren;t coming up then I'm happy
Either way I dont think it makes too much of a difference.

forestfruits

Anyone here what school the mistake was made in?

annettesayz

Ridiculous. Always something going on with the leaving cert, whether it be like today in Geography they had a mistake on the map or that lc listening is played for junior cert...
So annoying.

Bubbleope

this is awful. ): or is it?? :eek: only time will tell.
btw what essays are everyone focusing on? :eek: i don't have a clue which topics i should concentrate on.

Togepi

Holy sh!t, this better not cost 2 million like the last time! :eek:

Zomg Okay

Princessxx wrote: »

This might sound like a retarded question but does this effect ordinary level as well?

The SEC are pulling both papers and sending out the back-ups as a precaution.

Wanchor

On a SATURDAY?! This is ****ing ridiculous. That's physics time.

leaveiton

Wanchor wrote: »

On a SATURDAY?! This is ****ing ridiculous. That's physics time.

We don't have to do anything on a Saturday, when English Paper 2 leaked a couple of years ago they had to do their exam on a Saturday. We'll still be doing Irish on Monday/Tuesday.

randylonghorn

imelle wrote: »

is it really that hard for the examiner to read the front of the papers before they hand them out?

It wasn't the paper, the wrong CDs were packed for a few special centres.

** Please read carefully!! **

The exam is going ahead at the same time, there are no changes, it's not going to affect you except that you'll be doing the back-up paper instead of the primary paper.

No need for worry or panic!

Togepi

randylonghorn wrote: »

No need for worry or panic!

Yes there is! :P

Tá imní orm!! :pac:

randylonghorn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC8nyBr9_-8

curly from cork

Did anyone hear this ? Got word this afternoon that Irish Higher paper was given out in error to a few centres somewhere up the country. Apparently it was given out to junior cert students.
Is this true and was does it mean for next Mon ?

certifiedcrepe

It was just the CD according to the news and a few websites. Everything will be as normal on monday, it will be sorted in time.

Togepi

It's true, they're giving us the back-up paper on Monday. Thread for it is here.

Cruel Sun

If I mess up I'll always be thinking "what was on that other paper".

biohaiid

Is it just a new tape or whole new paper?

e-sull

There was really no need for them to publicise this. Knowing that we're going to do a backup paper will not have any effect on anybody, it just serves to create stress for already stressed students. It is also really affecting the integrity of the SEC.. They really need to get their shít together.

QueenOfLeon

biohaiid wrote: »

Is it just a new tape or whole new paper?

Its a new paper 1, and new tape.

e-sull wrote: »

There was really no need for them to publicise this. Knowing that we're going to do a backup paper will not have any effect on anybody, it just serves to create stress for already stressed students. It is also really affecting the integrity of the SEC.. They really need to get their shít together.

They had to, it was only a matter of time until word got out (the first post of this thread refers to twitter, not the announcement, as their source! ) and waiting hours for a decision (in the case of the 2009 paper) would have stressed you all out a lot more.

randylonghorn

e-sull wrote: »

There was really no need for them to publicise this. Knowing that we're going to do a backup paper will not have any effect on anybody, it just serves to create stress for already stressed students. It is also really affecting the integrity of the SEC.. They really need to get their shít together.

Actually, I have a bit of sympathy for them on this one, with the amount of exam centres there are with special centres etc., it's very easy to slip the wrong CDs into a couple of packs. I'd have a lot more sympathy on this one than for the incident re: the English paper a couple of years back.

I know what you mean re: the publicity, but ... if they didn't say it, and it had leaked, the rumours which would have started would probably have been completely wild and caused much more stress.

As it is, there's no reason at all to stress: your paper is at the normal time, on the normal day, it will be a perfectly normal paper.

Who knows? ... it could easily be nicer!!

e-sull

Makes no difference to me either way... Gaeltacht life! :P

MegGustaa

e-sull wrote: »

There was really no need for them to publicise this. Knowing that we're going to do a backup paper will not have any effect on anybody, it just serves to create stress for already stressed students. It is also really affecting the integrity of the SEC.. They really need to get their shít together.

I suppose if they gave out Irish Paper 1s with no date on them it'd be a giveaway...

linguist

Two teams of question drafters and setters work separately on two separate papers for each subject. At the end of the process, the Examination and Assessment Manager (Chief Examiner) selects one as the live paper and one as the backup.

This is no reason to assume that the backup paper will be any less favourable than the original one as both have to confirm to the SEC assessment principles in any case.

Just ignore this little fuss and carry on preparing as you were. There is nothing to worry about (other than what you were worrying about before you heard this story!).

WarZoneBrother

An easy sollution to this mess up:

Let us write our own Essay titles

earwax_man

e-sull wrote: »

Makes no difference to me either way... Gaeltacht life! :P

High five

readystudypass

http://www.examinations.ie/index.php?l=en&mc=ex&sc=ge

SureYWouldntYa

thought it would be the actual paper.......... :pac:

MathsManiac

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

thought it would be the actual paper.......... :pac:

In which case, they'd now have to send out the back-up of the back-up! :eek: