Junior Cert 2012: CSPE

GrabTheCREAM

Monday 11th June
1.30-3.00

Try to keep all CSPE discussion to this thread please.

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Any ideas? I know the basic stuff

ilovesmiles

the only thing in the whole exam you can study for is short questioms... I usually look over past papers the night before and its grand! Just know the ministers and important buildings.

Chavways

CSPE

LOL

ektec

Im quite worried about CSPE :P I have had no real education on it, but i should be fine

PseudoFamous

Practise your poster drawing skills.

ButtonBox

Just googled and found this thing:

http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/eng/Taoiseach_and_Government/List_of_Ministers_Ministers_of_State/

Putting the name and department to the pictures at the beginning is where is where I almost always get zilch. :P
I haven't looked through it all, cause I just literally googled it there, but it's worth a look?

EoghanIRL

CSPE is divided into 3 sections.
Section one will test your knowledge of democracy and law.You will either get short questions, true or false or picture questions.
You need to know the president, the tanaiste , the taoiseach and where they live. You also need to know some ministers. Some famous people that work for charity also come up as well as the european union and banki moon.

Section 2: you get 4 pieces you do 3. They are very easy. Just read them and take the answers from them.

Section 3: pick one question. Know how to write a formal speech. Also if drawing a poster use colour. You get marks for it.

Best of luck guys. I hope to get an A in it. You can pass it just from your project

Slow Show

To anyone who has their CSPE exam tomorrow and is reading this thread, people tend to leave CSPE before the allotted time is up, a good number of people go as soon as they're allowed to go (don't feel pressured to go, go when you're done). I did the exam to the best of my ability and was done in forty minutes. Now, CSPE has been rather stupidly, if I can say so, scheduled to take place a half hour before the LC Irish aural. Right when the masses will be leaving their exam...so guys, if you could somehow keep the noise down to a minimum and be really uncool and tell your friends the same, that would be super. Try to imagine yourselves in two/three times straining to hear exactly what someone with a thick Donegal accent is saying while a bunch of kids are tramping about like elephants, laughing and being hilarious by loudly expressing their sorrow that their CSPE grinds teacher didn't predict that poster. Save it until you're out of school, please.

Thanks.

Epic Username

What organisations and charity names do you need to know for CSPE? Just for the fill in the blanks questions.

Thanks

Mr. G

For charities you should know Trocaire, Bother and Barnardos.

For organisations, the european parliament, where they meet (Srasburg and Berlin), the united nations, I can't think of any others. Oh and know how many people are elected in the Dail and in the european parliament.

I presume you know what the Guardi Siochana (police) and the buildings like Leinster House, Aras an Ucharan and white house etc.

Hth

if832uspx4eogt

I haven't studied for this but doesn't the poster always come up?
I have an two hours in between the exams, I'll do a bit then.

Mr. G

Jurnee Better Wreckage wrote: »

I haven't studied for this but doesn't the poster always come up?
I have an two hours in between the exams, I'll do a bit then.

What just happened to the other thread!?

Jurnee Better Wreckage wrote: »

I haven't studied for this but doesn't the poster always come up?
I have an two hours in between the exams, I'll do a bit then.

Yes the posters come up in Section 2. Your basically given the answers to the questions from the poster. You should have a look through the 7 concepts before the exam. I'm going to study after maths for cspe aswell.

The organisations and charities etc are in Section 1 but they can ask any question in that part.

Know your buildings and ministers for the pics(print them off gov.ie)

if832uspx4eogt

^^ Buildings came up last year I think so I'd say Ministers will come up.
Last year S1 was a piece of piss, they gave you pictures of Buckingham Palce and asked who lives in it:rolleyes: Like are the examiners serious who wouldn't know that?

Hopefully this year they will give us Presidents or something.

if832uspx4eogt

I think it was a grand paper, although I missed one of the short questions about what was a army person in Ireland called (started with a P) I just said a patroller :D

Lor1963

President

Junokevv

Was it Roll of Electoral?

Troxck

Junokevv wrote: »

Was it Roll of Electoral?

Register of Electors, I think.

dalta5billion

Jurnee Better Wreckage wrote: »

I think it was a grand paper, although I missed one of the short questions about what was a army person in Ireland called (started with a P) I just said a patroller :D

That would be the president you're defaming...

I think it was the Commander in Chief of the armed forces in Ireland or something like that.

Lor1963

Troxck wrote: »

Junokevv wrote: »

Was it Roll of Electoral?

Register of Electors, I think.

Yeah it's the register of electors

if832uspx4eogt

And I presume where they meet is Slane Castle, it's the the only caste beginning with an S I could thank of

Sophieee

Jurnee Better Wreckage wrote: »

And I presume where they meet is Slane Castle, it's the the only caste beginning with an S I could thank of

no, i'm pretty sure it was stormont castle - that's what I put down anyway.

Lor1963

Sophieee wrote: »

Jurnee Better Wreckage wrote: »

And I presume where they meet is Slane Castle, it's the the only caste beginning with an S I could thank of

no, i'm pretty sure it was stormont castle - that's what I put down anyway.

It's definitely stormount

Oozamine

i Said parimilitary for the army question but not sure

Lor1963

Oozamine wrote: »

i Said parimilitary for the army question but not sure

It's definitely the president

graeme157

Jurnee Better Wreckage wrote: »

And I presume where they meet is Slane Castle, it's the the only caste beginning with an S I could thank of

Slane is in Kildare ffs.


Them questions were common knowledge. Stuff like what has been posted here is why people think all teenagers are thick!

graeme157

Oozamine wrote: »

i Said parimilitary for the army question but not sure

Paramilitary:

denoting or relating to a force with military structure conducting armed operations against a ruling or occupying power, e.g. Provisional IRA during the Irish Troubles.

How the **** could you not know what a paramilitary organisation is?

LauraIrl

Lor1963 wrote: »

It's definitely the president

awks i said the police hahaha

spurious

Was that Register of Electors question a multiple choice?

Electoral Rolls is an equally valid name for the Register of Electors.

Oozamine

graeme157 wrote: »

Paramilitary:

denoting or relating to a force with military structure conducting armed operations against a ruling or occupying power, e.g. Provisional IRA during the Irish Troubles.

How the **** could you not know what a paramilitary organisation is?

It was just a guess...relax

Troxck

spurious wrote: »

Was that Register of Electors question a multiple choice?

Electoral Rolls is an equally valid name for the Register of Electors.

Well, it was "...R_____ of E______" so I'm guessing they won't accept Electoral Rolls. I could be wrong though.

spurious

Troxck wrote: »

Well, it was "...R_____ of E______" so I'm guessing they won't accept Electoral Rolls. I could be wrong though.

Oh OK, LOL they gave you half the answer.

I would say they will accept Roll of Electors. From my experience correcting they tend to be very lenient at JC and certainly it's not 'wrong'.

orriray59

Jurnee Better Wreckage wrote: »

I think it was a grand paper, although I missed one of the short questions about what was a army person in Ireland called (started with a P) I just said a patroller :D

It was the President, I think. :pac:

I thought it was ridiculously easy. Although to be fair, my poster was downright crap.

thecrammer

Jurnee Better Wreckage wrote: »

And I presume where they meet is Slane Castle, it's the the only caste beginning with an S I could thank of

Haha I wrote Slane Castle too, only one I could think of. But it was Stormont

orriray59

graeme157 wrote: »

Paramilitary:

denoting or relating to a force with military structure conducting armed operations against a ruling or occupying power, e.g. Provisional IRA during the Irish Troubles.

How the **** could you not know what a paramilitary organisation is?

Because, perhaps, just maybe now, I know this may be difficult to comprehend, but let's just say he has better things to be doing than knowing what a paramilitary organisation is.

Shame on him for practicing for English, Maths and Science rather than file through the amount of **** that could come up on a CSPE exam. Teenagers! You can never educate the sons of bitches.

Oozamine

orriray59 wrote: »

Because, perhaps, just maybe now, I know this may be difficult to comprehend, but let's just say he has better things to be doing than knowing what a paramilitary organisation is.

Shame on him for practicing for English, Maths and Science rather than file through the amount of **** that could come up on a CSPE exam. Teenagers! You can never educate the sons of bitches.

Thank you! :L

Troxck

spurious wrote: »

Oh OK, LOL they gave you half the answer.

I would say they will accept Roll of Electors. From my experience correcting they tend to be very lenient at JC and certainly it's not 'wrong'.

The picture question had the inside of political buildings and you had to match them up and they had the flags of the countries in them...

IrishLoriii

I was kinda raging with the picture question cause the only one I recognised was the Dail and normally im really good with CSPE :L So far from what i can see onthis the only question ive gotten wrong is the catle thing, i said Slane too :P I have never even heard of Stormont castle :L

thecrammer

orriray59 wrote: »

Because, perhaps, just maybe now, I know this may be difficult to comprehend, but let's just say he has better things to be doing than knowing what a paramilitary organisation is.

Shame on him for practicing for English, Maths and Science rather than file through the amount of **** that could come up on a CSPE exam. Teenagers! You can never educate the sons of bitches.

ahaha ledge

spurious

IrishLoriii wrote: »

I was kinda raging with the picture question cause the only one I recognised was the Dail and normally im really good with CSPE :L So far from what i can see onthis the only question ive gotten wrong is the catle thing, i said Slane too :P I have never even heard of Stormont castle :L

Do you not cover Stormont in History?

One of the great things about CSPE is that it's cross curricular.

blobcat

What did everyone do for the poster? I did a raffle for a teddy bear for the children's hospital because of all the bear puns for the slogan. I think I did 'Bear with the children's medical research centre.' :pac:

if832uspx4eogt

I can honestly we never studied Stormont castle :eek: Stupid CSPE teacher :rolleyes:

O well, those questions were worth 1 mark each nothing massive to worry about my poster is quality

ciaran138

It was a harder than usual CSPE paper. A few of the questions were hard to make out. That said I say I safely passed.

thecrammer

blobcat wrote: »

What did everyone do for the poster? I did a raffle for a teddy bear for the children's hospital because of all the bear puns for the slogan. I think I did 'Bear with the children's medical research centre.' :pac:

My poster was crap xD
I went with the idea that, the more bright colours, the better! It was a mess :P
And for my slogan... I can't even bring myself to repeat it xD It was SO cheesy and stupid lol, the examiner will be like, wtf, couldn't you think of ANYTHING better?
I did a sponsored run for the fundraiser... Then when I'd finished and I'd used up all the space, I freaked out 'cos I thought we had to draw a picture... So I drew a little running stickman in the corner... All in all, quality work right there. Should be hanging in the national art gallery soon enough lads

puttuporshutup

I did a bake sale for my poster, used such an embarrassing slogan:
Getting a tasty treat could contribute to a treatment to save a child's life.

Oh God shame on me.

Cheerios

thecrammer wrote: »

My poster was crap xD
I went with the idea that, the more bright colours, the better! It was a mess :P
And for my slogan... I can't even bring myself to repeat it xD It was SO cheesy and stupid lol, the examiner will be like, wtf, couldn't you think of ANYTHING better?
I did a sponsored run for the fundraiser... Then when I'd finished and I'd used up all the space, I freaked out 'cos I thought we had to draw a picture... So I drew a little running stickman in the corner... All in all, quality work right there. Should be hanging in the national art gallery soon enough lads

Yeah... Right beside my one. Haha, my poster was a mess. I usually don't do posters, I prefer writing rather than drawing under exam conditions. The question was just too easy to resist. >.<

WatchWolf

thecrammer

Cheerios wrote: »

Yeah... Right beside my one. Haha, my poster was a mess. I usually don't do posters, I prefer writing rather than drawing under exam conditions. The question was just too easy to resist. >.<

We're all such artists!
Yup I never do posters either, and I almost chose Q4, but Q2 was so easy I changed my mind :cool: So I ended up making that piece of, um, artwork :pac:

thecrammer

puttuporshutup wrote: »

I did a bake sale for my poster, used such an embarrassing slogan:
Getting a tasty treat could contribute to a treatment to save a child's life.

Oh God shame on me.

lmao well it's hard to think of things under pressure
for my Crumlin fundraiser poster, I almost wrote down "Think of the children!" as my slogan... But then I thought that the examiner might think I was taking the piss, which would be awful, truth is I just couldn't think of anything better . I didn't write it down in the end though, too risky.

theCRAIG

Wel lads....what yous think of CSPE?

Tbh i thought it was handy..but where does northern ireland sit ____ castle?:L

The House Of Wolves

My poster was flawless. I had some stickmen playing some instruments, whored out my favourite bands, wrote "Have some fun and raise a ton" as my slogan, voila! Concert in aid of Crumlin.

The only reason I got Stormont was because I looked at my In.Tuition Indo supplements just before I left and saw it.

graeme157

spurios, Stormont is mentioned in the history course. It comes up in the 6 counties chapter. A lot of teachers don't cover this chapter though because it covers the War, the Provos etc. Although I see this period as relevant and important a part of Irish history as the Plantations or the War of Independence, it's understandable that many teachers don't want to cover it since it's so controversial for that generation.

As for the lad who quoted my post, I'd think that everybody would know the IRA were a paramilitary organisation and the difference between the IRA and the army. But apparently I'm wrong. Fair enough. Just think its sad theres such a lack of interest in our countries history and present tbh.