Junior Cert 2013 Exam Prediction

II 2FAST2C II

Well...
I am very curious what other people would think of what would come up,
What topics, What Qs. etc.
So i would encourage all to share their thoughts of what might come up for any subjects.

English
Science
History
Geography
Business

I would say they would be the far most important that would change every year and would leave people guessing predictions

Apart from Maths and languages and subjects

II 2FAST2C II

And i also would like to know how far or how are they doing in their studies
Mine are lol i would say average just average not too bad still in mind the PRES ON JANUARY!!!
Doing all Honours
I have done
History 1st and 2nd year
Business 1st Year and 4 Chapters of 2nd year
Science All chemistry

I will have this far done by Monday

And for maths and english i just study from the hw the hw i get from my teachers i call studying
Teacher gives us exam paper Qs. for maths in weekends
Also my daily grinds

Not planning to study for Wood or Metal until 1 week before Pres
Also not planning to study for languages until 1 week before Pres

Pen Rua

My Business teacher predicted many things to come up - none of which did. Luckily, I didn't rely on predictions and knew the course inside and out. The same went for every subject.

AoifeHayes

What date are your Pre's on? Mine got moved to next week....god help me :eek:

Bazinga_N

Mine aren't scheduled until February I hope they won't be moved up! :O

AoifeHayes

Lucky, I wonder if our papers are the same

Leinsterr

For the essay qs on history, whatever came up last year won't come up this year. The same for Q5. Q6 is the same every year.

AoifeHayes

by the way lads, at the start of some Folen's past exam papers there are all the previously asked terms, etc. Thought it might help. (only for certain subjects)

Man City 10

AoifeHayes wrote: »

by the way lads, at the start of some Folen's past exam papers there are all the previously asked terms, etc. Thought it might help. (only for certain subjects)

Mine are the week after that
Have you done much studying??(Finished the course)
Do you think you would get good grades??

MmmPancakes

I haven't started study yet. Bad idea haha..

I know most of the history course and business, except for the short questions, maths can't be that difficult can it? business has 4 topics on each paper which come up every year which I know

Budget
Club Accounts
Economics/Trade
People at work

Final Accounts
Business Documents
Fill in Question (Cashflow, business plan etc)
Book of first entry and ledgers and all that.

English predictions are useless tbh, Just know your techniques

German is almost the same each year, few comprehensions and a letter. Listening is pretty simple too

Geography I feel soils will come up, and the sea too. Not sure what else would

History is basically the same each year, know the biographies that didn't come up last year very well. Q6 is the same each year, know your events, 1916 Rising, Cold war, all that.

Not sure about irish but all I know is 2 essays come up and there is a comprehension and listening exam haha..

Religion, well, is basically a waste of a subject, don't prioritize it!

Good luck!

MinnieMouse15

i was thinking, do you guys study from the book, i was studying so much f.e history last night and then opened the past papers and none of it came up, i think im just going to learn of every exam paper, i really hope every question is repeated : D

Man City 10

MinnieMouse15 wrote: »

i was thinking, do you guys study from the book, i was studying so much f.e history last night and then opened the past papers and none of it came up, i think im just going to learn of every exam paper, i really hope every question is repeated : D

Lol no i am telling you the book is a nightmare just study from the revise wise
My suggestion Go buy the short cut to success
I really liked it very straight forward

MinnieMouse15

Man City 10 wrote: »

Lol no i am telling you the book is a nightmare just study from the revise wise
My suggestion Go buy the short cut to success
I really liked it very straight forward

I actually have every study guides, some revise wise, some less stress more success, spend so much time in easons trying to figure out which one is better for each subject haha but seriously the amount of stuff they give you on the course and they dont ask you, seriously they should have a book of every thing, definition etc that will come up! xD

Man City 10

MinnieMouse15 wrote: »

I actually have every study guides, some revise wise, some less stress more success, spend so much time in easons trying to figure out which one is better for each subject haha but seriously the amount of stuff they give you on the course and they dont ask you, seriously they should have a book of every thing, definition etc that will come up! xD

BTW COULD YOU GIVE ME THE HINTS

chocolate98

em if any ones doin business i think they should just look at exam papers and see the patterns its the same with most subjects!:P

positivealf

How do i improve speed at writing in english? Im doing honours

Bazinga_N

positivealf wrote: »

How do i improve speed at writing in english? Im doing honours

Practice getting your point across quicker. Do exam questions to the timing you should be doing in them in the exam. Say, if you're supposed to do a question in a half an hour in the actual exam, then do those types of questions with a half hour per question as practice.

spurious

Also, spend a couple of minutes planning your answer and scribble down some sort of a plan. Do not scribble it out afterwards. Leave it visible. Even if you run out of time before you have written your final point, if the examiner can see from your plan where you were planning to go, you will gain some marks.

positivealf

spurious wrote: »

Also, spend a couple of minutes planning your answer and scribble down some sort of a plan. Do not scribble it out afterwards. Leave it visible. Even if you run out of time before you have written your final point, if the examiner can see from your plan where you were planning to go, you will gain some marks.

Are you serious? so i can make a brainstorm on the page and would still gain some marks?

spurious

positivealf wrote: »

Are you serious? so i can make a brainstorm on the page and would still gain some marks?

It would get some marks, yes, especially if you slightly developed some points.
It's the Junior Cert.. They like to give you marks.

positivealf

spurious wrote: »

It would get some marks, yes, especially if you slightly developed some points.
It's the Junior Cert.. They like to give you marks.

My Irish Orals are tomorrow, i have school, about me, family, my area and house ready. For holidays and pastime i said I liked travelling as a pastime and described how i went on holidays in a different country. I did this as I didn't have time to make up a pastime, is this ok?

spurious

positivealf wrote: »

My Irish Orals are tomorrow, i have school, about me, family, my area and house ready. For holidays and pastime i said I liked travelling as a pastime and described how i went on holidays in a different country. I did this as I didn't have time to make up a pastime, is this ok?

Travelling is a pastime. They're more interested in hearing some confidence in how you speak the language than whether what you describe is your actual pastime. Just make sure your tenses are right, if you're talking about past travel.

chocolate98

is anyone beginning to get nervous yet?? i am a teeny bit!

positivealf

chocolate98 wrote: »

is anyone beginning to get nervous yet?? i am a teeny bit!

I'm only worried about the fact that I'm not worried about my Junior Cert, I am currently trying to revise as much History as possible considering my History teacher has always been terrible at History and I never really did pay attention to history much. I'm aiming to get as many A's and B's as possible, anything below that to me might as well be a fail because I had received way too many C's in my mocks. Don't worry too much, just keep studying.

chocolate98

positivealf wrote: »

I'm only worried about the fact that I'm not worried about my Junior Cert, I am currently trying to revise as much History as possible considering my History teacher has always been terrible at History and I never really did pay attention to history much. I'm aiming to get as many A's and B's as possible, anything below that to me might as well be a fail because I had received way too many C's in my mocks. Don't worry too much, just keep studying.

C's are really good in the mocks because the mock's are meant to be a lot harder than the j cert itself! i got mostly C's as well! as for the history course i would study the people in history questions, one revolution, social change in ireland and the renaissance and ancient civilisation!:D

DublinArnie

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MmmPancakes

DublinArnie wrote: »

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99% lol nope

DublinArnie

MmmPancakes wrote: »

99% lol nope

It follows a pattern XD I have three topics marked down for Q6 A), one of them will come up, same with documents, and I have a few PHs marked down . It's a pattern, my history teacher (note, he works in Institute of Education) predicted it, and it seems logical if you look at all the past papers up until 2002, follows a pattern .

chocolate98

can someone pls tell me how to make a thread pls?

Man City 10

chocolate98 wrote: »

can someone pls tell me how to make a thread pls?

Go to any forum and then on the left hand side just quarter way from the top you will see ''new thread''

chocolate98

Man City 10 wrote: »

Go to any forum and then on the left hand side just quarter way from the top you will see ''new thread''

thank u sooooo much but where is any forum??:eek:

Man City 10

chocolate98 wrote: »

thank u sooooo much but where is any forum??:eek:

Like any forum i mean go to a forum you want the thread to be placed
if it the thread is related to junior cert then go here
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=467

There is a list of categories divided into forums at the top

chocolate98

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Man City 10

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chocolate98

jeez im useless aren't i hahaha

Jijsaw

Predictions for history essays by my history teacher:
Martin Luther + Chris Columbus (he thinks) will definitely come up, if they do I'm grand then got an A in my mocks and question 5 he thinks will be American/French/Irish revolutions

DublinArnie

Jijsaw wrote: »

Predictions for history essays by my history teacher:
Martin Luther + Chris Columbus (he thinks) will definitely come up, if they do I'm grand then got an A in my mocks and question 5 he thinks will be American/French/Irish revolutions

Same with my teacher.

spurious

DublinArnie wrote: »

It follows a pattern XD I have three topics marked down for Q6 A), one of them will come up, same with documents, and I have a few PHs marked down . It's a pattern, my history teacher (note, he works in Institute of Education) predicted it, and it seems logical if you look at all the past papers up until 2002, follows a pattern .

You're presuming the same team of people are setting this year.

positivealf

spurious wrote: »

You're presuming the same team of people are setting this year.

I agree with spurious, however Spurious do you think they're right about the revolutions coming up in q5 and Christopher Columbus and Martin luther in people of history?

spurious

positivealf wrote: »

I agree with spurious, however Spurious do you think they're right about the revolutions coming up in q5 and Christopher Columbus and Martin luther in people of history?

If you have covered two explorers and two reformers and two revolutionary leaders you would be unlikely to be caught out in any year.

positivealf

spurious wrote: »

If you have covered two explorers and two reformers and two revolutionary leaders you would be unlikely to be caught out in any year.

And would that be enough for me to get a B? I've had a terrible history teacher for the pas two years whose only way of teaching is by talking about the job of the archaeologist and drawing pictures so i stopped paying attention to her in 2nd year, this year for my mocks I crammed as much as i could and ended up getting 56% in Higher level and I'm hoping to get higher marks in my JC.

spurious

positivealf wrote: »

And would that be enough for me to get a B? I've had a terrible history teacher for the pas two years whose only way of teaching is by talking about the job of the archaeologist and drawing pictures so i stopped paying attention to her in 2nd year, this year for my mocks I crammed as much as i could and ended up getting 56% in Higher level and I'm hoping to get higher marks in my JC.

43% of those who sat HL History last year got an A or a B. The odds are in your favour.
Some people leave out entire questions and still pass. It's possible to pass just on the short qs, the picture qs and the document qs.
Don't leave out any questions and you should be fine.

Just on the short qs - you have to answer ten of the twenty, but you will be marked on your best ten, so answer as many as you can, in case you get some wrong.

DublinArnie

spurious wrote: »

43% of those who sat HL History last year got an A or a B. The odds are in your favour.
Some people leave out entire questions and still pass. It's possible to pass just on the short qs, the picture qs and the document qs.
Don't leave out any questions and you should be fine.

Just on the short qs - you have to answer ten of the twenty, but you will be marked on your best ten, so answer as many as you can, in case you get some wrong.

My friend left out the pictures and he got an A in his mocks, the pictures hardly carry any marks anyway.

A97

Which option topic for History is best to cover in detail? I'm leaning towards European Unity because it's a short chapter and slightly interesting but would it be better to know the Cold War or Decolonisation? All three are interesting chapters but the Cold War is much longer than the other two and there's an awful lot more to know so I'd rather avoid it. That said, I liked going through it.

Man City 10

A97 wrote: »

Which option topic for History is best to cover in detail? I'm leaning towards European Unity because it's a short chapter and slightly interesting but would it be better to know the Cold War or Decolonisation? All three are interesting chapters but the Cold War is much longer than the other two and there's an awful lot more to know so I'd rather avoid it. That said, I liked going through it.

My self, I am going for the Cuban crisis
I think there is more facts,thus more marks in the cold war chapter
As far as I know you only need to pick one section from the cold war to be revised
Berlin Blokcade
Africa and Asia
Korea
Cuba
(Some titles might be wrong)

A97

Looking at previous papers, you appear to be correct. The only thing I'd worry about if I were you is if your topic of choice doesn't come up or the unlikely event that you'll need to write about two different events in detail. I'll more than likely do 6(A) and 20th Century Irish Politics but I'd like to have a guaranteed topic as a back-up.

Man City 10

A97 wrote: »

Looking at previous papers, you appear to be correct. The only thing I'd worry about if I were you is if your topic of choice doesn't come up or the unlikely event that you'll need to write about two different events in detail. I'll more than likely do 6(A) and 20th Century Irish Politics but I'd like to have a guaranteed topic as a back-up.

The only thing I'd worry about if I were you is if your topic of choice doesn't come up or the unlikely event that you'll need to write about two different events in detail.
Meh...!!
I'll take a chance :rolleyes:

glitzandbits

Anyone have any idea of English questions that'll come up for studied fiction? They never repeat any questions two years in a row so the easy character you like question and recommend the book question are out

Bazinga_N

glitzandbits wrote: »

Anyone have any idea of English questions that'll come up for studied fiction? They never repeat any questions two years in a row so the easy character you like question and recommend the book question are out

My English teacher said to never ever bother to try to predict English. She said it's the most pointless thing to try and do. Nothing ever repeats itself, regardless of a pattern someone seen. You're better off just learning as much as you can and hoping for the best

xoabilouisexo

I'm horrible at irish history and not planning on studying it for the junior cert... i didnt for the mocks and got a B, anyone else thinking the same or do you think this is a bad idea?!

Man City 10

xoabilouisexo wrote: »

I'm horrible at irish history and not planning on studying it for the junior cert... i didnt for the mocks and got a B, anyone else thinking the same or do you think this is a bad idea?!

I did the exact same and managed to get 73%
It is not a bad idea at all
I think it is a great Idea
It is so boring and dreadful to learn