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15-01-2015 11:36pm#1After reading many study logs since September, i decided i'd give it ago. Hopefully this will help me focus a bit more and keep me motivated.
My plans for this week:
English- Finished Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin notes.
Irish-An gnathrud and caca milis spider diagrams
Maths- Functions
Spanish: Go through 2008 paper and go translate words i dont understand into note copy
Biology: Human Reproduction/Respiration
Business: global business chapter and Q3's
Economics-Finish Oligopoly market structure notes and revise.
Mocks are fast approching and aiming for at least 500, which i think is achieveable. If i dont get that, it will give me a kick that maybe i need
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Subject
Before----After Exam
Actual
English
B3
B3
Irish.
C1
Maths.
D2
Spanish.
B1
B3
Business.---- A2
A2
Economics. --B1
Biology.
B3
B1
Total
485
Week one of the mocks complete!
Well a few surprises especially in Spanish. Usually I'd get b1s/a2 in spanish and i'll definately be going for the A1 in june but that mock paper was horrible. I think it was examcraft from what i heard. The sinomins(sp) were dreadful and the opinion speech was quite refined. I wrote about the lack of confidence can cause great problems for young people. I'm not to concerned about that and i managed to get 2 and a half pages. The listening was mad aswell.
Biology went surprisingly well
English wasn't too bed, but i think purpose might bring me down across a few sections :S
Maths section A was so good. I'd say i roughy got 110/150, but section B quickly brought me back to reality...
Business went well.Could be boarding a B1 but overall im happy with how i did.
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Subject
Before----After Exam---Actual
English
B3
B3
Irish.
C1
C2
C2 (65%)
Maths.
D2
D3
E 37.5%
Spanish.
B1
B3
B2(76% )
Business.---- A2
A2
A1(94 : D)
Economics. --B1
A1
Biology.
B3
B1----B2(79)
Total
485
495
So 5/7 of the results are in and the biggest disappointment was in maths, i passed paper 2 but failed paper 1 so close! A part of me wants to drop but Those extra 25 points though so im just going hell for leather now but it is tough, and also how the marking schemes are made gives me a bit of hope 😩!
I did a rubbish Irish paper but i do feel quite hard done but that said I got an A in the oral
Spanish oral i got 94% and the external examiner said there is no reason why i shouldnt have got 100/100, maybe just to keep me grounded hahah
Quite a tough week, still exhausted after the mocks, anyway, the plan for this week;
Maths- Complex numbers and intergration, both let me down in the mocks. Need to get my head around complex numbers, starting from scratch!
English- Going to wait until result and see what i need to do.
Irish- Pictures 1-7
Spanish- Mock vocab on written paper.
Economics- Wait until i get a result.
Biology- Genetics and plants.
Business - Unit 6-2 chapters.
Fat chance ill get this all complete 😩0 -
Subject
Before----After Exam---Actual
English
B3
B3
Irish.
C1
C2
C2
Maths.
D2
D3
E 37.5%
Spanish.
B1
B3
B2
Business.---- A2
A2
A1
Economics. --B1
A1
A1
Biology.
B3
B1----B2
Total
485
495
Got economics back but im still waiting on english. I'll get it back tomorrow so ill just edit this post and finish off the grid and be able to put this mocks to bed.
I was bed bound all week and got basically zero study done. The worst part was missing school, I hate missing it this close.
Anyway, I only managed to get a few things ticked off the list. them being business and irish.
Plan for this week.
English- Wait for paper// Imagery and symbols in Othello notes.
Irish- Essay and find a way to bring it up in my oral- if yous understand what i am trying to say.
Pictures 8-14
Maths- complex numbers...i might drop this week
Spanish- Same as last week.
Biology- plants. Decided im going to leave out the genetics chapter. thank god for choice.
business- finish unit 6
economics- study for test.
36 days until the irish oral...0 -
Got a C2 in English bringing my total to 495, Happy with that but there is still room for improvement.
Managed to get everything but maths completes and an extra spanish opinion piece the title was something like young people treat their homes like a hotel-or something like that, from the 2002 paper, and an Othello question from the back of my book, something like 'all the major characters make mistakes throughout the play which lead to fatal consequences' or something like that. If anybody wants the actual quote Pm me. Also got a lot of irish oral notes made
Maths has been such a struggle
Anyway, the plan for this week;
English- Start Emily Dickinson- the last poet i will be studying.
Irish- Pictures 14-20 and comhra--- 29 days until orals.
Maths- just do something
Spanish- do a practice listening and another opinion piece and the idioms i found this week-learn them.
Business-ill do something not sure yet
Economics- Common short questions and answers.
29 days until 40% of the irish leaving cert exam...0 -
looked at Emily dickinson's poetry and found it very complicated and complex. Anyway so i decided instead im going to do W.B Yeats, meaning the I've all the Irish poets covered + Frost. Has there been a year where there hasn't been at least one Irish poet?
Got another Othello question complete, in the previous one i got 60%
Anyway this one the question was ' if the play was to teach one lesson, it is that human judgement can't be trusted' Discuss.
Got a spanish opinion peice done from 2010 'el silencio no existe en el mundo moderno.' For the first time ever i completely disagreed with the statement. i got an A1 for it
Also i finished all the irish pictures notes, just have to learn them fully now, and also work on my comhra. I hope Irish will be the subject that I dont count, but just incase i need to do well in the oral, because my written Irish is very poor.
Anyway plan for this week;
English- Section B and read more short stories.
Irish- Oral
Maths- Financial Maths
Spanish- Oral+ roleplays
Biology- Mock on friday so heres what im doing
Day 1)Heart , blood,circulaton, plants, cell division,tissue and germination.
Day 2)Hormones, nervious system,food,excretion
Day3)Ecology,photosynthesis,respiration
Day4)Cell, osomosis,scientific method,skeleton and evolution, human reproduction.
Day5)Viruses,fingi,bacteria,protista.
should keep me busy! I wont get everything covered in detail but i hope for a b1, one subgrade up from my mocks.
Business-Q2's, governement and the economy chapter
Economics-Business revision is part of economics so.
3 weeks until Irish oral
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Just looked at my above post and all the poets i wanted came up
Anyway, week 1 over, and it wasnt as bad as expected.
English paper 1 was only alright. Section B was a bit rushed and section A was mediocre , id say i couldve got a C2/C1
English paper 2 was such a nice paper! Was hoping on a woman question and the notes i was looking over before was 'the women in othello are portrayed in a positive light' which was basically the strenghts of desdemona/emilia. Took a big risk only comparing theme/issue and Robert frost question wasnt too bad, only managed to write about 4 poems, wouldve liked a fifth!
I was surprising calm for maths this morning for some reason considering i failed maths paper 1 mock. Section A was nice, and section B was challenging in parts but i wrote stuff for everything. I feel i made a few mistakes compared to other peoples answers, but my method was right so hopefully i'll get medium- partial. Hopefully a b3 overall
Also said t=120 instead of 119 so im raging with that.
Hopefully maths paper 2 goes well, going to look over theorms,constructions and trig proofs. Hopefully a long stats Q
Since english went well, i think irish is going to be the bare minimum, basically only the predicted stuff.
Biology I'm going to concetrate a lot on biology, hopefully a nice paper.
Hope the first week was kind to everybody and best of luck in the rest.0 -
Have a day off so I get to rest for a bit.
Had maths paper 2- definitely more challenging than paper 1. No long stats question and very geometry heavy but still managed to work through it and write something for everything, even if it is wrong, hopefully a c1 overall.
Irish- paper one was so nice, got away with my mean cumarscaide essay paper two today wasn't go great. I should have had more prepared but I just didn't. Comforting knowing that the prose and poetry are only 5% each so maybe a c1/b3 overall.
Biology- what the hell was that paper. Very confusing in parts. I usually fly through short questions but they were horrible. The sucrose one especially. Though the experiments were meant to be on the course. We never did a tadpole one!? Put my other 2 was somewhat decent.
Business is my next exam so hopefully that goes well.
Hope everybody is finding the exams not too bad0 -
Business last week went pretty well so fingers crossed.
Had spanish today and quite happy, maybe an A2 but possible i got get one higher.
Economics in the morning so hoping that its a nice paper, have a feeling it will be
Possibly my last post but If i come back to this is August or not, best or luck to everybody with results and next year.0
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