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The night before the Leaving Cert

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  • 02-06-2015 7:21pm
    #1
    Galwayguy35
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    What are your memories of it, were you nervous or didn't give a sh1te about it?

    Personally I wasn't too worried about it at the time.


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    silverfeather
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭silverfeather


    My mother remembers more than I do, she was the one trying to talk me down calmly off the roof.


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    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Can't remember a thing about it tbh.


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    doolox
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    I never sleep before maths exams. I hate maths exams.


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    HugsiePie
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    I remember my JC better than my LC tbh


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    kfallon
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    There was defo a few nerves! Was really looking forward to Euro '96 which started 4 days later tho :o


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    eviltwin
    Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    I remember being really nervous and stressed out. Feeling the same tonight, my eldest is doing the leaving this year.


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    silverfeather
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    eviltwin wrote: »
    I remember being really nervous and stressed out. Feeling the same tonight, my eldest is doing the leaving this year.
    It's stressful for everyone, best of luck to him xx


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    kfallon
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    eviltwin wrote: »
    I remember being really nervous and stressed out. Feeling the same tonight, my eldest is doing the leaving this year.

    Hope he/she gets on ok!

    Lot of pressure with the LC, not sure it's right!


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    Tony Beetroot
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    Pressure is for gas cylinders.


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    #11
    Un Croissant
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    Can't wait for the sun tomorrow.

    I hate the sun. But it's tradition, and imagine their sad faces :D


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    Armchair Andy
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    Down the local GAA pitch smoking dope night before the leaving and between exams. I went on to do Eleceng afterwards, would strongly recommend it.


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    RayM
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    I was probably dreading English Paper 2, panicking and attempting to speed-read Hamlet and Emma, while desperately hoping that a question about Milton's Paradise Lost would come up (it didn't).


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    kfallon
    Registered Users Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Tony Beetroot wrote: »
    Pressure is for gas cylinders.

    Going by your username you may have pressure problems......blood pressure problems!


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    The Backwards Man
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    Went to Dublin the night before the LC started with a lorryload of salmon. Home about 7.30 am. quick shower and into higher level English I and II. Got an A1.


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    bear1
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    Got stupidly stoned...


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    kfallon
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    Armchair Andy wrote: »
    Down the local GAA pitch smoking dope night before the leaving and between exams. I went on to do Eleceng afterwards, would strongly recommend it.

    See kids, you start off just having the odd joint and next thing you're onto the harder stuff like Eleceng.....

    :pac:


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    WhatNowForUs?
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    RayM wrote: »
    I was probably dreading English Paper 2, panicking and attempting to speed-read Hamlet and Emma, while desperately hoping that a question about Milton's Paradise Lost would come up (it didn't).

    '92


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    anncoates
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    Leaving starts tomorrow?

    Excellent.

    Sunny tomorrow, so.


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    Armchair Andy
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    kfallon wrote: »
    See kids, you start off just having the odd joint and next thing you're onto the harder stuff like Eleceng.....

    :pac:

    That stuff didn't come cheap mind. The dope I just bummed.


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    EoghanIRL
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    Teachers always said it's never too late to start studying..
    So I started the night before each exam.
    :P


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    Not a NSA agent
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    This would be the time I would start studying. I might have had done well if I put in more effort. Oh well, iI got enough for the course I wanted to do so thats all that mattered.


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    HugsiePie
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Went to Dublin the night before the LC started with a lorryload of salmon. Home about 7.30 am. quick shower and into higher level English I and II. Got an A1.

    Well aren't you great :pac:


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    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,440 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    I did my Leaving Cert during the 2002 World Cup. I was more stressed out over the happenings in Saipan


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    blackbird 49
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    I never did my leaving cert, but my son is tomorrow, I think I am more nervous than he is


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    silverfeather
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    blackbird 49 wrote: »
    I never did my leaving cert, but my son is tomorrow, I think I am more nervous than he is
    Good luck to both of you.

    I got through this. I tell people if I did the LC anyone can do it !

    xx


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    Aineoil
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    blackbird 49 wrote: »
    I never did my leaving cert, but my son is tomorrow, I think I am more nervous than he is

    Your post brought a tear to my eye. Best of luck to both of you tomorrow.


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    retro:electro
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    I just remember having this feeling of "fcuuuk why didn't I study!" and ringing all my friends asking them what they were learning. When my brother was doing his leaving Ireland were playing in the World Cup and he didn't turn up to half of his exams


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    The Backwards Man
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    HugsiePie wrote: »
    Well aren't you great :pac:
    Moral of the story is never study the night before an exam. Whatever you know twelve hours beforehand will do rightly, and if not don't worry about it, life's too short for that carryon.


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    silverfeather
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭silverfeather


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Moral of the story is never study the night before an exam. Whatever you know twelve hours beforehand will do rightly, and if not don't worry about it, life's too short for that carryon.
    It really depends on the quality of your short term memory but in all honesty sleep is the best option.


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    Chucken
    Registered Users Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    I did my leaving cert when I was 30. Sat in for 2 years with 16/17 year olds.
    My 2 children were in 5th class at the time and who was I to tell them to keep going at school if I hadn't? (That's the way I looked at it)
    It was a brilliant experience but the worry 6 years later when my own 2 were doing it was 100 times worse than any worry I had for myself when I did it.

    We all survived it anyway :D


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