Leaving Cert 2016/17 Off-Topic Thread

Take Your Pants Off

Anyone do italian and know if the same oral rp and pic seq. from last year are on this year ?

Consonata

Take Your Pants Off wrote: »

Anyone do italian and know if the same oral rp and pic seq. from last year are on this year ?

*sees Post*

*Checks watch*

Lol, On a more serious note, here: https://www.examinations.ie/?l=en&mc=sc&sc=ox

Leaving Certificate Italian, 2014 – 2018

Below please find a link to the set of 5 role-plays which will be used for the oral examination in Italian for 2010 – 2016. From 2009 the role-play card with only one language (English or Irish) will be the card given to the candidate at the oral examination. The bi-lingual cards (English/Italian or Irish/Italian are for classroom use to help students build up vocabulary and prepare for the oral examination).

Don't mind the 2010 -2016 thing, I think that might be an error, on the circular here, and here it says 2014-2018.

Hope this is what ya needed

Take Your Pants Off

Consonata wrote: »

*sees Post*

*Checks watch*

Lol, On a more serious note, here: https://www.examinations.ie/?l=en&mc=sc&sc=ox



Don't mind the 2010 -2016 thing, I think that might be an error, on the circular here, and here it says 2014-2018.

Hope this is what ya needed

Thank you, yh the 2010-2016 was a bit of confusing, just wanted to clarify that. Again, thanks.

matthew1998

Take Your Pants Off wrote: »

Thank you, yh the 2010-2016 was a bit of confusing, just wanted to clarify that. Again, thanks.

togli i pantaloni

Consonata

In the throws of repeating now. Doing Chemistry in a year is harder than I expected but teachers have been very accommodating. Since I am doing OL Irish, I am able to go to fifth year classes chemistry during certain Irish classes in order to catch up with experiments and such, whilst also doing grinds outside school. Really should have picked it up way back in 5th year because I really like it.

Ah well, Hindsight is 20/20 as they always say ^.^

matthew1998

Consonata wrote: »

fair play to you man ! A friend of mine is repeating 5th year, he's doing Phys-Chem instead of physics... apparently like 2 OL papers combined :rolleyes: ... nice subject!

BadBannana

There are literally not enough hours in the day to get through this year

matthew1998

BadBannana wrote: »

There are literally not enough hours in the day to get through this year

I'm just looking Maths papers and physics papers and realizing how little I know or how much I have to revise.It looks a bit daunting at the moment

Consonata

matthew1998 wrote: »

I'm just looking Maths papers and physics papers and realizing how little I know or how much I have to revise.It looks a bit daunting at the moment

The mocks help with that feeling alot.

matthew1998

Consonata wrote: »

The mocks help with that feeling alot.

unless you fail your mocks badly

Consonata

matthew1998 wrote: »

unless you fail your mocks badly

Even then, they help, because you feel like you have a grip on the exam. I did not do well in my Biology mock at all. Got 47%. But I still felt like I had a better grip on the paper than I did before, because I had done the whole thing in the time limit, and really felt like I knew the structure of the paper.

Obviously I hadn't enough study done for it. But that will come with time.

matthew1998

Consonata wrote: »

lets hopes it does :rolleyes:

Mr Rhode Island Red

Does anybody find some of the physics experiments tedious? I like physics but I just feel like some of the course, and in particular the experiments, are just irrelevant and outdated. Did some of the sound and waves experiments this week and it nearly drove me cracked. On top of this some of the equipment our physics teacher presents us with looks like it's from the 1800s :pac:

Ponguin

How's everyone finding maths? We've just finished integration and I didn't find it too bad, God knows what we'll be doing next though 😜
It seems crazy to me just how many people from my year are getting grinds. I think there's only one other person apart from me in a chemistry class of 20 not going to extra classes

Consonata

Ponguin wrote: »

How's everyone finding maths? We've just finished integration and I didn't find it too bad, God knows what we'll be doing next though 😜
It seems crazy to me just how many people from my year are getting grinds. I think there's only one other person apart from me in a chemistry class of 20 not going to extra classes

Calc (Diff. and Intergration) are like the hardest topics I found, apart from like proof by induction. Other people might find the proofs easy, I just could never get my head around them.

Manutd_4life

Ponguin wrote: »

How's everyone finding maths? We've just finished integration and I didn't find it too bad, God knows what we'll be doing next though 😜
It seems crazy to me just how many people from my year are getting grinds. I think there's only one other person apart from me in a chemistry class of 20 not going to extra classes

I'm honestly doing fine in maths but I will be starting grinds soon. In my class, we don't do any exam style questions or project maths type questions and this is where I feel I will be at major disadvantage which is why I will be getting grinds.

We just do the straight forward questions in the book but when you compare the questions in the book to the exam paper there is a major contrast. Plus the course is humongous (too big imo) so the extra revision, notes and questions is much needed

EireLemon

I find calculus really difficult. Please tell me it's one of the hardest things on the course....

CathalRyano

EireLemon wrote: »

I find calculus really difficult. Please tell me it's one of the hardest things on the course....

Depends on the person really. I found calculus really easy but that's just me. Best way to get good at calc is to just do exactly what the formula book tells you to do with the function, and practice it a lot.

BadBannana

I was bitching about calculus earlier but I actually managed to pull through and get 76%.

I was delighted because I'd been considering dropping if I failed this exam

matthew1998

BadBannana wrote: »

You sounds like a person with high ability but low self esteem
Chin up bud you're doing great.

Geometry Test Monday Constructions , 1 theorem ...11,12 or 13 , and an exam question... twil be fun :pac:

BadBannana

matthew1998 wrote: »

You sounds like a person with high ability but low self esteem
Chin up bud you're doing great.

Geometry Test Monday Constructions , 1 theorem ...11,12 or 13 , and an exam question... twil be fun :pac:

I'd been bordering on failing most of fifth year while working my arse off.

It all just clicked in my head this year and it's going well.

Good luck in your own exam, I haven't done theorems yet but geometry is a hard one

thetalker

Were a bit behind I think, we skipped complex numbers and havent done integral calc. The intriduction of trig functions and deriving them has proved to be pretty damn tricky imo.

matthew1998

BadBannana wrote: »

I'd prefer it to calculus

i think we are a good bit behind , havnet done complex, differentiation or proof by induction yet we wont be done till after easter :pac: god i'd so ducked.

padraigmck

matthew1998 wrote: »

BadBannana wrote: »

i think we are a good bit behind , havnet done complex, differentiation or proof by induction yet we wont be done till after easter :pac: god i'd so ducked.

My class seem to be way behind the rest of yers, we haven't done calculus yet or any theorems etc....

matthew1998

padraigmck wrote: »

Theorems are grant actually If you can't wrap your head around them you can just wrote learn them. The only calculus we have done is Functions and Limits..yuck

Mr Rhode Island Red

We've done all of statistics, algebra, probability, constructions and complex numbers. Just starting trigonometry but haven't touched calculus.

matthew1998

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

No point rushing a class and not understanding a thing. Trig is really nice :pac:

BadBannana

We've got the second book to go through now. I think it's theorems and imaginary numbers etc.

Trig is possibly my least favourite thing after my earphones getting caught on something and being ripped out of my ears

Telo123

Could anyone offer advice about trying to syudy.When ever i try to study i just get a constant headache any tips to prevent this?

matthew1998

BadBannana wrote: »

Did you get it caught on a trinagle? Let me know the scalene of the problem!:pac:

Telo123 wrote: »

Could anyone offer advice about trying to syudy.When ever i try to study i just get a constant headache any tips to prevent this?

Drink water , sleep more, less junk food , less alcohol ( if you drink) , eat fruit and veg , lower caffine intake and maybe even take a paracetamol

Maybe you need glasses?

Could be a million things tbh ...