Leaving Cert 2016/17 Off-Topic Thread

ciara18

wanderer100 wrote: »

What Irish essays are you guys focusing on? Finding it difficult to study for this section. So many different possibilities

I'm learning the state of Ireland, sport, the roads, health system, education system, terrorism and young people's problems

Bazinga_N

Finding it hard to find motivation these last few days even though I still feel like I have loads to do

Liordi

Drugs & Alcohol / Education System / Mental Health / Youth Problems

Would've liked to learn something on terrorism/refugees but I don't have a sample essay and don't have anyone to correct something I write either. Hopefully, if something outside of the 4 I'm learning comes up I'll be okay to make it up on the spot.

EireLemon

Bazinga_N wrote: »

Finding it hard to find motivation these last few days even though I still feel like I have loads to do

Me too. As the Leaving Cert draws closer and closer, my excitement builds for when it's all over. I can't possibly imagine living without all the pressure we've had for the last 2 years. It's going to be amazing!

Consonata

Bazinga_N wrote: »

Finding it hard to find motivation these last few days even though I still feel like I have loads to do

Right there with you, did 3 hours yesterday morning, but just felt totally drained trying to do another 3

TheFitz13

If Plath or Durcan doesn't come up, I don't know what I'm going to do.. Plath has to come up surely?

daraghwal

TheFitz13 wrote: »

If Plath or Durcan doesn't come up, I don't know what I'm going to do.. Plath has to come up surely?

Lads just give up with the predictions. Plath does not have to come up.

thetalker

Anyone have thoughts on Hamlet, maybe what quotes to learn. I've a good few of Claudius and the usual bunch of Hamlet. I'm not too sure what quotes I could use for the questions that tend to deal with corruption or truth and lies in Denmark etc.

TheFitz13

daraghwal wrote: »

Lads just give up with the predictions. Plath does not have to come up.

She has to or I'll cry.... real tears

Crazyteacher

Revise 5 poets !! That's an order. Takes no chances. I was supervising a centre last year and a student was set on Yeats coming up and he was very angry with himself when he read the paper. That's 50 marks down the drain.

randylonghorn

EireLemon wrote: »

Me too. As the Leaving Cert draws closer and closer, my excitement builds for when it's all over. I can't possibly imagine living without all the pressure we've had for the last 2 years. It's going to be amazing!

Be warned, many people experience a huge sense of anti-climax immediately after the LC ends.

TheFitz13 wrote: »

If Plath or Durcan doesn't come up, I don't know what I'm going to do.. Plath has to come up surely?

TheFitz13 wrote: »

She has to or I'll cry.... real tears

Read post 1341 and following ...

BadBannana

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

I wonder is there many people that go into the exam having only studied one or two poets.

I know a guy who studied one poet. They didn't turn up.

Mr Rhode Island Red

randylonghorn wrote: »

Be warned, many people experience a huge sense of anti-climax immediately after the LC ends.

So much this. Everyone around me is building themselves up for when it's over as if we're heading into a summer of paradise. I'm trying to remain fairly neutral about the whole thing because I know that it's not going to be all it's cracked up to be.

Fair enough I'm sure it'll be a good vibe walking out of the last exam, but the next day there's going to be a big feeling of "What now?" for many people.

Set your expectations low to avoid disappointment :pac:

Mr Rhode Island Red

Anybody know good signing offs for the journal intime in French? My teacher was always telling me "bonne nuit" isn't going to cut it.

thetalker

The french papers have a few such as "A demain!"/"A bientot" or "Et maintenant dodo!" (Now, to sleep!). Or even Bonne nuit.
I've excluded the accents cause I don't know how to put them on my keyboard.

Anyway for the composing, who is doing a short story and does anyone have a general approach to it. I'm looking at past paper prompts and I'm blanking out on what to write. If I had something I could use and then fix depending on the question is would be ideal.

Peregrine

TheFitz13 wrote: »

If Plath or Durcan doesn't come up, I don't know what I'm going to do.. Plath has to come up surely?

Remember Plathgate 2012? I do!

And Randy did up until the amnesia

ciara18

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

Anybody know good signing offs for the journal intime in French? My teacher was always telling me "bonne nuit" isn't going to cut it.

'Je vais me coucher maintenant' is always a good one!

Mr Rhode Island Red

How would you say:
I have to go now I hear my mother calling me
Or
I have to go now, I think I hear someone coming up the stairs.

As fraincis?

Consonata

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

How would you say:
I have to go now I hear my mother calling me
Or
I have to go now, I think I hear someone coming up the stairs.

As fraincis?

Je dois sortir/partir maintenant, Je pense que j'entends ma mére m'appeller.

or

Il faut que je sors/pars maintenant, Je pense que j'entends ma mére m'appeller.

gavinoontheweb

Can't find any related stats in the last chief examiner's does anyone know roughly what percentage of people normally do the split comparative question (30/40) rather than the full 70? Are there any distinct advantages/disadvantages to either approach?
I'm planning on doing the 70 but just wanted to cover all bases in case it's too rigid, Thanks

koolis02

Consonata wrote: »

Je dois sortir/partir maintenant, Je pense que j'entends ma mére m'appeller.

or

Il faut que je sors/pars maintenant, Je pense que j'entends ma mére m'appeller.

Its actually Il faut que je sorte/parte maintenant. The verb has to take the present subjunctive

koolis02

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

How would you say:
I have to go now I hear my mother calling me
Or
I have to go now, I think I hear someone coming up the stairs.

As fraincis?

Je dois partir maintenant, je m'entends ma mère m'appeler
Je dois partir maintenant, je pense que je m'entends ma mère monter les escaliers

A97

gavinoontheweb wrote: »

Can't find any related stats in the last chief examiner's does anyone know roughly what percentage of people normally do the split comparative question (30/40) rather than the full 70? Are there any distinct advantages/disadvantages to either approach?
I'm planning on doing the 70 but just wanted to cover all bases in case it's too rigid, Thanks

I looked back at the last three reports and I found no mention of what percentage of candidates did each type of question or how they performed on average.

From a personal perspective, I think that most people have a preference for one over the other. I liked the 70 since you only have to focus on one thing, and you can use all of your comparisons across the three texts to make points relevant to the question. Usually the questions are quite nice and open ended, but if the 70 markers are nasty on the day, I'd think you should pick your part (a) text based on the following:

• The one you know the best
• The one that most fits the question
• The one that you can't make as many comparisons for in part (b)

A part (a) is a bit like a single text question, only shorter. I think sometimes (b) will ask you to compare all three texts anyway so then you can ignore the third point above if that's the case.

I don't know if you've done split ones before but I'd recommend doing one or maybe two before the exam if you have time to spare. That should give you a bit of confidence at least. I definitely don't want to send you astray, but if you're short for time, just look at the last couple of years and see if you could do a 70 marker. As I said, they are often quite open ended, at least in my own experience, so you should be fine as long as you answer the question asked, continually bringing the points you make back to the question, and as long as you make lots and lots of relevant comparisons between the texts.

EireLemon

Still struggling to find motivation... I'm just so sick of the Leaving Cert now.

Bazinga_N

EireLemon wrote: »

Still struggling to find motivation... I'm just so sick of the Leaving Cert now.

I know how you're feeling.. I'm genuinely struggling to get out of bed and do some study 🙄

BadBannana

Anyone else have a fit of laughing hysterically? I know a few people who swung between that and crying as well

wanderer100

Bazinga_N wrote: »

I know how you're feeling.. I'm genuinely struggling to get out of bed and do some study 🙄

I'm getting decent amount of work done but getting out of bed has been tough these past couple of days. Waking up in a house where all your siblings are sound asleep on their summer holidays is annoying but hey, guess we all have to go through this phase. Only 2-3 weeks left now. So nearly there

wanderer100

BadBannana wrote: »

Anyone else have a fit of laughing hysterically? I know a few people who swung between that and crying as well

I am imagine that'll be the state of the nation if Plath and Boland don't come up :P

carefulnowted

My dream English paper 2:

Plath/Boland/Durcan, or preferably all three

A Hamlet character question

No comparative

BadBannana

No love for Donne?

I can agree with the comparative hate though