Mock Orals

emersyn

We got our mock timetable today and I meant to ask someone about this but I forgot - do schools usually hold mock oral exams for the languages? If so, is it usually a teacher from another school coming in to emulate the real thing or would the teachers just do them themselves? I know it will differ from school to school but what's the general protocol

Troxck

emersyn wrote: »

We got our mock timetable today and I meant to ask someone about this but I forgot - do schools usually hold mock oral exams for the languages? If so, is it usually a teacher from another school coming in to emulate the real thing or would the teachers just do them themselves? I know it will differ from school to school but what's the general protocol

Well for Irish, it was just a different Irish teacher in our school, for French it was just the French teacher (I didn't do French for LC) and for German we had an optional oral mock with an external teacher (she was a native German herself actually so it was really good). So it depends on school and class. Best thing to do is just ask your teacher or people you knew in Sixth year last year!

Bazinga_N

emersyn wrote: »

We got our mock timetable today and I meant to ask someone about this but I forgot - do schools usually hold mock oral exams for the languages? If so, is it usually a teacher from another school coming in to emulate the real thing or would the teachers just do them themselves? I know it will differ from school to school but what's the general protocol

We're personally not doing an Irish one because our Irish teacher said all we're going to be doing from February to the Orals is oral work so she's focusing on everything else for awhile Other Irish classes in our year just swapped teachers for the mock orals so that you have a different teacher to your own but the school doesn't have to go looking for anyone either.

In French, we're getting a lady to come in and do them with us after the pre-paper.

rainbowtrout

emersyn wrote: »

We got our mock timetable today and I meant to ask someone about this but I forgot - do schools usually hold mock oral exams for the languages? If so, is it usually a teacher from another school coming in to emulate the real thing or would the teachers just do them themselves? I know it will differ from school to school but what's the general protocol

You've answered your own question. Mocks are not state sanctioned. Some schools don't do mocks at all. Some do mock orals. Some don't. Of the ones that do, some are done by the class teacher. In larger schools teachers might swap classes, in some schools the teacher might make an arrangement with a teacher in another school to do each others mock orals. It's up to the individual school.

emersyn

Ta everyone, will ask about it next week

Tomk_1111

We were told today that the mock orals start next week for us. Sickening...