Mocks 2016 ***No Requests, use the Search button! READ FIRST POST before posting!***

Peregrine

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A bit of clarification on what does and doesn't need to be in spoiler tags:

"English was dire, I ran out of time. My comparative was so rushed." = This is fine. You're not giving away any information about the specific content of the paper. No spoilers needed, post away!

"English was dire, I had no idea what to say for Kingship in Macbeth." = This is not fine. Spoilers please.

lumosteph

Not starting mocks until February 1st but I'll definitely post any hints my teachers give me regarding subjects in the next few weeks.

Take Your Pants Off

How do you differentiate from the Deb and Examcraft ?

spurious

Take Your Pants Off wrote: »

How do you differentiate from the Deb and Examcraft ?

I know for sure Examcraft have a bar code on the right top corner. This does not rule out the possibility that DEB have too. Wait until someone can confirm about DEB.

Bazinga_N

spurious wrote: »

I know for sure Examcraft have a bar code on the right top corner. This does not rule out the possibility that DEB have too. Wait until someone can confirm about DEB.

My DEB exams have had the bar code in the left corner on the front if that's any indication

Also I know mine are definitely DEB as the empty boxes the exam papers came in are popping up all over the school and they have DEB written on them all.

TooMuchWork

DEB English Paper 1:

Know about the refugee crisis.

swallace3454

I think my Irish teacher today accidentally told us what poem is coming up on our mocks

Kaitlyn2424

swallace3454 wrote: »

I think my Irish teacher today accidentally told us what poem is coming up on our mocks

On my leaving cert mock I think the pros is

an gnathrud and the poem is geibheann

lumosteph

Please don't forget to use the spoiler tag ^^

swallace3454

[Just checking how this works before I do anything stupid /spoiler]

swallace3454

Anyway that I think is the DEB mock paper but thanks anyway


Tell me did the spoiler work on my last post

hubluh

Deb English HL

Comparitive essay choices includes cultural context

swallace3454

My school used examcraft for my Junior cert so i presume it be the same for mmy LC mocks (spoiler) test run (/spoiler)

hubluh

swallace3454 wrote: »

My school used examcraft for my Junior cert so i presume it be the same for mmy LC mocks (spoiler) test run (/spoiler)

Use square brackets instead.

swallace3454

Ha I'm probably getting annoying now

TSMGUY

Not doing the mocks because I'm an external candidate but I remember scavenging for spoilers 2 years ago lol. Good luck guys!

emersyn

Don't know which company we get the mocks from unfortunately but my maths teacher pretty much told us everything on the exam we're getting (HL):

PAPER 1
Q1. Wordy sequences question: linear and geometric involving logs
2. Compositual functions / completing the square
3. Laws of logs/ equations involving logs
4. Unknown (our teacher is replacing the questions from topics we haven't done yet so she didn't tell us the topics of the ones we're leaving out)
5. Injective/surjective/bijective functions
6. Construct root 2 and root 3, prove the root of a prime is irrational, factor theorem
7. Unknown
8. Financial maths - be able to change rates from yearly to monthly
9. Unknown

PAPER 2
Q1. Unknown
2. Trigonometry - formula 1-4 proofs
3. Unknown
4. Probability - this and Q5 involve tree/venn diagrams, independent events, mutually exclusive events, conditional probability
5. Probability
6. Construction and theorem (she didn't tell us which ones!)
7. Statistics - standard deviation, converting x-values to z-values, central limit theorem, hypothesis tests
8. Coordinate geometry of circle
9. Trigonometry (area of triangle), area/volume involving cylanders

emersyn

Also got some (considerably smaller) pointers for Biology:

Digestive system, reproductive system, sense organs, skeleton. Long questions on photosynthesis/respiration/ecology as usual. Also today our teacher did a load of revision on the enzyme experiments out of nowhere so they might be relevant too.

Enhaha

Don't know which company it is but we've been told a geoecology questions is:

Characteristics of two soils

also a 30 marker is

Isotacy

mayogirlie1

not sure what paper but geography(probably examcraft as there is examcraft boxes in the room) there is

a sketch map of brazil and a feature of erosion/deposition and a question on the Paris Basin

lumosteph

Not sure if these are Exam Craft Or DEB but will update as soon as I find out.

Geography

Environmental vs Economic Interests
MNC's
European Policies

Characteristics of a biome

English

Yeats and Bishop

swallace3454

Has anyone read the first post???? It says clearly no requests :P

Maniaxx

Sorry, I actually read the part of no requests, don't know what I was thinking! I'd say study brainwashed my brain Apologies!

CookieCat97

DEB English: haven't sat it yet guys but this is what our teacher told us
Comparative:

Choice between General V&V and CC

Poetry:

We've only studied three poets so far (Bishop, Dickinson and Durcan) and two of them will be there. Sorry that's all I've got :P

nikkilc

Accounting HL (DEB Mock presumably as that's what my school has always used in the past

Either Manufacturing or Company incl. Manufacturing for the Final Accounts

Peregrine

Mod note:

Come on, guys. Read the first post. It's even in the title. No requests please.

If all the requests weren't deleted, someone searching for 'English' would be ten times more likely to find 'Has anyone got hints for English?' than what they're actually looking for.

Not that I endorse this whole hints business!

swallace3454

Chemistry DEB Im only giving hints

Q1 Water Titration
Q2 Ethene/Ethyne experiment
Q3 Not Rates of reaction but had come up before
Q4 VERY nice questions
Q5 Trends in the periodic table/Electronegativety
Q6 Part A - Hydrocarbons - there is something different about this question
Q7 Equilibrium
Q8 Families of organic chemistry
Q9 Acids and bases or rates of reactions
Q10 Oxidation/tests for anions/
Q11 Water/Stoichemistry

swallace3454

If you have any questions pm me

emersyn

Does anyone know whether DEB papers or Examcraft papers are more popularly chosen among schools, or is there a fairly even amount of schools buying both of them?

swallace3454

Is anyone going to the corkmaths revision day today

Enhaha

Went today and thought the Stats part was really good

swallace3454

Ha you could've of seen me :-P to sort out this request situation I am going to suggest a plan what if we all post our schools websites (for exam timetables) and anyone who wants to see if they have an exam after them they can pm them but i want to say if you're looking for something always give something back

swallace3454

Hope that makes sense

emersyn

Good idea in my opinion - people mightn't be comfortable posting their school's website for fear of sharing too much personal info but just writing out the timetables sounds good
Here's mine:
1st Feb - Maths P1
2nd Feb - English P1
3rd - Spanish
4th - Irish P1, English P2 (not looking forward to this day)
5th - Japanese, Biology
8th - Maths P2, Irish P2
9th - Chemistry
All higher level except for Irish, I'm not 100% sure but it's fairly likely that we order DEB instead of Examcraft but I'll update this as soon as I find out for certain

emersyn

Good idea in my opinion - people mightn't be comfortable posting their school's website for fear of sharing too much personal info but just writing out the timetables sounds good
Here's mine:
1st Feb - Maths P1
2nd Feb - English P1
3rd - Spanish
4th - Irish P1, English P2 (not looking forward to this day)
5th - Japanese, Biology
8th - Maths P2, Irish P2
9th - Chemistry
All higher level except for Irish, I'm not 100% sure but it's fairly likely that we order DEB instead of Examcraft but I'll update this as soon as I find out for certain

swallace3454

We should also have a backup plan if boards.ie has problems like earlier this week it was shutdown maybe like a Facebook group or chat yet again only another suggestion

lumosteph

Sounds like a plan, I'll post mine here.

1st of February: English Paper 1 and Maths Paper 1
2nd of February: Irish Paper 1
3rd of February: Art History and Business (rip me)
4th of February: Geography
5th of February: French
8th of February: English Paper 2 and Maths Paper 2
9th of February: Irish Paper 2

lumosteph

Updated English hint (almost 100% it's DEB)
Poets will be

Durcan, Plath, Bishop and Yeats

CookieCat97

I've my aurals next week before the rest of the exams so I'll let you guys know about them

spurious

All these mentions of subject names in timetables will appear as results when people search. Results with no info.

If people ONLY post information (as requested), the system as described in the first post works.

This thread will be utter chaos come Feb 2nd.

randylonghorn

emersyn wrote: »

Does anyone know whether DEB papers or Examcraft papers are more popularly chosen among schools, or is there a fairly even amount of schools buying both of them?

Plus some teachers write their own, or pull random questions from old LC and Mock papers, etc. etc.

swallace3454 wrote: »

Ha you could've of seen me :-P to sort out this request situation I am going to suggest a plan what if we all post our schools websites (for exam timetables) and anyone who wants to see if they have an exam after them they can pm them but i want to say if you're looking for something always give something back

What spurious said.

Plus those panicking won't bother checking them anyway.

swallace3454 wrote: »

We should also have a backup plan if boards.ie has problems like earlier this week it was shutdown maybe like a Facebook group or chat yet again only another suggestion

Like ... I don't know ... actually revise the course rather than the hints? >_>

<_<

swallace3454

I'm gonna create a closed group called "Leaving cert 2016 boards group chat " on Facebook but first I need need names pm me if your interested this is only to get out of randylonghorn and spurious's way. It is not as restricted as this one you can say what u want and put up anything with no need of spoilers
so who's with me like below :P

spurious

swallace3454 wrote: »

I'm gonna create a closed group called "Leaving cert 2016 boards group chat " on Facebook but first I need need names pm me if your interested this is only to get out of randylonghorn and spurious's way. It is not as restricted as this one you can say what u want and put up anything with no need of spoilers
so who's with me like below :P

Beware of copyright issues.

swallace3454

I will

CookieCat97

Had my french Aural today, some sections were grand and the others were diabolical:eek: Overall I think that it was harder than the past papers. HL barcode on top right, know vocab for:

Section 1: Hardest Section, the guy seems to talk forever and very quickly-something about a festival and how to keep it environmentally friendly.
Section 2: Easy- about getting Bullied and then Home-schooled.
Section 3: Easy- about how different people deal with stress and calm themselves down.
Section 4: Easy- conversation between two people about looking for accommodation.
Section 5: Horrible- about a conductor announcing something on train, some fact and figures about something (I'm not entirely sure I think it might have been about driving) a woman who dealt with a robber.

emersyn

OL Irish aural today, barcode on the top left so I'm assuming it was DEB

Absolutely brutal. I've done all the listenings in the exam papers and this was by far the most difficult. Honestly I can't give a lot of spoilers because I didn't understand the vast majority of what was being said. Haven't a notion of what was going on in Cuid A - thankfully one of the questions was to write down a phone number, that's the only question in the whole thing that I'm sure I got right. Started with náid.
Cuid B was a conversation about the mid-term break - one of the people talking set up a study group and I think the other went on holiday somewhere without wifi?
First part of Cuid C was about a writer, something about him being in a hotel, I heard 'ceapairí' in there somewhere so maybe it was some sort of reading or book release? The second part was a news report and I could make out the words 'gadaí', 'fadbh druga' and 'siopa poitigeara' so I'm guessing it was about someone addicted to drugs who stole drugs from a pharmacy. It was read out extremely fast.
Can't imagine what it was like for the HL. The teacher also said that the marking scheme looks really harsh. Hopefully I haven't sugarcoated it too much :rolleyes:

Enhaha

Geography (Examcraft) (All from hints from our teacher)

- Overpopulation of a sub continental region
- Feature of river erosion/depositon
- India
- Map of Ireland
- Primary in BMW/GDA
- Igneous/Limestone Rock Formation
- Karst Region (I think)
- Really difficult SQ's - Soil formation triangle, lots of glaciation,

Good luck everyone!

cxxlin

German HL Listening - I think it was DEB?

Part 1 - was about a doctors organisation, asks when and why he joined it, where he was last & when, how they get the funds for it & what you need to join it, pretty easy.
Part 2 - was about a girl who lost a bag on a bus I think? Asks a prefix & a phone number and phrases to state her annoyance.
Part 3 - a conversation between 2 parents. Talking about his son who does nothing but study for his Abi and doesn't see his friends and she talks about her son who did nothing for his but play computer games
Part 4 - The hardest part. Something about a flower festival? Can't remember Q2, but Q3 was about this record breaking bus in Japan and what it hopes to achieve in the future. Q4 was about the weather as usual. Something about thunder & wind blowing in from the east coast.

lumosteph

Is it possible for teachers to pick a Paper 1 from one mock company and then Paper 2 from the other?

spurious

lumosteph wrote:

Is it possible for teachers to pick a Paper 1 from one mock company and then Paper 2 from the other?

Yes, but it would cost more.

siebey123

My biology teacher dropped some hints regarding our paper. Don't know if it's DEB or Exam Craft yet but will update as soon as I know. (HL paper)

Long questions: Ecology, Genetics (no crosses, just theory) Biochemistry, Skeletal system and muscular system, Plant reproduction and Human reproduction (he said these two types of reproduction were both in one question) and possibly Monera

French teacher hinted at something also for one of the written questions. Again don't know which company but will update asap.

know about emigration/ immigration and how to write about it.

Good luck everyone!