What was your leaving cert memories?

reddevils10

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me_irl

witty reply

Lights On

Sarcastic response to the witty reply

tomwaterford

People panicking out...and me being pure chilled as I'd an apprenticeship lined up


Still got the points to do what I wanted....but slightly over achieved for the work I did

me_irl

Lights On wrote: »

Quite good sarcastic response to the witty reply

Reply quoted, but edited in such a way as to make the poster sound a bit silly with "FYP".

FYP.

RayM

The sound of a shitty old tape recorder vibrating away on a wonky table in an echoing sports hall...

“Léigh anois go cúramach, ar do scrúdpháipéar..."

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Going out the night of graduation mass and getting wrote off afterwards with the teachers. The English teacher helping sneak in the 17 year olds who couldn't get in without id (bringing the id from inside out to them)
The last day of school everyone absolutely dying, closed off an entire section of the classrooms/dining hall and had food and a DJ.
Some of the girls broke into the office and took over the intercom

The actual exam itself? It was real hot that summer and some of the girls came in with serious burns. That's about all I can remember. That leaving cert summer was wild though

Duckworth_Luas

Cosine(x)/Tan(y) = ou est le bibliotheque?

Boater123

My number 83901, I still remember it, going on near 30 years later.

kfallon

Being knackered after the History paper, twas a long day.....Euro '96 started the day after

Water John

Went across town to do mine in the girls school.
Ah yes. Happy memories.

Torricelli

<insert smug "what's your memories, OP" post from arse licking wannabe mod here>

Lau2976

I had a friend who would give out to me if I didn't study every night. Biggest memory is lying to her and telling her id studied when really I was sleeping.

Or doing similar to my parents.

RayM

Boater123 wrote: »

My number 83901, I still remember it, going on near 30 years later.

159365 and 30586.

One was my Junior Cert, the other my Leaving Cert. I can't remember which was which.

Water John

With all that stuff in there, Raym, your RAM must be nearly full.

Ave Sodalis

It was awful. I badly damaged my writing hand on the Monday (started Wednesday), and had to get a last minute scribe. I'd never used a scribe before and anything with Maths in it, and both the English papers were awful. English was my strongest subject too and one I was nearly guaranteed to get an A in. So I was in pain and had to voice out everything. I ended up doing sh*te, had to pick my last choice on my CAO.

On the plus side, I wouldn't change that choice for the world now. Also, I got to eat biscuits and drink tea during my exams.

Nekarsulm

Being allowed to bring the family car to school for the exams. Tooling around with it full of friends on days when there was no afternoon exam. Listening to Springsteen's newly released "Born in the USA" on tape as we drove.

kfallon

Jesus it's 20 years ago this summer that I did the LC!

Oasis were playing in Cork the night before and the night we got our results

hitemfrank

My main memory is going to the funeral of one of my good friends on the morning of my German aural exam.

Water John

That's though Frank, on a young person.

maudgonner

Boater123 wrote: »

My number 83901, I still remember it, going on near 30 years later.

96486***

(Paranoia won't let me post the full number on t'internet, in case the man wants to look up my results)


My lasting memory is having absolute panic set in the night before the first exam. I put way too much pressure on myself and it all built up. Cried myself to sleep

No wonder I still have nightmares about the bloody leaving cert!

Fox_In_Socks

Fear and self loathing as I struggled to form pigeon gaelige sentences in higher level Irish.

The hand worn off me (with a pen in it, before you repost) as I jammed a pre-prepared fiction essay into a title that didn't really suit it in English.

I blitzkrieged my German exam with ease, the shattered divisions of questions and descrition passages, roiling in fear and confusion before my carefully honed spelling and sentence structure.

My tongue poked out the corner of my mouth with the effort of trying to add apples and oranges in lower level Maths which I had dropped down to a few weeks beforehand.

And I aced the science subject. Whatever it was.

Overall, I was glad to be on the home straight, ready to finish with the school and all its denizens.

Cake Man

The sight of a lad in my class (nowadays considered a "Full Time Mad Bastard") who thought it was the height of hilarity to forego the usual answering of questions and instead drew pictures on his exam paper and then leaving long before the allocated time. For his subsequent exams, the challenge was to leave as soon as possible (an hour I believe) whilst laughing and making faces on the way out.


Said lad is currently raking in the good ol' taxpayers money with no intention of that fact changing.

recylingbin

me_irl wrote: »

Reply quoted, but edited in such a way as to make the poster sound a bit silly with "FYP".

FYP.

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Ruu

Do you work for the Journal? Hohoho another hilarious article on Irish life.

ProudDUB

My school burnt down the week before the LC. Seven nuns who lived in the convent next door died in the fire. So doing the LC was a bit of a blur to be honest.