Mock Results vs Leaving Cert Results

Samurai12

I know that there have been multiple leaving cert threads already made. But I am interested in seeing how most people did when compared to their mocks. Also I would like to know why people think they did better/worse in the leaving than in the mocks.
And also maybe next year people will look back on this thread and they might get advice from it.

swagmire

Mocks: 400
Expectations: 470+
Actual: ?

neil123

Mocks: 385
Leaving cert: 490
I came up big time in Biology from a D2 to B1 and German C2 to A2

Mocks marking has always had a "scare them stiff" approach.

Mocks 350 LC 465

aleatorio

2 years ago, but mocks, 560, actual, 625
Not a good representation at all imo, they're more-so for practicing timing and strategy etc. I think

LC2016

swagmire wrote: »

Mocks: 400
Expectations: 470+
Actual: ?

I'm practically the same but I got 410 in mocks. Hope I'm not being unrealistically ambitious.

Samurai12

Mocks: 420 (Blaze It )
Expectations:480ish
Real LC: Well that's still to come tomorrow

Hopefully i will hit my target or even surpass it

DublinArnie

Mocks: 495
First choice: 500
LC: 420-450

Screwed up some exams, but 420 is enough for a nice engineering course.

TheBiz

I got 340 in my mock, excluding music and LCVP was at a bare pass. Needless to say (I hope /I need to) do better than that.

Anonymagician

Mocks: 490 (I think)
Actual: 505

I definitely got incredibly lazy after the mocks because my points from them were over a hundred more than what I needed so I figured I couldn't possibly drop that much. The mocks are a good practice run but are often marked poorly in comparison to the real thing. As you can see from other posters, everyone is different depending on how much work was put in after the mocks (and yes people do go down)

Hollister11

Mock 115
Leaving 245

swagmire

swagmire wrote: »

Mocks: 400
Expectations: 470+
Actual: ?

Mocks:400
Expectations:470
Actual:470

Hollister11

I there no 6th year off topic thread this year?

spurious

Hollister11 wrote: »

I there no 6th year off topic thread this year?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057270549

adam240610

Mock: 500
Expected: high 500s
Actual: 595

AlfaJack

Mocks: 560 (but some parts of the mock exams weren't counted if we hadn't covered that topic yet for example in maths)
Leaving cert: 615

echolima

Mocks: 515
Actual: 545
Dropped in Maths and History, but came up in everything else. HL Maths was a real disappointment, went from B3 in mocks to C3

juniorcert

Mocks: 505
Leaving cert: 535

MomijiHime

Mocks: 460...? Can't remember
Actual: 530

Samurai12

Samurai12 wrote: »

Mocks: 420 (Blaze It )
Expectations:480ish
Real LC: Well that's still to come tomorrow

Hopefully i will hit my target or even surpass it

Mocks: 420 (Blaze It )
Expectations:480ish
Real LC: 465

I'm not overly excited or happy about it but on the other hand i am not overly disappointed by it

ArmadaCharge

Mocks: 525
Leaving: 575

Was hoping to do better but I got 100 more points than the course I want.

Pidge.

Mocks: 405
Leaving: 575

DublinArnie

DublinArnie wrote: »

Mocks: 495
First choice: 500
LC: 420-450

Screwed up some exams, but 420 is enough for a nice engineering course.

Mock: 495
Prediction: 410-450
Actual: 535

randomlad727

605 mocks, 625 actual

AtLeastITried

Mocks - 305
Real - 405
My course was 405 last year so I'm not too happy but it's a good improvement for me

lc2015x

Mocks- 380
Expectations - 440
Leaving - 410
Really disappointed in myself. I was hoping to do Civil Law in NUIG (440pts). What are the chances of getting an offer from them on Monday lads?

saif.khalid14

Mocks 550
Real 7 h @1

Robbiert

Mocks:625
Real deal : 625 mup d lads

Brian_R

Mocks: 475 Actual:560

-English C1-A2
-Maths D2-B1
-Irish Got C2 in higher but tactically dropped and took the piss out of my leaving exam, spent 30 mins in each test and came out with an A2
-Spanish B2-C1
-Physics C2-B1
-Business A1-A1
-Economics B2-A1

Didnt study for mocks at all and was bricking it cus I wouldn't get my course so I started studying for like 10 hours a day

Violin1997

Mocks:380
Expected: 320ish (Didn't think I'd get as big a grade in Music)
LC: 425

English (HL): C3 - C1
Irish (OL): B3 - B3
Maths: D3 (HL) - A1 (OL) (I dropped on the day because I didn't want to take a risk)
French (HL): C3 - C1
History (HL): E - C1 (The marker was rotten at the mocks)
Economics (HL): D1 - D1 (Thought I failed the real thing, delighted!)
Music (HL): A1 - A1 (So happy with this!)

Overall I went up 45 points and improved my grades in 4 subjects! Trilled

Bangdiggy

Mock: 445
Actualités: 460

yoyojc

I found that I got the exact same as my 5th year Summer exam in terms of points.

pleindespoir

Mocks: 415
Real: 410

Loads of things happened during LC and I was confident that I know more than I do. Being complacent is the only reason this has happened.

My biggest disappointment would be maths where I received C3 in. It was just so appalling. Same with biology where I got C2. I have received A in them during christmas and summer but bummed down in mocks and thought about how "mocks are always harder than the real thing." So there we go.

Not everyone goes up from the mocks. It takes a lot of perseverance and drive to rise from mocks and time between the real thing and mocks should be used really efficiently. I wish I've known that well enough instead of thinking I'm awesome. ðŸ’ðŸ»

hubluh

Mocks: 480
LC: 585

nikkilc

Mock: 450
Expected/Aim: 450
Actual: 510

I think my Home Ec & English mocks were graded awfully tough - I actually thought I did better in both of them in the mocks than the LC (still think my English mock paper was far better than my actual paper to be honest!) but in mocks I got a C2 & B3 respectively and in the real thing a B1 & A1 :P
I was pretty consistent with what I got in subjects in the mocks & in the real thing besides those two, even though I put in a lot of work since.. but that's bc some of my teachers told us what was coming up in the mocks - I wouldn't have gotten the grades I did had I not known what was on them (and hence only studied that stuff.)

aoifem123

Mocks: 390
Real: 415

I honestly didn't expect it to increase, I thought I'd go down if anything. I got really lazy towards the end of the year sadly, but if I'd kept the momentum up I know I could have done better.

lalabear53

Mocks 560
Actual 585

malnurtured

Pre: 555
Real: 580

jadesylph

Mocks: 345 (I think?)
Actual: 515

I really didn't expect to get that high, I thought I'd only get about 420...I hardly worked all through 5th and 6th year but I put my head down in the last month of school because I was terrified I'd fail everything! I managed to go from a D3 to an A1 in English and a fail to a B1 in history :~)

Mr Rhode Island Red

The annual "My cousin's neighbour's girlfriend got 5 points in her mocks and went on to get 600 in the real thing" thread

Samurai12

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

The annual "My cousin's neighbour's girlfriend got 5 points in her mocks and went on to get 600 in the real thing" thread

Haha yeah you could say that, but hopefully everyone is honest as I do not see a reason for anyone to be dishonest. I mean we are all anonymous anyway.

Rustywtf

got 320 in the mocks, mainly because I failed maths
dropped down to OL for the real thing and got 475, tho I reckon I've been shafted on a paper or two. Will probably make at least one appeal

Hollister11

What happens if you get a place in a course, than on appeal of a paper you go down a grade and then don't meet the entry requirements and points dor the course your currently in. Can you continue on or are you kicked out.

echolima

Hollister11 wrote: »

What happens if you get a place in a course, than on appeal of a paper you go down a grade and then don't meet the entry requirements and points dor the course your currently in. Can you continue on or are you kicked out.

As far as I know unless there's a major error with marking your paper, like adding up wrong or a problem with the examiner, you shouldn't go down a grade

randylonghorn

Hollister11 wrote: »

What happens if you get a place in a course, than on appeal of a paper you go down a grade and then don't meet the entry requirements and points dor the course your currently in. Can you continue on or are you kicked out.

A very tiny number are downgraded each year (think 6-12 type of range). And no, colleges don't withdraw offers in those circumstances, they're not that cruel!