Mock Results vs Leaving Cert Results

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!