Mocks 2017 ***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.

onlyontuesdays

English Paper 2, not sure which company:

It's a very bad idea to know what's going to be on the mocks, but our english teacher told us whats on our paper 2 if you'd still like to know, and we have topics from our business paper. i dont like knowing but if you'd like to know Eavan Boland, a hamlet question on Gertrude and Ophelia or corruption and he has a sample answer for the comparative

VG31

Use a spoilers!

spurious

...and so the nonsense begins.

infor123

Your teacher will probably be giving you sly hints anyway. I know I make sure all questions are revised before the mocks that are coming up with my students.

I do agree though, it is pointless doing these mocks if you know exactly what's coming up.

Why don't you try to predict questions from looking at LC exam papers and go from there. They will be using this as a guide themselves in the mock companies.

But remember you won't know in June and this is meant to be a trial run.

endacl

(A) Not everybody will be doing the same papers.
(B) Stop faffing about on the interwebs and hit the books.

mycro2013

To be honest you'll only be doing yourself a disservice by getting tips. As it will only distort your results and give you a false sense of readiness for the real exam.

srsh

Spanish, no company, no level:

something on the environment

evolving_doors

srsh wrote: »

Spanish, no company, no level:

something on the environment

:pac: thats been the same rumour since back when I did my language exams over 2 decades ago (for french/german and Irish)... doesn't mean it wont come up though.

EireLemon

Biology:

Our teacher literally said that protein synthesis was coming up, not sure which company.

pollypocketxx

History Higher level, company DEB

sunningdale, Montgomery, Eucharistic congress, stalins show trials

Lisin

It seems that Studyclix was the goldmine of hints, but the moderators have since deleted the forums. I wish people would post here! Plus the majority of people don't know what company their papers are, so I think lots of people are going to be led astray. Guess I'll have to just cram for the next 10 days and hope the for the best!

[snip]

(I know opinion topics for definite on DEB French mock)

Timeisup

English paper 1 (I think it qas DEB, the barcode was on the top left on the front page)

short story with plot central to sentence "ambulance screaming down, a cry of terror", personal essay on fashion industry corrupt or something in youth, short story where character struggles with overcoming indecisiveness (I don't remember the exact wording but that's pretty much what they were)

Castlebar12

Timeisup wrote: »

English paper 1 (I think it qas DEB, the barcode was on the top left on the front page)

short story with plot central to sentence "ambulance screaming down, a cry of terror", personal essay on fashion industry corrupt or something in youth, short story where character struggles with overcoming indecisiveness (I don't remember the exact wording but that's pretty much what they were)

What about the speech?

Canard

Request to posters to either post your questions or don't! Your mentions of having certain mocks will clog the search function and the posts asking for PMs clog the thread. Additionally, I've snipped the requests from posts - they're not allowed and wouldn't be necessary if everyone followed the principle of posting what they have, and waiting for what they don't. Thanks!

Timeisup

English paper 2 DEB

poets: boland Durcan and plath, characters of claudius and hamlet and a second question on the corruption and deception in the play, vision and viewpoint for comparative and also theme I think

Timeisup

Irish OL Paper 1 (examcraft I think, the bar code was on the right)

Story about going to town with a friend, letter about taking part in a fun day in your area, blog about school, blog about Christmas.

Kan9

Lisin wrote: »

It seems that Studyclix was the goldmine of hints, but the moderators have since deleted the forums. I wish people would post here! Plus the majority of people don't know what company their papers are, so I think lots of people are going to be led astray. Guess I'll have to just cram for the next 10 days and hope the for the best!

[snip]

(I know opinion topics for definite on DEB French mock)

What are the french opinion pieces ? And what's DEB which type are they ? TIA

ivelevi

Hello, Biology HL, I am not 100% which company it is last year all of the exams in my school were DEB.

Section A
Food
Ecology
Cell
Sexual Reproduction
Human Defence System
Photosynthesis or Respiration

Section B
Experiment about Thoracic Cavity (heart)

Section C
Genetics
Ecology
Enzymes
Structure of Plants
Fungi
Human Systems

Lisin

Right basically, my school always has deb mocks, so I hope it stays the same! We are so far behind in French, our teacher laid out a few topics, but the questions asked may require a little changing.

Q1. Homelessness (simply because it was the closest to 95 words, might include a bit on voluntary work)
Others then are:
Student life is Ireland is difficult (something to that extent)
Addiction, (she was fairly vague about that one and it would require the most changing)
An email: something about your best friend and cancelling a birthday party.

Hopefully this is for deb and not examcraft, atm I'm not sure.

Timeisup

Chemistry DEB

Bleach experiment, Soap experiment (reflux) - be able to draw the distillation of ethanol process, long question on water, electronegativity, percentage yields, bohrs atomic theory and how and why it's been modified since (in relation to the emission line spectrum), components of LPG and petrol

Lisin

Irish deb P1 Essays:

intinne slainte
Caighdean spoirt in Eirinn
Braitheann chun cinn an tir ar fhais na gheiligar
An tAontas Europach: Ar ndan duinn?
Tabhtacht an gra i saoil an duine oig.

Irish P2:
A thig nar thit orm

Tugtar leiriu greannmhar duinn ar shaol na mbuachalla oige agus ar traidsiun na bothantiochta

Biology deb:

Food
Enzymes
Cell
Human reproduction
Ecology
Human nutriton
Cell division
Scientific method

Immune system
Circulatory sys
Respiratory sys
Endocrine sys
Photosynthesis and exp.
Genetics: nothing on genetic profiling or evolution
A long questions including a variety of experiment questions.
Ecology: a paragraph type one

Leaf yeasts exp.
Production of alcohol using yeast
Heart dissection
Food tests
Plant cell under microscope
Know all four enzymes exps.

Prose and poem:

Hurmlamboc and Geibheann

don't know questions however sozzles x

Lisin

An account on twitter has loads of content, found it yesterday: leaving_2017

Even if you're not on twitter, google it.

meg.ka.arm

Paper One SPOILER

QUESTION 1 + 2 - algebra, factorising, simultaneous equations
QUESTION 3 - proof by induction
QUESTION 4 - complex numbers
QUESTION 5 - exponential functions, calculus
QUESTION 6 - differentiation
QUESTION 7 - sequence and series using algebra and functions
QUESTION 8 - area and volume trapezoidal rule
QUESTION 9 -financial maths (saving for a holiday) monthly savings / calculated yearly repayments / AER

Paper Two

QUESTION 1 + 2 -probability
QUESTION 3 - the circle (centre of circle / distance formula / tangent / equation of line /
QUESTION 4 - The line - 2 intersecting lines / find their equations / slope / where they pass the x and y axis
QUESTION 5 - trig + trig identities proof
QUESTION 6 - length / area and volume / work out a prism shape (trig mixed into question)
QUESTION 7 - long question - length / area and volume / trig using cos and sigma
QUESTION 8 - long question - statistics - coming up with sampling method / know different types / suggest one for each type of data / means / standard deviation / draw graph
QUESTION 9 - functions

I really hope this helps
Best of Luck!

trimplin1

How do you know it is Examcraft? Which side is the barcode on?

meg.ka.arm

Hey Trimplin 1
My teacher gave us a hand out and told us that we are getting the Examcraft paper.
This is what he told me, I have not sat the paper yet and won't be doing so until Thursday. He's not the type of teacher that would get our hopes up just to freak us out on the day! Hope it helps anyways

Lisin

trimplin1 wrote: »

How do you know it is Examcraft? Which side is the barcode on?

It's on the right for examcraft and left for deb. Think it says it in the description at the start of this thread too, if you wanna make sure

Annmarieoleary

Ag science Deb

Q1- question on testing for starch
- 3 characteristics of clay soil
- differences between hay and haylage
- weights of newborn calves, first housing and mating
-giving examples from names plant families
-benefits of earthworms
- fictions of different plant tissues
Q2- soil q think there was something about bogs and peat
Q3-option one-sheep:
Terminal sires,prolific breed, breeding strategy for lowland sheep, ram effect
-option two- dairy cows:
Differences between liquid milk and creamery milk, how to have good quality milk,
Q4-experiments:
Bacteria in clover nodule, test for sugar in grass
Q5-advantages of perennial ryegrass, differences between red and white clover, what are tramlines, what is tillering, question on hay
Q6-talking about a named cereal crop under headings of soil suitability, fertiliser, harvesting and preparation of seed bed
Q7- genetics: define: diploid, polyploidy and multiple alleles, do a genetic cross and q on embryo transfer
Q8-liver fluke q, differences between omasum and osmosis, zoospores and zoonose and eutrophication and nitrification
Q9-scientific explanation for:
-sprouting of potatoes
-control of aphids
-leader follower system
-red colour in urine

spudsullivan

English DEB Paper 2

: Was quite surprised but both Seamus Heaney and Shakespeare come up in the poetry. Our teacher had not covered these so was a shock to all of us. The question on Hamlet was if we actually wanted to shag his mother or Ophelia it was somthing along those lines anyway hope it helps lads.

trimplin1

dont think thats DEB.

dovedale15

meg.ka.arm wrote: »

Paper One SPOILER

QUESTION 1 + 2 - algebra, factorising, simultaneous equations
QUESTION 3 - proof by induction
QUESTION 4 - complex numbers
QUESTION 5 - exponential functions, calculus
QUESTION 6 - differentiation
QUESTION 7 - sequence and series using algebra and functions
QUESTION 8 - area and volume trapezoidal rule
QUESTION 9 -financial maths (saving for a holiday) monthly savings / calculated yearly repayments / AER

Paper Two

QUESTION 1 + 2 -probability
QUESTION 3 - the circle (centre of circle / distance formula / tangent / equation of line /
QUESTION 4 - The line - 2 intersecting lines / find their equations / slope / where they pass the x and y axis
QUESTION 5 - trig + trig identities proof
QUESTION 6 - length / area and volume / work out a prism shape (trig mixed into question)
QUESTION 7 - long question - length / area and volume / trig using cos and sigma
QUESTION 8 - long question - statistics - coming up with sampling method / know different types / suggest one for each type of data / means / standard deviation / draw graph
QUESTION 9 - functions

I really hope this helps
Best of Luck!

Can you please let us know afterwards if the barcode on the front page was on the left or the right? Thanks!

ivelevi

Hi guys text me on boards.ie I am making group conversations on facebook about subjects (hints, papers etc)

Of course, add me on facebook: Kornel Kozak, Keep on adding I have a couple of papers to show you

Chrisalexandor

Biology:

Sex-linked Genetic Cross. I don't know which company.

Irish:

Homelessness, Tough life for young people, Sport. DEB.

French:

Addiction. Don't know the company, but it's likely to be DEB.

English (if you haven't already seen it)

Boland, Durcan, Plath, Keats. DEB.

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I have others but unconfirmed.

All higher level.

Telo123

TheMethMachine wrote: »

Looking for HL DEB maths paper 2 hints/questions as I messed up paper 1 and i really want to pass HL maths, any help you can give thanks

Maths p1 was impossible.Btw our teacher said p2 is way worse.