A1s????

baby*cham*bell

do you need them?? (of course everyone wants them, i mean in terms of going for medicine or law)
or do you want them just for pride??
personally, ill be so pissed if i don't get an A1 in spanish :mad:

Boston

Well, you can hold them over other peoples heads, which is allways fun. I got two A1's if I recall. Physics and economics.

I'll shoot myself if I don't get one in Maths and Accountancy.

It just woudn't make sense!

baby*cham*bell

LiouVille wrote:

Well, you can hold them over other peoples heads, which is allways fun. I got two A1's if I recall. Physics and economics.

MAAH HAAA HAAA

JackKelly

It depends.
If you want them because you worked hard all year and studied a lot than they are good.
If you want them to look intelligent, they aren't good
If you need them for your course, they are very good.

baby*cham*bell

i think people who work relly hard deserve them, even more than naturally intelligent people (who do no work).
i admire the hard workers, i amn't and never will be able to study!

Kevin_rc_ie

so you're obviously naturally intelligent. or spanish.

baby*cham*bell

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

so you're obviously naturally intelligent. or spanish.

no, thats just cos thers only 12 in my class, so everyones has a real high standard. + i have actually put alot of effort it in. languages are my (only) thing though (although if you saw my entries on the german thread you wouldn't beleive it)

Boston

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

so you're obviously naturally intelligent. or spanish.

actually being spanish only slightly helps. You'd expect anybody that had it as their first language would get an A1, but the spanish taugh here is very technical in terms of tenses and the like. Also poor grammer would be a problem.

Kevin_rc_ie

Yeah you'd probably fail it Liouville, your grammar is most terrible.

French is easy compared to German.

Shyster

would like three a1s and need them...but only really think two of those will materialise, irish and french, please god

JackKelly

Am i the only one who believes that the Leaving has absolutely nothing to do with Intelligence. Apart from a select few subjects, the only thing you need to be able to do for the leaving is remember things and study. There is so little that requires ability.

baby*cham*bell

LiouVille wrote:

actually being spanish only slightly helps. You'd expect anybody that had it as their first language would get an A1, but the spanish taugh here is very technical in terms of tenses and the like. Also poor grammer would be a problem.

(looks at siganuture) did you copy my rainbow lines!!???

Boston

Yes

baby*cham*bell

LiouVille wrote:

Yes

thats cool, was jus wondering.
just out of curiosity, are you spanish??

Kevin_rc_ie

oh sparkley.

liouville's 100% irish i'm afraid.

baby*cham*bell

TimAy wrote:

Am i the only one who believes that the Leaving has absolutely nothing to do with Intelligence. Apart from a select few subjects, the only thing you need to be able to do for the leaving is remember things and study. There is so little that requires ability.

no, i think that too....thats why i admire the studiers, they're making the most of the (crappy) system

hmmm id expect to get a1 in history and biology!tbh i thought there would be more stress with the leaving cert

Boston

I'm not spanish, but my boyfriend is pretty much fluent, more so when he was sitting the leaving cert. He got like an B1 or an A2, because the simple fact is allot of the very difficult grammer taught here is not used widely over there.

baby*cham*bell

LiouVille wrote:

I'm not spanish, but my boyfriend is pretty much fluent, more so when he was sitting the leaving cert. He got like an B1 or an A2, because the simple fact is allot of the very difficult grammer taught here is not used widely over there.

yeah the LC is joke, especially with languages. we should be better able to speak after 5/6 years. but our brains are too full of grammer
Bring on University spanish!

Scarinae

TimAy wrote:

Am i the only one who believes that the Leaving has absolutely nothing to do with Intelligence.

Of course not, I completely agree with you. I know some highly intelligent people who got a mediocre leaving cert because they didn't work

I'd love to get an A1 in English, I got an A2 in the mocks and would love to push it up, but it's so hard to predict with subjects like that. Apart from that, I could get A1s in Biology or Classics, they're my other two best subjects. I don't actually need any A1s though, I'd just like to get them

Scarinae

baby*cham*bell wrote:

the LC is joke, especially with languages. we should be better able to speak after 5/6 years. but our brains are too full of grammer
Bring on University spanish!

Oh goodness, don't even get me started! Especially with Irish... And I felt so embarrassed when I was last in Spain, because everyone there was so good at English and I could barely speak Spanish, even though I've been doing it since first year, and yet I generally get Bs in the exams

Only Human

I'm just hopeing for a C3-B3 in every subject. If I got a B in any of them I'd be more than happy and very suprised. I need at least a C3 in Irish english maths and a continential language.

Waltons

I'm hoping for As, or A1s in 4 subjects...Music, Economics, Geography and English. It could happen though! Already done 50% of the Music and I'm pretty sure I got an A1 on that. As for the others...I shall see

randomfella

what course u going for waltons, do u need them A1s?

I'd hope to get A1 in german,
maybe A2 in Geog if the paper was nice if not B1.
B1 - business (long way from a d1 in mocks)
B1 - english
B1/2 - irish
B1 - history (again depends on paper, get an A if right things come up)
Maths hoping for a b3 but really don't mind as long i honour (c3)

that would leave me with -> score i won't get!! i'm hoping for 490 +
but hey i'm an optimist.

Camogie Playa

i'm hoping to get an A1 in ag science, if i dont it doesnt say much for me

sparkle_23

im not em hopin 4 ne a1's!

Stompbox

I need Six A1's. My brother got 5 and a A2 so I'm trying to outdo him

Waltons

I need 530+ for a scholarship to UCD for Comp Sci through arts. I'd need a fair few As or A1s to secure that

Jonny Arson

Its good to see people aiming high and looking for A1's but if you don't get one don't get stuck up about. My best results were 3 B3's in my leaving and I was frigging delighted with those!

I'm hoping for:

Maths: A1
Accountancy: A1
Physics: A2
App. Maths: A2
Tec. Graphics: B1
French: B1
English: B2
Irish: B3

Total: 540

What I will get:

Maths: A1
Accountancy: A1
Physics: B1
App. Maths: B1
French: B1
Tec. Graphics: B2
English: B3
Irish: C1

Total: 515



I got 560 on my mocks and, although my expectations are low, I'd be happy with either of them 2 results as I thought the mocks were really easy. I only need 420 points anyway.

Steveire

I was well peeved cos i got 3 A2's but iexpected A1's. Wow, what a nerdy sentence...

Innervision

Aristotle, what are you planning on doing next year? I'm hoping for an A1 in Accounting too, best subject ever (when the paper's nice!). I need about 420 too (Accounting in DIT), got 490 in the mocks but that was with all those oh-so-subtle hints from teachers...

Only Human

Looking over this thread I feel like a retard, lol!

Shyster

Only Human wrote:

Looking over this thread I feel like a retard, lol!

Dont worry-its all relative!!, if i didnt need the points for what i want to do i wouldnt be aiming high so dont take it seriously...:)

Innervision

Innervision wrote:

Aristotle, what are you planning on doing next year? I'm hoping for an A1 in Accounting too, best subject ever (when the paper's nice!). I need about 420 too (Accounting in DIT), got 490 in the mocks but that was with all those oh-so-subtle hints from teachers...

Science in UCD. I had Accounting down as my first choice at one point, but then i realised that I might find it hard considering I didn't do Business for the Junior Cert. Still it looks like a good course imo.

Innervision

Deleted User wrote:

Science in UCD. I had Accounting down as my first choice at one point, but then i realised that I might find it hard considering I didn't do Business for the Junior Cert. Still it looks like a good course imo.

Yeah the Economics/Business theory end of it doesn't appeal to me so much...hopefully it's kept to a minimum!
An A1 in Higher Maths though...gotta hand it to ya, that'd be impressive!

baby*cham*bell

i want
spanish A1
Geography A1
English B1
German B1
History B3
Irish C1
thats 515

i will get
Spanish A1
Geography B1
English B3
German B2
History C1 (won't be able to finish paper)
Irish C2

thats 475
actually i wont get anything like that

Innervision

Innervision wrote:

Yeah the Economics/Business theory end of it doesn't appeal to me so much...hopefully it's kept to a minimum!
An A1 in Higher Maths though...gotta hand it to ya, that'd be impressive!

I got 98% in Maths in my mocks (messed up a bit on the integration area thing ). I've never got less than an A on Maths in my life, and I don't plan to start!

I don't mean to gloat, but my teachers say that the impressive thing about me is noy my maths skills but how I've constantly ben able to get A1s in Accountancy without doing Business for the JC. But i agree with you: it is the easiest course you can do.

Macka

In an ideal world....
English-B1
Maths-B3
French-A2
History-A1
Biology-B1/A2
Classical Studies-A1/A2

In reality....
English-B3
Maths-C3
French-B2/B1
History-B1/B2
Biology-B2/B3
Classical Studies-B2

Damn.....

Good going in Classical Studies! I hear that can be quite hard.............

Innervision

Deleted User wrote:

I got 98% in Maths in my mocks (messed up a bit on the integration area thing ). I've never got less than an A on Maths in my life, and I don't plan to start!

I don't mean to gloat, but my teachers say that the impressive thing about me is noy my maths skills but how I've constantly ben able to get A1s in Accountancy without doing Business for the JC. But i agree with you: it is the easiest course you can do.

That is really good, there are plenty in my class who never did Business and the majority of them found it so hard to grasp the basic stuff. I can't understand how so many people regard it as one of the harder LC subjects, when it's just so repetitive!! [Not that I'm complaining ]

Macka

Thanks if your any good at History its easy, actually if you're not very good at history it's pretty easy. There are more essays but there shorter... a lot shorter like 2 pages at most it's really easy to do well in if you can motivate yourself to do the work but some of it can be so mind-numbingly tedious

Innervision

Innervision wrote:

That is really good, there are plenty in my class who never did Business and the majority of them found it so hard to grasp the basic stuff. I can't understand how so many people regard it as one of the harder LC subjects, when it's just so repetitive!! [Not that I'm complaining ]

I know. It was so tough for me to decide to Accountancy because:

I would be the only person in the class who had not done Business previously.

My friends had seen the papers and thought it was quite hard, even for them.

The Accountancy teacher didn't think I was good enough.




And now I'm the only one doing Higher Level, and my Acc. teacher offered me a job to be an accountant at his golf course!

How wrong people can be. :rolleyes:

Johnerr

I'm hoping for about 350 points, A1's are a bit outa my reach, well I might get one in Construction, and hopefully in maths (But thats pass maths)