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Soccarboy11 · 08-09-2017 9:32pm

I was doing chemistry, but decided to change to economics and managed to do that. Had to get 4 different signatures for it so been chasing teachers all week!

Also managed to convince my.maths teacher to allow me to try HL maths till mid-term/Christmas &#55357;&#56833; very stressful week for me, so hopefully things will start to calm down and I can begin to enjoy it more!

An tUasal C · 08-09-2017 9:45pm

Soccarboy11 wrote: »

I was doing chemistry, but decided to change to economics and managed to do that. Had to get 4 different signatures for it so been chasing teachers all week!

Also managed to convince my.maths teacher to allow me to try HL maths till mid-term/Christmas �� very stressful week for me, so hopefully things will start to calm down and I can begin to enjoy it more!

I'm doing economics and I'm enjoying it so far.

Was meant to do chemistry. I'm sure you'll like it, seems interesting enough.

Soccarboy11 · 09-09-2017 11:58am

An tUasal C wrote: »

I'm doing economics and I'm enjoying it so far. Was meant to do chemistry. I'm sure you'll like it, seems interesting enough.

That's my hope! I usually like reading all about current affairs, brexit etc so I think it will be for me

shortgirl0 · 09-09-2017 12:03pm

Soccarboy11 wrote: »

That's my hope! I usually like reading all about current affairs, brexit etc so I think it will be for me

I'm doing Economics and I love it sooo much. like you I'm really into whats going on politically. Also really like my teacher. He teaches us using politically incorrect jokes but honestly you never forget anything he says cause of them.

Soccarboy11 · 09-09-2017 5:05pm

shortgirl0 wrote: »

I'm doing Economics and I love it sooo much. like you I'm really into whats going on politically. Also really like my teacher. He teaches us using politically incorrect jokes but honestly you never forget anything he says cause of them.

Great to hear

making me look forward to it even more! I was dreading chemistry so now I definitely think I made the right move

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leaving14cert · 16-09-2017 3:57pm

Does anyone else feel 5th year isn't as daunting/impossible as people make it out to be?? Like I haven't been getting half as much homework as i've been expecting to get, ok sometimes i get maybe 2hours but i haven't gotten much more than 2.5 hours so far. I suppose we are only 2/3 weeks in. I'd say the biggest jump would have to be for HL irish, i just hate it

Maths isn't that bad either so far, it just takes a while to click and then after practicing questions it's fine. I don't really like English either, our teacher is giving us loads of essays & stuff already. Loving all my choice subjects so far though

jeonahr · 16-09-2017 8:03pm

leaving14cert wrote: »

Does anyone else feel 5th year isn't as daunting/impossible as people make it out to be?? Like I haven't been getting half as much homework as i've been expecting to get, ok sometimes i get maybe 2hours but i haven't gotten much more than 2.5 hours so far. I suppose we are only 2/3 weeks in. I'd say the biggest jump would have to be for HL irish, i just hate it Maths isn't that bad either so far, it just takes a while to click and then after practicing questions it's fine. I don't really like English either, our teacher is giving us loads of essays & stuff already. Loving all my choice subjects so far though

Honestly it's the same for me at the moment. Homework is quite easygoing at the moment and classes are really good. I enjoy the smaller classes in most subjects because it's more 1 on 1. Irish is a jump, but I think it's because of my teacher. Everything we do in Irish isn't really translated in class by the teacher so we end up having to do it ourselves at home. Other than that my other classes are fine.

faaezkhan01 · 16-09-2017 9:21pm

leaving14cert wrote: »

Does anyone else feel 5th year isn't as daunting/impossible as people make it out to be?? Like I haven't been getting half as much homework as i've been expecting to get, ok sometimes i get maybe 2hours but i haven't gotten much more than 2.5 hours so far. I suppose we are only 2/3 weeks in. I'd say the biggest jump would have to be for HL irish, i just hate it Maths isn't that bad either so far, it just takes a while to click and then after practicing questions it's fine. I don't really like English either, our teacher is giving us loads of essays & stuff already. Loving all my choice subjects so far though

Exactly sums up 5th year so far. I usually only get 30-45mins of hw each night and I have not found it a big jump from the JC so far. In fact I find it much easier than 3rd year.

leaving14cert · 16-09-2017 10:32pm

faaezkhan01 wrote: »

Exactly sums up 5th year so far. I usually only get 30-45mins of hw each night and I have not found it a big jump from the JC so far. In fact I find it much easier than 3rd year.

Definitely agree with the 3rd year bit!! I don't really mind the workload as at least it's in subjects i enjoy like economics, not boring old religion/history/geography lol. my friends in TY are always shocked when i say i prefer 5th year to 3rd year as they think 5th year will be the death of them ahaha

andymann · 17-09-2017 12:30am

This might not be in your headspace at this moment in time folks, but some small, continuous preparation for the Irish/second language oral could really make your lives easier.

Tips:
Look at TG4. They have some interesting programming - find a topic that you have even a remote interest in, and watch it every week.
Follow the subtitles - try to pick out the subtle differences in sentence structure between it and English.
Note down new vocabulary as you come across it in class. Look at this list when writing essays. This will make your aistí much more natural. You can probably imagine how sick to the death examiners are of seanfhocail.
When writing answers to questions for homework, think of sentences you would be writing if this was in English. Try to fill in the gaps of your vocabulary, and use them. Eventually you will acquire more and more useful and relevant phrases, and build your confidence.

This is an approach which will not work if you start in January of 6th year. The way languages are taught does not immediately suggest this course of action - if you stick to this, high marks are there for the taking in languages.

Any other questions feel free to PM. Got an A1 (H1 to ye guys) in Irish and French in 2014. My cousin didn't get what she wanted this year so your situation (opportunity) is fresh in my mind - hence my writing this. I would have appreciated someone to ask even perceived "stupid" questions to back in the day. I got 615 overall.

leaving14cert · 17-09-2017 2:03pm

Is anyone actually doing some study yet? I'm only doing the bare minimum and studying for tests maybe 1/2 nights before. My accounting teacher is suggesting all 5th years should go to after school study already, even through it's packed to the brim with 3rd/6th years. My christmas tests are the last week of school before christmas, so i'll probably start at the end of november. ðŸ˜…

Anyways, i'm taking the holy trio, german, economics, business, accounting and then music outside school. My friends were shocked when I chose not to do a science subject and do all 3 business ones instead... i'm so glad i ignored them all because I LOVE my subjects!! Except english & irish, I have to haggle with my principal within the next week to allow me to drop to OL irish, even though i got a B for JC. Really can't stand the subject and don't want to spend the next 2 years of my life stressing with it, lol.

An tUasal C · 17-09-2017 3:29pm

leaving14cert wrote: »

Is anyone actually doing some study yet? I'm only doing the bare minimum and studying for tests maybe 1/2 nights before. My accounting teacher is suggesting all 5th years should go to after school study already, even through it's packed to the brim with 3rd/6th years. My christmas tests are the last week of school before christmas, so i'll probably start at the end of november. ��

Anyways, i'm taking the holy trio, german, economics, business, accounting and then music outside school. My friends were shocked when I chose not to do a science subject and do all 3 business ones instead... i'm so glad i ignored them all because I LOVE my subjects!! Except english & irish, I have to haggle with my principal within the next week to allow me to drop to OL irish, even though i got a B for JC. Really can't stand the subject and don't want to spend the next 2 years of my life stressing with it, lol.

I'm revising what we do in class, but definitely no strenuous studying so far. Apart from biology and English, homework isn't in the bucketfuls yet either.

If you got a B you must be good, I'd give it a chance. A H5 is the same as an O1. :rolleyes::pac:

Soccarboy11 · 18-09-2017 12:15am

My school's moving pretty fast. All the tests are suddenly appearing at once. Got a biology test, business test and maths test next week. Most classes we get learning for hw and then we get asked questions on it the next day so eh. Pretty fast going back into things after TY, taking a while to get used to.

An tUasal C · 18-09-2017 4:29pm

Biology - 100%
Geography - 100%

Two tests done, and going well. No other tests planned of yet that I know of.

jeonahr · 18-09-2017 5:06pm

leaving14cert wrote: »

Is anyone actually doing some study yet? I'm only doing the bare minimum and studying for tests maybe 1/2 nights before. My accounting teacher is suggesting all 5th years should go to after school study already, even through it's packed to the brim with 3rd/6th years. My christmas tests are the last week of school before christmas, so i'll probably start at the end of november. ðŸ˜…

Anyways, i'm taking the holy trio, german, economics, business, accounting and then music outside school. My friends were shocked when I chose not to do a science subject and do all 3 business ones instead... i'm so glad i ignored them all because I LOVE my subjects!! Except english & irish, I have to haggle with my principal within the next week to allow me to drop to OL irish, even though i got a B for JC. Really can't stand the subject and don't want to spend the next 2 years of my life stressing with it, lol.

I'm thinking along the same lines. I got a B at JC but the standard they're expecting from us at the moment is ridiculous compared to what the JC was like. I'm struggling already and at the moment I'm putting in more effort into Irish than any other subject.

Tests aren't really coming much bar for one teacher. Apparently he's one to give continuous tests. I got 85% on my math test (probably my fault considering I didn't learn off the proof

). I'm due to get my chemistry test result back anytime this week. Other than those two tests from the same teacher nothing much has happened in class that's note worthy.

sryanbruen · 18-09-2017 5:17pm

I'm much the same guys. It turns out my supersonic Irish teacher came from an all girls Gaelscoil, no wonder why she teaches fast and acts like we all are very fluent into Irish. Irish is really the only subject I'm stressing over. I really cannot stand my teacher. I had the talk with my resource teacher last week about her. He said that my class came to him also to talk about her..... so I was not alone whatsoever in thinking she's ridiculously fast in teaching. He also said to come back to him if she does not slow down in the mean time. In fairness, she has slowed somewhat though still fast. I got a B in JC Irish (HL) also.

I think I have a very lazy attitude thanks to TY. I am the laziest I've been all my life and hate how I am. I'm really struggling to get back into the normal routine before TY happened for me. But in terms of the subjects themselves, Irish is my only problem, besides my slow hand writing to which I'm waiting on the Department of Education to give me a laptop for. My slow handwriting is making homework much longer than it needs to be, being left behind in class in terms of classwork and getting it done or taking down notes.

leaving14cert · 18-09-2017 6:21pm

The pace at which some subjects are being taught was definitely a shock to the system! In maths we've almost all of Algebra I finished, and in both Irish & English we've 3 poems finished with essays/an analysis done for each. Not sure how that compares with other schools but compared to other classes it seems like we're flying it, haha

John_2187 · 18-09-2017 9:21pm

sryanbruen wrote: »

I'm much the same guys. It turns out my supersonic Irish teacher came from an all girls Gaelscoil, no wonder why she teaches fast and acts like we all are very fluent into Irish. Irish is really the only subject I'm stressing over. I really cannot stand my teacher. I had the talk with my resource teacher last week about her. He said that my class came to him also to talk about her..... so I was not alone whatsoever in thinking she's ridiculously fast in teaching. He also said to come back to him if she does not slow down in the mean time. In fairness, she has slowed somewhat though still fast. I got a B in JC Irish (HL) also.

I think I have a very lazy attitude thanks to TY. I am the laziest I've been all my life and hate how I am. I'm really struggling to get back into the normal routine before TY happened for me. But in terms of the subjects themselves, Irish is my only problem, besides my slow hand writing to which I'm waiting on the Department of Education to give me a laptop for. My slow handwriting is making homework much longer than it needs to be, being left behind in class in terms of classwork and getting it done or taking down notes.

I'm the same, my brain is melted after every day and I'm the laziest I've been in years. I need to wake up and realise it's time to get a move on again. Got 69% in French and forgot some homework today which was enough to wake me up a little.

spurious · 19-09-2017 6:49am

andymann wrote:

This might not be in your headspace at this moment in time folks, but some small, continuous preparation for the Irish/second language oral could really make your lives easier.

This is true for all subjects really. Keep on top of the day's work. Really put effort into homework. Revision every weekend of the week's work, every fourth weekend of the work already done. Dont waste time revising stuff you know you already know/understand.

leaving14cert · 21-09-2017 4:49pm

Does anyone else who did TY regret doing it at this stage? In my school it seems to be most people either loved it and would do anything to be back in TY or hated it, no middle ground at all

sryanbruen · 21-09-2017 4:54pm

leaving14cert wrote: »

Does anyone else who did TY regret doing it at this stage? In my school it seems to be most people either loved it and would do anything to be back in TY or hated it, no middle ground at all

100% hated it and regret it though I had no choice because it's mandatory in my school. I was hoping to move to another school just because of it being mandatory.

jeonahr · 21-09-2017 6:33pm

leaving14cert wrote: »

Does anyone else who did TY regret doing it at this stage? In my school it seems to be most people either loved it and would do anything to be back in TY or hated it, no middle ground at all

I loved it in my school but I wouldn't necessarily want to go back. I want to get into the academics now after doing a different type of learning from TY.

leaving14cert · 08-10-2017 9:29pm

The amount of tests we've been given in the last month is insane! Feels like I've had more tests in the last 4 weeks than in all of 3rd year.

I also can't believe the huge jump in the standard of some subjects... especially English. I think I revised a grand total of 5 poems for my junior cert, the amount of work needed for LC English seems humongous! The standard of HL Irish seems mad too, but thank god I'm in ordinary level now.... piss easy

On another note, I really wish religion was optional at our school for leaving cert... we have THREE religion classes a week and all we do is talk and watch movies! My time would be better spent studying. :mad: It's also compulsory as an exam subject for junior cert, totally ridiculous we still don't get a choice for senior cycle.

sryanbruen · 08-10-2017 10:44pm

leaving14cert wrote: »

The amount of tests we've been given in the last month is insane! Feels like I've had more tests in the last 4 weeks than in all of 3rd year.

I also can't believe the huge jump in the standard of some subjects... especially English. I think I revised a grand total of 5 poems for my junior cert, the amount of work needed for LC English seems humongous! The standard of HL Irish seems mad too, but thank god I'm in ordinary level now.... piss easy

On another note, I really wish religion was optional at our school for leaving cert... we have THREE religion classes a week and all we do is talk and watch movies! My time would be better spent studying. :mad: It's also compulsory as an exam subject for junior cert, totally ridiculous we still don't get a choice for senior cycle.

I've had lots more tests in 3rd year than 5th year so far. I think the amount of tests I've had this year so far - though there's a long way to go before the end of it, has been fair.

I can agree with you on that one especially Geography.

Luckily, I don't have to do Religion nor is it an examination subject in my school, sorry to tell you :cool:.

Soccarboy11 · 08-10-2017 10:53pm

I've had 2 maths tests so far this year. (Failed the first one majorily, but then so did the really high markers) and getting the results for my other on monday (hopefully better!). I've had a business test which got full marks (delighted!), biology test and an english quotes tests. We do have to learn quotes from our play basically every night, but we have a PME (new hdips) for tuesday-thursday so it makes things a bit awkward. Have an economics test coming soon at midterm. I'm delighted i changed from chemistry to economics, it so much better (for me)!.

I love the religion class, its like a break during an otherwise tough day. have it twice a week and i really look forward to them always

An tUasal C · 08-10-2017 11:01pm

Worst result so far was 55% for an English essay, doing well otherwise.

Geography test tomorrow.

Religion class is an utter waste of time, in my opinion anyway.

jeonahr · 09-10-2017 9:44pm

100% agree with the standard in subjects. Irish has got me bogged down, we've got a teacher who it's his first time teaching HL LC and we're jumping all over the place each class.

I'm after getting loads of tests as well. 2 in maths, chemistry, german and irish so far and only 1 in biology.

My lowest so far was 75% in chemistry but apparently our class has done poorly in the recent maths test, which we're still waiting on the results.

I have a double period of religion each week which is mandatory, but thankfully in LC it's not an exam subject unlike in the JC in my school. We're reading the novel called "The 5 People You Meet in Heaven" and we also do our mandatory 6 periods of the year of relationship education or whatnot in that double.

sryanbruen · 28-10-2017 3:59pm

How does this make the slightest bit of sense? My class had to do an essay on the importance of Irish. There is only 6 of us including myself in the whole class. My classmate copied my entire essay word for word and received a H2 from my teacher yet I, the one, who came up with the whole thing, got a H4.

:mad:

I've done two Maths tests, a Business test, a Music test, 2 Irish tests, a Geography test and 5 French tests in 5th year so far. My results have been around 60-80% generally.

An tUasal C · 28-10-2017 4:09pm

sryanbruen wrote: »

How does this make the slightest bit of sense? My class had to do an essay on the importance of Irish. There is only 6 of us including myself in the whole class. My classmate copied my entire essay word for word and received a H2 from my teacher yet I, the one, who came up with the whole thing, got a H4. :mad:

I've done two Maths tests, a Business test, a Music test, 2 Irish tests, a Geography test and 5 French tests in 5th year so far. My results have been around 60-80% generally.

Perhaps your teacher is grading people based on their ability. I have a teacher that’s doing that. :rolleyes:

sryanbruen · 28-10-2017 4:11pm

An tUasal C wrote: »

Perhaps your teacher is grading people based on their ability. I have a teacher that’s doing that. :rolleyes:

So, she expects higher quality from me than the other guy? Well that would make sense to me if the guy did not copy my entire essay word for word lol.

An tUasal C · 28-10-2017 8:49pm

sryanbruen wrote: »

So, she expects higher quality from me than the other guy? Well that would make sense to me if the guy did not copy my entire essay word for word lol.

That’s basically what one of our teachers told us, I got a H1 but someone else could get a H1 for less. Perhaps not, just a suggestion.

spurious · 28-10-2017 8:52pm

Perhaps she knew you had let the other person copy yours and it was to teach you a lesson.

sryanbruen · 28-10-2017 9:26pm

spurious wrote: »

Perhaps she knew you had let the other person copy yours and it was to teach you a lesson.

That makes 0 sense, if anything he should be the one who gets punished cause he's being pathetic and lazy whilst I spend my time doing this absolute ****e I'll never come across again in my life after the LC.

spurious · 28-10-2017 9:50pm

spurious wrote: »

Perhaps she knew you had let the other person copy yours and it was to teach you a lesson.

sryanbruen wrote: »

That makes 0 sense, if anything he should be the one who gets punished cause he's being pathetic and lazy whilst I spend my time doing this absolute ****e I'll never come across again in my life after the LC.

Will you lend him your work again?

sryanbruen · 29-10-2017 12:46am

spurious wrote: »

Will you lend him your work again?

If he asks for answers, I don't care. It's his future. By getting answers off me, he won't learn anything in school for the exam. He will know little to nothing on the subject by doing so. Why on earth would I get punished for doing something like that? He's been asking me for answers ever since 2nd year. I got a B in JC Irish, he got a D..... does that not say enough?

spurious · 29-10-2017 1:46am

I don't know your teacher but I'd say they were well aware you had done the work and maybe wanted to make sure you didn't let him copy again. Complete waste of his time anyway.

sryanbruen · 29-10-2017 10:29am

I'll see after mid-term anyway.

Sb567 · 30-12-2017 12:14am

How did everyone get on in their Christmas exams?
Post your results here if you’d like ! I will when they come in the post.

sryanbruen · 30-12-2017 12:17pm

spurious wrote: »

I don't know your teacher but I'd say they were well aware you had done the work and maybe wanted to make sure you didn't let him copy again. Complete waste of his time anyway.

So the answer was that she was not aware of him copying me because she corrected them on individual days. Not to mention, she said that she expects better of me than what I gave her in the essay. I was like..... but I can't do anything better than that, what makes you think I can do better? If you say so, you're unnecessarily stressing me over nothing. I really really do not like my Irish teacher.

The person who copied my work dropped to OL as he was just not up to coping with HL - think it was the better decision of him to.

sryanbruen · 30-12-2017 12:18pm

Sb567 wrote: »

How did everyone get on in their Christmas exams?
Post your results here if you’d like ! I will when they come in the post.

Honestly rubbish, some were stupid such as Business, way too long for the time given to complete it.

Soccarboy11 · 30-12-2017 12:48pm

Got all my results, my school put them.up online now rather then sending out a lot of letter, better too tbh.

Only did really bad in Irish, didn't get above 50. 65 in Economics which I'm delighted with. H2 in business, dropped to ordinary maths and went from a h7 to a h1 (first time getting that haha) and got H2/h3's in everything else. I'm happy

oh also got a h4 in German, she have us a deadly test with stuff we didn't do

Sb567 · 30-12-2017 6:17pm

Soccarboy11 wrote: »

Got all my results, my school put them.up online now rather then sending out a lot of letter, better too tbh.

Only did really bad in Irish, didn't get above 50. 65 in Economics which I'm delighted with. H2 in business, dropped to ordinary maths and went from a h7 to a h1 (first time getting that haha) and got H2/h3's in everything else. I'm happy

That’s unreal

Sb567 · 30-12-2017 6:19pm

sryanbruen wrote: »

Honestly rubbish, some were stupid such as Business, way too long for the time given to complete it.

Really ? I felt for biology I had too long aswell

An tUasal C · 30-12-2017 6:26pm

I got a H8, H4, 2 H2s and 3 H1s.

jeonahr · 30-12-2017 11:05pm

Sb567 wrote: »

Really ? I felt for biology I had too long aswell

I second that. I had too long for biology but barely had enough time for English and my thumb was practically going to fall off afterwards.

sryanbruen · 30-12-2017 11:21pm

Sb567 wrote: »

Really ? I felt for biology I had too long aswell

Yeah, it was actual LC length. Difference being we had only 1 hr 30 mins to complete it, not 3 hrs. My classmates couldn’t finish it either and this is coming from a guy who typed his exams (and I’m a very fast typer.

Sb567 · 31-12-2017 1:18am

jeonahr wrote: »

I second that. I had too long for biology but barely had enough time for English and my thumb was practically going to fall off afterwards.

Exactly like !

Sb567 · 31-12-2017 3:01am

sryanbruen wrote: »

Yeah, it was actual LC length. Difference being we had only 1 hr 30 mins to complete it, not 3 hrs. My classmates couldn’t finish it either and this is coming from a guy who typed his exams (and I’m a very fast typer.

God we had too much time for ours! That was like maths for me though so much in such little time

leaving14cert · 03-01-2018 1:52pm

Felt like my hand was going to fall off coming out of my English exam! We had an essay on 1 of 2 poets and a comprehension. I was so stuck for time, I managed to get the comprehension done in the last 35 minutes though. How I'm supposed to write a poetry essay in ~50 minutes plus all these other essays in the actual leaving cert, I don't know. :pac:

Soccarboy11 · 03-01-2018 2:21pm

leaving14cert wrote: »

Felt like my hand was going to fall off coming out of my English exam! We had an essay on 1 of 2 poets and a comprehension. I was so stuck for time, I managed to get the comprehension done in the last 35 minutes though. How I'm supposed to write a poetry essay in ~50 minutes plus all these other essays in the actual leaving cert, I don't know. :pac:

Same here! Ours was either Sylvia Plath or seamus heany, I think I did ok in that though. Had to write a question on Macbeth too and we only ever did one wuestion on Macbeth on act 1, so was a bit silly really! Had to write a speech aswell, all in all 9/10 pages written, and 67% so happy with that for the first English exam!

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