Results 08!how did ye get on?

oponodon · 12-09-2008 06:10PM

Four A's in HL english, HL maths, HL science, and cspe.
The rest B's, though i did do french and irish in ordinary level.

Im thrilled!

Also I got a B in HL religion tho, which PROVES the exam is completely f**ked up. I never studied, wrote nothing but nonsensical ****e for the essay, skipped a Q and to top it had a headache on the day, so i screwed up writing what i did know. I think the corrector felt sorry for me or something...

(or someone else got my results, and i got theirs. If some RE genius was surprised with their D, my fault, sorry... :cool:)

RHunce · 12-09-2008 09:46PM

irish (H) c.. happy
english (H) c..im appealing i thought i got an a
maths (H) b..thought i got an a
history (H) a..was expecting a d
geog (H) b.. wanted an a though very difficult
french (H) c.. quite happy
german (H) d.. shocked!!!
wood (H) a.. expected
tg (H) a.. expected
science (H) c.. happy
cspe b.. expected an a

overall not happy

spurious · 12-09-2008 11:49PM

One of the kids I teach could not read when he came to us in 1st year.

He got:
B in Foundation Maths
C in Ordinary English
D in Foundation Irish
D in Ordinary Art
B in Ordinary E.S.S.
D in C.S.P.E.

He burst into tears when he saw his results, he was so happy. He is the first person in his family ever to sit a State Examination.

eVeNtInE · 12-09-2008 11:52PM

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spurious · 12-09-2008 11:58PM

eVeNtInE wrote: »

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Actually in terms of handling him he was no bother at all. A lovely little bloke, no trouble. This may have been his undoing in primary - because he did not cause trouble or mischief, he was probably left at the back or sent on messages when he started to fall behind and it just got worse and worse as the years went on.

The squeaky wheel gets the oil and all that.:(

Piste · 13-09-2008 01:27PM

spurious wrote: »

One of the kids I teach could not read when he came to us in 1st year.

He got:
B in Foundation Maths
C in Ordinary English
D in Foundation Irish
D in Ordinary Art
B in Ordinary E.S.S.
D in C.S.P.E.

He burst into tears when he saw his results, he was so happy. He is the first person in his family ever to sit a State Examination.

That's really fantastic! I hope you're very proud of yourself, and him of course!

spurious · 13-09-2008 03:00PM

Piste wrote: »

That's really fantastic! I hope you're very proud of yourself, and him of course!

Of him, yes, of me, not terribly.

Actually it makes me quite angry that this child (and many like him) didn't get the chances in life to let him be here on boards.ie going on about being disappointed to get a B in Higher Level anything. He's not a 'special' child. He is of normal intelligence but has been neglected and overlooked again and again. I sometimes wonder what kids like him could have achieved in a literate household with parents who had a positive view of education.

ruadhan · 13-09-2008 04:37PM

hey, i am really happy with my results overall, i got 9 A's, 1 B and 1 C. The c was in ordinary art, which is compulsory in my school for junior cert, which is really annoying cos i am horribla at the subject. Anyway, my B was in Irish which i am completely shocked about, i am really considering appealing. No one got an a in higher irish in my year and i am the best at irish and i am definitely sure the paper was not that hard. How did the rest of ye do in irish?

winner92 · 13-09-2008 05:47PM

ruadhan wrote: »

How did the rest of ye do in irish?

I got a C:mad: and to be honest I was shocked as i was one of the best in my class. I think that if I were to appeal the result that I would get moved up but I don't think I will as I don't think I will be that bothered about it in November when the appeals come out and i was happy with all my other results!

spurious · 13-09-2008 07:00PM

winner92 wrote: »

I got a C:mad: and to be honest I was shocked as i was one of the best in my class. I think that if I were to appeal the result that I would get moved up but I don't think I will as I don't think I will be that bothered about it in November when the appeals come out and i was happy with all my other results!

Does it have an effect on which LC class you get into? If it does, I would appeal it if I were you.

There can be substantial leaps in marks on JC rechecks as the most common error is a mis-tot of the marks.

winner92 · 13-09-2008 07:33PM

spurious wrote: »

Does it have an effect on which LC class you get into? If it does, I would appeal it if I were you.

No I don't think it will in irish as we are having a test next week to decide that and I don't think that my teacher would let me be put into the other class based on my j.c result as I have been fairly consistant over the last 3 years!!

Davidius · 13-09-2008 10:21PM

norwegianwood wrote: »

Matter of interest,how did you do last year?

Copy Paste:

Irish - D (Yay!)
English - B (:))
Maths - A (:D)
History - B (I messed up, could have easily gotten an A )
Geography - A (Really wasn't expecting that)
French - D (I could have sworn that I did better)
Art - C (Pretty good considering my project went missing and I had to do it all again in the last few weeks)
Business - B (Satisfied)
Science - B (Considering that we were without any tuition for the most part and barely touched on Chemistry it's pretty good)
CSPE - B (I don't know where I went wrong but I knew something was going to bring me down during the exam )

I did around the same or worse than the mocks. History and CSPE could've been As. Overall I'm moderately satisfied.

lolipops · 14-09-2008 06:05PM

I'm so annoyed with my results..
i got A's in everything that dosn't matter and i got C's in things i thought i would get A's in..

A - art (:D)
A - CSPE (not even a real subject..)
A - religion (thought i failed that

)
B - science
B - history
C - french
C - english (:()
C - tech graph
C - geography (:( this used to be my best subject..)
C - maths (kinda happy with this)
D - irish (the icing on the cake

)

I demand a re-check!
Anyone else think geography was corrected hard this year? (besides the people who got A's)

well if you feel bad about your results just look at mine

To be honest i studied the morning of each test and the night before.. i wonder how i would of done if i actually studied properly

well my family are not that pushed about the junior cert results anyway, thats why i didn't study. Its all about the leaving cert.

Aerb · 14-09-2008 08:49PM

andyman wrote: »

If anyone feels bad about their CSPE mark, someone I know managed to fail it. Yes, that's right, FAIL!

I was tempted to intentionally do poorly and get an F, to show how anti-patriotic I am. :B But I knew my CSPE teacher wouldn't let me do bad on my Action Project, and I didn't want to get a C. It was aaaalllll or peanuts.

Oman · 15-09-2008 06:00PM

All higher level

Irish- C
English- A
Maths- A
History- C
French- C
Science- A
Business- B
Tech G- A
Woodwork- A
CSPE- A
Geography- A

disapointed with the history as I had that down as a definate A but otherwise really pleased

irule · 18-09-2008 06:44PM

i did all higher level got:
irish B
English C
maths B
geog B
history B
art A
cspe A
science B
business B
french B

i was really happy except for english i think it was marked really hard this year because only 3 people in mt year got as nd last year 24 did. and most people got cs

jelly:) · 18-09-2008 07:51PM

keane-xx wrote: »

IOnly 600 people in the whole country got a's in music. 8.4 per cent. That is not a lot at all!!

Just wondering where you got this figure. . . would like to see all those statistics!!

By the way I got a B in Music too but I never expected anything more.. . I would have been disappointed with a C though!

Music and German always were my worst subjects!

keane-xx · 20-09-2008 07:22PM

Those statistics were in the Irish Times on the day the results came out.!! They should be up on the examinations.ie site but they aren't yet...but they will be soon im sure!!

Shanotheslayer · 21-09-2008 01:56AM

Just saw this thread now but I got:

Irish Ordinary D
English Ordinary B
French Ordinary C
Maths Ordinary B
History Ordinary B
Geography Higher C
Science Higher D
Relegion Ordinary C
WoodWork Ordinary C
CSPE Ordinary C

tracker-man · 25-09-2008 10:08PM

All honours, I got 7 A's and 4 B's

Irish A
English A
Maths B
French A
TG A
Woodwork B
Science A
CSPE A
Business B
History A
Geography B

Delighted with them results, didn expect to do that well at all!!!

decdec456 · 28-09-2008 02:30PM

Okay i got my results last year and I got
ALL AT HIGHER LEVEL

A's
English
History
Geography

B's
German
Science
Metalwork
Business Studies
CSPE
Religion
Maths

C's
Irish

I was generally pleased but disappointed I didn't put in that extra effort as my best friend got 7A's and 4'B's and he always said I could have got the same if I had worked as hard as him!!! SO DO A BIT OF STUDY and don't get half baked results like me!

danoboy254 · 30-09-2008 06:43PM

did 10 higher and 1 common

ALL A's wooooohooooo
this is the first time i've really boasted so ignore me!

english A
irish A
maths A
history A
geography A
religion A
art A
business A
french A
science A
cspe A

i'm one of the only 82 who did this.......if you are one too or you know one
be sure to PM me!!!

i-luv-pancakes · 01-10-2008 05:18PM

6 A's and 5 B's!!!at higher level. REALLY surprised!!! so were the rents!

Nearly passed out when i counted it up!

A's in Geography, History, Home Ec (failed in mocks), Science, CSPE and IRISH! (working for that for 3 years so would cracked someones head if i didnt get it)

B's in Art, French, Maths, English and Religion haha Failed religion in mocks too.

Really dont think i deserved these grades!!