kona wrote: » how long dos it take to collect papers in a rush from a row of 10 desks? Not enough to get a good look.
kona wrote: » WTF has that got to do with anything?
kona wrote: » OKAY First exam of the LC. Students are nervous and just want to get started. Examination papers are placed face down on the desk 9.30 Exam starts. 5 seconds later sombody raises their hand and says its paper2. Students told to drop the paper and they are recovered. NOW Paper 2 contains Poetry, Comparitive etc, no way did the contents of the entire paper accuratley be leaked. NO student would react to this suprise by remembering everything, they would get all excited and freak out and before they know it the paper is gone. IMO there was little advantage gained by a small number of students. Not a situation in which such a mess should be created. The exam should have been allowed go ahead tomorrow and the 10 or so students who glimpsed the paper2 will be monitored at correction. Could you get away with not sitting on saturday? some people have things to do at the weekend. Cancelling a state exam is not a proportional reaction to 10 or so students getting a slim advantage
michaelkhan3 wrote: » This is ridiculous and every Exam center should have the contingency paper there and ready to go just in case something stupid like this happens.
kona wrote: » The exam should have been allowed go ahead tomorrow and the 10 or so students who glimpsed the paper2 will be monitored at correction. Cancelling a state exam is not a proportional reaction to 10 or so students getting a slim advantage
That_Guy wrote: » And they would most likely be in close proximity to the examiner too I'd reckon. Surely all of the students didn't get a copy only then for someone to say it was paper 2.
phasers wrote: » In my school the exam papers are kept in the caretaker's room I know because I put them there myself last year. They all came together. I stil think the OP is bull though, they're quite well guarded and double checked.
That_Guy wrote: » It's putting things into perspective that there's bigger things than the LC.
kona wrote: » All are on the desks for 9.30. Yup they would have been close enough. For nybody who disagrees go to www.examinations.ie pick any Higer level english P2 ad give youself 10 seconds to read it all. Then read P1 questions , wait 3 hours and see if you remember.
randylonghorn wrote: » It's messy as it is, but it would have been 20 times messier if it wasn't nipped in the bud.
That_Guy wrote: » If you've studied well for English paper 2 then you should be fine. If not then it's your own fault for not doing so. Basing your study around predictions is the wrong move. Teachers and students can guess until the cows come home but it's always wise for you to back yourself up a bit because there's always twists and turns. Happened with me when I did my LC two years ago. Boy was I glad I didn't go by teachers predictions. Again if you have studied well for this exam and NOT gone by teacher's predictions and backed yourself up a bit by studying other poets etc then you will be fine. You obviously have opted to study based on predictions so that was your call you made so that's nobody elses fault that you haven't backed yourself up. Not everybody's maths and Irish papers will be affected if like I've said before, they have studied well. Tomorrow will give people a good chance to revise more maths and Irish if needs be. I'm not intelligent based on what exactly? Surely can't be the 420 I got in my LC or did I just get lucky?
Diggy78 wrote: » Black Kettle, will you think before you go on a rant and start questioning the intelligence of others. I know that this might seem like something that could never possibly have happened to any one else, oh the injustices felt by a 17 year old!! You are in the same situation as every other year!! You are only competing for college places against everyone else doing the LC this year. I had to laugh at the magnified ANYTHING, HOURS and NOTHING comments. Welcome to studying for an exam I guess. The ANYTHING you refer to presumably means the Englisg course, The HOURS I presume are what you should be putting in and well the NOTHING is just nonsense if I have the first two right, or maybe that NOTHING refers to what's between your ears. Still, I bet you'll do well in Drama.
randylonghorn wrote: » AFAIR, all papers are given out face down, then the signal is given to turn over ... So all students in the hall would have had a look, some of them a darn good one by the time they could be collected.
randylonghorn wrote: » Except then some numpty would give out the contingency paper by mistake ... Did you not get the point that as soon as the exam was over, the rumours of what was on P II started flying round the country by text and on the 'net? The students in the original exam hall would only be the start ... EVERY student in the country (and their parents and teachers) would have ended up convinced that THEY got a raw deal, whether or not they had been given hints. It's messy as it is, but it would have been 20 times messier if it wasn't nipped in the bud.
Black kettle wrote: » Actually no we are not in the same situation as every other year, fool, this has never happened before. The extra stress is ridiculous. Excuse me? I have studied my ass off for these exams and for you to come in here calling an lc student stupid basically when they are in the middle of exams is real nice. Not that I'm lacking in self esteem, far from it but that's really pathetic. This messes up the whole studying timetable and really I am just extremely pissed right now and what the hell are you doing in here if your not doing the leaving cert this year? No exams, no opinion.
StargazerLily wrote: » What you put in the caretakers room were boxes of paper all right...to write on...Stationery....as in books of blank paper that you write your answers in AFTER the Exam Papers have come from the Garda Station and after you have hopefully been given the right Exam Paper......unless the supervisor is from Louth!
kona wrote: » I disagree, Id love to see just how accurate the TXTs were. Id guess not very, 18 year olds aint to good at remembering that much infor that quickly.
Black kettle wrote: » Actually no we are not in the same situation as every other year, fool, this has never happened before.
craxsham wrote: » can anyone teme what came up in the exam?
Knife-WREEENCH wrote: » You might not remember every question word for word but you'd surely be able to remember the names of the 4 poets that came up. Also in the single text section you'd probably be able to remember what important words were in the question. e.g. for Macbeth, you'd take note if saw the word "kingship"
kona wrote: » of course you might but in all probablility and realisticaly considering the conditions, Id say Not a hope. there are 8 poets, you study 4 and your sweet. Doesnt matter about the poet its the questions they ask about them. IMO the contingency paper will be the same poets but different questions on them
randylonghorn wrote: » Right, 18 year olds (almost senile, tbh!) wouldn't for example be able to remember, for example, what poets came up on an exam paper they got a sneak preview of?
