Junior Cert 2011: CSPE

ohdechertig · 10-06-2011 05:38PM #1

Monday June 13th
1:30pm - 3:00pm

So screwed for this exam guys!

TheRedDevil10 · 10-06-2011 05:44PM

****ing dreading it

P H A 7V T O M · 10-06-2011 05:55PM

Are you fella's joking? It's "Common Level"! I always (and so does everyone in my class) view it as the easiest A you can get.

My project wasn't too good though, thanks to some idiot teacher replacing my old one. She has no idea what we were meant to be doing....

anirishlad · 10-06-2011 05:56PM

Really worried about this one,hope i scrape a D

Slow Show · 10-06-2011 06:04PM

Literally shaking at the mere thought of this...if human dignity doesn't come up I think I'll cry.

cantanstrophe · 10-06-2011 06:11PM

HELP! Does anyone have any CSPE notes I can borrow? I can't find mine anywhere

ohdechertig · 10-06-2011 06:11PM

Slow Show wrote: »

Literally shaking at the mere thought of this...if human dignity doesn't come up I think I'll cry.

Really? I'm going to spend my whole weekend learning Stewardship essays!

Doublechinlolz · 10-06-2011 06:15PM

Im being serious and not taking the piss like everyone else... What am i supposed to say for 'what could you class do'? I draw a blank there, i say civvies day or make a poster, isnt there any better? :L

innovation. · 10-06-2011 06:15PM

Common level for common sense. If you have that, you'll ace it.

nimrod86 · 10-06-2011 06:17PM

How can anyone be worried about CSPE? It's the easiest test going! A guaranteed A if you watch the news once a week or so...

cantanstrophe · 10-06-2011 06:17PM

MarkD09 wrote: »

Im being serious and not taking the piss like everyone else... What am i supposed to say for 'what could you class do'? I draw a blank there, i say civvies day or make a poster, isnt there any better? :L

Apart from a fundraiser, I think that's it. I'm viewing CSPE as a glorified nap-time

spurious · 10-06-2011 06:20PM

innovation. wrote: »

Common level for common sense. If you have that, you'll ace it.

Presuming you can read the paper in the first place. Not everyone can.

matthew8 · 10-06-2011 06:20PM

nimrod86 wrote: »

How can anyone be worried about CSPE? It's the easiest test going! A guaranteed A if you watch the news once a week or so...

Once a year or so more like it. You can guess things fairly easily anyway with the pictures. A shame, I could have put my political knowledge to use.

Mr. Rager · 10-06-2011 06:25PM

My CSPE grinds teacher said I was gonna fail

cantanstrophe · 10-06-2011 06:26PM

fjsanchez wrote: »

My CSPE grinds teacher said I was gonna fail

Mine too

I've been going through the past papers like mad this week. Anyone got any predictions?

nimrod86 · 10-06-2011 06:26PM

fjsanchez wrote: »

My CSPE grinds teacher said I was gonna fail

you actually went to grinds for CSPE???

spurious · 10-06-2011 06:32PM

OK, stop the sneering attitude to people who may have trouble with some subjects (not just CSPE).

It makes YOU look pretty stupid, not to mention what it tells us all (and the eternal internet archive) about your upbringing.

scipsss · 10-06-2011 06:33PM

the awkward moment wen everyone keeps takin the piss sayin ther gonna fail when its not funny anymore

nimrod86 · 10-06-2011 06:42PM

spurious wrote: »

OK, stop the sneering attitude to people who may have trouble with some subjects (not just CSPE).

It makes YOU look pretty stupid, not to mention what it tells us all (and the eternal internet archive) about your upbringing.

Sorry... Didn't mean to sound like a complete asshole. I'm failing maths and CSPE is one of the few subjects I can guarantee doing well in.

apologies again

spurious · 10-06-2011 06:49PM

nimrod86 wrote: »

Sorry... Didn't mean to sound like a complete asshole. I'm failing maths and CSPE is one of the few subjects I can guarantee doing well in.

apologies again

Thanks. Your post coincided with some charmers who decided to slag off people in the Maths thread. I'm aware most of the people who post here are literate, probably doing mostly honours at JC, but that is not the entirety of the JC cohort.

It would be great if those doing Foundation English, Maths or Irish could post and get support here, but just watch what happens if anyone even mentions it. It's a pet peeve of mine.

ANYWAY - thanks again for the apology and game on once more. The great thing with CSPE is that if your teacher has the project/course work diary thing sorted you can do really well. If the teacher hasn't got a handle on it yet, then the 60% for non-exam assessment becomes a millstone.

Mr. Rager · 10-06-2011 06:59PM

nimrod86 wrote: »

you actually went to grinds for CSPE???

Nope, I was joking. Btw i probably shouldn't have made that joke, I 'm sure there are people who actually have a problem with CSPE but I thought it was funnier than the other ones

nimrod86 · 10-06-2011 07:33PM

suppose I was lucky then, we had a great teacher that made sure we had everything done perfect for the action project

Mayo_Boy · 10-06-2011 07:57PM

Such a bit of sarcasm!

juniorcertlol · 10-06-2011 08:42PM

anyone have any idea whos coming up in the photos section? im acctually dreading that :L

OsamaObama321 · 10-06-2011 09:03PM

innovation. wrote: »

Common level for common sense. If you have that, you'll ace it.

That rules me out.......:(

P H A 7V T O M · 10-06-2011 09:05PM

Not to sound like a mod or anything, but can you stop trolling about this now? Or at least put a simple "/s" to indicate your sarcastic tone?

Makes it difficult to filter the people who ARE actually having difficulty, though I must admit that I usually find the tests exceptionally easy. Those who have any grasp upon Irelands current affairs etc. are bound to do decently on the theory.

However, I am feeling worried about my project. My fill-in teacher whom we had for 6 months was blatantly fresh out of college, and had no idea how to handle a class of 30 students. So, she let us do whatever we want, with little to no guidance on the project section. We did have some talk a good while back with an ex prison-governer, but the quality of my writing wasn't too impressive (the language itself, not presentation as such). Don't tenses get marked? I know that seems strange, but I wrote the majority of it in past tense, whereas a lot had to be future tense etc.

Hopefully the marking guidelines aren't too strict. Spurious, do you teach CSPE?

innovation. · 10-06-2011 09:33PM

I have the worst teacher for CSPE, ever. He can NOT control a class at all. No work was ever done in his classes. We all had to take time out from other subjects to make sure we had our action projects completed. I question how he even passed his LC to become a teacher, no exaggeration. He talks to you like you're a two-year old too which is annoying.

Doublechinlolz · 11-06-2011 12:15AM

MarkD09 wrote: »

Im being serious and not taking the piss like everyone else... What am i supposed to say for 'what could you class do'? I draw a blank there, i say civvies day or make a poster, isnt there any better? :L

I was being deadly serious by this post, although i do find some of the jokes funny, especially the grinds teacher one :L But yeah, all the trolling got annoying so any help? :L

bluejay14 · 11-06-2011 12:19AM

I wouldn't really take CSPE as a guaranteed A. I know from doing the JC last year and the results from people in my year and others that it took them by surprise wheo they got a B. So I'd say it deserves it's own proper attention even if it's not as technicaly difficult as other subjects.

robman60 · 11-06-2011 12:46AM

Everyone takes it as a guaranteed A, but only around 25% of people actually get it.

Colm! · 11-06-2011 02:02AM

robman60 wrote: »

Everyone takes it as a guaranteed A, but only around 25% of people actually get it.

Yes.
If I recall correctly, there's a maximum number of As that an examiner can hand out. At least, that's how I think it goes. Point is, if you look at the stats, most people won't get an A in CSPE. You're far more likely not to.

Junior Cert 2011: CSPE

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