JC 2011 - Results thread - post your results here

Slow Show · 15-09-2011 4:09pm

You get the money back if your grade changes tbf.

P H A 7V T O M · 15-09-2011 4:16pm

Typical Boards.ie user:

"I got 17 A's but I'm kinda gutted"

catlover95 · 15-09-2011 6:27pm

Irish - A
English - A
Maths - A
and B in everything else. All higher level.
I probably could have got more As, but to be honest I didn't take 3rd year very seriously at ALL and seeing that I'd jumped from failing science in the mocks to getting a B made me so happy.

I started crying, I was so happy when I saw the A in maths. Pure disbelief! My teacher had no faith in me at all and I just accepted the fact that no matter how hard I worked, I wouldn't get the A, but hey. Best feeling ever!

Aldiily · 15-09-2011 6:38pm

Im THRILLED with my results!!!!!!

Maths C
English B
Irish B
History B
Geography A
Science B
Home Economics A
French A
C.S.P.E A

All higher level. I wanted atleast 3As and I got 4 so im delighted with that and Maths aswell cause I thought I had failed

matthew8 · 15-09-2011 7:05pm

catlover95 wrote: »

Irish - A
English - A
Maths - A
and B in everything else. All higher level.
I probably could have got more As, but to be honest I didn't take 3rd year very seriously at ALL and seeing that I'd jumped from failing science in the mocks to getting a B made me so happy.

I started crying, I was so happy when I saw the A in maths. Pure disbelief! My teacher had no faith in me at all and I just accepted the fact that no matter how hard I worked, I wouldn't get the A, but hey. Best feeling ever!

3 As in those 3... are very hard to get. Well done, strange you got no additional As.

phenomenale · 16-09-2011 6:38am

Irish - A
Maths - A
Science - A
French - A
History - B
Geography - A
CSPE - A
English - B
Business - B
Home Ec - A

Overall 7 A's and 3 B's. Kind of disappointed to be honest. History and Business are 2 of my best subjects and I scored over 95% in both of them in the mocks. (Our mocks were corrected by an external examiner also). Might appeal but don't know if I can face the disappointment if I don't move up a grade and the waste of money..

DarkDusk · 16-09-2011 6:48pm

matthew8 wrote: »

3 As in those 3... are very hard to get. Well done, strange you got no additional As.

Indeed, very strange.

shadowninty · 16-09-2011 6:53pm

DarkDusk wrote: »

Indeed, very strange.

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DarkDusk · 16-09-2011 6:58pm

shadowninty wrote: »

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LOL

shadowninty · 16-09-2011 7:02pm

I was shocked at the amount of Bs in geography and maths in my year. Seriously considering appealing...

IloveConverse · 16-09-2011 8:22pm

Also appealing Geography, one of my best subjects and I received a B.

FYG · 16-09-2011 8:57pm

IloveConverse wrote: »

Also appealing Geography, one of my best subjects and I received a B.

I got an A and I thought it was a borderline B/C.

Indiego · 16-09-2011 9:00pm

FYG wrote: »

I got an A and I thought it was a borderline B/C.

Me too

bb1234567 · 16-09-2011 9:01pm

got a b also in geo and it was one of the 4 subjects i was 100 percent certain of getting an a in. I got the a in history,irish nd cspe so im getting geography rechecked:) might get art rechecked too..got a b ..was fairly sure of an a.

16-09-2011 9:03pm

IloveConverse wrote: »

Also appealing Geography, one of my best subjects and I received a B.

take a look at the marking schemes before you appeal.
I was thinking of appealing French but then I noticed the French marking scheme last year was alot more generous than this years one

DarkDusk · 16-09-2011 9:05pm

Indiego wrote: »

Me too

Same here, I was expecting a B but amazed to get an A! Also the same case with Science.. I think its definitely true that they mark them easily.

FYG · 16-09-2011 9:06pm

If I wasn't happy with my results, I would get Business re-checked. Thought it was a definite A.

I would prefer 5 As and 5 Bs to 6 As and 4 Bs to be honest though.

Indiego · 16-09-2011 9:08pm

DarkDusk wrote: »

Same here, I was expecting a B but amazed to get an A! Also the same case with Science.. I think its definitely true that they mark them easily.

I wasnt expecting an A in Spanish, Geography, History, Religion, English, and in a way, CSPE, So getting A's in them all was a huge surprise

FYG · 16-09-2011 9:11pm

Indiego wrote: »

I wasnt expecting an A in Spanish, Geography, History, Religion, English, and in a way, CSPE, So getting A's in them all was a huge surprise

I was only expecting 2 definite A's. Was hoping to sneak a third and get a total of 3 A's, 6 B's, and 1 C, so was delighted with 5 A's and 5 B's.

ciara95 · 16-09-2011 10:01pm

I got 3 As 8Bs
I was delighted with As in Honours French & English.
All higher level subjects btw

IloveConverse · 16-09-2011 10:36pm

Deleted User wrote: »

take a look at the marking schemes before you appeal.
I was thinking of appealing French but then I noticed the French marking scheme last year was a lot more generous than this years one

Yes, I have done this. I totted up marks very strictly and the calculator gave me an A. Obviously I know, this isn't very reliable, but I felt it was a definite A, regarding both my gut feeling and after going through the marking scheme with a fine-tooth comb".

FYG · 16-09-2011 10:37pm

IloveConverse wrote: »

Yes, I have done this. I totted up marks very strictly and the calculator gave me an A. Obviously I know, this isn't very reliable, but I felt it was a definite A, regarding both my gut feeling and after going through the marking scheme with a fine-tooth comb".

How can you remember your answers?

Bee_kayx · 16-09-2011 10:47pm

English (H)- C

- dissapointing,expected a B. I worked so hard
Irish (H)-B
Maths (O)-B -expected
French (H)-B- ANNOYED.. i worked so hard at french,expected the a.
CSPE-B, again.. no a
Business(H)-C-happy
Home Ec(H)- B
Art(H)-D-i cried over this, all my project handed in on time,complete,marvoulous picture, and drawings have decent.. getting it rechecked,but then again im not doing it for LC so dont no if im going to bother.
Geog(H)-C

History (H)-B

IloveConverse · 16-09-2011 11:02pm

FYG wrote: »

How can you remember your answers?

Due to the amount of exam post-mortem, extreme pondering and related conversation with friends. :rolleyes: I know what I got correct from the day that I sat the exam anyways.

FYG · 16-09-2011 11:03pm

IloveConverse wrote: »

Due to the amount of exam post-mortem, extreme pondering and related conversation with friends. :rolleyes: I know what I got correct from the day that I sat the exam anyways.

If your memory is that good you should be getting 10 A's. :P

IloveConverse · 16-09-2011 11:10pm

FYG wrote: »

If your memory is that good you should be getting 10 A's. :P

From that day, I know I got such and such from talking to friends etc so I added those as definites and progressed from there. :cool:

chatterboxxx95 · 16-09-2011 11:40pm

:Dwell done everyone, results and excitement all over! I was absolutely over the moon with my results, i couldn't have asked for better:D

Oh wow, cant believe some of you remember what you got for the answers, i know i cannot remember for the life of me now!:L

magicray · 17-09-2011 10:38am

Does anyone know how long re correction takes, my son was really upset over his "c" in higher English as he worked so hard and felt the exam went really well, after a chat with his teacher its being recorrected but no one in his school seemd to know how long they take to come back - either that or they are not saying :rolleyes:

BTW well done to you all

mixery · 17-09-2011 11:33am

It seems that I'm so stupid:(. And that feckin A from Tec annoys me. I need to get English rechecked is well, I feel that C is a bit harsh, considering that almost all my work went into it...

Interesting comments from my teachers after seeing their students' results. Nerds did very badly, those who struggled did very well.

IloveConverse · 17-09-2011 11:53am

mixery wrote: »

It seems that I'm so stupid:(. And that feckin A from Tec annoys me. I need to get English rechecked is well, I feel that C is a bit harsh, considering that almost all my work went into it...

Interesting comments from my teachers after seeing their students' results. Nerds did very badly, those who struggled did very well.

Strangely true. :cool:

The Results of the re-checked papers come back in early November.

IamStupid..Not · 17-09-2011 2:35pm

5 A's, 5 B's and a C.

Was delighted with myself. All higher level.
English - A
History- A
Religion - A
Science - A
CSPE - A

Maths - B
Business - B
Art - B
French - B
Geography - B

Irish - C

I hugged my maths teacher and told her that I loved her. I failed my pre, and BAM, I got a B. :eek: The C in Irish was expected, my teacher wasn't that great and it was always my weakest subject.

TehFionnster · 17-09-2011 7:18pm

English - A
Maths - A
Irish - A
Geography - B
History - A
Business - A
Science - A
Religion - B
MT Wood - B
Spanish - A
CSPE - A

Fairly thrilled with that

FYG · 17-09-2011 7:53pm

mixery wrote: »

...that feckin A from Tec annoys me.

Why? :rolleyes:

mixery · 17-09-2011 8:00pm

Long story.. I would much rather get an A in something else.

matthew8 · 17-09-2011 10:09pm

It seems a lot of people share my opinion that they underachieved in geography and are getting the papers checked. Could it be that there are now so many people who are good at geog that there aren't enough As to go around? Or do we overestimate ourselves?

Apparently the CSPE results were unusually poor throughout the country, this is reflected in my school, in which I got the only A out of 40, despite 33 people getting an A last year.

spurious · 17-09-2011 10:15pm

matthew8 wrote: »

Apparently the CSPE results were unusually poor throughout the country, this is reflected in my school, in which I got the only A out of 40, despite 33 people getting an A last year.

Were the projects the same? At 60% of the marks they are usually the deciding factor.

IloveConverse · 17-09-2011 10:22pm

matthew8 wrote: »

It seems a lot of people share my opinion that they underachieved in geography and are getting the papers checked. Could it be that there are now so many people who are good at geog that there aren't enough As to go around? Or do we overestimate ourselves?

Apparently the CSPE results were unusually poor throughout the country, this is reflected in my school, in which I got the only A out of 40, despite 33 people getting an A last year.

I feel that it's the "bell curve" that has caused people to underachieve this year. Possibly, too many were receiving A's and were thus, marked down to B's. Geography is a much easier subject than many others and yet, it was evident that there was underachievement present in this year's Geography Results.
No-one received an A in our class of over twenty students although our school is known nationwide for excellent results in both the Junior Cert and Leaving Cert. Last year's class that had the same teacher for CSPE had all A's except for three students.

Definitely getting both appealed.

GoldFour4 · 17-09-2011 10:36pm

Well done to everyone who got results. However for people who aren't happy with results, just forget about it. Its the JC, in a few years time you will forget what grades you got in subjects.

The LC is the big thing. That's your job for the next few years. But even then its just to get your course. The whole thing is irrelevant after that. As someone who has just started in UCD I can say that I've never asked or been asked what points what points I got in the leaving.

If your disappointed in a result then just work on it, only get a recheck if its gonna affect the class your placed in for 5th year. The JC is so different to the LC. If you only managed a C in a subject for the JC then you can still get an A at higher level. I got a low C in JC English and I got a A2 in the LC.

Your journey through school is just beginning. Enjoy !

4b and 7c btw :L

Sophiee · 18-09-2011 12:00am

Irish - A
English - B
Maths - C
History - D
Geography - C
German - D
Spanish - C
Business - A
Home Economics - C
Music - D
CSPE - B

I was pretty surprised with them over all since I did very little study. I was especially surprised by my English result, I never thought I'd get a B.

DarkDusk · 18-09-2011 10:18am

spurious wrote: »

Were the projects the same? At 60% of the marks they are usually the deciding factor.

Ours were, word for word. I got a B.:p

spurious · 18-09-2011 1:15pm

DarkDusk wrote: »

Ours were, word for word. I got a B.:p

Well that might be the problem - you're not supposed to copy projects.
When I said 'the same' I meant the same standard, not the same projects!

If the SEC have copped your school is recycling projects of course the marks will be lower.

They will be watching next year too.

Cakes. · 18-09-2011 1:43pm

We all did the same project but all the write ups were different, there was only one A in the class too

shadowninty · 18-09-2011 2:13pm

Yeah, we did the same project but with differing write ups, we all had different groups too so that meant the class all had quite different write ups

DarkDusk · 18-09-2011 6:20pm

spurious wrote: »

Well that might be the problem - you're not supposed to copy projects.
When I said 'the same' I meant the same standard, not the same projects!

If the SEC have copped your school is recycling projects of course the marks will be lower.

They will be watching next year too.

tbh it's not our fault, it's our teacher's. It's unbelievable that she passes them inspections by the DOE. She shouldn't even be teaching she's so bad. It didn't take long before she was prevented from teaching history for 5th year when she was replaced by another teacher last week! But seriously, all she did was hand out a load of pages and we were told to copy it all down and change a word or two... I was hoping that we would get done for it because she'd probably get fired then (less likely though). It's kinda funny though when you think of it!:p

chatterboxxx95 · 18-09-2011 10:00pm

IloveConverse wrote: »

I feel that it's the "bell curve" that has caused people to underachieve this year. Possibly, too many were receiving A's and were thus, marked down to B's. Geography is a much easier subject than many others and yet, it was evident that there was underachievement present in this year's Geography Results.
No-one received an A in our class of over twenty students although our school is known nationwide for excellent results in both the Junior Cert and Leaving Cert. Last year's class that had the same teacher for CSPE had all A's except for three students.

Definitely getting both appealed.

I think that with geography there simply aren't enough a's to go around, yeah, the geog papers are fairly simple, but they obviously don't want to make a mockery of the subject by making it too easy to get an a in. Looking at the statistics on the SEC website in the past few years only around 9% of people doing HL get an A. that's lower than most subjects. They must then expect a high standard of answering.
Thank god i got an A in geog, but i know people in my year who got high b's/a's in the mocks and every other class test and came out gutted because they hadn't done as well as they expected.

spurious · 18-09-2011 10:07pm

DarkDusk wrote: »

tbh it's not our fault, it's our teacher's. It's unbelievable that she passes them inspections by the DOE. She shouldn't even be teaching she's so bad. It didn't take long before she was prevented from teaching history for 5th year when she was replaced by another teacher last week! But seriously, all she did was hand out a load of pages and we were told to copy it all down and change a word or two... I was hoping that we would get done for it because she'd probably get fired then (less likely though). It's kinda funny though when you think of it!:p

<shakes head>:mad:
I hope if she teaches History she doesn't have the LCs copying other people's work. She is the sort of person should be rooted out of teaching. No excuse for encouraging or allowing plagiarism.

aqua_x · 18-09-2011 11:21pm

I got b's in English and History, with both being my strongest subjects. While I can understand the B in English to a degree, cause the marking is subjective and that, but I worked so hard at History, honestly it was the only subject I studied for :L
I was delighted with the history paper itself aswell, I know I deserved an A. While I don't really care that much just cause its only the JC and doesn't really matter so much (I got good enough results in everything like), would it be worth getting it appealed?
I mean, girls in my year who would have been D or C students and who felt they did badly in the History exam got A's..

robman60 · 19-09-2011 12:17am

Really strange how so many people were disappointed with geography. I recall our teacher telling us that geog is the subject with the lowest percentage of As at higher level.

I won't be appealing though, I wouldn't bother checking a paper that has no influence on anything anyway.

DarkDusk · 19-09-2011 5:04pm

robman60 wrote: »

Really strange how so many people were disappointed with geography. I recall our teacher telling us that geog is the subject with the lowest percentage of As at higher level.

I won't be appealing though, I wouldn't bother checking a paper that has no influence on anything anyway.

ditto

Doublechinlolz · 20-09-2011 10:57am

How did i miss this thread! :O Anyhow, I got 3 A's, one B, six C's and one D. I'm pretty happy

JC 2011 - Results thread - post your results here

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