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Well, how did we all do in the Mocks??
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English (HL) - 65% - Very frustrated with this! I'm always stuck in the High C catagory for English and no matter what I do, I can never go up! It's a decent result, but I would love better as I have a strong interest in it. My comparative question let me down most, 29/70. Hmm...
Irish (OL) - 77% - Quite pleased with this! The oral being worth 40% really helped, I love the oral part of it! Hope to bring this up by 10% for the real thing, as I need to count Irish (I do two Ordinary subjects and Irish is my stronger)
Maths (OL) - 54% - Yep, decent result! Just gonna keep plodding along to keep this up.
French (HL) - 23% - So... French is not a strong subject for me... It's just so difficult and I don't like it! My teacher told me to stick with higher level - Apparently I'm really good at oral stuff, so he told me just to work harder in order to pass it.
Geography (HL) - 66% - Decent enough considering I didn't study much! Hoping for a B2 at least in the real thing.
Biology (HL) - 63% - Not so impressed! My teacher told me I should be aiming for an A1 in the real thing, said it wasn't an accurate reflection on my usual work. I was a little disappointed too, but like all other subjects I did little revision before hand.
Ag. Science (HL) - 77% - Pretty happy with this!! Ag isn't one of my absolute favourite subjects, so was pleased to score this high in it! Something similar in the LC would be awesome.
So, 350 points in total I believe. Not so bad! Realistically, my goal is 380+ for Arts in Maynooth. Hope I can get it! Just gonna up my studying from now on in and hopefully it'll all pay off
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Haven't gotten them all back yet, but 45% in HL French and 62% in OL Irish (teacher re-corrected them after because she disagree with our results, and turned out being 57%) and I failed HL Biology. I'm really disappointed because when you know you've put in effort and see results like those it's very disheartening. *sigh*
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Pretty happy with mine
English A1 (delighted, especially with my extremely cheesy short story :pac: )
Irish B1 (Got 62/100 in my essay. Any advice on how to improve? )
Maths B3 (74, aiming for a B in Maths so I'm happy
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French A2 (My oral brought me up from a B, I got 97/100 in it! My written pieces aren't very good.. )
History B3
Physics B1 84
Biology A1 94
Not sure what it adds up to..
I still have absolutely no idea what I want to do after school. I'm thinking of taking a year out?
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I'm so scared with all the results I see here; I got only 480 I made some utterly retarded errors, with only studying the night before it went well enough, mostly B grades. I know I can rise a lot more. I've started studying already for the LC
The only one I was happy with was German, I got 98% in the written paper and 100% in the oral.
Irish was corrected terribly, I'm getting another teacher to correct it properly; I got 66% [the highest in my class; everyone else failed], and I speak Irish as well as I can speak English.
Maths P. 2 went very well, P. 1 simply went to hell. I must stop making such silly mistakes, the exact same thing happened with physics and chemistry! 0 -
ClaireBearBoat wrote: »Pretty happy with mine
English A1 (delighted, especially with my extremely cheesy short story :pac: )
Irish B1 (Got 62/100 in my essay. Any advice on how to improve? )
Maths B3 (74, aiming for a B in Maths so I'm happy )
French A2 (My oral brought me up from a B, I got 97/100 in it! My written pieces aren't very good.. )
History B3
Physics B1 84
Biology A1 94
Not sure what it adds up to..
I still have absolutely no idea what I want to do after school. I'm thinking of taking a year out?
You got 535 points! Grr....0 -
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earwax_man wrote: »I'm so scared with all the results I see here; I got only 480 I made some utterly retarded errors, with only studying the night before it went well enough, mostly B grades. I know I can rise a lot more. I've started studying already for the LC
Seeing as the country's average is only in the mid/low 300's I wouldn't be saying that! Also it completely depends what you need. No one is going to care what you got in your leaving cert next year.0 -
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ClaireBearBoat wrote: »
Not sure what it adds up to..
I still have absolutely no idea what I want to do after school. I'm thinking of taking a year out?
Congrats on the results! Yeah I'm actually taking a year out next year.. I'm young (not 17 til June), really want to travel and see the world and I'm not one hundred per cent sold on my course yet...
I'm spending next year (full twelve months) abroad volunteering in South America, Guyana, with a charity called Project Trust.
I'm not ready to go straight to college either and thought this would be the best way to spend a year out instead of sitting on the couch playing skyrim and picking my bum. Plus it's done wonders to motivate me because I literally can't repeat!0 -
Congrats on the results! Yeah I'm actually taking a year out next year.. I'm young (not 17 til June), really want to travel and see the world and I'm not one hundred per cent sold on my course yet... I'm spending next year (full twelve months) abroad volunteering in South America, Guyana, with a charity called Project Trust.
I'm not ready to go straight to college either and thought this would be the best way to spend a year out instead of sitting on the couch playing skyrim and picking my bum. Plus it's done wonders to motivate me because I literally can't repeat!
Fair play That's probably the best way to spend a year out, it looks really rewarding.
I haven't really decided on what I'd do during the year out yet
I'm just so confused at the moment with different courses that I think it would be the best option. I'm going to start researching projects/ charities soon though
(Sorry for going a bit off-topic in the mocks thread btw ) 0 -
I know I'm going to get a load of hate for this, but the amount of people saying 'they didn't study until the night before' and got 500+ points in their mocks... I find that a wee bit hard to believe :rolleyes: maybe boards is just full of certified geniuses but I doubt it. Anyways, /jealousrant
B2 Biology 76%
I'm pretty happy with this, if I can get it up by a grade or two for the actual exam I'll be flying.
B2 History 76%
So so so surprised at this, left out my whole documents question lol! Luckily the bonus for irish pulled me up and my essays were good. What with the research topic and the document I'll (fingers crossed) have learnt by the LC, I'll hopefully be looking at a B1-A2!
B3 Irish 72%
Didn't get my oral results back yet. Not too unhappy with it, again if I can come up by like a grade I'll be happy with that!
C1 Physics 66%
Top of the class! (doesn't say much about my class, does it?) Definitely need to improve in this though, I can do better. Aiming for a B1 in the actual exam.
B1 English 82%
I think I could've done better, I lost about 10% because I left out Hamlet though... time management again just like History. Not too unhappy with it though, again it's a pretty solid mark (imo) for the mocks.
French - still waiting for results from my dosser of a teacher!
so far I have 390, and I'm waiting for French, which is one of my favourite subjects. Hopefully I'll get a B1 or something like that in it, so I'm looking at 450 (if I get a C3 in French...), and if I can improve my marks for the LC proper, then hopefully I'll hit 500ish. Pretty happy with my results seeing as my course (undenominated science @ galway) was only 370 points last year 0 -
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Congrats on the results! Yeah I'm actually taking a year out next year.. I'm young (not 17 til June), really want to travel and see the world and I'm not one hundred per cent sold on my course yet... I'm spending next year (full twelve months) abroad volunteering in South America, Guyana, with a charity called Project Trust.
I'm not ready to go straight to college either and thought this would be the best way to spend a year out instead of sitting on the couch playing skyrim and picking my bum. Plus it's done wonders to motivate me because I literally can't repeat!
That Project Trust thing looks great! I'm going to be quite young going to college too (17 in April, you have me beat :P) so I was considering taking a year out... how do ya get on one of those volunteering trips? How much do they cost all in? thx 0 -
Dwellingdweller wrote: »I know I'm going to get a load of hate for this, but the amount of people saying 'they didn't study until the night before' and got 500+ points in their mocks... I find that a wee bit hard to believe :rolleyes: maybe boards is just full of certified geniuses but I doubt it. Anyways, /jealousrant
Certified genius reporting in. :pac: In fairness, I got a B3 in physics and a C2 in chemistry with my strategy, so I can't get away with studying the night before in every subject. I'd be extremely happy with my other pre results but I think there was quite a lot of luck involved too. I think to get 570 again in June I'll need to put a hell of a lot of work in between now and then.
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Certified genius reporting in. :pac: In fairness, I got a B3 in physics and a C2 in chemistry with my strategy, so I can't get away with studying the night before in every subject. I'd be extremely happy with my other pre results but I think there was quite a lot of luck involved too. I think to get 570 again in June I'll need to put a hell of a lot of work in between now and then.
Congrats on your results.
Thanks man! Whoever gets their good results deserves them. It does annoy me a bit though when I've been studying since september and I get 100 points less than people who 'didn't study 'til the night before'... regardless of whether they're lying or not, it's still annoying, and it's the thought that a lot of the people who are saying they're getting high points like yourself could be studying their arses off but, a lot of them will say 'I didn't study 'til the night before' anyway :rolleyes: Whatever though :P I'm looking set to get my course and that's what matters I suppose! Hope ya get your points again in June! 0 -
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Dwellingdweller wrote: »Thanks man! Whoever gets their good results deserves them. It does annoy me a bit though when I've been studying since september and I get 100 points less than people who 'didn't study 'til the night before'... regardless of whether they're lying or not, it's still annoying, and it's the thought that a lot of the people who are saying they're getting high points like yourself could be studying their arses off but, a lot of them will say 'I didn't study 'til the night before' anyway :rolleyes: Whatever though :P I'm looking set to get my course and that's what matters I suppose! Hope ya get your points again in June!
Honestly it bugs me too when people lie about that kind of thing, putting the work in is admirable and it's not 'cool' or whatever to leave it until last minute. It annoys me that I can't seem to motivate myself to study.
Actually what annoys me more is when people say "oh god I did so badly on that test, I'm dreading my result," and then get an A1 in it. If you know you did well just say so.
I guess the leaving cert just comes easily to some people. There are also other factors like, for example, I never study for German but I always put a lot of effort into the homework and I've done two 3-week summer courses in it which hugely improved my standard of the language - so it's not a case of putting no work at all in. I think that's the way it is for a lot of people who don't really study much.
Thanks, good luck with the course, you definitely deserve it. :P0 -
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My course last year was 390, so I want 420+ to be safe. Got bang on 390 in the mocks so a bit more work and I should be alrite the history teacher sent the papers back to DEB for re-correction so I might come up a grade or 2 to 400 points overall, happy enough. 0
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