Leaving Cert 2012 Predictions.

Drafty122 · 06-04-2012 11:30PM

any predictions for french HL essays??? apart from olympics !

Canard · 06-04-2012 11:33PM

elections

brownstone · 10-04-2012 08:03PM

I'd say cash flow, suspense, farm, revaluation, job costing or a mixed management question is likely for accounting...but they are trying to make the accounting paper less predictable so god only knows what'll happen

I'd say women characters for Hamlet, they haven't been on in the new course yet and it's unlikely to be a straighforward Hamlet character q, probably Hamlet in relation to the minor characters. Maybe a theme question on kingship, loyalty/betrayal, appearance/reality. Maybe Kinsella, Larkin, Heaney and Plath for poetry....

Anyone any predictions for topics for german?

Josh93 · 11-04-2012 01:21PM

Has anybody got any suggestions for the Business & Biology higher level papers?

Also, is anyone doing the "Nation States and International Tensions 1871-1920" in History - we seem to be the only school in the country studying it!

ChemHickey · 11-04-2012 04:55PM

brownstone wrote: »

I'd say cash flow, suspense, farm, revaluation, job costing or a mixed management question is likely for accounting...but they are trying to make the accounting paper less predictable so god only knows what'll happen

I'd say women characters for Hamlet, they haven't been on in the new course yet and it's unlikely to be a straighforward Hamlet character q, probably Hamlet in relation to the minor characters. Maybe a theme question on kingship, loyalty/betrayal, appearance/reality. Maybe Kinsella, Larkin, Heaney and Plath for poetry....

Anyone any predictions for topics for german?

In accounting,.. I ServiceorFarm/Suspense/Revaluation (I have a feeling itll be depreciation) = 60 markers

Ratios/Published/Cashflow = 100

LETS PRAY FOR FLEXIBLE BUDGETING!

And btw, hamlet & women q was in 2005 was it not?

skyscraperblue · 12-04-2012 10:20AM

brownstone wrote: »

I'd say women characters for Hamlet, they haven't been on in the new course yet and it's unlikely to be a straighforward Hamlet character q, probably Hamlet in relation to the minor characters. Maybe a theme question on kingship, loyalty/betrayal, appearance/reality.

I think the kingship, loyalty/betrayal, appearance/reality theme question is fairly likely, but women have definitely come up before - as someone said I believe it was 2005.

hugokatie · 15-04-2012 06:43PM

Millem wrote: »

Get your hands on both mocks DEB & Examcraft plus Irish indo exam brief supplement and learn each topic to start with! Usually a few questions from all three will come up!
From my memory:
Q1. Fish+ lipids, yoghurt+calcium
Q2. Additives, Sensory Anaysis
Q3. Microbiology, ?
Q4. FRM, Appliances
Q5. The family (on both)

Don't know what elective you are doing? However social studies education has come up every year bar one!

Exam brief: fruit&veg, special diet (Coeliac), Frm, marriage
I am sure your teacher will also tell you to learn topics which have yet to be asked e.g eggs (although they were assignment 5 in journal) but still learn off by heart!
Short questions are impossible to predict however q8-12 are always from resource management section and FIS/government benefits comes up a lot as does textiles!
Ps the above is for HL only!

Thanks a milllion

at least now iv some sort of a start point

hugokatie · 15-04-2012 06:44PM

skyscraperblue wrote: »

I think the kingship, loyalty/betrayal, appearance/reality theme question is fairly likely, but women have definitely come up before - as someone said I believe it was 2005.

also i have heard laertes for some reason may be possible to appear

Sinenichuig · 16-04-2012 09:21PM

Has anyone got any predictions for geography. Need help badly

victoria.eliza · 17-04-2012 08:26PM

For HL Irish, my teacher is predicting Géibheann - if only because it's the easiest and this paper introduces the new course. He reckons Spailpín Fánach isn't all that likely to come up, simply because it's more complicated than the others, but anything is possible. Personally, I prefer Spailpín to any other poem on the course.

As for Paper 1, we haven't done more than 3-4 full essays but two of those were different variations of an "Influence of the Media" question - he seems confident that the media will be able to tie into an essay in some form. I'd bet on the Presidential election coming up in some form, too, as others have said.

He also advises against the story option on the paper. In his experience correcting, he's rarely given full marks or close to full marks to any candidate who attempts it. I would take that with a grain of salt though - my English teacher says the same and I've yet to even consider doing any other option but the short story

_pure_mule_ · 17-04-2012 08:34PM

Since my mam is a HL Irish teacher and she also advised her class to stay away from the story option aswell. She advises the general essay or else the diospoireacht if you can talk about the given topic at all( when you think about it you nearly have a page intro that you can learn off and a page conclusion that you can learn off so before you start you have 2 pages but obviously you should keep referring back to the given topic). Also for the poetry section your teachers probably not too far out in predicting spailpin fanach wont come up but it is a HUGE risk as you have zero choice, My teacher has a feeling colscaradh..no idea why though to be honest:O

victoria.eliza · 17-04-2012 08:50PM

_pure_mule_ wrote: »

Also for the poetry section your teachers probably not too far out in predicting spailpin fanach wont come up but it is a HUGE risk as you have zero choice, My teacher has a feeling colscaradh..no idea why though to be honest:O

I guess our teacher is a little more relaxed cause we're Gaeltacht and therefore fluent - if anyone's stuck, the poem is on the paper. It's easy enough to interpret on the fly if you can understand all the words. Well, save for the poet's life of course; that you have to know!

That said, I wouldn't recommend being unprepared to anyone. I'll be studying everything - it's just not worth the risk of being caught out!

We had Colscaradh on our pre and it was fine. Suíomh, Íomhánna, File, and Téama, if I remember correctly

_pure_mule_ · 17-04-2012 09:43PM

We had Colscaradh on our pre and it was fine. Suíomh, Íomhánna, File, and Téama, if I remember correctly

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Ye we had that mock too. The suiomh part was a bit tricky I managed it well!:)

victoria.eliza · 17-04-2012 09:55PM

It was the File that tripped me up a bit, but I managed. I had the fact that he was a teacher (basically all I knew, yay for not studying lol) span the length of three sentences, and made up the rest

At least five others made up this whole story, at least a page long, about how he was the man in the poem, he clearly had his heart broken by this "modern woman", yada yada yada. It gave our teacher a good laugh, anyway!

skyscraperblue · 17-04-2012 10:35PM

Does anyone know exactly how much detail about the poet we're meant to have? I know EXTREMELY basic summaries of their job/homeplace/history and that's it.

QueenOfLeon · 17-04-2012 11:00PM

reznov wrote: »

I'd say it's the punctuation that tripped you up! Nevertheless, I study 15 hours. That is 8 hours + 7 hours, by the way. Don't insult me.

reznov, if you have nothing to add to the thread, please refrain from posting.

Cruel Sun · 18-04-2012 08:36PM

Would I be covered to get at least a B3 in Biology if I JUST learned the following:

Genetics
Respiration
Photosynthesis
Human Reproduction
Plant Reproduction
Ecology
:cool:

ChemHickey · 18-04-2012 10:25PM

Martin_94 wrote: »

Would I be covered to get at least a B3 in Biology if I JUST learned the following:
Genetics

Respiration

Photosynthesis

Human Reproduction

Plant Reproduction

Ecology

:cool:

I'm not sure, i doubt it, but it depends how well you'd know them. You could be unlucky and some of those topics appear in the shorts and then the longs could be more focused on section 3. but if you're going that route , you should do those and then focus on the chapters that haven't come up on the paper in a while, like it's an almost guarantee that immune system and stuff like viruses and bacteria but I'd recommend looking over everything until mid mayish and then focus on your topics. I'd still recommend doing most if not all!

Chuchoter · 18-04-2012 11:10PM

I don't know why, but I think we might get a big electrochemistry question in Chemistry, like half of question 8. I also see a catalyst question and a Haber process/contact process in my non existent crystal ball :P

As far as English, I think language and imagery/soliloquies and an essay on women or maybe Horatio.

ChemHickey · 18-04-2012 11:36PM

Chuchoter wrote: »

I don't know why, but I think we might get a big electrochemistry question in Chemistry, like half of question 8. I also see a catalyst question and a Haber process/contact process in my non existent crystal ball :P

As far as English, I think language and imagery/soliloquies and an essay on women or maybe Horatio.

I really like electrochem. but oxidation is easier I Think! we might get a q9 with both electro and oxidation reduction in one!

Definitely either haber or contact, probably contact.

ethanal will be up

water :-/

Maybe drawing compounds after catalytic cracking

temperature version of rate of reaction

Volatile liquid experiment and gas laws.

fintony · 19-04-2012 08:28PM

Any ideas for HL History?

Reprazent · 21-04-2012 05:32PM

Here's a few for business. Got them at a grind in Tipp Institute the other week..
Agenda + Minutes of a meeting, Employment Equality Act, I.T - (Global Marketing, Communications, International Change, Stock Control, HR change{video conferencing}, effect on a business), Working Capital Management, Changing role of managers, Own Brand Products, Economic Variables - Unemployment, Interest rates, exchange rates, Abbreviations - (SIPTU, IBEC, SIMI, ITAA, ICTU, EDI, ASTI, AGM, EDI, EGM, TAL), Calculations - (Average Clause, G.P Margin and N.P Margin, Return on investment, acid test ratio, working capital ratio), Tax question, Debt equity, breakeven chart.), Diagrams - Matrix structure, Product life cycle, Maslowes, Controller to Facilitator - (TQM, Empowerment), Difference between household and business - (Scale, legislation, tax, etc.)

Horribly formatted I know, Sorry! Hope its something useful though there is nothing hard on that list.

skyscraperblue · 21-04-2012 08:48PM

In Applied Maths:
- probably a speed/time graph in Q1
- wedges in Q4
- Q10 probably with the inverse sin/cos and those type of integrals - the more complicated ones from the middle column in the tables - since we can't get any questions involving substitution. probably with e and ln too.

(:

finality · 22-04-2012 03:41AM

skyscraperblue wrote: »

In Applied Maths:
- probably a speed/time graph in Q1
- wedges in Q4
- Q10 probably with the inverse sin/cos and those type of integrals - the more complicated ones from the middle column in the tables - since we can't get any questions involving substitution. probably with e and ln too.

(:

Why can't we get any questions involving substitution? That doesn't sound right to me.

Wesc. · 22-04-2012 09:19AM

finality wrote: »

Why can't we get any questions involving substitution? That doesn't sound right to me.

I think it's gone off the project maths course, therefore they decided to take it off the course to go along with project maths. Apparently it's too difficult. :rolleyes:

skyscraperblue · 22-04-2012 09:48AM

finality wrote: »

Why can't we get any questions involving substitution? That doesn't sound right to me.

It's not on the new project maths course, so anyone in a pilot school hasn't done it. (This isn't a guess - our teacher confirmed it with some people in the SEC.)

finality · 22-04-2012 12:33PM

skyscraperblue wrote: »

It's not on the new project maths course, so anyone in a pilot school hasn't done it. (This isn't a guess - our teacher confirmed it with some people in the SEC.)

Ok, I was going to say that it's definitely still on our syllabus. That's absolutely ridiculous that the pilot schools aren't doing it and that it's having an effect on applied maths for everyone.

kourtney · 22-04-2012 02:50PM

Any one know what is going to be on the OL English, History and German paper?
HL Biology, Economics?
Thanks:)

NoHarm1994 · 22-04-2012 10:41PM

I can see a Hamlet question coming up on Ophelia's Electra Complex. They are running out of questions to ask, so I reckon it could be a juicy one.

Canard · 22-04-2012 10:47PM

NoHarm1994 wrote: »

I can see a Hamlet question coming up on Ophelia's Electra Complex. They are running out of questions to ask, so I reckon it could be a juicy one.

Thats a worse suggestion than Hamlet's Oedipus Complex...and I thought I'd heard it all. :rolleyes:

Leaving Cert 2012 Predictions.

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