ElizabethM wrote: » Hello Everyone, I'm new to boards.ie. I'm going into 5th year this September and I was just wondering about subjects. I'm doing ...Irish (higher) English (higher) Maths (ordinary) History (higher) Home Economics (higher) Biology (higher) French (higher) Is anyone else doing similar subjects? I was wondering how these subjects were and what kind of things I would be doing in them. Thanks
siobhanod93 wrote: » Hi there! I did the exact same subjects as you're planing on doing, (except I did HL Maths). Just finished my LC last week! Seeing as English has been covered in good detail, I'll skip that one! Irish is a lovely course! 40% for your oral is huge and the poems and prós that are given are short and simple. We did "A Thig Ná Tit Orm" for the book which was very entertaining I can't really say much for the maths except that you'll be pretty much immersed in the project maths side of things, except by the time your LC comes around, I'm sure they will have it sorted out, instead of the mess that it is now! :rolleyes: History - I was terrible at it, I had a rubbish teacher. I did a good project so hopefully that will stand to me in August Home Ec is a great subject! It covers such a broad range from Food Science, Food Commodities (Meat, fish, eggs, dairy etc), Food Legislation, Food Law and Microbiology. Then there is the resourse section which is consumer studies, resource management and appliances such as the microwave and the kettle. You then have the Social section which is about marriage and the family. The final section is the elective of either household, textiles or social studies. It varies from school to school but we did social elective and I personally hated it! In 5th year you also do your food journals. Here you are given 'tasks' such as cook for the elderly or show the properties of eggs. You then have to write about them under certain headings. Do it well and its 20% done and a burden gone for 6th year as they are corrected in November 6th year Biology is just a detailed JC Biology syllabus. Learn what you do in class well when yer doing it and it'll be a breeze when revising it French is pretty much like the JC too with the Oral added to it If you do your work in 5th year, life will be easier in 6th year! Trust me! You will be so thankful to yourself when you're revising! Good Luck!!
amyleaving wrote: » I think everything has really been covered already :P but i did all those subjects in the leaving last week except history good choices :P so if you have any questions? home ec was my favourite subject! and i just started biology in fifth year i liked it too
silversky wrote: » Ha! Did all the same subjects as you. Thankfully finished now (just under a week ago with History as my last exam) I'll skip to the choice subjects since all the core subjects are described relatively well. The only choice subject I ended up being happy with choosing was biology. I love Biology and if you have a good, enthusiastic teacher you'll do fine. It's a broad course but everything isn't covered in too much detail so it'll be fine to learn off. Just remember to learn your notes every night, that is so important, especially revision wise for the LC (everything comes back so easily if you do it night by night). Oh experiments are easy enough too. Good revision book is the folens one. I love history and I came out with an A in it in the junior cert but the difference is huge in comparison to LC history and JC history- be wary of that. There is a huge amount to learn on the course and the essays are difficult to condense especially at the start. The most difficult thing isn't even learning the essays off because the topics are interesting, it's the timing issue in the exam. I struggled with the 40 mins per essay at the start but I kept practising it and finally perfected it. Oh and the research topic is interesting if you pick a topic you like.:) Home Ec- if there was ever a subject I would tell you to avoid, home ec would be it. I LOVED home ec in the JC- learnt everything off by heart and did a really good project but I couldn't believe how vast the course was in 5th year. There is SO much to learn and in detail too for eg. vitamins and minerals, laws etc. I would deem home ec as the most difficult subject. On top of the broad course, you have to do a project- I found it interesting enough, but get your teacher to complete it in 5th year, to lessen the load in 6th year. My advice: make notes out from the start in 5th year and keep revising them. Hope that helps.:)
amyleaving wrote: » No.. you have to cook for the journal which you write up, which is worth 20 percent but there are only 6 assignments so thats cooking 6 times otherwise its up to your teacher you may cook once or twice for fun but thats it, a lot less cooking than junior cert so i'd say you will like that
lady365 wrote: » hey just finished the leaving cert last week and I did Home Ec, Biology, French (O), Maths (O) Irish (H). Home ec is a lot of learning so put your head down in 5th yr.... Also i have a lot of notes that I could type up and send it to u if you want????? By far Biology was the easiest exam, learn the unit 1/2 really well and you will be fine. Did a good oral in irish so hopefully it will pull up my grade as i think i did bad in paper 1/2 Was doing higher level french until a month before the exams, was good at the reading comprehension but couldnt write an essay. Kept getting low marks in them so decided to drop down the level. Pass french is simple hoping for an A+! Maths project maths paper 2 was hard, its like doing an english paper!!! Paper 1 was fine.... Best of Luck With the leaving cert and if you want to pick up an extra subject do Business -easy one!! plus ive loads of powerpoints for most chapters!! enjoy!!!!
ElizabethM wrote: » Thanks, but I wouldn't want to bother you with typing up the notes - I'll see how it goes in school, but thanks anyways. I've always loved French and found it to be ok. So hopefully I'll be ok next year! I really hate maths, always been bad at it. That's why I'm doing ordinary..I guess its just something you have to stick through haha. Thank you so much for you help! x
