*JC 2012/2013 Off-Topic Thread*

Jijsaw wrote: »

Here is some advice from a poster on the LC forum (not my own work)
Advice for the LC's (it can count for us too)

If you stress you might panic. So my tips for panicing are take a moment in the exam, remind yourself that the exam is easy and you can do it, eat a sweet, calm down. Take a look round the room, if you see someone leaving and its only ten minutes in think ha fail and just go back to your exam.

When you're studying and you're staring blankly at your books and not doing a thing. Well I recommend looking up videos on youtube/khan academy about things you're stuck on/ different topics

So you can laugh silently to yourself when people leave the exam early

Just thought I'd wish ye all good luck for the next 2 weeks From what I've seen ye're all going to do amazingly well

There really is nothing to worry about. The work is done at this stage so don't panic, even if you feel like you know nothing. You do. You remember far more than you think you do so keep calm.

It'll actually fly by once you get the first exam out of the way but it really does take a lot out of you. I distinctly remember falling asleep with my head on a table for about 20 minutes in the break between geography and maths back in 2010.

I'm not really a worrier or a panicker (clearly, because I am currently dancing around the kitchen like a lunatic to the radio while nobody's at home, despite the whole LC starting tomorrow situation) but I think my secret to success with each exam was making some kind of connection with the paper, strange as it may sound. Like the English media studies was GAA-related and I love GAA. It definitely calmed me down. I also remember 'Kick Starts' by Example constantly going around my head in the middle of Irish Paper 2 :L

So just make sure you answer the right amount of questions and all the jazz, read then all properly, underline stuff, write down little notes, hand up everything and all the usual.

But above all DON'T WORRY! There are much bigger things in life than these exams, they will not define you for the rest of your life. So if one goes badly put it to one side and move on

"Worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but gets you nowhere"

Jijsaw wrote: »

They were the "Words of Wisdom of the Week" in my school on the final week

I could fill the place with happy, inspirational quotes.

"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end." -John Lennon

Try to get outside for some sun too if you can, it's a great mood booster

Don't forget the suncream though, I already received my share of sunburn last week. And plenty of water! I've been outside all day and I may have drank my weight in water.

I was wondering, could you use The Daffodils by William Wordsworth as a happy poem or something or is that ordinary level english? The only poem I know totally off by heart, learned it in primary school and i still remember it

MomijiHime wrote: »

I think so, since he wrote it for his sister and he's admiring the beauty of nature, I'd consider it quite a happy poem..

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!

Good luck to you too. This will be the most stressful moment in my life. Maybe no one else is worrying about English and French but I am cause you just cannot prepare for languages like in other subjects were questions actually are repeated in the actually exam f.e. maths,geo,business etc.

MinnieMouse15 wrote: »

One more thing, would you suppose But you didn't, Mid term break, the early purges and digging is enough? Or should I also learn the road not taken.

you need to know two poems by one poet and a different poem by another to be able to achieve an A grade but our teacher made us learn 3 poems and they're exactly the ones you listed above. I have to do them tomorrow since now I'm cramming an essay into my thick brain.

zubikhan wrote: »

Hello, Guys
Does anyone have a good opening to a ''speech'' for personal writting
This is all I have so far:
Ladies and gentleman,fellow students and friends, we are here today to discuss about the issue of …….
but as you can see it is very small and never the less ''not HL material'' !!
Because knowing that speeches come up every year for personal writing I decided to study them instead of debates ?? is that good???

Chairperson, adjudicators, members of the opposition, fellow team mates, ladies and gentleman, I have great pleasure in proposing/opposing the motion today that

zubikhan wrote: »

Hello, Guys
Does anyone have a good opening to a ''speech'' for personal writting
This is all I have so far:
Ladies and gentleman,fellow students and friends, we are here today to discuss about the issue of …….
but as you can see it is very small and never the less ''not HL material'' !!
Because knowing that speeches come up every year for personal writing I decided to study them instead of debates ?? is that good???

how is ladies+gentlemen etc (...) not HL?

zubikhan wrote: »

Because if you compare mine to the person who shared an opening line
you can obviously see a major difference, I am not deliberately trying to convey that this is not HL stuff, but what I meant to say is that in another words, not good enough

I'm hl and i've always used only l+g and i got full marks ;D