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DublinArnie · 13-10-2014 06:43PM

Anyone else having an awesome day? This week will be a fun one me thinks

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Despite the pain in my hand, from timing myself in some essays ... it's all good!

MomijiHime · 13-10-2014 10:54PM

DublinArnie wrote: »

Honest question people- do you people take salary into consideration for your courses/future job prospects?

Yes. WHY ISN'T THERE MORE APPRECIATION FOR ART???

DublinArnie · 14-10-2014 07:27AM

MomijiHime wrote: »

Yes. WHY ISN'T THERE MORE APPRECIATION FOR ART???

That would be like a hobby or part time. It's hard to make a living by crafting things and so on.

CookieCat97 · 15-10-2014 06:31PM

Just home from inter schools cross country today! Came 7th in u19s

So happy but so exhausted! Any other sports enthusiasts?

DublinArnie · 15-10-2014 07:02PM

CookieCat97 wrote: »

Just home from inter schools cross country today! Came 7th in u19s So happy but so exhausted! Any other sports enthusiasts?

I envy you! I'd love to do cross-country, but can't find any youth friendly clubs for that in my area. My legs hate me, they don't enjoy the pains of running every second day :rolleyes:

Now days I compete in martial arts. Congratulations "long legs" (had to stick a quote from my comparative text!).

kb98 · 15-10-2014 07:11PM

CookieCat97 wrote: »

Just home from inter schools cross country today! Came 7th in u19s So happy but so exhausted! Any other sports enthusiasts?

Well done!

CookieCat97 · 15-10-2014 08:08PM

DublinArnie wrote: »

I envy you! I'd love to do cross-country, but can't find any youth friendly clubs for that in my area. My legs hate me, they don't enjoy the pains of running every second day :rolleyes:

Now days I compete in martial arts. Congratulations "long legs" (had to stick a quote from my comparative text!).

I don't run for a club or anything I just asked my PE teacher if I could do the one day competition! Never ran cross country before in my life, thought I might as well do it this year for the craic!

MomijiHime · 15-10-2014 08:20PM

DublinArnie wrote: »

That would be like a hobby or part time. It's hard to make a living by crafting things and so on.

It's hard to make a living from it, but it's not just a hobby...

DublinArnie · 15-10-2014 08:29PM

CookieCat97 wrote: »

I don't run for a club or anything I just asked my PE teacher if I could do the one day competition! Never ran cross country before in my life, thought I might as well do it this year for the craic!

What distance was it???

CookieCat97 · 15-10-2014 10:02PM

DublinArnie wrote: »

What distance was it???

3km!

DublinArnie · 15-10-2014 10:07PM

CookieCat97 wrote: »

3km!

That's a really nice distance. Not too short and not too long, do you know your time?

CookieCat97 · 16-10-2014 06:59PM

DublinArnie wrote: »

That's a really nice distance. Not too short and not too long, do you know your time?

No idea! We were just given a place! :P I'm just grateful I'm not a lad, they had to do 5km XD

DublinArnie · 16-10-2014 09:47PM

CookieCat97 wrote: »

No idea! We were just given a place! :P I'm just grateful I'm not a lad, they had to do 5km XD

Ah now, 5km is fun! Quite a distance as well :pac:

daviecronin · 17-10-2014 09:11PM

Just a question has any started Sraith Pictuirs in HL? My teacher gave us our first today and our class nearly had a heart attack. I think Sraith Pictuirs are crazy and not needed. The one our teacher wrote for us was over 700 words! 700 words by 20 14000 words for a few marks in our oral?? She told us herself it was too long but since it only came in 3 years ago she has to be excessive. The commission think that we have this level of irish anyway I don't know how delusional they are but... Its crazy... Im doing 8hl subjects at the moment so at least it gives me an option but no wonder people are doing pass... They're trying to put people off the language and personally I love it as its part of our heritage but they are doing nothing to help it!

IncognitoX · 18-10-2014 12:35AM

daviecronin wrote: »

Just a question has any started Sraith Pictuirs in HL? My teacher gave us our first today and our class nearly had a heart attack. I think Sraith Pictuirs are crazy and not needed. The one our teacher wrote for us was over 700 words! 700 words by 20 14000 words for a few marks in our oral?? She told us herself it was too long but since it only came in 3 years ago she has to be excessive. The commission think that we have this level of irish anyway I don't know how delusional they are but... Its crazy... Im doing 8hl subjects at the moment so at least it gives me an option but no wonder people are doing pass... They're trying to put people off the language and personally I love it as its part of our heritage but they are doing nothing to help it!

You're not expected by the SEC to have that level of Irish. Besides, you won't have time in your oral to rattle off 700 words for the picture story. Two sentences per picture, maybe three, is more than enough.

daviecronin · 18-10-2014 12:40AM

IncognitoX wrote: »

You're not expected by the SEC to have that level of Irish. Besides, you won't have time in your oral to rattle off 700 words for the picture story. Two sentences per picture, maybe three, is more than enough.

Yes you are expected to have that level of irish and no 2/3 sentences would not justify anything not even in pass.

IncognitoX · 18-10-2014 12:48AM

daviecronin wrote: »

Yes you are expected to have that level of irish and no 2/3 sentences would not justify anything not even in pass.

Yes it would. It would get you high marks if your sentences are of a high standard.

DublinArnie · 18-10-2014 12:05PM

700 words of complete bs irish and poor repetitive grammar is nothing compared to 2-3 sentences of top quality irish with varied grammar per picture.

I'd hate to be the examiner, constantly reading and hearing the same stuff.

The people who think quantity is usually better than quality are the ones who drop to ordinary irish.

kb98 · 18-10-2014 12:14PM

Would anyone recommend dropping to OL irish and focusing on the 6 points subjects, i do 9 subjects right now and it's too much with Irish slowing me down

IncognitoX · 18-10-2014 12:18PM

kb98 wrote: »

Would anyone recommend dropping to OL irish and focusing on the 6 points subjects, i do 9 subjects right now and it's too much with Irish slowing me down

Why do you do nine subjects?

kb98 · 18-10-2014 01:15PM

7 i have to, French outside for unk and applied maths i was asked to do

kb98 · 18-10-2014 01:16PM

uni^

coolerboy · 18-10-2014 01:21PM

kb98 wrote: »

7 i have to, French outside for unk and applied maths i was asked to do

Im thinking of doing applied maths aswell..........Have you started yet? Do you think its difficult? Do you do physics aswell ?

TheEdgeofGlory · 18-10-2014 01:21PM

IncognitoX wrote: »

Why do you do nine subjects?

If you're particularly weak at one subject then it may be best to drop down and focus on your other eight!. I'm presuming you do HL maths? The time could be better utilised there if maths is one of your strengths as there are "bonus points" at stake. You'd still have two HL subjects as a back up if things go wrong on exam days!. Unless you want to be a primary school teacher you don't need Higher Level Irish, although the oral and listening components of the exam combined are worth 50 % keep in mind!. However,If you're struggling to manage and it's affecting your other subjects I'd advice you to drop down!.

daviecronin · 18-10-2014 01:27PM

DublinArnie wrote: »

700 words of complete bs irish and poor repetitive grammar is nothing compared to 2-3 sentences of top quality irish with varied grammar per picture.

I'd hate to be the examiner, constantly reading and hearing the same stuff.

The people who think quantity is usually better than quality are the ones who drop to ordinary irish.

Its extremely high quality our 700 words! So much so the examiner goes down to my teacher afterwards and quotes it back to her. Everyone in our school previously practically got a1s in the oral.

IncognitoX · 18-10-2014 01:29PM

kb98 wrote: »

7 i have to, French outside for unk and applied maths i was asked to do

I'd say definitely drop to OL Irish so. It really is advisable to do a maximum of seven higher level subjects - I feel any more is unnecessary and a bit excessive.

IncognitoX · 18-10-2014 01:32PM

daviecronin wrote: »

Its extremely high quality our 700 words! So much so the examiner goes down to my teacher afterwards and quotes it back to her. Everyone in our school previously practically got a1s in the oral.

How long does it take you to do one sraith? As in, how many minutes does it take you to rattle out the 700 words?

daviecronin · 18-10-2014 01:34PM

IncognitoX wrote: »

How long does it take you to do one sraith? As in, how many minutes does it take you to rattle out the 700 words?

We've 4-5 minutes!

DublinArnie · 18-10-2014 02:03PM

daviecronin wrote: »

Its extremely high quality our 700 words! So much so the examiner goes down to my teacher afterwards and quotes it back to her. Everyone in our school previously practically got a1s in the oral.

Learning a 700 word essay? I'm pretty sure the examiner would be able to tell you're reciting something, and turn that against you.

I see your teacher's logic though. I don't think she's telling you TO RECITE AND LEARN a giant essay, but to read it so you get a rough idea of the pictures. Then just re-call a few sentences for each picture from the essay instead of saying everything.

Conversation (?) holds the most marks in the oral I think, so I'd say if A1s were given out ... probably because of the incredible language skills people hold over there

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kb98 · 18-10-2014 02:11PM

coolerboy wrote: »

Im thinking of doing applied maths aswell..........Have you started yet? Do you think its difficult? Do you do physics aswell ?

Applied maths is easy enough so far, and yeah i do physics. It's similar enough, especially mechanics if you are in that yet

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