Leaving Cert 2016/17 Off-Topic Thread

Kayleigh.. · 30-08-2015 3:21am

Liordi wrote: »

Opted for Applied Maths instead of LCVP or Study.
Hopefully an 8th subject won't kill me.

It shouldn't, IMO

I did 9 subjects for leaving, didn't do as well as I would have liked (555 points) but did better that I thought I would!

8 subjects should be very manageable

Liordi · 30-08-2015 1:03pm

Yeah, I'm hoping it won't be that much extra work but I'll probably appreciate doing it for points as I can't see myself getting better than a C3 in Irish / English.

Mr Rhode Island Red · 30-08-2015 4:27pm

I'd say my worst subject is going to be French by a mile. I'll probably end up purposely neglecting it in 6th Year to work on my other six subjects instead. As long as I pass French, I should be fine.

teafanatic · 30-08-2015 4:35pm

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

I'd say my worst subject is going to be French by a mile. I'll probably end up purposely neglecting it in 6th Year to work on my other six subjects instead. As long as I pass French, I should be fine.

For me it's Irish, I'll be "strategically" neglecting it and I'll probably end up dropping to pass in 6th year :P

Liordi · 30-08-2015 4:38pm

teafanatic wrote: »

For me it's Irish, I'll be "strategically" neglecting it and I'll probably end up dropping to pass in 6th year :P

Pretty much the same for me. I just want to get a C3 in HL so that I'm not ruling out some career paths that I may have an interest in.

smiles_1998 · 30-08-2015 7:14pm

teafanatic wrote: »

For me it's Irish, I'll be "strategically" neglecting it and I'll probably end up dropping to pass in 6th year :P

Irish will most likely be one of my back-up subjects, especially as I am now doing Music outside school.

Anyone else on here doing History? I have my first History class tomorrow and I'm actually a little nervous- I've heard some horror stories about the workload of the subject and I really want to do well in it in the Leaving Cert...

teafanatic · 30-08-2015 8:59pm

smiles_1998 wrote: »

Irish will most likely be one of my back-up subjects, especially as I am now doing Music outside school.

Anyone else on here doing History? I have my first History class tomorrow and I'm actually a little nervous- I've heard some horror stories about the workload of the subject and I really want to do well in it in the Leaving Cert...

I am, love it so far and find it more interesting than the JC

we did a good bit of the course in TY and I found it was one of my easier subjects, but of course it depends on whether you're naturally good at it and if you do your work.

My teacher is always telling us that History is no harder than any other subject once you take an interest in it and do your work, which sounds obvious but I think most of the people with the horror stories don't do this.

VG31 · 30-08-2015 9:00pm

I'm doing History; I think having an interest is the most important thing.

smiles_1998 · 30-08-2015 9:13pm

I really like History so hopefully that will help with keeping on top of the workload

I would die with happiness if I could get an A in it!

Does anyone know what texts they are doing for the comparative yet?

teafanatic · 30-08-2015 9:25pm

smiles_1998 wrote: »

Does anyone know what texts they are doing for the comparative yet?

The majority of my class wants to do The Fault in Our Stars so that'll probably be one of them, I'm pretty annoyed about it tbh since I thought the book was overrated and not well written at all.

Who else is doing Hamlet as their single text?

Liordi · 30-08-2015 9:31pm

Our English teacher has been absent since we came back so hopefully he'll be in tomorrow.
I think the other classes are planning on reading The Great Gatsby so odds are we'll be doing that too.

smiles_1998 · 30-08-2015 9:50pm

teafanatic wrote: »

The majority of my class wants to do The Fault in Our Stars so that'll probably be one of them, I'm pretty annoyed about it tbh since I thought the book was overrated and not well written at all.

Who else is doing Hamlet as their single text?

Oh my god i would actually move class if our teacher made us do TFIOS...I detest John Green so much.

Apparently we are doing Foster, The Plough and the Stars and The King's Speech which must be one of my favourite movies ever

and Hamlet as our single text of course!

Liordi · 30-08-2015 9:52pm

No chance of anyone voting to do TFIOS in our school - an all male school. :rolleyes: I read the book last summer and thought it was a bit overrated.

What way are you guys' timetables for the year?
I was just looking at mine and realized we've got more Maths classes a week than English & Irish? [7 vs 6] Is that common?

S_Hick12 · 30-08-2015 10:24pm

Liordi wrote: »

No chance of anyone voting to do TFIOS in our school - an all male school. :rolleyes: I read the book last summer and thought it was a bit overrated.

What way are you guys' timetables for the year?
I was just looking at mine and realized we've got more Maths classes a week than English & Irish? [7 vs 6] Is that common?

I'm not sure about most schools but mine is kinda the same but its 6 classes for maths, compared to five for everything else. All i know is that double irish, first thing on a monday morning followed by double p.e, will be the death of me

Liordi · 30-08-2015 10:52pm

Irish in general will be the death of me. :rolleyes:
I also have it first thing on a Monday but thankfully it's a single.

teafanatic · 31-08-2015 2:28pm

How's everyone who went back already getting on? I'm back tomorrow and I'm ****ting myself

Liordi · 31-08-2015 5:01pm

teafanatic wrote: »

How's everyone who went back already getting on? I'm back tomorrow and I'm ****ting myself

Doing good so far. Feels weird having to do homework, though.

Found out we were doing Hamlet for English today. Dunno if that's a good or a bad thing. :rolleyes:

Significant399 · 31-08-2015 5:08pm

In tomorrow as well. Dreading finding out what teachers I'll have and who's in my classes

Liordi · 01-09-2015 7:38pm

Had three hours of homework tonight. I'm not liking this :rolleyes:

Monaghan_98 · 01-09-2015 8:00pm

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

So what subjects is everyone doing?

Biology, Chemistry, Physics, French and the usuals here

Economics, Accounting, Business and History, Im also going to start doing French as an extra this year, to have a third language

I really want to do economics in UCD, just hope I'm going to get around the 500 mark. I'm planning to do grinds and study this year, and hopefully I'll do well..

Significant399 · 01-09-2015 8:39pm

Today actually went pretty well. Really happy with all my classes. Only had 45 minutes homework, tomorrow's when it all kicks off. Looking forward to learning everything tho, just the homework

Peregrine · 01-09-2015 8:43pm

Liordi wrote: »

Had three hours of homework tonight. I'm not liking this :rolleyes:

On the first day?

Jaysus, that's a baptism of fire if there ever was one.

Liordi · 01-09-2015 8:59pm

Peregrine wrote: »

On the first day?

Jaysus, that's a baptism of fire if there ever was one.

No it's my fourth day. Started last Wednesday.

Was off on Thursday.

padraigmck · 01-09-2015 9:56pm

Back tomorrow, dreading getting my timetable:-/ the other year's timetables have been cat!!

Manufan123 · 02-09-2015 5:54pm

Went back today and it was great craic but i have a few useless teachers.

Liordi · 02-09-2015 6:09pm

Homework only took an hour and a half today.

Out of the subjects I have; I'm really disliking Biology and English due to the teachers.
Maybe they'll grow on me but as of now the classes feel so long because all the teachers are doing is reading from the book. :rolleyes:

Mr Rhode Island Red · 02-09-2015 6:43pm

Started today, timetable is grand. Ended up with a lot of useless teachers, except for physics and maths where I got an absolute genius of a man for the subjects.

You know you go to a culchie school where one of the first things on the principal's address this morning was an outright ban on "tractors and other agricultural vehicles" in the school car park.

There used to be great freedom in bringin the MF 135 for a spin into school in the mornings

padraigmck · 02-09-2015 7:08pm

It's no fun if it's not a Massey 65Ã°ÂŸÂ˜Â‰

NOS3 · 02-09-2015 7:36pm

I also started today. We haven't gotten our full timetable, but what I have gotten is grand. I got great teachers for most of my subjects. There are so many people in my year, as there was a lot of TY's, loads of people in 3rd year skipped TY, and a good few repeated.

I've bought around 13 A4 Copies.

I need 3 for French. :pac:

teafanatic · 02-09-2015 7:49pm

Started back yesterday, timetable is fine except for double maths and physics first thing on a Monday morning which might just kill me...

Really regret not choosing chemistry, I can't move to it since we picked our subjects at the end of 3rd year before going into TY and the class already started the work last year :mad:

Liordi · 02-09-2015 9:40pm

@tea
What if someone who skipped transition year opted for Chemistry?

teafanatic · 02-09-2015 10:03pm

Liordi wrote: »

@tea
What if someone who skipped transition year opted for Chemistry?

TY is compulsory in my school because we do loads of the LC course during it. Apparently this is against the rules but the school has yet to get in trouble for it after 10+ years :rolleyes:

ElmW13 · 02-09-2015 10:15pm

Started back Tuesday, complete waste of a day sorting out classes and timetables and stuff like that. Haven't gotten any great deal of homework yet but that will probably all change soon

doing English, irish, maths, geography, chemistry, French, biology and music

Liordi · 02-09-2015 10:27pm

teafanatic wrote: »

TY is compulsory in my school because we do loads of the LC course during it. Apparently this is against the rules but the school has yet to get in trouble for it after 10+ years :rolleyes:

I didn't know schools did that. :eek:
I would not have done TY if it was more work orientated. :rolleyes:

Tomorrow is my "easy" day. Have PE & Careers. :cool:

spurious · 03-09-2015 8:44am

teafanatic wrote: »

TY is compulsory in my school because we do loads of the LC course during it. Apparently this is against the rules but the school has yet to get in trouble for it after 10+ years :rolleyes:

The more people talk about it online the more the DES will look for the school. It's easy enough work out what school it is from the subjects mentioned by people posting about it.

Liordi · 03-09-2015 3:55pm

spurious wrote: »

The more people talk about it online the more the DES will look for the school. It's easy enough work out what school it is from the subjects mentioned by people posting about it.

Honestly, if that was my school I'm sure several of the parents would have complained and reported it.

Xgracie · 03-09-2015 7:06pm

I'm doing history geography and Ag! Anyone else doing ag it doesn't seem that popular? We haven't done that much so far really but I'm liking everything! We're doing The Great Gatsby and The Kings Speech for the comparative as well! Not happy with my base class but I'm only with them for Religion, PE and study so I'll deal, all my other classes are grand no terrible teachers (yet lol)

ElmW13 · 03-09-2015 7:09pm

Xgracie wrote: »

I'm doing history geography and Ag! Anyone else doing ag it doesn't seem that popular? We haven't done that much so far really but I'm liking everything! We're doing The Great Gatsby and The Kings Speech for the comparative as well! Not happy with my base class but I'm only with them for Religion, PE and study so I'll deal, all my other classes are grand no terrible teachers (yet lol)

There's over a third of our year doing ag, that's more than chemistry. Haven't done a lot either, they've been sorting out classes and teachers and what not. It's not too bad now until they start piling on homework.

Liordi · 03-09-2015 7:17pm

We don't have base classes.
There's different people in all of my non-exam subjects.

Like I had expected; Thursday was my least time consuming day with homework thus far. Only took me 40 minutes. That was without Applied Maths though as noone has the book yet so it could take a lot longer next week.

spurious · 03-09-2015 7:58pm

Liordi wrote: »

Honestly, if that was my school I'm sure several of the parents would have complained and reported it.

I'm amazed the teachers haven't. There is extra money given for TY and a different PTR, it is not supposed to be an extra LC year and the school would have accepted those funds knowing they were not going to bother fulfilling the conditions. Nice example to be setting the students.

Manufan123 · 03-09-2015 8:11pm

Really enjoying Chemistry but our Biology class is a Joke.

Mr Rhode Island Red · 03-09-2015 8:20pm

My HL Irish teacher is a disaster. Delivers the whole class in Irish which should be beneficial but is leaving most of us completely lost. Made us transcribe an A3 newspaper article that was in Irish into our copies, must have been about 500 words. Irish -> Irish, no translating involved, was like giving us lines more or less. Pointless stuff altogether.

A few of us went to the VP today asking (politely) if there was any way we could move out into the other HL class. She said she understood our plight totally, but that if we "jump ship" everybody else will want to follow and there will be war. She said that it's pretty much a dead end and there's nothing she can do.

Where do I go from here? Just endure it complacently and wave goodbye to a decent grade in Irish or try to persue this further? Not sure what to do really. Several of my friends in leaving cert have this same teacher for HL Irish and they've all ended up doing grinds. Students have tried getting petitions going for stuff like this in the past but often those who started the mutiny end up getting suspended and I'd like to avoid that.

Bored_lad · 03-09-2015 8:41pm

We got loads of homework tonight its the first proper night of homework we've had but we'll get more next week which I'm not looking forward to. My base class is also awful however we're not in it that much so I'll get over it.

My Irish teacher also speaks only in Irish but we're getting along fine. I'd stick with it for a while if I was you and if you need to get grinds next year. Or teach yourself using the Irish book. My French teacher also only speaks in French which is going to take loads of getting used to as I can't remember a word of French but hopefully it will come back to me.

Anonymagician · 03-09-2015 8:59pm

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

My HL Irish teacher is a disaster. Delivers the whole class in Irish which should be beneficial but is leaving most of us completely lost. Made us transcribe an A3 newspaper article that was in Irish into our copies, must have been about 500 words. Irish -> Irish, no translating involved, was like giving us lines more or less. Pointless stuff altogether.

A few of us went to the VP today asking (politely) if there was any way we could move out into the other HL class. She said she understood our plight totally, but that if we "jump ship" everybody else will want to follow and there will be war. She said that it's pretty much a dead end and there's nothing she can do.

Where do I go from here? Just endure it complacently and wave goodbye to a decent grade in Irish or try to persue this further? Not sure what to do really. Several of my friends in leaving cert have this same teacher for HL Irish and they've all ended up doing grinds. Students have tried getting petitions going for stuff like this in the past but often those who started the mutiny end up getting suspended and I'd like to avoid that.

I'm not sure if it would work because you've already been to the VP about it but you could always say that you'd like to be moved to a slower paced HL class if there's one available as you're finding the teacher difficult to understand. You might have to fib a bit but it could be worth a try.

spurious · 03-09-2015 10:20pm

DES policy is that Irish classes should be in Irish, likewise other languages, once you get past the basics.

Liordi · 03-09-2015 11:17pm

Yeah. I would say our Irish and German classes are 80% Irish/German and 20% English.
I don't think anyone would learn much if it was 100% the specific language but a large quantity of it definitely helps.

Mr Rhode Island Red · 04-09-2015 9:14pm

Absolutely wrecked this evening and I only had a 3 day week. Teachers are going hard as nails to try and wake us up after TY. 100 French verbs to learn for the weekend :pac:

Just waiting on my work ethic to magically reappear...

smiles_1998 · 04-09-2015 9:21pm

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

Absolutely wrecked this evening and I only had a 3 day week. Teachers are going hard as nails to try and wake us up after TY. 100 French verbs to learn for the weekend :pac:

Just waiting on my work ethic to magically reappear...

100 French verbs. That's actually disgusting.

I've been in school a week today and still no sign of the pre-TY work ethic...going into study tomorrow in school though so that might give me the kick up the ass that I need...at least, I hope it will!

Mr Rhode Island Red · 04-09-2015 9:25pm

smiles_1998 wrote: »

100 French verbs. That's actually disgusting.

I've been in school a week today and still no sign of the pre-TY work ethic...going into study tomorrow in school though so that might give me the kick up the ass that I need...at least, I hope it will!

The evening study and saturday study in our school is completely booked out with just LCs alone. No room for 5th years or 3rd years at all...I never planned on doing either but I know a lot of my friends are sort of at a dead end because they were banking on a seat :pac:

Manufan123 · 04-09-2015 9:33pm

Has anyone made any kind of study plans yet?

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