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State exams Nov 2020

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  • #102
    soso02
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 69 ✭✭soso02


    km79 wrote: »
    Those long questions are delightful
    My students would have probably scored to the higher end of their potential :(

    I think the biology paper looks awful and am glad I didn't chose to sit it.
    I did sit the two English papers today and in a year of 100 students, 2 sat it . It was a grand paper though (Boland :) )
    2 more to go..
    Quite a sobering end to secondary school but don't think I envy the current sixth years.
    There were more comprehensive post mortems carried out for the JC exams ! Everything to do with sixth year has been so anticlimactic
    It's a joke our earned grades will be held to the same regard as the calculated ones.


  • #103
    RealJohn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭RealJohn


    No option to even select junior cert/cycle papers. Are there no adult learners actually sitting the exams, or are the papers top secret?


  • #104
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,265 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    RealJohn wrote: »
    No option to even select junior cert/cycle papers. Are there no adult learners actually sitting the exams, or are the papers top secret?

    I know for sure there are some early school leavers sitting the JC. Perhaps they are waiting until they are over to put them all up?
    **edit. I see they (JC exams) are over. No idea what the delay is.


  • #105
    Purefrank128
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭Purefrank128


    spurious wrote: »
    I know for sure there are some early school leavers sitting the JC. Perhaps they are waiting until they are over to put them all up?
    **edit. I see they (JC exams) are over. No idea what the delay is.

    The JC papers will not be released. See attached from SEC website.


  • #106
    Smacruairi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭Smacruairi


    Purefrank128 wrote: »
    The JC papers will not be released. See attached from SEC website.

    Balls. Wanted to see the Irish jc paper to see how tough they made it first time out.


  • #107
    RealJohn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭RealJohn


    Purefrank128 wrote: »
    The JC papers will not be released. See attached from SEC website.
    “... for future contingency purposes”.
    Translation: we’ll use them next year, and save any extra money the chief examiners usually make for writing papers.


  • #108
    LW2018
    Registered Users Posts: 114 ✭✭LW2018


    Smacruairi wrote: »
    Balls. Wanted to see the Irish jc paper to see how tough they made it first time out.

    This is really what I wanted to see too. I had presumed that we would see the Junior Cycle papers once they had been sat by a cohort. Bit frustrating


  • #109
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,265 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    RealJohn wrote: »
    “... for future contingency purposes”.
    Translation: we’ll use them next year, and save any extra money the chief examiners usually make for writing papers.

    That's the thing though, because of the idiotic 'common level' papers they are bringing in in lots of subjects, the 2020 HL and OL in many subjects will not be used again.

    The Chief Examiners do not write the papers.


  • #110
    deiseindublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭deiseindublin


    spurious wrote: »
    That's the thing though, because of the idiotic 'common level' papers they are bringing in in lots of subjects, the 2020 HL and OL in many subjects will not be used again.

    The Chief Examiners do not write the papers.
    Lots won't be used but they can't just publish some of them. Any of the 'new' papers would have to be rewritten and chief setter fees etc. paid again.


  • #111
    RealJohn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭RealJohn


    spurious wrote: »
    The Chief Examiners do not write the papers.
    Some of them do.
    You’re right about the papers though. Any subject that’s in its last junior cert year might as well be released.


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