poor Classics results

banquo

did anyone else get an unexpectedly low classics result?

i shoulda bot a B and got a d2.

Jimeatsmenu choulda got a c and failed.

the A student of hte class got a C2.

have any other of you classical studies heads recieved oddly low grades for the subject?

Xerxes

Yeah, I was disappointed with Classics too.Got a B2 in the pre and thought I would get the same in the Leaving but got a C3.Most of my class got C's too.But still I beat my whopping D3 in Classics last year!

Sev

My friend wasnt expecting (I think) to count his classics results at all in his 6 subjects. He ended up getting an A1. There was definitely another A1 in his class too. I personally know 3 of the only 10 people in the country who got an A1 in higher level classics. I didn't do classics.

PHB

My class has unusually high results with two A1's an A2 3 B1's 2 B2's

However my friend, who is much better than me at classics got a B2, when the worst mark he ever got before was an A2. I think it all depends on how many A's the correcter has already given out.

sionnach

Originally posted by PHB
I think it all depends on how many A's the correcter has already given out.

jeebus i know the marking system in ireland isnt the fairest but would they really operate on a first come, first served A1's, basis?

wiensta

true, there is actually a quota of As that can be given out.
Our TD teacher did us a graph of what percentage A's, B's etc. that should be given out, with the majority getting lows Bs and Cs.

This may seem somewhat immoral, but generally its the syllabus thats changed and not the grades if too many score highly.

Sev

Originally posted by sionnach
jeebus i know the marking system in ireland isnt the fairest but would they really operate on a first come, first served A1's, basis?

People mark examination scripts, not computers.

PHB

Well, classics has an incredibly low amount of A's, so i figure that they had already given out two A1's and one A2 in a batch on 15, and they didnt want to give out another one, tahts why he only got a b2.
Thats my logic anyway.

canker

what the fudge is classics?

Xerxes

Classics is Greek and Roman history.It's a really wide subject, with stuff like art, architecture, philosophy, poetry and stuff on Alexander the Great.All the stuff on the Gladiator film is Classics.Anyone know how many did it this year?

PHB

I'd say very very few.
I did the pelponesian wars, and everyone else i know did alexander.

Xerxes

We did : Alexander the Great
Oedipus and Medea
Greek Art and Architecture
Writers of the Augustan Age (Horace, Ovid, Livy and
Propertius)

Mewzel

yeh i was pretty dissapointed. i got a B even though for the last 2 years i have never gotten below 90% in a test or homework!
but i did manage to get an A in biology where i was expecting a B so i guess it all evens out in the end

Raggamuffin

i did classics for 4 months and got a C3... higher level

qwertyup

I think that unless you get an inexperienced corrector, the marks are generally going to be doled out fairly on merit.

For example, out of twenty doing higher level chemistry, we got 13 A1s this year, which ****s over the statistics like there is no tomorrow.

PHB

Yes but classics is a special subject with a old of old correcters who want to keep classics known as the hardest subject in the leaving cert to get an A1 in.