who else is doing it this year?

Corruptedmorals

I did it in june. All honours subjects, bah. They start lecturing you and doing countdowns from the first day of 3rd year and give you loads of homework to try and scare you. Its all crap. Seripusly, theres no need to study until AT LEAST the mocks, if that.

I started to actually study 4 months before the JC

Piste

I'm in 2nd year, right, and on our first day back we were being told to start studying for the JC NOW! Like, come on, I know its a damn academic school and all, but really, I have another year to even start thinkin about studying. Grrrrrrrr.

PurpleFistMixer

If they tell you to start studying in second year, they actually expect you to start studying about a year and a half later, because they know you'll only study at the last minute. And if it's weighing on your mind for a whole year you'll become more and more inclined to do it.

(I lie through my hat or whatever that expression is. They told us to that everything we learned in first year was essential and really we should begin preparing for the JC then, but study? Pah! Last minute is the best.)

Shoolaboola

im in 3rd yr too and the work is drivin me mad already, not a day goes by without a teacher goin all j.c on me.

Raphael

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

(I lie through my hat or whatever that expression is

I think it may be teeth....

HAT?!?!?

Shoolaboola

does anyone else have at least one idiot in their honours classes that sits a the back making strange noises?
or a home-ec teacher thats old and crazy?

PurpleFistMixer

Shoolaboola wrote:

does anyone else have at least one idiot in their honours classes that sits a the back making strange noises?
or a home-ec teacher thats old and crazy?

Those are standard issues in each school. It wouldn't really be a school without it. Although my home ec teachers are all fairly unold and the majority of them aren't crazy... But we have plenty of people making weird noises in all of the classes.

Raphael wrote:

I think it may be teeth....

HAT?!?!?

There's an expression with hat in it!

Somewhere.

Big Ears

talking through his hat ????

PurpleFistMixer

That's the one.

Shoolaboola

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Those are standard issues in each school. It wouldn't really be a school without it. Although my home ec teachers are all fairly unold and the majority of them aren't crazy... But we have plenty of people making weird noises in all of the classes.


There's an expression with hat in it!

Somewhere.

i think it's "well i would eat my hat" or something like that. hah i missed double science and home-ec today after lunch

PurpleFistMixer

No, eating one's hat is a different expression.

I didn't miss double science. But I got to make circuits and set things on fire. =D

Shoolaboola

yeah well there is the downside of being sick and then someone ringing me and waking me up to scream her results down the phone (which by the way were very good)
right so im new on here will sum1 be my friend? *puppy dog look*

Corruptedmorals

You told me to ring you.

And I had to scream, everyone else was around me.

*looks hurt*

Shoolaboola

Im sorry, im sick and cranky, and had -8 negative points, plz give me positive ones, love ya

Corruptedmorals

I did. You give me some now

Shoolaboola

liar, they havent changed at all. im nice im still gonna give you some...

Corruptedmorals

Shoolaboola wrote:

liar, they havent changed at all. im nice im still gonna give you some...

no, you took away 2. now I have 8. Gah.

Rozabeez

psst. its me. over.

Mysteryfish

I'm in 3rd year too. I have like a really confusing mixture of advice. My sister is in college and she's all like, the JC is nothing and don't worry about it. As are my parents. I don't think they would care if I failed everything, they'd probably just sit me down and make me "talk" about why I wanted to fail (i don't but they'd say it was subconcious). And then my year head is putting pressure on us about the MOCKS! I mean if the JC is nothing than surely the mocks are even less important. So I've just decided to not worry about the JC till after Christmas. The happy times before the bad.

Rozabeez

Mysteryfish wrote:

I'm in 3rd year too. I have like a really confusing mixture of advice. My sister is in college and she's all like, the JC is nothing and don't worry about it. As are my parents. I don't think they would care if I failed everything, they'd probably just sit me down and make me "talk" about why I wanted to fail (i don't but they'd say it was subconcious). And then my year head is putting pressure on us about the MOCKS! I mean if the JC is nothing than surely the mocks are even less important. So I've just decided to not worry about the JC till after Christmas. The happy times before the bad.

when do your mocks start? mine are january 31st

Mysteryfish

I'm not sure probably then, seen as I remember something about february. I don't know, are you suppose to really study for them? wouldn't it be depressing if you did better in your mocks than your real JC?I'm afraid of that.

PurpleFistMixer

Mine are at the end of Januray, methinks. Teachers were getting worked up about how early they are. Are they usually later?

As far as I know the Mocks are harder than the JC or at least marked harder, so whatever you get in them you should at least get in the JC, but of course it's all really variable. Certain things may or may not come up, the likes.

Rozabeez

my friend's mocks don't start till May, i think that's way too late!

Corruptedmorals

The mocks? FORGET about them, they're just a practice, to get you used to the layout and timing of the JC papers. No one cares about them, I never bothered studying for them and I got one A a bunch of B's and C's a D and I failed maths. So what? I still stayed in HL classes. The best thing about them is that you get your scripts back and you know exactly what percentage you got but in the JC you don't even know if your A is an A1 or what...y'know? Seriously, don't worry about the mocks. They're there to scare you into studying for the real thing.

chizzle dizzle

thank god dat feckin junior cert is over nd dat da results r out.what a loud of rubbish da whole thing was.serious!!a whole three years preparing for a test that lasts a whole 2 hours,that makes sence!!i mean even for da leavin cert u only hav 2 years to prepare nd those tests r way more important!da education system is a bit messed up i hav to say!!
so what did you's al do to celebrate?r any of u's doin transition year?
xxxxxxx

rainbow kirby

Stop with the text talk already!
*shakes fist and forces chizzle to type properly*

knifey_spoonie

Hmm talking about french i got a whole j/c pass paper for summer test last year and i got 69 percent me very happy

JBoyle4eva

rainbow kirby wrote:

Stop with the text talk already!
*shakes fist and forces chizzle to type properly*

I know a civil servant in Department of Education & Science, and he has said that most fails this year in English were because of people writing in txt tlk!

Can't stand it!

PurpleFistMixer

The systematic degeneration of the human race...
Calculators in maths (although with the amount of buttons on those things there's actually a chapter in the honours book on how to use them), txt in english... What's next? I dare not speculate.

Rozabeez

BAH! the oul deputy head decided that all 3rd years have to do midterm exams just to make sure we dont have to be switched to pass classes!
beeeyotch