Mock Results

PurpleFistMixer

DCU, not UCC. ¬.¬
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=40760

JSK 252

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

DCU, not UCC. ¬.¬
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=40760

Well eh they have a similar thing in UCC. You do courses like archaeology , computers etc. You must do an entrance exam before you are allowed in.I t could be the same thing or maybe not.

lilmissprincess

Nah, I'm not in CTYI, its sounds like fun but I'd fail the Maths thing quicker than you could say "CTYI". Apparently the Maths is tricky.
My friend is goijng there though.

PurpleFistMixer

You can get in on the verbal section alone, actually, it just means you're restricted to some of the courses. They've got like, humanities courses (say, Japanese Language and Culture) and sciences courses (Theoretical physics), so if you get in on verbal only you can only do humanities courses, etc.

Piste

Sometimes they overlook your SAT results for courses and once you're in ,you're in, I've known Science people to do Humanities courses and vice versa.

That was funny last year how the JC Board meet was so very quickly dominated by CTYIzens

lilmissprincess

According to my DATS I've very good verbal ability...he, I got like in the 99 percentile of people in the spelling thing...Career guidance teacher thought I was great!!

JSK 252

lilmissprincess wrote:

According to my DATS I've very good verbal ability...he, I got like in the 99 percentile of people in the spelling thing...Career guidance teacher thought I was great!!

What are the DATS?

Victor

JSK 252 wrote:

What are the DATS?

http://www.creativeorgdesign.com/testpages/dat.htm

lilmissprincess

Exactly. A doss day.

chief executive

isa got...

6 A'S --- science, cspe, history, music, french, religion

3 B's --- maths, irish, geoggers(aaaaaah 84%)

uno C --- english

vair happppeee

Dave!

F*cking hell, how did you people get such good results?

I did mine last year and nearly everyone failed or almost failed. The actual results were totally different though, nearly everyone got all honours.

Anyone who's not insanely smart, and failed a few subjects, don't worry about it at all... It's a bad reflection of your LC grades, nearly everyone does much better.

Dave!

Just realised that this is the JC forum Well point still remains, I failed most of my subjects for the JC mocks too, and did alright in the real thing.

macroman

CSPE - 90%
Science - 38% - Higher
History - 66% - Higher
French - 48% - Higher
Irish - 35% - Was doing Higher but have emigrated to Pass
Maths - 85% - Ordinary
English - 58% - Higher
Business - 65% - Higher
Woodwork - 60% - Higher

According to English teacher it's hard to get B in English. And impossible to get an A.

BMH

All higher level

Irish B Official
English A Official
Maths A Teacher-made
French B Official
History A Teacher-made
Geography B Official
Technical Drawing A Teacher-made
Business B Official
CSPE B(Oh noes!) Official
Science(new course but without Part A and B- jsut written exam) B Teacher-made


All exams were teacher-corrected except for CSPE.

Hopefully get 6As, 4Bs in JC, to get the same as my brother, though I had a few grades close to Cs in the mocks.

Victor

BMH wrote:

Geography B Official

There are no official mocks, merely ones produced by book companies.

BMH

Victor wrote:

There are no official mocks, merely ones produced by book companies.

Oh?

I remember hearing that before but I had always thought that the Department of Education made them. Well, at least they retain the exam stucture and general mark allotment, as opposed to some of my teachers that left out chunks of the course that hadn't been covered yet.

lilmissprincess

No, its companies that model them on what the other exams are. The new Science ones are modelled from the department sapmle and the textbook questions, and tehy are unbelievably hard. I hope the real thing is a hell of a lot easier...

BMH

lilmissprincess wrote:

No, its companies that model them on what the other exams are. The new Science ones are modelled from the department sapmle and the textbook questions, and tehy are unbelievably hard. I hope the real thing is a hell of a lot easier...

Meh, there's a free 35% to fall back on. They'll apparently be marked easier as we're the first year to get it.

Although, if they check my lab book I'm screwed. I wasn't told it had any use till third year, and by them half the pages were missing and ink was all over it. I'd say I have about 10/30 experiments done up and none are dated...

disney

our teac says that there is no gaurentee dat our papers wil b marked easy (cos its expected) and also we already "have" the 35%, seriousy hu in hell will get the full 35%??? Science is too hard its jus not fair!!!!

disney

our teach says that there is no gaurentee dat our papers wil b marked easy (cos its expected) and also we already "have" the 35%, seriousy hu in hell will get the full 35%??? Science is too hard its jus not fair!!!!

Twinkle-star15

I love Science!!! Did you see the thing in the Irish Independent? It gave a guide as to how the science paper is marked. And the 35% isn't that hard to get, you just have to make sure you have all the experiments filled in, and the journal done. Diagrams are good- you get loads of marks for them. Erm.... Make sure you know the definitions (those boxes marked in the books) because people did really badly in them when they were testing the paper, so they'll be asking loads. They're worth 6 marks each, too, so they're an easy way to pick up marks. Study the experiments, and make sure to read what you're writing- you could leave out something important (like saying 'put the irregular shaped object in an overflow can and use a graduated cylinder to measure what comes out'. What's wrong? You've forgotten to mention the water.) If you've got a diagram, the examiner will be able to see what you mean and will give you the marks.

Sorry, that's really long. Hope it helps anyway.

I may as well give my results-

English- B
Irish- B
Maths- C
History- A
Geography- B
French- B
Science- A
CSPE- B
RE- A
Music- B (really pissed off with that...)
Art- B

I know my art has gone up, hopefully everything else will too!! (^^,)

latenighttalk

Geography(H) - B
C.S.P.E - B
Maths(O) - C
Science - C
English - C
French - D
History - E

disney

Twinklestar 15, u well n the hed??? U love science? I hate science!!! Its def the worst subject soo hard. Jus scraped the B in the mock, nd I was lucky!!

Ya I got the thing in the independant for all the help it gave me! I didnt think it was much cop tho. I av studted science soo much nd its jus no good. I read&learned the book like 4 times bfore the mock, nd about the same again afta, no point at all!


mock results - (al higher)
6 A's : english, maths, history, c.s.p.e, homec, nd business studies.
4 B's: french, geography, science and irish

I was v happy wit most of them!

Jello

I like Science...but I'm doing the old course and I dunno how that differs to the newer one.

rcaz

I'm the same as Jello, I'm doing the old Science Syllabus. Probably my favourite subject, but I'm a geek. I can see why some people mightn't like it, some of the equations are difficult, but that's all I find hard about it. I got 81% in my mock. I've been doing really well over the last while, so I think I'll do well on the real thing.

Twinkle-star15

disney wrote:

mock results - (al higher)
6 A's : english, maths, history, c.s.p.e, homec, nd business studies.
4 B's: french, geography, science and irish

I was v happy wit most of them!

May I just say WHOA! about your results! They're really good!! But if you really hate science, then there's no point. If you're planning on giving it up, then devote more of your time to subjects that you're planning on keeping. It's what I'm doing with geography and CSPE. But a B is really good, anyway. And yes, I am perfectly sane (well, it depends on who you talk to- *I* think I'm perfectly sane. But apparently only insane people think they're sane. Sorry, I'll stop waffling).

lilmissprincess

I got a D in Sceince for teh mocks, but we hadn't done electricity or half the rest of the physics at that stage and that was the main part of our paper!!
Irish independant thingy didn't do me much good..
Anyone listening to that "706" thing on 2fm?

Jello

lilmissprincess wrote:

Anyone listening to that "706" thing on 2fm?

Yeah listened to it a bit. Some useless information but it was pretty good.

Piste

The Old Science course is far superior to the new one.

FAR SUPERIOR.

I'm so glad I'm doing that one ^_^

gaagirl101

i failed science:O ill prob fail it june 2 i cant make sense of it .. usually dont listen in class tho:L