The "Hello there" thread

Rozabeez

So, anyone going into 6th year? Looks like this is our turf now, haha, any advice etc, people?

abercrombie

you're never gonna get rid of us...ever!! we've to size you all up to see if you can handle the LC forum!! you'll know you're truley worthy of the run of the forum when me and d4gurl pass you "Its The Random Merged Weekend Merged MidTerm!!!!" thread!

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why would you want to start posting on this forum in the summer of fifth year! enjoy your life while you still can!

Rozabeez

Ah but why not? We may as well get to know each other before the stress kicks in and we all TURN ON EACH OTHER! 'sides, I had nothing better to post.

Crania

Well I'm going into 5th year if that helps. I absolutely can't wait :rolleyes:

Nichololas

CoolCiaran wrote:

Well I'm going into 5th year if that helps. I absolutely can't wait :rolleyes:

That's really not the attitude you want to have.

Damnit I didn't see the ironic :rolleyes:

X-SL

i am going into 6th but i've been lingering here for awhile

The Agogo

well, all i can say to you is to study at least 3 hours a day (excluding homework)...i wish i did. But dont push it too hard...i know a guy who did that and found it impossible to study for the last 6 weeks cos he had already gone over the stuff about 10 times....that could break your LC....

I would also say to go out EVERY saturday night if you can. It really relaxes you. every night before every exam ive gone to the pub and had only ONE drink..it gets rid of the stress...

d4gurl

abercrombie wrote:

you're never gonna get rid of us...ever!! we've to size you all up to see if you can handle the LC forum!! you'll know you're truley worthy of the run of the forum when me and d4gurl pass you "Its The Random Merged Weekend Merged MidTerm!!!!" thread!

Here here!! abercombie and mise are the rulers of this forum so be caredful

CosaFada

hey!!Im goin into 6th year aswell........scary!!:eek: ......dis is my first post......yay go me hehe!!bt ive been browsin around boards 4 a while tho,ya know i just had to join it for the LC forum durin 6th year lol:D

*Tripper*

6th year licks balls! I would hate to have to go through it again!

Ballerina

LISTEN heres my advice (and im so important haha)

just do your homework,listen in class and study well for tests but DONT push it!take a break completely for the mid term after the mocks (sure why not go on a school tour to new york like me!!:p )and then after that get the head down and aim for 4 hours a day.
(this is provided you've got a few brain cells already!)

oh and DONT DO HONOURS MATHS if you dont need it.i think i just did it to prove to myself that i could-dont dont dont do this!!you will end up spending half your time on it and half your time on other subjects and youll freak out before every exam which will waste time!
ok thats all im gonna lecture about haha.ENJOY SIXTH YEAR!it can have the best and worst times of your life in it!





(ok now im getting sentimental..)
good luck!:D

Rozabeez

So you're saying...I CAN'T get past on supervised study? heh

smemon

here's my advice:

the leaving cert is the bigest exam you's will ever face. it is a test of both mental and physical endurance. one might compare it with a 9 month army training camp.

all you have to do is 4 hours of study every day for 9 months including weekends and holidays...not including written homework which is a further 2 hours at least.

you have to abandon socialising and get all the 'less stress' books you can get. also, you must pay €300,000 for grinds fee's in every subject 2 evenings a week plus full weekly grinds courses over holiday periods.

do all of that and you should scrape the pass you're looking for

Rozabeez

/me quits job and ends all friendships/relationships for the next year.

My new love affair is with a very steamy revision book....or 7....kinkeh

*Lil-Ro*

Ugh im really not looking forward to 6th year, I really should have done some work in 5th year im regreting not now!

Rozabeez

Aye, I'm starting to think that sleeping through all those classes was a BAD idea!

arbeitsscheuer

Oh good lord... I didn't study a jot til about 2 weeks before the leaving and I got 440 points.

Seriously, if you'd studied in 5th year there would be absolutely no hope for you as a rounded human being. You'll be grand. Just keep doing the homework, s'all ya need to do.

Assmaster_Kronk

don't worry if you didn't do much in 5th year, most people didnt:D 6th years the time to start pullin stuff together. but main thing is to take it easy enough before christmas, just get things organised, and get used to the IDEA of studying all the time:p and like i heard someone sayin above, there is such a thing as studying things too much. if you study something in particular over and over again all year you'll find yourself so sick of it you'll be completely unable to concentrate on it just before the exams:)

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Dont listen to ballerina, shes mentally retarded (shes not even in secondary school yet)

Rockerette

*laughs.. for about 10 minutes at the poor folk before us*

(im just out of music a few hours, so im still in the "FINALLY.. im finished" mood..)



my advice, much the same as the others:

+ do youre bloody homework. make sure you at least "understand" every chapter you do, even if you dont know everything in detail.. just.. get the jist.. MUCH easier for revising.

+ don't be a weirdo and study for 600 hours every weekend.

+ give you tests/exams a good lash. when the pressures on, you learn more (ok.. i did) and it sticks with you. dont say "aaah.. i'll learn it after the mocks..". cos you.. dont... hehe..

TommyGrav

*Don't burn yourself out early. The studying you will do in your last month is by far the most important and you'll want to be most fresh for that. I'd advise maybe doing a good bit of study from christmas-march, take April really easy, let all the concepts fade into the back of your conscience so that they seem fresh and new again when you study them again. Then start again in May.

*Don't let subjects which are more profile dominate your study. A classic example is poetry in English. It's 12 percent of one exam, yet people devote far more time to it than they should. Same goes for subjects with practical or oral aspects. Don't waste to much time making your geo fieldwork gleam, like half my class did.

*Don't let your teachers boss ya around. Everyone's different, sometimes they will focus heavily on bits of the course you don't need or are already excellent at, and neglect the parts you wish they'd look at. If this happens, feel free to disengage from their way and go off and study what you want. It's quite easy tro selflearn the leaving cert (mostly). If you get aggro for this, ignore it. It's your future, this time next year the school will have no impact at all in your life, but your leaving cert will.

*Find out what you wanna do early, and how many points you'll be needing. It's very motivational.

*Don't stress. You really will be amazed how much of an anti-climax the whole thing seems in the end.

*Spend this summer in a cloud of booze and hash on the beach. The leaving cert doesn't exist until september.

Mushy

Ahh 6th Year...not really worried about it too much. Id be the type who is too laid back to actually care too much. Might do about an hour study most days after school...depends on my mood though! Already know what i want to do after school (Arts in UCD), so i kinda know what points im looking for but shall probably aim higher. Shall be a fun year, turning 18 right at the start

NADA

Mushy wrote:

Ahh 6th Year...not really worried about it too much. Id be the type who is too laid back to actually care too much. Might do about an hour study most days after school...depends on my mood though! Already know what i want to do after school (Arts in UCD), so i kinda know what points im looking for but shall probably aim higher. Shall be a fun year, turning 18 right at the start

Ha you'll be 18 in school and I will be in College at 17. Ha ha

Anywake. The Leaving is the most over-rated piece of piss ever. Our principal went on for two years that it would ruin our lives just to tell us right before the exams that it's only an exam and not the be all and end all of everything.

Rozabeez

I'm actually really looking forward to it....finishing secondary school in just under a year! woohoo!!

Rockerette

Rozabeez wrote:

I'm actually really looking forward to it....finishing secondary school in just under a year! woohoo!!

i was like that too a bit, just wanted to get it done

NADA

Talk about anti-climax?

OctavarIan

NADA wrote:

Talk about anti-climax?

For sure. An even bigger anti-climax than the JC. Which were really just joke exams tbh (to anyone reading this doing the JC, they ARE important, work hard for them >.> )

Also, Rozabeez! Wtf, you're a mod!? Since when?

Rozabeez

OctavarIan wrote:

Also, Rozabeez! Wtf, you're a mod!? Since when?

WTF! you're a member?!

Since September methinks.

Aard

I'm going into 6th.

w00t?

I spose I'll be hanging out here for the next year then.

Naikon

Same here:rolleyes: