Results!

Murns

Well my results are a bit all over the place... :
Biology HL A1
Irish HL B3
English HL B3
Music HL C1
History HL D1
German HL D1 (usually my best subject so i dunno what happened)
Maths OL A1

sternn

I seriously underperformed in my mocks!

English HL 73%
Irish OL 83%
Maths HL 53%
Physics HL 35% (no study)
Geoography HL 69%
Spanish HL 60%
French HL 47%
TD HL 42%
Business HL 78%


Im probably gona drop TD now, too much work. Im planning on getting over 500 points. Got just over 400 points in the mocks (i think) because i havent calculated them yet...to lazy!

Nehpets

whats TD?

Murns

Technical Drawing isnt it?

md99

Technical Drawing.

Steve01 wrote:

Oh sh*t is that true? Most of my Irish class learned off the same essay, the teacher said it was a good idea...

It's not a COMPLETELY bad thing...

Obviously, if a student is going for a HL A1, the corrector will notice the learnt-offness of their work and they won't get it. But in the case of Ds, Cs, Bs, it shouldn't make as much of a difference. Making students learn off essays etc is a common enough practice... Our Irish JC was entirely learnt off (comprehensions aside) and loads of us got As. If you've got the same essay as the person before you when they're being corrected (learnt off), and yours is perfect while the other persons has a few mistakes... Ye will be marked for the content, not the originality.... It doesn't matter that the teacher has made ye learn it off. If the corrector sees the obvious pattern, they may WANT to mark you down... But as long as you've covered yourself enough and not left anywhere for them to doc some serious marks, there's nothing they can do...

Obviously in terms of the very high grades fluency will be noticed and marked accordingly, but as grades drop you'll get away with it easily... Remember you're STILL answering the essay/etc question properly, even if it is just regurgigating something learnt off onto a page..

sternn

Yup td is technical drawing, its very tough, especailly if you only start the course in 5th year!!!!! (a few friends in some other skools also do the same, just because they dont offer the subject at junior cert level.

Steve01

md99 wrote:

Remember you're STILL answering the essay/etc question properly, even if it is just regurgigating something learnt off onto a page..

Well thats my excuse sorted I know that the examiner will want to mark something down if he sees the same thing being regurgitated over and over, but doesn't the marking scheme say that 80% of the question goes for use of language? So hopefully if the grammar/ spelling etc. is perfect I won't lose too many marks.

We were given a good all-purpose essay about a girl whose boyfriend has gone to America at Christmas time in search of work and then mails her a ring saying he'll be home soon, asking her to marry him. I had my Irish mocks today and the option I chose was entitled 'díoltas' (revenge). Had to tweak parts of it, it now ends with the words 'Nollaig shona duit, a striapach!'. Oh the crazy possibilities...

Naikon

I wish more marks were allocated for Mechanics:(

JC 2K3

Steve01 wrote:

Well thats my excuse sorted I know that the examiner will want to mark something down if he sees the same thing being regurgitated over and over, but doesn't the marking scheme say that 80% of the question goes for use of language? So hopefully if the grammar/ spelling etc. is perfect I won't lose too many marks.

We were given a good all-purpose essay about a girl whose boyfriend has gone to America at Christmas time in search of work and then mails her a ring saying he'll be home soon, asking her to marry him. I had my Irish mocks today and the option I chose was entitled 'díoltas' (revenge). Had to tweak parts of it, it now ends with the words 'Nollaig shona duit, a striapach!'. Oh the crazy possibilities...

I had the same paper and chose the same essay. Mine ended with:
"Sháigh Seán cnaipe an ghunna isteach chomh crua is a d'fhéadfadh sé leis an láidreacht fisiciúil agus anamúil ar fad a bhí in chorp."

And I got 88 for it

Corruptedmorals

Pffft, I got 67 for my PERFECT death on the roads essay. Hmm, so learning difficult Irish adjectives is the key?

Steve01

JC 2K3 wrote:

I had the same paper and chose the same essay. Mine ended with:
"Sháigh Seán cnaipe an ghunna isteach chomh crua is a d'fhéadfadh sé leis an láidreacht fisiciúil agus anamúil ar fad a bhí in chorp."

And I got 88 for it

Oh dear God! You talk of becoming physical and animal-like in nature... tell me you didn't do anything else besides killing her?

JC 2K3

LMAO

anam = soul

anamúil = soulful or spiritual... doesn't really translate that well to English..

"leis an láidreacht fisiciúil agus anamúil ar fad a bhí ina chorp" = with all the physical and spiritual strength in his body


And he was shooting a guy, it was a class story all about díoltas and murdering fathers and whatnot.

Steve01

Oh right lol. Thats far more acceptable than I originally perceived

It looks like you have a great grasp of thr Irish language. You should go out to the nearest Gaeltacht and promote the language. What better time than Seachtain na Gaeilge! In the local Gaeltacht out here (An Rinn, Co. Waterford) there's about 2 people who speak Irish. Except for the cows, they go 'mú' instead of 'moo'

sunflowerz

got C1 in higher level maths....SO HAPPY!!! , hoping to get it up to a B1 though 4 the real thing

Mushy

78 in OL physics...happy enough I suppose, dont want to raise expectations too much. Hopefully get an A come June

JC 2K3

Steve01 wrote:

Oh right lol. Thats far more acceptable than I originally perceived

It looks like you have a great grasp of thr Irish language. You should go out to the nearest Gaeltacht and promote the language. What better time than Seachtain na Gaeilge! In the local Gaeltacht out here (An Rinn, Co. Waterford) there's about 2 people who speak Irish. Except for the cows, they go 'mú' instead of 'moo'

lol, I'm in an Irish speaking school, so I speak it every day.

md99

got 75% in HL economics which i'm quite disappointed with, but the rest have been great so can't complain.

the econ was corrected very well but also very strictly and i mean VERY strictly...

Marshy

Biology 76
Irish 75
Economics 91

genericgoon

My results so far:

Maths:C2(despite only having 5 questions on paper 1 and no option on paper2)
Biology:B3
Geography:A2
Phys/Chem:A2
LCVP: Distinction
French:C1

Lia_lia

Higher English: 80%/B1

Art History: 57%...BUT I got the highest out of 17 in the class. It was marked very strictly. I was the only one that got the honour. The practicals are not back yet.


In the other higher english class 16 students got an A, 5 got a B and 2 got a C.
It was marked way too easily! The teachers are going mad about it.

Oh and I failed higher Biology...but lets not mention that again

JSK 252

For curiosity, I was just wondering, how many people used the mock paper tips in the other threads for their exams?

How many peoples results are actually real? (no cheating)

lilmizzme

JSK 252 wrote:

For curiosity, I was just wondering, how many people used the mock paper tips in the other threads for their exams?

JSK 252

lilmizzme wrote:

That says it all. lol

lilmizzme

it just seems people are bragging way to much....i mean the fact that one come here to talk about the results must mean that one knew about the site during the mocks and so may have had some helpful hints??


*prepares to be stoned/shunned or a combo of both*

md99

JSK 252 wrote:

For curiosity, I was just wondering, how many people used the mock paper tips in the other threads for their exams?

Not I... Could have easily used them but didn't, wanted a genuine result.. I am against cheating for the pres, one of the most pointless acts..

lilmizzme

md99 wrote:

I am against cheating for the pres, one of the most pointless acts..

Couldn't agree more...i mean at the end of the day, they mean absolutely nothing! Girl in my year couldn't sit any of her exams cus she got caught cheating in the first exam, so now she has absolutely no idea what level shes at!!

They're there to show u what u need to work on, if u cheat you're completely wasting your time..

The mocks are no real indicator, I dont think. I know plenty who got 350 in the mocks and 500+ in the real thing, and vice versa as well...

JSK 252

If you cheat in the pre exams your only fooling yourself at the end of the day.

KnifeWRENCH

Weathercheck wrote:

Wow well done, what you hoping to do?

physics @ u.c.c..need 480 points..got a b3 in physics (paper was rock hard) which means i hav 485 points so im happy enuff for now
in june,im hoping to get A1s in physics and geography

Corruptedmorals

JSK 252 wrote:

For curiosity, I was just wondering, how many people used the mock paper tips in the other threads for their exams?

How many peoples results are actually real? (no cheating)

I asked someone if kingship and no yeats was on their paper...I also followed the french spoilers..but ended up getting a diff paper. But I already knew kingship was going to come up, suspicious essay on it at the last minute in class...and we'd been told no yeats. Basically I confirmed that was my paper, not cheated.

me2gud4u

hi i'm new!
so far pretty pleased with the results although more work needed for maths and chemistry if i want the A1

business a1
german a2
Biology a2
chemistry a2
Maths b3
Havn't got irish and english back yet but would be hoping for a1 as i speak fluent irish, and english was sent out too, so fingers crossed!that said tis only the mock and there is no room for complacency yet!