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jackjack555 · 09-08-2007 2:57pm #1

So with 6 full days to go, what subject are you wrecking your panties/jocks over???

I am dreading the english and business

Lucas10101 · 09-08-2007 3:04pm

I'm dreading nothing, I've done brilliant in everything, so it's a matter of how brilliant, not worry.

jackjack555 · 09-08-2007 3:18pm

oh someones cocky!! make sure and tell me what you get because with that attitude you're a 600 man

toastomatic · 09-08-2007 3:46pm

Biology! God, that was scary. I worked at it and thought I'd do quite well and so I did honours, but I'm not even sure I passed. But hopefully will have done ok nearly everywhere and done quite well in music which was my favourite subject...if I'd picked more subjects that I'd had any aptitude for whatsoever, I might've done better though.

The whole thing has my heart broke! Utterly miserable this last 3 years! Am so full of regrets! But why worry anymore, its bloody done now...

Naikon · 09-08-2007 3:50pm

Business and Physics.

fonpokno · 09-08-2007 3:51pm

ha im basically screwed for the whole lot! cant wait to see how badly history and biology went! and chemistry! oh and english too... then irish and french didnt go to well either...

well i know i passed maths! thats somethin at least! the more i think about the results the more hope disappears!

Naikon · 09-08-2007 3:51pm

toastomatic wrote:

The whole thing has my heart broke! Utterly miserable this last 3 years! Am so full of regrets! But why worry anymore, its bloody done now...

Yeah, the last two years have been a bit sh1t in my experience tbh.
Here's hoping things will get a little bit better from now on.

toastomatic · 09-08-2007 4:04pm

*crosses fingers*
Well it did suck in the suckiest of all manners.... but 6 days and we can put it all behind us...ok 11, maybe what with CAO. Less than a month, anywho.

nick23 · 09-08-2007 4:38pm

Naikon wrote:

Business and Physics.

Business? I didnt think it was an exceptionally difficult exam

****ting it about Physics, maths and german to a certain extent.

Luckily there's always alcohol to either drown my sorrows or celebrate!

Corruptedmorals · 09-08-2007 4:49pm

It's more a question of have I managed to get French up to a C1 and did anything else get a C (screwed if they did). Everything else should b1 B1/B2 and hopefully History A1 and Irish A2, but maybe Irish got the B1...dunno

STILL 6 days!! I'm going slowly insane..

Naikon · 09-08-2007 4:55pm

nick23 wrote:

Business? I didnt think it was an exceptionally difficult exam

****ting it about Physics, maths and german to a certain extent.

Luckily there's always alcohol to either drown my sorrows or celebrate!

Well, I just feel I didn't do myself justice in the Business exam.
This after a nice B2 in the fairly difficult mock paper our class got.
I might have done better than I thought though.
Physics was real nasty though in comparison to Business.
Have to wait and see;)

toastomatic · 09-08-2007 5:02pm

I heard physics was an awful, awful paper. We were expecting something sorta easy after last years paper (though our teacher did say in fairness, last years was the first proper honours paper they'd given and they might continue in that direction.)
But we thought that considering the governments trying to encourage more people into science, that the paper would be milder.
Just glad I went for pass. Liked physics but was no good at it....hehe.

jackjack555 · 09-08-2007 5:03pm

Naikon im in total agreement with you about not doing myself justice in business - was hoping for a1 after a2 in mock heres hoping for a REALLY easy marking scheme

Naikon · 09-08-2007 5:09pm

jackjack555 wrote:

heres hoping for a REALLY easy marking scheme

Hopefully it will be a half decent marking scheme.
The thing is though, Business can be kind hard to predict in terms of the
grade department.
The marking scheme(2006) states that the Examiner has the ability to award answers on their on merits, and that the marking scheme isn't the only assessment tool.
Not 100% sure though.

jackjack555 · 09-08-2007 5:21pm

Id say maths (hon) paper 2 shot down hopes of an a1...which sucks!!

toastomatic · 09-08-2007 5:24pm

You know people told me to do business because "You can just scribble your exam number on the paper and they'll give you a B"

LIES!! LIES!! LIES!!!
I couldn't hack it, actually. I gave it up...

Naikon · 09-08-2007 5:25pm

toastomatic wrote:

I heard physics was an awful, awful paper. We were expecting something sorta easy after last years paper (though our teacher did say in fairness, last years was the first proper honours paper they'd given and they might continue in that direction.)
But we thought that considering the governments trying to encourage more people into science, that the paper would be milder.
Just glad I went for pass. Liked physics but was no good at it....hehe.

I like Physics to an extent too.
Electricity and Light/sound were quite interesting, but Mechanics/quantum physics bored me a bit.

I don't however like LC physics too much(definitions,pure bs theory etc).
This book is a godsend for explaining physics concepts to people like me who appreciate physics to an extent, yet don't need a PhD in it.
I learned more with this book than in the LC course!:

http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Made-Simple-Broadway-Books/dp/0767917014/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-9300221-5727949?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186676613&sr=1-1

Naikon · 09-08-2007 5:27pm

toastomatic wrote:

You know people told me to do business because "You can just scribble your exam number on the paper and they'll give you a B"

LIES!! LIES!! LIES!!!
I couldn't hack it, actually. I gave it up...

I like Business and find it handy, but the crap they teach in LC business is laughable tbh.
They need to tone down the learning off by rote a bit.
Everyone uses Business tbh.

Haven't a Clue · 09-08-2007 5:33pm

I think at different stages in the summer, I've though 'bollocks, I messed up there' for each of the subject. At the moment, History and English're worrying me. I reckon my essay for English was awful, however, if I can make that up with a pretty good paper 2, I'm not quite sure yet. History was just a bitch and am only relying on it if I don't get a distinction in LCVP.

toastomatic · 09-08-2007 5:33pm

Seems like a fun book, specially if it has humorous illustrations. Or illustations in general, I'd love to have something to do with them.

Physics was good craic. I liked doing the experiments. Learning the course off was something else altogether! So it wasnt one of my best.

True yeah, I have a good grasp of how things work in businesses, I follow the stocks and everything off the news, its the "learning things off and putting them down on paper bit" i couldnt do.

Naikon · 09-08-2007 5:37pm

Haven't a Clue wrote:

I think at different stages in the summer, I've though 'bollocks, I messed up there' for each of the subject. At the moment, History and English're worrying me. I reckon my essay for English was awful, however, if I can make that up with a pretty good paper 2, I'm not quite sure yet. History was just a bitch and am only relying on it if I don't get a distinction in LCVP.

Finishing history was the high point of the LC so far:D
Mind you, I dropped to Pass on the day.
They will have to go easy on people for that joke of a paper.
Whoever set the Higher physics paper is a right git:mad:

toastomatic · 09-08-2007 5:46pm

Junior cert history was lovely. Why'd they have to make it 4 essays on the one day for leaving? Feckin' torture!! I mean way to put people off!
Pass looked alright. I dunno though, I didn't do history.

Corruptedmorals · 09-08-2007 6:16pm

Well, 3 and half. That paper could not have suited my topics better, and if they go easy on the marking scheme because everybody else hated it, A1 could be possible.

ninebeanrows · 09-08-2007 6:34pm

Corruptedmorals wrote:

Well, 3 and half. That paper could not have suited my topics better, and if they go easy on the marking scheme because everybody else hated it, A1 could be possible.

My physics tests went alrite because i expected to do crap!

All the nuclear stuff came up which was poirfect, still will be happy with a C2 or there abouts come Wednesday:D

Haven't a Clue · 09-08-2007 7:58pm

toastomatic wrote:

Junior cert history was lovely. Why'd they have to make it 4 essays on the one day for leaving? Feckin' torture!! I mean way to put people off!
Pass looked alright. I dunno though, I didn't do history.

You're in the wrong forum, but only for a couple more weeks. Then you've got two, nice long years ahead of you as you preper for the most gruelling, torturing fortnight of your life ... THE LEAVING CERT.

(God I love scaring the bejesus out of people who've yet to do the leaving.)

toastomatic · 09-08-2007 8:06pm

Hahahaha...lol, nice one, but no, I've been there already, and I spent not 2 but 3 years struggling getting ready for it cos i repeated 5th year. I did history for a while, nice subject but I'd have never gotten anywhere...
Yeah scaring kids is fun.

sd123 · 10-08-2007 12:23am

jackjack555 wrote:

Id say maths (hon) paper 2 shot down hopes of an a1...which sucks!!

i didn't see an awful lot wrong with it tbh. imo, both papers were easier than last year and i cant see where an A1 student would've fallen on either paper. but then again thats my opinion:rolleyes:

with regards to the original thread, i was pretty dissappointed with my physics exam. I was half expecting to get an A1 in the (h) paper since an A2 in the mocks but i left study until the night before the exam, which only gave me time to learn defs... the rest of the exam had to be answered on my knowledge of studying for the mocks more than 4 months earlier... fcukit anyway, will probably only get an A2