Mocks vs. LC

Iammwa

So how did everyone's results compare to their mocks??
Everyone was telling me that you can only improve by a maximum of 100 points after your mock exams...


Subject|Mock|Leaving
English|C3|B1
Math|B2|A1
German|D3|C3
Tgraph|FAIL|A2
Music|FAIL|B2
Art|FAIL|B3
Total|145|450

So that's a difference of 305 points!! :eek: And I just played MMORPG's all year

spillit67

I didnt do many mocks but the ones i did went-English C1 to A1 and French C2 to B1.

Gavin "shels"

That's some improvement Iammwa.:eek:

Cokehead Mother

Wow. Fail to A2. :eek: My biggest jump was a D to a B1. Went up by 150 altogether.

oleary91

Mock Leaving Cert
English C3 B2
Irish D1 C1
Maths C3 C2
French B2 B3
Biology Fail B3
Geograpgy D2 C1
Business D3 C2

Went up by 85 points

pedanticwretch

Subject|Mock|Leaving
English|C1| C2
Maths |C1| B3
Irish|B1|B2
French|C3|B2
Acc|D2 |B2|
Bus|C1|A2
Geog|C3|A1
Total|390|495


Mocks were week of Feb 4th
All higher except Maths!
One worked one's ass off.

PurpleFistMixer

Skillz, OP, skillz.

I went up by 90 points from my mocks... saying you can only go up a max of 100 is silly, it depends entirely on how you've been working/will work, etc.

nycman

Went from 390 to 500. Thats 110 points which goes to show how f"£$% up the mocks are

spurious

You can't really compare the Mocks to the real thing. Some mock papers don't even reflect the syllabus.

The Walsho

I went up by 105 points. Biggest jump was from a D2 to an A2. All year I'd been thinking that teacher had been marking us ridiculously!

meeka

I went up by 75 points, from 430 to 505.. Think the biggest change was in Maths, D1 to a B2, which I'm rather pleased with. I went down from an A2 in Music to a B3 though, oops.

littlneutralone

I went up 30. Best English C2-A1. Went down in physics, A1 to A2, which I completely deserved. However they corrected physics was a joke, I didn't understand a word of that course.
A good joke though.

Daysha

English B3 to B2
Maths D3 to C1
History B3 to C1
Geography C2 to B2
French D1 to D1
Music B1 to A2

only18

when i opened my leaving cert results i was over the moon i got 450 and i was gonna be happy with 300 but then depression hit..
i rechecked wat i put in my cao and realised i cant do 5/8 choices on my cao because i didnt achieve certain grades in certain subjects. I dont want my first two choices now and blah blah i bascially made a b0llix of it all!!! I know my only option is to wait a whole year and reapply for the cao with a proper list of choices (i must have been langers or something applying this year) but is there any other way into courses avoiding the evil cao???


help please:(

NU8

I went up 85 points when I thought I'd stay around the same.
Went from a D1 to an A1 in physics. Still think they must have made a mistake but I'm not complaining.

alan4cult

Mocks
English - B1
Irish (O) - B1
Maths - A1
Geography - A1
German - A1
Physics - B2
App Maths - A1
Accounting - A1

Total 585 points

LC
English - C1
Irish (O) - A1
Maths - A1
Geography - A1
German - A1
Physics - A1
App Maths - A1
Accounting - A1

Total 600 Points

*Damn your use of tables!
Tables|Suck

fletch

Congrats alan4cult, impessive results

Piste

only18 wrote: »

when i opened my leaving cert results i was over the moon i got 450 and i was gonna be happy with 300 but then depression hit..
i rechecked wat i put in my cao and realised i cant do 5/8 choices on my cao because i didnt achieve certain grades in certain subjects. I dont want my first two choices now and blah blah i bascially made a b0llix of it all!!! I know my only option is to wait a whole year and reapply for the cao with a proper list of choices (i must have been langers or something applying this year) but is there any other way into courses avoiding the evil cao???


help please:(

Aw that's an awful pity Are there no level 6/7 courses that you'd be happy doing? Don't panic until you see your offers on Monday.

There are various PLCs you can apply to do outside the cao, you might find something of interest at www.qualifax.ie ome colleges will let you go into college with a good PLC instead of the Leaving Cert.

Good luck!

Fatty McFatFat

Wow...
you all seemed to have gone up really well...
unfortunately for me I was the opposite..
I can't remember all my mock results,but here's some..

Mock..........Leaving
English- B1 C1
Biology- C2 E->I worked my ass off in bio!!
Irish - B3 B3..dunno how it ddn change!:(
AgSci- D3 C1..tot I did much better than that!
Geog- B3 C2
French- C2 C3
Maths-C3 B3

So as you can see I went from a total of 410 I think to 375..:(
I am so unbelievably gutted...Haven't enough points for ANY of my courses,didn't fill out any level 7's because none appealed to me!:(

I'm gettin pretty much all my papers rechecked..I'm shocked at biology,I know that exam wasn't my best,but it didn't go that badly either!And as for English,I was convinced I'd get an A in that because it was my best subject.

Anybody else in the same boat?
I'm stil in tears over my results!

Decerto

went from like 310 or less to 525, mocks were a disaster though, had **** teachers in alot of my subjects so i skipped app maths one coz i literally knew like half of one question and failed tech graph because i only knew q's from paper one went to b1's in both with a bit of work on my own though

Mocks
English(h) - d1
Irish(o) - failed
Maths (h) - c1
Physics(h) - d1
Tech(h) - fail
French(h) - c2
App. matths(h) - skipped it
Geog (h) - c2

L.C
Englishh(h)-C1
Irish(o) - c1
Frenc(h) - c1
Geog(h)-b1
tech(h) - b1
App. maths(h) - b1
Physics(h) - a1
Maths(h) - a1

thats 215 increases:), bit dissapointed with tech, a. maths and french though but so long as i get my course im happy

coolcailin

i went up 120 points,biggest jump was from 23% in biology to an A2

Mars Bar

Last year I got 280 in the mocks and then got 320 in the LC. This year I got 375 in the mocks and got 385 in the L.C.

Mocks
English(h) B2
Irish(o) B3
French(h) C2
Accounting(h) B3
History(h) C2
Biology(h) C3

L.C Same levels as mocks
English B3
Irish B1
French C3
Accounting C3 (stoopid paper)
History C3
Biology B1

Konata

Mocks: LC:
English (H) - A2 -- A1
Irish (H) - B3 -- A1
Maths (H) - A2 -- A1
French (H) - A1 -- A1
Chemistry (H) - A2 -- A1
Physics (H) - B2 -- A1
Accounting (H) - A1 -- A1
App Maths (H) - A1 -- A1


So I went from 570 to 600.

I think saying that you can only improve by 100 points is bull, it really depends on how much work you are willing to put in yourself!
Also, we all know that the mocks aren't that reliable - from asking things that aren't even on the course to being marked completely ridiculously, I yhink you should take the results with a pinch of salt. :rolleyes:

22diamonds

485 in mocks and 530 in LC. I would've been delighted with 485 in the LC like!!!

muffinman

My points were the same but different subjects :P

Irish - A2 -> A2

English - C2 -> A1

French - A1 -> A1

Maths - A1 -> B1

Geography - A2 -> B1

Accounting - A1 -> B1

Physics - D2 -> B2 :eek:

Japanese - No mock -> B1

Mock & LC: 545 pts.

Got my course well but I'm getting my geography re-checked anyway :P

SO shocked at physics!

me!

i went from 505 to 525 so no huge difference there but to be honest i didn't really deserve to go up cause i only need 400 so i kinda relaxed after tha pres, oops!!!!! i'm really annoyed with french though. went from an A1 to a B1. dunno what happened cause i thught it went really well! Tear:(

KeyLimePie

Subject Pre For Real Real
English A2 B2 (PISSED OFF)
Irish C2 C2 (OH WOW)
Maths C1 B2 (i spent half an hour drawing smilie faces)
Business B2 B2
Art D1 C2
Chemistry B2 B2
French C3 C2
Link Modules Distinction and same
Pre 435
Real thing 440
YAAAY

only18

mocks Lc
English B1 C2??
Irish C3 C2
Maths D1 B3
French C3 C2
Geography B2 A2
Business D1 C3
Art A2 B1
Music C3 B3


Went to english grinds had a ten page literary genre question learned of by heart had 20 othello quotes and a fairly good enough grasp of answering the actuall questions asked?? really dont know why I got a C2 i was hoping for a low A or B??

Its annoying that Art and Music are marked on one persons opinion on how good or bad i sang or played or whether my practical was art or not...........hmmmmmmmmm

Kimmy-XxX

Irish B3 - B3 (delighted because I found paper 2 and the tape very difficult in the LC)
English A2 - A1
Classics A1 - A1
Business A2 - A1
Maths B3 - A1
Biology C3 - A2 (i put sooooo much work in!)
History B1 - A1

Went from 500 points in mocks to 565 in L.C.

Mark200

Woah I didn't know you could do tables on this

Subject|Mocks|Leaving Cert
English|C2|B3
Irish(OL)|C2|B2
Maths|D3|B3
German(OL)|D2|A2
Physics|E|C2
Business|B3|C1
Geography|D2|C3
Points|270|395

Obviously my biggest improvement was going from a D2 in ordinary level German to an A2. And I was happy with my going from a D3 in Maths to B3

125 point gain

jaymacgray

I went up like 90 points or so, my biggest improvement was in Home-Ec. I got an F in the mocks ( 11% ) and got a B2 in the Leaving Cert