DOES ANYONE WANT TO MAKE PREDICTIONS??

leavingcert09

Im very interested to see who thinks what will come up this year, I dont mind what subjects people want to offer their opinion on.:D

Dante

leavingcert09 wrote: »

Im very interested to see who thinks what will come up this year, I dont mind what subjects people want to offer their opinion on.:D

English Poetry: John Keats & Elizabeth Bishop.

History Document Question: Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Geography: Human interference with soil characteristics & the formation of 1 Irish land feature.

Irish (ordinary): Clare sa speir and An Gealt


I bet absolutely NONE of this will come up now that i opened my mouth!

implausible

English: Keats and Walcott

ChiefBrody

English: Bishop and Walcott
Macbeth Kingship/Theme of evil or supernatural

Art: Impressionism/Post Impressionism
Gothic/Romanesque(I know, vague)

leavingcert09

I agree with everyone of them especially

english: bishop

geo: all what daaaan said

irish: ghealt and faoiseamh

bus: employment equality act and ratios could be a shout

shteve

English: Montague, Bishop, Walcott

Business: Consumer Info Act 1978, Law of contract

Physics: Boyle's Law, Electron

Irish: An Mhathair, Cearrabhach, Bhean Óg

Geo: Deforestation, Global Warming essay

cautioner

Anyone mind giving reasons for these?

Dante

cautioner wrote: »

Anyone mind giving reasons for these?

English Poetry: John Keats & Elizabeth Bishop. --> neither have come up in a while and Bishop seems to crop up once every 3 years.

History Document Question: Montgomery Bus Boycott. --> the whole obama scenario as first US black president

Geography: Human interference with soil characteristics & the formation of 1 Irish land feature. --> They are massive parts of the course and I just have a hunch will come up

Irish (ordinary): Clare sa speir and An Gealt --> Because they know if they put anything harder on, everyone will fail! + they come up almost every year. :pac:

they are just my thoughts....wouldn't rely too much on them!

Aisling(",)

Irish(Higher)-Sceal:An cherrabhach maccaba,an bhean og(possibly just wishful thinking with theese two though)
Prose:da m'bfeider aris dar gcumann
An Mhathair
Urchill an Creagan
An chead drama
Stair na Gaeilge-Gluaiseanna
-Ogham
-Canuinti
-Fianniocht
-Analla
-amhran
-Colaiste Lovain
-Bealoideas
-Gaeilge ins na mean
-an ghealteacht

Reasons:4th year of the course so theyll probably try and put in poems that ahevnt been done before and the o'shearcaigh ones are still fairly contraversial.aswell an t-oilean caused murder last time it came up due to the sexual nature of it.the stair topics are whats been predicted having looked over past papers since 1993.

dont really know for the rest of my subjects.The recession will more the likely come up in the orals and ive a feeling the american election will come up in some reading comprehension but this is just me guessing

IrishKnight

Biology: Something on Darwin --> Reason, 150th year of publication of OoS and 200th birthday...

Piste

Yeah I'm thinking Darwin will come up somewhere too.

Irish:


OL Poems: Gealt, Bímse Buan, Jack
HL Poems An Mhathair, Bá mb'fhéidir arís
Prose: An Bhean Óg, Cearrbhach Mac Cába
Stáir: Something to do with Peig Sayers cos it's some anniversary of hr death/birth

English: Bishop, Longley

Anyone have any predictions for what the main work in music will be?

K4t

DaaaaaaaaaaN wrote: »

History Document Question: Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Don't forget that this year is the 40th anniversary of the Moon Landings.

cautioner wrote: »

Anyone mind giving reasons for these?

English - Bishop/Rich - a female poet has always come up. They would be doing the dirt if they left one off this year with only two on!

Montague/Longley - haven't come up in a while. If either of them three don't come up I'll never post here again!

Economics - Imperfct Competition and Oligopoly - Labour and Capital - Budget - Keynes (Keynes v Monetarism)

History - Green Book - Economic Policies of CnG or FF or both (has never been asked directly before) - Belfast Blitz (didn't come up last year and at least one case study must appear each year) - Rise of 2nd Sinn Fein Party - De Valera's contribution to Irish Politics.

Blue Book -Mussolini - Anglo Irish developments during WW2 - Technology of Warfare

Any French/Business predicitons would be very helpful?

ChiefBrody

K4t wrote: »

Don't forget that this year is the 40th anniversary of the Moon Landings.

English - Bishop/Rich - a female poet has always come up. They would be doing the dirt if they left one off this year with only two on!

Are they known for doing things like that to commemorate certain anniversaries..?

And you might be able to leave Rich because she was up last year...

implausible

Guys, be careful with trying to predict English poets. A poet may not have come up in a while, but that is probably because the poet has not been on the syllabus. The list of poets change every year.

My reasoning?

Keats is a favourite from the old course. He is also the only 18th century poet on this course this year.

Walcott is a new kid on the block.

Oh yeah, and one of the Irish poets, but after Mahon coming up last year, I'd be focusing on Montague and Longley.

leesmom

English: Bishop, Walcott, Longley and Montague, thats all my teacher is doing, however I will be doing an extra one myself just to be sure

implausible

leesmom wrote: »

English: Bishop, Walcott, Longley and Montague, thats all my teacher is doing, however I will be doing an extra one myself just to be sure

Substitute Walcott for Bishop and that's what I'm focusing on. I have taught Mahon as well but have told my students to focus on the others.

cautioner

Music - Seachanges has never come up as the main question.
My teacher seems quite confident that the harmony will be in a minor key, and also mentions frequently that a melody in 2/2 time has never come up, albeit it's far easier than, say, 6/8...

JSK 252

The logical way to go about the poetry section is to have the 3 Irish poets studied ( Montague, Longley and Mahon ) and the 2 girls ( rich and bishop ). Im seeing an increasing amount of posts about just having 2 irish poets done. It makes no sense!

Fair enough teachers have their favourites but I would like to imagine that this would be the most logical way of tackling the section?

Its what we have done in class anyway.

Des23

surely if you are going to be focusing on 5 poets it doesn't matter which ones you do? One of them will have to come up.

Bishop & Longley would be my predictions for what its worth.
Also we have been told that going by past perfromances over the years over three quarters of the students will answer Bishop, so maybe concentrating on Longley may be worth it?

implausible

JSK 252 wrote: »

Fair enough teachers have their favourites but I would like to imagine that this would be the most logical way of tackling the section?

No teacher would jeopardise her students' futures based on her favourites!

What I've done is leave out the women and I've taught the 6 men. Larkin and Mahon came up last year (btw, this is no guarantee as the 2008 and 2009 courses have 4 poets in common) so my class are working on the other 4.

Des 23 is right, the majority of students will answer on the old favourites. Someone like Walcott would be a refreshing read for an examiner.

LivingDeadGirl

If Keats comes up I'll definitely write an answer on him, apparently 90% of students avoid that question.

Jammyc

leavingcert09 wrote: »

Im very interested to see who thinks what will come up this year, I dont mind what subjects people want to offer their opinion on.:D

Hmm, anyone smell a rat?
Methinks the SEC are tryina figure out what not to put on! :pac:
Nah, kiddin.

Was told today that Honours Irish essay will more than likely be about the hard times to come, economically etc...

Will be back with more during the week.:p

EDIT: Just remembered, Business: Monitoring the Business and Assesing its Liquidity ratios are very very topical and extremely likely to come up, according to out business teacher, hes never wrong. So many A1's outa that man...

pathway33

it will be sunny for every day of the leaving cert and then it will rain for the rest of the summer

K4t

pathway33 wrote: »

it will be sunny for every day of the leaving cert and then it will rain for the rest of the summer

hehehe

About the only sure prediction in this thread!

Fad

LivingDeadGirl wrote: »

If Keats comes up I'll definitely write an answer on him, apparently 90% of students avoid that question.

Because Ode To A Nightingale is soooooooooooo long, no one could be arsed learning him:pac:

Stev_o

I love the theory with some History students that just because their is a Black President taking office that we will get the Civil Rights Movement.

Stev_o

deemark wrote: »

No teacher would jeopardise her students' futures based on her favourites!

What I've done is leave out the women and I've taught the 6 men. Larkin and Mahon came up last year (btw, this is no guarantee as the 2008 and 2009 courses have 4 poets in common) so my class are working on the other 4.

Des 23 is right, the majority of students will answer on the old favourites. Someone like Walcott would be a refreshing read for an examiner.

You do know a female poet comes up EVERYVERY year right?

Des23

LivingDeadGirl wrote: »

If Keats comes up I'll definitely write an answer on him, apparently 90% of students avoid that question.

exactly some correctors have in excess of 200 scripts (I think so anyway, correct me if I'm wrong). A little originality can go along way. Students are being encouraged to think outside the box in every course.
There are even awards for the most interestingly worked applied maths solutions I think. Anyone can learn off something that is put in front of them. Being a bit more individual about things may offer an edge.

aine-maire

Jammyc wrote: »

Hmm, anyone smell a rat?
Methinks the SEC are tryina figure out what not to put on! :pac:
Nah, kiddin.

I know you were joking, but the exams have been set since November!

So there's no way anything we say can change it...;)

cautioner

Fad wrote: »

Because Ode To A Nightingale is soooooooooooo long, no one could be arsed learning him:pac:

We didn't bother with that one, we just did all the sonnets and Ode on a Grecian Urn, fingers are definitely crossed for Keats to come up :pac:

K4t

Stev_o wrote: »

I love the theory with some History students that just because their is a Black President taking office that we will get the Civil Rights Movement.

Yes, it does make quite a lot of sense. I would still study Vietnam and the Moon Landings (40th anniversary) too though.

Stev_o wrote: »

You do know a female poet comes up EVERYVERY year right?

It's not compulsary though. They can not put on a female poet too!