The Mocks 2009

Stev_o

*Sigh* Your all lucky doing your mocks now and getting a mid-term. I dont get a midterm instead i get a 6 day week of mocks =/

HUNK

How'd everyone feel about the Higher Maths. I thought paper 1 was alright, but paper 2... WTF? :mad: Well I got a lot of work to do

Weekend Warrior

English Paper 1 tomorrow, totally dreading it, I can't write essays for all the tea in China.
My Irish Paper 1 was really good actually,

essays on the recession and the problems linked to it, another essay choice on the Third World.

Economics:

Imperfect competion, capital, short questions on oligopoly, interest rates

God, I wish I could remember more! Failed it for sure anyway. :rolleyes:

eliza64

english paper 1 2mrw:( i dont knw my letters

eoins2345

Had maths paper 1 today was quiet hard!

intergration u have to derive a volume for a cone, and find the area in between a line and a curve

.Differenciation was ok.

Gave us an cubic equation asking us to find 3 real distinct roots and then newton rhapsdon!parametictric equations with t in them as well.

MODEDIT: Please use spoiler tags when referring to specific questions.

Jello

Feel sorry for you all doing your mocks now!

Mine aren't until Febuary 25 (I think)... after the midterm anyway!

WolfForager

Heh, done Physics HL, Section A was easy, Section B was a disaster.

Irish Aural OL was eww

French Aural HL was freaking easy.

English P1 HL, easy enough, got lazy and didn't bother doing the seen poetry.

Got GCD tomorrow, i only know 1 question in section A, 2 in Section B and a half a question in Section B. Our teacher got lazy

ambergambler

english1 today...meh
so-so i thought, essay titles were a bit **** imo.. different worlds theme, wtf?
gaeilge2 tomorrow...should be interesting!:rolleyes:

Twinkle-star15

English One and RE today- I thought my hand was going to fall off! Didn't help that I fecked up the timing, so had an extra half an hour for both papers. I got everything done and all, but I was really paranoid coming out of the exams, i kept thinking I'd missed a question!

I was really pissed off because

the relationship between the transcendent and the human person

came up in RE, and I hadn't revised it properly because it was on the LC paper last year! And I was able to regurgitate a history essay for my Qb in English, just wrote about

partition, linking it with the picture of Gerry Adams and Rev. Ian Paisley.

English Two tomorrow. Stupid English teacher still has my CC essay, and I don't have another copy of it! If I can't get it off him tomorrow morning, I'm going to scream. Especially if it comes up (which I heard it would- not a spoiler, just a rumour).

WolfForager

A gentle reminder, it's just the mocks guys.

Remmy

Irish paper2 today.I knew what was coming up but i blanked it.I even forgot some key action words.bring on irish1 and the aurals{We have irish aurals and irish1 next week because of the weather}I heard a recsession essay is coming up?I'd assume a 'an tioger celitach thart' should suffice?

Blahh89

WolfForager , how was Physics HL?

Any hints on whats coming up on section B and in the experiments?

and what the hell is GCD?

~Candy~

:rolleyes:

so far

English, good enough, considering it's only ordinary.

Business, ok, the short Q were odd enough
...ABQ was a bit of * no comment -_-*
the other Qs were good enough

Maths ...:(:(:(
i messed up my algebra Q big time !!
and Q3..its like WHAT THE HE**!!!!

had paper two today...
messed up Q4...got odd answers for the circle

maths was overall bad


Home ec, could have done better..-_-
i didnt't like the paper...


i am halfway thu guys

bythewoods

Blahh89 wrote: »

Mannn , took up geography this year , didn't realise how big the course actually was..

Can anyone give me any pointers?

Or even better could anyone give me some hints on whats coming up in either of the papers?

I'll have the course fully covered by June , but I need to keep my parents happy for the mean time. Any help appreciated!

I don't have any tips on what's coming up, but I'll give you a few cramming tips, because I'm nice like that.

Know your essays for the optional unit REALLY well. It's worth 40 marks and so so easy to get full marks in.
I'm not sure which option you do, but if you do Geoecolgy then write up and learn essays on:
Soil Characteristics, Soil Formation, An Irish(Brown) Soil.
A biome you've studied (Under the headings climate, soils, flora, fauna & human interaction)
Human impact ona named biome (The Sahel region's easy to doo for this one and there's loads of information online, just do a bit of googling. Work under the titles desertification, overgrazing, overcropping, deforestisation, etc).
You might need more. I've about 8 written up and I have a pretty good idea of them all. The 40 marks go a long way.

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On an aside, does anyone have any pointers for the patterns and processes in economic activities section? I don't want to know what questions are coming up on the mocks! Just a few general hints on what areas to cover. I haven't done it yet this year, been putting it on the oul' long finger a bit...

Piste

Our Irish paper 1 today was postpined cos of the snow \o/. I'd be sitting it right now if it weren't for the crazy weather. I had Maths Paper 1 yesterday and paper 2 today. Paper 1 was nice, I'd be happy if something like that came up in June, though I was made to collect my classes papers at the end of the exam so I couldn't properly finish my integration Q (though I think I remembered my +Cs). Paper 2 today was a bit ugh, they threw something a bit nasty into every question, and there were some bits where I didn't really understand what they were asking us to do. I think paper 2 brought me down a grade or two, but I'm sure I passed.

Aisling(",)

i should be doing maths paper 2 right now but the school sent us home because it snowed.blergh.i jsut want to get theese stupid exams done and over with.

had biology this morning if i pass its a miracle!

WolfForager

Blahh89 wrote: »

WolfForager , how was Physics HL?

Any hints on whats coming up on section B and in the experiments?

and what the hell is GCD?

Physics...

revise newtons laws, tension, waves, electromagnetics, experiments wise look at sound due to tension, copper sulphate electricity thing (can't think atm).

GCD is Graphics communication design, new name for Technical Drawing.

SarcasticFairy

Irish papers one and two today. Totally thought I'd fail miserably but the questions were lovely. I wasn't mad about the questions on the honours poem in paper two, and the leamhthuiscints were a bit whaaa'? in paper one, but other than that it was grand

Now I'm off til Monday. I need some proper sleep already. I fell asleep mumbling in Irish about stuff I had still to learn off for this morning. Ah the joys of cramming!

timmywex

WolfForager wrote: »

GCD is Graphics communication design, new name for Technical Drawing.

Thecourse is called Design and Communication Graphics (DCG) not gcd

WolfForager

I see.. Ah well, only 4 more months of getting it's name wrong and then i can forget about it!

Pigwidgeon

had irish paper 2 today, was horrible... didn't attempt the stair na gaeilge question, we only covered them the 2 days before the mocks and i was out one of them.
the whole thing was a mess, really have to study for the rest of them

had maths paper 2 aswell, was fine, one or two bits that i wasn't sure of but overall went pretty well... even though we could only do 5 questions cos we haven't done trig or the option yet.

sheehy898

Anyone got any tips for the dcg exam.Got it 2moro :eek::eek::eek::eek:

WolfForager

sheehy898 wrote: »

Anyone got any tips for the dcg exam.Got it 2moro :eek::eek::eek::eek:

It's exactly like the sample paper, without the skew lines in section A

Weekend Warrior

Can anyone tell me what's coming up in Irish paper 2, or even what's likely to come up? I'm completely dreading it

meathawk

anyone got any hints for examcraft hl maths paper 2?

sheehy898

WolfForager wrote: »

It's exactly like the sample paper, without the skew lines in section A

Was that deb or examcraft.

OrlaB!

hey i have english paper 2 tomorrow and i am going to fail

anybody wanna give me some hints?

im doing an exam craft paper!

WolfForager

sheehy898 wrote: »

Was that deb or examcraft.

I don't know, how do i find out?

OrlaB!

WolfForager wrote: »

I don't know, how do i find out?

exam craft has a tick on the front of the paper and deb has nothing:)

WolfForager

I don't see any ticks so this must be deb.

OrlaB!

xxsokissmexx wrote: »

go over

bishop and deception in macbeth if your doin them

thanks a million!!:)

Paddy001

sheehy898 wrote: »

Anyone got any tips for the dcg exam.Got it 2moro :eek::eek::eek::eek:

DEB DCG higher level exam:

interpenetration, oblique planes, perspective can't remember the rest, I've seen the paper!

<~Nem~>

uuuhhh
is all mocks the same for evry skul????
can any1 help mee!!!
i need help wid my h/l eng!!!!esp. qus in macbeth???

laura!

i have the DEB papers

just did irish paper 2

pros:
1.cearrbhach mac caba, bhean og and coileach ghleann phadraig
2. clar sa speir, la bui bealtaine, lig sin i gcathu and fiche blian ag fas with the themes of athas, uaigneas, greann, gra no fuath, oige no seanaois and saol an mhic leinn.

filiocht:
learn either gealt or faoiseamh a gheobhadsa
( tip for an gealt learn the the contrasts in the poem)

and then learn bimse buan ar buairt gach lo with the themes of bron, meas, uaigneas, eadochas, feintrua, briseadh croi

Brooke01

what about geography ??? anyone done the exam yet ??? any tips

Delta Kilo

Done physics today, not too bad. Just to note, if you are doing ordinary level, examcraft (company with a tick) they forgot to put the formulae on the paper so make sure you say it when you get it. The ord. level lads in my class didnt do anything until the physics teacher came in with about half an hour left! He asked me for one of them so we done a bit of bartering and he gave me one on the Doppler effect!

For guys doing DCG, our teacher read out the paper in class. He dosent want us to fail cos we were focusing on the project. This is exactly what he gave us:

Sect A:(short Q's)
Sphere
Perspective
Traces/VTH
Skew boreholes

Sect B (long Q's)
Skew lines
Interpenetration
Trimetric

These are examcraft. Anybody any ideas what is coming up for examcraft german? Letter, topical thing and grammar?

Homicidal_jesus

Anyone done the honours chemistry yet?really wouldnt mind a hand with that!

xsarahxpressx

Anyone know the honours business leaving cert...
the ABQ.

GVNDNN

Just because you get one company for one exam doesnt mean your going to get the same company for another exam, the teachers choose whatever one they want it

Anyway...
Irish paper 1 ordinary leavel examcraft =
Fine, you shouldnt really looking for any hints for this, it's honestly grand and if you find trouble in it, i'd be worried..
But just look over

Invitations for the letter, in the giota leaunach look over places you might go with a friend ceolchoirm :rolleyes:, cine,a etc...., for the sceal it's fine and the comprehensions were realtively easy

Economics on Tuesday, urgh....
Anybody know if it's topical or ...?

~Candy~

xsarahxpressx wrote: »

Anyone know the honours business leaving cert...
the ABQ.

i dunno do i have the same paper as you

but its on

5 enterprising skills/charastics , legislative method to solve conflicts and a report about that comany's porblems and something about importance of control

xsarahxpressx

~Candy~ wrote: »

i dunno do i have the same paper as you

but its on

5 enterprising skills/charastics , legislative method to solve conflicts and a report about that cowman's porblems and something about importance of control

merci beaucoup.

the_wheel_turns

anyone know what experiments are up for the mock??

i reckon the ammonium iron (ii) sulfate titration for june, but our teacher's telling us the mock isn't all that realistic in terms of the experiments that they stuck on...so i'm wondering..!

K4t

GVNDNN wrote: »

Economics on Tuesday, urgh....
Anybody know if it's topical or ...?

Getting more and more topical each year.

Keynes Keynes Keynes. I'd be flabbergasted if he didn't pop up.
Banking System is a sure bet.
Fiscal/Monetary Policy.

Oh, and how would you solve the recession?

JohnnyIrvine666

I saw my history mock paper n i aint due to sit it till next thursday... looks dead easy....... :cool:

cat_<3

maths paper 1 any hints :D

xOxSinéadxOx

english p2 today did **** even though I knew what was coming up. I wrote a grand total of 1 page on

michael longley

and I didn't even know the names of any of his poems except one.

Art history failed for sure. if anybody wants to know what's on that I had the examcraft one

bythewoods

So... tempted... to... highlight... spoilers.

That's it. I have to stay away from this thread before the temptations beats me!

cianjg

the_wheel_turns wrote: »

anyone know what experiments are up for the mock??

i reckon the ammonium iron (ii) sulfate titration for june, but our teacher's telling us the mock isn't all that realistic in terms of the experiments that they stuck on...so i'm wondering..!

just did HL chemistry today heres most of what i remember :
spoiler:

Q1 was on redox reactions -determination of percentage of hypochlorite in bleach now why you use strach, how to work out the conc. basically the whole expirement. Q2 was on prep. of ethanoic acid, Q3. was on the rates of react exp. with sodium thiosulfate and hcl (the one where you wait till you cant see the "x" at the bottom of the flask anymore

the rest of the questions are fairly easy
spoiler:

Know about atomic radius and first ionisation energys, ketones, and also about octane numbers

theres a good deal more but that should help if you get them same paper

=]™

Beau x1

Anto, I know you're reading this just so you know, you sly fox.

Need tip offs for Geography lads, that's one sick paper. Economics too.

k8hm

JohnnyIrvine666 wrote: »

I saw my history mock paper n i aint due to sit it till next thursday... looks dead easy....... :cool:

any particular topics please?