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Leaving Cert Prophets - PREDICTIONS 2011
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Repeat2011 wrote: »Any predictions for geography?
Ya cant really predict geography but the same thing comes up every year. just asked in different orders. If i got my mock paper in the LC id be DELIGHTED
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ShotgunBoy wrote: »English HL
It's Wordsworth's last year so there's a possibility he could come up.
And generally there's ALWAYS a female poet.
Dickinson and Boland havent been up since 2005 or something...they are defo a shoe in for this year
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Repeat2011 wrote: »Any predictions for geography?
I haven't got any direct predictions but I did geography as an extra subject last year and I managed an A2 with some seriously exam focused learning as I didn't have a lot of time to invest in it.
These were my main questions:
Physical:
Landform development - always on the paper
Human interaction with rock cycle /natural processes - always
Sedimentary rock and resulting landscape
Igneous rocks
Metamorphic was on it last year, bit of a shock
Know all the labeled diagrams for the first part of the question
Regional:
Know about the photos and maps and be able to draw decent sketch maps of the regions you studied.
Core: Sedcondary, tertiary, (I did Paris and knew a few statistics for Dublin so I could write the same answer just about Dublin)
Peripheral: I did all 3 primary, secondary, tertiary for Mezz
India / Brazil / SW USA one of these do some questions
Culture
Changing borders over time
Geoecology:
Biome Characteristics
Human Impact on a biome
Realistically you could get away with solely the above 2. I did the rain forest biome and it was very easy. I did soil characteristics which was also very easy to cover myself.
This is by far the easiest part of the paper to get a ridiculous amount of marks for so little time spent studying.
I don't know what elective you do but last year the questions were fine and were as predicted with no deviation from past papers.
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I haven't got any direct predictions but I did geography as an extra subject last year and I managed an A2 with some seriously exam focused learning as I didn't have a lot of time to invest in it.
These were my main questions:
Physical:
Landform development - always on the paper
Human interaction with rock cycle /natural processes - always
Sedimentary rock and resulting landscape
Igneous rocks
Metamorphic was on it last year, bit of a shock
Know all the labeled diagrams for the first part of the question
Regional:
Know about the photos and maps and be able to draw decent sketch maps of the regions you studied.
Core: Sedcondary, tertiary, (I did Paris and knew a few statistics for Dublin so I could write the same answer just about Dublin)
Peripheral: I did all 3 primary, secondary, tertiary for Mezz
India / Brazil / SW USA one of these do some questions
Culture
Changing borders over time
Geoecology:
Biome Characteristics
Human Impact on a biome
Realistically you could get away with solely the above 2. I did the rain forest biome and it was very easy. I did soil characteristics which was also very easy to cover myself.
This is by far the easiest part of the paper to get a ridiculous amount of marks for so little time spent studying.
I don't know what elective you do but last year the questions were fine and were as predicted with no deviation from past papers.
Hope that helps
hi i'm also studying geo outside school! Wondering, what were your main study methods as this has been a bit of a quandary for me all year!?0 -
hi i'm also studying geo outside school! Wondering, what were your main study methods as this has been a bit of a quandary for me all year!?
The main thing I did was to reduce to whole thing down to what I really needed to do and this made me feel a lot better. I knew I didn't know every single thing on the course like a person who had done it since 4th year but what I did know, I knew well.
All my exam questions I basically had on 1 A4 sheet of paper each. These were lists of SRPs (relevant points just in case you don't know. You have to have so many of these per question in order to get the marks. Each point = marks). I had them very colourful and they were organised into sections of the exam.
For the geoecology I learned off A standard essays and I would suggest the same to anyone. I gave such a feeling of security going into the exam knowing I could get full marks in that question and I did that first as well in the exam which was great so I didn't feel like I knew nothing in the exam and freak out. I did biome characteristics, human impact on a biome - for that I did deforestation and I also did soil characteristics just to cover myself but didn't need it.
Get out all the past papers and any qs like the section As and make sure you can do all of them. These are brilliant marks to get in the exam because there's one in every section
Be smart with things like your regional geography because you can learn off a whole load of stuff and just end up getting confused and know nothing. Do like a skeleton of a question that you'll use and can be used for a load of questions and then just fill in the blanks depending on the question.
A few of my friends in school had Rapid Revision I think it was. It was basically a book of essays and I heard really good things about it although I never had it myself.
The whole thing for me studying at home was just to accept that I'd never get the entire syllabus covered and to just do exam focused learning. It can be a big unnerving at times especially about 1-2 weeks before the exam when the 'oh god what have I done' feelings begin to set in but you'll be ok. A bit of focused cramming in the next 2 months will do you wonders and everything will be fresh in your mind and it's actually an advantage over people who have been writing waffly answers in school.
The best thing I did was to sit down with the papers and drew a few columns and made a table of when the different questions were coming up. Much more effective at this stage if you haven't done this than staring at a book. You'll see a very definite pattern and it will be so reassuring.
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The main thing I did was to reduce to whole thing down to what I really needed to do and this made me feel a lot better. I knew I didn't know every single thing on the course like a person who had done it since 4th year but what I did know, I knew well.
All my exam questions I basically had on 1 A4 sheet of paper each. These were lists of SRPs (relevant points just in case you don't know. You have to have so many of these per question in order to get the marks. Each point = marks). I had them very colourful and they were organised into sections of the exam.
For the geoecology I learned off A standard essays and I would suggest the same to anyone. I gave such a feeling of security going into the exam knowing I could get full marks in that question and I did that first as well in the exam which was great so I didn't feel like I knew nothing in the exam and freak out. I did biome characteristics, human impact on a biome - for that I did deforestation and I also did soil characteristics just to cover myself but didn't need it.
Get out all the past papers and any qs like the section As and make sure you can do all of them. These are brilliant marks to get in the exam because there's one in every section
Be smart with things like your regional geography because you can learn off a whole load of stuff and just end up getting confused and know nothing. Do like a skeleton of a question that you'll use and can be used for a load of questions and then just fill in the blanks depending on the question.
A few of my friends in school had Rapid Revision I think it was. It was basically a book of essays and I heard really good things about it although I never had it myself.
The whole thing for me studying at home was just to accept that I'd never get the entire syllabus covered and to just do exam focused learning. It can be a big unnerving at times especially about 1-2 weeks before the exam when the 'oh god what have I done' feelings begin to set in but you'll be ok. A bit of focused cramming in the next 2 months will do you wonders and everything will be fresh in your mind and it's actually an advantage over people who have been writing waffly answers in school.
The best thing I did was to sit down with the papers and drew a few columns and made a table of when the different questions were coming up. Much more effective at this stage if you haven't done this than staring at a book. You'll see a very definite pattern and it will be so reassuring.
Hope that helps a bit
Wow thanks so much for taking your time to do that! So you only learned d3 geoecology qs?0 -
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oh i love to see these threads signals desperation to me I could tell you over and over again to leave nothing to chance kids, but i doubt any of you would listen. At this stage i almost look forward to laughing at the teary eyed fortune tellers leaving the exam hall! 0
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oh i love to see these threads signals desperation to me I could tell you over and over again to leave nothing to chance kids, but i doubt any of you would listen. At this stage i almost look forward to laughing at the teary eyed fortune tellers leaving the exam hall!
You have a seriously warped sense of humour.0 -
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oh i love to see these threads signals desperation to me I could tell you over and over again to leave nothing to chance kids, but i doubt any of you would listen. At this stage i almost look forward to laughing at the teary eyed fortune tellers leaving the exam hall!
However valid your point is (which I do agree, predictions only cause trouble!) I really think you could of put it in a nicer way. But then again I get the impression you were meaning to cause offense. :pac:0
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