Leaving Cert 2012-13 *OFF-TOPIC* (hideaway) thread

kingcobra

These boys here create a fairly handy Sraith Pictiúr...









EDIT: By the way, this was from the Criú Craiceáilte Facebook page, it's not my image or page whatsoever but it's class :pac:

yournerd

Is there any revision courses coming up between now and LC?

11Charlie11

aimzLc2 wrote: »

Yea i know what you mean , at least tenth gives you a little time , you better just go in really early , its unfortunate but you will probably remember more than you think! Just even skimming over stuff for an hour or whatever will help to bring it back to your mind, good luck anyway!

Yeah thank you now to make it all worse I have my mom giving out to me had French last week and forgot my document cause I wasn't supposed to be till the day after and was not as prepared as I could have been but it was find in the end

aimzLc2

11Charlie11 wrote: »

Yeah thank you now to make it all worse I have my mom giving out to me had French last week and forgot my document cause I wasn't supposed to be till the day after and was not as prepared as I could have been but it was find in the end

Ohh if it makes you feel any better a good few people in my year who did a document regretted it and said they were not fully prepared for the questions on it , i don't know i didn't do one. Do you think your oral went fast , mine felt ages!

kevin12345

Has anyone done their Spanish Oral yet? I was just wondering what type of questions they are asking? My teacher hasn't given us any notes for the oral, a few introductory lines for us to say but that's it. Does anyone know what they'd say for the recession? Or what other social problems are ye learning about? Stressing out. Thanks!

11Charlie11

aimzLc2 wrote: »

Ohh if it makes you feel any better a good few people in my year who did a document regretted it and said they were not fully prepared for the questions on it , i don't know i didn't do one. Do you think your oral went fast , mine felt ages!

God no i thought it flew! I said i went on holidays to france last summer and she changed the topic completely but after the oral was over she asked me about my holiday in english i was so annoyed cause i knew so much about it. I was so nervous cause I was in class and got called out to have it. So glad it's over now!

Jade.

I don't know whether to bring a document into my French or not. My teacher was out for four months so we never really prepared one she only came back a few weeks ago and made us have one but I don't feel I've much prepared on it.

It's a picture on a ride in Disneyland Paris but now I feel it could lead me to a few awkward questions

David1994

kevin12345 wrote: »

Has anyone done their Spanish Oral yet? I was just wondering what type of questions they are asking? My teacher hasn't given us any notes for the oral, a few introductory lines for us to say but that's it. Does anyone know what they'd say for the recession? Or what other social problems are ye learning about? Stressing out. Thanks!

For social problems I just have something prepared on problems in my town
Just the usual( drugs, alcohol) really.
I need to prepare something for the recession!

kevin12345

David1994 wrote: »

For social problems I just have something prepared on problems in my town
Just the usual( drugs, alcohol) really.
I need to prepare something for the recession!

Thanks! A friend in another school just told me they got asked about peer pressure, they just tied that in with drugs/alcohol.

Yeah for the recession I'll just say the basics, there aren't any jobs etc. Maybe Espero que haya mas oportunidades en el futuro proximo? (Subjunctive ) I hope there will be more opportunities in the future, to finish it off? Hopefully that would leave me onto what I want to do in college.

aimzLc2

Jade. wrote: »

I don't know whether to bring a document into my French or not. My teacher was out for four months so we never really prepared one she only came back a few weeks ago and made us have one but I don't feel I've much prepared on it.

It's a picture on a ride in Disneyland Paris but now I feel it could lead me to a few awkward questions

Honestly if you don't feel fully confident with your document i wouldn't bother bringing it in because it could bring you down! They can ask quite tricky questions which if you haven't prepared can be hard to make up on the spot, i do understand if you have spent some time on it and don't want it to go to waste , its a nice idea but if your not too bothered i would leave it out! just my opinion

aimzLc2

kevin12345 wrote: »

Has anyone done their Spanish Oral yet? I was just wondering what type of questions they are asking? My teacher hasn't given us any notes for the oral, a few introductory lines for us to say but that's it. Does anyone know what they'd say for the recession? Or what other social problems are ye learning about? Stressing out. Thanks!

I know i'm not doing spanish so i don't know but i think it would be useful to look over what people have said came up in their french because they seem to ask very similar things!

Legion.

kevin12345 wrote: »

Has anyone done their Spanish Oral yet? I was just wondering what type of questions they are asking? My teacher hasn't given us any notes for the oral, a few introductory lines for us to say but that's it. Does anyone know what they'd say for the recession? Or what other social problems are ye learning about? Stressing out. Thanks!

I did mine on Tuesday. As I said before, my examiner was nice but I thought the questions were a bit strange, and it really felt like an exam and not a conversation. She didn't let us ramble at all, I think I got a max of 4 sentences before being cut off and asked a different question. If she knew you were good, she kept switching tenses which was a bit of a pain but was easy so long as you stayed calm. I wasn't asked social problems or a conditional question, but I threw that + the subjunctive in together, si fuera posible me encantaria....

To be honest I just wouldn't get too worked up about it. It flies in, you more than likely won't get asked anything you haven't prepared for as it can only last ten minutes, and they HAVE to cover x of the basics.

Jade.

aimzLc2 wrote: »

Honestly if you don't feel fully confident with your document i wouldn't bother bringing it in because it could bring you down! They can ask quite tricky questions which if you haven't prepared can be hard to make up on the spot, i do understand if you have spent some time on it and don't want it to go to waste , its a nice idea but if your not too bothered i would leave it out! just my opinion

Ya that's what I'm thinking I would be able to talk about it but they could throw questions that I might get stuck on. Im not until Tuesday though and in my opinion my whole class are in the same situation with theirs so I can see tomorrow if the examiner was asking them questions they couldn't answer

peekachoo

I got asked to the debs. :pac:

Copper_pipe

peekachoo wrote: »

I got asked to the debs. :pac:

Congrats!

Legion.

We had our debs back in November haha.. best night of your life, trust me!

Prodigious

peekachoo wrote: »

I got asked to the debs. :pac:

What did you say? :P

Copper_pipe

Legion. wrote: »

We had our debs back in November haha.. best night of your life, trust me!

What? That's VERY early!? Ours is 6th of August

Jijsaw

David1994 wrote: »

True... :P I would have to say my ideal one to get would of been number 9(where the school went on fire) ! It has really nice vocab which kinda let you show more knowledge of the language I suppose :L

Number nine, number nine, number nine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVf5Cr4M-F8

peekachoo

Prodigious wrote: »

What did you say? :P

"I suppose" gahaha

Prodigious

peekachoo wrote: »

"I suppose" gahaha

Ouch! :P Congrats

Legion.

Copper_pipe wrote: »

What? That's VERY early!? Ours is 6th of August

I'm up in Donegal.. all the schools around here do them November - January. Not sure why, suppose it prevents some absolute wasters from being more worried about their debs than their exams..

Jade.

Anyone use Revise Wise Biology and find it any good?

I know most revision books are rubbish but the book isn't helping me :pac:

aimzLc2

Jade. wrote: »

Anyone use Revise Wise Biology and find it any good?

I know most revision books are rubbish but the book isn't helping me :pac:

I love it! it is the only revision book that i use for any subject, i think it has all the info needed and i find it easy to study out of.

Jade.

aimzLc2 wrote: »

I love it! it is the only revision book that i use for any subject, i think it has all the info needed and i find it easy to study out of.

Thanks I'll get it so! I normally don't use revision books but I feel like I get nowhere with the biology book it's so big

borrch

Jade. wrote: »

Anyone use Revise Wise Biology and find it any good?

I know most revision books are rubbish but the book isn't helping me :pac:

Ya, It's great, but i wouldn't use revise wise for every subject. What subjects are you doing? If u want i can tell you want i use?

ray2012

My grad will be in November too :P

On a different note, I've been studying Hopkins all day, and I now find myself thinking in Old English T__T

aimzLc2

Jade. wrote: »

Thanks I'll get it so! I normally don't use revision books but I feel like I get nowhere with the biology book it's so big

Yea i do think you should get it , my friends liked it too , i don't either , just this i think the biology book has way too much , stuff that you don't need i just use it to refer back to after revise wise.

Prodigious

My parents are being dicks about moving out

Prodigious

Comment of the century.