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

bluejay14

I read in the paper that with last year's higher level maths paper if you made some attempt at every question but got every single one wrong, you would come out with 47%!

There is hope for us after all.

Glee_GG

Anyone know around what time tomorrow the UCD website is opening for booking accomadation?!

Copper_pipe

bluejaymraz wrote: »

I read in the paper that with last year's higher level maths paper if you made some attempt at every question but got every single one wrong, you would come out with 47%!

There is hope for us after all.

Any link? Id love 47%

bluejay14

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Any link? Id love 47%

It was in yesterday's Independent, in the supplementy thing that had "The Secrets to the Leaving Cert" in it (which btw were no great secrets).

The same article said that there was one question and you got 60% of the marks for the question if all you did was draw a little diagram showing the radius of a circle touching the tangent........

Eurovisionmad

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Any link? Id love 47%

It was in yesterdays Sunday Independent magazine, unfortunately I don't have a link.

If anyone remembers the Exam Times suppliment with the Irish Times ages back the teacher who was writing that basically said the same thing, that in some cases you'd get 50% of the marks simply for writing a formula! In fairness though something dodgy has to be going on in the marking scheme if 3000 who ordinarily would do ordinary level come up to higher level and collectively the results are better than the year before in both higher level which gained 3000 struggling students and ordinary level, which lost 3000 of their best students!

Copper_pipe

Picked up the independent yesterday, just didn't read it yet :L

jamo2oo9

Yeah, attempt marks is simple and can get you to pass, without even studying it. In my year, there's 57 in it and only 7 do higher level Maths right now. A huge difference between those doing higher and ordinary!

SeanyboyQPR

Glee_GG wrote: »

Anyone know around what time tomorrow the UCD website is opening for booking accomadation?!

Think you can book from 7am onwards.. What's the story with it? Is it likely that you won't get a place? I live in Cork so accomodation is pretty much a necessity for me next year..

Prodigious

So expensive in UCD!

SeanyboyQPR

Prodigious wrote: »

So expensive in UCD!

Better be worth it!

Prodigious

SeanyboyQPR wrote: »

Better be worth it!

In fairness it looks unbelievable! If I could I would!

SeanyboyQPR

Prodigious wrote: »

In fairness it looks unbelievable! If I could I would!

I'm just dying to get out of Cork and meet new people, plus Dublin is essentially where everything is happening, being the capital and all, and I've heard nothing but good stories about it :P

Prodigious

SeanyboyQPR wrote: »

I'm just dying to get out of Cork and meet new people, plus Dublin is essentially where everything is happening, being the capital and all, and I've heard nothing but good stories about it :P

Exactly Proper college life if you do it right !

CookieMonster.x

Anyone know how much we have to pay tomorrow for ucd?

SeanyboyQPR

Pretty sure all that happens tomorrow is we go on the waiting list, if you want you can wait till I've registered and Ill let you know how it goes and what's involved :P

CookieMonster.x

SeanyboyQPR wrote: »

Pretty sure all that happens tomorrow is we go on the waiting list, if you want you can wait till I've registered and Ill let you know how it goes and what's involved :P

Thanks, I'll probably just do it whenever I get up though. Hopefully there isn't that long of a list!

user.name

I have my art craft exam tomorrow and feel like I should be preparing for it but I have all my materials, ideas etc :P any advice for tomorrow?

11Charlie11

Do ye buy some teachers presents or everyone pay to get something to say thanks?

BarrySeoighe

user.name wrote: »

I have my art craft exam tomorrow and feel like I should be preparing for it but I have all my materials, ideas etc :P any advice for tomorrow?

What are u doing? Lino/modeling/etc...? And what the theme? I had mine last friday, it went ok.

bluejay14

Sitting up straight for more than 5 minutes at a time is seriously painful, the one downside of playing the piano. My neck feels like it's going to snap off it's avhing so badly.

aimzLc2

11Charlie11 wrote: »

Do ye buy some teachers presents or everyone pay to get something to say thanks?

Usually if a class has a teacher for a couple of years/they are close to the teacher they will organise a group present when everyone puts in money , i just know personally there is 1/2 teachers that really stand out for me /helped me particularly so i will be getting them something small myself.
thats just a personal choice though i know many school don't give presents

SeanyboyQPR

Tonight has been frustratingly unproductive! !

peekachoo

I'm gonna miss this thread when we're done :O

yournerd

My school is having tea and sandwiches before mass and locking the locking the school so we can't get dressed to go out

Prodigious

yournerd wrote: »

My school is having tea and sandwiches before mass and locking the locking the school so we can't get dressed to go out

Fo' real? Ain't nobody got time for that.

Jade.

The fact that I'm so unprepared for my art practical tomorrow worried me :P

aimzLc2

Jade. wrote: »

The fact that I'm so unprepared for my art practical tomorrow worried me :P

I'm sure you are a lot more prepared than you think , go in there with a positive outlook , best of luck

Jade.

Couldn't have been any happier with my art practical

peekachoo

Do I need to do anything with the CAO letter?

user.name

peekachoo wrote: »

Do I need to do anything with the CAO letter?

I binned mine, half of the courses aren't even on it anymore :pac: