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

David1994

Lads just wondering if anyone has the Sue Honan book...Do ye think the sample answer fro human interaction with biomes has enough info in it?

That's the only answer I am unsure of as my main textbook doesn't really give much help. :P

bluejay14

Dad put some moss-killing stuff on the back garden yesterday. I've just been sitting outside and it smells and feels like the sea despite the fact that I live in the middle of the country

If only study didn't ruin my good vibe.

internet_user

i just want to go to sleep and wake up with it all over..

ScummyMan

This weather is a killer.

11Charlie11

Trying to learn an Irish essay on the trampoline hopefully the weather is back to rain next Wednesday!

decisions

Sun

Leaving Cert Student

The weather coming good days before the lc was about as foreseeable as the emptiness of the witches prophecy.

"Oftentimes to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with nice weather, to betray us in deepest consequence"

bluejay14

I am the proud owner of my first sunburn of the summer. A week before the LC starts.

I knew I burned easily but not this easily!

jamo2oo9

Spent the day attempting to "study" but I ended up making pencil crossbows...

David086

Did everyone manage to finish the biology course? Our school didn't, that course is a joke!

Acciaccatura

I had a strange day off from studying. I went into town and wandered around in the sun with this alien aimless freedom, met 4 of my teachers, opened an Xtra-Vision account, bought a bag of cherries in a Polish food shop, did pre-exam stationary shopping and seriously debated getting an eye-test for the first time in about seven years.

peekachoo

David086 wrote: »

Did everyone manage to finish the biology course? Our school didn't, that course is a joke!

we finished before the Christmas exams :P I've a really good teacher though other schools probably didn't!

David086

peekachoo wrote: »

we finished before the Christmas exams :P I've a really good teacher though other schools probably didn't!

Whoa! We only got about a quarter of Ecology done before time was up.

Leaving Cert Student

Acciaccatura wrote: »

I had a strange day off from studying. I went into town and wandered around in the sun with this alien aimless freedom, met 4 of my teachers, opened an Xtra-Vision account, bought a bag of cherries in a Polish food shop, did pre-exam stationary shopping and seriously debated getting an eye-test for the first time in about seven years.

strange day alright

ray2012

Acciaccatura wrote: »

I had a strange day off from studying. I went into town and wandered around in the sun with this alien aimless freedom, met 4 of my teachers, opened an Xtra-Vision account, bought a bag of cherries in a Polish food shop, did pre-exam stationary shopping and seriously debated getting an eye-test for the first time in about seven years.

Really? We finished by around January, I'd say. Got the whole course revised also!

bluejay14

David086 wrote: »

Did everyone manage to finish the biology course? Our school didn't, that course is a joke!

We finished just after Easter I think. We were doing exam papers since.


Maths on the other hand.....

11Charlie11

So maybe studying on the trampoline with a week till the leaving is a bad idea.. I'm now in pain with sunburn hopefully it'll turn to a tan!

bluejay14

11Charlie11 wrote: »

So maybe studying on the trampoline with a week till the leaving is a bad idea.. I'm now in pain with sunburn hopefully it'll turn to a tan!

I'm not alone! Mine never turns into a tan though. I'll he just as pale again in about a weeks time

11Charlie11

bluejaymraz wrote: »

I'm not alone! Mine never turns into a tan though. I'll he just as pale again in about a weeks time

It feels like someone lit me on fire

Parawhore.xD

Hehe.. I'm starting to tan suckas

Jade.

David086 wrote: »

Did everyone manage to finish the biology course? Our school didn't, that course is a joke!

We finished before the pre so had a few months of all exam papers

Prodigious

Friend sent me this.

Copper_pipe

I got bored

http://imgur.com/qL7YqEt

bluejay14

11Charlie11 wrote: »

It feels like someone lit me on fire

I'm the same but the rest of me is really cold because I can't put on a hoody or trousers or else I'll fry. Trying to sleep later on will be torture.

Jade.

Anyone have any tips on doing well in English paper 1? My essays tend to only be about 60/100 :O

Copper_pipe

Jade. wrote: »

Anyone have any tips on doing well in English paper 1? My essays tend to only be about 60/100 :O

if its a personal essay make sure you keep using "I"

Legion.

Jade. wrote: »

Anyone have any tips on doing well in English paper 1? My essays tend to only be about 60/100 :O

If you do short stories, try to include at least one piece of good dialogue, a good descriptive paragraph and a twist somewhere. Three ways to improve your grade quite easily. For personal essays, use 'I' a lot, the more personal the response the better.

ray2012

Jade. wrote: »

Anyone have any tips on doing well in English paper 1? My essays tend to only be about 60/100 :O

In personal essays, make sure you reflect on the experience you describe. That's what distinguishes a personal essay from a narrative. It must contain some sort of reflection. In my essays I even use the word reflect just to show the corrector extra clearly that I am reflecting - "Reflecting on this, it makes me wonder about ... it made me realise that ..."

If it's a speech make sure you take your audience into account, and use diction appropriate to the audience. Make good use of persuasive/argumentative language. Similarly with a magazine article or whatever, take into account your audience, and write it like you would see in a real magazine. I usually tend to write them like gossip magazines if I choose the question! :P

Jade.

It's mainly a personal essay I do unless there's another title I like

But thanks for the help Never thought of using things like reflecting on etc :P

ScummyMan

Just flicking through my physics exam papers there, and OH MY GOD I KNOW NOTHING.

Please me I'm not the only one feeling like this? First time feeling stressed about the exams, they must be close!