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Leaving Cert 2011/2012

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭13spanner


    I can't believe people actually studied over the summer, 9.5 months of it not going to be enough for ye?!
    FACT! Much happier working making a few quid than having the head in the books for the 3 sunny days we had this year. Plenty time come september.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭ChemHickey


    Ya i thought he was a cool character but it would have taken up so much time!! I love that song btw!! Its really good! (And hard to sing!! :L ) High falsetto at the end :L :L

    I didnt really study this summer, looked over a few notes , was at the gaeltacht, and like, organised everything, I aid I woas going to study but I didnt really fulfill my thoughts, :L ~

    Any one doing any revision courses (have any done?)? Are they worth it? Anyone know the cost of the easter one in Yeats Galway no? :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭Just Like Heaven


    Mayo_Boy wrote: »
    anybody? :(

    What exactly are you looking for?

    There's a lot of choice in the construction paper, download the marking schemes and make your notes around the answers, I remember question 6 was the same almost every year.

    If you know your drawings question 1 is fine, and the U values is a guaranteed qustion. So that's 3, and you only have to answer 5!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭ConTheCat


    Just had a browse at my courses, my 1st choice came down my 25 points! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 244 ✭✭leavingcert.


    Looks like the points for medicine just keep going up, god only knows what they'll be next year!

    And I couldnt agree more about not studying during the summer, summer holidays are meant to be a holiday from school, not time to do study on your own :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭ConTheCat


    Right guys..I've a problem!
    I suffer big time from tonsillitis 3-4 times a year..Was at a specialist about getting them out and he said next time I have it to ring him..Next time being now, the day I go back to school! :( I don't know whether to get them out or hold on until after the LC as I've to do last year & this years work, and I don't want to be missing 2 weeks of school. What do ye think I should do??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 120 ✭✭That Handsome Devil


    ChemHickey wrote: »
    My violin pieces so far are
    1) Chanson de matin ( elgar- easy enough piece to settle me in)
    2) Danse Macabre (Saint Saens)
    3) Schindlers List (John Williams)
    4) Four Seasons (vivaldi - either spring 1, summer 1 or winter 1)
    5) Air on a g string (Bach)
    6) Not certain yet.. :/ (possibly bolero by Hubay) << Any suggestions??

    Maybe Flight of the Bumblebee, nice and easy to finish :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭ChemHickey


    ConTheCat wrote: »
    Right guys..I've a problem!
    I suffer big time from tonsillitis 3-4 times a year..Was at a specialist about getting them out and he said next time I have it to ring him..Next time being now, the day I go back to school! :( I don't know whether to get them out or hold on until after the LC as I've to do last year & this years work, and I don't want to be missing 2 weeks of school. What do ye think I should do??

    Oh man thats really coincidental! We were tlakingbout that today in biology and how doctors are trying to stop taking out peoples tonsils unless they are a recurring symptom as they help prevent other infections etc... but if you are anxious about them, Id say get them out.. It is only the first few months of LC.. Even just wait til Hallowe'en or New years and be off school to get them done!!



    @ThatHandsomeDevil.... I think that piece would be more of a Junior Cert Practical standard.... :L


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 madigan94


    ChemHickey wrote: »
    Anyone here do Music? What are ye goiing to do for the 2012 Practical?? :L :D

    4 on tin whistle, 4 music tech................music tech is so easy I'm amazed it actually counts as an instrument ! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 Eoin Cunniffe 94


    The comparative i'm doing is Dancing at Lughnasa, How many miles to Babylon and Inside i'm dancing!

    Subjects: Irish, English, Maths, French, Business, Music, Geography, Economics, LCVP! :)

    Were doing the same comparatives ! :) all three are covered in the book English Key notes it's really helpful and cheap enough


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 madigan94


    Were doing the same comparatives ! :) all three are covered in the book English Key notes it's really helpful and cheap enough

    great book....I'd recommend buying it even if your not doing these exact comparatives...I'm doing Sive instead of how many miles to babylon and this is the best book I bought last year......great poetry notes too!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭ChemHickey


    madigan94 wrote: »
    4 on tin whistle, 4 music tech................music tech is so easy I'm amazed it actually counts as an instrument ! :)

    What is Music Tech exactly? I do music outside school so I have no choice in options like that.. ?

    Anyone doing "The Kite Runner", "Lamb", "I'm not Scared"<-(Italian Film - "Io non Ho Paura") for their comparitives?? Anyone doing any of the above?? :? :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭fleeflyfloflum


    Said I'd drop in, starting back tomorrow :rolleyes:

    I'm doing the Kite Runner!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 madigan94


    ChemHickey wrote: »
    What is Music Tech exactly? I do music outside school so I have no choice in options like that.. ?

    Anyone doing "The Kite Runner", "Lamb", "I'm not Scared"<-(Italian Film - "Io non Ho Paura") for their comparitives?? Anyone doing any of the above?? :? :confused:

    It's just copying sheet music into some music software called Sibelius......As in you type the note and press a number to pick the note value............a monkey could do it.......... :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭ChemHickey


    Said I'd drop in, starting back tomorrow :rolleyes:

    I'm doing the Kite Runner!

    Ya? how do you find it? I strted back to school on friday there ... :/ I hated the Kite runner.... I prefered the film version of it!! :L Any notes or anything on it? Im buying the study guie online for it because i just did not like it! :L:(

    It's just copying sheet music into some music software called Sibelius......As in you type the note and press a number to pick the note value............a monkey could do it.......... biggrin.gif

    Really?? :O That sounds easier than playing pieces!!!! Id so do that instead! :L I have used music software too! :L But im gonna stick with my pieces.. Which is your favourite set work#/ :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭fleeflyfloflum


    I thought it was ok, usually don't like whatever book is picked by the school but it turned out better than I thought. We have some orange book with a few notes on it, but we only really finished it a few days before the Summer Holidays so we haven't really got the analysis bits done yet...though sometimes our teacher just leaves that bit up to us, which is ok until I see all the notes some people have on things that I have less than an A4 page for! :(

    I haven't seen the film yet, I'll put that on the to-do list!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭coffeelover


    ChemHickey wrote: »
    Anyone here do Music? What are ye goiing to do for the 2012 Practical?? :L :D

    4 on tin whistle and 4 on piano i think :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 madigan94


    ChemHickey wrote: »
    Ya? how do you find it? I strted back to school on friday there ... :/ I hated the Kite runner.... I prefered the film version of it!! :L Any notes or anything on it? Im buying the study guie online for it because i just did not like it! :L:(




    Really?? :O That sounds easier than playing pieces!!!! Id so do that instead! :L I have used music software too! :L But im gonna stick with my pieces.. Which is your favourite set work#/ :pac:

    Probably bohemian rhapsody....haven't done tchaikovsky yet.....Gerald Barry was just awful.....I just don't see the appeal of that piece....you?
    4 on tin whistle and 4 on piano i think :)

    What are your tin whistle pieces like?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭coffeelover


    madigan94 wrote: »

    What are your tin whistle pieces like?

    Haven't picked em yet :rolleyes:
    I'll probably do 2 reels, 2 jigs and then dunno what else.. My teacher wants me and my friend to do a duet but i dunno really. You? :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Flabangav


    madigan94 wrote: »
    Probably bohemian rhapsody....haven't done tchaikovsky yet.....Gerald Barry was just awful.....I just don't see the appeal of that piece....you?

    The Gerald Barry piece is horrible! It's just noise!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭ChemHickey


    I thought it was ok, usually don't like whatever book is picked by the school but it turned out better than I thought. We have some orange book with a few notes on it, but we only really finished it a few days before the Summer Holidays so we haven't really got the analysis bits done yet...though sometimes our teacher just leaves that bit up to us, which is ok until I see all the notes some people have on things that I have less than an A4 page for! :(

    I haven't seen the film yet, I'll put that on the to-do list!

    Ya? Cool, I have no notes on it at all!!! :L We are far behind in english i think compared to the other schools in our county.. :L Liek we only have the Kite runner, hamlet in some detail , 3 poets (Kavanagh heaney and frost) and work on paper 1 done... loads left to do!! :L
    Probably bohemian rhapsody....haven't done tchaikovsky yet.....Gerald Barry was just awful.....I just don't see the appeal of that piece....you?

    Ya? Well, I loved all the set works (even Barry <SHOCK> ) Hahah... I knwo wahtyou may think.. IS HE DEAF? But no... I didnt liek it at first but I have been listening to it quite a lot since before the start of 5th year so I am used to it now and I do find some musical genius in there somewhere!! I liek most of it.. L: Just he can be a bit painful at times with those stupid C2+D3 phases or sumthing like that!! Tchaicovsky is amazing.. My favourite probably... :L But id say its everyones favourite! Just lovely music and easy to work on and to like everything is appealing about that piece!! :L

    Anyone else think it is a bit strange they dont have that mad dictation from Junior cert on the Leaving cert course?? :L I know it is incorporated in the Set work questions but... yano? Its weird there isnt liek a 16 bar dictation question! :L


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭ChemHickey


    Flabangav wrote: »
    The Gerald Barry piece is horrible! It's just noise!

    Ah now.... Its not just noise... :L In close detail, the canonic response is fugue like and is quite a spectacular feat of musicality.... but, in saying that.... a canon in quavers (even semi's at points) is not the most consanant msuic... :L But I like it... There is something to it... Like Marmite.... But I dont like marmite... :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭coffeelover


    Flabangav wrote: »
    The Gerald Barry piece is horrible! It's just noise!

    That's the only set work we haven't done. I'm guessing we've left the best till last :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭leaveiton


    ChemHickey wrote: »
    Anyone else think it is a bit strange they dont have that mad dictation from Junior cert on the Leaving cert course?? :L I know it is incorporated in the Set work questions but... yano? Its weird there isnt liek a 16 bar dictation question! :L

    My teacher did some of the old Junior Cert style dictation with us towards the end of 5th year as sort of an introduction to the dictation type questions in the set works. Anyone in the class that hadn't JC music was completely shocked that that was a part of the JC exam! :P I'm glad we don't have to do it as a full question, anyway!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭ChemHickey


    Ya? Well, Id say its the hardest one to get your head around.. and it is quite different to say the least with people not liking it and all so id say its best you have left it til last!! :L


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭coffeelover


    ChemHickey wrote: »
    Ya? Well, Id say its the hardest one to get your head around.. and it is quite different to say the least with people not liking it and all so id say its best you have left it til last!! :L

    Am I really weird in saying that I actually liked dictation :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 madigan94


    Haven't picked em yet :rolleyes:
    I'll probably do 2 reels, 2 jigs and then dunno what else.. My teacher wants me and my friend to do a duet but i dunno really. You? :)

    1 reel, 1 jig, 1 slow air, 1 hornpipe...........the teacher said to try and pick really contrasting pieces.....I was thinking of asking my tin whistle teacher to accompany me on the flute or fiddle......she also had a 7 year old son who is the best bodhrán player I've ever seen.....he might steal my thunder though :/ haha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭ehshup


    ChemHickey wrote: »

    My violin pieces so far are
    1) Chanson de matin ( elgar- easy enough piece to settle me in)
    2) Danse Macabre (Saint Saens)
    3) Schindlers List (John Williams)
    4) Four Seasons (vivaldi - either spring 1, summer 1 or winter 1)
    5) Air on a g string (Bach)
    6) Not certain yet.. :/ (possibly bolero by Hubay) << Any suggestions??

    That'll be some practical !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Flabangav


    That's the only set work we haven't done. I'm guessing we've left the best till last :P

    Oh we haven't done it yet either, our teacher just put it on for the lolz... :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭Namlub


    Wait what, isn't this kind of the same as the off-topic thread? There are two threads? I don't know if I can handle this...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 472 ✭✭angela1711


    I've just started 6th year today and already have test on friday ;O


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 367 ✭✭electrictrad


    Flabangav wrote: »
    The Gerald Barry piece is horrible! It's just noise!
    That's the only set work we haven't done. I'm guessing we've left the best till last :P

    We did GB at the end of 6th year. . .he is the least bearable, but easiest to learn, as he is unusual. . .you'll never mix up stuff from anywhere else with his. . .while you'll do that quite a bit with Bach/Tchaikovsky. . .or whoever ye have. . .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 367 ✭✭electrictrad


    Word of advice people. . .try to stay off facebook/boards from now until the exams. . .facebook is a great way to waste time, so stay off it until they're over. . .boards is OK during exams for sanity. . .bouncing ideas off people, asking questions, getting reactions, ect.. . .but not until they start. . .believe me when I say time wasted will haunt you. . .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 F1f1


    Hey :) K so i did my leaving last year (thank god!) and got an A1 in history :D Kinda need money for college now so was thinking of selling my history essay plans that I made..basically i did out essay plans to cover pretty much anything that could come up in my topics! But..I don't know if these plans would be of use to anyone else or if its more of a personal thing so if anyone wants to take a look at one of them and tell me what they think? You'l be getting a free essay plan out of it! Let me know an I'll PM ya :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭coffeelover


    Namlub wrote: »
    Wait what, isn't this kind of the same as the off-topic thread? There are two threads? I don't know if I can handle this...

    Ya same.. We should delete one or combine them..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 120 ✭✭That Handsome Devil


    ChemHickey wrote: »
    @ThatHandsomeDevil.... I think that piece would be more of a Junior Cert Practical standard.... :L
    If the examiner doesn't laugh you off at the simplicity of it first :p
    and yes, we really should combine these threads, or do something


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 367 ✭✭electrictrad


    madigan94 wrote: »
    1 reel, 1 jig, 1 slow air, 1 hornpipe...........the teacher said to try and pick really contrasting pieces.....I was thinking of asking my tin whistle teacher to accompany me on the flute or fiddle......she also had a 7 year old son who is the best bodhrán player I've ever seen.....he might steal my thunder though :/ haha

    . . .that was my combination too on whistle!. . .serious thought needed into the tunes, but shortlist the tunes early on, save your sanity a little bit. . .

    . . .if you have the confidence, my advice is go alone,if youre prepared enough . . . the other instruments just hide your own skill, especially if you're playing whistle, and then he/she wont be as inclined to give you the full marks. . .and if you're at a certain standard, full practical marks are attainable. . .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭ChemHickey


    Am I really weird in saying that I actually liked dictation :o


    No! Not at all! i liked it in the exam... It really does challenge your musicality and having relative (or even absolute) pitch can be such a bonus in later life if you decide to study music and anything! So the thought of not having to do it in one way isnt great as it isn't helping you learn the skills to approach perfect/relative pitch, but on the other hand.... it is a lot less stressful without it! :L
    That'll be some practical !

    ^^Haha, I really wouldnt be able to pull all that off I'd say! :L I think I might wait to see what my violin teacher would say about some of them and would they be too hard to perfect (or as close as I could get them to be to perfection) in these next months... maybe choose an easier piece than air on a g string or danse macabre... :L << Possibly Danse Espagnole ( by kreisler-grandados not the de falla one!! :L my friend is doing the de falla one but he is class!.. )



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭coffeelover


    I was thinking of learning 'Airplanes' by BOB for my practical. Is that a bit weird?? :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭ChemHickey


    I was thinking of learning 'Airplanes' by BOB for my practical. Is that a bit weird?? :o


    No not at all! What instrument or singing wise? It'd be great to do something like that as the examiner is always plagued with classical, trad and "rock" so more recent and pop pieces wwould at least be memorable. Its be good!!

    And I like the song too so i'm slightly biased! :L:P


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭coffeelover


    ChemHickey wrote: »
    No not at all! What instrument or singing wise? It'd be great to do something like that as the examiner is always plagued with classical, trad and "rock" so more recent and pop pieces wwould at least be memorable. Its be good!!

    And I like the song too so i'm slightly biased! :L:P

    I was thinking of playing it on the piano :) Ya that's what i was thinking too. I really like the song too :D I'd say it will be hard to learn but I'll give it a try!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    Namlub wrote: »
    Wait what, isn't this kind of the same as the off-topic thread? There are two threads? I don't know if I can handle this...
    Err...yeah actually. <_<

    Might I redirect you all here. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭Namlub


    Thanks jumpy, grand bitta modding there ^_^


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Namlub wrote: »
    Thanks jumpy, grand bitta modding there ^_^
    Liiiiickkkk .... >_>








    :p:D


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