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Countdown to LC Results 2011
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Cathal1992 wrote: »Anyone here who found PHYSICS a pain in the ass ? I had one of the top teachers in the country last year for Physics and I worked my @$$ off all year for it. Secion A was lovely Section B was rough... Id say I only got 4/5 questions completely right =/
ive struggled with physics HL for the 2 yrs but i did a fair amount of study at theend and overall i thought it was a nice paper. can i ask if you got 4/5 completly right, how was it a pain in the a$$??what time are the schools opening at?
its different everywhere but i would say no earlier than 9.0 -
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My opinion:
To those of you who think you won't do well, just remember there will be loads on here come results day saying how they got 400 - 500+ points and how wonderful they are. It may be the case with some but there will be a lot of them who lie and just up their score by a hundred points to make themselves feel better. I seen it last year and know a few friends who did it on Facebook. I don't have anything against it but I know it can make the people who didn't get that feel they did worse than everyone else.
I didn't see many on here bragging about getting 150-320 points last year. So this place isn't the greatest for making yourself feel better after getting poorer results than expected. If it's what you needed then there should be nothing to worry about. Basically don't be worried whatever score you got, there will be a lot of people in the same situation who didn't get what they wanted this year.
I am a repeat this year myself and got 320 points last year. I had always intended to repeat anyway but I did think I had done a lot better last year. I was the second youngest in my year so I always felt I was never as mature as my other classmates. Instead of focusing on courses last year, I was focusing on repeating. I can honestly say it was one of the best things I have ever done during my time at secondary school. It's amazing how much of a difference a year can make in terms of your overall maturity. You pick up things at a faster rate and understand what the teacher is saying a little easier.
My only real gripe about repeating is that you can get really lazy/bored going over stuff you did in your last year but there are times where you pick up new pieces of information you really should have known the year before. Socially, it can be a real pain because most of my friends went on to third level education. There was about seven people (out of a year of over a 100) who repeated with me but I didn't know them very well because I never hung around with them.
Another thing is you'll quickly notice is the new students you are with will seem very immature due to you being used to your classmates acting slightly more mature at the end of the previous year. You might get dragged into it but for safety I made friends with my fellow repeats as they were in the same situation as me. Overall I am very happy I repeated and now I am awaiting my results like most people here. However this time I am doing three more higher level subjects so I really don't know how I did. The mocks are a terrible evaluation of how well you think you are going to do, in my opinion anyway. I do know however that I did a lot better and know a lot more than I did last year.
I would recommend repeating to anyone who didn't get what you expected/wanted. Don't go for a course you really don't want. Do what you have to do to get where you want to go. There is always other options and opportunities in life other than just the leaving cert anyway.
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Cathal1992 wrote: »ive struggled with physics HL for the 2 yrs but i did a fair amount of study at theend and overall i thought it was a nice paper. can i ask if you got 4/5 completly right, how was it a pain in the a$$??
Well 3 experiment questions are what , 40% of the entire paper , then Q5 is 14% and question 10 is another 14% which is 70 %. Mechanics Question , the electricity question both screwed me over and I blanked on the Sound question. Personally for me , in a subject I spent so much time slogging over and looking for that A which I thought I could get , it was a pain. It just seemed like a totally different approach to the past papers , the examiner took a more "practical" approach to the paper and it threw me really...
that latent heat one threw me off, I think I managed at least attempt marks because I stuck down the whole 'Heat lost=Heat gained', but my calculations were way off because of the confusing wording of the question.
Loved the fact that I went over Sound the night before and remembered harmonics
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is anyone else still debating the giant "in public or in private" choice?
Im stilll debating I never thought about the whole 'where will I open the envelope' situation until i started reading this thread:( Whats everyone else doing?
I know my principle would be dying to know whether I was happy or upset with my results so all I know is I won't be opening them in front of her.
I dont have a car and will be walking to school to get my results(15min walk) so I defo couldn't wait till I got home again to open sooo as of this very min, I have decided to barricade myself in the disabled toilet so no one can hear me cry or scream and so that I can add up points in peace and without the usual nosebags trying to compare 0 -
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All the while chanting my mantra, "I believe in miracles," over and over
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Why wouldn't you tell somebody what you got? Bit odd..and unless you go to a school full of dickheads nobodys going to brag about their results..
Odd? Really? You don't have to go to a school full of dickheads..it's amazing how perfectly sound people turn in to the biggest nosebags when it comes to this sort of stuff. Most of them probably don't even realise that they're being a tad intrusive or insensitive because of all the excitement and the hype. 0 -
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As long as I'm happy with what I got I don't mind telling people
I just want a couple of mins to myself to process it all before the question of the day starts .. 'what ya get?' 'what ya get?' ..
Unfortunately I know there will be people who will brag in my school and not even think of the people who are disappointed with their results
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Odd? Really? You don't have to go to a school full of dickheads..it's amazing how perfectly sound people turn in to the biggest nosebags when it comes to this sort of stuff. Most of them probably don't even realise that they're being a tad intrusive or insensitive because of all the excitement and the hype.
Theyed nearly be on top of you before you get a chance to look, thays very annoying0 -
but you have to wait untill 12 to get it on the internet? thats a full 3 hours after you could collect it :P and if you dont want people nagging you, walk out of the school with your closed envelope and go far far away to your car, and lock the doors, and open it, and then go home with peace of mind 0
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Odd? Really? You don't have to go to a school full of dickheads..it's amazing how perfectly sound people turn in to the biggest nosebags when it comes to this sort of stuff. Most of them probably don't even realise that they're being a tad intrusive or insensitive because of all the excitement and the hype.
I agree. I went in with my friend last year to get her results and she didnt get what she wanted and was quite upset. There was loads of people poking in and asking what she got and even when my friend didn't ask them what they got out of respect they told her anyways. So yeah, I agree people get wound up in the hype of it.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
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