Leaving Cert. '11/'12 Off-Topic

Manic2

Can anyone help me with this bloody field study?

I HATE MY NEW GEOGRAPHY TEACHER! He's like 20, new, and hasn't a clue, and everything he's saying is contradicting what my previous geography teacher was saying before she retired.
Every time anyone asks if they're doing a certain part right, he just replies "Whatever ya think yourself"
It's so, so frustrating because it's an easy 20% to pick up, but not when we're getting 0 guidance.

Joey.

Patchy~ wrote: »

Yeah I said it to my teacher and he was all good point BUT WHY WOULD I DEFY THE MARKING SCHEME??? I was like because its wrong? :pac: Jesus thats bad marking, I'd have pointed it out :eek: The one on wind direction was weird too, wind vanes point where the wind is coming from but we all got it wrong pretty much Ah well, they wouldnt let those things happen in the real thing

There's no point in me pointing it out because it wouldn't bring up my grade, and I'm happy with a B2 anyway I was alright with that one but the survey map is another story! That exam taught me that I have a serious inability to differentiate between east and west :pac:

Canard

Joey. wrote: »

There's no point in me pointing it out because it wouldn't bring up my grade, and I'm happy with a B2 anyway I was alright with that one but the survey map is another story! That exam taught me that I have a serious inability to differentiate between east and west :pac:

ahh fair enough :P which q was that? i hate the maps! :pac:

PictureFrame

Patchy~ wrote: »

ahh fair enough :P which q was that? i hate the maps! :pac:

Feckin' disgusted with DEB English Paper I Corrections. Gave me 71% for my Composition which was 7 pages and really good in my opinion. Left a comment saying 'too short' what the actual fcuk? I ended up with an A2 (85%) overall, but only because our teacher basically let it slip that

Apperance vs. Reality or deception

was the Hamlet Question..

Togepi

"So how's the study going?"

Worst phrase ever invented! :cool:

Joey.

Patchy~ wrote: »

ahh fair enough :P which q was that? i hate the maps! :pac:

It's in two of the shorts isn't it? I got 0/8 in one of them, and I actually know the area :pac:

Siobhnk

So the mock reports came back. Haha. Mam has me making a Maths revision chart :P

Canard

PictureFrame wrote: »

Feckin' disgusted with DEB English Paper I Corrections. Gave me 71% for my Composition which was 7 pages and really good in my opinion. Left a comment saying 'too short' what the actual fcuk? I ended up with an A2 (85%) overall, but only because our teacher basically let it slip that

Apperance vs. Reality or deception

was the Hamlet Question..

I only got 73 since my

modern love story

was a date got a B1 overall coz of that and the unseen poetry, be happy with your A :P

Joey. wrote: »

It's in two of the shorts isn't it? I got 0/8 in one of them, and I actually know the area :pac:

I dont even remember aha :P I got the area of the extract wrong though, that takes skill :P

Eathrin

Manic2 wrote: »

Can anyone help me with this bloody field study?

I HATE MY NEW GEOGRAPHY TEACHER! He's like 20, new, and hasn't a clue, and everything he's saying is contradicting what my previous geography teacher was saying before she retired.
Every time anyone asks if they're doing a certain part right, he just replies "Whatever ya think yourself"
It's so, so frustrating because it's an easy 20% to pick up, but not when we're getting 0 guidance.

We had a teacher like that in 5th year for Accounting, literally nothing got learnt. Thankfully we have a great teacher for 6th year. Sorry I can't help you with your Geography but I completely get your frustration.

PictureFrame wrote: »

Feckin' disgusted with DEB English Paper I Corrections. Gave me 71% for my Composition which was 7 pages and really good in my opinion. Left a comment saying 'too short' what the actual fcuk? I ended up with an A2 (85%) overall, but only because our teacher basically let it slip that

Apperance vs. Reality or deception

was the Hamlet Question..

7 pages is too short? Hahahaha:D
Still, you got 85%, just take it that your Hamlet question cancels out the composition I suppose and be happy with that much:).
Besides it couldn't have been marked worse than ours where literally 80/86 students got between 70-80%.
That was the worst marked paper I've ever come across in my life.

PictureFrame

Eathrin wrote: »

7 pages is too short? Hahahaha:D
Still, you got 85%, just take it that your Hamlet question cancels out the composition I suppose and be happy with that much:).
Besides it couldn't have been marked worse than ours where literally 80/86 students got between 70-80%.
That was the worst marked paper I've ever come across in my life.

Yep apparently! :P. We started the Comparative (LG) a week before the Mock, the little exam comments came back and the examiner wrote:

"Detailed knowledge of the Comparative Study was exceptional in all cases"

I'm not joking, our Teacher doubled up when she read this! :pac: we've done nothing for our comparative! She just gave us some notes! Still I got 59/70 which is not too bad seeing as we haven't read a text or watched the film yet! :P

Anyway, the Mocks are finally over and i'm happy with my 510. I desperately need to keep this to get the Scholarship in NUIM. And I think if I drop below an A1 in Business and Economics my Mam and my Teacher would die! :rolleyes: worst thing about getting good results in the Mock!

Eathrin

They fixed the love machine guys and I no longer must bear Coeur at the top of my list:) Sweet freedom.
Aww fudge I got another man:(




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Coeurdepirate

Eathrin wrote: »

They fixed the love machine guys and I no longer must bear Coeur at the top of my list:) Sweet freedom.
Aww fudge I got another man:(




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PictureFrame

(Y) I got 5. Boom.



Anyway, whoever once said that Teachers treat you as adults, more respect in 6th year blablabla was talking absolute bull I think, (well in my school anyway)

My Irish Teacher tells me every class i'm going to fail as I don't do any work (The lack of work part is true though). To peeve her off I just pick my Mock off the table and say 'But Miss I got a B3 without doing any work. How could I fail?' :P she gets so píssed off with me and tells me I got lucky, i'm like yeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh..

But seriously, they still treat us all like a bunch of gobshiiteees from what i'm experiencing anyway!

Togepi

Teachers treat repeats as adults, not other Leaving Certs. It's great.

Luno

I love being the only person singled out in class everyday

Eathrin

M&S* wrote: »

I love being the only person singled out in class everyday

Do share:)
Is it one of those teachers who will pick on you for no apparent reason?:/

LoonyLovegood

Got business back :L 41% I passed! I'm in the top 50% of my business class, apparently...

Eathrin

French Oral tomorrow, I should be studying as it is my weakest subject, why am I so so lazy:(:(

leaveiton

PictureFrame wrote: »

Feckin' disgusted with DEB English Paper I Corrections. Gave me 71% for my Composition which was 7 pages and really good in my opinion. Left a comment saying 'too short' what the actual fcuk? I ended up with an A2 (85%) overall, but only because our teacher basically let it slip that

Apperance vs. Reality or deception

was the Hamlet Question..

That's madness, the examiner that marked ours sent back a sheet saying that you should try to cap your essay at 5 and a half pages, 6 maximum. And this is an examiner that marks the actual LC every year. I only wrote about 4 pages for my composition and got 80%. So if anything, yours would be too long!

Siobhnk

They found a body in the port, they think it may be that poor Paul lad from dcu

Luno

Eathrin wrote: »

Do share:)
Is it one of those teachers who will pick on you for no apparent reason?:/

Rudaí seafóideach! I was basically forced to admit to something I hadn't done after a 10 minute argument, yes it is one! It's not in my head either, others have noticed it too. It's a shame really because it's ruined a subject that I liked in 3rd year!

Eathrin

Siobhnk wrote: »

They found a body in the port, they think it may be that poor Paul lad from dcu

:(That brings a tear to my eye,
So young and with such a long future ahead,
and I'm sad, I can't even begin to imagine what those close to him are thinking, so tragic.:(
I desperately hope that's not him and he's found safe.

Edit: RIP Paul

Siobhnk

Eathrin wrote: »

:(That brings a tear to my eye,
So young and with such a long future ahead,
and I'm sad, I can't even begin to imagine what those close to him are thinking, so tragic.:(
I desperately hope that's not him and he's found safe.

I know so young, but even if it's not him it's still a tragedy for the family of the person who died. And it means that the family of Paul are still at unease.
Unfortunately it's looking like its him, take a look at the Facebook page set up to find him

Coeurdepirate

Siobhnk wrote: »

They found a body in the port, they think it may be that poor Paul lad from dcu

That's very sad. As Cian has said, I hope he's found safe.

ConTheCat

Failed french. Really annoyed Between my two written papers and tape in Irish I have 50%, lazy huare wouldn't check my oral for me!

Eathrin

French oral wasn't so bad, I mean in the sense that she knew I wasn't good enough to answer the difficult questions but I handled the questions I was given alright I suppose.

shefellover93

Music at 7 for my LC peeps :pac:

Togepi

Does anyone here know of any good online resources for DCG? I'm absolutely terrible at it since going into Leaving Cert and I really want an A or B 'cause I know it's achievable if I really work at it.

Nearly failed it last year so if you know of any useful sites please post a link!

Canard

Got 52% in HL Maths P1, are yiz proud? :P Half the class or more failed baaadly, sad times P2 could still fail me though!

I got 10/50 on series and sequences which we havent done yet haha, but it was marked outta 4 and my lowest in that was 19/50 on algebra I just dont get any of it!!

didnt get my french oral result yet, need 82+ to keep my A1 but should have that anyway

mcpaddington

Togepi wrote: »

Does anyone here know of any good online resources for DCG? I'm absolutely terrible at it since going into Leaving Cert and I really want an A or B 'cause I know it's achievable if I really work at it.

Nearly failed it last year so if you know of any useful sites please post a link!

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