Leaving Cert. '11/'12 Off-Topic

The High Crusade

Got a bit excited for my birthday tomorrow, then I remembered I'm in school until 6:10. Oh

shefellover93

The High Crusade wrote: »

Got a bit excited for my birthday tomorrow, then I remembered I'm in school until 6:10. Oh

I'm sure you'll have an epic birthday none the less. Plenty of time to celebrate with you this weekend!:pac:

13spanner

The High Crusade wrote: »

Got a bit excited for my birthday tomorrow, then I remembered I'm in school until 6:10. Oh

Birthday and Paddies celebrations all in the one? Nice!

Chuchoter

Anyone know how many points people usually go up between mocks and June?

Togepi

mcpaddington wrote: »

T4.ie

Thanks, I already knew about that one from doing the project though.

Any other DCG sites?

Coeurdepirate

Chuchoter wrote: »

Anyone know how many points people usually go up between mocks and June?

One of my best friends jumped from 360 to 485 last year!

Togepi

Chuchoter wrote: »

Anyone know how many points people usually go up between mocks and June?

It varies hugely. Last year I went up 35. This year I'm aiming to go up about 200. (Still waiting on 3 mock results but I know what my points will be like.)

Eathrin

Chuchoter wrote: »

Anyone know how many points people usually go up between mocks and June?

According to This spreadsheet done by a Boards member last year, students who posted their results went up an average of 20%.:)

In my case that would mean I get 625:rolleyes: Bahaha:D
I'm taking nothing for granted, I can't possibly do any better unless I was to start knuckling down:o

Chuchoter

If I went up by 55 I'd literally die of happiness.

Meowth

Well I've been off for boards for 2 weeks now anyone miss me ? *awkward silence*
Ha so my birthday is on friday ( school and work after) , don't ye just envy me ? :P
Anyways mocks all back , 510 pretty alright I suppose

So how are ye all doing ?

Togepi

Meowth!!

We totes missed you!

And jaysus, 510, can you share some of those points with us? :P

Meowth

Togepi wrote: »

Meowth!!

We totes missed you!

And jaysus, 510, can you share some of those points with us? :P

I totes dont know how this thread even survived without me :P jk
Ha if you want them, you can have them :P they aint real points yet ya know :P Mocks dont matter really

Togepi

Historykitten wrote: »

I totes dont know how this thread even survived without me :P jk
Ha if you want them, you can have them :P they aint real points yet ya know :P Mocks dont matter really

Ha I know, I want the really low points in the mocks to make me work! I mean for in the real thing when you get like a billion or something. :P

PictureFrame

Historykitten wrote: »

Well I've been off for boards for 2 weeks now anyone miss me ? *awkward silence*
Ha so my birthday is on friday ( school and work after) , don't ye just envy me ? :P
Anyways mocks all back , 510 pretty alright I suppose

So how are ye all doing ?

Welcome back Historykitten! Snap with the points! 510 here also! I actually don't know why but i'm kinda disappointed. And 500 was my goal for the Leaving so I don't know why! Feck it, just hope I go up some points in the real thing! :pac:

Meowth

Togepi wrote: »

Ha I know, I want the really low points in the mocks to make me work! I mean for in the real thing when you get like a billion or something. :P

well the 510 has only made me a little depressed :L giving up on this oul LC :P
a billion :L :pac: hahahaha thats a good one :P if anyone's gonna get a billion its mr.smartypants Eathrin :P

PictureFrame wrote: »

Welcome back Historykitten! Snap with the points! 510 here also! I actually don't know why but i'm kinda disappointed. And 500 was my goal for the Leaving so I don't know why! Feck it, just hope I go up some points in the real thing! :pac:

Thanks dear Snap and double snap, i'm a bit disappointed myself :O
oooh really , well if you got it in the mocks , you'll get it in the real thing and more
Ha unlike yourself i didnt even get my course with 510 mines a maths course so with the 25 extra points and the 20% increase in applicants for the course, the situation aint looking well

shefellover93

If I went up 30 points I'd be ecstatic. This actually encourages me to study for my test tomorrow :pac:

Zomg Okay

Got the result for my pre-oral French test today. 65%.

The teacher told me that when he was asking me about my plans for the future, I'd been speaking in the Conditional tense which left a great impression.

I was wise enough not to mention that that was an accident.

ConTheCat

I need to go up about 200

Siobhnk

Dya know that lad, when he touches everything it turns to skittles? What happens when he touches a skittle? Does it just stay 1 skittle? because it can't turn into loads of skittles...

And that's Siobháns random thought of the day. :P

Togepi

Just put a deposit down on my accommodation for next year!

shefellover93

Zomg Okay wrote: »

Got the result for my pre-oral French test today. 65%.

The teacher told me that when he was asking me about my plans for the future, I'd been speaking in the Conditional tense which left a great impression.

I was wise enough not to mention that that was an accident.

I always do that :pac:

Coeurdepirate

If I don't go up at least 100 points in the real thing I'm going to be so upset.

LoonyLovegood

I HATE PAPER TWO.

I'm about to rant, feel free to ignore, or TL;DR. Seriously.

So English Paper Two came back today. One of the teachers corrected all the paper twos. Anyone who's in one of his classes did really well in whatever segments they have him for (we have four english module thingys.) But I dropped him from last year, because I spent poetry sleeping. I almost failed paper two. 44%. Now, I wouldn't mind, BUT I GOT A ****ING B1 IN PAPER ONE. I wrote a five page essay for Hamlet, and 4 for Comparative (we've only done two texts so far). I ran out of time for poetry, but for the TWO PARAGRAPH PLATH ESSAY he gave me 16/50. The two paragraph unseen poetry got 8/50. He docked one mechanical point for every word I spelt wrong. Seriously. I'm so upset because I'm relying on English for a B2, and now my cumulative mark is scraping a C3. The parents are pissed off because I've barely passed my mocks, so I'm upset too. ARGH.

Sorry guys.

Eathrin

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

If I don't go up at least 100 points in the real thing I'm going to be so upset.

If I go up 100 points I would leave secondary schooling with fonder memories, a spring in my step and a humble inner hapiness:)

Coeurdepirate

CTYIgirl wrote: »

I HATE PAPER TWO.

I'm about to rant, feel free to ignore, or TL;DR. Seriously.

So English Paper Two came back today. One of the teachers corrected all the paper twos. Anyone who's in one of his classes did really well in whatever segments they have him for (we have four english module thingys.) But I dropped him from last year, because I spent poetry sleeping. I almost failed paper two. 44%. Now, I wouldn't mind, BUT I GOT A ****ING B1 IN PAPER ONE. I wrote a five page essay for Hamlet, and 4 for Comparative (we've only done two texts so far). I ran out of time for poetry, but for the TWO PARAGRAPH PLATH ESSAY he gave me 16/50. The two paragraph unseen poetry got 8/50. He docked one mechanical point for every word I spelt wrong. Seriously. I'm so upset because I'm relying on English for a B2, and now my cumulative mark is scraping a C3. The parents are pissed off because I've barely passed my mocks, so I'm upset too. ARGH.

Sorry guys.

I know how you feel, I got 160/200 for Paper I and 99/200 for Paper II but that was my own fault, I hadn't studied and my comparative answer was less than a page and a half :rolleyes:
My mock results have been horrific too, I even failed Chemistry
Try not to let them get you down too much though

I'm fuming over Irish, it was so badly corrected. I definitely should have gotten a C3 and not a D1, there were so many places where I should have gotten marks and I didn't.

Chuchoter

CTYIgirl wrote: »

I HATE PAPER TWO.

I'm about to rant, feel free to ignore, or TL;DR. Seriously.

So English Paper Two came back today. One of the teachers corrected all the paper twos. Anyone who's in one of his classes did really well in whatever segments they have him for (we have four english module thingys.) But I dropped him from last year, because I spent poetry sleeping. I almost failed paper two. 44%. Now, I wouldn't mind, BUT I GOT A ****ING B1 IN PAPER ONE. I wrote a five page essay for Hamlet, and 4 for Comparative (we've only done two texts so far). I ran out of time for poetry, but for the TWO PARAGRAPH PLATH ESSAY he gave me 16/50. The two paragraph unseen poetry got 8/50. He docked one mechanical point for every word I spelt wrong. Seriously. I'm so upset because I'm relying on English for a B2, and now my cumulative mark is scraping a C3. The parents are pissed off because I've barely passed my mocks, so I'm upset too. ARGH.

Sorry guys.

English correcting seems to be a bit all over the shop for the mocks. I was getting 3/10 for mechanics in everything when there were no spelling or grammar mistakes in the entire essay and on top of that loads of purpose marks taken off even though I made damn sure to link every single point back to the question and had all the formats etc. I wouldn't worry too much about it, real examiners can't do that.

LoonyLovegood

Have I mentioned my love for ye all?
Wrote out my Hamlet essay to give to the teacher tomorrow, and the comparative one for Friday. I'm raging. On the plus side, I'm staying in study till eight and actually working.

Namlub

Every time I used the word 'repitition' in my English paper, the corrected drew a circle around it and put in a question mark. I still have no idea why...

Eathrin

Namlub wrote: »

Every time I used the word 'repitition' in my English paper, the corrected drew a circle around it and put in a question mark. I still have no idea why...

Do you mean "repetition"?:D

Namlub

Well I'll be damned