*JC 2013/2014 Off-Topic Thread*

CiCi123

nanook5 wrote: »

Did anyone else do the Religion Project/Journal last year ?

We started ours at the end of the year! I think we are doing surveys or something like that, we're all in groups!:)

nanook5

CiCi123 wrote: »

We started ours at the end of the year! I think we are doing surveys or something like that, we're all in groups!:)

We're All finished ours , we just have to right them up in the official booklet

Did ye all have to do the same Topic?

DublinArnie

For the religion projects it's best to do a seperate topic than everyone else. A group of two people working together on one project is fine, but with a good few working on one project may not work so well. The examiner will be LOOKING AT YOUR CONTRIBUTION, not how good the project is as a whole. It's hard to show your contribution to a project if there are many people doing it. If everyone is doing the same topic, then it's going to be hard to stand out. Remember, the examiner recieves the booklets as a whole, all from the same school. So he/she could easily tell if people copied the same information etc hence you'll lose marks. Just saying, my religion teacher has 20+ years in this field so I think she knows what she told us when we did it.

CiCi123

nanook5 wrote: »

Did ye all have to do the same Topic

Yeah we're all doing the same topic because the teacher thought it would be easier(on herself)! We're in groups of 3 or 4:) Did ye do it on your own or in groups???

nanook5

CiCi123 wrote: »

Yeah we're all doing the same topic because the teacher thought it would be easier(on herself)! We're in groups of 3 or 4:) Did ye do it on your own or in groups???

We had a choice to do it on our own or in a group .

I did it on my own though because I thought it would be easier for myself (Which it was)

Our teacher recommended that we do C1 (Importance of regular religious practice in one of the following ......)

Most of my class did C1 because we had studied Islam in such depth .

The people who didn't.....Lets just say theirs were preeeetty bad

We then had to present our project to the class

Jijsaw

DublinArnie wrote: »

They'll need you, Ms.All As!

All As?? How'd ya get that into your head, it'd be more likely for angels to come flying out of me arse playing Walks Like Rihanna then me getting all As in the JC :rolleyes:

Stereomaniac

When I did my Junior Cert. it was easy to see who would get all As. I was proven right as well.

positivealf

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

We did the first 5 (I think) set songs (everything up to and including THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MIIINNE:P), and we did "Ripples in the rockpool" (I only need a few bars of it and I'm sickened to the bone, absolutely despise it:rolleyes:)





Maths H
English H
Irish H
Business H
History H
Science H
Music H
French H
T-Graph H
CSPE

I'll be quite honest and say that I'm dreading CSPE. Our 1st Year teacher was for the birds, and we have spent the entirety of 2nd year doing that blasted action project (a booklet for incoming first years:rolleyes:).

Is it actually a case where there isn't much to learn for CSPE? Is it just really common sense?

CSPE is common level, of course it's easy. Just do well in the action project and watch news.

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positivealf wrote: »

CSPE is common level, of course it's easy. Just do well in the action project and watch news.

Especially keep an eye out during October/November/December. 90% of our CSPE homework during those months was writing reports on the weekly news events I think my teacher new something!

Mr Rhode Island Red

nanook5 wrote: »

Did anyone else do the Religion Project/Journal last year ?

Religion isn't even an exam subject in our school. We have to go to religion class twice a week but we never get homework, don't do any class test, and don't do end of year tests in it.

90% of the time in Religion is spent doing class debates on the most random topics:rolleyes:

nanook5

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

Religion isn't even an exam subject in our school. We have to go to religion class twice a week but we never get homework, don't do any class test, and don't do end of year tests in it.

90% of the time in Religion is spent doing class debates on the most random topics:rolleyes:

I suppose you get an extra class of some other subject to fill in the gaps , yea?

Mr Rhode Island Red

nanook5 wrote: »

I suppose you get an extra class of some other subject to fill in the gaps , yea?

Yep. An extra business and history class.

nanook5

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

Yep. An extra business and history class.

I would swap a religion class for a business class anyday , .........maybe not history class though.......I hate that subject with a passion :mad: :mad:

Mr Rhode Island Red

nanook5 wrote: »

I would swap a religion class for a business class anyday , .........maybe not history class though.......I hate that subject with a passion :mad: :mad:

Opposite for me. Love history. Not a big fan if business. I find the bookeeping side of things very bland

nanook5

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

Opposite for me. Love history. Not a big fan if business. I find the bookeeping side of things very bland

I just think of it as , when am I going to use history in the FUTURE ??

It's so time consuming too !!

I would rather use that time to study maths or science

positivealf

nanook5 wrote: »

I just think of it as , when am I going to use history in the FUTURE ??

It's so time consuming too !!

I would rather use that time to study maths or science

Well if you're gonna study science, history is obviously going to be in many aspects of it. Don't forget that history helps us learn to not repeat the same mistakes again.

nanook5

positivealf wrote: »

Well if you're gonna study science, history is obviously going to be in many aspects of it. Don't forget that history helps us learn to not repeat the same mistakes again.

Don't get me wrong , your right in that aspect .

I do enjoy learning about science history,wars and ancient civilizations but it may just be my history book but some things are just pointless being in the book and are completely irrelevant

I would probably enjoy history a lot more if it wasn't mainly Irish History :eek:

Mr Rhode Island Red

I agree with people who say history is time consuming to study, espescially learning off those people in history accounts.

I'm not saying history is my favourite subject, that spot is reserved for science, but i do think it is more relavant and useful than the likes of irish, which I am sure I will never use after I finish school

nanook5

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

I agree with people who say history is time consuming to study, espescially learning off those people in history accounts.

I'm not saying history is my favourite subject, that spot is reserved for science, but i do think it is more relavant and useful than the likes of irish, which I am sure I will never use after I finish school

Agree with you 100%

positivealf

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

I agree with people who say history is time consuming to study, espescially learning off those people in history accounts.

I'm not saying history is my favourite subject, that spot is reserved for science, but i do think it is more relavant and useful than the likes of irish, which I am sure I will never use after I finish school

In my opinion Irish should be an optional subject for LC, I'm planning on getting a tutor in 6th year for Irish, I still don't know my tenses:(

positivealf

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

I agree with people who say history is time consuming to study, espescially learning off those people in history accounts.

I'm not saying history is my favourite subject, that spot is reserved for science, but i do think it is more relavant and useful than the likes of irish, which I am sure I will never use after I finish school

Mr Rhode Island Red: "Opposite for me. Love history."

so which is it?

Mr Rhode Island Red

positivealf wrote: »

Mr Rhode Island Red: "Opposite for me. Love history."

so which is it?

Love history, love science more?:-)

DublinArnie

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

Love history, love science more?:-)

Science > All subjects

Who's in the science masterrace with me?

nanook5

DublinArnie wrote: »

Science > All subjects

Who's in the science masterrace with me?

Meeeeeeeeeeeeee

pizzamad

hi its my last day of summer i like pizza im doing the JC this year lol i did alot of work in first and second year so i hope it wont be tooooo bad

pizzamad

Sorry for the second post haha

I do music!! We have done all the course apart from our chosen works haha I'm literally vivaldi's BIGGEST fan ahhahahahah;) I also do: ((all HL apart from CSPE???;))
English, Irish, Maths, French, Science, History, Geography, Music, Business and CSPE

nanook5

Seems like most people on this thread do business (Yes!!)

Stereomaniac

Business wasn't too bad for the Junior Cert. My teacher was a cousin of Roy Cropper's from Corrie.

DublinArnie

nanook5 wrote: »

Seems like most people on this thread do business (Yes!!)

Checked your flickr!

Really amazing pictures! I would give you anything for that black kitten! :eek:

Stereomaniac

What exactly would you give?

DublinArnie

Stereomaniac wrote: »

What exactly would you give?

A lot. :rolleyes:

nanook5

DublinArnie wrote: »

Checked your flickr!

Really amazing pictures! I would give you anything for that black kitten! :eek:

Thanks !! Haha I know shes like a little bear.

I do enjoy my photograpahy , unfortunately I will have little time for it this year

CiaranWexC

Hello all.

Doing my JC this year, new to Boards.ie, just introducing myself. Hopefully i can get some help here and will be open to giving help as well.

DublinArnie

CiaranWexC wrote: »

Hello all.

Doing my JC this year, new to Boards.ie, just introducing myself. Hopefully i can get some help here and will be open to giving help as well.

Welcome to boards.ie!

If you have any questions or need any help with any subject or generally with anything , just ask.

nanook5

Are most people on here back on Wednesday?

Just saw a post on facebook , Some people are back tomorrow

pizzamad

Im back tommorow, I dont mind tho

nanook5

pizzamad wrote: »

Im back tommorow, I dont mind tho

Go to Sleep !!!

CiaranWexC

nanook5 wrote: »

Are most people on here back on Wednesday?

Just saw a post on facebook , Some people are back tomorrow

Yep, I'm back tomorrow too :mad::(

nanook5

Maybe I'm the odd one out :eek:

pizzamad

Ahhhh no, i was watching the VMA's

DublinArnie

pizzamad wrote: »

Ahhhh no, i was watching the VMA's

Same here! *highfive*

laurap123

Hey guys do any of ye know if Religion is compulsary for the JC?

I've been an atheist for almost a year now and I think it doesn't seem fair to sit an exam for something you've zero beliefs in. Also some of the stuff our teacher says regarding 'god' and the likes is just brainrot and ridiculous!

spurious

laurap123 wrote: »

Hey guys do any of ye know if Religion is compulsary for the JC?

I've been an atheist for almost a year now and I think it doesn't seem fair to sit an exam for something you've zero beliefs in. Also some of the stuff our teacher says regarding 'god' and the likes is just brainrot and ridiculous!

Are you in a religious run/owned school? Their house, their rules.

The examination subject is not compulsory.

DublinArnie

laurap123 wrote: »

Hey guys do any of ye know if Religion is compulsary for the JC?

I've been an atheist for almost a year now and I think it doesn't seem fair to sit an exam for something you've zero beliefs in. Also some of the stuff our teacher says regarding 'god' and the likes is just brainrot and ridiculous!

I'm atheist and I still did the exam.

You have to do it if it's an exam subject in your school. It's a lot like history and most of it is common sense (well, for me it is) so you have nothing to worry about if you put the effort in.

Mr Rhode Island Red

Not back till wednesday. I say wednesday because it has a nicer ring to it than "tomorrow"

smiles_1998

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

Not back till wednesday. I say wednesday because it has a nicer ring to it than "tomorrow"

It really does doesn't it?

CiCi123

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

Not back till wednesday. I say wednesday because it has a nicer ring to it than "tomorrow"

I'm back Wednesday too!:) When I got up this morning my mom said "oh its your last day of freedom, you'll be back in ..." and I just said do Not mention the "S" word :eek: How could she be so cruel??!!!

Eims14

I'm back today but only for a 2hours and then I'm not back till Friday.I was fine with going back until this morning I know what I'll be like next monday

nanook5

I won't be able to sleep tonight :eek:

I only just got up

DublinArnie

nanook5 wrote: »

I won't be able to sleep tonight :eek:

I only just got up

I hope you have fun tomorrow ...