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Leaving Cert 2014 OT v2.0 - Official Bitch & Moan thread

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭aleatorio


    It depends on how good you are at putting essays together.. If you're good at Irish and can write essays easily, just like plan your points for essays and have some general nathanna cainte!

    I made an essay up on the spot with limited relevant vocab (On bochtannas) and got 75/100 so I guess I'm reasonably ok, to be honest the part I find the hardest is thinking of enough to say! :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,204 ✭✭✭Aspiring


    We should start a thread where we can all come in and speak our poor French (and other languages - in seperate threads of course). We would all improve and it would be a chance to use vocab, grammar and be corrected if you're wrong. It would be useful to practice coming up to Wednesday or whatever day your language is on.

    Where is the flaw in this plan? :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭jellytots95


    aleatorio wrote: »
    I made an essay up on the spot with limited relevant vocab (On bochtannas) and got 75/100 so I guess I'm reasonably ok, to be honest the part I find the hardest is thinking of enough to say! :o

    Well you can kind of use nathannas to fill it up, just general ones like that that it's a huge problem and it sickens you etc.

    In our pres we all got marked way down for writing too much, loads of my class failed it and we're all going to school through Irish :/, did that happen to anybody else?? And if so, how much do you recommend writing for them now?


  • Registered Users Posts: 69 ✭✭LaughingOwl


    Well you can kind of use nathannas to fill it up, just general ones like that that it's a huge problem and it sickens you etc.

    In our pres we all got marked way down for writing too much, loads of my class failed it and we're all going to school through Irish :/, did that happen to anybody else?? And if so, how much do you recommend writing for them now?

    My teacher always said about 2.5 pages to 3 at most. I'm aiming for 2.5 because my grammar is terrible.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 256 ✭✭Saskatchewan


    Aspiring wrote: »
    We should start a thread where we can all come in and speak our poor French (and other languages - in seperate threads of course). We would all improve and it would be a chance to use vocab, grammar and be corrected if you're wrong. It would be useful to practice coming up to Wednesday or whatever day your language is on.

    Where is the flaw in this plan? :pac:

    Well, im pretty sure im the only one on this who does Italian... But yeah, bonjour, cosi cosi. That's my french!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭aleatorio


    Well you can kind of use nathannas to fill it up, just general ones like that that it's a huge problem and it sickens you etc.

    In our pres we all got marked way down for writing too much, loads of my class failed it and we're all going to school through Irish :/, did that happen to anybody else?? And if so, how much do you recommend writing for them now?

    I fit 14-16 words to a line, and write about 2.5 pages for a decent essay, wrote 3 in the mocks though but in retrospect that was about 1900 words which is way too much :rolleyes:
    Going to try and be nice and concise on Monday, hitting the recommended 900-1000 words is easy enough, its sounding succint thats the hard part :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,374 ✭✭✭Hotale.com


    Well, im pretty sure im the only one on this who does Italian... But yeah, bonjour, cosi cosi. That's my french!

    I did Italian for TY.

    I remember bambino, citta and bongourno.

    Don't even know what citta means. :p


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    Wait what I wrote 6 pages for my mocks essay and got 98 I dont think you get marked down for writing too much:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 256 ✭✭Saskatchewan


    Hotale.com wrote: »
    I did Italian for TY.

    I remember bambino, citta and bongourno.

    Don't even know what citta means. :p

    città can mean city or town. Italiano è una lingua bellissimo! Non è troppo difficile, ho una ottima conoscenza della lingua! In bocca a lupo a tutti che faranno l'esame in due settimana!


  • Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭jellytots95


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    Wait what I wrote 6 pages for my mocks essay and got 98 I dont think you get marked down for writing too much:pac:

    I don't think they should, it was probably just a dodgy corrector. She was obsessed, she wrote at the end of them all how much we had written and that it was too much.. I just don't want to risk writing too much just in case!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 704 ✭✭✭Lara_15


    I'm pretty fluent(ish) in irish so I didnt learn anything for the pre, I did the fadhbanna an t-aos óg one, It ended up 4pages long and I got 72, pretty sure most of my marks were lost for grammar. I can speak irish perfectly but grammar always lets me down :(
    I don't think they should, it was probably just a dodgy corrector. She was obsessed, she wrote at the end of them all how much we had written and that it was too much.. I just don't want to risk writing too much just in case!

    Ye probably just pissed her off because she had to go to more effort reading through them, doubt they can take marks off for something like that in the real thing... and if they do, view your paper and appeal it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,157 ✭✭✭✭HugsiePie


    città can mean city or town. Italiano è una lingua bellissimo! Non è troppo difficile, ho una ottima conoscenza della lingua! In bocca a lupo a tutti che faranno l'esame in due settimana!

    Someone say ciatta


  • Registered Users Posts: 411 ✭✭Badwulf


    I just can't get any study done today, god damn :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 300 ✭✭Poliana.xo


    Gets me every time :pac:



  • Registered Users Posts: 704 ✭✭✭Lara_15


    Anyone know if financial maths is a possibility for paper 2 :/ ??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,374 ✭✭✭Hotale.com


    Lara_15 wrote: »
    Anyone know if financial maths is a possibility for paper 2 :/ ??

    Tbh I could see it being thrown in with probability or something. Unlikely though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 704 ✭✭✭Lara_15


    Hotale.com wrote: »
    Tbh I could see it being thrown in with probability or something. Unlikely though.

    Yeah cos the end of that complex numbers question they threw in a bit of co-ordinate geometry/trig sly bastards


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,374 ✭✭✭Hotale.com


    Lara_15 wrote: »
    Yeah cos the end of that complex numbers question they threw in a bit of co-ordinate geometry/trig sly bastards

    That was lovely though in fairness :p


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


    No, I've told you before the admins sent me alert when you're not studying. It's for your own good really.
    :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 704 ✭✭✭Lara_15


    Hotale.com wrote: »
    That was lovely though in fairness :p

    yeah sneaky, but lovely
    whats even on P2?
    statistics
    probability
    theorems/constructions
    trig
    geometry
    circle/line

    am I missing anything??


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,374 ✭✭✭Hotale.com


    Lara_15 wrote: »
    yeah sneaky, but lovely
    whats even on P2?
    statistics
    probability
    theorems/constructions
    trig
    geometry
    circle/line

    am I missing anything??

    Enlargements/translations?

    Think that's it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 704 ✭✭✭Lara_15


    Hotale.com wrote: »
    Enlargements/translations?

    Think that's it.

    Ugh the effort of theorems, and trig proofs
    Dont think ill bother with trig proofs, ill just bull**** a bit and rearrange some of the stuff in the log tables if they come up... not spending hours for 10 marks that isnt even guarunteed


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,374 ✭✭✭Hotale.com


    Lara_15 wrote: »
    Ugh the effort of theorems, and trig proofs
    Dont think ill bother with trig proofs, ill just bull**** a bit and rearrange some of the stuff in the log tables if they come up... not spending hours for 10 marks that isnt even guarunteed

    I had mine down perfectly in the pre and got 10 marks out of 25... I don't think I'll bother with the trig proofs either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,204 ✭✭✭Aspiring


    IF anybody's wondering, I started that French thread after, it's in the Leaving Cert section.
    Also here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057225739


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,374 ✭✭✭Hotale.com


    Aspiring wrote: »
    IF anybody's wondering, I started that French thread after, it's in the Leaving Cert section.
    Also here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057225739

    I apologise for my brutal French in advance. :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,204 ✭✭✭Aspiring


    Hotale.com wrote: »
    I apologise for my brutal French in advance. :P

    Trust me I'm worse :pac: because:
    a) Don't need French for my course
    b) I won't be counting French.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,374 ✭✭✭Hotale.com


    Aspiring wrote: »
    Trust me I'm worse :pac: because:
    a) Don't need French for my course
    b) I won't be counting French.

    Well I...

    a) Wanted to keep on German but couldn't
    b) Don't need it for my course
    c) I won't be counting it
    d) I do pass
    f) I have never studied it except the night before
    g) The only verb I know by heart is Être.
    h) I hate it
    i) The only phrase I remember is "Il y a rien que du soleil matin au soir", and I don't even know if that's right :pac:


    French <3


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,204 ✭✭✭Aspiring


    Hotale.com wrote: »
    Well I...

    a) Wanted to keep on German but couldn't
    b) Don't need it for my course
    c) I won't be counting it
    d) I do pass
    f) I have never studied it except the night before
    g) The only verb I know by heart is Être.
    h) I hate it
    i) The only phrase I remember is "Il y a rien que du soleil matin au soir", and I don't even know if that's right :pac:


    French <3

    You win :pac: I thought I needed it up until 3 months ago, I could have done another subject :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,374 ✭✭✭Hotale.com


    Aspiring wrote: »
    You win :pac: I thought I needed it up until 3 months ago, I could have done another subject :o

    I've already mentioned here that I wanted to do history over it and someone nearly ate my head off :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,204 ✭✭✭Aspiring


    Hotale.com wrote: »
    I've already mentioned here that I wanted to do history over it and someone nearly ate my head off :(

    Sure History's easy like ;) Same as biology, chemistry, ag science and every other subject I don't do ;)


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