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

bb1234567

Hotale.com wrote: »

Every system has its flaws, I actually think the leaving cert does what it's supposed to do quite well.

England's system is a joke compared to ours, they do like 3 subjects....

Doing 7 subjects is completely ridiculous. Atleast if you do 3 you get to try and focus on them and do well in them. Trying to balance study between 7 subjects is the hardest thing. And some subjects have so many subsections (orals, aurals,pracitcals) and English sometimes feels more like 3 or four subjects between Paper one, poetry, Macbeth and comparative. Its so overwhelming i want to escape to a remote brazilian island and live in education free paradise whos with me

wallace2

Anyone else hear that apparently there was a mistake on ol maths question 8?

Katie1289

Striving470 wrote: »

Philosophy instead of religion
.

:eek:

Perfect. I genuinely love that idea. Get rid of outdated mumbo jumbo and let people be spiritual by asking themselves the questions that are fundamentally at the heart of religion.

I think Politics should be a topic aswell. CSPE does nowt to inform people of what goes on to run a country.

bb1234567

If I ever see a Dickinson quote ever again before now and the day I die I swear it will be too soon

Hotale.com

wallace2 wrote: »

Anyone else hear that apparently there was a mistake on ol maths question 8?

False rumour apparently.

Katie1289

wallace2 wrote: »

Anyone else hear that apparently there was a mistake on ol maths question 8?

Oh there'll be plenty of mistakes in my Q.8!

Which one was that again?

Striving470

Katie1289 wrote: »

:eek:

Perfect. I genuinely love that idea. Get rid of outdated mumbo jumbo and let people be spiritual by asking themselves the questions that are fundamentally at the heart of religion.

I think Politics should be a topic aswell. CSPE does nowt to inform people of what goes on to run a country.

Marry me.

HugsiePie

Hotale.com wrote: »

Shît.

Can I just bake you a pie, give you a hug and then will you piss off?

Why you gotta be so mean

I mean you were on my good side until then......

And you dont want to be a victim of the WRATH OF HUGSIE :mad::mad::mad:



What you shouldve said was will you piss off PLEASE!

manners dont cost anything!

Hotale.com

bb1234567 wrote: »

If I ever see a Dickinson quote ever again before now and the day I die I swear it will be too soon

Do you hope you'll never see one again? Well, "hope is the thing with feathers, that perches on the soul, and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.".

Badwulf

Everytime I read " CASIO FX-83GT PLUS" on my calculator I always read it as "Casino Fagget Plus"

EVERY


TIME

bb1234567

wallace2 wrote: »

Anyone else hear that apparently there was a mistake on ol maths question 8?

I didnt notice and I sat it :P What was the mistake?

Poliana.xo

bb1234567 wrote: »

If I ever see a Dickinson quote ever again before now and the day I die I swear it will be too soon

why u hatin on Emily she's cool

Striving470

Poliana.xo wrote: »

why u hatin on Emily she's cool

The only enjoyment I had of classroom education in 2 years

shopaholic01

randylonghorn wrote: »

Lol, hi shopa!

Good evening, randy! :pac:

Hotale.com

HugsiePie wrote: »

Why you gotta be so mean

I mean you were on my good side until then......

And you dont want to be a victim of the WRATH OF HUGSIE :mad::mad::mad:

*Snippy snip*

Prepare yourself.

Poliana.xo

Striving470 wrote: »

The only enjoyment I had of classroom education in 2 years

YES! Imagine how disappointed with poetry I was when my teacher first covered Yeats, Heaney and Kinsella.. And then Dickinson came and reminded me there's still hope..:p

Saskatchewan

Badwulf wrote: »

Everytime I read " CASIO FX-83GT PLUS" on my calculator I always read it as "Casino Fagget Plus"

EVERY


TIME

You have ruined my calculator forever

bb1234567

Poliana.xo wrote: »

why u hatin on Emily she's cool

Shes a depressing emo freak

Striving470

bb1234567 wrote: »

Shes a depressing emo freak

Your mother sells herself.

peekachoo

bb1234567 wrote: »

Shes a depressing emo freak

Not sure if serious...:pac:



Guys, 22 Jump Street is an absolute quality laugh, laughed through the whole thing! :pac:

wallace2

bb1234567 wrote: »

I didnt notice and I sat it :P What was the mistake?

Not sure myself, probably a rumour! Just saw a few facebook posts

wallace2

Hotale.com wrote: »

False rumour apparently.

Ah I thought so myself

Saskatchewan

My favourite quote by Dickinson is: "Publication is the auction - of the mind of a man"

HugsiePie

Hotale.com wrote: »

Prepare yourself.

I quote pics cause Im a rebel :cool:

I look forward to it

As well as my meal MWAHAHAHAHA

wallace2

Katie1289 wrote: »

Oh there'll be plenty of mistakes in my Q.8!

Which one was that again?

The one about the volume of the box! I answered it terribly so I'd love it to be true haha

HugsiePie

peekachoo wrote: »

Not sure if serious...:pac:

Dont worry

They werent talking bout you :pac::pac::pac:

AtomicKoala

Hotale.com wrote: »

or if you're a real blasphemer you could drop Shakespeare to take up Creative Writing or something.

Untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred :eek: Most sacrilegious murder!

peekachoo

HugsiePie wrote: »

Dont worry

They werent talking bout you :pac::pac::pac:

I can't let go of my inner emo.

Peregrine

wallace2 wrote: »

Not sure myself, probably a rumour! Just saw a few facebook posts

I haven't done it out but it looks fine to me.

Aspiring

We only found out last week you can use your calculator to find the modulus and argument for complex numbers. Only saves a couple of seconds but still.

It's easier on Casios, you win this round.

jazz101

bb1234567 wrote: »

This year and particularly the time since school ended until now has honestly been one of the worst and least enjoyable times of my life.

It never quite hit me until I finished my first exam that this is it. I am never opening a book in a classroom again, never having info spoonfed into me. I dunno I guess even graduation didn't quite hit home that this was the end of the line for that sort of thing. Looking at the books now and they might as well be thrown out.. such a weird feeling. And I didn't even like school.

Hotale.com

Aspiring wrote: »

We only found out last week you can use your calculator to find the modulus and argument for complex numbers. Only saves a couple of seconds but still.

It's easier on Casios, you win this round.

Did we need to find them in the exam......?

Hotale.com

HugsiePie wrote: »

I quote pics cause Im a rebel :cool:

I look forward to it

As well as my meal MWAHAHAHAHA

I'm confused now.




Sure look.

bb1234567

Guess how much the leaving cert exams cost the government?




Sixty

Six

Million

Euro.

jazz101

bb1234567 wrote: »

Guess how much the leaving cert exams cost the government?




Sixty

Six

Million

Euro.

At least 60 of that is on these fancy new answer books with the rainforest of pages.

AtomicKoala

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

I haven't done it out but it looks fine to me.

Nimrod, you know you're procrastinating when you're looking at OL Maths Paper 1 :pac:

Hotale.com

bb1234567 wrote: »

Guess how much the leaving cert exams cost the government?




Sixty

Six

Million

Euro.

DON'T OPEN THIS CAN OF WORMS!!! PLEASE!!!

The last thing we need during our leaving cert is a discussion on government expenditure D;

bb1234567

jazz101 wrote: »

It never quite hit me until I finished my first exam that this is it. I am never opening a book in a classroom again, never having info spoonfed into me. I dunno I guess even graduation didn't quite hit home that this was the end of the line for that sort of thing. Looking at the books now and they might as well be thrown out.. such a weird feeling. And I didn't even like school.

Yeah definitely does feel weird I couldnt be happier about it though. Just want to get on with my life now, school was okay but I dont understand all the 'best years of your life' lark. All I remember is stress

Peregrine

Aspiring wrote: »

It's easier on Casios, you win this round.

Most things are

My only issue with them is the fact that it doesn't have a dedicated pi button.

AtomicKoala wrote: »

Nimrod, you know you're procrastinating when you're looking at OL Maths Paper 1 :pac:

It's area and volume!

It could easily come up in our Paper 2 This is revision.






Dodged that one :pac:

Saskatchewan

bb1234567 wrote: »

Guess how much the leaving cert exams cost the government?




Sixty

Six

Million

Euro.

IMO they'd be better off if they just reduced the tax on vodka in accordance to the saving

Lara_15

Anyone have decent Irish Aiste notes?? I will repay you in some way with notes I have

Aspiring

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Most things are

My only issue with them is the fact that it doesn't have a dedicated pi button.

No pi button? You might as well be carrying a plank of wood around.

HugsiePie

Aspiring wrote: »

No pi button? You might as well be carrying a plank of wood around.

o.O

What if you have to get something in terms of pi?!

Aspiring

HugsiePie wrote: »

o.O

What if you have to get something in terms of pi?!

Just leave the pi out.
Sharp for intelligence.
Casio for simplicity.

Peregrine

Aspiring wrote: »

No pi button? You might as well be carrying a plank of wood around.

You have to press shift

bb1234567 wrote: »

Guess how much the leaving cert exams cost the government?




Sixty

Six

Million

Euro.

I'm pretty sure €66m covers both LC and JC. It'll be a whole less soon with the JC gone.


But yeah, that's how much it costs. And they only take in around €9m from exam fees.

HugsiePie

Aspiring wrote: »

Just leave the pi out.
Sharp for intelligence.
Casio for simplicity.

Butlike what if its super complicated and ......and.......and.......


Ok you win.

AtomicKoala

Saskatchewan wrote: »

IMO they'd be better off if they just reduced the tax on vodka in accordance to the saving

Tax cuts? Who are you, Ronald Reagan?

Aspiring

HugsiePie wrote: »

Butlike what if its super complicated and ......and.......and.......


Ok you win.

I actually prefer Casios they're easier to use for a good few things :pac:
Just happened to buy a Sharp, little difference anyway.

Gaw_

jazz101 wrote: »

At least 60 of that is on these fancy new answer books with the rainforest of pages.

I just wish the bloody margins were bigger

Hotale.com

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

I'm pretty sure €66m covers both LC and JC. It'll be a whole less soon with the JC gone.


But yeah, that's how much it costs. And they only take in around €9m from exam fees.

When you think about it's not even that much. They have to pay a supervisor for about every 30 students, have to pay people to correct every exam, have to pay the 4th/5th years to make tea (:rolleyes:), have to organise the distribution of the exams throughout the country, have to pay people to make the exam and they have to pay for all the printing of exams/booklets et, and I probably left out a few things there.

I'm actually surprised it's not more.....