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

HauntedGhost

DEFIANTLY FAILED PAPER 1 MATHS, DAMN!

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HauntedGhost wrote: »

DEFIANTLY FAILED PAPER 1 MATHS, DAMN!

So you did it on purpose? :rolleyes:

neonmaria

have a horrible feeling about irish really worried about the listening aswell

Aspiring

neonmaria wrote: »

have a horrible feeling about irish really worried about the listening aswell

Leigh anois go curamach ar do scrudphaipaer... na treoracha... agus na ceisteanna... agoinn, le cuid Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

AtomicKoala

Lads, I meant to say this earlier.

Today, three score ten years ago, some 150,000 men landed on the beaches of Normandy.

Today, we landed on the beaches of Maths Paper 1.

We waded, and waded. The SEC launched barrage and barrage.

As of now, we are under the cliff face.

By Monday, we will be on the road to Paris.

In 61 hours, we will have prevailed.

We will have vanquished tyranny and oppression.

And we shall.

Calvin

I'll be lucky to get 10% from paper 1 :pac:

Fail maths, fail the whole leaving cert...is that one of those myths or actual truth?

crolekka

AtomicKoala wrote: »

Lads, I meant to say this earlier.

Today, three score ten years ago, some 150,000 men landed on the beaches of Normandy.

Today, we landed on the beaches of Maths Paper 1.

We waded, and waded. The SEC launched barrage and barrage.

As of now, we are under the cliff face.

By Monday, we will be on the road to Paris.

In 61 hours, we will have prevailed.

We will have vanquished tyranny and oppression.

And we shall.

Haha nice. That's putting procrastination to good use! Maybe if you do history you could pass it as revision

HauntedGhost

Calvin Leong wrote: »

I'll be lucky to get 10% from paper 1 :pac:

Fail maths, fail the whole leaving cert...is that one of those myths or actual truth?

Myth if you want to do an Arts degree

Katie1289

Striving470 wrote: »

Marry me.

Of course my love.

Peregrine

Most colleges need a pass in maths and English(and sometimes Irish and/or a European language too) for matriculation. There are ones that don't need it and some let you take a test over the summer, I think.

I don't really understand this whole 'fail the whole Leaving Cert' thing though.

neonmaria

Aspiring wrote: »

Leigh anois go curamach ar do scrudphaipaer... na treoracha... agus na ceisteanna... agoinn, le cuid Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

praying it won't be impossible but who knows

Aspiring

UCD Arts doesn't require maths.

Could you not go do maths under arts (no special requirements) and become a maths teacher after failing maths in the leaving cert :pac:

Aspiring

neonmaria wrote: »

praying it won't be impossible but who knows

Just keep practicing the more you do it the better your ear becomes for the aul Gaeilge

AtomicKoala

crolekka wrote: »

Haha nice. That's putting procrastination to good use! Maybe if you do history you could pass it as revision

“Arbeit macht frei"

Applies so well to the LC, no? :pac:

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Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Most colleges need a pass in maths and English(and sometimes Irish and/or a European language too) for matriculation. There are ones that don't need it and some let you take a test over the summer, I think.

I don't really understand this whole 'fail the whole Leaving Cert' thing though.

I'm fairly sure It used to actually be a case that if you failed maths, Irish or English you "failed" your leaving cert and couldn't go to college.

Calvin

HauntedGhost wrote: »

Myth if you want to do an Arts degree

Awh f*ck...looks like I've got to get 60% or higher in paper 2 to pass then! No pressure

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Calvin Leong wrote: »

Awh f*ck...looks like I've got to get 60% or higher in paper 2 to pass then! No pressure

What do you want to do in college?

HauntedGhost

Calvin Leong wrote: »

Awh f*ck...looks like I've got to get 60% or higher in paper 2 to pass then! No pressure

If you do end up failing (hopefully not of course) some places let you sit maths exams in their college and if you pass you get accepted! I'm not DEFINITELY sure though

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HauntedGhost wrote: »

If you do end up failing (hopefully not of course) some places let you sit maths exams in their college and if you pass you get accepted! I'm not DEFINITELY sure though

They do, CIT does it like two days after the results or something. It's supposed to be quite a difficult exam though...

Calvin

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What do you want to do in college?

BIS in UCC!

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Calvin Leong wrote: »

BIS in UCC!

I remember they came to our school to show us what the course was about, they said feck all about it and at the end we got a small booklet filled with poetry and other pretentious nonsense.

I think I knew more about BIS before they talked to us :rolleyes:

Calvin

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I remember they came to our school to show us what the course was about, they said feck all about it and at the end we got a small booklet filled with poetry and other pretentious nonsense.

I think I knew more about BIS before they talked to us :rolleyes:

Unfortunately they didn't come to my school, but it's a perfect mix of both business and technology, two of my interests which lead me to it! Pity it's 440 and possibly rising again next year though....

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Calvin Leong wrote: »

Unfortunately they didn't come to my school, but it's a perfect mix of both business and technology, two of my interests which lead me to it! Pity it's 440 and possibly rising again next year though....

I dunno, there's no one in my school hoping to do it out of about 100. Going by that the demand can't be that big...

HauntedGhost

Calvin Leong wrote: »

Unfortunately they didn't come to my school, but it's a perfect mix of both business and technology, two of my interests which lead me to it! Pity it's 440 and possibly rising again next year though....

I have BIS down too but for NUIG :P

Calvin

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I dunno, there's no one in my school hoping to do it out of about 100. Going by that the demand can't be that big...

The open day for UCC, they had to get extra seats in because there was so many..and even at that, it stretched to almost out the door :P it went up 30 last year

HauntedGhost wrote: »

I have BIS down too but for NUIG :P

I have that too! And CIT...basically all possible colleges with BIS :pac:

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Calvin Leong wrote: »

The open day for UCC, they had to get extra seats in because there was so many..and even at that, it stretched to almost out the door :P it went up 30 last year


I have that too! And CIT...basically all possible colleges with BIS :pac:

Just go to Cork because it's the best place on earth.

peekachoo

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Just go to Cork because it's the best place on earth.

Said no one ever

Lara_15

nahh lads, galway is where its at

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peekachoo wrote: »

Said no one ever

Jealous.

I actually like Tipp

peekachoo

Hotale.com wrote: »

Jealous.

I actually like Tipp :P

I'm going to Cork remember? :pac:

and who doesn't?

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peekachoo wrote: »

I'm going to Cork remember? :pac:

Lucky you

AtomicKoala

Ah lads come to Cork, there's some Wispas in it for ye...

ejayy

I have cork down

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AtomicKoala wrote: »

Ah lads come to Cork, there's some Wispas in it for ye...

BARRY'S TEA.

Aspiring

Are yous all from the Munster area :pac:

Anybody else heading for Dublin come September?

ejayy

Aspiring wrote: »

Are yous all from the Munster area :pac:

Anybody else heading for Dublin come September?

Nope Connacht!!

Yup super excited ! You?:)

randylonghorn

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I already miss Macbeth.

U R MacBitch!

Saskatchewan wrote: »

Everyone in boards seems so eloquent, and im here like " shure be grand" and other stereotypical farmer slang...

Most farmers I know don't use the word stereotypical too often! :pac:

Hotale.com wrote: »

It is so badly taught and very few people seem to know how to do it, even teachers.

In all fairness, I don't entirely blame the teachers, it's vague and overly complicated in how they divide it out into modes or whatever they call them.

HugsiePie wrote: »

have you notmet Dan yet


or randy :pac:

I'm not a farmer!

Ok, I'm not far off one in some ways, but to Dan's sterotypical (:pac:) question "D'you have land?", my answer is a "no".

Lara_15 wrote: »

And then theres the poets, I think there should be 6 not 8

There used to be a lot more, and it was pretty impossible to predict what might appear, and then they went to 8 and everyone thought it was great ... and now people want it reduced to 6, and if that happens, in a couple of years time people will want it reduced to 4, and so on!

Lara_15 wrote: »

and that the questions should be broader and more personal, letting the student pick a poet or two who genuinely interests them and write why...

They tried broad, personal questions like "Give a personal response to the poetry of ..." for a while and everyone learned off stock answers from their teachers / grind schools etc. The teachers passed their LC already, it's you lot who are supposed to be sitting the exam!

Lara_15 wrote: »

... and the unseen poem is pointless and annoying.

It may be annoying, but it's far from pointless ... it's the one bit of the paper people can't prepare for by learning off reams by rote, and actually have to demonstrate that they *know* something themselves. And it's piss-easy usually tbh.

Saskatchewan wrote: »

Haha, a good ol' culchie chat needs to had once I finish this LC. It is clashing with silage so its kind of a disaster.

Oh, you're Dan II all right!

I remember him ranting last year about a week before the LC because his ma was at him to study and he was salivating for the silage! :pac:

HugsiePie

Ehhhh

lads dont even try

Galway.

Simples.

AtomicKoala

Aspiring wrote: »

Are yous all from the Munster area :pac:

Anybody else heading for Dublin come September?

Jesus, Dublin? I don't think even Protestants can afford the living expenses there...

Aspiring

ejayy wrote: »

Nope Connacht!!

Yup super excited ! You?:)

Jaysus and you want to go to Dublin! I'd have thought everybody around there would head for Galway

Ah yeah can't wait, should be class. Where you looking to go?

jazz101

UCD here. No one else in my school is going there and I have to go there because it's the only place that offers my course. Nervous..

Aspiring

jazz101 wrote: »

UCD here. No one else in my school is going there and I have to go there because it's the only place that offers my course. Nervous..

Same. Few from my school hoping to go there. Usually all of the culchies such as myself tend to migrate there year in year out, not as many this year :pac:

aleatorio

Aspiring wrote: »

Are yous all from the Munster area :pac:

Anybody else heading for Dublin come September?

Me!
All my choices are in Dublin, ucd and trinity :P

HauntedGhost

GALWAY ftw :P

Peregrine

AtomicKoala wrote: »

Jesus, Dublin? I don't think even Protestants can afford the loving expenses there...

The what expenses?



Dublin's great. K?
I only have Dublin on my CAO. Oh and Maynooth.

Aspiring

aleatorio wrote: »

Me!
All my choices are in Dublin, ucd and trinity :P

Same, and have a few for maynooth down also

HugsiePie

Yeah sure to head to Dublin with the rest of the country....good luck trying to find your fresh start there :rolleyes:

Aspiring

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

The what expenses?

There's a pleasure charge now for anybody living in Dublin. Often revered to as the "loving expenses". Have you not heard?

jazz101

Maynooth here as an alternative also. I also have Limerick but I was advised to go to Dublin.. sort of undecided at the moment on that.

Aspiring

HugsiePie wrote: »

Yeah sure to head to Dublin with the rest of the country....good luck trying to find your fresh start there :rolleyes:

I hope this isn't for real