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My junior cert is tomorrow and I haven't studied?!

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  • 03-06-2014 3:25pm
    #1
    sophie320
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭


    My jc is tomorrow and I haven't studied
    one but. Does the jc matter for your leaving cert? Or future career? And If you do bad do you have to repeat it I'm so ****ed


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    #2
    Mr_Red
    Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭Mr_Red


    sophie320..... You have set the standard for yourself. if you dont care about the JC why care about the LC or a Career.


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    emersyn
    Registered Users Posts: 430 ✭✭emersyn


    In the long run it doesn't matter very much but it affects the levels you can take for the Leaving Cert, e.g. if you fail higher level English or Maths the school mightn't let you do higher level in those subjects for the Leaving. But if you're willing to pull up your socks and work harder after the exams you should catch up for the Leaving Cert.
    Future careers will never involve your Junior Cert results, they'll only look at your Leaving Cert results (or university qualifications if you go to college). It is better to get off to a good start for the Junior as it sets you up for success in the Leaving, but to be honest it doesn't matter very much.


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    #4
    Kur4mA
    Registered Users Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Kur4mA


    My advice would be to not study at all and go on an internet forum to post about it...


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    Un Croissant
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    Relax. It'll be grand. You'll be saying the same thing in 2-3 years for your leaving.


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    #6
    TheMilkyPirate
    Registered Users Posts: 6,009 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    Doesn't matter one bit should be abolished, Putting unnecessary pressure on young students.


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    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,402 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    sophie320 wrote: »
    I'm so ****ed

    So start studying.

    Nothing else you can do now, is there? You may not get great results but it's probably not too late to pass.


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    Mr_Red
    Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭Mr_Red


    TheMilkyPirate wrote: »
    Doesn't matter one bit should be abolished, Putting unnecessary pressure on young students.

    What pressure? To make an effort?


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    mrcheez
    Registered Users Posts: 13,741 ✭✭✭✭mrcheez


    Nimrod 7 wrote: »
    Nothing else you can do now, is there? You may not get great results but it's probably not too late to pass.

    Exactly, just study up as much as you can, but relax as it's not the end of the world and no it won't affect your career as there are 100s of ways you can qualify post-school.

    Sure Richard Branson hated school and look where that got him :)


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    #10
    dee_mc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,179 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    Stop stressing yourself out and repeat after me:
    All I can do is my best
    All I can do is my best

    Of course you should have done something before now, but the reality is you didn't; there's no point beating yourself up at this stage, just do some revision, get some sleep, and get off boards.ie.
    Best of luck.


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    FutureGuy
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 15,237 Mod ✭✭✭✭FutureGuy


    EDIT: SOPHIE, do not mind the people insulting you or your effort so far. Not sure what people get from having a go at a 14-15 year old girl who has the guts to admit she hasn't studied and is looking for advice, but there you go...

    Sophie. The JC does not matter a whole lot. Having said that...

    Your junior cert is probably going to be a very difficult experience for you now. Go over the most important parts from each exam and hope for the best. But as I said, the JC won't really matter. The one thing I will say about the JC is that it's good practice for the leaving cert in terms of sitting an exam.

    Once the exams are over and you have the results, you have a choice to make. Do you really want to be in the same position in two years time, when you are sitting a proper exam - one that actually WILL have a huge effect on your life?

    There are two versions of yourself that could exist in two years time. One who has sabotaged her life by wasting the last two years and one who has worked her ass off to be in a position to do what she wants after school.

    You do NOT want to be in the position some of my school friends are now in. They were like you at JC. No study done. They then decided to do nothing for the Leaving Cert either and did poorly. Now they have either no jobs or menial jobs. It's very sad indeed.

    No one can make that choice for you. Not your parents and certainly not your friends. Only you.

    I don't care what your grades are like now. They do not matter. Get stuck in over the next 2 years. Work hard. If you do not understand sonething, ask your teacker after class and understand it. If your friends call you a "suck up" or "teachers pet", then fcuk them and find new friends. A few months after school finishes, most won't be friends anyways because that is how life goes - everyone moves on.

    It may be hard to imagine but the person you will hurt most by not studying is the version of you when you are 30-35.


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    #12
    FutureGuy
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 15,237 Mod ✭✭✭✭FutureGuy


    TheMilkyPirate wrote: »
    Doesn't matter one bit should be abolished, Putting unnecessary pressure on young students.

    JC is an incredibly important exam, not in terms of their effect on your life, but as a way to sample the pressure of the exam situation before the Leaving Cert.

    An absolute necessity imho.


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    #13
    TheMilkyPirate
    Registered Users Posts: 6,009 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    FutureGuy wrote: »
    JC is an incredibly important exam, not in terms of their effect on your life, but as a way to sample the pressure of the exam situation before the Leaving Cert.

    An absolute necessity imho.

    Incredibly important? Pull the other one. Your mocks are a good sample of the pressure of an exam situation. The JC on the other hand is a load of shite.


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    Xenji
    Registered Users Posts: 11,505 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    The Junior Cert is in no way important, I cannot even remember what I got in it and it was only about 10 years ago, nobody is ever gonna ask you for your results in a job interview nor will it effect college choices.


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    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,188 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    No one will ask for your results, but your school (fairly justifiably) might place you in the OL or FL class based on your results. Nobody (student or teacher) at LC needs someone who didn't bother at JC playing catch up in their class.


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