LC Off Topic Thread (2015/16)

Consonata

Our school doesn't have any terminal christmas tests. We just average up all the tests we've been doing all term. I prefer it. Leave the terminal exam till the summer

DublinArnie

Consonata wrote: »

Our school doesn't have any terminal christmas tests. We just average up all the tests we've been doing all term. I prefer it. Leave the terminal exam till the summer

That's a much better system indeed.

fortyfleurs

I finished my exams on Friday! They were pretty easy tbh 2A1s and A2 so far

Beca19

What did everyone get up to on their day off?:)

Take Your Pants Off

Beca19 wrote: »

What did everyone get up to on their day off?:)

Studied for my exams coming up .
What about you ?
I really cannot wait for Christmas holidays, I have so much in plan.
Starting working out with personal trainer, get some house errands done(yeah I like working around the house!) have all my school stuff that I missed or did not understand through out the year caught up with, shopping, parties, that is just from the top of my head.

DublinArnie

Beca19 wrote: »

What did everyone get up to on their day off?:)

Finished my complete study for biology and physchem (exams next week). Actually managed to do all the questions without my notes, so that's nice and a confidence boost.

Just went town and hospital visit, and got a haircut. What did you do?

Take Your Pants Off wrote: »

Studied for my exams coming up .
What about you ?
I really cannot wait for Christmas holidays, I have so much in plan.
Starting working out with personal trainer, get some house errands done(yeah I like working around the house!) have all my school stuff that I missed or did not understand through out the year caught up with, shopping, parties, that is just from the top of my head.

What sort of workout you doing? Shopping parties ... I feel like I'm on my own alien world. :pac:

Take Your Pants Off

DublinArnie wrote: »

Finished my complete study for biology and physchem (exams next week). Actually managed to do all the questions without my notes, so that's nice and a confidence boost.

Just went town and hospital visit, and got a haircut. What did you do?



What sort of workout you doing? Shopping parties ... I feel like I'm on my own alien world. :pac:

Full body workout, more or so what like a transformation, the trainer would give me a diet plan and a schedule to keep up with and help me during my training sessions for each body part. Usually lasts 1 and a half hour, doing 3 sessions per week.

Best of luck in the exams next week, mine are in 2 weeks time

DublinArnie

Take Your Pants Off wrote: »

Full body workout, more or so what like a transformation, the trainer would give me a diet plan and a schedule to keep up with and help me during my training sessions for each body part. Usually lasts 1 and a half hour, doing 3 sessions per week.

Best of luck in the exams next week, mine are in 2 weeks time

That must be expensive. Props for you, not easy to commit to something to like that!

kb98

Just finished our tests on Friday

coolerboy

Our school has them so early! First week aftet Halloween midterm. I guess its good to get the out of the way but I would have loved the around this time....

DublinArnie

coolerboy wrote: »

Our school has them so early! First week aftet Halloween midterm. I guess its good to get the out of the way but I would have loved the around this time....

That's only two months worth of course content though. The exams would be more effective if there was more content in my opinion.

coolerboy

DublinArnie wrote: »

That's only two months worth of course content though. The exams would be more effective if there was more content in my opinion.

Ye I agree I think they were early because the 6th year pt meeting was like 2 weeks after

coolerboy

So sad Nadia is gone

Beca19

I was meant to get so much done today but ended up procrastinating (as usual :rolleyes: ) and now it's 10 o'clock and I still have an irish essay, every exam question on enzymes and 3 physics exercises!
My exams are next week too and I'm away all weekend so I'm sure they'll go just great :pac:

AlanS181824

Our exams are done now aswell, misted 5 out of 7 so I'll probably have to do them Friday.

JohnathanB

Just had my Irish Orals for Christmas tests today! I was so nervous x) but it went absolutely perfect! Except she asked me Modh chon. What I would do if I was principal and I kinda messed that up :L she said that I was the only one to be asked that so hopefully that's a good sign? Chuffed it's over now listening tomorrow though

Consonata

What lectures are everybody going to on the TCD Open Day? If you are going?

Kitty6277

Honestly dreading the Christmas exams :eek: although that could be partly to do with the fact that I haven't even started studying yet

kb98

Consonata wrote: »

What lectures are everybody going to on the TCD Open Day? If you are going?

Medicine, genetics, microbiology, physics, biomedical engineering
You?

Consonata

kb98 wrote: »

Medicine, genetics, microbiology, physics, biomedical engineering
You?

Medicine Law Music Ed. I'm probably going to go into a few of the physics demonstrations. I'll probably see a few boardsies and not realize

DublinArnie

Consonata wrote: »

What lectures are everybody going to on the TCD Open Day? If you are going?

General Science, general engineering, biomedical engineering, genetics and psychology.

AlanS181824

A former teacher passed away from our school so tomorrow is a day off and Monday is a Holy Day.

4 day weekend, so happy to be able to relax!

spurious

AlanS181824 wrote: »

A former teacher passed away from our school so tomorrow is a day off and Monday is a Holy Day.

4 day weekend, so happy to be able to relax!

Good for you, but odd how your school authorities managed to get round the Department to get a day off for a former teacher. We had a current teacher die a few years ago and there was no day off.
You get Holy Days off?
Are you in Ireland?

AlanS181824

spurious wrote: »

Good for you, but odd how your school authorities managed to get round the Department to get a day off for a former teacher. We had a current teacher die a few years ago and there was no day off.
You get Holy Days off?
Are you in Ireland?

He was a legend around the school though, he actually wrote one of the Economics books that's used all around the country!

Basically you can come in for first class and then go home or go to his funeral or not come in at all, they're also providing study facilities for the regular school times of 9 to 1.

Everyone is being marked in for the day regardless of what they do.

The staff wanted to be able to go so I guess this was what they came up with.

Yes of course I'm in Ireland!:pac:

Doubt many people abroad would care about the leaving cert haha.

DublinArnie

Can't imagine having teaching staff or anyone die in my school.

RIP for those who are gone.

spurious

AlanS181824 wrote: »

Yes of course I'm in Ireland!:pac:

Just wondering how you are taking Holy Days off - they were stopped by the Department a number of years ago. Perhaps your school makes up the days at another time.

DublinArnie

Trinity Engineering is my top choice now.

Great open day love the atmosphere there.

Beca19

DublinArnie wrote: »

Trinity Engineering is my top choice now.

Great open day love the atmosphere there.

I got there so late cos we slept in after going out last night :pac: but I made in time for a medicine talk.. Quite disappointing tbh the woman wasn't very inspiring.. Just informative really

DublinArnie

Beca19 wrote: »

I got there so late cos we slept in after going out last night :pac: but I made in time for a medicine talk.. Quite disappointing tbh the woman wasn't very inspiring.. Just informative really

The psychology was as well, it just felt like she was there for the sake of being there. The hall was also very big, and you could hardly understand her if you were at the back despite the speakers. It's incredible that there are only 45 places in the course, and I'm willing to bet my leg that there were at least 300 people at the talk. HIGH DEMAND FOR SURE.

The lectures/professors at the Computer and Biomedical engineering seemed like a fun bunch.

Kitty6277

Did anyone get to a languages talk at Trinity today? Couldn't manage to make it up to Dublin this week because I've to go up next week.

Beca19

DublinArnie wrote: »

It's incredible that there are only 45 places in the course.

I did not know that :O wanted to go to that as well

DublinArnie

Beca19 wrote: »

I did not know that :O wanted to go to that as well

I can now see why the points are so high. I couldn't believe it, I'd say that talk had the most people out of all talks, especially the last one out of the three.(although maybe medicine or nanomaterials had more as they have higher points)

AlanS181824

spurious wrote: »

Just wondering how you are taking Holy Days off - they were stopped by the Department a number of years ago. Perhaps your school makes up the days at another time.

There are 7 Secondary Schools where I live that I can think of, all Christian schools and therefore we get Holy Days off!

It's the same all over the country.

spurious

AlanS181824 wrote: »

There are 7 Secondary Schools where I live that I can think of, all Christian schools and therefore we get Holy Days off!

It's the same all over the country.

I think you'll find it's not the same all over the country, not unless the schools are making up the days elsewhere. Circular m21/04 stipulated that any 'holy days' taken had to be made up elsewhere, so that every school does the same number of days.

Tomorrow, the 8th December used to be a day off for the whole country - are you saying your school and the schools in your area still take a day off on the 8th?

DarraghFitz98

spurious wrote: »

I think you'll find it's not the same all over the country, not unless the schools are making up the days elsewhere. Circular m21/04 stipulated that any 'holy days' taken had to be made up elsewhere, so that every school does the same number of days.

Tomorrow, the 8th December used to be a day off for the whole country - are you saying your school and the schools in your area still take a day off on the 8th?

I can offer clarification to this,AlanS181824 is in my school and we've the day off as we started a day earlier to accommodate having tomorrow off

Problem solved!

coolerboy

United are back.....finally!!!!☺☺☺⚽
RVP you hero ☺

AlanS181824

DarraghFitz98 wrote: »

I can offer clarification to this,AlanS181824 is in my school and we've the day off as we started a day earlier to accommodate having tomorrow off

Problem solved!

Oh really? Wow, thanks Darragh! Lol.

DublinArnie

My hand hurts so much. I haven't wrote that fast in ages 12 A4 pages in 1 1/2 hour.

coolerboy

DublinArnie wrote: »

My hand hurts so much. I haven't wrote that fast in ages 12 A4 pages in 1 1/2 hour.

Haha did you just have your Christmas Exams there? If so fair play!

DublinArnie

coolerboy wrote: »

Haha did you just have your Christmas Exams there? If so fair play!

Yeah, geography exam. I'd reckon I got a B because I wasn't sure of my time/question ratio. Now I know I can get a 30m question done 10-15min, so next time I'll do better.



English exam tomorrow on my three comparative texts.

coolerboy

DublinArnie wrote: »

Yeah, geography exam. I'd reckon I got a B because I wasn't sure of my time/question ratio. Now I know I can get a 30m question done 10-15min, so next time I'll do better.



English exam tomorrow on my three comparative texts.

How long is a 30m question, out of curiosity?
What!!Three Texts already we have only done King Lear so far... and we're not even finished yet..

DublinArnie

coolerboy wrote: »

How long is a 30m question, out of curiosity?
What!!Three Texts already we have only done King Lear so far... and we're not even finished yet..

We haven't learnt how to compare them yet, we just read and analysied the texts. I can't wait to do King Lear, I'd probably end up reading it myself over the Christmas holidays .

30m question is 15 SRPs (fact + relate to question).

It can be two pages, or two paragraphs. That's the thing that boggles me. If you know how to squeeze and fully explain 15 facts for an answer, you don't have much writing to do.

Geography is like JC history. Just write down the facts and make sure it's revelvant to the question .

Consonata

DublinArnie wrote: »

My hand hurts so much. I haven't wrote that fast in ages 12 A4 pages in 1 1/2 hour.

You must have quite large writing, I'm pretty fast at 11 words per line and I only manage about 8/9 in that time

DublinArnie

Consonata wrote: »

You must have quite large writing, I'm pretty fast at 11 words per line and I only manage about 8/9 in that time

Yeah, I write like seven - nine words per line. I try to write small, but when you're battling against time ... it sucks.

coolerboy

DublinArnie wrote: »

We haven't learnt how to compare them yet, we just read and analysied the texts. I can't wait to do King Lear, I'd probably end up reading it myself over the Christmas holidays .

30m question is 15 SRPs (fact + relate to question).

It can be two pages, or two paragraphs. That's the thing that boggles me. If you know how to squeeze and fully explain 15 facts for an answer, you don't have much writing to do.

Geography is like JC history. Just write down the facts and make sure it's revelvant to the question .

Ah right that sounds fair, what texts are you doing?
Happy 500th post to me!!☺

coolerboy

After doing some research on CAO courses I'm quite interested in General Science (TCD) and then later specialise in Molecular Medicine or Neuroscience... What do you guys think⁉
Medicinal Chemistry,Nanoscience and Pharmacy seems quite interesting too.☺

DublinArnie

coolerboy wrote: »

After doing some research on CAO courses I'm quite interested in General Science (TCD) and then later specialise in Molecular Medicine or Neuroscience... What do you guys think⁉
Medicinal Chemistry,Nanoscience and Pharmacy seems quite interesting too.☺

The thing that scares me about that course though is, would you like to do another Leaving Cert style exam with a CAO like system?

The electives for that course are competitive. Only an X amount go to A, B and C. I'd say the courses having any direct route into medicine are the most popular, as practically every person I know that is my age - wants to do medicine in some shape or form!

coolerboy

DublinArnie wrote: »

The thing that scares me about that course though is, would you like to do another Leaving Cert style exam with a CAO like system?

The electives for that course are competitive. Only an X amount go to A, B and C. I'd say the courses having any direct route into medicine are the most popular, as practically every person I know that is my age - wants to do medicine in some shape or form!

Yeah, I kind of saw that as well.The fact that they use exams results is quite daunting after puting in two years work of a similar system to get into the course. But there is a big range of courses if I dont get into my desired Chemistry/Biology course Physics is still an option due to the lower demand than other specialities in the course.☺

DublinArnie

coolerboy wrote: »

Yeah, I kind of saw that as well.The fact that they use exams results is quite daunting after puting in two years work of a similar system to get into the course. But there is a big range of courses if I dont get into my desired Chemistry/Biology course Physics is still an option due to the lower demand than other specialities in the course.☺

It's great to be open minded, and I'm sure you'll have no problem then. For people who only want one elective from day one, a lot of pressure on them! I'm planning to do Engineering at trinity and maybe move onto biomedical or computer engineering.

kb98

DublinArnie wrote: »

It's great to be open minded, and I'm sure you'll have no problem then. For people who only want one elective from day one, a lot of pressure on them! I'm planning to do Engineering at trinity and maybe move onto biomedical or computer engineering.

Wait, explain this to me, its based on grades? Can you not just say like "i want to specialise in genetics or whatever for the third and fourth year" and that's that?