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Leaving Cert 2016/17 Off-Topic Thread

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    #902
    carefulnowted
    Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭carefulnowted


    Little bit worried about biology currently. We've only done 19 chapters. Are we very behind?


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    #903
    Mr Rhode Island Red
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Mr Rhode Island Red


    carefulnowted wrote: »
    Little bit worried about biology currently. We've only done 19 chapters. Are we very behind?

    I think we've done 26, teacher says we should be done for the mocks though.


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    #904
    carefulnowted
    Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭carefulnowted


    Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »
    I think we've done 26, teacher says we should be done for the mocks though.

    Oh god. My teacher is absolutely horrendous though so I'm not even surprised.


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    #905
    Mr Rhode Island Red
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Mr Rhode Island Red


    carefulnowted wrote: »
    Oh god. My teacher is absolutely horrendous though so I'm not even surprised.

    I wouldn't be too worried...some of the chapters like vegetative propagation, genetic engineering, and viruses just to name a few have very little in them, the biology textbooks just pad them out with unnecessary information.


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    #906
    ElmW13
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭ElmW13


    Does anyone know if going over the word count in the geography fieldwork matters that much? I'm at around 1400 words and my teacher says it's fine but he says to write down some number less than 1000 in the word count. What's the best thing to do?


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    #907
    Mr Rhode Island Red
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Mr Rhode Island Red


    Current Mood:


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    #908
    EireLemon
    Registered Users Posts: 192 ✭✭EireLemon


    Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »
    Current Mood:

    That was so nasty haha


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    #909
    meganob
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭meganob


    Anyone else's school not do Christmas exams? :/


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    #910
    wanderer100
    Registered Users Posts: 7,054 ✭✭✭wanderer100


    meganob wrote: »
    Anyone else's school not do Christmas exams? :/

    Nope - just the midterms :) But class tests are piling in like crazy. Not a day goes by where a test is either done or mentioned :o


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    #911
    Nyctolust
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Nyctolust


    meganob wrote: »
    Anyone else's school not do Christmas exams? :/

    My school normally does, but last year they decided not to (we all had big class tests used for continuous assessment for the term instead and then normal house exams for the summer), and now this year due to the time we've missed with strikes my school has decided that the 1st, 2nd, and 5th years will do Christmas exams and 3rd and 6th years will essentially have "informal" class exams just so we can have something for our reports. It's all pretty messy.


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    #912
    ggg16
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭ggg16


    Drink loads of water and ventilate your room well.

    edited to say sorry this was meant to be in response to someone who said they get lots of headaches from studying and had anyone any tips.


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    #913
    BadBannana
    Registered Users Posts: 355 ✭✭BadBannana


    Our Christmas exams will be the last house exams we ever do.

    Looks like they'll be a right treat, full papers with less time


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    #914
    Mr Rhode Island Red
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Mr Rhode Island Red


    Christmas tests done (our school does them now to avoid having them too close to the mocks) everything went grand except maths really...my teacher came up to me at lunch today wondering why I wasn't able to multiply complex numbers. I thought I got that right...it was the first question on the paper. So that's a good start. I'd say I got about 60 percent overall.

    But everything else was fine. Hoping for around 80 percent in everything else.


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    #915
    Msrebeckyxo
    Registered Users Posts: 311 ✭✭Msrebeckyxo


    Just been told that we've our mock Orals after Christmas holidays so in order to learn my sraiths I've to take half or one every day for the next month and a bit, might just cram the night before ;)
    Trying to sort study timetable out but wow I am the least motivated person ever, I seem to think I'm still in Ty or something :(
    On another note, Anyone have any good resources for History? Need all the help I can get with it :(


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    #916
    thetalker
    Registered Users Posts: 205 ✭✭thetalker


    Urgh were so far behind in math, haven't done Complex numbers or much of trigonometry. here's hoping we can get those done.


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    #917
    BadBannana
    Registered Users Posts: 355 ✭✭BadBannana


    Msrebeckyxo wrote: »
    Just been told that we've our mock Orals after Christmas holidays so in order to learn my sraiths I've to take half or one every day for the next month and a bit, might just cram the night before ;)
    Trying to sort study timetable out but wow I am the least motivated person ever, I seem to think I'm still in Ty or something :(
    On another note, Anyone have any good resources for History? Need all the help I can get with it :(

    Leaving Cert History.net is one I found helpful. Is there a particular topic you're having trouble with or is it just exam technique?


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    #918
    Mr Rhode Island Red
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Mr Rhode Island Red


    Anybody know how disadvantaged your area has to be to pass the criteria for the HEAR area profile? Like what category? Is it "disadvantaged" or "extremely disadvantaged" or would you get away with less?


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    #919
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,189 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »
    Anybody know how disadvantaged your area has to be to pass the criteria for the HEAR area profile? Like what category? Is it "disadvantaged" or "extremely disadvantaged" or would you get away with less?

    They have certain criteria before calling an area 'disadvantaged'. I can't remember them all, but the criteria would include things like levels of unemployment, council or social housing, medical card holders, past low % of participation at third level etc..

    **edit
    Just saw they have a map you can put in an address and get the level of disadvantage.
    https://maps.pobal.ie/WebApps/DeprivationIndices/index.html


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    #920
    Mr Rhode Island Red
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Mr Rhode Island Red


    spurious wrote: »
    They have certain criteria before calling an area 'disadvantaged'. I can't remember them all, but the criteria would include things like levels of unemployment, council or social housing, medical card holders, past low % of participation at third level etc..

    **edit
    Just saw they have a map you can put in an address and get the level of disadvantage.
    https://maps.pobal.ie/WebApps/DeprivationIndices/index.html

    My place is put down as "below average"...that hardly passes the criteria so?


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    #921
    BadBannana
    Registered Users Posts: 355 ✭✭BadBannana


    Don't think so Rhode Island. There's a list of criteria to fulfill on this page here: http://accesscollege.ie/hear/eligibility-indicators/

    A lot of colleges are doing information days for the HEAR and DARE schemes as well


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    #922
    padraigmck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭padraigmck


    Today we got told that it's exactly 6 months till the Leaving, YAY.........


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    #923
    Mr Rhode Island Red
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Mr Rhode Island Red


    padraigmck wrote: »
    Today we got told that it's exactly 6 months till the Leaving, YAY.........

    In some ways I'm happy to hear this, knowing that in 6.5 months this will all be over and whatever will be will be.


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    #924
    EireLemon
    Registered Users Posts: 192 ✭✭EireLemon


    Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »
    In some ways I'm happy to hear this, knowing that in 6.5 months this will all be over and whatever will be will be.

    I can't believe a day will come where I won't be forced to learn a dead language or study countless poems.


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    #925
    Mr Murphy
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭Mr Murphy


    Anybody have any predictions or chapters i should study for both economics or business at higher level?


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    #926
    wanderer100
    Registered Users Posts: 7,054 ✭✭✭wanderer100


    Who's dropping down to TCD Open Day tomorrow?


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    #927
    carefulnowted
    Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭carefulnowted


    wanderer100 wrote: »
    Who's dropping down to TCD Open Day tomorrow?

    I'd love to go, but I can't make it this weekend. I might head up there next summer and have a gander.


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    #928
    Irishgirl181
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Irishgirl181


    Anyone thinking of going to GMIT Galway next year ? ðŸ˜


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    #929
    Irishgirl181
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Irishgirl181


    Anyone thinking of going to GMIT Galway next year?


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    #930
    EireLemon
    Registered Users Posts: 192 ✭✭EireLemon


    To do BESS, Business & Spanish in Trinity or Commerce Intl. in UCD? Even more confused after Trinity's open day today. Wasn't too impressed tbh.


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    #931
    carefulnowted
    Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭carefulnowted


    EireLemon wrote: »
    To do BESS, Business & Spanish in Trinity or Commerce Intl. in UCD? Even more confused after Trinity's open day today. Wasn't too impressed tbh.

    Why not, can I ask?


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