State Exams!!!

pinkpimp

I'm guessing Kev, your Greek teacher is Walsh and not PHogo? If so, then yes, you do have a more than fair chance of getting the best in the country in Greek.

Lady penelopy

im doing my jc, and im so glad other people agree with me on the quality over quantity thing, because i have a huge inability to bullsh1t on for pages.

Scarinae

Piste wrote:

It is kinda nerve-wracking to look over in an exam to see she has 5 pages done while I've just started my second though.

I know exactly what you mean! After my English mock, I was horrified that everyone else was saying things like "I wrote seven and a half pages on Dickinson" or "My essay was eight pages long" or "I filled three exam booklets - how many did you fill?" I was like, aaaaaahhhh, because I hadn't written nearly that much, and in fact I had time left over in the exam. So basically I thought I'd done really, really crap. But as it turned out, I got higher marks than all those people anyway, probably because they filled three exam booklets with senseless waffle - they may have made valid points, but they were completely diluted by all the ****e they'd padded their answers out with. So, don't measure how well you did by how much you wrote, because it's quite often the opposite. Just remember, the person marking your paper is doing it in the middle of summer for crappy pay, he/she just wants to get the marking over with so they can go to their barbecue or whatever, they're not going to thank you for extending their workload.
pinkpimp, my Classics teacher is the exact same! He hates waffle

Raphael

G'luck everyone, I'll be thinking about you poor souls when I escort your peers to and from the bathroom

Hugh Hefner

pinkpimp wrote:

I'm guessing Kev, your Greek teacher is Walsh and not PHogo? If so, then yes, you do have a more than fair chance of getting the best in the country in Greek.

No, I've got Mr. Hogan, and he is a good teacher. I wouldn't want Walsh cos' he seems like a hard ass.

Hobotastic

When I said three weeks, I wasn't being exact. In fact, I said (yesterday) that in three weeks it'll all be over as in, three weeks from yesterday. Actually it's less than three weeks, seeing as I finish on the 21st. Now that I think about it, it's 15 days away. Oh good God. I also have 4 days between my last exam (chemistry) and my second last, so chemistry really drags it out. If you know what I mean. I think this post has become a clear example of "what not to do" in the quality over quantity tactic.

Speaking of english, do all of you plan your answers? My teacher never shuts up about planning and I never really do it but I got 79% in my mock. More writing in history than english, by the way, whatever way you look at it. Grrr. Freakin' history.

lemon_sherbert

good luck everybody. totally agree about the quality over quantity malarky. I wrote the shortest essays of everyone in my class, history and english for JC, and i still got the best marks in the year,
You'll all do great. don't panic and remember life is more than your exam results

StupidLikeAFox

Hugh Hefner wrote:

I wouldn't wasnt Walsh cos' he seems like a hard ass.

hahahaha

TYPO!

Scarinae

Hobotastic wrote:

Speaking of english, do all of you plan your answers?

The most planning I would ever do is a quick scribble on the question sheet. Some people say it's a good idea for the English essay to write:
Intro
1
2
3
4
5
6
Conclusion
in pencil on your question sheet, really quickly write down what points you're gonna make, then write the essay - I'm sure that could be adapted for History or whatever. If you tend to go off the point in your essays, maybe that'd be a good idea

pinkpimp

Just know how you're gonna end it before you try to and you'll be alright.

Just a message to all JC's: It REALLY REALLY REALLY doesn't matter. Not in the least. I'd be playing football now instead of studying if I were you. In fact, I was playing football around this time in third year.

It wasn't me!

I was using my tried and trusted form of Junior Cert study:

Step 1: Go to my room
Step 2: Lock the door
Step 3: Turn up music loudly, having told parents not to disturb me and break my concentration
Step 4: Go to sleep

And I still did well, so don't worry.

Lady penelopy

i dont play football, but if i did, i would be right now. this is all such a joke.
speaking of...there was a wordsearch on the cspe mock... anyone else find that hilarious?! or just the fact that there is a cspe exam at all, for that matter....

It wasn't me!

Tougher than my CSPE exam was then...

Crash

CSPE as an idea is BRILLIANT.
CSPE as a subject is TERRIBLE.

Lady penelopy

It wasn't me! wrote:

Tougher than my CSPE exam was then...

well, it was a rather difficult wordsearch...

It wasn't me!

Much as I think givig students a grounding in politics is a great idea, the CSPE course just needs a touch of work...

pinkpimp

Ah CSPE. What a joke. By which I mean it was one f*cking hilarious class.

Ps. Ellen, take up playing football, purely for purposes of the Junior Cert.

Lady penelopy

but i dislike football...either way, i sure as hell amnt working very hard....

modular

In my study time, I made a fairly large and intricate maze. I then solved the maze.

What can't you do with A4 squared paper?

Crash

Build a cannon?

PurpleFistMixer

With enough.......

... You never know.

Scarinae

There was a girl in my CSPE class in third year who, by the last week of class before the exams, asked what a Tánaiste was. And she still got a B. So... don't worry about it!
Oh, and please remember to think of Tim Regan, Janet Horner, Eadaoin McCole, Cormac Early, Nigel Smith, Zoe McNair, Caoimhe Howard and Aurora Walshe (I'm sure there are more), all of whom are CTYIers sitting the LC but who aren't enough of lazy bums to be on the internet the day before the exams start

Raphael

Paper mache?

Barry Aldwell

crash_000 wrote:

Build a cannon?

I'll get back to you on that

Yes, I am one of the lazy bums who isn't studying, but has the leaving cert tomorrow. Go team

mentalimplosion

so while you'll all be doing your wonderful enjoyable exams, i'll be getting stitches taken out of my eye.
it's a much of a muchness if you ask me.

jono087

give me the stitches any day!

TalkISCheap

Lady penelopy wrote:

but i dislike football

but not, twould seem, tag rugby..

Piste

Part of our CSPE summer exam involved counting the amount of candidates on a ballot paper. Knowing me, I probably failed that bit...

TalkISCheap

Q1 on our pre was name the countries these people lead - (with pictures) Blair, Bertie + Bush

Undergod

Piste wrote:

Part of our CSPE summer exam involved counting the amount of candidates on a ballot paper. Knowing me, I probably failed that bit...

Yeah our JC was something like

"There are twelve members of Cabinet. Three of them are female.

Q1. How many members of Cabinet are there?"

There was also a question that looked really easy, but was in fact impossible, no one cared enough to check the papers and realize.