Countdown to August 17th

bounceymousey

its sooo crap they mark them though!!! My school (or ex- school now) is a grinds school so they were all examiners!! But they say if ur answer doesnt match the marking scheme then u get no marks!!!! ESPECIALLY BIOLOGY!!!

the smiley one

Stop with the scare-mongering people!

It's all done and dusted now so forget about it as best you can for as long as you can! We've all heard the rumours etc. but it doesn't make any difference - it just makes you worry and on-edge...it's defo not worth it.

(the maths thing afaik, they are corrected once in red and then the chief examiner MAY take one or two from a bunch to see if they are being done properly...if they are correctly marked they will not re-correct the rest...you hardly think the cheapo dept of education is goin to correct every paper twice??!!!)

rosa

Is bad hand writing really such a big issue? Are examiners obliged to try and figure it out the best they can or if they come across a badly written script do they not bother? Cos I know my History paper was probably unreadable and now I'm worried that it'll effect my grade.

shay_562

Oh man...I've been out of town working for most of the summer so far, haven't really had time to think about it. But then I went out with my friends on Tuesday for the first time since June, and it's all anyone can talk about...I'm really starting to psych myself out. I know I shouldn't, I know it's illogical and pointless, but I'm still nervous and twitchy. The solution? Spend the 16th drinking. Seems like the most sensible option to me.

griffdaddy

i'm planning to get together as many of my friends as possible and get public transport about 10 miles away from school (it's in the city centre) then walk towards the school with a bag of cans each throughout the night, arriving just in time to pick up our results. the walk and the chat along the way, coupled with the buzz of walking into town so late at night and getting drunk will consolidate any shaky nerves hopefully

EdgarAllenPoo

Tis twelve days now, I am a bit puzzled about how I pick up my results. I did the LC from home and went to an exam centre but the Dept of Ed sent me a letter with a PIN number so I could ring or get my results on the net. Do I have to go to the exam centre to pick up the actual cert or would it be posted to me.

Sux2BYou

GDM wrote:

Tis twelve days now, I am a bit puzzled about how I pick up my results. I did the LC from home and went to an exam centre but the Dept of Ed sent me a letter with a PIN number so I could ring or get my results on the net. Do I have to go to the exam centre to pick up the actual cert or would it be posted to me.

Mabye its changed since I did it,but if you collect em at a school you get this small print out with your examination number(whatever it is),your name and your results...its kinda crappy lookin to be honest,but if you want the paper proof you should get that.....oh,yeah,you could just print it off the net aswell,forgot about that.Its more fun goin collecting it tho...see if ppl ya dont like are disappointed so you can laugh at em.

Gileadi

GDM- if you did the exams as an external student which it sounds like you did you will be sent them in the post on the day of the results

or you can use the internet service after mid day

bounceymousey

you go to the centre where u did ur exams and collect ur results from there after 9 o clock. Otherwise, if u dont go on the 17th, then they send u ur results. im an external cos i went to private grinds college. jst go to the centre.
oh...and an examiner will try to read ur exam but if it is really really really bad then they will jst give up. A lot of my teachers have done it, believe me!!! But im sure its not that bad!!!

D-Generate

I just got some results there.
You all failed Maths, every single one of you. Except me. Because I am fab.

shay_562

Curse you, D-Generate! *shakes fist, applies for repeats*

nobodythere

Shutup and enjoy the sunshine/rain schizophrenia

Zukustious

9 days now. Man it seems like time is just kinda slowing down as the date gets closer.

bounceymousey

ah sure we'll all b grand. stop worryin

EdgarAllenPoo

6 days left. Sort of worried about failing maths. I know I've at least passed all the others but I can't guess by how much. I have had a dream a few times now were I get the results and I've failed maths. Meh, I don't need maths for my course (although I've heard the story about failing maths and failing the whole thing) and as long as I pass everything I couldn't give a fraggle.

sixdraw

bounceymousey wrote:

And as for maths, im not surprised that there is a high failure rate, there always is, especially with thios year. Last year was the easiest ever. So it was easy to get an A or B. This year was too hard!!!!

It was actually quite difficult last year to get an A or B as the marking scheme was just totally unfair.for example matrices was hit or miss, the right answer at the end or no marks.this year that newton rephson thing will give plenty of marks for any correct work, so its a tough paper but at least its marked fair

segadreamcast

6 days... tick tock tick tock *hums and walks off*

Scarinae

I haven't been consciously worrying about the results, cos I've been so busy all summer, but I have been getting weird dreams - like one where I failed nearly everything but then realised that History and Music were on the results sheet, and I'd actually got someone else's results somehow; one where I failed Maths and only got 1% in Biology; one where I only got results back from two subjects because I'd forgotten to write my exam number on most of my scripts; and last night I had a dream that all the courses I had applied to were cancelled, and I had to do Arts in UCD
I can't believe time has gone so fast though! It's insane! It's weird that we're getting our results on Wednesday - I can't wait for college though, it's going to be such a blast!

pingu_girl

Thats weird because im also having dreams about failing subjects i didnt even do also when i get my results there huge books with all my scrip wrote in them and i also dream i get somebody elses results or that they cant find mine 6 dreams in the past 3 weeks very strange since in not to worried about my results

Awayindahils

rosa wrote:

Is bad hand writing really such a big issue? Are examiners obliged to try and figure it out the best they can or if they come across a badly written script do they not bother? Cos I know my History paper was probably unreadable and now I'm worried that it'll effect my grade.

yes it is. my mock examiner had a freaker at me by the end of the paper. they will correct it but itll be the last few on the last dya when theyre rushed tired and bored.

k8e

i dont know why but i thought it ws 16th they wer comin out, so its d 17th and wat time do we get them at does any1 know??
i probably sud of listend more at skool, i dnt even know d date of d results wat a good sign.
thanks!!

the smiley one

Fishie wrote:

only got 1% in Biology;

I dreamt I got 41% in Biology...and my friend got an A1....damn dreams makin me jealous....

supersheep

I heard that if they can't read your writing, they send it off to a specialist-bad-hand-writing-reader-type-person, so you should be fine. I hope so anyways, my hand-writing went to utter sh*t during history. And indeed every exam...
Anyone else get a little twinge of panic when they read the front page of the Irish Times this morning, about the improvement in results? Meaning everything's finished... ARGH!

EdgarAllenPoo

Is it possible to pass maths by only getting the attempt marks on each paper. I think that's about all I got so if I can just scrape a pass I'll be happy as a pig in $#1?

phantom_lord

Eh attempt marks are only a third of the marks so you need to have done slightly better, ifyou got the a parts right and attempted the rest you'd probably pass

Kwekubo

I've knocked up a countdown timer, so we can all worry ourselves silly over the results coming :

Leaving Cert Countdown 2005

phantom_lord

Am i the only one who has almost forgotten about results day? i would have had people not kept mentioning it... I'm not worried at all, whats done is done I can't do anyting about it.

cessy

wat time are the results given out at im confused

phantom_lord

phantom_lord wrote:

Am i the only one who has almost forgotten about results day? i would have had people not kept mentioning it... I'm not worried at all, whats done is done I can't do anyting about it.

Me too. But I picked a very easy course.

wat time are the results given out at im confused

Nine til late in the afternoon. It depends on your school I think.

phantom_lord

Deleted User wrote:

Me too. But I picked a very easy course.

I'm kinda lucky in the sense that the course i wanna do most has the lowest points of all my choices (350) while my second choice is 520. So really, filling out my CAO form was a waste of time...