3rd Year

marshmallow

Anyone else going into JC year??

We'll get to take over this Forum! Mwah Ha Ha!!!!

I'm starting back tomorrow. I'm not worried *yet* 'bout the JC and I hoped I don't get worked up about it but just work for it.
It's just the fact of going back to school that I'm dreading!

kawaii

marshmallow wrote:

We'll get to take over this Forum! Mwah Ha Ha!!!!

Lucky you!

PurpleFistMixer

Pah!

We will never leave!

NEVER!

*sees attractive object over there*
Or perhaps...
*strokes goatee*

andyman

It's not the JC I'm worried about. What am I saying?

Mimikyu

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Webmonkey

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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Good luck with them

qz

OP, back to school tomorrow? I'm back no the 12th, hate that!

Good luck this year btw, don't get too worked up over it.

kawaii

OP, do you know a feller named Paul O' Dwyer?

(Hangman thread... n' stuff)

Crania

I'm going into 3rd year on Thursday, dreading the JC, oh well, there's not much I can do about it

Irishstabber

Thank God I am finished it . I hated it all. Thats just me though. And some of my teachers are real *******. But good luck to you all.

philologos

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

*strokes goatee*

lol a girl with a goatee interesting

PurpleFistMixer

I didn't specify to whom the goatee was attached.


Though it'd be interesting if I DID have a goatee.
Perhaps I do.

One will never find out if one does not go to a gathering.

Mysteryfish

Well I think it would be pretty interesting if someone else allowed you to stroke their goatee as if it were your own...

Anyway, I'm finished 3rd year MWAHahaha! To all you third years! But don't worry, I had some of the best fun in third year, so it's not like you have no spare time. (Although that might have been just me and my lack of studying...)

Strokesa

OOOOOOO did anything ever happen about the 4th year forum???

kawaii

No...

You could try support the secondary school forum...

Mysteryfish

Support the secondary school forum!

Sorry I know that's not on topic so... Third year is in secondary school so...

Yeah. The JC is fine. On my french paper there was a formal letter for the first time in 14 years. So you see, they can throw things at you but ultimately it doesn't matter! still, work hard in 3rd year. No one wants to be sad about their grades on results night.

marshmallow

kawaii wrote:

OP, do you know a feller named Paul O' Dwyer?

(Hangman thread... n' stuff)

Yup, I know him.

I hate being back!! All the teachers have talked about working off the past papers for the year and to study for mocks and stuff. I'm not worried, I just hate being back into it all again! I got h/w today and I had a half day yesterday and today!

kawaii

You friends with him, ya? He's stopped going to my school so I haven't seen him in a whiles...(even though his house is only a twenty minute walk from mine...)

Have you been talking to him at all?

/me hi's btw

Mimikyu

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Lou*

Well I started 3rd year today the day went by pritty fast unbelievably! I got some cool teachers for the year, sept my CSPE teacher (not naming anyone) but she is a bit on the scary side but there is nothing I can do about it! I already know what subjects iam sooo gonna fale!

Just wait for tomorrow to find more new teachers (oh yay) lol :rolleyes:

kawaii

Lou* wrote:

Well I started 3rd year today the day went by pritty fast unbelievably! I got some cool teachers for the year, sept my CSPE teacher (not naming anyone) but she is a bit on the scary side but there is nothing I can do about it! I already know what subjects iam sooo gonna fale!

Just wait for tomorrow to find more new teachers (oh yay) lol :rolleyes:

Don't worry about CSPE at all...

It was a complete and total doss...

and my only A...

qz

kawaii wrote:

Don't worry about CSPE at all...

It was a complete and total doss...

and my only A...

Too true. Finished it in 35 mins and got an A. Ridiculous, tbh.

Mimikyu

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Mimikyu

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PurpleFistMixer

Solitaryman666: Just since you seem to be in the spelling correction mood, it's you're. You. Are. 'Your' indicates possessive.

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Rozabeez

OH! and lets not forget "your" first day, rather than "you". lol.

Piste

Rozabeez wrote:

let's not forget.

I like this game!

Lou*

lol yeah! evey1 is gr8 a gramr (don't ask)

{Solitaryman}
but you can have a funny teacher and also put lots of hard work into their class!

kawaii

Ya, I don't see how it's a bad thing for a teacher to use an entertaining technique of teaching...

It doesn't mean you're not learning...

Flashling

Yeah, I had the best teacher in first year, who sung for us and played the ukulele (sp?) when all of us had our books, but we still learnt more in that one year than we did in the next two with another teacher.(Am I wrong, Mysteryfish? No. No I am not.)

Also, to join in on the Solitaryman666 correcting, when you used quotation marks in your last paragraph you never ended them. That is all (for now) Oh wait, I just read the whole sentence again, it doesn't make sense. Read it, and you'll see why. (Sorry for being so patronising) (That was a lie, I'm not really sorry, but I am)

Hugh Hefner

Flashling wrote:

ukulele (sp?)

Correct. "Ukelele" is also an accepted variant. Now you know.

Proofreading is fun.

Flashling

Oh yes, I spellcheck my posts....Did you know that at the moment, your sig. says "Hef, the secret of women"? I don't know why that cracks me up, maybe because it makes you sound like a "femine hygiene product", as they are known in SPHE...

Mimikyu

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Rozabeez

SM666, your last post made me smile.

Lou*

no when i say "cool" teachers I mean teachers sense of humor.

Diarmsquid

I thought havin a fun teacher was good, and it was but when it came to exam time i realised we didn't do much during the years. Lucky it wasn't a really important subject, i'd have been pooped.

abercrombie

guys dont worry bout the jc...its the easiest thing u'll ever do! all i did was learn an irish essay and it came up! *phew* lol seriously tho, dont get too worked up about it..i got 4 A's, 5B's and a C all in honours! its SIMPLE! and oh yeah...CSPE is a guaranteed A

Piste

Of course the Juniour Cert isn't hard! They're unlikely to test you on anything you haven't done so if you pay a bit of attention and have some cop on you'll fly through it.


that said, I haven't done mine yet....

Jammy

Yeah I'm going into the JC uhhh *shivers* I know it's probably not that hard in the end, I'd rather not be doing it.

Also, I was going through 1st and 2nd year grand in History, thinking man this isn't too bad, the teacher is good. Untill I realised that were like a half a year behind in the course. Im just started third year and we just started doing the Reformation. Apperently that was supposed to be done in second year!!!

Is anyone else doing it in Irish?

Mysteryfish

don't worry about being behind in history. My friends had a poor teacher for the JC who was very behind for all 3 years but she could still handle the exam. So long as you put in some effort yourself you'll be fine.

Oh and Flash is right about that teacher. Man, he was so damn great! So you CAN have a cool teacher and learn!

Diarmsquid

Jammy wrote:

Im just started third year and we just started doing the Reformation.

That's very late for the reformation, i smell a sudden rush to finish the course :rolleyes:

Jammy

Tell me about it.

It's a good thing my mum and dad are history teachers. They said they might do a class a week with me, to hurry things along.

Fobia

My class didn't even finish the course before the JC..

Wait, there was a point here...but it's lost as I probably failed history.

Umm, study if you're looking for high points in the LC and whatnot, I can't say I studied until the night before each exam, but I'm happy enough with that, if I had been going for all A's I'd have studied, but I wasn't.

Shoot as high as you need imho.

Piste

My main aim is get high points in my LC so I want to do well in French, German, Science, History and Music (and of course the core subjects too) for my JC so I'll have a good foundation for the LC. The other subjects I'll work at but not take too seriously.

Victor

Diarmsquid wrote:

That's very late for the reformation, i smell a sudden rush to finish the course :rolleyes:

I finished the course by about the end of first year, by myself.

philologos

Piste wrote:

Of course the Juniour Cert isn't hard! They're unlikely to test you on anything you haven't done so if you pay a bit of attention and have some cop on you'll fly through it.


that said, I haven't done mine yet....

Time can also be a crucial factor and some subjects are crucial in that respect. It's not all easy, some things are some things arent. In this early stage you also don't really know till you have seen the papers and done the mocks. Don't get cocky

But good luck, you will need it

philologos

Piste wrote:

My main aim is get high points in my LC so I want to do well in French, German, Science, History and Music (and of course the core subjects too) for my JC so I'll have a good foundation for the LC. The other subjects I'll work at but not take too seriously.

btw you should ideally work at all subjects equally (except for CSPE lol ) because you dont know what difficulties those subjects could pose later on for the LC and you might find it handy to have an alternative incase some happen to be beyond you for LC

Timans

Went into 3rd year this year..

Junior Cert...!!ARRGGHHH..ah well.....thats life..

Piste

Jakkass wrote:

It's not all easy, some things are some things arent. In this early stage you also don't really know till you have seen the papers and done the mocks. Don't get cocky

But good luck, you will need it

I never said it was easy, I said they'll not test you on something that's not covered in the course so it wont be too hard if you know what you're doing. The hardest is bending to material learned to suit the question asked. I have seen past papers, since First Year my school have given us JC questions/ a JC paper in our Christmas and Summer exams so I'm well familiar with the layout and format of the Junior Cert.

Jakkass wrote:

btw you should ideally work at all subjects equally (except for CSPE lol ) because you dont know what difficulties those subjects could pose later on for the LC and you might find it handy to have an alternative incase some happen to be beyond you for LC

Why devote time to working hard at a subject, say, Geography I've no intention of continuing for LC when I could be working towards obtaining a greater fluency in French which I'm almost certain I'll continue for LC?. It makes far more sense to work harder for subjects I will actually need high marks in than subjects I will be finished for good in nine months time. As for them being beyond me for LC, if I work at them fro JC they wont be beyond me at all.

philologos

Piste wrote:

Why devote time to working hard at a subject, say, Geography I've no intention of continuing for LC when I could be working towards obtaining a greater fluency in French which I'm almost certain I'll continue for LC?. It makes far more sense to work harder for subjects I will actually need high marks in than subjects I will be finished for good in nine months time. As for them being beyond me for LC, if I work at them fro JC they wont be beyond me at all.

buddy i didnt mean it like that. I mean that you may discover that the LC course for a particular subject is difficult. So its always good to have alternatives so ideally you should work at them all not just the ones you are interested in. LC is way different than JC im just advising ya to be careful on a advisory note

marshmallow

So, the TYs in your school got their results today.. How did that make you feel? Some girls in my year cried in anticipation of the 4th years getting their results even when they didn't know any of them personally!

The teachers kept saying 'that's you next year..' Did it make you think?

And generally, how you finding 3rd year??