Earlier in the day we had Maths Paper 2. In the afternoon, Irish Paper 1 and then the Irish Aural. Here’s what you thought about it all..
Hot off the virtual press, here’s what you’re saying about maths paper 2… surprisingly, the reaction seems to be pretty positive!
Earlier in the day it was geography and then the big one this afternoon – Maths (paper 1). By far and away the most hated leaving cert subject… high failure rates, poor numbers at honours level… the stats don’t lie. Today it seems Maths continued to perplex and frustrate most of you guys…
Like a lot of you, i was fully expecting Boland to show up on today’s paper two and for all those people with their eggs in Boland’s basket, you just got unlucky. Even the bookies had Boland down as one of the favorites to show up too. Anyway here’s what you guys are telling us on our facebook…
Everyone’s talking about today’s and tomorrow’s Leaving Cert English papers and there seems to be a lot of worrying going on about what’s coming up in the exams. Panic not! In the 2009 Leaving Certificate only 1.7% of all students taking the higher level leaving cert English examination failed, with over 70% of students achieving a grade C3 or higher.
Just incase you haven’t heard this before. This is an excellent 101 minute podcast from newstalk.ie on the Irish Leaving Cert History curriculum. Some of the panel have been involved with designing the leaving cert curriculum so these guys know what you should be writing. The podcast focuses on the leaving cert history exam on Wednesday 16th of June and discusses student concerns about the exam.
As time draws nearer, it’s now less than a week to go, do you ever think of the leaving cert as a person? If so what would he/she look like?
Last year’s ordinary level english paper had a comprehension question based on Youtube. Candidates had to read an article and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of YouTube. The second question asked if the image accompanying the article was suitable. The public’s response to YouTube was the third part of the question. Obviously with comprehension you are presented with the article and you just need to show your understanding of it. However, if you had an idea of the sort of topic coming up you would have an advantage…
Some of you will love maths, some of you don’t mind it and will be pretty confident about passing leaving cert maths at the level you are taking it. Then there’s those of you that absolutely hate maths to the point were you just don’t wanna study it or take your leaving cert maths exam. You probably don’t see the point in maths and are wondering why you need all these x, y and z’s anyway!
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