Well I thought it was about time I wrote my last blog post, since we’re going to be booted off any day now to make way for the next batch of helpless leaving certs. Despite promising myself weeks ago that I would check my results online (so as not to return to that awful place [...]

One day left folks, and hasn’t August 12th rolled around a lot sooner than imagined? I don’t have a whole lot to say here, this renewed sense of anticipation I’ve been trying to ignore is sitting rather uncomfortably somewhere in my stomach, competing for space with a family of butterflies. I do wish everyone the [...]

As a not so wise songstress once said, all good things come to an end. Apparently all manner of crappy things finally draw to a close, too. Walking out of my economics exam yesterday I felt two things: euphoria and relief. Finally, after years of preparing for one extremely intense and overly-dramatic set of exams, [...]

Leaving Cert biology: a course so vast and expansive that no paper could possibly examine more than a minuscule portion of it. This paper was no exception. I left the exam happy with my performance, but I really couldn’t help thinking of all the material I have learned and revised over the last two years that [...]

After six years of learning French simply for the purpose of this exam, I’m at a bit of a loss now that it’s over. The written paper this morning was, in one word, ‘lovely’. Topics featured include global warming, sports, the importance (or subjective unimportance) of literature as a subject in schools, the internet and a [...]

So, so tired. That business paper was absolutely exhausting. I ran out of time in the business mock, the paper was literally pulled out of my hands. There was a theatrical pen line across the page to demonstrate just how forcefully it had been taken from me. So for the exam today I was determined not [...]

I recently blogged about how ‘pleasant’ maths paper one was. We now know why, don’t we? Paper two was, if not difficult, irritating at least. I was happy to see the first installment behind me, but half way through the second question this morning I was lamenting algebra-ridden paper one. Perhaps a compass would have [...]

It’s not even 4pm, I’ve had loads of sleep, no caffeine to speak of, plenty of all the right types of foods, I’m not too hot, not too cold, my room isn’t too noisy/messy whatever…I’m just not feeling it. Basically I’ve got absolutely zero excuse to sit about and fret, but I’m doing it anyway. [...]

I don’t think any Leaving Cert paper has garnered as much media attention as this year’s English 2, it has made quite a name for itself. Although many considered the original paper to be a ‘dream paper’, I think it’s fair to say that the contingency model lived up to the hype. There was a [...]

My homies Rich, Walcott and Bishop. They kicked me out. Ordinary level maths paper one served only to further my belief that the lead-up to the leaving cert is much more intense than the actual exams themselves. I’m not saying it’s not stressful, as I know that some people are under a lot of pressure, [...]

How’s everyone feeling following yesterday’s confusion? Personally, I find the break in momentum to be the biggest problem. I’m one of those people who likes to have everything planned out in their head, at least when it comes to state exams anyway, and this deferral pretty much messed that up completely. I think it’s safe [...]

English paper two has been cancelled, it was mistakenly opened in a center in Louth this morning and a few students saw it. ” It would not be logistically possible for us to deliver the contingency examination by tomorrow morning ” – SEC English Paper 2 will now be sat at 9.30am on Saturday the 6th June ” While [...]

Well that was under-whelming. I don’t know what I envisaged today as being but it certainly wasn’t that ordinary. Then again I’m being pretty unceremonious about this whole leaving cert thing, I’m finding it hard not to be so laid back actually. Today started like any other school day for me, albeit minus my former [...]

This time tomorrow English paper one will be no more. Feels good, doesn’t it? Even though it will probably be my best paper, it’s nice to know I’ll have it out of the way in a very short time. After months and months of countdowns I’m thinking that the next two weeks will pass by [...]

A certain countdown tells me that there are three days and so many hours to the leaving cert. I know that it’s soon, but it isn’t starting in three days. It simply can’t be! Oh noes. I’m all for the last minute studying, it’s gotten me through many an exam, however I’m just not feeling [...]

The theme of the week seems to be the simple realisation that ultimately the leaving cert is just an exam. Of course it’s easy to see why many view the leaving cert as the be all and end all of life “It’s the most important exam/thing you will ever do in your life” cue ominous tones [...]

I’m in the mood to blog and have no actual topic to blog on so let’s just see where this goes… Graduation. I graduate on Wednesday, meaning that tomorrow is my last day of school. Can I get an OH EM GEE? Most schools seem to have graduated already so I guess it’s not that [...]

TWENTY EIGHT DAYS TO THE LEAVING CERT! How does that make you feel? Personally, it makes me happy. That isn’t out of lust for exams though, my masochistic spirit doesn’t extend quite as far as that. No, I’m counting down the days cause I so desperately wish to be finished with school. I now have [...]

There are now officially thirty seven days to the Leaving Cert. Thirty seven actual calendar days. If I were to revise a full chapter of biology every day until the start of the leaving I still wouldn’t get as far as viruses. I’d be completely omitting reproduction, which is almost guaranteed to feature on the [...]