No, I haven’t died. These past few weeks have been insanely hectic. I definitely don’t remember 6th Year being as bad as before. Going back was that hard of a decision for me but the past few weeks have been harder than I thought they would be. For one thing, I’m starting to detest [...]

Hey everyone! I’d like to say it’s good to be back… See, for those that don’t know I was a blogger on what used to be leaving-cert.net for the Leaving 2010. I didn’t get Medicine last year so I find myself repeating. Apologies for blogging so late – it really has been a crazy week. [...]

Well it’s all done and dusted. It’s pretty hard to believe. I know it’s taken me far too long to get back here – Internet woes. Anyway, the results: Irish          B3 English    B2 Maths       B1 (Ordinary) French     B3 Geography A1 Biology       A2 Chemistry    D1 475 points. Initially I was absolutely gutted – especially with Chemistry. [...]

When all through the land / The students were saying / “Ah sure, it’ll be grand” At least, that’s what I’m telling myself. I’m a little like Valerie in that every now and again I get that tight feeling in my chest. What if I don’t get my minimum 550? What if I don’t get [...]

At 2.18 am this morning I got one of the most important emails of my life. I wasn’t awake for it-I was going to get up at 5am to start monitoring it but I figured results aren’t going to change, no matter how early I get them so I set no alarm. Throughout the Leaving [...]

Weekly recommended allowance of calcium from the cheese in the title! I was sitting in today’s Chemistry exam I had it all planned out when I saw the paper. “Fucking Atomic Theory” was to be the beautifully elegant title followed by the inspiring  “Well failed that anway”. I love Organic Chemistry. There, I said it.  [...]

I know I’m a little bit behind but hey, better late than never right? Ok so first things first, yesterday’s French exam. I thought the comprehensions, like Annah, were nice. The first one especially although I was a bit more vague on the second one. Also very happy about the lack of questions on the grammatical terms [...]

Irish is done. And I’d like to say I’ll never have to do it again but there’s a serious threat that I won’t get the points I’d like because of today’s paper. Today in the exam hall I held it in and focused on the task at hand but when I got home I was [...]

I very nearly punched my supervisor the face again this week (what is it with exams that bring out the foréigean in people?). “Ohohohoho Stately Examinatory Committitorium, you wily old devil,” I’d chuckle to the GIANT ROBOTIC HARP OF EVIL that runs SEC as we swirl our cognac in large glasses beside the fire if [...]

Sometimes I scare myself with my imaginative blog post titles, I really do. It’s hard to believe the first weekend is here already! Saturday’s nearly over and I still haven’t opened up any Irish but I’m hoping it’ll be a nice exam. You can imagine the SEC headquarters, on a big, dark hill and a [...]

What a relief. I don’t know about you, but for me, English Paper 2 represents all the worst that the Leaving Certificate has to offer: an incredibly short amount of time to examine a massive amount of material First things first. No Eavan Boland, and if you were caught out by it, truly, I’m sorry. [...]

Well it’s started. Hope today went well for everyone! First things first, I thought the paper was alright. Nothing overly great but nothing overly awful either. I’m wonderfully awful at picking questions for the exam. A scribbled out first paragraph is like a trademark of my work at this stage. Once that’s out of the [...]

Ah the last week of school is finally here. If I ever see Messrs Sin, Cos or Tan (probably when my kids are doing Space Maths… on the Moon…in the non- Leaving Cert. Enda Kenny will abolish, according to Valerie’s last post..) I can bid them good day and tell them how I Pythagoras’d their [...]

I woke up this morning afternoon after the first good night out in a long time. We threw the study plans into the wind and headed into town – and I think it’s done more good than a week’s study. Yeah, the Leaving’s coming. Yeah, it’s all hitting home now that in a few weeks we [...]

Well everyone! I know it’s been ages for my last post. Apologies. School is just pretty insane at the moment…. Some mock papers also took much longer to get back than others and I wanted to blog about them all as a big, miserable mess. I hopped on over to the Mister X’s Journal to [...]

What a wake-up call the past 2 weeks have been. As we really get going with orals and projects, I have to say that I’m pretty worried about what I might see in my envelope in August. It seems like there isn’t enough time left to cover everything, at least not enough to secure the points [...]

Well that’s day one of the mock, pre, whatever exams down. For me it was English Paper 2. That’s right, Paper 2. I should probably point out that I’m not going to give anything away on any paper, in this post or in any other, at least not without an express warning. No point ruining [...]

Hey everyone, I know it’s been a good while but rest assured that I do swing by to check out comments every second day or so! I’m sure you guys can all appreciate how hard it is to grab a spare moment to blog but I am committed to- at the very least!- one per [...]

Yup, they’re just around the corner. The Mocks, Pres, Hell, whatever you call them. I don’t know about anyone else but I can safely say for myself I’m not ready. Not even in the slightest. I’m pretty sure that with the sum of my knowledge so far I could scrape a pass in most subjects. [...]

Today was quite possibly one of the most productive days of my Christmas holidays when it comes to the Leaving Cert. Oh yes, there were sweat, blood and tears and I didn’t open a single book, copy or folder. I did it,  I took the plunge and hauled my ass over to the CAO website [...]