Nervous breakdown anyone?

Fucking Irish paper two. I really don’t know what to do for it, I mean the books are INUNDATED with notes upon notes but I am NOT a rote learner, I don’t find it works for me. I prefer being able to rely on my natural inclinations but combine them with some vague idea of the notion. Think what I’ll do is try to remember the whole thing in English and then fling together the thing itself in Irish on the day.

I have a terrible and altogether nauseating fear that I’ll open either one of the Irish papers and have absolutely no idea what they’re asking of me. I mean, at least if I knew what they were asking I could bluff along and hope for the best. But… they’re a high likelihood that that won’t happen.. I mean, really and truly, the vocab that they use in the papers isn’t always clear cut.. Hyperventilation. I managed to snag an A2 in the mocks but I think that was a combination of pure luck and bluffing.

All the same, 49 hours from now I will never ever again have to learn those horrendous poems or stories.. Some small consolation. Yah, not a snowballs chance in hell I’m repeating. Backdoors and all that ftw.

Okay, going to stop freaking out and go over Business… Oh yah, anyone else do Business outside of school and now realise that they actually have to take it seriously as a subject, sit down and answer big long questions on it. I’m TOTALLY relying on logic for that. Fingers crossed. I’m also really tired and trying to resist the temptation that is coffee for at least another while. I’m going to have to have some sort of addiction treatment after the exams

Marie.

49 thoughts on “Nervous breakdown anyone?”

  1. Ohhh, my hero! Email is [email protected]

    No aiste? What’re you doing so? I kinda know the debate format too so have that back up and could try to mangle anything to suit a Alt too.. Ugh nasty Irish.
    Apparently An Chead Drama looks likely too.
    I’ve done NOTHING (haven’t even read them like) for An Oilean or Lig Sin i gcathu or Dan do melissa.
    Yuck yuck yuck
    Shit, just remembered…. STAIR :/
    It’s worth .5% OF THE WHOLE THING and there’s reams of it. Balls.

  2. I’ll email you an idiot note technique for learning off An triail if that helps? I call it this because well… I eh freaked out about an triail and realised that I had to write it in english and translate.

    Poetry.. let’s just keep the fingers crossed from An mhathair.. dรก mbfeidir arรญs… and jack.
    BEAN ร“G people… i can feel it.

    And good old “crazy bitch in the tree” Clare sa spรฉir.

    Oh yeah- odds are a definite on fiche bliain ag fรกs as a compulsory q. Eugh.

    Not set in gold.. but I hope they are, because Uirchill An chreagรกin and I don’t exactly see eye to eye.

    Also not doing an aiste… cรบlu eacnamiochta.. BARF! Enjoy that!

  3. Like most people, it would seem, I always forget An Triail until the last minute, at which point I panic. Really hoping for a lovely “Tell us about these characters – Maire, Maili.” This is all I have a vague idea of.

    I have no idea what Fiche Bliain is about… The lazy student one?

  4. I’m actually kind of looking forward to Irish! It’s Maths that’s worrying me…

    C’monnnnnnn Bochtanas/ an cรบlรบ/ slรฉacht ar na mbรณithre!

  5. I’m learning off an irish scรฉal. The idea is that it’ll cover me for the one word sceal option. (Diomรก…. sabhreas… athas) etc. I’m fine for essays. Something like only 8000 students take the scรฉal option. This is good news…

  6. You did business outside school? Whoa. Make sure you divide the number of marks in the question by five to get the number of points to give…although they sometimes want more/less than that so I don’t know…it’s stupid.

    Marketing is almost guaranteed this year ๐Ÿ™‚

  7. Yah, the five point rule is handy enough.
    When it applies that is…
    Oh really? Marketing is pretty sweet. Apparently the “monitoring the business” is pretty likely too. So gotto learn me some formulae.. Whoop!
    I just glad I don’t do Frenchhistory! Goingto need it for bio/general recovery!

  8. If people just helped on another now and then life would be so much easy.

    *gets back to writing out reams of words he doesn’t understand*

  9. Marie, don’t suppose you’d forward it to me please? Pretty please?

    Ahh. I hate that story more than the lazy student one.

    I’ve only ever did two pieces of stair, the ones on the mocks, and I didn’t even learn them, just had the general jist, and got half marks. I’d be pretty pleased with half marks in the real thing, if all I have to know is the jist. ๐Ÿ™‚

    I wouldn’t touch a short story unless there was NOTHING else on the paper. I tend to not understand what the titles mean, anyway.

  10. Lol this post made me laugh.

    And me too Adrian ^

    I’m doing economics outside school. It’s a tad crazy.

  11. Yah.. Starting to wonder would it have better to keep physics (in school) and have dropped the business… Oh well.

    And to anyone seeking tips on how to feel better, I advocate cake.

  12. You think you have it bad Adrian? I have that horrible horrible higher irish paper 2 then business then the next day french AND history, then biologly! Im literally shaking just thinking about those days, shaking!

  13. I do french… AND business… my body is not going to like me come Thursday morning sitting that bio exam. mmm borocca and lucozade clear…

  14. I do ordinary level maths and im fucking lost for it. I did class in paper 1 (who didn’t) but i only know how to answer like 2 questions in paper 2. Question 1 with Simpsons rule and all that jazz, and Question 6 Probability which is basically just common sense. WTF am i going to do?

  15. This is me: *tra la la la la skipping merrily through the leaving cert*
    This is irish paper 2: *Big fuck off stone wall*
    …..
    *BANG*

    What I would give to wake up fluent like yer man from that irish film….ye know the one I mean. Tg4 shows it every 5 minutes after Yu ming is ainm dom etc.

  16. Lol. Can I find some poor unsuspecting Irish teacher and make them sit my exam for
    me? ๐Ÿ™
    Hate it so much
    14 years of educations come down to ONE RESULT (technically 4 exams). Ugh.

  17. Just disguise them as you, it’ll work out fine don’t worry!!

    Ugh I know, could it not be a continuous assessment kinda thing! Like overall good student there ya go.
    None of this end of your life one result looming in the future type stuff.

  18. History! All I have to ask is WHY?

    Knowledge based generation… with access to digital books…encyclopaedias… and EVEN the past… at the touch of a button.

    World War II you say? GOOGLE…

    They should do ‘Future’ as a leaving cert subject.

    All joking aside Brian that’s pretty rough.. but the night after exams are over will too. WEY.

  19. Does anyone else think that it’s fun to pronounce your “v”s as “w”s when you say vomit… Womit womit womit…

  20. Okay.. That was a wampire ๐Ÿ˜€
    I think that beautiful apathy is regaining power in my head, soon… I just won’t care ๐Ÿ™‚

  21. It’s 4.02 pm. I’m half way through a coffee. That’s 9 hours to 1am. A paper and solutions takes what less than an hour to deal with? You’ll be fine :P.

  22. “This is irish paper 2: *Big fuck off stone wall*” ….. I laughed heartily.

    I look at the Irish language as something wonderful.

    I look at the pages I’ll write on as a metaphorical toilet… on which I’ll get sick. Spewing up loads of bits of irish and minging chunks of learned off material!

    As they say in the Caribbean “id’ll all be aw royth”

  23. I doubt it, that’d be highly impractical. Although I wouldn’t be too well informed about the amount of Jews in Ireland in general.
    Its not something I feel I need to keep on top of.

  24. I vant to vind a vay to vin over the essay vriting as i’m the antithesis of vonderful vight nov.

  25. To those of you who only need a C3 in Irish, here’s something that might calm you down a little.

    You can actually afford to lose 270 marks and still get your 55%. Thats a full essay question, the aural exam and 70 points left to spare put together.

    Thinking about that is just about the only thing stopping me from pulling out my hair right now =P

  26. No don’t pull your hair out! Sinead O connor style went out years ago!

    And that is a very good point to make….And the oral! God i’d forgotten about them altogether.

  27. Haha =P I happen to like my hair so I’ll save the hair pulling for another little while =P

    But yeah.. most people I know did brilliant on the Oral exam.. giving them in and around 120 marks before even writing a thing..

    That leaves another 210 marks out of the other 450 marks to get in the written part and listening part ;D

    For those bad at maths.. that’s less than half the marks =P

  28. YAY! I’m loved (:
    I’m actually half in love with myself atm too.

    I had a mental breakdown on friday over that stupid Geography exam *mumbles some inappropriate words*.. Getting stressed about English yesterday and Irish tomorrow.. So I looked up the Irish marking scheme to figure out what the bare minimal I need is cause I only need a C3..

    And voila! A breath of fresh air and a shit load of pillows to fall back on =P

  29. When i give my hair just a slight tug some ribs fall out. ๐Ÿ™ I love my hair, its taken me fucking ages to grow and now its falling out because of this dumb ass Leaving Cert tingy.

  30. I like how I’ve managed to get people talking about their hair on a LC website =P

    You could possibly sue the SEC for causing you emotional and physical damage because of this ‘Leaving Cert thingy’

  31. My friend have told me that they are going to shave my head at Oxegen this year anyway, so how bad.

  32. “This is me: *tra la la la la skipping merrily through the leaving cert*
    This is irish paper 2: *Big fuck off stone wall*
    โ€ฆ..
    *BANG*
    What I would give to wake up fluent like yer man from that irish filmโ€ฆ.ye know the one I mean. Tg4 shows it every 5 minutes after Yu ming is ainm dom etc.”

    Yep, this is my favourite thing that I’ve ever seen on this site. Give this man a blog!

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