The Leaving Cert Thread

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And why wouldn’t he, The Donald is keeping him in long trousers.

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Yes

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Cool story.

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I hadn’t time to study poetry so spent lunch before English Paper II studying Kinsella. I chose him cos he had the least number of poems on the curriculum. A good friend came up and asked who I was studying. He lolled and told me Kinsella had come up the previous year and wouldn’t come up again. Kinsella did what Tipp can’t and did the two in a row.

Those who say the Leaving Cert doesn’t matter are wrong. Deciding on Kinsella that lunch time and getting my first preference course in college turned me in to the incredible pool player I am today.

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Were you a Trap man mate?

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My handwriting slants slightly rightwards

At school you used to see a few weirdos whose handwriting would slant left

That’s just about understandable if you’re left handed but some of them were right handed

Imagine being right handed with left slanted handwriting

Freaks

As for the political dimensions of my answers, I was primarily influenced by JK Galbraith’s 1977 television series “The Age Of Uncertainty” with a lesser influence being Keynes from all the times I’ve travelled through Milton Keynes on the train

This would also have worked had I been sitting A levels in English but I’m pretty sure Milton wasn’t on the Eire syllabus

I brought a 2 litre bottle of home brew beer into the exam and drank most of it

By the end my hand was almost invisible to me I was writing so fast

Incidentally I’ve always wondered* whether MK Dons have a supporters group called the MK Ultras

*For about the last two minutes anyway

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Cramming was great for a lot of subjects, though I did it a lot more of it in college.

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Chartered Accountancy’s loss is the INTERNET’S gain.

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Biggest snowflake programme of all time on RTE. Some YouTuber called Stephen Byrne goes back to do leaving cert again 10 years on. He documents how his previous experience doing leaving cert was demeaning and threw him into emotional turmoil when he was dealing with his sexuality. He talks to Ryan Tubridy who derides the pressures it puts on young people etc etc etc. This all presented with an ensemble of foreboding music that wouldn’t be out of place in the HBO mini series of Chernobyl. It’s shocking what has become of this country . Everyone is a victim.

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He has his own show on 2fm I think

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One is a serious business .

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Mercifully, as the country spirals into the ever increasing maelstrom of madness that you’ve outlined, you have landed in an oasis of common sense, wise counsel and a never ending supply of occasionally good advice.
You’ll never regret seeking wisdom from your support team here.

Now have you ever tried the old shoving your…

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None more so than yourself it would seem

I think in your own case it’s just your imagination though

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Taken from the Irish Times analysis of English Paper today - “Perhaps the highlight of the paper was its last question where students were encouraged to articulate self-awareness in a debate speech for or against the motion: “We are a self-obsessed generation.”

I thought it was a very astute essay title which would serve as introspection for many teenagers up and down the country. On evidence of your internetting today I’m not sure you could contain your rantings to a 1000 words or time allotted though. The key is to not take yourself so seriously.

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It isn’t me that has a problem taking themselves too seriously mate

I’m very self deprecating, witty and open minded even if I say so myself, and there’s no contradiction in saying so

You on the other hand come across as yet another humourless curmudgeon with an imaginary victim complex

Just what the forum needs, we have a serious lack of them, oh wait

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News to break this week, LC is to be cancelled.

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That’s a massive decision if confirmed, especially after the ‘by hook or by crook’ comment a few weeks back. I think the powers that be will move heaven and earth to run the LC however especially if the numbers keep improving like they are.

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Mrs Mac who is a teacher (cc @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy) has been told by some others that it’ll be cancelled in favour of predictive marking. I’d say it’ll be carnage if that happens. Legal challenges all over the place

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Im in favour of predictive grading, in the current circumstances.

With the new grading system of H1,H2 etc., you have an acceptable margin of error imho.

Having taught my students over two years, I’m well adept to say what standard they are at.

If all evidence, class tests, class engagement tell you a student is a H3, then he or she probably is. There will of course be outliers, and the latter should be accomodated by an appeal in the form of a written exam in September.

Predictive grades depends upon professionalism of teachers. Unfortunately, some may fall down in this regard.

I know all the arguments against predictive grading, and I agree with many. However, the same people fail to put forward a viable alternative in event of leaving cert being cancelled.

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What about the lads that would cram all their study into the last three weeks and get a result?