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. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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