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charlie007

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Well what do you know? Overcast and even rain.

It's many years since I did the Leaving, but ever since its seems to have coincided with great weather.

Looks like the class of '25, who had to endure early secondary life during covid, are getting a break.

Best of luck to all......
 
Good of you to think of the kids today and the stresses they are going through. I saw a couple of Junior Cert sitters interviewed on one of the news reports this evening and they seemed upbeat enough. I hope it stays like that for them.

I echo the good wishes in the OP.
 
I can only reiterate what you've said.

I don't recall ever having being stressed before or during exams.

However , years later and even now the very odd time I have THAT dream.
Exams coming up and very little work done and then I relax thinking I bluffed my way through before and might get away with it again. Then I wake up!
A sort of microcosm of my life really
 
One exam sticks in my mind, honours chemistry as it was then called. I got into a flat panic going in to the exam room - honours or pass, pass or honours? I stammered "Honours" when they gave out the papers. I found it so easy that I had to keep checking the paper's colour and "title" - I thank my lucky stars I picked the right one as the pass paper that year was a pig!! I got an A+ or whatever they call it these days - "I got 110% man, I'm not kiddin' ya, no messin'!"
 
Right, I can beat that no bother.
Way back in time if you didn't pass Irish in the Inter-Cert, you didnt get an Inter-Cert....ie you failed!
TBTG this was no longer the case when I did my Inter, so I decided to do the honours as it was surely better to fail it than the pass.
I actually ended up getting an E and was actually quite proud of it!
 
Hmm. A sense of foreboding will hang over this generation for their failure to deliver this part of the social bargain. It does not augur well for the country when they come of age.
 
Irish Smirish, relax man, deep breaths. I went to an A school where our subjects were taught through the medium of Irish. Up to a certain ceiling this was worth an extra 10% on your marks. I can't remember the ceiling, maybe 80% or 85%. I can't remember anyone getting awarded 110% although I felt I deserved it all the time, in all subjects and pursuits, including chess, swimming, hurling, serving at Mass and Benediction, and not least at my ability to attract young females into my orbit.
 
mathepac said:
I went to an A school where our subjects were taught through the medium of Irish.
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I didn't understand anything that was written on the exam paper in my Irish exam in the Leaving Cert or Group Cert. I can understand French better than Irish. It is a completely alien language to me.
 
Hammer horror films , music , poker and the tennis club ruined my Leaving Cert results .
After splendid results in my Inter cert I decided that it was time to rest on my laurels , I saw every Hammer horror film ever made specialising in those featuring the delectable Ingrid Pitt , I had a mate who had a marvellous record collection and apparently deaf parents and me and my mates played poker at every available opportunity and every available location .
The tennis club disco was our introduction to the local girls previously only seen either at mass or the bus stop.
My leaving cert results accurately reflected the above diversions.
 
I can recall some particularly addictive computer games damaging some exam results in my class.

And in the French exam phrases would start coming to me in Irish and vice versa.
 
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