Comments on: Leaving Cert English Postponed!

By: Caroline

Caroline — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:58:05 +0000

Now, I never said people would definitely do better in the second exam. How would I know? I said they MIGHT. And I am sure some did, as I am equally sure the ones who didn’t are more likely to be complaining. Sorry if you didn’t do as well as you feel you would have on the first paper. Anyway, it’s still the luck of the draw. The papers might very well have been reversed, the “harder” paper might have been the one that was cancelled. It wasn’t. So be it. At any rate, the department was not out to get you by doing this, it was never intended, it resulted from human error. Shouldn’t have happened, wsn’t deliberate.

Might I point out that at third level, the delay of an exam would be greeted with great glee, giving people extra time to study for it. Funny how your perspective changes, eh?

And – shig – how does going for medicine guarantee that (a) you’re going to get it or (b) do better than someone else? Good luck to you, but don’t assume. And btw, I did the LC some years back now, got more than enough points to do medicine and am now out in the Big Bad World. And Daddy isn’t around. Have done much harder exams since. I sincerely hope you don’t measure your worth by what course you are going for – the LC will mean nothing a few years from now, it really won’t, regardless of what you end up doing, and certainly medical students are not superior to anyone else, nor considered so…

By: shig

shig — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:52:59 +0000

Did I ask for your opinion? I was just voicing my own opinion. You can’t just “Rubbish” somebody’s opinion. I’ll probably do better than you seeing as I’m going for medicine. Be careful who you are loud-mouthing from now on. Daddy won’t be around in the big bad world.

By: Jane

Jane — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:26:36 +0000

Caroline, That is total rubbish. I was completely prepared for the exam and I definitly found the exam today much harder that what was on the original paper. I do think that I’ve probably gone down at least one grade from how I would have done with the original paper. Fantastic for you if you did well but please don’t be so ignorant.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:56:31 +0000

Rubbish! Any study time lost over the weekend could have been made up on Thursday morning, when the postponed exam was supposed to be on. I also expect there are a lot of people who just planned to have a lie-in on Saturday and recuperate. My sympathies more to them. And what “opportunity” exactly did past students have that has been lost this year? 2 exams were prepared, independently; one is unusable, the other is being used. Boo-hoo! As for expecting lots of complaints, well, it does provide an excellent excuse for substandard students to query their marks, doesn’t it? Any old excuse will do. If you have the course studied, the 2nd exam should do just as well. Otherwise, it’s the luck of the draw, there may well be people who have prepared better for the exam coming up. Get over it!!

By: shig

shig — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:34:57 +0000

its a disgrace to our nation. the leaving cert students of 2009 are not being given the same oppurtunity as leaving certs in the past. Many people have been were relying on this weekend to polish off their study for subjects next week. This fiasco has compromised these plans. State Examinations Commision should step down and allow the department of education to be reinstated as the body in charge of state exams. Expect thousands upon thousands of complaints come August 12

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:30:46 +0000

A joke! should be scrapped till the end of the exams its messing up everything! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

By: Niall

Niall — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:44:53 +0000

Whoever opened the wrong papers should be fined for the cost of printing the replacement ones and fired from the job!!!! As if we dont already have enough stress during exam times. His mistake is goin to compromise this weekends study for thousands of students!

By: Frankie

Frankie — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:19:03 +0000

I hope that idiot invigilator is suspended! English is the most predictable paper on the LC, and the department only has itself to blame for that – therefore, most if not all students have been relying on predictions to guide their study. These predictions were right, of course – the leaked paper accurately complied with predictions. Now everyone’s terrified the back-up paper will be a completely opposite paper. Stress!