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Post by Paul Carroll on Mar 20, 2009 17:53:25 GMT
Don't worry, I'm going to study English. If not in Trinity, then in Mater Dei (with Education and Religion - we'd get to talk about Star Wars!! ;D). If I don't get that, then I'm left with different communications courses in DCU... and a Marketting one. But I'm not a Science Geek.. in 3rd level My Physics and Chemistry subjects in 2nd level don't count
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Post by Is-It-Cos-I-Lisa? on Mar 20, 2009 18:46:29 GMT
Science is not nice. I HATE it. I doesn't make sense. I don't care if maths is the most logical thing in the world, it makes no bloody sense.
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Post by Paul Carroll on Mar 20, 2009 20:17:16 GMT
No, you're wrong there. Maths makes sense, it's just taught in an abstract way. Science though... whoa! They just keep changing it. Why teach people something that in two years will be wrong??
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Post by makes-me-wonder (Rachel) on Mar 22, 2009 10:32:08 GMT
Maths changes! My teacher spent an hour teaching us the 17.5% interest rate and it changed the next day so we had to do it again!
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Post by Paul Carroll on Mar 22, 2009 10:46:55 GMT
Well that's different. The principle of Maths is always the same. Interest rates aren't
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Post by brendo91 on Mar 22, 2009 15:57:45 GMT
It is true about science, they keep changing it. Our chemistry teacher told us that nearly all of the definitions we have to learn either have, or will be proven wrong. It's ridicilous!
What about English in UCD Paul?
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Post by Paul Carroll on Mar 22, 2009 16:49:41 GMT
I don't have a third language. Back when we chose our subjects for the LC, I hadn't known what courses I was going to try do, so I didn't put French down. Pity. If I could change it, I would.
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Post by brendo91 on Mar 22, 2009 16:56:05 GMT
You got to choose? it's compulsory to study french in my school. Now you can pick German as well, but that's a new thing - only junior cert students can opt for german. I thought everyone had to study - English Irish Maths and a third language
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Post by Paul Carroll on Mar 22, 2009 17:34:33 GMT
Nope. Besides, my school wouldn't be able to do that. Not enough French teachers. It'd get complicated. Sure, a guy in my class doesn't do Irish, so he has to do French or get screwed over. In fairness though, he's from Bangladesh, so forcing him to learn Irish would be mean
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Post by brendo91 on Mar 22, 2009 17:40:56 GMT
My school is swarming with french teachers haha. The best one the school ever had is now the vice principal though, so she isn't my teacher for the LC, i'm stuck with an idiot who looks like he just got potty-trained. He's not good at all. God, i'm bitter. It's just that i only got an A at junior cert because she was my teacher - and i was her fav student. She told me that if she hadn't have become VP she would have been teaching my class for the LC - Ah unfairness of it all!!
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Post by Paul Carroll on Mar 22, 2009 17:56:06 GMT
Oh that happened to me in english in third year! My teacher from first and second year told my principal, "I'm not teaching five exam classes" so she lost us as a class (against her will). Of course, I got the teacher I have now, and have had him for four years now
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Post by Is-It-Cos-I-Lisa? on Mar 22, 2009 19:50:32 GMT
The French teacher I had until third year was a schizo, that aside she was a brilliant teacher. Now I have a teacher who talks about herself constantly. Because of her there are four people left in higher Level.
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Post by makes-me-wonder (Rachel) on Mar 23, 2009 18:15:58 GMT
Oh, I forgot the biggest example of why Science is always changing. Refer to the Facebook group: 'When I was your age, Pluto was a Planet.'
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Post by brendo91 on Mar 23, 2009 19:16:10 GMT
Oh, for those doing biology - Apparently, the hot tip for the LC is that there might be a question on Darwin. It's the 200th anniversary since his birth this year.
And in English, they're saying Riche will come up in poetry because she's 80 this year
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Post by makes-me-wonder (Rachel) on Mar 23, 2009 21:11:29 GMT
Well my exams are on set texts.
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