Ah here.
Ronan F writes:
Oh the ironing…
The Leaving Cert is absurd and unfair but we are obsessed with it (Aine MacMahon, Irish Times)
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Ah here.
Ronan F writes:
Oh the ironing…
The Leaving Cert is absurd and unfair but we are obsessed with it (Aine MacMahon, Irish Times)
The headline is not even the worst part: ‘Is it possible to devise a selection mechanism that’s fairer than the CAO. It’s transparent and objective but only fair if you believe wealthier students who can pay for grinds and extra tuition, is fair.” How about adding a question mark to the first sentence and then completely rewriting the second sentence so that it actually makes sense. Mark: Fail.
Was that 1234BC or 1234AD? I wouldn’t remember the former in fairness like. Dino babies an’ stuff back then hai
The final line of the article is an epic fail too: “Until kids from Ranelagh see as many kids from Darndale at fresher’s week we cannot keep pretending educational apartheid runs deep.”
The entire article is badly written. There is this gem too: ‘For students teachers and commentators it appears an unpredictable exam is a bad exam as it means students can’t rehash their learned off colour coded notes or prepared essays.” Ever heard of commas? They should add this article to the syllabus and ask students to point out everything wrong with it and rewrite it as a piece that makes sense.
It’s just a typo, no sense getting a dee in your bonnet about it.
Are we allowed to type comments today? I hope it was a production issue rather than heavy censorship going on yesterday.
I have flagged this comment for removal
…just noticed one of my comments from yesterday is gone…a fairly innocuous one at that…explanation needed Broadsheet…
Simple explanation. You’re a Geebag
Ah now, calm down. He’s just a twatbiscuit, if anything.
“twatbiscuit”
*splutter*
is that a close neighbour of an airbiscuit? :)
…a twatbiscuit eh…how do you get these through moderation?
Invention something something mother of necessarily or something.
I do have a great one. Sackmuncher. Asspixie. Clunchduster.
…hah…just got moderated for using t***biscuit…I must be on the naughty list…I’m not even as naughty as Teresa May…
+1
Generation Entitlement
The LC is a great workout for a brain in it’s prime. Very satisfying.
You sound like an old solicitor in the showers in Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis club.
And we can guess what he might be soliciting.
THE problem is its nothing more than a work out for memory, expect for maths, you can be really have no clue of the subject and pass easily. I’ll explain, my history basically predicted fairly accurately what essay questions would come up, but he got us to write and rewrite and rewrite 10 different essays question answers. Id literally just memorised what he told me to write,in my own words, 4 of the essay came up and 3 of the paragraph question were based on essays id wrote. I got a b2, im thick as fuck when it comes to history, but again a b2.
Before the property market, the Irish Times cruelly exploited this exam to sell papers.
The Times… those who never emigrated ruining the lives of successive generations of young Irish people.
I did the leaving cert once. Maths formulae and Shakespeare came and went however Peig Sayers will be with me forever……..
The Leaving Cert curriculum is a great general education. Still remember all me poems, some of me theorems and a hape of geography.
29 years since I did the Leaving.
How did that happen?
And now I know your age :D
Oh yeah, I was a child prodigy obviously :)
I’d expect no less from the inexplicable pleasure that is your own self, Bert :)
Apparently Paul Durcan is on the syllabus now,. Fancy that.
Bertie, Thanks for making me feel young! (by 2 years)
I watched bits of the Manchester concert at the weekend, it that didn’t make you feel old nothing will.
Hamlet or King Lear?
1987 – Macbeth, 1988 – Hamlet, 1989 – King Lear, 1990 – Othello.
30 years since my Inter Cert nightmare
https://wheresgrandad.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/what-were-the-skies-like-when-you-were-young-when-inter-cert-english-became-nebulous/