#Irish Aural Exam

[ciancyan]

Miku taking the Irish Aural Exam

[coalburiedinwarmashes]

just woke up after having a nightmare that the entire irish exam was listening and aural n i couldnt understand a word she was saying n so just started talking about hurlamaboc n she looked so disgusted

[irishgirlwhostudies]

5/1/23

Hey!

So I'm finished my first day back and it was an absolute TRAVESTY this is extremely depressing and I feel like crying. Aka I got some exam results back.

What I hate

• Biology: solid 17%....yeah not great obviously. It piled tf up on me and I did NOT study near enough + let procrastination take over. I basically gave up on it.

• Maths: 34%....honestly thought I would be in the 50s?? I need to look through it, but it WAS STUPID MISTAKES FUCK. also some unanswered questions bcs i didn't know wtf was going on with those. Love the teacher + enjoy coming to class so I can actually work on this without wanting to kms

What is ok

• German: 50 something? I could've gotten so much more if I did more studying but I was fucking lazy icl. Like she literally told us what was gonna be on the damn thing I am a fucking muppet.

• Irish: High marks on my written paper but lost marks on my oral which was 40% LORD HAVE MERCY😩 my aural was a travesty (it was all donegal irish i dont have the capacity for that I'm sorry) overall could've done better by learning more for my oral and some notes studied more

What I'm happy with

• English: 67% which may seem quite low but I didn't even finish the damn paper OKAY. I got 42/50 for my essay? So fucking happy with that but I lost stupid marks fr the other part was a comprehension which of that I did NOT comprehend LMAO but my 20 mark question was 18/20 ?? Whenever idk wtf I'm talking about I always score super fucking high. Anyways I got 7/15 for the one other question I did which was alright for 2 paragraphs when it shouldve been 3. I only lost 3 marks in total in those 2 paragraphs. So I also lost out on a 15 marker question but I'm quite happy icl.

Still need History and Art back. These results gave me a kick up the hole and now I know I need to cop tf on. So I went to the library after school (a wee rory gilmore moment) and did some homework. My mom was there to pick us up after and I went home to finish it. I have a Biology test next friday on the breathing system so I DID SOME STUDY FOR IT !! And also learnt off all the bio notes I took down today. Finished maths & irish homework and then I had completed everything.

I'm on the couch with my ultra soft oodie bcs i have bad period cramps and I'm sad (no wonder) so goodbye I have netflix to watch and friends to text.

Until next time (read this in a menacing voice please)

xxx

[letsallgotothelobby]

*beeeeep*

[alpacinosgf]

[buglaur]

roxy is the best. i love her.

agreed 😫 here are some roxana shots that didn't make it into any legacy posts

[littleaestheticmonster]

Fucking wheezing 😂

[onlydreamofmysoul]

Omg so my brothers girlfriends sister got a new dog and it’s a wee Dalmatian. It’s honestly so cute. We have this group chat and she was asking us for help with names and we said like pongo and spit. But she wanted a name her son liked. So started saying avenger theme names and stuff from shows she likes. She just put in that her son wants to call the dog….

Madadh

Her son wants to call the dog… dog and she can’t convince him to change his mind.

I don’t know if you pronounce it different or if this is the Ulster Irish way to say dog in Irish. (Ma-doo) for anyone wondering. I don’t know why I find this so funny though

-HA✨

Fucking Ulster Irish

You’re about to hear about one of my pet peeves. The way aural exams were always in the ulster or Leinster dialect but I’m from Munster so it was always so fucking different to the way we speak so we literally had to learn another form just for that part of the exam

Lmao we say madra, which is pronounced basically as it’s spelled - mah-drah

Ohhhhh I can feel 6 years of annoyance about this bubbling up😂😂😂😂

I do absolutely love the name though. 10/10. I would 100% name a dog that

[duine-aiteach]

Does the current curriculum for Irish fail the language?

On the 2016 census 1.7 million people indicated they could speak Irish, which was a 13,000 decrease from the 2011 census. 420,000 said they never spoke Irish and 587,000 said they spoke it only in education. A mere 200,000 indicated they spoke it weekly or daily, and I fear that that number is only going to fall. The number of fluent Irish speakers has declined since The Famine despite various attempts to revive it, and current opinions towards the language aren’t helping it recover. There has to be a change in the way it is implemented.

 The current examination system for Irish at Leaving Certificate level has an oral examination, an aural examination and a written examination. The results of these are then averaged out to get a final grade. This may seem like a good idea as the students can play to their strengths. However, the level of Irish required to take this exam is generally higher than students can manage. The teachers knew we didn’t have enough Irish to answer the questions on our own, so we were given essays and pages of notes to learn off. By forcing us to take exams at a much higher level than we could speak, most people who had any bit of interest lost it. If the way Irish is taught, and subsequently examined, isn’t changed the language will die.

Stringing a language along that not many people want to speak just to preserve it is ridiculous and ultimately a waste of time. Forcing the language on people does no good. At the moment we have a country full of teenagers who loathe the subject. We can’t actually speak it but can somehow answer an in-depth question on the themes of a poem?

 My proposition is to begin at the root – education – and split Irish into two separate subjects – Irish (native speaker) and Irish (learner). The first will be aimed mainly at Gaeltacht areas and Gaelscoils and rarely be taken outside of them, whereas the latter is aimed at people who don’t often use Irish outside of school.

Irish (native speaker) can stay pretty much the same as the current Irish curriculum since it’s aimed at people who can speak Irish the way most of us do English. Whereas Irish (learner) would be set up more like the foreign languages – French, German, Spanish etc – that are taught in schools already.

Currently, people who have only learnt simple introductions and past tense verbs are coming into secondary school expected to be able to write essays by themselves, and as time goes on it gets harder and harder. We are treated as if we should know things about Irish that we have never been taught. That needs to be changed. We need to be taught what things mean and why we use them more than just “because we do.” In primary school we were made to learn lists of Irish words off – liom, leat, leis, lei, linn, libh, leo; orm, ort, air, uirthi, orainn, oraibh, orthu etc – but it wasn’t until Leaving Cert. that I learned they had different meanings and you didn’t just alternate based off your gut feeling. I only learned that because of an offhand comment my teacher made that we as a class then asked about. He grew up in Connemara and seemed very surprised that we didn’t know the difference.

 Irish isn’t spoken widely anymore outside of Gaeltacht areas and the vast majority of Irish people who can “speak” Irish haven’t spoken it since leaving school. Most of what they do know is due to learning by heart and not actually learning to speak the language. The problem isn’t a lack of interest, it’s mainly the curriculum which forces the teachers to not actually teach the language properly because that isn’t important to get us through our exams.

I struggled with Irish greatly in secondary school and I believe most of that is down to being pushed into an exam I wasn’t able for. I was discouraged from taking ordinary level because as long as I passed, I would get more points in higher level. I put myself under a lot of stress that I think could have been avoided if I had had the choice to study Irish as a language I was learning, rather than one I seemed to be expected to know.

 If it was taught differently more people would want to and would enjoy learning the language. The only way Irish will properly survive is if they actually start teaching us how to speak the language not just acting like we are already fluent in it. I have heard a vast amount of people say that they can speak French or German better than a language they’ve been “taught” since they were four years of age. The language you’ve been around since early childhood should be much easier to speak than one you’ve been learning for three or four years.

 Although every Irish person’s first language used to be Irish it has to be understood now that that isn’t the case and the way of promoting and encouraging Irish needs to be changed to reflect that. A hundred years ago testing students on analysing a poem in Irish would work since the person spoke the language fluently, but now we do not and without a serious change in teaching we never will be. There must be a change to increase proficiency of the language in the general Republic or it will die out. 

[moonlightyellow]

When the Donegal accent comes up

[kermitheefrog]

whenever i see edits of robert sheehan i get so mad like that bitch got a c in his irish leaving cert exam when 40% of the marks are an oral exam and 10% is an aural exam but now he wears eyeliner so he suddenly gets rights? shut up

[hoursofprocrastinationblog]

Exam time

So I've already sat three exams and today I will be sitting two more ....oh the joy. Anyway as I'm about to fail Maths and Irish in a spectacular fashion and shame every studyblr ever I would like to take this moment to say.

Exams don't matter. They don't. I'm half an hour away from sitting my final maths paper and guess what after that I'm never going to have to do standard deviation again.

After today I'll never have to complete an Irish aural hoping for the absence of the donegal dialect and guess what for that reason I can't wait.

Just another average human

[madmattdog]

As someone who grew up being forced to learn Irish by the government along with all my peers, I can count on zero hands the amount of people who actually wanted to continue speaking it after we left school.

It's gotta be done right, the problem is, here it's an exam subject so it comes with all the baggage and stress of an exam subject which makes everyone's view on it incredibly negative. It's forced down our throats from the age of 4 and we have to reproduce it in order to get good grades because progress in the education system depends on it. It's the WRONG way to do it. You can't make something compulsory and expect kids to care about it. The way languages are taught in schools is flawed, there's too much focus on mechanics and achieving grades and NO focus on actually having conversations(aside from passing an aural exam) and experiencing the culture that the language is a key part of. I can say the exact same thing about French and German too, since those are 2 other languages people are taught here as exam subjects. It's all "how much can you memories and reproduce for grades" and that's a terrible way to teach people a language.

I dunno how they are doing it in Wales but I hope it's being done better than here. It should not be an examinable subject. It should be taught and students allowed to interact and learn it as much or as little as they want. It should be used to explore the culture of the country, not as a tool to earn points in the education system.

It's definitely a good idea to have it taught to kids from an early age, school is the right place but the method needs to change.

[sunscreenstudies]

Hey! Congratulations, you did really well in your LC! I was wondering, do you have any tips for people who are going into 6th year? Also, how did you study for Geography? It's so difficult to learn off lists of information 😰

Thank you so much!! :D

And believe me when I say that you already have most of the work done in 5th year! 5th year was wayyy more stressful than 6th year because by April you honestly are just so done with this whole Leaving Cert thing you don’t even care anymore! The *best* study tips that I can give you for going into 6th year, however are:

Take rough notes in school and then rewrite them over the weekend, making them pretty and colourful and breaking all the information down into small bullet points, because lets face it, teachers give wayyy more info that what’s necessary, and by rewriting it, not only can you cut things out, it also helps you remember the topic better, and when your notes are cute and pretty looking, you’ll actually want to study from them!

Download or print out the syllabus for each subject and only write notes for those topics! I found that in a lot of subjects, especially theory heavy ones like biology, the teacher gave way too much information than what was required, and you can still can full marks by cutting out those unnecessary points!

I used a colour-scheme for highlighting which actually helped a lot! For example, I used yellow for headings and subheadings, orange for definitions, blue for people’s names, green for examples, purple for quotes and pink for dates. This way, when you’re revising or doing your homework and you’re looking for a particular definition or an example, you can immediately find the colour highlighter and the information that you’re looking for!

This website : https://www.examinations.ie/exammaterialarchive/  should be your best friend! I know you’re probably sick of hearing this, but doing exam papers and checking the marking scheme afterwards really does help! That way you can learn exactly what you need to get full marks

Subject wise:

When it comes to studying maths, especially for higher level, just reading your notes and doing the same example questions over and over again won’t cut it. I did this throughout my 5th year, and ended up doing great on class tests before almost failing my summer exam. Teachers usually use the examples they gave you in class tests, and I ended up memorising these examples instead of actually learning the methods! So once again, exam papers are your friend.

For English, even though there is an awful lot to learn, you just need to remember key words, and you’ll sail through. In the comparative, for example, you need to compare your texts in every. single. paragraph. You could write a fantastic essay, but if you don’t say “In comparison to this…” “Text 2 however differs from this…” “Similarly…” “The two texts are different in the sense that…” etc. you will get veryyy low marks. In the same way, when answering your poetry question, you need to keep referring to the style of the poet. Every past poetry question can be broken down into two simple questions: What did the poet write about? and how did they say it? If you can answer both these questions on every poem you learn, you’ll do brilliantly! Also, don’t bother learning any more than 5 poems from each poet, and don’t learn more than 5 poets to begin with. By doing this and learning 25 poems in total, you’re covering yourself completely!

Languages are more tricky to study for, but what helped condense the information you need to learn for me, was treating the oral and the written paper as the same exam. For example, if I learned off a paragraph about my family for the oral, then I would learn that paragraph again for the written paper, instead of learning a new paragraph or adding sentences. This way, when you’re studying for the written exam, you won’t have to learn off new paragraphs, because you’ll still remember some of what you learned for the oral! Aural tests are the worsttt and very difficult to study for, so your best bet is to just learn off the most common place names that come up, numbers and dates, and (for German at least) types of weather. Be sure to read the syllabus for the aural exam because in some cases, if you just guess and write down what you *think* the tape might have said, they’ll give you half marks!

Biology is all about the diagrams! That’s what got me through that huge ream of information. If you learn off the diagram, then you already have a rough idea of what’s going on. Learnt the diagrams as if you’re trying to teach it to someone else, and honestly, this makes it so much easier to learn! It especially helps with similar topics such as respiration and photosynthesis, the carbon cycle and the nitrogen cycle, etc. and really helps you to distinguish one from one another. Then, in the exam, you can just draw a quick sketch in pencil at the top of your page, and refer to it every time you get confused or stuck when explaining something.

Geography did have a lot of information to learn off and is marked rather harshly. However if you go through past exam papers you will find certain topics that come up every single year eg. Fluvial processes. For me, I studied those guaranteed topics (or mostly-guaranteed topics) really well, and then had a rough overview of the rest of the book. Also, in every answer make sure that you give an example and for the love of god, learn your damn exam diagrams!!! They are literally the best thing ever because if you need 15 points in an answer, then a diagram can count for up to 3 of those!! And even if you’re certain that you have written enough points, put one down anyway because you never know how mean your examiner might be! With that note, for every 2 marks a question is worth, you need 1 SRP (significant relevant point), a sentence that contains a solid fact or example. Eg. For a 30 mark question, you need to give 15 SRP’s, for a 20 mark you need 10SRP’s, etc. etc. Also, learn the theory and the case studies as one answer! So instead of writing down that an earthquake happened in Japan on March 11, 2011 and it was magnitude 8, write down how earthquakes occur and what magnitude means and that for every 1 jump you make on the Richter scale the earthquake becomes 10 times as powerful. You need to pretend that the examiner is stupid and has no idea what earthquakes or volcanoes or tertiary activities are, and that way, you are maxmising your SRP’s. Answer every question as if you’re explaining the topic to a 3-year-old! Your short questions, individual long questions, elective, and option answers are all worth the same exact 80 marks. So do not disregard the short questions because they’re worth the same 16.66% as every other question you answer. Also, if your option is Geology like mine was, then your fucking sorted man! Every single year has at least one questions on biomes, whether it’s the human activity or the characteristics so just learn that and you’re sorted! No joke, there were 10 people in my Leaving Cert Geography class and not a single one of us knew anything about soil or soil processes or characteristics. We all just learnt our biome, and that was it!

6th year is scary and stressful and at times you will want to just bury yourself in your bed and cry, but you will get through this! Just calm down, breathe, take a moment, and remember that even your worst days can only ever last 24 hours. Millions and millions and millions of people have survived the LC and you will too! And this time, next year, you will be collecting your official certificate from your school and wondering just what the hell the fuss was all about!

I hope that these tips/pieces of advice helped, and if you have any other questions please please please feel free to ask me because I really could have done with an Irish studyblr back when I was in your position!

And always always always always alwaysssss remember, that you are more important than your grades! It doesn’t matter if you’re aiming for 10 points or the full 625, your health and your well being and your happiness is so so so much more important that what you get at the end of the day! Do not let your good grades be at the expense of your mental or physical health because while the Leaving Cert is such a huge deal to you right now, in 5 years time, it won’t matter anymore. So please please pleaseee take care of yourself and always put yourself first! 😘

[musicsecretsexposed]

MSE 100: MSE News, Views & Updates

https://youtu.be/ZYn1c84HHjE Welcome to our special #MusicSecretsExposed . Today's MSE news and updates episode, we learn about all the goings-on here behind the scenes of MusicSecretsExposed. I'm your host, Sylvia m, and you're listening to the music #MSE podcast.#MusicSecretsExposed We have reached August of 2021!. I received a lovely message this week from Neil. And here's his message, take a listen. MSE PODCAST REVIEW NEIL SHAH Hi, I've just discovered your podcast for the first time today. My son is 10 years old, but he has a guitar a grade eight exam in two weeks time. And the weakest part is aural in sight reading. And your podcast has been instrumental in helping us improve this aspects, and also the reasons behind it. So thank you very much. Just want to say that we appreciate all your efforts and your insights into how the British musical journey happens. Thank you. My name is Neil and my son is Rahul Shah. So if you if you type into Google Rahul Shah , you'll be able to see a recording of his piece. Thank you. Firstly, Neil, thank you for your message. And just as a quick note, I wasn't able to find your son's video. So if you can email me at Sylvia at music secrets exposed.com. I'd be delighted to see that video that your son put together. Neil's message really has illustrated why this podcast was started, why I decided to put out all this information out there into the virtual world. #MUSICSECRETSEXPOSED I have seen over the years that a lot of parents have had so many questions and lots of you know, musicians who are in the process of learning how to play an instrument and navigating everything that there is concerned with all of that, that there are so many questions to be answered. And on top of that, there are so many opportunities that musicians don't know about. So this podcast is really just a general overview of all the knowledge you need to get you going on a really good musical path where you're well-founded with your theory, your instrumental skill. But in many respects, what's more, important is what do you do with your musical skill when you've achieved the ability to play music and really get to hone in on that dream sound that you really want to achieve? Now that leads me into our interview series, which has been quite an exciting discovery to meet so many musicians with so many skills few weeks. Most recently, I interviewed renowned cellist Caitlin Fahey Crowe. She's currently in New Mexico. Caitlin Fahey Crowe #MSE podcast And that interview was published last Friday. So if you haven't heard that interview, I suggest you listen to it, even if you're not a cellist. Caitlin and myself discussed all the various aspects of tutoring, and some of the ideas concerning learning music and how that when you are a parent of a child learning music, that it's very interesting and very supportive when the parent gets involved in the whole idea of learning music and supporting their child through the learning of music. And there's various ways parents can really enhance the environment in which that child is studying. And there is much more information besides just that one point. So in my opinion, the channel is the most wonderful instrument. Now the interview is 44 minutes long. So it's quite a long interview. However, we covered lots of interesting topics well worth your time. This Friday's interview is with Paul McGarrett, from a college in Dublin here in my home country in Ireland. And he is the lead, of course focused on giving artists very interesting skills. And one of the skills that really I'm interested in to learn more about is this whole idea of making instruments. Paul McGrattan Irish Uilleann pipe Half set Seasoned Rosewood Chanter main stocks with drone, Rosewood bellows leather strapped and Bag black velvet sliver fringe Now in my home country of Ireland, we have instruments such as the Irish harp, the Celtic harp, our Uilleann pipes and more besides that, and there's actually a shortage of skills regarding instrument making when we look at traditional instruments in this job onra and the whole world of musical instrument making is a fascinating world to discover. Traditional Irish Lyre Harp 10 Metal String Free String Set Various Designs (Celtic Piping) And it's really interesting for those of you who are very hands-on and you know, you love the feel and touch of things, you love making things, but you also really enjoy the sound of music as part of that whole process. There are huge opportunities in this field of work. So that interview is coming out on Friday. So I strongly suggest if you're researching opportunities, where you can potentially go and do study, and enhance your ability to work in the field of music, and some creatively Well, maybe this is an option that should be pursued in terms of research. Now, that leads me neatly into another topic, which is our competition, just reminding you that we are sponsoring a competition over at musical change-makers calm. Now, this competition is not us taking music from students, or others coming into the competition. The reason why we're sponsoring this competition is that we really want to support musicians who are trying to get a message out there, we don't want to make any money out of the music that these musicians create, we want to support them, and give them as much guidance as possible link them in with people that can help them to make their artistry, a more public format. If you want more details about the competition, it's an exciting one, go over to musicalchangemakers.com, have a YouTube link about two or three minutes maximum and length. We accept groups are soloists into the competition. And all the prizes and everything is there. Now there are some prizes not listed yet because they're being finalized. And that's why we have in the description of the prize list that there are some surprises coming along. There are some prizes in development. So the closing date for entries is planned for the 31st of August. Now we are getting requests to extend that time. So if we get an off request, we might extend the closing date. But for now, the closing date for entries is the 31st of August. So if you're a soloist or a group, and you really want to get a message out about some form of change, you would love to see in your community, your local environment, or something way bigger than that, stick in an entry through your YouTube link, have it ready before you sign into the site. The rules are really easy and simple. And you're good to go. Can't wait to see your entry. Now the next piece of news that I want to bring to your attention is that if you want remote lessons concerning piano, one on one over zoom, you can go over to #TheWorldofPiano now there's only a small number of spaces there available. And each week I'm mentioning this, because I am very keenly aware that as we head into the month of September when people are really getting ready to return into academia, go back to schools and music and so on. There might be a small number of you out there that really want to just stick with this idea of staying at home in your own home for safety reasons concerning COVID. But also, it's more convenient, and just do your piano classes remotely. Now I myself will be doing the tutoring initially. And what you're going to get there is lessons each week organized and everything. But the main thing is that I have discovered, for those of you who might doubt such a process is I am amazed how much that I , as a real-world shooter who would prefer that method in the real world to happen. I'm amazed at how much I've been able to achieve through this process of online learning. It's been amazing how I can help the students there to refine their sound to achieve what they need to achieve. Now if you want more information, go over there to the WorldofPiano. And you can drop me an email there at info@theworldofpiano.com. If you want to set up a free zoom call just to discuss the options and the costs and so on. It's not very expensive. I've kept the cost down as low as I can to help you guys out because the world we're living in I can understand is that is a tough world at the moment financially speaking for many. Now, this leads me on to another piece of information and this is about music theory ,not the most attractive topic I know for musicians. However, it is widely agreed and widely spoken about amongst the tutoring industry amongst professionals in music from university masters agree, personal way down to grassroots level music, that music theory is an essential part of music learning. Now, if you have never studied music theory before, and you want to kind of get your head around all of this, whether it's to allow you to get into a choir and sing as part of acquiring in the future in your community, are just to have this ability to read music and understanding what music is the finer points of reading and understanding music. If you have never, never studied music theory before, go over to #Gradedmusictheory .And what you do there is you just put in your name and your email. And when the doors are open, you will be the first to hear about this music theory. Step by step course now, this course enables students to just study a very carefully, well-tested method of studying music theory that has been tried and tested for many years now. It is one of the cornerstones of music theory study that has been around for a very long time. I have used it over the years myself with great success. And to be honest with you, I think it's probably one of the better systems of music theory learning that I will be hosting and presenting. So the big thing is if you share this podcast out to those whom you think it would be of interest to, for the purposes of doing piano learning theory, understanding new opportunities, please spread the word. If you have any questions at all, drop a message or voice message either through my website at music secrets exposed.com, or hear the podcast you can drop the voice message like Neil did earlier in the podcast, or just drop us an email all the links you will find in the podcast description. The whole purpose of #MusicSecretsExposed is to be a support to you as a music student, trying to achieve that dream sound that you just visualize and hear in your mind. Now, that completes today's podcast, and make sure you visit all those websites to get informed about our offerings. And there will be more developments happening in the next couple of months that are in the plans at the moment. Which if you're researching opportunities across the board concerning music, or you want to dig deep into, you know what's involved in making instruments or what's involved in higher-level performance, or maybe there are opportunities that you've never heard of before. In during the autumn, we're going to be presenting some really interesting information concerning a whole host of musical opportunities for you, if you are thinking about what to do with your musical skill. Now, that concludes today's podcast, and tune in for Friday's interview with Paul from the valley farmer College in Dublin. He'll be a very interesting guy to listen to about instrument making about artists and what they should be thinking about. And that opportunity that is up there. It's an exciting, unique opportunity that's happening in Dublin. And just as a side note, they're taking students from all over the world into that course but there are only so many spaces available. So that's a very unique opportunity. So tune in for Friday's episode for sure. And until then, have a great day....... Read the full article

[cad-faoi-maeglin]

The only thing is we don’t do aggregates. Like, as far as I’m aware, grades for a class in the States are made up of grades gotten throughout the year? (correct me if I’m wrong! It’s just that’s the impression I get.) For the Irish system, to get that 40% you’d need to get that on one exam that you sit at the end of school and covers two years worth of a syllabus. All your grades in class tests and homework are literally meaningless. Some subjects do have practicals that are worth a portion of the grade (home ec, music, art etc.) and languages obviously have an aural and oral component as well as a written one, but they’re still all one set of exams sat at the end of the year. The first two weeks of June are shit if you’re an 18 year old in Ireland XD

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