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The "Incredibly Impossible to Derail This Thread" thread
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The mission was a success!

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Annadog40 said

The mission was a success!

Do we want to know?

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Ahhh Girl said

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The mission was a success!

Do we want to know?

I think the mission was to get me to change my avatar. 

Success is Temporary a-hard-days-night-paul-11 

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ahdn_paul_06 Phase two worked just as planed

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What did I do? Is it karma? a-hard-days-night-ringo-12 

You shouldn’t be so mean to me. After all, you’re relying on ME to get younnadog40Girl and Joe out of the ANTI-Beatlemaniacs’ clutches and parlance’s memory restored. a-hard-days-night-ringo-15

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What did I do? Is it karma? a-hard-days-night-ringo-12 

Is being part of a master plan such a bad thing?

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The mission was a success!

 When shall I release the puma? 

 

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34% to pass a maths test!!

"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)

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34% to pass a maths test!!

Jesus ye actually change the pass-percentage, I’d prefer that over what we do (God dammit here comes another long explanation):

Say 10 people do higher level Leaving Cert maths. There is a fixed percentage of what percentage people can get:

Around 10% can get A’s (85%+)

Around 30% can get B’s (70%+)

Around 30% can get C’s (55%+)

Around 10% can get D’s (40%+)

The rest fail

If the paper was easy and 6 people get A’s, 3 got B’s and 1 got a D the States Examination Commission can not let that happen as it screws with the fixed percentages. So they keep on recorrecting the paper until they have found the 1 person that truly was the best of the 10 i.e. they got the most answers correct, they showed all of their workings, did nice graphs etc.

 The other 5 A-grade people, while they were A grades at first have to continue being remarked until they fit into the percentages, so the next best 3 will get B’s and the other 2 will get C’s. The real kick in the — is for the D-grade who will be remarked until they fail because they can not change the fixed-percentage brackets. Failing maths in the Irish education system means you will most likely not get a college course because nearly all of them require you pass maths.

It’s a real pain in the arse if you get scored down but it stops there being an over-inflation in college points requirements (I’ll explain this next Monday/Tuesday, speaking of which my results are out next Wednesday- paul-mccartney).

 

It works the same if the paper is very hard (like my Maths Paper 1 paper this year). If out of the 10 nobody gets an A and they all get C’s and D’s then they will keep on remarking it (giving loads of marks for the “easier” Section A questions than the “more difficult” Section C answers) so that they will get the 1 A, 3 B’s, 3 C’s, 1 D and 2 fails so it’s both a pain and a blessing.

 

 

 

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I just saw the movie Pixels. It was so good. My brother who died in a car wreck many years ago would have loved the movie. He played all those games as a kid.

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AppleScruffJunior said

meanmistermustard said
34% to pass a maths test!!

Jesus ye actually change the pass-percentage, I’d prefer that over what we do (God dammit here comes another long explanation):

Say 10 people do higher level Leaving Cert maths. There is a fixed percentage of what percentage people can get:

Around 10% can get A’s (85%+)

Around 30% can get B’s (70%+)

Around 30% can get C’s (55%+)

Around 10% can get D’s (40%+)

The rest fail

If the paper was easy and 6 people get A’s, 3 got B’s and 1 got a D the States Examination Commission can not let that happen as it screws with the fixed percentages. So they keep on recorrecting the paper until they have found the 1 person that truly was the best of the 10 i.e. they got the most answers correct, they showed all of their workings, did nice graphs etc.

 The other 5 A-grade people, while they were A grades at first have to continue being remarked until they fit into the percentages, so the next best 3 will get B’s and the other 2 will get C’s. The real kick in the — is for the D-grade who will be remarked until they fail because they can not change the fixed-percentage brackets. Failing maths in the Irish education system means you will most likely not get a college course because nearly all of them require you pass maths.

It’s a real pain in the arse if you get scored down but it stops there being an over-inflation in college points requirements (I’ll explain this next Monday/Tuesday, speaking of which my results are out next Wednesday- paul-mccartney).

 

It works the same if the paper is very hard (like my Maths Paper 1 paper this year). If out of the 10 nobody gets an A and they all get C’s and D’s then they will keep on remarking it (giving loads of marks for the “easier” Section A questions than the “more difficult” Section C answers) so that they will get the 1 A, 3 B’s, 3 C’s, 1 D and 2 fails so it’s both a pain and a blessing.

 

 

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The mission was a success!

It was a mission impossible?  

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AppleScruffJunior said

Annadog40  said
The mission was a success!

 When shall I release the puma? 

During Phase 11

 

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The mission was a success!

It was a mission impossible?  

More like mission probable! (I just watch that movie a few days ago in theaters)

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Annadog40 said

AppleScruffJunior said

Annadog40  said
The mission was a success!

 When shall I release the puma? 

During Phase 11

Right-o Annaringo! 

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Awesome! Can I get that on a T-shirt?

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AppleScruffJunior said

Annadog40 said

AppleScruffJunior said

Annadog40  said
The mission was a success!

 When shall I release the puma? 

During Phase 11

Right-o Annaringo! 

Why do I have a sudden sense of foreboding? a-hard-days-night-paul-4

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Why do I have a sudden sense of foreboding?

I’m for boating as well.

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I HEAR THUNDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

*does a wild dance about the room* 

Hopefully the day will turn black and the sky will rip apart, rain for a year till it’s damp in my garden…

rewrite of song fail. 

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^You’re welcome, funnily enough we got sun today- it was lovely and warm so I got to wear shorts and a t-shirt for the day, (hurray!). Tomorrow is meant to be alright as well so happy days.

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^ Wo yeah! Let’s pretend it’s actually possible to send weather to someone over 3,000 miles (4 km) away. 

Well, it’s been twenty minutes and plenty of thunder and I played ‘Blow Away’ twice and STILL NO ACTUAL FALLING PRECIPITATION RAIN! 

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