Take Leaving Cert at 16

Jan Hus · 24-09-2012 11:47pm #1

Hello. I am a home-educated student who has just turned 16. Can I take the Leaving certificate next June. I have already studied for all the following subjects:

Maths HL
English HL
Economics HL
Physics with Chemistry HL
Geography HL
History HL
+ A lot of other subjects at ordinary level, I have an exemption from Gaelic.
I will probably study and take this other list of subjects at higher level too:
Classical Studies
Accounting
Applied Maths
Business
Music
Agricultural Science
Biology
Music
French
??Engineering??

I've covered the groundwork for all of these too, with the exceptions of music and French. (I am also speculating on doing art) I may study Spanish - I wanted to do Latin but this conflicts with Classical Studies. If I don't do Spanish I'll do both Hebrew and Hebrew Studies. Insofar as maths is concerned I've studied the "old" maths course before they introduced that abomination "Project Maths" - I may need to go over a tiny bit of geometry here. In English the poems shouldn't take me too much longer to cover. I am sick to the teeth of the rather limited and boring Irish curricula - I am using university textbooks to relieve the tedium (Real and Complex Analysis, Intermediate Economics, Formal Logic that sort of thing). Anyway I have no wish to spend the next two years revising - can I take the leaving cert early and avoid this?

born2bwild · 24-09-2012 11:51pm

I think you can take it - contact www.examinations.ie
(I mean, I took the exam at 16 and I didn't have your apparently wide range of talents)

marketty · 24-09-2012 11:58pm

15+ subjects at HL at 16?
Ah leave it ouh

Cruel Sun · 25-09-2012 12:27am

Reznov Re-Reg?

aarond280 · 25-09-2012 12:42am

if ya can do them fair play

coffee_cake · 25-09-2012 8:53am

There's a rule about 2 years since your JC or 17, I think
There was when I did it
16 subjects might be fine to study, but 16 exams in one session will not be fine to take, cut it down

spurious · 25-09-2012 9:27am

If the Irish system seems so dreadful to you, why are you bothering to sit the LC? Surely some other exam would be more of a challenge to you and your university textbooks?

jsmscork · 25-09-2012 10:38am

You can but to be honest, I wouldn't. A 16 year old is typically not mature enough to sit the exams to the best of their ability. One of the main benefits people give of Transition Year is that you are a year older doing the LC.

Furthermore, you don't have a hope of sitting the number of subjects you aspire to. The very best students cannot manage more than 10 let alone a 16 year old.

jacklc2014 · 25-09-2012 1:14pm

Did you look at the Leaving cert time table,some of your subjects may clash.I would use that as a starting point and see which subjects are possible in one sitting.Also some subjects require a teacher to sign off projcets,have you thought of how thats going to happen?

pathway33 · 25-09-2012 1:32pm

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/education/latest-news/outstanding-results-for-teacher-who-sat-30-subjects-2302118.html

ray2012 · 25-09-2012 5:13pm

15 HL subjects? I actually find this hilarious, yet quite worrying.

0mega · 25-09-2012 5:56pm

I didn't think people like this actually existed.

iLikePiano99 · 25-09-2012 6:54pm

I can't decide whether you are serious, or whether you're just another one of those Internet trolls.

Savage924 · 25-09-2012 6:56pm

You're allowed do the L.C when you're sixteen ya. I don't think it matters how many subjects...

Pen Rua · 25-09-2012 7:32pm

One, if not twom of my friends with still be 16 when out LC comes around...

But, are you mad doing 15+ HL subjects?! All you really need is 8 maximum... Is 15+ not... excessive?

D3luka · 25-09-2012 8:12pm

If you can do 15 fair fecks to you.. Im doing 7 and im finding it a struggle to keep up this year :L ima be just turned 17 doing the leaving

LostBoy101 · 25-09-2012 11:02pm

Wait hang on a minute... 15 HL subjects? is this just another troll or just a person who is insane to the max! :pac:

Whatsisname · 25-09-2012 11:10pm

Sure thats just silly.

spurious · 25-09-2012 11:16pm

The OP has been online this evening, but hasn't responded to the responses to their one and only thread, so I'm smelling a short person under a bridge.

Jan Hus · 27-09-2012 9:13pm

I am not a troll. I have studied or mostly studied all the subjects listed, with the partial exception of French -languages are not a strength, thank goodness I have an exemption in Irish.
Also, I cannot help asking "smelling a short person under a bridge" means, "spurious's" usage of it appears to the only one on the Internet.

Jan Hus · 27-09-2012 9:29pm

I am also sorry if my critique of the Irish education system was taken up wrong. Ireland is certainly superior in this respect to, say, the US. Yet all secondary schools in general make the same mistakes. In microeconomics firms produce where marginal revenue equals marginal cost, this is stated to you as a fact. Yet you are not told why. In this case you are merely maximizing the profit function using (very) basic calculus. Likewise in kinematics if you integrate acceleration and add the initial velocity as the constant one gets the function v=u+at. Integrate this again and one gets s=ut+0.5at^2. Easy. The issue is all this idiotic rote memorization.

Jan Hus · 27-09-2012 9:32pm

Oh and I have trolled in the past - but never on serious matters or on this forum. Just a little baiting of jingoistic Yanks.

areyawell · 27-09-2012 9:36pm

How is this thread not closed? 16 and studied 15 subjects for the leaving, including honors maths on there own? I'm Albert Einstein reincarnated and currently engaged to Katy Perry. I made my first million from licking windows to clean them.+ A lot of other subjects at ordinary level, I have an exemption from Gaelic.So 20+ subjects, Ah hear leave it out!

anirishlad · 27-09-2012 9:37pm

Sure bang away with you 15 subjects, I suppose you'll be posting about your 15 A1's at the end of the year?:P

Layzerman · 27-09-2012 10:02pm

Hahahaha I'll find it hard to keep up with 7 HL subjects and I'm only in 5th year - I'll be 18 doing the Leaving Cert! The idea of doing 15, no matter what age you are, is a bit ridiculous

spurious · 27-09-2012 10:13pm

Jan Hus wrote: »

I am not a troll. I have studied or mostly studied all the subjects listed, with the partial exception of French -languages are not a strength, thank goodness I have an exemption in Irish.
Also, I cannot help asking "smelling a short person under a bridge" means, "spurious's" usage of it appears to the only one on the Internet.

Hurrah for me, though sadly you're wrong.
Terry Pratchett and indeed the Three Billy Goats Gruff mention trolls and bridges.

Thread closed, sadly, but like others I await the tales of 15 A1s.

Take Leaving Cert at 16

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