Entrance Exhibition

shay_562

I remember reading/hearing somewhere that the Entrance Exhibition lasts for the first two years of college, ie, that half the book money is given at the start of JF and the other half at the start of SF. Is this true? And if so, how do I go about actually getting said money? Amusing as it would be to locate the Provost, pimp smack him and yell "Where's my money, bitch?!", I'm sure there are more effective ways of going about it.

Andrew 83

It's true. You go up to some office upstairs behind the enquiries office.

xebec

Examinations office, the door is on the side of the Exam Hall, office is on the first floor.

Attractive Nun

Wait, we have to actively seek out these book tokens ourselves? Should I have received any form of notification that I have qualified, or does anyone who got 550+ just head to the office and, as has been suggested, bitchslap the tokens out of the relevant authorities?

xebec

You'll receive notification of the ceremony for Entrance Exhibitioners in the next few weeks, that's usually held sometime in November. Don't know if the vouchers are available to 1st years before that.

Let us know how the bitchslapping goes!

Tacitha

Attempts to get the book tokens before you're notified that they're available don't tend to succeed, no. Unless they've sped things up, you won't get them before November.

That's dead annoying, I got 540 because they converted my AS levels wrong. Should have been higher. Probably too late to complain now .

xebec

Dean Tender Meatloaf wrote:

That's dead annoying, I got 540 because they converted my AS levels wrong. Should have been higher. Probably too late to complain now .

For people who do A-levels it's not the conversion score that matters it's the actual grades. It used to be 3 A's at A-level for an Entrance Exhibition, dunno if they've changed that but wasn't aware that AS-levels counted towards it.

shay_562

Examinations office, the door is on the side of the Exam Hall, office is on the first floor.

Thankee.

Thirdfox

Oh incidently, if someone is off-records for the year can they still get the entrance exhibition book voucher?

No idea. E-mail exams@tcd.ie.

For people who do A-levels it's not the conversion score that matters it's the actual grades. It used to be 3 A's at A-level for an Entrance Exhibition, dunno if they've changed that but wasn't aware that AS-levels counted towards it.

I thought it was changed to include AS Levels. If not, it should have been. An AS Level is half an A Level! And 3 A's at A-Level would be way more than 550, wouldn't it? God knows how they came up with my points score.

I'm looking at their new conversion method, and it can't be true? AAAa = 450-460? That's ridiculous! At my school that was the highest anyone could possibly get, and it's worth a maximum of 460?

goldsmith

hah! of course I want as many people as possible who want to get into trinity to get into trinity but I've always found the application procedure has always been biased towards a-levels.

the likes of apexaviour and neitzechean could definietly get 3/4 As in the A levels but I'd say they'd struggle to get over 500 points in the leaving cert.

Never actually done a-levels though

Nietzschean

err, i got well over 500 in my leaving cert thanks.

Why do you think that, since you've never done A-Levels? I think the system now is definitely biased against them. Lots of schools such as mine don't allow students to do 4 A-Levels because of timetables, and the fact they aren't really necessary unless you're going to Oxbridge. A lot of people in my school were halfway through their A-Levels when Trinity changed the system, had only taken 3, and therefore had no chance of getting into something like medicine or law.

Do you know how much work you have to put into A-Levels? I can't speak for all subjects, but in Leaving Cert French you don't even do literature - I've seen some papers and they seem similar to GCSE ones. I don't get why people think they are so easy. Sure, you get to pick them, and there are fewer, but they're much more in depth than the Leaving, and we still have to do 9-10 + GCSE's, which are somewhere between the Junior and Leaving Certs in terms of difficulty.

I suppose they find it hard to make it 'fair' to everyone, since it's hard to compare the 2 systems and decide the equivalent grades, so someone is going to lose out. Now it's definitely A-Level students. AAAa is an extremely high grade and it's only worth 460 points? That's the highest I could have got if I'd done my A-Levels this year, which would automatically disqualify me from loads of courses.

Nietzschean

What kev is referring to there is the fundamental difference, i could have done in A-Levels maths, further maths and physics gotten A's or whatever without breaking much of a sweat.... I did the same in the equilvent leaving cert courses, but it being the LC i'd 5 other courses which took plenty of time effort and i frankly hated most of.

while ranking ye's down to max grades of 460 isn't really nice a good solution is hard, giving ye 500 odd points for AAA isn't really fair on us who'd only get 300 for possibly the same ability at those subjects.....

Thirdfox

I thought some time ago Oxford (or was it Cambridge?) did a study of the Irish Leaving Certificate and found that the standard required of students studying L.C. English, Mathematics and Chemistry was at the same (or near to) standard of A-levels... but we have to study at least 3 more subjects (often 4)

No system is perfect I suppose, everyone has some valid reasons of complaint.

Crash

Kev banning mach 5.