Points now expected to rise, not fall

ninebeanrows

Yup Yup

We were dealt a dummy.

The points this year are now expected to rise as the number of applicants to third level surges:o

http://www.independent.ie/education/latest-news/college-applications-surge-to-intensify-points-race-1053368.html

whassupp2

ya but there are more courses than ever so while some courses will go up, others will go down. it'll stay roughly the same

Corruptedmorals

Ah I expected that, the February figures were higher than last year's...but why would they surge now? Well my course is extremely steady so it should eh..stay that way..

Naikon

" If it Sounds too Good to be True... It Probably is"

The "end" of the points race is a load of crap tbh.

Naikon

More people taking PLC courses too which might help.

Naikon

*Bumpity bump*

I hope the downward trend in points for Computer Science/IT continues at least:D

genericgoon

I expect little volatility in the points market this year. Expect points to stay fairly stable.

Carsinian Thau

I predict points for med/dent/law etc. all to go up. Sciences should fall slightly and arts and business should remain about the same.
Also, points for primary teaching may jump sharply, there's a lot of interest in that (at least around the people I know) at the moment so I feel it'll rise.

jackjack555

I have a feeling things will stay roughly in line with every other year

*belle*

i think primary teaching and pharmacy will go up.

fionated7

please please please dont let points for primary teaching go up!!!!!

bebop!

*belle* wrote:

i think primary teaching and pharmacy will go up.

Why do you think these courses in particular will go up???!!??? :eek:

I have a feeling this is going to be a stressful week!! worry worry worry ,,oh woe is me .................

genericgoon

Dont worry about a thing
Because every little thing
is gunna be alright
So dont worry about a thing
Because every little thing
is gunna be alright

fionated7

Obladi oblada life goes on brahhh...
Lala how the life goes on...

genericgoon

This now the official songs to listen to before the results thread

*belle*

Out of all the courses ppl want to do.those two came up the most.

fionated7

way to burst my bubble!!!!!!


"the show must go on, the show must go on,
inside my heart is breaking, my make-up may be flaking,
but my smile still stays on"

Fuzzy_Dunlop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-6xV0uAVpk

Yeah!:D It's gonna be Ok errrbody

I have a feeling points for engineering will go up, although hopefully not especially for structural eng with architecture in UCD! I've heard of loads of people looking to do engineering though.

Limerick Dude

Primary teaching will definetly go up i say.

Hopefully the sciences stay down

genericgoon

Limerick Dude wrote:

Primary teaching will definetly go up i say.

Hopefully the sciences stay down

Well a lot of the sciences arent very high to begin with.

fionated7

yeah u tell him!!!!!

sciences r the ones that filled up the bottom of my cao jus to make the page look full!!!

GretchenWieners

ive accepted that i wont get primary teaching already. im interested in knowing what the new language teaching points will be like though.

fionated7

yeah me too tbh..

off nursing i go

genericgoon

you know its not over till the results come. stop jumping to conclusions.

fionated7

yeah, chances are they wont offer me a nursing place either

philologos

You never know you could have done better than expected. I hope everyone on the LC forum gets the results they deserved. Best of luck.

fionated7

dont say "the results we deserve", that way i wont get very many due to my laziness..

lets hope we get the points we want eh?

bebop!

Well here's hoping we get the points we "want"! Good Luck to everyone on boards!

Imagine this time next week we'll know :eek: scary stuff!

EdgarAllenPoo

Not to be bad or anything but you won't know until the CAO points are out you could have gotten the points for a course(based on last year's points) only for them to be realeased and be drastically higher than they were the year before.

fionated7

hence not opening results til cao offers!!!

genericgoon

but then youll be annoyed constantly about them and have no answer to get people to stop annoying you!

Naikon

Open your results when you get them.
You have been waiting long enough ffs!

Corruptedmorals

Yeah these people saying they won't open them until the 20th...pfft, 10 minutes at the school and they'll crack.

toastomatic

It seems like a pretty stupid idea to me. I mean you've spent like 2 years working for this educational milestone and you refuse to even look at the results? I mean if you look at it from a broader angle, its not just a means to getting to college. Its an achievement in itself, you should be proud to have made it this far, and besides, what are you going to write on your CV? "I didnt care about my leaving cert cos i got my college place, so i burnt my results"

And anyway, you wont last 2 minutes, with everyone asking you how you did....

jackjack555

when will we know the amount of points needed? Results day or the monday?

Naikon

toastomatic wrote:

and besides, what are you going to write on your CV? "I didn't care about my leaving cert cos i got my college place, so i burnt my results"

Actually, I just won't bother putting them on my CV at all I reckon.
The LC is just a test to rank applicants for limited College places in most cases.
Unless a future employer actually cares about LC points/results which precedes say a college certification, there really is no point in putting them down.
Apart from the initial novelty, I think people will just forget about them tbh.
I am not trying to put people down, Hell we all worked in varying degrees for the LC, it's just that they ain't what they are made out to be.

toastomatic

Well I do understand that yeah...its a fair point, like it is almost always just a way of streaming people into college places, but I just dont see the purpose of not looking at your results...I mean they do mean something, dont they? They do have importance...like if you think about the people in their 40s and 50s out there who cant get employment because they couldnt/didnt get that bit of paper when they were young...I geuss maybe I know too many of them to take my leaving for granted! lol.

Naikon

toastomatic wrote:

Well I do understand that yeah...its a fair point, like it is almost always just a way of streaming people into college places, but I just dont see the purpose of not looking at your results...I mean they do mean something, dont they? They do have importance...like if you think about the people in their 40s and 50s out there who cant get employment because they couldnt/didnt get that bit of paper when they were young...I geuss maybe I know too many of them to take my leaving for granted! lol.

Well, I can see your point too just to add.
I don't understand why people wouldn't open them at first sight though.
I know the LC may seem very important in getting a job, but you have to take into account that it really isn't the be all and end all now that there is Adult/other Education routes/Mature student routes to get a qualification.

If someone wants to better themselves, they should use Further Education etc(i.e non LC related) to get a decent weight qualification.
I know a few people who don't even have a junior cert, and one of them in particular is a particularly well off Software Engineer/Programmer.
People with determination will succeed no matter what.
Sounds clique I know, but it's true in many cases, not all though.

toastomatic

Thats definitely true, yeah. I'm all for being determined, and I'm totally for further education. Its really improved the situation for a whole lot of people. Though I also think people talk down the value of the leaving cert after all the effort that goes into it and the bother and the struggle it can cause if you dont have one, and that seems unfair to me.

Then again, an awful lot of things seem unfair to me, im a regular original miseryguts.

Naikon

toastomatic wrote:

Then again, an awful lot of things seem unfair to me, im a regular original miseryguts.

Death and high taxes being two prime examples:)

toastomatic

lol! and that's just scratching the surface!! :rolleyes:

Naikon

True, the state of the world so far leads me to believe we and future generations, are all ****ed.

toastomatic

Nicely put.

eZe^

The past 2 years of my life are a good enough reason for me to know how I did in this damn test!!!

cocoa

*shrug* I know my LC results will be plenty handy for getting summer jobs and part time jobs between now and the end of my degree... after that they might stay on my CV, but mean less.

TheInvisibleFie

Well now the Irish Times is saying that points will stay low. Who is one to believe?

gaeilgegrinds

Don't listen to any of these predictions, nobody can know any of that information so just wait until you see it with your own eyes. I know it's tough but it really is the only way to be sure.

curlysue18

I read somewhere that points will probably stay more or less the same, because althought there are more applicants to the cao this year, a HUGE number of new courses are on offer... and hence more places availabe... :rolleyes:

But youre right there we will just have to wait and see

only 4 days to go:eek:

ethernet

TheInvisibleFie wrote:

Well now the Irish Times is saying that points will stay low. Who is one to believe?

Same thing in "The Evening Herald". Won't get too excited either way. Will just wait and see how things work out.

estebancambias

Oh no...what will I do.......time to take action.......need points to lower for arts...... Timothy McVeigh begins to incaptulate my body..feeling urgency to inflict pain on my fellow countrymen.....sudden urge to make homemade bombs worth in the region of 5,000 euro..... Have a desire for 2 pints of Ben and Jerry's choc chip ice cream before I'm virtually put to the slaughter for my actions.

JC 2K3

I've known that the number of CAO applicants was way up for months and that the fact that less people were actually sitting the Leaving was irrelevant to points.

I thought this was common knowledge, no?