Results-Didnt go so well

greydiamond

So you've got your results and maybe things just didnt go to plan. Where do we go from here? Repeat? PLC? Help us all out

spurious

There are many PLCs that can be taken as a 'back door' into college if your results haven't gone as you hoped.

Just as one example, there is a Foundation course in Science in Killester CDVEC that allows you entry to a Science degree.
http://www.daycourses.com/further_education_plc/index.html

At the end of the day when you have your degree/diploma in your hand, no one cares whether it took you 4, 5 or 8 years to get.

sabrina99

I would definitely repeat if you are not happy and think are capable of better.
I repeated in 2001 and it was the best thing i ever done, the year absolutely flew and I came up by 100 points.
ended up doing a college course I loved and would never have done if I hadn;t repeated, I was 18 when I repeated and my parents weren't strict on me, was allowed out any weekend I wanted so I felt I had grown up, was hard hearing all the college stories but in a year I had joined them.

greydiamond

I thought I did much better then what the results show. Oh well i guess lifes just a bitch with somethings like that. I really dont mind doing an extra year PLC if it acts as a backdoor into a college course. I skipped 4th yr so I have that extra year

CrazyNoob

There is always the option of 1) diploma instead of a degree
2)The PLC option
3) or repeat

Personally I'd go with the first two as at least you in the college system so to speak.
Ie lots of options and you have to do what you think is best for you

Mars Bar

I'm 10 points off my course...i don't think it'll drop so i'm thinking of doing a PLC in CSN in Cork...lets hope that goes to plan!

marco murphy

I got 175 LOL what to do

greydiamond

I just didnt really get enough points to do anything that interests me. Am going to look into doing a PLC course tomorrow but for the rest of today im off out to celebrate. Not that I have much to celebrate though, I'll stilll give it a go

Naikon

Poblachtach wrote:

I got 175 LOL what to do

That sucks:(
Do a PLC course man, that will get you into college easily.
sounds clique, but you are worth more than 175 stinking LC points.
The system appears to screw certain people over for no reason.

spurious

Poblachtach wrote:

I got 175 LOL what to do

It's still more than many people got.
Don't rush into anything. Only you know how much work you put into getting the 175. If you know you could have tried a lot harder, then maybe repeating is an option. If you tried your best then perhaps the world of Post Leaving Cert. courses is a more suitable option. Your areas of interest can help you decide what course to do.

There is also the option of getting a job and coming back to the whole college thing as a mature student. I know 23 probably seems way off at the moment, but it will creep up on you. You might even get work to pay you to go to college (depending on what line you go into) - result.

marco murphy

Any PLC courses in the vacinity are ****ty, but Ill have to make do. Think would 175 get me anywhere with UCAS?
Thanks for replies

HungryJoey

I was one grade to low ( maths ) to do my chosen no.1 Course. Turns out, by the looks of things I'll get one of my next choices, which I realise now would have been the sensible ones to go for in the first place. I was devistated when I read the results, but upon further investigation today it turns out its grand the way it worked out.

Hj

Mars Bar

Oh well you got lucky!
10 frickin points...if only i could have taken LCVP.

spurious

Poblachtach wrote:

Any PLC courses in the vacinity are ****ty, but Ill have to make do. Think would 175 get me anywhere with UCAS?
Thanks for replies

I don't know...I suppose you could check, though then there would be the expense of going over there.
You could travel to a PLC - many do.

Don't rush into anything anyway.

genericgoon

Cheer up people.Here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo

KarmaCreep

genericgoon wrote:

Cheer up people.Here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo

Legend:D

estebancambias

Amazing.

WildCardDoW

There's plenty of fall back options, the LC is not the end of life, I know for a fact that there are amny employers who sometimes prefer to train people in courses, for example my sisters workplace offers grants to take Civil Engineering, which if I wanted I would probably get!

Too many people place their fate on the LC, PLC makes the whole system pretty defunct! Which rules IMO!

marco murphy

drunken post - iam 17 - i dont give a **** plenty fo time

greydiamond

Anyone know of a back door PLC into Commerce in UCD??

fionated7

im also ten points off!!! sickening it is, actually sickening!!!
im gonna appeal my irish and english caus i feel like i was robbed!!! but im gonna accept my second choice if they offer it to me (which going by last years points i should get) even though it is completely different from my first choice!!! everything happens for a reason right?

Spud83

mars bar wrote:

I'm 10 points off my course...i don't think it'll drop so i'm thinking of doing a PLC in CSN in Cork...lets hope that goes to plan!

Rememeber that the points total that you are aiming at are for first round offers. You might get the course in the second or third round of offers.

genericgoon

Plus you dont know what the points for this year are yet. You could get lucky

marco murphy

I just don't know what to do, totally stuck. Will a FETAC Level 5 automatically get me into any Degree Course next year?

Naikon

What type of course do you have in mind?

Mars Bar

Well one person i know that wanted to do the course i want to do has decided not to do it even if he is offered it...that's one down...God knows how many to go...

marco murphy

http://www.pearsecollege.ie/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=31

This interests me. Looks to be practical. Iam on a weeks holidays on sunday and I dont wanna miss out and then become a bum for a year. Even if i do this course can I hop to say international relations in DCU next year?

Iam not really understanding the PLC > University process.

Thanks a lot for replying

Mars Bar

Well you have modules in your Plc and you can get up to 360(I think fo PLC) points if you get a distinction in those modules. Then you can move on but the PLC must be FETAC certified...

marco murphy

Once its FETAC I can go straight into level 7/8 then?

Mars Bar

I think so, but i couldn't be certain. If i don't get my course, i hope to do a plc and use it to get into a level 8 course in UL. I enquired about this but i was told to ask the teachers at the interview, so don't count on me! That's the drift i have of it anyway.

Anyone else able to help??

marco murphy

Ill make some phone calls tomorrow thanks mars

Mars Bar

no problem!! let me know how it goes, could do with the bit of info myself!!:P

flonge

275,really wanted to do nursing..Are their any diploma courses in nursing can anybody tell me???

fionated7

there are pre-nursing courses in many colleges that offer plc courses..
u take that course for a year and then head into your nursing course.. it's an extra year of experience so ul have a slight upperhand next year than those coming into nursing straight out of school.
im hoping to get offered psychiatric nursing on monday but if not chances are il be heading to do a pre-nursing somewhere.

greydiamond

Has anyone considered joining one of the major banks?A friend of mine resently told me about one of his mates that did pretty poorly in the lc. Didnt go to college but instead joined a bank and is now working his way up through the ranks pretty fast. Anyone know how to go about joining one of them?

flonge

fionated7 wrote:

there are pre-nursing courses in many colleges that offer plc courses..
u take that course for a year and then head into your nursing course.. it's an extra year of experience so ul have a slight upperhand next year than those coming into nursing straight out of school.
im hoping to get offered psychiatric nursing on monday but if not chances are il be heading to do a pre-nursing somewhere.

After completing the pre-nursing course,can you get into any nursing course in any college e.g General Nursing in UCD??

PeakOutput

alanmurphy83 wrote:

Rememeber that the points total that you are aiming at are for first round offers. You might get the course in the second or third round of offers.

i thought that the points requirement you see from last year is the number of points the lowest person who got in had? ie after all the rounds had taken place is that not correct?

GretchenWieners

Most of the Pre-Nursing courses will get you Nursing in the UK only from what I've been told and they end up using your LC results for it. Seriously I repeated and had the best year of my life. I'd love to do the year with my year all over again!!

flonge

GretchenWieners wrote:

Most of the Pre-Nursing courses will get you Nursing in the UK only from what I've been told and they end up using your LC results for it. Seriously I repeated and had the best year of my life. I'd love to do the year with my year all over again!!

So,does that mean that you can't get in to any irish colleges on successful completion of this course.

seraphimvc

think anyone could help me out here??

a friend of mine got something around 370,and she wishes to do nursing (i still have no idea she got any offer for the moment),if thing doesnt turn out right,what is the best suggestion you have there for her?

thank you in advance:)

D. Coughlan

If she got 370, i say she did not get nursing but there may be a progression route like this one in the Cork College Of Commerce. I am sure that there is lots of similar courses, maybe closer to where she lives.http://www.corkcollegeofcommerce.ie/depts/day/health/community.html

Spud83

PeakOutput wrote:

i thought that the points requirement you see from last year is the number of points the lowest person who got in had? ie after all the rounds had taken place is that not correct?

As far as I know the points requirments that you see are always based on the first round offers, because the second and third rounds can vary so much. Sometimes course could drop by alot in later rounds sometimes they wont.

seraphimvc

D. Coughlan wrote:

If she got 370, i say she did not get nursing but there may be a progression route like this one in the Cork College Of Commerce. I am sure that there is lots of similar courses, maybe closer to where she lives.http://www.corkcollegeofcommerce.ie/depts/day/health/community.html

this is a great news for her,i guess:D

thanks ,mate

Overheal

fionated7 wrote:

im also ten points off!!! sickening it is, actually sickening!!!
im gonna appeal my irish and english caus i feel like i was robbed!!! but im gonna accept my second choice if they offer it to me (which going by last years points i should get) even though it is completely different from my first choice!!! everything happens for a reason right?

Thats hardly the end of the road - we had 6th years heading off to college as late as October from appeals :rolleyes: You only have a bit of cash to lose by trying - do it.

Also the first round isnt definitive and the points may have gone down.

And anyone deciding that repeating will make them 'too old' (ive heard it before): thats silly - around half of the 40 people that started in my course were all 21 or older 26 being the eldest I think.