repeating, possibility or hell no?

christina_x

because the stupid exams are soo close, iv been thinking alot about repeating, so that i wont be too disapppointed if i dont get my course. il be half expecting to go back anyways!

what do you guys think?
and, do you know if you can still do sns? i always thought you could but i wasd told not so long ago that you cant take it up to repeat, which is crapp! and, would it be really hard to try pick up the english course??

lets hope i wont have to repeat, but i wanna keep the option open x

Beau x1

I'd hate myself if I had to repeat, considering I only need 230 points.

Still though, I'd repeat if it meant the difference between working in Mc Donalds for the rest of my life and doing yet another year of this hell hole to hold a degree to my name.

errlloyd

Hmm your dicing with college fees right there.

The bonus if you repeat is that so long as you pass all your core subjects you no longer need to do them.

Taking up 6 options should be piss. I took up religion 8 days before the mock and got an A2. (81 on the actual paper, but tied to 100% on the coursework)

Don't repeat English. King Lear is a bitch of a play, new poets are all uncool.

Shmee

haha oh no way. me and 6th year didnt get on well. . . i used to be happy! if i did so bad in the leavin that id need to repeat, i'd go work for my uncle in New York instead of going back.
Good social buzz in scool nd all that .... but the education, nah:cool:

TheCardHolder

errlloyd wrote: »

Hmm your dicing with college fees right there.

The bonus if you repeat is that so long as you pass all your core subjects you no longer need to do them.

Taking up 6 options should be piss. I took up religion 8 days before the mock and got an A2. (81 on the actual paper, but tied to 100% on the coursework)

Don't repeat English. King Lear is a bitch of a play, new poets are all uncool.

How is it even possible to get 81% on something you picked up in 8 days?:pac:

christina_x

errlloyd wrote: »

Hmm your dicing with college fees right there.

The bonus if you repeat is that so long as you pass all your core subjects you no longer need to do them.

Taking up 6 options should be piss. I took up religion 8 days before the mock and got an A2. (81 on the actual paper, but tied to 100% on the coursework)

Don't repeat English. King Lear is a bitch of a play, new poets are all uncool.

yeah the fees are the bit that im worried about.. considering my dad will have 3 sets of fees to pay + everything that comes with it!

:eek: you dont have to repeat core subjects?? i never knew that...!
well done on the religion result btw
hmm.. i hope i wont have to consider repeating.. my course is 355 but need 400's to get course in first round, otherwise i loose my accomodation!:mad:

Isaac702

Frankly I cant see myself not getting the points I need for the course I want to do. (I only need 300 points. I got 420 points in my Mocks.)

However if something does go terribly wrong repeating is a possibility.

Swizz

THe fees are on people going into college in 09 doesnt it?

errlloyd

Christina if you're going for 400 you should still have enough time to get it.

How many honours are you doing ?

Maybe in some subjects stop aiming for A's. If you need to sacrifice points by not spending a lot of time in a particularly hard part of the course, than do.

christina_x

errlloyd wrote: »

Christina if you're going for 400 you should still have enough time to get it.

How many honours are you doing ?

Maybe in some subjects stop aiming for A's. If you need to sacrifice points by not spending a lot of time in a particularly hard part of the course, than do.

yeah your probs right! thanks
im doing 5 honours (pass math and irish)
i got 400 in the mocks, but they were easy papers (if anybody got my english and math papers theyl know what im talking about) so everybodys like "your gonna get your points" which makes me worry more because theyr expecting me to!:p ahh stupid leaving cert!

christina_x

Swizz wrote: »

THe fees are on people going into college in 09 doesnt it?

Huh?
were going to college in 09 :pac:

errlloyd

It doesn't sound like its too much an issue for you. But if it is.

Maybe concentrate on what you're sure about.

For example learn your cultural context and theme and issue essays really well. You're sure one will be on and they are quick and easy marks. Learn one of the 4 likely poets really well and just skim the rest, its a gamble, but it could pay big time if your short on time.

Swizz

christina_x wrote: »

Huh?
were going to college in 09 :pac:

Yeah and people are implying you wont have to pay.

Fad

Beau x1 wrote: »

I'd hate myself if I had to repeat, considering I only need 230 points.

What course are you going for?

Also FEES, stop speculating now basically. Nobody knows for sure yet. We will not have fees next year (A reg fee of €1500 though) the year after though? Nothing is for certain.

christina_x

yeahh its an issue, iv a twin to compete with :pac:

yeah ok thanks:) i'l do that!
good luck with everything x

pathway33

errlloyd wrote: »

The bonus if you repeat is that so long as you pass all your core subjects you no longer need to do them.

unless you want to do medicine (i think)

Beau x1

Fad wrote: »

What course are you going for?

Also FEES, stop speculating now basically. Nobody knows for sure yet. We will not have fees next year (A reg fee of €1500 though) the year after though? Nothing is for certain.

Computer Science, DIT.

Was gonna go for Computer Science w/ Arts in UCD (300 Points)..dunno if I want to do it so much now though.

errlloyd

My uncle in IBM tells me that DCU is the place to be for Computer Science, but UCD and DIT are good too.

sock puppet

No way would I repeat. Realistically I'm not going to get below 3-400 points so I should at least get 1 of my courses.

Futurism

Okay it's very likely I'm going to repeat because I probably won't get over 300 points

Beau x1

DCU do Computer Applications but afaik the course is outdated?

Fad

Beau x1 wrote: »

DCU do Computer Applications but afaik the course is outdated?

Also DCU?

Serious trek!

Nah (Not the only reason!) DCU was great for hands on stuff like that because they had the whole placement system, but its nigh on impossible to get a placement in the first place now, so its not so great.

Also, I have never met someone who's actually happy with student life in DCU!

errlloyd

Lol true, I bailed on computer's when I realised law or politics was more of a passion even if computers was a more reliable profession, so I never looked into it. I was also descouraged by the absolute trek to DCU

Beau x1

And the Ballymunners. I don't think they'd "like the look of me".

Beau x1

not to mention the rest of your life!

I'm repeating my Leaving Cert. this year. Deciding to repeat was possibly one of the best decisions I've ever made.

Beau x1

Aye, I'm sure this time around you're feeling pretty good you did. You'll nail it.

Piste

I'd only repeat if I got none of my level 8s on my CAO, which I doubt will happen. I *think* the lowest course I have on there is about 350 and seeing as I'm trying to get at many points as possible for medicine I'll probably get over that.

snazzy

I don't know to be honest.

I mean I'd absolutely hate to repeat as I watch all my friends progress and it's another year of life taken over by this damn exam.

On the other hand, if I didn't get my points for the course I really want to do and end up doing something I wasn't passionate about, I'm dicing with a/ a course I don't like and b/ the chance of repeating and incurring fees.


I'll have to consider it after the points come out.

SligoBrewer

Fad wrote: »

Also FEES, stop speculating now basically. Nobody knows for sure yet. We will not have fees next year (A reg fee of €1500 though) the year after though? Nothing is for certain.

In fairness Fad, nobody know what the Government will do. They could bring them all in next year, they might delay, or they mightn't come in at all. Especially with it being FF, the third worst party to have ever existed in the history of the world, it's impossible to call.

DmanDmythDledge

I'm repeating. All depends on the course you end up getting offered. If you really don't want it you'd be a fool not to repeat.

Fad

SligoBrewer wrote: »

In fairness Fad, nobody know what the Government will do. They could bring them all in next year, they might delay, or they mightn't come in at all. Especially with it being FF, the third worst party to have ever existed in the history of the world, it's impossible to call.

At the very least I think they have enough cop on not to try and reintroduce fees for this year. If they even joke about it...........there will be some pretty serious action.

SarcasticFairy

I've half decided it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to repeat. I'm pretty sure I'm not getting my first or second choices unless all the papers are ridiculously nice papers, so I've sort of resigned myself to repeating. I really really want my first choice, and the rest were put there more to fill space than anything else. I think I'd prefer to repeat than take any of my other choices.

SligoBrewer

Hopefully not, although this Government has already shown they don't care about the people, several times. On that basis I wouldn't put anything past them.

bythewoods

I'm repeating.

I can safely say bits of it were shit and I was often really jealous of all my friends being off in college, but the year FLEW by and I don't regret it at all.

If you need to repeat- just do it. I really really didn't want to. But it's actually been grand. It'll make me appreciate college more, that's fo'sho.

Liam O

depends. My lowest course is Business in NCI and I'm told it should be around 300 points. If I'd studied I'd be looking to get over 400 but I was too lazy. But if I get below 300 I will have totally tanked and will repeat without a shadow of a doubt because I know if it wasn't for xbox/laptop/laziness/alcohol/work (Don't you love excuses) I'd have done really well

9wetfckx43j5rg

I did ty so i reckon if i wanted to repeat i'd just repeat the exams but not go to classes.

aleyra

Im repeating this year and to be honest its a complete bitch at times. Especially when alot of your friends are in college.Kinda feel left behind.

Although, saying that you become much more confident in your course choices and after only missing it (by five points)alot more motivated to study

If your really want your course and theres no other option i'd say repeat. Its only a year(not even) and it goes by extremley fast.Its better to just study for a few months than pick a course your only half interested in, and end up dropping out through the year.

For me it worked out for the best because i would've been young going to college anyway. At least this year i'll be able to join in on crazy drunken nights:rolleyes:

If you put some work in you come out more mature and much more prepared for college.

So next year when your friends are repeating college exams in August you just sit back and laugh cause you had the sense to study

thomond2006

Great thread before we start our LC!!

christina_x

you didnt have to read it:pac:

OneArt

If I have to repeat I'd put all my savings into doing it in the Institute. No way in hell would I go back to a normal school. Especially mine.

The thought makes me want to throw up

markopantelic

i'll be repeating, i like school actually....*shifts eyes*

i dont think i even want to go college, it doesnt look so amazing to me really.

Delta Kilo

markopantelic wrote: »

i'll be repeating, i like school actually....*shifts eyes*

I think you may have a case of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

errlloyd

Win...

WolfForager

I'd rather gouge out my eyes and place my unmentionables in a vice.

~Candy~

no, not putting myself though this again...

my lowest opinions is like 380pts..i should get that..

but if i really have to , i might, but i doubt so