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** General "points" thread **

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    #62
    star-pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,429 ✭✭✭✭star-pants


    ooPabsoo wrote: »
    i have a newspaper in my hand right now!!!

    I have one downstairs. But it's not tomorrows..


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    #63
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    I have to admit something... I'm Geraldine Kennedy and I actually know all the points.
    Have done for a few hours now.

    But I'm not tellin ye :pac:


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    #64
    ChickenScratch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭ChickenScratch


    Need 520 and got 485 (DURRR, dont get me started - getting two rechecked) so I'm a good thirty five points away from my first choice.

    Not that it makes much of a difference, English is english, UCD just means an extra bus journey (although their course is new so who knows where the points will be at!)

    So yeah, its all up in the air over here. COME ON 6AM


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    #65
    ChickenScratch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭ChickenScratch


    phasers wrote: »
    I have to admit something... I'm Geraldine Kennedy and I actually know all the points.
    Have done for a few hours now.

    But I'm not tellin ye :pac:

    ALL THESE YEARS AND YOU NEVER TOLD ME??


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    #66
    gerbilgranny
    Registered Users Posts: 515 ✭✭✭gerbilgranny


    efb wrote: »
    Lads I remember in my day (98) it was aertel at midnight, and mine had the dreaded * after it! Found out the next day i got it! Changed course after two years though!


    Anyway good luck to all!


    My day would have been 78! But I wasn't even thinking of college - back then, a nice commercial course would get you a reliable job as a typist.

    I'm having mixed thoughts on this CAO mallarkey - in one sense, it's exciting, and my heart goes out to everyone. On the other hand, I'm thinking that this procedure is a load of old cobblers - and my heart goes out to everyone.

    Best of luck to you all - and to my daughter.


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    #67
    likely_lass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 335 ✭✭likely_lass


    apparently the points have been leaked




    in DROGHEDA


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    #68
    ChickenScratch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭ChickenScratch


    Someone obviously tomorrow's Irish Times for a stack of KISS magazine or something


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    #69
    Heggy
    Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭Heggy


    Someone obviously tomorrow's Irish Times for a stack of KISS magazine or something

    I accidentally the whole thing?


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    #70
    ChickenScratch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭ChickenScratch


    Oops XD


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    #71
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,472 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    Mr.S wrote: »
    Irish times should have it up later on at about 3 or 4.

    but really theres no point staying up as your offers still going to be there at 6:)

    I get my Irish Times Online News Digest email every night between 00:30 - 02:00 so it goes up around that time.

    My last one for Saturday arrived 00:42. ;)


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    #72
    JSK 252
    Registered Users Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭JSK 252


    likely_lass wrote: »
    apparently the points have been leaked




    in DROGHEDA

    :D


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    #73
    Fad
    Registered Users Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    Yeah, I'm going to bed, have to be in work at 6:30 :eek:


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    #74
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    I know someone who works for the Irish Examiner. We used to get the points the day before from him. We'd find out what courses the people we knew wanted and get him to check the points the day before. Because so many people were doing this, they clamped down on allowing too many people see the points the day before.

    In short, I am of no help whatsoever.

    But good luck. :)


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    #75
    ambyangel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭ambyangel


    I know I don't have any chance of getting anything but I am still curious to what points they are!


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    #76
    gerbilgranny
    Registered Users Posts: 515 ✭✭✭gerbilgranny


    Janey Mack, peeps - this is truly a cruel system.

    Is there no way the E.U. can issue some directive to change this scenario?

    It'd be thrilling, if it didn't involve real people - the youth of our dear old Emerald Isle.

    Take heart from the tales of people who said their loved-ones eventually got their 10th choices, on the CAO, and went on to have a marvellous time in third-level, and ended up having fulfilling careers.

    I dunno - but I suspect that if Dustin was running the country, there would be none of this balderdah.


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    #77
    english4490
    Registered Users Posts: 665 ✭✭✭english4490


    i know i wont get the points for my 1st choice (corporate law)but thats been known for quiet a while! so i'm 65 points over for 2nd choice, arts in nuig!:rolleyes:


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    #78
    ChickenScratch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭ChickenScratch


    Can we start a thread for what things would be like if Dustin WAS running the country?

    That sounds like entertainment to me


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    #79
    banjopaul
    Registered Users Posts: 931 ✭✭✭banjopaul


    Think it'll be here when it gets updated:
    http://www.irishtimes.com/todayspaper/


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    #80
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,472 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    Todays paper is up.

    CAO points for science courses rise after surge in demand

    Now to find the result sheet . . .

    UCD science up 85!

    UCD Arts Up 10!
    At UCD, the points for science have increased to 385, up 85 points on last year. This is the first time in over a decade that points for UCD science have exceeded those for UCD arts, which now requires 360 points.


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    #81
    thewheel2.0
    Registered Users Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭thewheel2.0


    wtf?

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0817/1224252681093.html


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    #82
    banjopaul
    Registered Users Posts: 931 ✭✭✭banjopaul


    Some stuff mentioned in it:
    At UCD, the points for science have increased to 385, up 85 points on last year. This is the first time in over a decade that points for UCD science have exceeded those for UCD arts, which now requires 360 points.
    At the University of Limerick, architecture is down by 30 points to 460. Civil engineering is down 60 points at UCD to 410 points.
    Degree courses in law – once thought immune from annual CAO trends – also see a fall-off in points. At UCD, law is down 30 points to 470.
    UCD arts, the largest undergraduate course in the State with more than 1,100 places, is up by 10 points to 360. At NUI Maynooth, arts is up 20 points to 375.
    Nursing is up by 50 points to 390 at Dundalk IT, by 35 points to 390 at UCD, and by 35 points to 435 at UCC.
    Where's the full list?!


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    #83
    thewheel2.0
    Registered Users Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭thewheel2.0


    banjopaul wrote: »
    Where's the full list?!

    This is what i get for staying up just a feckin teaser hopefully computer courses don't surge like the science ones did :eek:


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    #84
    ambyangel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭ambyangel


    why don't they just put up the full list!?:rolleyes:


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    #85
    Beau x1
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    thewheel2.0 wrote: »
    wtf?

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0817/1224252681093.html
    ****. dit computer science come on, let my 300 points see me through.


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    #86
    ChickenScratch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭ChickenScratch


    and now we wait.


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    #87
    ya-ba-da-ba-doo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 884 ✭✭✭ya-ba-da-ba-doo


    Wow! Ucd science went up to 385! It was 300 last year! I hope tcd doesnt go up that much my friend really wants that course! :(


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    #88
    ZorbaTehZ
    Registered Users Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭ZorbaTehZ


    UCD Science 385 (+85)
    UCD Arts 360 (+10)
    UCD Civil Engineering 410 (-60)
    UCD Law 470 (-30)
    UCD Nursing 390 (+35)

    UL Architecture 460 (-30)

    DIT Construction Management 305 (-55)

    NUIM Arts 375 (+20)

    DkIT Nursing 390 (+50)

    UCC Nursing 435 (+35)

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0817/1224252681093.html


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    #89
    paulhealy1991
    Closed Accounts Posts: 104 ✭✭paulhealy1991


    ambyangel wrote: »
    why don't they just put up the full list!?:rolleyes:
    they are just teasing people for their own amusement!!:rolleyes:


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    #90
    ironictoaster
    Registered Users Posts: 4,125 ✭✭✭ironictoaster


    Oh damn.


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    #91
    ya-ba-da-ba-doo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 884 ✭✭✭ya-ba-da-ba-doo


    Wow! Ucd science went up to 385! It was 300 last year! I hope tcd science doesnt go up that much my friend really wants that course! :(


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