Bad choice?

Annel349 · 19-09-2009 8:49pm #1

Im in fifth year and chose my leaving cert subjects in third year. i didnt take a third language because i hated french and bearly passed the paper in the junior cert! im still un-decided about what i want to do when i leave school, but home-economics teaching is an option, and as far as i know you need a third language for most colleges! i dont know whether to move to french? Any Advice??

Daragh101 · 19-09-2009 9:14pm

Annel349 wrote: »

Im in fifth year and chose my leaving cert subjects in third year. i didnt take a third language because i hated french and bearly passed the paper in the junior cert! im still un-decided about what i want to do when i leave school, but home-economics teaching is an option, and as far as i know you need a third language for most colleges! i dont know whether to move to french? Any Advice??

im in 6th year and im not doing a third language.......you dont need it for most places!!..you need a third language for ucd, nuig and one or two other places!

randylonghorn · 19-09-2009 9:39pm

Annel349 wrote: »

... but home-economics teaching is an option, and as far as i know you need a third language for most colleges!

Certainly Angela's in Sligo is part of the NUI, and a third language is therefore a requirement for matriculation.

I'm not sure if anywhere else in (the Republic of) Ireland trains Home Ec. teachers any more? Certainly Sion Hill closed a couple of years ago.

I'm not sure what the position would be if you were to look to colleges in the UK or NI.

li-evo7 · 19-09-2009 9:45pm

you are in fifth year now so you could defo pick up a language and do it in the two years.I do french and find it hard enough and iv done it since 4th class.But its because there are sooo many verbs and tenses etc. I have heard that spanish is much easier and even at that you could do it at ordinary level

beccabeccabecca · 19-09-2009 11:04pm

I'm pretty sure that all the universities in Ireland require you to have a third language. I know that most ITs don't. I'd say try to switch to French to keep your options open, especially seeing as you're not 100% sure of what you want to do in the future.

Delta Kilo · 19-09-2009 11:14pm

You don't need a third language for two of the biggest universities in Ireland, namely UL and DCU. Between them they have a multitude of courses to choose from. I'm in UL myself and I know they do a few teaching courses but I'm not sure if they do Home ec teaching. The NUIs no longer have a language requirement if you are doing certain courses so check that out too. I'm not sure if TCD has a language requirement either.

You are clearly not a language person, do not choose a language simply to keep your options open, you will regret it. Do the subjects you like best and don't look back. There is more than one way to do anything. You are still in 5th year, come CAO time, you may have changed your mind re careers altogether!

RexMundi · 20-09-2009 9:59am

Delta Kilo wrote: »

You don't need a third language for two of the biggest universities in Ireland, namely UL and DCU. Between them they have a multitude of courses to choose from. I'm in UL myself and I know they do a few teaching courses but I'm not sure if they do Home ec teaching. The NUIs no longer have a language requirement if you are doing certain courses so check that out too. I'm not sure if TCD has a language requirement either.

You are clearly not a language person, do not choose a language simply to keep your options open, you will regret it. Do the subjects you like best and don't look back. There is more than one way to do anything. You are still in 5th year, come CAO time, you may have changed your mind re careers altogether!

TCD has no 3rd language requirement.

Lawliet · 20-09-2009 11:15am

There are actually a fair few courses that don't require a third language no matter what collage it's in; like science and art for example.

But it might be an idea take up French just to keep all your options open, in case you decide to do an arts degree or something along those lines.

I think the best thing to do is to check out http://www.qualifax.ie and search for different courses that you're considering, and have a look at the entry requirements. It'll give you a better preceptive on how much you might need French.

Dougal.Maguire · 20-09-2009 11:43am

i'm in the same boat - picked DCG for leaving cert but already i'm finding it way too hard and not what i had in mind. The other classes on at same time are business, french, home.ec BUT the home.ec teacher has already told me she wont let me join her class and that's the one i would have preferred. So its really a choice between french and business , french i despised all through jc , and business i found boring BUT these would be useful in college applications etc. in case i wanted to do a business course or do a course which required 3rd language. Any help?

Annel349 · 20-09-2009 5:52pm

Dougal.Maguire wrote: »

i'm in the same boat - picked DCG for leaving cert but already i'm finding it way too hard and not what i had in mind. The other classes on at same time are business, french, home.ec BUT the home.ec teacher has already told me she wont let me join her class and that's the one i would have preferred. So its really a choice between french and business , french i despised all through jc , and business i found boring BUT these would be useful in college applications etc. in case i wanted to do a business course or do a course which required 3rd language. Any help?

the home.ec teacher has no real reason to not let you join the class unless some major issue!! for the french and buisness.... theres always other options out there if you need one you haven't chosen for L.C!!! im no expert seeing as it was me started this thread but just do which ever one your best at?

Jammyc · 20-09-2009 9:22pm

Here are some lists of Admission Requirments for the major colleges in Ireland. (Sorry if I left out some). In some links, I couldnt find the page of matric. reqs. but youll find that info in the prospectus. Hope it helps:D

UCD
https://myucd.ucd.ie/admission/entry_ug.ezc

Trinity
http://www.tcd.ie/Admissions/undergraduate/assets/pdfs/TCD_Admission_Requirements_2010.pdf

DCU
http://www.dcu.ie/registry/entry.shtml

NUI Maynooth
http://admissions.nuim.ie/subjects/index.shtml

DIT
http://www.dit.ie/study/admissions/

NUI Galway
http://www.nuigalway.ie/courses/undergraduate/courses_a2z.php

UCC
http://www.ucc.ie/en/ProspectiveStudents/Admissions/programmes/

p1akuw47h5r3it · 20-09-2009 10:08pm

Just take up pass... It's seriously simple.

and u dont need french for Science in UCD just fyi:D

christina_x · 22-09-2009 12:12pm

i didnt have a 3rd language at all in secondary school, biiig mistake.
there are so many courses i would have loved to have done but i couldnt. luckily i was happy enough to do nursing which i dont need a language for in NUIG, but i would have loved to have more options open to me. stick with your language at pass level! you wont regret it

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