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What happens if you cant do the Junior Cert?

  • 30-04-2010 7:42pm
    #1
    daneey.X
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    I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer last week. It has gone unnoticed for so long that it has spread and treatment has to begin immediately. I'm having my op on the 12th of May and have to be in recovery for a week. A few weeks after that I have to go for radioiodine treatment and be kept in isolation for a week. and it will most probably be around the time of the junior cert, what happens if you cant do it? Do you have to repeat the whole year again?
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  • #2
    spurious
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    No you don't have to repeat the year.

    You can if you want, of course, but you don't need to have done the Junior Cert. to go into a Leaving Cert. course or TY. Your teachers will have a fair idea of how you would get on in the Junior, even if you don't sit it.

    Good luck with the treatment.

    **edit** The SEC can always make special arrangements for you to sit your exams in hospital or a nursing home, if you felt up to it.


  • #3
    Closed ac
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    Hi. Really sorry to hear about the cancer, hope the treatment goes well. Don't worry about the JC, just concentrate on getting better. :)


  • #4
    Keano!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭Keano!


    DKZ wrote: »
    Hi. Really sorry to hear about the cancer, hope the treatment goes well. Don't worry about the JC, just concentrate on getting better. :)

    Exactly.

    There are are a lot more things important then your Junior Cert and health is on top of the list.

    Trust me....don't worry about the exam right now


  • #5
    Parawhore.xD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 571 ✭✭✭Parawhore.xD


    Forget the JC!
    Just do your best to get better! Good Luck in your op and get well soon :)


  • #6
    UrbanSea
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    The junior cert in all fairness means nothing at all in future life and all in all it's the leaving cert that is important.
    As someone else said,your teachers would know themselves how you would get on and I'd urge you not to worry and am sorry to hear about your sickness and I wish you the best of luck :)


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  • #7
    bevan619
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,683 ✭✭✭bevan619


    It pretty much just helps to deterime what levels you do in the LC. But as everyone said, your teachers should know. Good luck with beating the cancer.


  • #8
    kevin12345
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭kevin12345


    daneey.X wrote: »
    I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer last week. It has gone unnoticed for so long that it has spread and treatment has to begin immediately. I'm having my op on the 12th of May and have to be in recovery for a week. A few weeks after that I have to go for radioiodine treatment and be kept in isolation for a week. and it will most probably be around the time of the junior cert, what happens if you cant do it? Do you have to repeat the whole year again?

    No you don't. I know a girl who had an op on her spine and she didn't do hers last year, she's in TY now so don't be stressing about it...concentrate on getting better :D


  • #9
    jumpguy
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    As far as I know, you can get the exam done in hospital, and I'm almost certain there'd be some sort of concession made for you, but I'm not sure. I wouldn't be too worried, future-wise, if you don't get the JC done this year, or at all, it doesn't make a jot of a difference. If you do the LC, then only thing it's useful for is having some experience with big formal state exams. Even at that, that's not a huge advantage...

    Best of luck with the treatment. :)


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