Which is easier Subject to pick up to repeat leaving cert?

Niamh2389

Physics
Accounting
Chemistry

I am already doing Business and Biology.

TheFullDuck

I would not recommend chemistry over one year anyway, I consider myself quiet good at it but it really only comes together in 6th year when you begin to see how the whole course links together.

Aoifums

I know a lot of people pick up Ag Science as repeats. I've heard there is a lot of overlap if you do Biology but I'm not sure how true that is as I don't do it.

NotExactly

Niamh2389 wrote: »

Physics
Accounting
Chemistry

I am already doing Business and Biology.

Are you in the middle of your exams ATM? If so I recommend to forget about repeating for the moment and get the best LC you can, even just to get all your requirements if you plan on dropping subjects and plus you might surprise yourself and do better.

Aoifums wrote: »

I know a lot of people pick up Ag Science as repeats. I've heard there is a lot of overlap if you do Biology but I'm not sure how true that is as I don't do it.

I do Ag and Bio, there is overlap but not as much as people think, however the project is a great way to pick up marks in Ag. But if you already do Bio, I would recommend Ag as it is a short course.

xclw

the economics course is actually meant to be fairly short and easy to pick up and cover in a year.

but out of those 3 i would pick accounting, but it will be very hard to cover within a year, at the same time you might be able to because the paper is divided into 3 sections

section 1
in this section you do the 120 mark q1 or 2 short 60 marks
i would advise you just to concentrate on the 120 marks to save time which are company, sole trader and manufacturing accounts

then section 2
you do 2 out of 3 100 mrk questions
q5 every year is ratios or the back up q, i would say learn this really well and aim to be answering it,
as for q6&7 you'll prob have to learn 3 or 4 of these and maybe check with an accounting teacher also - incomplete records, suspense, cash flow, published, and club accounts however i can't really say which is likely yet i'll have to see whats up this year first.

then sec 3
since you don't have much time just either learn q8 costing or q 9 budgetting

River Song

I would STRONGLY STRONGLY advise you not to even think about picking Chemistry for 1 year. You need at least a year and a half. It's very technical in places, and you need time to go through it in as much detail as possible, especially organic chemistry and the REDOX Reactions.

Mr.BA

Business obviously

itzybitzyfitzy

As someone who did the Leaving Cert last year I would strongly recommend to NOT take up accounting as it was one of the most time consuming subjects as alot of it was work you did yourself over and over again at home. Economics is ok, though don't make predictions I went from getting an A2 in the mocks to getting a B3 in the actual as our sub loved his predictions.

magicianz

If your mathematically minded and logical, construction studies or dcg would be good for you

spurious

Of the three you asked about, I would say Physics, but it's much of a muchness really. So much depends on your own strengths.

PJelly

Not accountancy. Great subject, and quite easy. But not possible to cover in one year.

Fireball07

Of those 3, I'd say accounting, depending on your own strengths too.


Would be hard to cover in a year...but you mightn't necessarily have to cover everything. We had finished the course 3 months into 6th year and if you went at it intensively you could probably do it.

I wouldn't like to do physics in one year at all.

scotty_irish

if you're mathematically minded, you could do physics no problem in a year, hell if you worked your hole off you could do it in a few weeks.

Mr.BA

Sorry misread the question.

Do chemistry. It is fun, enjoyable and once you learn definitions its easy.
Used to love doing mole calculations

J_E

magicianz wrote: »

If your mathematically minded and logical, construction studies or dcg would be good for you

Note though that if you did either of these you'd have project work and a practical test for Construction Studies.

PJelly

To be honest, none of those subjects lend themselves well to one year of learning.
Are they really your only options?

BazDel

I do both Chemistry and Accounting. Accounting would be easier exam wise in my opinion but to learn it over 1 year would be very difficult. It's all about practice and there are a lot of different questions to master in just 1 year.

CyrilH_

If anyone ever views this thread in the future I just thought I could offer a little bit of insight as I'm just about to sit my exams and I do chemistry and business.

I would not in a million years reccommend attempting chemistry for a year unless you've some idea about it. It took me at least a year and a half to grasp it and I also have grinds too. It's very tough.
Business however is just a lot of theory and whilst it's a bit boring it's very easy to understand. There's a lot of content but if you can get your head around it you will fly it. I wouldn't know if you could pick it up in a year as it's such a big course but if you worked VERY hard you probably could, but after a year I had about 2/3 of the course done and I got a C in my summer test. I think you need a little bit more than a year.
From what's been said on here I'd say Ag. Science is the best shout if you are anyway decent with biology, repeating is an option for me and I was thinking of either picking up a subject or moving to higher level irish (i have 5 honours subjects so i might try and have 6?) and i found this. Ag. Science seem's alright if it's a short course, and if you're good with science. Plus the project.

Not that any of this advice matters to the OP anyway seeing as I'm a few years late with the help haha. But if anyone see's it from here on out, I hope it helps

randylonghorn

CyrilH_ wrote: »

Not that any of this advice matters to the OP anyway seeing as I'm a few years late with the help haha.

Zombie thread closed!

I suspect Cyril has been hit by the procrastination bug!