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How many subjects did you sit in the Junior Certificate ?

  • 23-06-2011 12:00pm
    #1
    TheRedDevil10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭


    i only did 9
    English
    Irish
    Maths
    Geography
    History
    French
    Science
    Business
    C.S.P.E

    How many exam subjects did you sit in the Junior Certificate ? 74 votes

    7
    0% 0 votes
    8
    2% 2 votes
    9
    2% 2 votes
    10
    16% 12 votes
    11
    29% 22 votes
    12
    40% 30 votes
    13
    8% 6 votes
    14
    0% 0 votes


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  • #2
    apkbarry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭apkbarry


    Everyone in our school did 9.

    English
    Irish
    Maths
    Science
    Religion
    CSPE
    Metalwork
    Business
    Home Ec

    The last 3 differing from person to person

    EDIT: Include French there... My bad :S


  • #3
    Desire.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭Desire.


    10. No religion. :)


  • #4
    yellowsky169
    Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭yellowsky169


    In our school we do 11:
    English
    Irish
    Maths
    Business
    Science
    History
    Geography
    A language (Spanish for me)
    C.S.P.E
    And then you choose from a few I did:
    H.E
    Music


  • #5
    DaNiEl1994
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 759 ✭✭✭DaNiEl1994


    mine are: 11
    english
    irish
    maths
    art
    home-ec
    wood
    metal
    french
    cspe
    science
    business


  • #6
    yellowsky169
    Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭yellowsky169


    Desire. wrote: »
    10. No religion. :)

    we do 11 and don't have religion:(


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  • #7
    robman60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭robman60


    apkbarry wrote: »
    Everyone in our school did 9.

    English
    Irish
    Maths
    Science
    Religion
    CSPE
    Metalwork
    Business
    Home Ec

    The last 3 differing from person to person
    9? I thought everyone did at least 10. I did 11.


  • #8
    matthew8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭matthew8


    10 for me
    English
    Irish
    Maths
    French
    Geography
    Spanish
    CSPE
    Latin
    History
    Science

    Also some people did:
    Classical studies
    Business
    Music
    Art


  • #9
    Riskymove
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,900 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    robman60 wrote: »
    9? I thought everyone did at least 10. I did 11.

    I did 9 but it was along time ago now

    maths
    english
    irish
    science
    history
    geography
    french
    spanish
    biz org


  • #10
    apkbarry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭apkbarry


    robman60 wrote: »
    9? I thought everyone did at least 10. I did 11.

    Sorry corrected myself :S


  • #11
    Lucan Bohs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 651 ✭✭✭Lucan Bohs


    10


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  • #12
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,316 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    robman60 wrote: »
    9? I thought everyone did at least 10. I did 11.

    Most standard schools do at least 5.
    Doing 14 is a bit ridiculous.


  • #13
    Karl96
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 105 ✭✭Karl96


    I did 12:)
    English
    Irish
    Maths
    Geography
    CSPE
    Business
    French
    History
    Science
    TG
    Woodwork
    Music
    Thats all!!:D


  • #14
    Indiego
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Indiego


    I did 11 :) everyone in my year did,
    We had to do
    English
    Irish
    Maths
    History
    Geography
    CSPE
    Religion

    And then we picked one from each of these:
    Science or Metalwork
    Homeec or Woodwork
    Art or Buisness Studies
    Spanish or Tech Graph

    I did Science, Home ec, Art and Spanish ^^


  • #15
    matthew8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭matthew8


    Indiego wrote: »
    I did 11 :) everyone in my year did,
    We had to do
    English
    Irish
    Maths
    History
    Geography
    CSPE
    Religion

    And then we picked one from each of these:
    Science or Metalwork
    Homeec or Woodwork
    Art or Buisness Studies
    Spanish or Tech Graph

    I did Science, Home ec, Art and Spanish ^^

    So you guys have to do religion but science is a choice? Very strange. Art/business seems a strange choice as does spanish/tech graph.


  • #16
    Desire.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭Desire.


    We had to do:
    English
    Irish
    Maths
    Science
    Geography
    History
    CSPE.

    Pick one language:
    French
    German.

    Pick two of the following:
    Business
    Metalwork
    Woodwork
    Home Ec
    Art
    Business
    Tech Graph.
    Music.


  • #17
    robman60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭robman60


    Yes, that is quite strange. I've never seen science as an optional subject for Junior Cert.


  • #18
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,316 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Many schools would have Science as an option. Not every school has the same facilities/staffing levels.

    It's an early introduction to how unequal a system we have, I suppose.


  • #19
    Indiego
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Indiego


    spurious wrote: »
    Many schools would have Science as an option. Not every school has the same facilities/staffing levels.

    It's an early introduction to how unequal a system we have, I suppose.

    Yeah, I got to a very small school, only about 22 teachers, and around 250 students, and we only have 20 rooms, and only one of them is a science room, we dont have enough room to have everyone doing science, we have two science classes in my year as it is, and the classes need to alternate between being in the demo room and the lab every day so everyone gets to do lab work :/
    Small schools are better imo though, we know everyone and the classes are smaller ^^


  • #20
    Conchir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 961 ✭✭✭Conchir


    In my school, everyone does:
    English
    Irish
    Maths
    French
    History
    Geography
    Science
    Business
    CSPE

    And you choose 1 of these:
    Art (which I did)
    Music
    Technology
    Computers
    Spanish
    Classical Studies


  • #21
    9Elliexx9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭9Elliexx9


    I did 11 (:
    English, Irish, Maths, History, Geography, Science, Religion, CSPE

    and I picked French, German and Music from our list of 8 choice subjects (you could pick any of them).


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  • #22
    Jackobyte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭Jackobyte


    I did 10.

    Irish
    English
    Maths
    History
    Geography
    Science
    Spanish
    CSPE
    Business
    Metalwork
    Indiego wrote: »
    Small schools are better imo though, we know everyone and the classes are smaller ^^

    Big schools, (generally) better facilities. We have 4 science labs. And everyone gets to do science. Tbh, I'd take proper facilities over knowing everyone/smaller classes.


  • #23
    Sophiee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭Sophiee


    I did 14

    English
    Irish
    Maths
    History
    Science
    CSPE
    Geography
    Business
    Religion
    Home Ec
    Music
    Spanish
    German
    Italian


  • #24
    niallharty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 176 ✭✭niallharty


    Sophiee wrote: »
    I did 14

    English
    Irish
    Maths
    History
    Science
    CSPE
    Geography
    Business
    Religion
    Home Ec
    Music
    Spanish
    German
    Italian

    Whoa! that's a lot of subjects... Doing 5 languages must have gotten confusing, the only modern language you didn't do is the most common, French

    Anyway I did 11
    English, Maths and Irish
    Science, Geography and History
    CSPE and Religion
    Spanish, Wood work and Art


  • #25
    Sophiee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭Sophiee


    niallharty wrote: »
    Whoa! that's a lot of subjects... Doing 5 languages must have gotten confusing, the only modern language you didn't do is the most common, French

    Anyway I did 11
    English, Maths and Irish
    Science, Geography and History
    CSPE and Religion
    Spanish, Wood work and Art

    Yeah it was. We had the option to do French but I had already done it in primary and didn't like it.


  • #26
    Macushlablue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭Macushlablue


    I only did eight, but it was quite a while ago; we were actually the very first group to do the JC, back in 1992. English, Irish, French, Maths, History, Geography, Business, Science. I really pity anyone doing the five million subjects that are on it nowadays!


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