Leaving Cert. '11/'12 Off-Topic

Meowth · 20-10-2011 7:01pm

Hey guys long time no post

Been bogged down with work

Manic2 wrote: »

And what's everyone aiming to get in the LC? Just wondering?

haha 580 hopefully

but sure i'd be happy with anything at all at this stage :P
btw loving the tags for this thread

13spanner · 20-10-2011 7:02pm

POST 2,000!

Sorry, had to do it...

Fergus_ · 20-10-2011 7:20pm

Just did our biology practicals in Dublin Zoo. The one with the ecosystem and stuff like that. Mad craic..... :pac:

Manic2 · 20-10-2011 8:01pm

Cian A wrote: »

I can make an exception for you but academically competitive people generally annoy the **** out of me. I can be absolutely delighted with 90% without studying or working when these guys who work their ass of try boasting to me that they did better by a few %, seriously I'm happy with my result so fúck off, you probably don't even realise you try 10x harder than me.

I'm kind of the same for sport, loads of potential but never practiced enough to fulfil it, I've won medals in football, long distance, high jump, while seldom finishing 1st I'm content with what I have achieved.

Ahh I'm not like that I'm far more subtle

I don't consciously do it, but I'll identify my main competition in the class, be it 1 or like, 5 people and if I do better than them I think to myself yesssssss!

I feel it's personal achievement to do better than the best.
But I never boast to people that's just disrespectful, although I will ask people how they did and congratulate them on it.

Mayo_Boy · 20-10-2011 8:21pm

Fergus_ wrote: »

Just did our biology practicals in Dublin Zoo. The one with the ecosystem and stuff like that. Mad craic..... :pac:

Biology practicals? :eek:

Fergus_ · 20-10-2011 8:57pm

Mayo_Boy wrote: »

Biology practicals? :eek:

Yeah like using quadrants, line transects, pooters, all that craic in a random patch of grass in Dublin Zoo. With some random education guides.

Eathrin · 20-10-2011 9:01pm

Chuchoter wrote: »

The only thing I can vaguely see myself liking is Law and French in TCD which is currently 550, so I'm aiming for 560 to be safe. HL maths points are lovely though! I really like UCD and tbh I'd prefer to go there (and the points are lower) but its just too far away from where I live.

The grades I'm hoping for are
Maths: B2 105
English: B1 85
French: A2 90
Biology: A1 100
Physics: A1 100
Chemistry/ Irish: B2 80

I think I might be able to maneuver an A in English but I think its a really bad subject to bank on. Physics, French and Maths are the ones I'd like to improve on at the moment, but I'm not very far off those grades I think.

Another Dub? Serious lack of my people around here.

Those 25 points will come in handy, but course points will probably rise again so be wary, especially the high point courses like yours. I'd say I could get:

Maths: 115-125
A. Maths : 80-100
Physics : 80-100
Accounting: 70-100
Business: 70-100
Irish: 70-100
English: 70-100
French: 40-70

Which would be 485-600. It really depends on how I manage myself this year.

Manic2 · 20-10-2011 9:13pm

Ok, so now I have another french dilemma. :L
So, in order to do basically anything in the NUI's I need a 3rd language. But as you are all probably well aware I do not do French, although I have basic French skills from JC.
Does anyone think it would be worth my while just to do the OL French paper just to meet entry requirements? I wouldn't be dedicating too much time to it. Just enough for a pass.

Eathrin · 20-10-2011 9:54pm

Manic2 wrote: »

Ok, so now I have another french dilemma. :L
So, in order to do basically anything in the NUI's I need a 3rd language. But as you are all probably well aware I do not do French, although I have basic French skills from JC.
Does anyone think it would be worth my while just to do the OL French paper just to meet entry requirements? I wouldn't be dedicating too much time to it. Just enough for a pass.

By the sounds of it you're a fairly intelligent person so I'd say you could pull off a d3 in pass without much bother. In fact I was only talking about that a few months ago and how I regretted taking french as a subject just to pass when I could have taken an 8th subject seriously and gotten the pass in French.

You could probably get them just by making guesses and picking up attempt marks.

Manic2 · 20-10-2011 9:58pm

Cian A wrote: »

By the sounds of it you're a fairly intelligent person so I'd say you could pull off a d3 in pass without much bother. In fact I was only talking about that a few months ago and how I regretted taking french as a subject just to pass when I could have taken an 8th subject seriously and gotten the pass in French.

You could probably get them just by making guesses and picking up attempt marks.

Thanks for the reply. I might talk it over with mother dearest and then make sure that I really want/need it. I'm sorta dead set on Maynooth but I was going for Science Ed in the 1st place but I was rethinking it because I was considering and Arts course.

Thanks for thinking I'm intellegent btw :pac:

Chuchoter · 20-10-2011 10:34pm

Cian A wrote: »

Another Dub? Serious lack of my people around here.

Those 25 points will come in handy, but course points will probably rise again so be wary, especially the high point courses like yours. I'd say I could get:

Maths: 115-125
A. Maths : 80-100
Physics : 80-100
Accounting: 70-100
Business: 70-100
Irish: 70-100
English: 70-100
French: 40-70

Which would be 485-600. It really depends on how I manage myself this year.

Considering only 16% or something near that though do honors maths, my hopes are its too small to make an overall difference :P
Manic2, go for the ordinary French, you'll be grand!

Leftyflip · 20-10-2011 10:56pm

Wow, people are really aiming high... I feel stupid now :pac:

Fergus_ · 20-10-2011 10:59pm

Got a French test and a Home Ec test tomorrow.

Uh oh >.<

Eathrin · 20-10-2011 11:19pm

Chuchoter wrote: »

Considering only 16% or something near that though do honors maths, my hopes are its too small to make an overall difference :P
Manic2, go for the ordinary French, you'll be grand!

My reasoning is that it would be the people doing honours maths that would be aiming for top marks to get into these <500 courses. If you're going to be getting such marks, you're most likely doing all honours or 6 honours.

Leftyflip wrote: »

Wow, people are really aiming high... I feel stupid now :pac:

Like I said before, I'm not really aiming high, in fact I'm not aiming for anything, it's just what I'd expect to get. 600 with work, about 445 would be bare minimum I think, not doing anything all year, 6 C1's would be fairly elementary.
I'm not trying to sound pretentious or anything that's just me and school

EDIT: Post 2012 zOMG!
I never actually say that, but 2012 is quite a significant number these days

Bubbleope · 20-10-2011 11:32pm

bitc***s I'm aiming for 575 points!! XD g'luck to me! :pac:
my sister got 565 so I must beat her.. it's just that kind of sisterly love we got going on.. :P
*must stop procrastinating like this* and I might actually achieve it. :eek:

EDIT: not saying I'm a smartarse.. I'm average smaverage in school. 500 points would be the maximum amount of points I'd get if I continue at the rate I'm going(= only doing my homework and not studying AT ALL).. so i must improve(ACTUALLY STUDY)! (:
By the way, any tips on how to study? I actually can't study without being distracted. ):

Leftyflip · 20-10-2011 11:36pm

Cian A wrote: »

My reasoning is that it would be the people doing honours maths that would be aiming for top marks to get into these <500 courses. If you're going to be getting such marks, you're most likely doing all honours or 6 honours.

Like I said before, I'm not really aiming high, in fact I'm not aiming for anything, it's just what I'd expect to get. 600 with work, about 445 would be bare minimum I think, not doing anything all year, 6 C1's would be fairly elementary.
I'm not trying to sound pretentious or anything that's just me and school

EDIT: Post 2012 zOMG!
I never actually say that, but 2012 is quite a significant number these days

That made me feel stupider

Although, Aviation technology in DIT is 280 points this year, My maximum is 400.

Eathrin · 20-10-2011 11:57pm

Leftyflip wrote: »

That made me feel stupider
Although, Aviation technology in DIT is 280 points this year, My maximum is 400.

120 points is a nice cushion, don't stress over it :pac:

Canard · 21-10-2011 8:04am

Cian A wrote: »

Another Dub? Serious lack of my people around here.

I'm a dub :cool:

I want to get high points but I'm not sure how much. I dont know if I can do French & Spanish in Trinity without ever doing Spanish before (anyone know?), but if nothing else I'll just do it through UCD arts, 355 :pac:

Coeurdepirate · 21-10-2011 9:25am

Patchy~ wrote: »

I'm a dub :cool:

I want to get high points but I'm not sure how much. I dont know if I can do French & Spanish in Trinity without ever doing Spanish before (anyone know?), but if nothing else I'll just do it through UCD arts, 355 :pac:

Do you wanna study two languages at uni too? :O That's what I wanna do, but I'm afraid of not getting a job

Just Like Heaven · 21-10-2011 10:36am

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

Do you wanna study two languages at uni too? :O That's what I wanna do, but I'm afraid of not getting a job

Our principle was saying to us if were considering becoming teachers French, Irish and English teachers were the most difficult to come by.

I don't know how much truth there is too that and irish and english might be no good to you. BuT we only have French in our school, it might be the same for German and Spanish.

Coeurdepirate · 21-10-2011 10:41am

fewtinsoffroth wrote: »

Our principle was saying to us if were considering becoming teachers French, Irish and English teachers were the most difficult to come by.

I don't know how much truth there is too that and irish and english might be no good to you. BuT we only have French in our school, it might be the same for German and Spanish.

I don't wanna be a teacher

Apart from a translator or interpretor, there aren't really any jobs I'd like out of languages. I just wanna speak them fluently! :P

Just Like Heaven · 21-10-2011 11:05am

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

I don't wanna be a teacher Apart from a translator or interpretor, there aren't really any jobs I'd like out of languages. I just wanna speak them fluently! :P

Oops a paragrpah from post is missing

I was saying the same thing, I don't know what else there is apart from teaching, I'd imagine translating is tough work, you'd need to really love languages.

Luno · 21-10-2011 1:20pm

Went to see Hamlet today, made me realise how much I need to go back over it!

Siobhnk · 21-10-2011 4:15pm

TGIF.

Canard · 21-10-2011 4:27pm

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

Do you wanna study two languages at uni too? :O That's what I wanna do, but I'm afraid of not getting a job

Yep! I was thinking it might be better to do it in UCD because I could take 3 in my first year then pick my favourite two but I'm not sure what to do

Blehhhh same but if nothing else, there's always teaching - and I've heard lately theres been a shortage of language skills :cool: It said it in my business book too. Its never any harm like, and you could be a translator on the side

oh and a guy in my year said he found me on boards...embarrassing :P HI WILL, I know you'll read this, stalker.

shefellover93 · 21-10-2011 4:50pm

Siobhnk wrote: »

TGIF.

Amen to that! Long and ****ty week

Siobhnk · 21-10-2011 5:17pm

shefellover93 wrote: »

Siobhnk wrote: »

TGIF.

Amen to that! Long and ****ty week

My thoughts exactly! :pac:

Eathrin · 21-10-2011 5:58pm

Patchy~ wrote: »

Yep! I was thinking it might be better to do it in UCD because I could take 3 in my first year then pick my favourite two but I'm not sure what to do Blehhhh same but if nothing else, there's always teaching - and I've heard lately theres been a shortage of language skills :cool: It said it in my business book too. Its never any harm like, and you could be a translator on the side

oh and a guy in my year said he found me on boards...embarrassing :P HI WILL, I know you'll read this, stalker.

*Goes to change username*

Luno · 21-10-2011 6:13pm

Cian A wrote: »

*Goes to change username*

Be graaaaand, if anyone I know has found me on Boards they're just as bad themselves for stalking the place!:P

rusty_racer94 · 21-10-2011 6:45pm

Just looked up the points for the course I want to do. 719 is what they're looking for! :O

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