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Leaving Cert. '11/'12 Off-Topic
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K so i did my leaving last year (thank god!) and got an A1 in history 
Kinda need money for college now so was thinking of selling my history essay plans that I made..basically i did out essay plans to cover pretty much anything that could come up in my topics! But..I don't know if these plans would be of use to anyone else or if its more of a personal thing so if anyone wants to take a look at one of them and tell me what they think? You'l be getting a free essay plan out of it! Let me know an I'll PM ya 0 -
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Just curious, what have you done with your CV to get into cambridge?That Handsome Devil wrote: »Cambridge here's hoping
Anyone else back? First day today, opened with my Irish teacher not turning up (hooray :rolleyes:). Already back into homework, chemistry, biology and maths all today, no rest at all :rolleyes:0 -
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fewtinsoffroth wrote: »We're back tomorrow aswell. My first class is a double free and my English teacher is taking the first month off cause the holidays weren't long enough seemingly. I'll keep my feet up
How do you know your classes if you're not back 'til tomorrow?
Yeah, a few teachers from mine have decided to go on maternity leave starting on the first. :pac:0 -
You'll need a good CV. it's one of the best uni's in the world (second I think). There's far too much demand to let everyone who has 7 As in unfortunately
CV? I'm assuming you're reffering to the personal statement, you don't send a CV or anything.
But generally, their sole requirement is academic potential and interest in your degree (but to a very high level). Yeah, obviously they're looking for extra-curricular stuff, but mostly just things you can relate back to your degree. Drama if you want English Lit, Science Olympiad stuff if you want maths or a science, things like that. Like, I could do guitar and drama and rugby and all the rest, be pretty smart, but the guy who does maths olympiad stuff well will be picked over me every time for a maths/science degree.
But as for me? I'm hoping for maths, and I have my Maths Olympiad participation, summer courses that I did in maths in DCU, some programming and general reading of maths stuff like GEB that I did myself, and a pilot programme where I did a full semester with the undergrads there in TY in Applied Physics and got a 1.1. And obviously I'm putting in a bit of some more general stuff, rowing competitions, all my drama stuff... its so hard to fit stuff in the personal statement!
What about you? I'm guessing you're also going for Cambridge? You got your personal statement done, stress and a half to write them, and in for six weeks time or so 0 -
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I am planning on applying via UCAS but I'm not considering it all that seriously. I've done maths olympiad last year and I'll be doing it again this year but I didn't qualify for the team so I'm not sure if that's of much value. Doing STEP will be difficult too as it's on the same week as the leaving cert so I'll need some arrangmenets if I want to do that. And then there's the whole money issue. But yeah I'd love to do maths in cambridge.That Handsome Devil wrote: »CV? I'm assuming you're reffering to the personal statement, you don't send a CV or anything.
But generally, their sole requirement is academic potential and interest in your degree (but to a very high level). Yeah, obviously they're looking for extra-curricular stuff, but mostly just things you can relate back to your degree. Drama if you want English Lit, Science Olympiad stuff if you want maths or a science, things like that. Like, I could do guitar and drama and rugby and all the rest, be pretty smart, but the guy who does maths olympiad stuff well will be picked over me every time for a maths/science degree.
But as for me? I'm hoping for maths, and I have my Maths Olympiad participation, summer courses that I did in maths in DCU, some programming and general reading of maths stuff like GEB that I did myself, and a pilot programme where I did a full semester with the undergrads there in TY in Applied Physics and got a 1.1. And obviously I'm putting in a bit of some more general stuff, rowing competitions, all my drama stuff... its so hard to fit stuff in the personal statement!
What about you? I'm guessing you're also going for Cambridge? You got your personal statement done, stress and a half to write them, and in for six weeks time or so
Edit: and yeah I mean EC stuff and a personal statement. I wish I had done TY now as I could have prepared better for the step, done a maths modelling course in limerick (didn't get in as there were 50 places and they took the older ones first - told me i was first reserve..) and perhaps even got on the irish maths olympiad team. Ah well, there's always post grad.
Just wondering btw - how well did you do in the maths olympiad and how long have you been doing it? What college are you going to for it?0 -
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I'm far too skeptical to say on this seeing as my entire year heard and I'd hate if someone was like omg you're in my year.fewtinsoffroth wrote: »
Let's just say I proclaimed something that was supposed to stay in my mind! 0 -
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Birthday Thursday though, can't waaaaaaaaait! 
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