5th Year options

IrishLoriii

Hi
I hope you guys dont mind me posting a thread but I was wondering what you are all planning on doing in 5th year and what options your taking to do these?

I am still unsure!

Thanks

decisions

What subjects are you doing atm? What subjects are you thinking of doing?

I'm a 5th year and I do French, Applied Maths, Economics and Physics. If you have any q's about them feel free to ask.

suitcasepink

Ask me any questions on French, Business, Economics or geography

paddyzk

decisions wrote: »

What subjects are you doing atm? What subjects are you thinking of doing?

I'm a 5th year and I do French, Applied Maths, Economics and Physics. If you have any q's about them feel free to ask.

How do find applied maths ? I heard you're either really good at it or really bad ?
Is it hard at the start of 5th year ?
Sorry for the bombard of questions :P

Colm!

Yeah Applied Maths has one of the highest A rates of any subject: only do it if you're good at maths and Physics and you'll do well in App. Maths too. It's not very hard at the start, some of the earlier stuff in the course will be based on really simple formulas and the more complex stuff like integration and more Physics-based stuff will be taught to you after you've done those parts in the Maths and Physics courses.

I am a 5th year student, ask me anything

IrishLoriii

Im hoping to be a youth citizenship worker when Im older but Im unsure what
subjects to do for it! I have been told to do home ec and the subjects im best at but
is there not a set list you should do?
Is Home Ec hard in 5th year? Im hoping TY helps me decide my life

decisions

Ap. Maths.

There are times that I just don't have a clue what I'm doing and more importantly, why. It frustrates the hell out of me at times. But, after a while it just clicks into place and it makes sense, and once you get one question you can do them all (provided you are pushed in the right direction occasionally on some of the harder problems).

Its a lot of work at times but I love it, its one of my favourite subjects.

The course starts out very easy with Liner Motion, working with simple formulae subbing in values (the exam q's are a whole different story), then you will probably start Newtons Laws again easy enough, then it gets a bit harder with Relative Velocity, Collisions and Projectiles. Its gets harder after that from what I've heard but I haven't fully covered th rest.

You do 10 topics in total, answering 6 in the LC, so you need to be comfortable with 7.

If your good at maths and Physics then you should go for it. And I wouldn't say your really good at it or really bad at it, more you get it first time or you don't. If you don't you just need it explained again and practice makes perfect. I only got something we did in October about 2 weeks ago!

IrishLoriii:

1. What is a youth citizenship worker?
2. What kind of degree would you be looking at? that might point you in the right direction for subject choice.
3. Don't do Home Ec. myself but I don't know anyone that likes it.
and 4. You have most of TY to figure it all out.

Any more questions?

paddzdaman

decisions wrote: »

Ap. Maths.

There are times that I just don't have a clue what I'm doing and more importantly, why. It frustrates the hell out of me at times. But, after a while it just clicks into place and it makes sense, and once you get one question you can do them all (provided you are pushed in the right direction occasionally on some of the harder problems).

Its a lot of work at times but I love it, its one of my favourite subjects.

The course starts out very easy with Liner Motion, working with simple formulae subbing in values (the exam q's are a whole different story), then you will probably start Newtons Laws again easy enough, then it gets a bit harder with Relative Velocity, Collisions and Projectiles. Its gets harder after that from what I've heard but I haven't fully covered th rest.

You do 10 topics in total, answering 6 in the LC, so you need to be comfortable with 7.

If your good at maths and Physics then you should go for it. And I wouldn't say your really good at it or really bad at it, more you get it first time or you don't. If you don't you just need it explained again and practice makes perfect. I only got something we did in October about 2 weeks ago!

IrishLoriii:

1. What is a youth citizenship worker?
2. What kind of degree would you be looking at? that might point you in the right direction for subject choice.
3. Don't do Home Ec. myself but I don't know anyone that likes it.
and 4. You have most of TY to figure it all out.

Any more questions?

hey im thinking about doing applied maths outside school. im pretty good at maths (expecting a in da junior cert ) but wouldnt be doing physics ( not in our school ) plus im going into ty so might do it over 3 years .. from doing it inside school is it worth doing ? : )

decisions

If you are interested in maths and physics, like problem solving and are willing to put the time into it you should go for it. There is a big difference between Maths and Applied maths though. Id recommend getting your hands on a book to flick through (or Here and Here) so you can get a feel for it ant see if it is something that you would do.

There are a few people on the 5th year thread who do it outside school, why not drop one of them a PM or ask them to post here?

Jackobyte

Colm! wrote: »

I am a 5th year student, ask me anything

Why are oranges orange? :P

decisions

Jackobyte wrote: »

Why are oranges orange? :P

I don't have a clue myself and am way too lazy to google it.

So Colm! enlighten us. Why are oranges orange?

Moi!

Does anyone have any comments on what chemistry/accounting/music is like?

Thanks.

Slow Show

Moi! wrote: »

Does anyone have any comments on what chemistry/accounting/music is like?

Thanks.

I do Chemistry and Accounting and love them.

If you actually have an interest in Chemistry, do it and you'll love it. It used to seem a bit abstract and odd to me, but when it all slowly comes together and it's applied to real life, it's just really interesting. Can't imagine not doing it now, I actually quite enjoy studying it, which is odd. I have an excellent teacher, but if your teacher won't be great I don't know if I'd advise doing it as much. Some concepts are fairly tricky even with someone who explains things perfectly. Still highly recommended, I love it.

Accounting is good fun to be honest. If you liked JC bookkeeping I'd strongly recommend it. It's not easy, there's a lot of things to remember but most of it is pure method, very little learning off. You just need to be able to do the accounts. Practise is the key. It's the one subject that I've never really had to sit down and study, though next year when 5th year is one big blur of information, I'll probably have to go over everything and revise methods and the like. I think it's still going to be the subject that will require the least amount of work to do well in though!

AtomicKoala

I've been doing LC Chemistry, History, Physics for a good few months. Also doing French, higher level Maths, Irish and English, no choice in them. Feel free to ask me questions!

Personally, Chemistry and History are my favourite subjects, Physics is alright I guess.

I'd certainly recommend Chemistry to anyone, and History is a great filler choice

paddyzk

AtomicKoala wrote: »

I've been doing LC Chemistry, History, Physics for a good few months. Also doing French, higher level Maths, Irish and English, no choice in them. Feel free to ask me questions!

Personally, Chemistry and History are my favourite subjects, Physics is alright I guess.

I'd certainly recommend Chemistry to anyone, and History is a great filler choice

Does history differ much from JC ?

AtomicKoala

paddyzk wrote: »

Does history differ much from JC ?

Its from 1910 till like 1990 and there's way more detail, and case studies. If you like JC history you'll love it.

Glee_GG

paddzdaman wrote: »

hey im thinking about doing applied maths outside school. im pretty good at maths (expecting a in da junior cert ) but wouldnt be doing physics ( not in our school ) plus im going into ty so might do it over 3 years .. from doing it inside school is it worth doing ? : )

I do applied maths myself and i love it at times and sometimes it confuses the hell outta me but i think its the same with every subject really. Definatly no need to do it over 3 years, 2 is plenty.

paddzdaman

Glee_GG wrote: »

I do applied maths myself and i love it at times and sometimes it confuses the hell outta me but i think its the same with every subject really. Definatly no need to do it over 3 years, 2 is plenty.

thanks im wanting to do it because i really love maths plus i hoping to get alot of points for my leaving. Im thinking of doing medicine , yet im also thinking of doing journalism or becoming an actuary or enginnering. .Only problem is when i do want to go into 5th year probley do 2 science subjects nd dcg . Hey whats 5th year like compared to 3rd just out of curiousity

unmoeglichkeit

paddzdaman wrote: »

thanks im wanting to do it because i really love maths plus i hoping to get alot of points for my leaving. Im thinking of doing medicine , yet im also thinking of doing journalism or becoming an actuary or enginnering. .Only problem is when i do want to go into 5th year probley do 2 science subjects nd dcg . Hey whats 5th year like compared to 3rd just out of curiousity

Hi, I do Physics, Chemistry and DCG and I find it quite manageable, the physics and chemistry courses do overlap on some topics and applied maths makes the calculations in physics very easy. With DCG its a lot of understanding as opposed to learning, but if you're good at junior cert tech graph it's the exact same thing just an extension of the topics. So, if you're good at them, definetly do them, once you're interested, you'll do well.

paddzdaman

unmoeglichkeit wrote: »

Hi, I do Physics, Chemistry and DCG and I find it quite manageable, the physics and chemistry courses do overlap on some topics and applied maths makes the calculations in physics very easy. With DCG its a lot of understanding as opposed to learning, but if you're good at junior cert tech graph it's the exact same thing just an extension of the topics. So, if you're good at them, definetly do them, once you're interested, you'll do well.

Yeah i love t.g. , im hoping to do biology, chemistry and dcg. Sure t.g. is really about understanding and compared to other subjects such as business theory of learning it off .