Repeat leaving certs

lisa1993

Hey guys,
I dont know if there is a thread for this already but i was just thinking its very lonely being a repeat leaving cert with all my friends gone to college and it would be cool to talk to some other repeats about where ye hope to go and whatnot, so yep...

BrownBear11

What goes on Lisa

Great idea for a thread Who better to chat to repeats about repeating than... well, repeats!

I myself am one of the mad few who went back, by the way, but you probably gathered that

Very lonely is right! You finding it strange without your friends, or is that just me? Feels weird to be in the same classrooms and canteens but with different people! Like on the first day I sat in the same place as last year in Irish and someone else sat beside me and I was thinking to myself "Whaaat?! You can't sit there thats my friends seat" ... and then I realised :pac:

What subjects you doing? Any new ones? I picked up economics for the first time this year and even though its pretty short, it's still very hard to catch up.. Doesn't help that the class is unbelievably smart! Class test next week should be fun :cool:

How ya finding it overall yourself anyway?

rosiee

Heyy Guys!
I'm another one of the few who went back
Feeling lonely myself too especially seeing all theses facebook statuses and stuff about college is a bit depressing :S
I just keep trying to tell myself it'll be worth it next year :P
How yee getting on ?

BrownBear11

rosiee wrote: »

Heyy Guys!
I'm another one of the few who went back
Feeling lonely myself too especially seeing all theses facebook statuses and stuff about college is a bit depressing :S
I just keep trying to tell myself it'll be worth it next year :P
How yee getting on ?

Yeah fb is a definite no go! Especially next week with freshers week and all. Think we would do ourselves a favour if we stayed off it:pac: That's my plan anyway ... sticking to it is another matter of course

And of course it'll be worth it Don't even think otherwise :eek::pac:

rosiee

haha I know I try to keep of it but I just end up logging in with out even realising :L
yeah it would be, we can do this :P
What do you wanna do ?

BrownBear11

rosiee wrote: »

haha I know I try to keep of it but I just end up logging in with out even realising :L
yeah it would be, we can do this :P
What do you wanna do ?

I can relate :pac:

Oh, sorry... I should have said I don't plan to go to college. I'm just gunna repeat for the rest of my life (or at least the foreseeable future) cos' the leaving cert's just too much craic. I couldn't bare the thought of moving on from it :cool:

Ah no National school teaching in Pats hopefully

Yourself?

rosiee

haha that would be SOO much fun ! :P
Primary teaching too in Mary I i think though :P

BrownBear11

We're in the same boat so

Would have went to Mary I myself, cos' it has a really good reputation and high standard, but Dublin's handier location-wise.

Might reconsider about Pats though, Marino's supposed really nice At least time's on our side

Flabangav

I'm a repeat! It is depressing hearing everyone talking about college. Did any of you guys skip TY?

I want to do Vet Medicine. I picked up physics this year, seems alright so far!

aarond280

well people I too have repeated it's not too bad the actual school it's just the fact that some of the friends are in college and that and it can be kinda lonely but sure how and ever and watching photos/ status' on fb doesnt help too much ha

Cruel Sun

I'm repeating as well. Hoping to go up 50+ points, finding studying hard this week.

Keep having this horrible thought of my points staying the same or going down.

Flabangav wrote: »

Did any of you guys skip TY?

Yeah, glad I did now. I was kind of old for my year before I went into 5th. :pac:

rosiee

I did TY

rosiee

ah yeah Pats and Marino would be nice
Wherever I get I'll be happy anyways

Flabangav

Cruel Sun wrote: »

I'm repeating as well. Hoping to go up 50+ points, finding studying hard this week.

Keep having this horrible thought of my points staying the same or going down.

Yeah, I'm hoping to go up by at least that. Haha, my parents were panicking about if they went down too :pac: that'd be awful!

Yeah, glad I did now. I was kind of old for my year before I went into 5th. :pac:

So did I, I'm glad I did too.

lisa1993

Well lads,
Yea i did ty, such a waste of time! All the facebook posts about college are just awful, friends going off all about the country and having the craic and im just like, 'yea ill do the leaving again'. Its definitely weird being in the same school iv been at for the past 6 years but with a totally different year, i have a load of new teachers too which is too bad because i loved my english teacher last year!
Im hoping to go to NUI galway, and study nursing, the aim at the end of the road is medicine but like sure its far to hard to get over 600 points in one year.
I went up to honours biology this year and ill maybe go to honours irish. I was only 5 points away form getting into trinity this year so im determined to get 500 points this year, but sure we'll see!
:]

aarond280

were many people out by there course ? i was out by 35 actuary in dcu

PictureFrame

Think I may be heading back to school the week after next to get a HL C3 in Irish for Primary Teaching. Got 525 points last year and an A1 in OL but hate my course in University so more than likely will be returning.. :pac: LOL

lisa1993

aarond280 wrote: »

were many people out by there course ? i was out by 35 actuary in dcu

Ah thats awful close! I was out by 75 for my 1st choice but only 15 for my second choice :[

Flabangav

aarond280 wrote: »

were many people out by there course ? i was out by 35 actuary in dcu

I was out by 50.

aarond280

lisa1993 wrote: »

Ah thats awful close! I was out by 75 for my 1st choice but only 15 for my second choice :[

wow 15 thats very close well i suppose it could worse (no offence to anyone) but just imagine being out by 5 points:eek:

lisa1993

aarond280 wrote: »

wow 15 thats very close well i suppose it could worse (no offence to anyone) but just imagine being out by 5 points:eek:

Actually one of my fellow repeats was out by only 5! Apparently i could have got in letterkenny if i had just 5 more points too

aarond280

lisa1993 wrote: »

Actually one of my fellow repeats was out by only 5! Apparently i could have got in letterkenny if i had just 5 more points too

Oh that wouldnt be very nice to be out by 5 bbut sure i suppose 50 or 5 points either way didnt get the course ha

Flabangav

aarond280 wrote: »

wow 15 thats very close well i suppose it could worse (no offence to anyone) but just imagine being out by 5 points:eek:

Oh god, that's what I keep thinking. My course went to random selection, imagine having got the right points, but not gotten in because of random selection! That'd be so horrific! :pac:

Cruel Sun

5.

lisa1993

aarond280 wrote: »

Oh that wouldnt be very nice to be out by 5 bbut sure i suppose 50 or 5 points either way didnt get the course ha

Flabangav wrote: »

Oh god, that's what I keep thinking. My course went to random selection, imagine having got the right points, but not gotten in because of random selection! That'd be so horrific! :pac:

Exactly yea, sure it stops being bout the points soon as you get them! I think nursing in galway often goes to random selection too, thats why im determined to get 500 or more so i definitely get a place

David1994

PictureFrame wrote: »

Think I may be heading back to school the week after next to get a HL C3 in Irish for Primary Teaching. Got 525 points last year and an A1 in OL but hate my course in University so more than likely will be returning.. :pac: LOL

Really PF? :P Sorry to hear you hate your course.

aarond280

Cruel Sun wrote: »

5.

what did ya want

aarond280

Flabangav wrote: »

Oh god, that's what I keep thinking. My course went to random selection, imagine having got the right points, but not gotten in because of random selection! That'd be so horrific! :pac:

oh that would be horrible :eek:

Cruel Sun

aarond280 wrote: »

what did ya want

5 more points. :pac:

lisa1993

Where are ye guys in the country anyways? Im in the north west, up in connacht

rosiee

lisa1993 wrote: »

Where are ye guys in the country anyways? Im in the north west, up in connacht

It really does suck having done Ty officially 7th years

Aw 5 points i didnt really know what i wanted to do last yr
Im from Offaly!!:)

BrownBear11

30 points. Kinda middle ground. Not close enough to feel like I should have gotten my course but not a ridiculous amount off it either. Still enough out to have to bloody repeat though

lisa1993 wrote: »

Where are ye guys in the country anyways? Im in the north west, up in connacht

Midlands (Better known as the most boring part of the country :pac:)

I'd love to break 500 points too... Just to join that exclusive club

By the way, Study on a Friday evening = Hardest thing ever :cool:

Flabangav

lisa1993 wrote: »

Where are ye guys in the country anyways? Im in the north west, up in connacht

I'm from Mayo!

amyleaving

Hey everyone i'm a dublin repeater , it was really depressing but now i'm kind of getting used to it :P, i didn't want to see freshers week nights out so i have deactivated my facebook for now haha , i was out by 60 points for my first choice!

Talib Fiasco

PictureFrame wrote: »

Think I may be heading back to school the week after next to get a HL C3 in Irish for Primary Teaching. Got 525 points last year and an A1 in OL but hate my course in University so more than likely will be returning.. :pac: LOL

Duuuude

CatEyed92

It's even more depressing when you were in University but the wrong course and have to leave to repeat
Sooner I get back there the better

aarond280

Cruel Sun wrote: »

5 more points. :pac:

haw haw haw :rolleyes:

aarond280

any1 finding it hard to remember stuff from last year ?

Lord Ned Stark

back repeating after working ridiculously hard for two years and getting 520 and still wasn't good enough! has been the most boring 3 weeks of my life finding it tough because i have nothing to do except study because iv all the work done from last year! anyone take up new subjects this year? i took up ag seems easy enough so far!

Flabangav

Lord Ned Stark wrote: »

back repeating after working ridiculously hard for two years and getting 520 and still wasn't good enough! has been the most boring 3 weeks of my life finding it tough because i have nothing to do except study because iv all the work done from last year! anyone take up new subjects this year? i took up ag seems easy enough so far!

Yeah, I took up Physics. It seems alright so far too!

lisa1993

Jaysus no one seems to have been that far out, points wise. Anyone else starting to really worry about going down in points? I mean like english was one of my best subjects but with the whole, new play , new poets, new comparative texts im just completely thrown off. And i havent even started studying yet, cause i didnt really study much last year so im not sure how to get stuck in, i mean iv studied for the tests my teachers are giving but i havent really done out a plan for long term study, still thats the aim for this weekend :].

rosiee

Lord Ned Stark wrote: »

back repeating after working ridiculously hard for two years and getting 520 and still wasn't good enough! has been the most boring 3 weeks of my life finding it tough because i have nothing to do except study because iv all the work done from last year! anyone take up new subjects this year? i took up ag seems easy enough so far!

Yeah I have taken up ag science too and home ec!

Reon

im repeating aswell not something i should be happy about but **** happens lol, going to the institute of education savage place but sucks everyone else in college but its only a year so it will fly, hoping to do well there are a few courses i have in mind, dental hygiene,technology in trinity and aviation management in dcu i think it is , GL to everyone repeating we can do second time round :P :P

BrownBear11

lisa1993 wrote: »

Anyone else starting to really worry about going down in points?

You will not think these thoughts again. No one will be disappointed and we will all get exactly what we want. You have no choice in the matter

C'mon where's the positivity ?

Cruel Sun

Lord Ned Stark wrote: »

back repeating after working ridiculously hard for two years and getting 520 and still wasn't good enough! has been the most boring 3 weeks of my life finding it tough because i have nothing to do except study because iv all the work done from last year! anyone take up new subjects this year? i took up ag seems easy enough so far!

I took up HL maths, was going to take up Ag Science but decided I'd just do 6 subjects. Have LCVP as a backup but hoping I won't be counting on it for points.

Reon

Cruel Sun wrote: »

I took up HL maths, was going to take up Ag Science but decided I'd just do 6 subjects. Have LCVP as a backup but hoping I won't be counting on it for points.

dont do LCVP i did it got my parents to pimp it up and i spent so much time on it not even funny our teachers pretty much harrased us making us do it and no1 got higher than a pass... you think it would be easy but its just like fml

Cruel Sun

Reon wrote: »

dont do LCVP i did it got my parents to pimp it up and i spent so much time on it not even funny our teachers pretty much harrased us making us do it and no1 got higher than a pass... you think it would be easy but its just like fml

I did it last year so all I have to do is sit the written test. I'm surprised nobody got higher than a pass in your school, I can't think of anyone in my class who got lower than a Merit and there was quite a few Distinctions too. We did most of the work for it in class as well so it didn't take up anytime.

Reon

Cruel Sun wrote: »

I did it last year so all I have to do is sit the written test. I'm surprised nobody got higher than a pass in your school, I can't think of anyone in my class who got lower than a Merit and there was quite a few Distinctions too. We did most of the work for it in class as well so it didn't take up anytime.

damn nice yea i have no idea but our school was **** lol we didnt have proper lcvp teachers or anything lol but ah well its over for me :P, well gl in the exam

PictureFrame

With regards LCVP, I went to a very good school and was the first person in 3 years to get a Distinction in it last year, even though I didn't count it for points. It's a very flimsy subject, please don't rely on it for points, it's not worth it tbh!

F9Devil

I'm repeating at 20 y/o, it's probably the worst thing in the world

lisa1993

PictureFrame wrote: »

With regards LCVP, I went to a very good school and was the first person in 3 years to get a Distinction in it last year, even though I didn't count it for points. It's a very flimsy subject, please don't rely on it for points, it's not worth it tbh!

Thats where i messed up last year! Our careers guidance teacher told us that basically everyone gets a distinction (lie) so i was counting on getting one and using it for points to at least get my second choice. I got 89% in the written paper for the mock but i guess my portfolio brought me down because the written paper was very easy and in fairness our lcvp teacher was useless in regards to the portfolio