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Extra points plc

  • 14-10-2012 8:09pm
    #1
    kiltwearer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭


    Hi, just wondering if anyone can answer this for me, i've tried looking it up but i seem to be looking in the wrong places..

    My friend told me that a plc or fetac course would give me extra points and access into a course that i did not get the points for. i was 25 points short for doing home ec in st. angelas and i'm wondering how, by doing a plc, would i get the points and into this course..

    What kind of plc would i have to do?
    would i be guaranteed entry from doing a plc?
    how many points could i get?


    I am so confused!


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  • #2
    looksee
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    Your friend is partially correct. Not all Higher Education (ie third level - ITs and Universities) accept Fetac qualifications for access to courses, and the ones that do have specific requirements.

    I don't think that St Angelas Sligo is one of the ones that accepts Fetac. This is the information you are looking for http://www.fetac.ie/fetac/documents/Prog_HEC_2011.pdf


  • #3
    implausible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,937 ✭✭✭implausible


    Just to add - you won't get extra points on top of your Leaving Cert. You enter a different system which may use points instead of your LC.


  • #4
    kiltwearer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭kiltwearer


    oh right, and since the course is small would i have to do something further to get the place? i;m sure if it was as simple as my friend makes out everyone would surely do something like this to get any course?


  • #5
    looksee
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    What do you mean by 'small'? The third level colleges are talking about full certificates of 8 modules. Getting the cert is not an automatic pass into a third level course, there is still competition and a limited number of places.


  • #6
    kiltwearer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭kiltwearer


    the course is small as in usually there are only 14 ish places available for cao applicants and other applicants.


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  • #7
    implausible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,937 ✭✭✭implausible


    kiltwearer wrote: »
    the course is small as in usually there are only 14 ish places available for cao applicants and other applicants.

    It doesn't say on the website how many places are reserved for FETAC students, so I'm going to hazard a guess that it's 1 or 2. You'd need to contact the college to find out. They would take the students with the highest FETAC results and if all applicants had the maximum results, it would go to random selection. Contact the college to confirm.

    To be honest, repeating the LC is a better option as you have a far better chance of getting 25+ points than of getting one of the reserved FETAC places.


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