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Leaving Cert Subject Choices

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  • 24-05-2013 7:20pm
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    Dodo Bird
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 88 ✭✭


    Hey, everyone, I need a little advice/help here choosing my subjects for LC :)
    These are the subjects I want to do:
    Biology-
    Chemistry-
    Geography-
    Business-
    Economics-
    Ag. Scince-Home
    Now I have to choose 3 from the list apart from Ag. Science which I would be definitely doing at home
    Which of the subjects can be studied at home and which can't, due to projects or too hard to understand yourself, I do not plan to get grinds so that is out of the question
    And one more thing what is the LC statistics in HL for German and Italian what of the 2 do people get better grades in ??
    Thanks


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    DublinArnie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭DublinArnie


    Dodo Bird wrote: »
    Hey, everyone, I need a little advice/help here choosing my subjects for LC :)
    These are the subjects I want to do:
    Biology-
    Chemistry-
    Geography-
    Business-
    Economics-
    Ag. Scince-Home
    Now I have to choose 3 from the list apart from Ag. Science which I would be definitely doing at home
    Which of the subjects can be studied at home and which can't, due to projects or too hard to understand yourself, I do not plan to get grinds so that is out of the question
    And one more thing what is the LC statistics in HL for German and Italian what of the 2 do people get better grades in ??
    Thanks
    You should get a mod to move this to the Leaving Cert forum or re-post it there.


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    Dodo Bird
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 88 ✭✭Dodo Bird


    DublinArnie wrote: »
    You should get a mod to move this to the Leaving Cert forum or re-post it there.
    Thanks I will try to do that


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    DublinArnie
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    Dodo Bird wrote: »
    Thanks I will try to do that
    I might do Russian at home :pac: it has one of the highest A percentages for Higher ;).


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    aimzLc2
    Registered Users Posts: 662 ✭✭✭aimzLc2


    Dodo Bird wrote: »
    Hey, everyone, I need a little advice/help here choosing my subjects for LC :)
    These are the subjects I want to do:
    Biology-
    Chemistry-
    Geography-
    Business-
    Economics-
    Ag. Scince-Home
    Now I have to choose 3 from the list apart from Ag. Science which I would be definitely doing at home
    Which of the subjects can be studied at home and which can't, due to projects or too hard to understand yourself, I do not plan to get grinds so that is out of the question
    And one more thing what is the LC statistics in HL for German and Italian what of the 2 do people get better grades in ??
    Thanks

    I think you could definitely manage business or economics yourself at home , they both involve sitting down and learning the book, once you follow with the marking scheme online you really just need to learn the course yourself :) If you have any questions i do both of them


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    Dodo Bird
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 88 ✭✭Dodo Bird


    aimzLc2 wrote: »
    I think you could definitely manage business or economics yourself at home , they both involve sitting down and learning the book, once you follow with the marking scheme online you really just need to learn the course yourself :) If you have any questions i do both of them
    Would you say it is easier then biology to do at home
    So is this what I should do in school
    English
    Maths
    Biology
    Chemistry
    Geography(is that not easy to do at home?)

    And then at home-
    Business
    Economics
    Ag. Science


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    spurious
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    DublinArnie wrote: »
    I might do Russian at home :pac: it has one of the highest A percentages for Higher ;).

    That's because a lot of native speakers take it. Many of the Baltic State candidates have their own language and an acceptable enough level of Russian.


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    DublinArnie
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    spurious wrote: »
    That's because a lot of native speakers take it. Many of the Baltic State candidates have their own language and an acceptable enough level of Russian.
    I know, but my mum is fluent in Russian, and she used to be a teacher .. I guess that'll help? :p


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    spurious
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    Dodo Bird wrote: »
    And one more thing what is the LC statistics in HL for German and Italian what of the 2 do people get better grades in ??
    Thanks

    Stats here: http://www.examinations.ie/index.php?l=en&mc=st&sc=r12


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    spurious
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    DublinArnie wrote: »
    I know, but my mum is fluent in Russian, and she used to be a teacher .. I guess that'll help? :p

    Probably. They're very stiff on mistakes in the writing. You would be expected to write lower case Russian, not printed capitals, which I always found much easier to do. The lower case writing is maddening - too many gs instead of ds and ms instead of ts or whatever it was - ps instead of rs?
    My head hurts even thinking about it.


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    DublinArnie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭DublinArnie


    spurious wrote: »
    Probably. They're very stiff on mistakes in the writing. You would be expected to write lower case Russian, not printed capitals, which I always found much easier to do. The lower case writing is maddening - too many gs instead of ds and ms instead of ts or whatever it was - ps instead of rs?
    My head hurts even thinking about it.
    You studied Russian?


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    spurious
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    DublinArnie wrote: »
    You studied Russian?

    Not at school. I did Polish for four years there a few years ago in evening classes in Trinity and then I made some Russian friends and did Russian for a year. I drive them mad saying Russian is just sloppy Polish.


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    DublinArnie
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    spurious wrote: »
    Not at school. I did Polish for four years there a few years ago in evening classes in Trinity and then I made some Russian friends and did Russian for a year. I drive them mad saying Russian is just sloppy Polish.
    Ah! Very interesting :). Czesc! ;)


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    Jijsaw
    Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Jijsaw


    My subjects are all in a muddle the only subjects that I CAN do at the moment are:
    Irish
    English
    Maths
    Geography
    German
    French (out of school)
    And that's it, bloody Business and History are on the same line (I want business for my course in college and history for points) and I refuse to do Chemistry, Biology or Home Ec which were my other options. So unless the school gets it sorted out I have to go to another school :/


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    aimzLc2
    Registered Users Posts: 662 ✭✭✭aimzLc2


    Jijsaw wrote: »
    My subjects are all in a muddle the only subjects that I CAN do at the moment are:
    Irish
    English
    Maths
    Geography
    German
    French (out of school)
    And that's it, bloody Business and History are on the same line (I want business for my course in college and history for points) and I refuse to do Chemistry, Biology or Home Ec which were my other options. So unless the school gets it sorted out I have to go to another school :/

    Can you not do
    Irish
    English
    Maths
    Geography
    German
    French (out of school)and business , 7?


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    aimzLc2
    Registered Users Posts: 662 ✭✭✭aimzLc2


    Dodo Bird wrote: »
    Would you say it is easier then biology to do at home
    So is this what I should do in school
    English
    Maths
    Biology
    Chemistry
    Geography(is that not easy to do at home?)

    And then at home-
    Business
    Economics
    Ag. Science
    Yes! that is just what i would do. Do you really need 8 subjects? personally i think 7 is enough


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    #17
    Jijsaw
    Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Jijsaw


    Nope I have to do 7 subjects in school and I can't do French and German as they are both on the same line as well. My school's annoying :(


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