What happens if

mr person

What happens if you have 2 exams at the same time for e.g Italian and Ancient Greek are both on the 20th at 1:30

abcdefghijkl

I think whoever draws up the timetables has recorded the exams that each student is doing. Therefore, I presume no one does both Italian and Ancient Greek, so they've slotted them in for the same time.

spurious

They try to design the timetable to minimise overlap, but it occurs sometimes.

You would come in in the morning to a room on your own with the supervisior. Sit the first exam, be supervised over lunch, not allowed leave and then sit the other.

If you already had a morning exam, then you would be supervised at the end of the afternoon exam and sit the second afternoon exam in the evening.

hfallada

Like 10 people do ancient Greek in the entire country

spurious

hfallada wrote: »

Like 10 people do ancient Greek in the entire country

Exactly. It's unlikely one of them also wants to do Italian, but you never know.
I think they got caught out one year putting Russian on against Irish in the Leaving, when in fact many kids of Russian extraction were doing Irish.

CathalRyano

Would this be more common in the leaving cert with the huge amount of subjects there are in the leaving?

cfc.forever

This would be awful for someone who loves languagues xD

Lost In Confusion

abcdefghijkl wrote: »

I think whoever draws up the timetables has recorded the exams that each student is doing. Therefore, I presume no one does both Italian and Ancient Greek, so they've slotted them in for the same time.

on the examinations.ie website it said you're not allowed do those 2 combinations together

dalta5billion

Lost In Confusion wrote: »

on the examinations.ie website it said you're not allowed do those 2 combinations together

I thought it said something about Classical Studies and Latin/Ancient Greek, no?

spurious

I can't see why you wouldn't be allowed do Italian and Ancient Greek, I can't see the overlap, but if that's what the rules say, I suppose it's true.

Anyway, where there's a clash, you sit the exam and have a break supervisied.

ScummyMan

This is happening for a fella in my school, he does Classical Studies and Construction which are on at the same time. I believe he is doing them one after the other as Spurious said.