Leaving Cert 2016/17 Off-Topic Thread

carefulnowted

matthew1998 wrote: »

Will I see you at the open day tomorrow ?

Not if I see you first! We'll have to develop some sort of communication technique...smoke signals maybe :pac:

Mr Rhode Island Red

Funny how I probably passed a few of ye in NUIG today and I will never be the wiser :pac:

Thought it was pretty good though...went to the podiatry, speech therapy, medicine and biomedical science lectures, managed to talk to a few profs, and got a good look around campus. Cleared up a few questions I had anyway.

Nobody seemed to know if the academic scholarship cut-off will still be 560 points with the new points scale though...I'll probably e-mail admissions.

Couldn't believe how packed it was. Nearly passed out from the heat in a few of them lecture halls :pac:

carefulnowted

I actually enjoyed the open day! I was wrecked after, though...all that walking :pac: The tour of Corrib Village was very interesting, I thought.

matthew1998

carefulnowted wrote: »

I actually enjoyed the open day! I was wrecked after, though...all that walking :pac: The tour of Corrib Village was very interesting, I thought.

i ended up walking to corrib village and couldn't find any tour! :rolleyes:

carefulnowted

matthew1998 wrote: »

i ended up walking to corrib village and couldn't find any tour! :rolleyes:

I walked as well...can't believe a 10 minute walk felt so long :pac: What'd you think of the open day overall?

padraigmck

You know you're in 6th year when you find out when your orals are on.....
They run from the 27th March till 7th April 2017

BadBannana

padraigmck wrote: »

You know you're in 6th year when you find out when your orals are on.....
They run from the 27th March till 7th April 2017

Oh goodie

EireLemon

Does anyone know if you pay the full fee for college or do the government pay half or something? I thought you had to pay the full price like 6000 euro for UCD/TCD every year but my career guidance teacher claimed I was wrong.

BadBannana

EireLemon wrote: »

Does anyone know if you pay the full fee for college or do the government pay half or something? I thought you had to pay the full price like 6000 euro for UCD/TCD every year but my career guidance teacher claimed I was wrong.

The government subsidies college fees. The number advertised on the university website is how much you pay on top of this subsidy.

Basically cough up 6k if it says 6k

Bored_lad

EireLemon wrote: »

Does anyone know if you pay the full fee for college or do the government pay half or something? I thought you had to pay the full price like 6000 euro for UCD/TCD every year but my career guidance teacher claimed I was wrong.

You pay the registration fee which is €3000, this is only for your first degree however. If you drop out and return to college you will pay full fees.

spurious

The above depends on nationality and time spent living here etc..

smiles_1998

Is anyone else on here genuinely worried that they're not going to get their courses covered if these strikes go ahead?!

Manutd_4life

smiles_1998 wrote: »

Is anyone else on here genuinely worried that they're not going to get their courses covered if these strikes go ahead?!

Yeah that came to my mind as well today after hearing that there could be 7 days of strikes, which is ridiculous!!!!

Here's the article for anyone who hasn't heard: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/secondary-teachers-announce-seven-days-of-strike-action-1.2830190

Really hope this doesn't happen

padraigmck

smiles_1998 wrote: »

Is anyone else on here genuinely worried that they're not going to get their courses covered if these strikes go ahead?!

Our Higher Level maths class could do with the 7 classes that we could be possibly missing.....

spurious

...and how many classes missed for Open Days and similar?

Don't stress. The ridiculous thing about many Irish teachers is that instead of looking after their pay and conditions, they often offer extra classes in their own time to help students catch or keep up. It happened before and it will again.

Nobody remembers that when they are teacher-bashing though.

legocrazy505

spurious wrote: »

...and how many classes missed for Open Days and similar?

Don't stress. The ridiculous thing about many Irish teachers is that instead of looking after their pay and conditions, they often offer extra classes in their own time to help students catch or keep up. It happened before and it will again.

Nobody remembers that when they are teacher-bashing though.

This, last year without any strikes at all we had extra accounting and maths classes during the year at lunch time and the accounting teacher would even run some classes after school or on Saturday to anyone struggling.

People are quick to complain about teachers but the vast majority go above and beyond day in, day out to ensure their students get the best education. These strikes won't change that, teachers know your LC is an important event and they aren't going to do anything that would hinder your results.

BadBannana

Be grand. I was doing a bit of calendar work today and realised I only have five weeks until the Christmas exams.

It looks like the Halloween midterm will be a studious one

Consonata

matthew1998 wrote: »

Just thinking there.... An important thing for suits is the fit of them might be difficult to find

*Looks at Suit*

*Checks weight*


....


Gym it is. Gym it is.

Manutd_4life

With the way the ASTI strikes are planned out at the moment as well as my school calendar, I will be having a two week holiday instead of one week which is great

A lot of work to get done though but happy that the first term is finally ending.

Liordi

I'm scared that the first term is drawing to a close. It's always the longest term yet it seems to have gone by rapidly.

carefulnowted

No strike days off for me

I'm so glad it's the weekend. One week left and then I'm finished.

VG31

carefulnowted wrote: »

No strike days off for me

Are no teachers in your school in the ASTI?

carefulnowted

VG31 wrote: »

Are no teachers in your school in the ASTI?

Nope!

Consonata

ETB (New name for VEC) schools are almost entirely TUI so they aren't effected by the strikes at all.

BadBannana

What do you guys do outside of schoolwork these days? To keep sane

Mr Rhode Island Red

Anybody else having bother with the comparative question in English? Our teacher is insisting that we choose the General Vision and Viewpoint essay as opposed to the theme or issue essay. I just find it tricky to write for the GV+V essay because they're so damn vague...I just feel like my answers would have more focus if I went with theme or issue.

Liordi

We've only done The Great Gatsby for comparative so far and my we only did notes on Gatsby's character. :rolleyes:

Ponguin

Surely you're covering at least two of the 3 modes?

Nyctolust

I find the vision and viewpoint questions so awkward/vague as well. I'll be trying to practice them throughout the year to get a feel for them a bit more, but really I'd rather stick with theme and even literary genre. What comparative texts are you doing?

Liordi

Nyctolust wrote: »

I find the vision and viewpoint questions so awkward/vague as well. I'll be trying to practice them throughout the year to get a feel for them a bit more, but really I'd rather stick with theme and even literary genre. What comparative texts are you doing?

We're doing The Great Gatsby, Foster & The King's Speech but we've only finished Gatsby.