How many points did you get in your leaving cert?

ILoveYourVibes · 18-08-2019 12:07AM

490 Yes i did nothing.

why?

People always lie about this stuff anyways. Or they don't remember accurately.

My brother got 580.

looksee · 18-08-2019 11:09AM

Reading though this thread it seems that the poll is irrelevant as a lc from 20 or 30 years ago would be a much smaller number than now, it doesn't prove anything.

ronanmurphy98 · 18-08-2019 06:56PM

560 on my second attempt, got Law in Trinity. 7 points off Law and Political Science but I sincerely doubt it will fall in the second round. Studied at home for the year, spend a few months in the US.
Secondary school, while often an arena of motivation, is a highly inefficient system of education. That said, homeschooling is definitely not for everyone, and I didn't really "start" until January.
455 last year but that was before I heard of the Trinity Matric (in Geology and Biblical Studies) and I had a full-on panic attack in English. Be grand though, everything worked out

Stheno · 18-08-2019 06:59PM

24

L1011 · 19-08-2019 08:31AM

Low 300s. Probably had the effort for 450+ cut out from under me due to dyspraxic handwriting and no scribe.

Got a 1.1 in a college course that didn't require handwriting! Didn't take the CAO offer I got and went back years later to get it

kevcos · 19-08-2019 08:58AM

A lowly 325 points.

I got an A1 in Construction Studies and didn't even take the class in school, just did the project at home and sat the exam, so I'm proud of that!

partyguinness · 19-08-2019 02:32PM

480 back in 97. I had a B3 to spare.

25 pts above my first choice course. The course jumped to well over 500 pts a few short years later and still is.

The max you got in 97 was 630 with bonus honors math (A1). Gave up the honors math ghost at Christmas. Wasting my time when I was not studying math going forward. Affecting my other subjects.

Difference between honors math and pass was unbelievable. LC pass math was such a shock as in so easy almost infantile..my first few classes I thought "This can't be right. It can't be this easy." Honors Junior Cert was harder.

AirAmp2019 · 19-08-2019 02:33PM

Deleted User wrote: »

40 more than I needed and I still regret that extra effort.

Same.

rainbow kirby · 19-08-2019 03:04PM

570 points in 2002, A1s in maths, applied maths, physics and chemistry. Went to UCD, started out studying maths, dropped out in third year and then switched to CS. Took a year out before final year to work as well so took me seven years to grind a degree out, did a masters then after that and rejected a PhD offer. I've been working as a software developer pretty much since I finished the masters so it's worked out in the end for me.

It's still a bit mad to think that the LC was 17 years ago.

bitofabind · 19-08-2019 04:53PM

510. Should've been a lot higher as I was a total A+ nerd up til Junior Cert, then somewhat dropped the ball. Vanity points anyway, needed about 450 for my media course when ended up taking me around the world and then landed me in a Tech Sales role which I side-stepped into about 4 years ago. Finally started making the big bucks.

Working about 12 years now and have not once, in a single interview, been asked about my degree let alone my LC results (I live abroad, noone would have a notion what I'm talking about). My currency has always been previous work experience and contacts.

19-08-2019 05:13PM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Would that not turn into the “situation” we have with the driving test centres where people pick the ones with the highest pass rate...except with schools?

It probably "would" Emmet:pac:

But I see that as a positive thing. Lets redistribute students of all classes and abilities across the school system on a more equitable basis.

First we redistribute the students
Then we redistribute their parents' assets
Vive la Revolution.

ixoy · 19-08-2019 05:22PM

partyguinness wrote: »

The max you got in 97 was 630 with bonus honors math (A1).

There were no bonus points for maths in 1997, which is when I did it too. I'd have got 545 if there were.

19-08-2019 05:41PM

ixoy wrote: »

There were no bonus points for maths in 1997, which is when I did it too. I'd have got 545 if there were.

The nice thing is, it applies to all Leaving Certs in retrospect.

You do have 545 points, even if that's of no use to you now!

L1011 · 19-08-2019 05:42PM

ixoy wrote: »

There were no bonus points for maths in 1997, which is when I did it too. I'd have got 545 if there were.

Specific colleges gave bonus points, it wasn't CAO-wide

fmpisces · 19-08-2019 11:57PM

Fair play to all the brainiacs!

In '94 I got 285, in '95 I got 335.

partyguinness · 20-08-2019 11:43AM

L1011 wrote: »

Specific colleges gave bonus points, it wasn't CAO-wide

Yes that was it. I think it was just UCD (to help guys to get into veterinary science) and UL but open to correction.

I dropped down to Pass a few months previous and was not applying to those colleges anyway so I wasn't paying too much attention.

howareyakid · 21-08-2019 09:43PM

Got 480 points in 2009. It was enough to get into primary teaching which is what I thought I wanted. I’m currently at a point where I think it could be the time for a change and, to be honest, I still don’t know what I want to do. I think the LC is important but my advice to anybody would be to not let it define you or put too much into it. It doesn’t in any way guarantee success.

voldejoie · 21-08-2019 09:56PM

590 in 2009, before the bonus for honours maths came back. My first choice course required 565* points in 2008, meaning that some applicants with those points weren't accepted, so I was targeting 570+. The points ended up falling a bit, I think to 550 or so!

Had the time of my life in college but it's mad to think it was this time ten years ago I was getting ready to to go!

Dickie10 · 21-08-2019 11:19PM

would u have any qualms about your child being taught by someone who got less than 250 poiints?

antimatterx · 21-08-2019 11:20PM

245 5 years ago. I work as a software engineer now.

Thankfully school isn’t the be all and end all.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 21-08-2019 11:31PM

L1011 wrote: »

Specific colleges gave bonus points, it wasn't CAO-wide

The year I did it, only UL offered bonus points but before that, there was a time where it was CAO-wide.

Raconteuse · 21-08-2019 11:36PM

Dickie10 wrote: »

would u have any qualms about your child being taught by someone who got less than 250 poiints?

I wouldn't, as they'd have to do well in college to get the teaching diploma.

diusmr8a504cvk · 21-08-2019 11:37PM

In general, about six.

spurious · 21-08-2019 11:38PM

In the olden days, the system topped out at (as far as I remember) 30. There were university courses you could get into with 12 points and Medicine was 26. I think I got 23 or so.

Raconteuse · 21-08-2019 11:41PM

It was 32. Both my brothers wanted to do law, only a year between them. One waltzed it with 28, the other just scraped it with a second round place on 26 points.

That was when the system was coming to an end though.

Rubberchikken · 21-08-2019 11:47PM

never did it.
circumstances got in the way.

ive always worked but maybe if id had a LC things would have been different. who knows!

i dont dwell on it. i wouldnt be impressed by high LC points. and i wouldnt judge someobe with lower ones.
education is important but without drice ambition etc results are meaningless.

Richard Hillman · 21-08-2019 11:52PM

I lost my results on the night. Have no idea why I brought them out with me, so I don't remember the actual score.

I did terribly but scraped a pass in all my subjects. I got Less than 100 points even though I didn't turn up for the last 6 months. I had no post school plans, so just getting a basic pass was good enough to keep the family off my back.

I eventually went to college as a mature student, got a degree. That led to nothing, so it was all a waste of time and a lot of money :pac:

JMMCapital · 22-08-2019 12:26AM

420

Graces7 · 22-08-2019 08:10AM

8 O levels, 3 A levels... In old money!

mondeo · 22-08-2019 09:00AM

I got zero points because I didn't do my leaving cert. Had to leave school in 5th year back in 2000' and get a job because of problems at home. One of those things that had to be done.

How many points did you get in your leaving cert?

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