What do you consider as high points?

genericgoon · 16-06-2007 04:19PM

But there are schools with fees and thus its not really a fair playing field and thus we should all be outraged because some posh twit who can afford better education might get a place in lieu of a hard worker but who has access to a lower quality education. And so we should all become communists or something and kill all the rich people . Oh wait..... nevermind

cson · 16-06-2007 04:27PM

A communist type education system wouldn't imo be a bad thing. That way you couldn't buy your leaving cert etc and everyone would be assessed on an equal basis. I know I'm going to get flamed for this because as soon as anyone sees the word 'communist' they get visions of stalinist soviet union.

This is getting off topic anyway. As far as I'm concerned leaving cert students should only care about what they themselves get, not what others get.

eZe^ · 16-06-2007 04:51PM

Subjective question tbh... The national average is around 300 isnt it?

Personally an average leaving is between 350 and 450
good leaving is around 450 to 500
great leaving is 500 to 530
excellent leaving is 530 and upwards

Limerick Dude · 16-06-2007 04:57PM

Well the way I see it all depends on how many honour subjetcs you are doing.

But if your ignoring that id take 300-350 as average
350-400 would be good
400-500 would be great.
500+ would be excellent!

Im hoping to get 400 points and if i get that or anythin higher, i will be over the moon!

Rojo · 16-06-2007 06:12PM

I gotta say, as obvious as it is, at the end of the day points don't matter as long as you get your course. I know a good few people who worked themselves to the bone and got over 500 points and chose arts. For me, I just think that's plain fúcking weird... Why go to all that extra bother?

spongebobgirl · 16-06-2007 06:17PM

It's all relative really... it depends on your natural talents, the level of crap you've been through over the two years, and of course the course you're going for! For me, anything below 560 is baaaaad... I wanna be a dentist!

kisaragi · 16-06-2007 06:26PM

Rojo wrote:

I gotta say, as obvious as it is, at the end of the day points don't matter as long as you get your course. I know a good few people who worked themselves to the bone and got over 500 points and chose arts. For me, I just think that's plain fúcking weird... Why go to all that extra bother?

Even if I wanted to do arts I'd still work hard to do my best... You might as well give it your all. And maybe they weren't expecting 500 points?

JC 2K3 · 16-06-2007 06:30PM

Rojo wrote:

I gotta say, as obvious as it is, at the end of the day points don't matter as long as you get your course. I know a good few people who worked themselves to the bone and got over 500 points and chose arts. For me, I just think that's plain fúcking weird... Why go to all that extra bother?

In practical terms? Think of the scholorship grants....

And what if you wanted to change your course if you didn't like it?

Also, there's nothing wrong with working towards high points for the prestige of it, and if you've been in school for 6 years, you kinda want something to show for it.

And did you ever consider that they might like learning?

Jayeire · 16-06-2007 07:05PM

Anything above 540 seems high to me, any lower and I jst consider points in terms of a percentage of 600 pts. eg. 300 =50% . Now if u saw 50% as an exam result , would you b pleased?

Nehpets · 16-06-2007 07:26PM

Jayeire wrote:

Anything above 540 seems high to me, any lower and I jst consider points in terms of a percentage of 600 pts. eg. 300 =50% . Now if u saw 50% as an exam result , would you b pleased?

If 50% got you your course I don't think you would be too disappointed to be honest.

A person who got 89% but didn't get their course would be a lot more disappointed

ashlingm · 16-06-2007 07:49PM

just so you all know the average points is between 200 and 300.......so really anything above that shud be high. however i too wud consider 400+ to be high

Selphie · 16-06-2007 09:04PM

No. I think the average is over three hundred... between that and 370 or so anyway. I'd consider over 450ish to be pretty high, but it all depends on what you yourself want. Like, I think 450 is high, but if I got that, I'd be crushed because I need at least sixty points more to get my course...