How many higher level subjects you doing?

english4490 · 08-06-2009 6:41pm #1

just interested to see how many subjects people are doing higher level in!:rolleyes:

Amirani · 08-06-2009 6:43pm

6

All 7 of mine are higher.

Nihilist21 · 08-06-2009 6:44pm

5

6 higher and OL Irish.

Jello · 08-06-2009 6:45pm

5

6 higher and OL Maths.

Lucet · 08-06-2009 6:46pm

5

6 higher and 2 ordinary (maths and accounting, both dropped in sixth year

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Twinkle-star15 · 08-06-2009 6:47pm

5

All higher except maths. Kinda sorry I didn't do honours, I only dropped down because I was doing 9 subjects- I'm only doing 7 now.

Piste · 08-06-2009 6:48pm

7

8, all higher

~Candy~ · 08-06-2009 6:50pm

6

7 higher.. one pass..--> English

Fad · 08-06-2009 6:51pm

6

7 out of 8.

Tempted to drop to OL French though!

Topsnakebite · 08-06-2009 6:52pm

lol i feel so out of place saying all pass

Daemos · 08-06-2009 7:00pm

6

niallsparky wrote: »

All 7 of mine are higher.

Same

phasers · 08-06-2009 7:03pm

4

OL Maths and Irish, 5 Higher.

MrPirate · 08-06-2009 7:03pm

6

7 honours and math at OL.

BLARG · 08-06-2009 7:05pm

6

7. Slashed Irish as it was unnecessary stress, with any work at all I could have gotten a high C, maybe even a B. But I'll settle for a hopeful A1 in pass.

Isaac702 · 08-06-2009 7:05pm

4

5 Higher level subjects and ordinary level Maths and Irish.

08-06-2009 7:06pm

6

7 higher: English, maths., physics, chemistry, applied maths., geography and tech. graphics (or DCG or whatever they call it these days).
1 ordinary: Irish.

ironclaw · 08-06-2009 7:07pm

7

8 Honours. Its fun being me at the moment

ya-ba-da-ba-doo · 08-06-2009 7:07pm

5

6 higher and pass irish.. Do lcvp too but thats common! :-)

bythewoods · 08-06-2009 7:08pm

6

Yeah, 7 at higher level.

A friend of mine's actually doing 9 Higher Level- bet he'd be horrified he's not catered for in this poll!
(If he actually had time to go online that is :P)

TheManWho · 08-06-2009 7:08pm

5

Six highers and ord Irish, I regret not taking one or two extras outside of school, with just six there's no room for mistakes

tootyflutty · 08-06-2009 7:10pm

5

6 honours and pass maths :P
should have tried the honours there too, but I probably would have dropped down at some stage or another so didn't see any point trying form the start :P

xOxSinéadxOx · 08-06-2009 7:17pm

6

doing all 7 higher. might do pass french though, haven't decided yet!!!

LivingDeadGirl · 08-06-2009 7:23pm

6

7 all higher.

Mr Maroon · 08-06-2009 7:27pm

3

phasers wrote: »

OL Maths and Irish, 5 Higher.

Same.

ayumi · 08-06-2009 7:27pm

2

read the q wrong I do 3 ORD and 4 higher

christina_x · 08-06-2009 7:29pm

4

phasers wrote: »

OL Maths and Irish, 5 Higher.

same! when it comes to irish, im quite silly:o

galway.gaa · 08-06-2009 7:31pm

5

whats the point of doin more then 6? i do 6 higher. you only count 6 so whats the point of doin the extra work. can someone tell me why there doin more then 6?

08-06-2009 7:35pm

6

galway.gaa wrote: »

whats the point of doin more then 6? i do 6 higher. you only count 6 so whats the point of doin the extra work. can someone tell me why there doin more then 6?

It adds a bit of safety; if one of your papers goes badly wrong you've got a backup.

english4490 · 08-06-2009 7:35pm

4

Fad wrote: »

Tempted to drop to OL French though!

i'm really thinking of doing it!!

xOxSinéadxOx · 08-06-2009 7:38pm

6

galway.gaa wrote: »

whats the point of doin more then 6? i do 6 higher. you only count 6 so whats the point of doin the extra work. can someone tell me why there doin more then 6?

tbh I don't really know why I am, I always wanted to do just 6 but I never could decide which one to drop, I was leaning towards irish but now I'm so glad I didn't cos it's actually so easy. then was thinking maths, but then I picked a course that needs higher maths, now I'm thinking of doing pass french now! to and fro eh? I don't see the point of doing more than 6 either

Daemos · 08-06-2009 7:39pm

6

ayumi wrote: »

read the q wrong I do 3 ORD and 4 higher

I'm guessing English ain't one of your Honours then?

Antamojo · 08-06-2009 7:52pm

5

6 out of 7
Hate French. BTW OL is piss easy

Jack Sheehan · 08-06-2009 7:52pm

5

6 higher, two ordinary, Irish and German.

Hate languages.

VinnyTGM · 08-06-2009 7:53pm

5

6 higher and 2 ordinary level.

english4490 · 08-06-2009 8:21pm

4

at the moment 5 honours and 2 pass... that may change yet...french!

Twilighter · 08-06-2009 8:32pm

5

6 HL, 1 OL (Maths)

Fince · 08-06-2009 8:48pm

5

BLARG wrote: »

7. Slashed Irish as it was unnecessary stress, with any work at all I could have gotten a high C, maybe even a B. But I'll settle for a hopeful A1 in pass.

i like your style. did the same with french because my oral was fairly poor. decided i'd be better off dedicating the time to 6 honours that i enjoy/understand/can get good grades in.

SligoBrewer · 08-06-2009 8:53pm

6

7, all honours.

Dumbledore · 08-06-2009 8:56pm

5

I do 6 with lower maths. What is the most anyone knows is doing? A guy in my year is doing 9 HL!!!! And he picked 2 of them up just before the deadline in March("just for the banter"). He is a banker for 600 though so he can manage it.

Hoku · 08-06-2009 8:58pm

7

I win! 9 Honours, including Irish.
Whether I get decent grades for all those subjects, now that's a different matter.

almostnever · 08-06-2009 8:59pm

6

7,all at honours.

Dumbledore · 08-06-2009 9:13pm

5

Hoku wrote: »

I win! 9 Honours, including Irish.
Whether I get decent grades for all those subjects, now that's a different matter.

I am very impressed, but if you say you may not be able to get decent grades in them all, why would you not just drop 3 of them and give yourself more time to work on the remaining 6?

SarcasticFairy · 08-06-2009 9:17pm

6

7 at HL.
Should have done OL Maths.
Would love to be doing OL French.

Hoku · 08-06-2009 9:25pm

7

Well, one of them is a guaranteed A1 - Russian. Everything else, with the exception of English and Irish, I'm aiming for A1/A2. I'm confident that I know the course well enough for Maths, Physics, Chemistry and to a lesser extent Geography to get me 500+ points.

Pygmalion · 08-06-2009 9:40pm

4

English, Irish and French Ordinary.

Other 5 of my subjects higher, but no idea if I expect to pass Applied Maths, never took a class on it.

JW91 · 08-06-2009 9:54pm

5

I do 6 honours myself.
I'm doing honours Maths, Irish, English, Physics, Accounting and Chemistry.
I'm doing pass French.

I honestly can't understand why people do 8 higher level. It's completley over the top. I can understand doing 7 in case 1 of them goes wrong but there's hardly much chance of 2 going wrong.
You'd be much better off concentrating on 6 and having 1 good back up.

As far as I'm concerned most people that are doing 8 or 9 higher level subjects are just doing it too show off and possibly get their picture in the paper in August for their 8/9 A1's.

It's absolutley no advantage to you whatsoever to get 9 A1's as opposed to getting 6 A1's

Hoku · 08-06-2009 10:12pm

7

9 subjects isn't hard to put together when you come from abroad and have another language. That's my case anyway.
Instead of wasting my time in Religion which isn't going to be examined anyway, I took up Russian to guarantee the A1 for that subject.

The other 'extra' subject is Applied Maths which, at the time, I thought was a lot like Physics. Obviously a bad assumption to make... But the subject is still do-able with Honours Physics and Maths there to back me up for it.

-ME- · 08-06-2009 11:12pm

5

Six HL: English, French, German, History, Music and Art and OL Maths. Kind wish i had a seventh as a back- up though.

errlloyd · 08-06-2009 11:23pm

5

I have mates applying to UKAS who will have a better chance with 8 A1s than with 6...

Reilly616 · 08-06-2009 11:46pm

6

Hoku wrote: »

9 subjects isn't hard to put together when you come from abroad and have another language. That's my case anyway.
Instead of wasting my time in Religion which isn't going to be examined anyway, I took up Russian to guarantee the A1 for that subject.

The other 'extra' subject is Applied Maths which, at the time, I thought was a lot like Physics. Obviously a bad assumption to make... But the subject is still do-able with Honours Physics and Maths there to back me up for it.

Nothing personal, and great for you, but I do hate that students originally from abroad usually get a guaranteed A1. I always thought there should be speific language tests for native speakers, ie; we do german, but a person fluent in German should have a German paper similar to our English.
Though I do realise the logistics of that would be horrible :P

RetroRainbow · 09-06-2009 5:29am

5

Six higher, one pass.

That pass being Maths.

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