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Plunket College - what's it like to repeat Leaving Cert

  • 01-06-2010 02:34PM
    #1
    jonnycash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭


    Going back to repeat Honours Irish and another Honours subject in the leaving cert in Sept. Would love to go to the Institute but it's working out €1345 for Irish alone and €900 for the other subject compared with €748 + materials/books etc in Plunket for the two subjects. But with the institute you get mock exams and you also dont need to get materials and books. No mock exams in Plunket. I know you only get out what you put in, in terms of revision and participation etc. but has anyone had first hand experience of Plunket and repeating the leaving there? Any information/suggestions welcome. I'm in fulltime employment so not eligible for VTOS or BTEA funding etc, have to fund this myself.


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  • #2
    dory
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,681 Mod ✭✭✭✭dory


    jonnycash wrote: »
    Going back to repeat Honours Irish and another Honours subject in the leaving cert in Sept. Would love to go to the Institute but it's working out €1345 for Irish alone and €900 for the other subject compared with €748 + materials/books etc in Plunket for the two subjects. But with the institute you get mock exams and you also dont need to get materials and books. No mock exams in Plunket. I know you only get out what you put in, in terms of revision and participation etc. but has anyone had first hand experience of Plunket and repeating the leaving there? Any information/suggestions welcome. I'm in fulltime employment so not eligible for VTOS or BTEA funding etc, have to fund this myself.

    Institute might well be the same here but I've tutored a few people who did theirs in Plunkett and just so you know it's like a lecture in college. You are loaded with info for 2 - 3 hours, your arm will be wrecked after it, but at no stage are you given a chance to speak Irish, which is very important for the oral obviously. The class was so big that they didn't really get to ask questions either.

    My students all got through but they said it was largely due to the conversational classes they took with Conradh na Gaeilge and then extra classes with me.

    Another one of my students did it with Kilroys. Way cheaper, but hard to do it on your own. The only thing he really got from it was his essays corrected.

    I don't know which is best really, I think Plunkett and Institute will both take in a lot of people to make the money from it, so you'd really better start looking at other ways to practice speaking. Get books, tapes whatever. Good luck!


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