When did you do the Leaving Cert and how did you do in it?

Galwayguy35 · 06-06-2012 05:44PM #1

I did it in 1992.
Got one honour in history higher level

kincsem · 06-06-2012 05:45PM

1968

southcentralts · 06-06-2012 05:48PM

1999 - passed it only studying the morning of each exam.
honors in accountancy and chemistry.
And yes grammer nazis i ded almouse feil de passe english papar.

DarkJager · 06-06-2012 05:50PM

The one thing I always remember most about my LC was the Irish essay I wrote. Something about a guy off his face on drugs trying to break in to my house so I bust his head with an empty bottle of buckfast. I had no idea what the **** I was writing about, didn't care either though as I hated Irish. I'd say the corrector got some "WTF?" moment reading it

Logical Fallacy · 06-06-2012 05:53PM

1998, 4 A's in Honours subjects, an A and 2 B's in Pass ones.

mikemac1 · 06-06-2012 05:54PM

99

5 Honours, 2 pass

I iz smart

My English essay was plagiarized and learned off word for word from a short story in readers digest

JerryHandbag · 06-06-2012 05:55PM

1995 3 honours and 4 passes, all honours subjects.

And again in 96 when I didnt do a whole let better.

D3 in Honours Maths on both occasions, never in doubt :cool::pac:

herisson · 06-06-2012 05:57PM

2009

5 at honours and 2 at pass!

i actually did well in chemistry which surprised me

The Big Red Button · 06-06-2012 05:58PM

Must be almost ten years ago now! :eek:

Did well in it, 500+ points. Got an A1 in Honours English, after getting Ds all through 5th and 6th year, so was fairly happy with that!

Corruptedmorals · 06-06-2012 05:58PM

2007; 500 points. 6 honours 1 pass (and a really bad pass...D1 pass maths, I am ashamed to put it on the CV/applications that ask for grades). This was the last year that both English papers were on the same day...that takes huge pressure off that they're not anymore. I got an A1 in it all the same

after being a C student for 2 years it was great.

06-06-2012 06:00PM

2001 all honours

would have been worse if i'd been forced to endure 5th year :rolleyes:

Where To · 06-06-2012 06:02PM

1995.

550 points.

Could do the job I'm doing now if I had 0 points.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 06-06-2012 06:03PM

2006

A1s in History and Business. I got high to low B's in AG Science, English, French, Irish. C1 in Maths, I did higher level in everything apart from Maths.

The Big Red Button · 06-06-2012 06:04PM

Where To wrote: »

1995.

550 points.

Could do the job I'm doing now if I had 0 points.

I got similar points, but the course I ended up doing needed around 270 points!

Logical Fallacy · 06-06-2012 06:07PM

chatterpillar wrote: »

I got similar points, but the course I ended up doing needed around 270 points!

In a fair world you would have graduated in half the time.

JuliusCaesar · 06-06-2012 06:15PM

kincsem wrote: »

1968

1975

2 honours. Was all you needed to go to college.

The Snipe · 06-06-2012 06:16PM

Today! :P

Sandy Rhodes · 06-06-2012 06:27PM

About 3 fiddy

Daisy03 · 06-06-2012 06:34PM

Why do people say all honours rather than their points? Never understood this... You can do all honours subjects but get D's but I'd rate an A at ordinary level above this! For the record I did "all honours" in 2007 and got 545 points.

RhubarbCrumble · 06-06-2012 06:34PM

1997. 5 honours, 2 passes. A D2 in pass maths and it was a miracle that I even got that.

southcentralts · 06-06-2012 06:41PM

I remember in the Irish oral exam, being asked a question and not knowing what the hell she was asking. So just stare at her baps and say "is maith liom" (pick various verbs from the question and elaborate wildly) ending in "dul go dti an leithreas"
Must have seemed like a right amadan.

Cunning Stunt · 06-06-2012 06:49PM

1996 - 7 honours - 4 higher level, 3 pass level

Wish I could go back and re-do my CEO choices though. Picked a ****e IT diploma course that only needed under half the points I had. Finished the course but don't even work in IT now...Is it too late to go back to 3rd level education I wonder..??

Mars Bar · 06-06-2012 06:51PM

2007 - did kinda crap. Did pass French, Irish and Maths.

2008 - did better and got the course I wanted. Dropped Maths and did honours French.

cocoshovel · 06-06-2012 06:53PM

2011 (20 now)

All ordinary, and foundation maths. 230 points

mostly got A1's A2's and B's

im invisible · 06-06-2012 06:54PM

did it in 2000 and got two honours, the honour of doing it, and the honour of failing it

no, got a D3 in higher maths, failed higher geography, but got an A1 in higher tech. drawing, so i was happy with that

edit. dont know about anyone else, but i thought an honour was an A, B or C at higher level?

EuropeanSon · 06-06-2012 07:04PM

5A1s, in Maths, Chemistry, Applied Maths, History and Accounting.
B2 in German, B3s in Irish and English. 580 points.
That was in 2010.

Colonel Panic · 06-06-2012 07:21PM

1998 - 2 As, 4 Bs and a C.

The C was in Irish and I went to a Gaelscoil. Oops!

BattleCorp · 06-06-2012 07:21PM

Sorry for derailing the thread but I did my leaving certificate in 1989 with the old fashioned points system. None of this A1, A2, A3 crap. It was either an A, B, C, D.

How does this score nowadays under the new points system?

Do they give you an A1 score if you got an A or what's the story?

woodchuck · 06-06-2012 07:22PM

2003.

510 points, which was way more than I needed. I'm still disappointed with how I did in maths and chemistry though... I was always top of the class for those but just crumbled under the pressure in the exams.

I really think there should be a LOT more emphasis on continuous assessment for everything. Don't know if there has been any change in recent years, but 'back in my day' I think it was just art and home ec that had some projects before the exams that counted towards your final marks.

hairyprincess · 06-06-2012 07:26PM

1996.

And I'm not even going to say what I got reading everyone elses results

Napper Hawkins · 06-06-2012 07:29PM

2002.

I showed up and somehow, by the will of the gods, suppressed the apathy enough to not fail the bastard.

When did you do the Leaving Cert and how did you do in it?

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