How many points did you get in your Leaving Cert?

Stheno · 29-05-2014 05:52PM

23

Back when the max was 30

shruikan2553 · 29-05-2014 05:54PM

Aimed for 400, got 405. Needed them to get into my course and since then they have done nothing.

Penny Tration · 29-05-2014 05:55PM

540, iirc.

Came down to having a good memory, because I'm not particularly intelligent.

It did feck all for me. I studied Environmental Science, hated it, left.

Now, I'm going back to college in September, and my points don't matter a jot because I'm 25.

Hotale.com · 29-05-2014 05:55PM

0 because I was on boards talking ****e too much

Doylers · 29-05-2014 05:58PM

355, im **** at remembering stuff I dont care about. Now im kicking ass in the subjects I like in college and failing programming with style :cool::cool:

charlietheminxx · 29-05-2014 06:00PM

440.... For all the good it did me! I think I could have done better if I actually out some work in. Which is probably why I crashed out of my degree.

zl1whqvjs75cdy · 29-05-2014 06:22PM

Whatever the highest score in this thread is +5.

wandatowell · 29-05-2014 06:24PM

Just below 400 which is about average.

Average sums up my whole existence which is o.k. with me.

smileyj1987 · 29-05-2014 06:39PM

325 and I spent most of my school days in trouble or suspended .

Legs.Eleven · 29-05-2014 06:40PM

No option for "loads"?

mickydoomsux · 29-05-2014 06:44PM

300 and something. In my defence, I did study for it at the time by playing my way through Final Fantasy 8 on the PS1.

Pherekydes · 29-05-2014 06:52PM

Nuttin'. Zero. A big fat duck egg. A washout. I didn't do it! :pac:

I left school at 17 after 4 years of secondary and joined the army. I can't even claim an 'A' in Inter cert maths. But I can (could) hit a bullseye at 300m.

Rory Gallagher · 29-05-2014 07:03PM

I haven't done the leaving yet but I already got my points.
Five billion.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 29-05-2014 07:20PM

We didn't have points at all. You needed honours in particular subjects to enter courses. A grades were as rare as hen's teeth in those days too.

everlast75 · 29-05-2014 07:21PM

I enjoyed doing the leaving cert so much, I repeated it

umop.episdn · 29-05-2014 07:23PM

I can't remember

Umadbrah? · 29-05-2014 07:24PM

I haven't done it yet but I will probably get <200

maguic24 · 29-05-2014 07:24PM

Umadbrah? wrote: »

I haven't done it yet but I will probably get <200

Are you doing it this year...as in starting on wednesday?

29-05-2014 07:26PM

I did A levels. They're worth eleventy squillion points in Gaeilge.

umop.episdn · 29-05-2014 07:27PM

Candie wrote: »

I did A levels. They're worth eleventy squillion points in Gaeilge.

Everyone knows English A levels are on a par with our preschool mála exams.

wotzgoingon · 29-05-2014 07:28PM

I never done the leaving. I left after the junior cert.

29-05-2014 07:29PM

umop.episdn wrote: »

Everyone knows English A levels are on a par with our preschool mála exams.

Everyone who didn't do them

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ToddyDoody · 29-05-2014 07:30PM

I got 290 then repeated and got 425. I found the whole thing a bit too fast for me the first time round.. the extra year helped.

In terms of effect on my life... it probably allowed me to be more of a liberal than might have been allowed had I gotten less points and gone to a local I.T. or gone straight into work or a trade.

HugsiePie · 29-05-2014 07:58PM

Vito Corleone wrote: »

Oh yeah, I went there. I asked. Whup whup! I'm drunk but I don't care, how many points did you get? I got over 500. :cool:

What's your epenis?

How did it affect your life?

What happened to the remaining 125 points

:pac:

For shame OP

29-05-2014 08:01PM

I got 570. Last thing I ever did well at.

The biggest effect Leaving Cert had on me was that it misled me into thinking that rote-learning a load of notes and regurgitating them on the day of an exam was the same thing as actually being smart. Third level was a bit of a disaster as I realised I was nowhere near as clever as I had been led to believe I was. So much for the PhD or prestigious career I thought I was set for.....can't even land a job interview for low level positions these days 'cause my CV now just screams "useless underachiever".

29-05-2014 08:24PM

Can' remember. Fcuk all but enough to do an apprenticeship. Ended up doing ok after all of it. The LC isn't all its cracked up to be

not1but4 · 30-05-2014 12:22PM

330 and I was shocked I got so high. Nobody was doing my course at the time (2006) so I was able to get into a good University with it and ended up getting a 2.1.

Now I earn more money then a lot of the people who got over 500 points.

Supergurrier · 30-05-2014 12:27PM

385

ewinslet · 30-05-2014 12:47PM

So currently, less than a third of those who voted in this poll are not complete and utter retards, given how easy the LC is nowadays.

Hande hoche! · 30-05-2014 01:31PM

ewinslet wrote: »

So currently, less than a third of those who voted in this poll are not complete and utter retards, given how easy the LC is nowadays.

You don't have to do foundation level.

How many points did you get in your Leaving Cert?

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