Hate to tell you but I went through college, and I have a job in the IT industry - office internet connection means I check the boards a few times a dayOriginally Posted by Peadar
Lazy bastad, go out and get a job
When was the last time you were asked how you did in your Leaving Cert?
Hope you don't ever come to me looking for a job, I'll know that since you found the LC so tough you might struggle with some of the contracts we tackle.
No comments from you Max. Your place was me taking a break after a year and a half in the UK.
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Well my results are on my CV (was told to put them there by some friends in employment agencies), and I usually get asked about them in interviews, I've been working in the same place for just over 2 years now, so I guess the last time I was asked was in that interview.When was the last time you were asked how you did in your Leaving Cert?
Hope you don't ever come to me looking for a job, I'll know that since you found the LC so tough you might struggle with some of the contracts we tackle.
I didn't find the exam itself tough, just all the study and work beforehand took its toll on me.
Surviving in Dublin was tough going at times for me as a student where one day a meal for me consisted of a tin of sweetcorn.
There were 5 from my family in college/university at the same time.
Got through it though and have no regrets.
I really feel for anyone trying to do it now.
However hard it was for me it must be a nightmare now.
If you're ever in a technical interview with me please remove your LC results from your CV along with the paragraph about you working in Francos Pizza Parlour. Experience is what counts.
Last edited by Peadar; 19/08/2004 at 12:47 PM.
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and even better some of us are actually young!
j'accuse!
What was that?
I remember leaving certs talking about in when I was doing my Junior Cert but never heard about it again.
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I'm sure there was a plan somewhere Conor but things don't always go to planNo family planning at all in West Cork...
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Posh student
Ultimately the LC isn't that important but in the short/medium term it will have a lot more impact on career than any exam/result in 3rd level education. The amount of points dictate what you'll do the following year where as college results rarely have such direct impact.
In the end good LC results could be a curse cos might do that course which you hate later.
If i was doing LC would hate the way the media report the results with those straight A crowd when maybe thinks not gone the way you wanted.
I hate the way you get ads in the paper the day after from the like of Bruce College with "so-and-so got 6 A's, join us and do the same". An article on the students that dropped out, or did worse than the previous year wouldn't go astray. I hated those grind schools with a passion when I did it
Meant to say its fine media focusing on high achievers but they'd be the same people reporting all the pressures of the LC a few days later.
The Leaving Certificate structure is all wrong anyway.
It should be more project based with continual assessment.
I loved science subjects, especially physics but the way they teach and examine it removes you very much from practical physics.
It's seen as a subject for nerds who can learn off a formula for this that and the other but there's much more to Physics than that.
I think our focus on European languages and European geography shows clearly that our current education system was designed to pander to the EEC.
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Think I was real lucky to escape UCC before continuous assessment. Very nasty that exams in penultimate year count towards grade cos would mean have to work for 2 years
Me too, I was of the Conor frame of mind.Think I was real lucky to escape UCC before continuous assessment
Do SFA, panic shortly before the exam...
Waste even more time devising 'study plans'...
Falling behind on those the first day...
Draft a new plan....
Panic...
Buy Bottles of Jolt Cola and packets of Halls Soothers and study all night before the exam...
Repeat in the Autumn...
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I loved those plans, coloured coded all laid out...only problem was meant would have to actaully study to implement
hehe, i like you're style. Continuous assessment wouldnt have suited me at all but i suppose i can see the benefits it gives.
Personally, i think college was deadly looking back on it. I did the whole tear the @rse out of it thing for the first three years and then pulled it out of the bag with a bit of a slog in final year. Get the impression though that a bit of work along the way would have made the last year a bit easier. Also, at times, the repeats in autumn were soul-destroying. However, i had some of my best college times during them.
Anyone ever wonder how you could go out every single night of the repeats and still do okay but one night during the summers and you're totally screwed???
"I don’t want to tempt fate, but Thierry Henry is not having one of his best nights." - RTE co-commentator Jim Beglin, minutes before TH struck the stunning winner.
I think I was out every Sunday night of my Leaving Cert year.
I'll be struggling to get to work now if I stay out after 22:00 on a Sunday.
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LC results are relative anyways. I got 320 in my leaving, and was quite happy with it. A buddy of mone got 440 same year, was gutted and repeated.
The entire structure of the LC is totally wrong. Firstly, why does it take 2 months to get the results out there? Secondly, why isnt there a repeat exam structure like 3rd level?
My sister for example did her LC this year. The day before it started, our uncle died suddenly, and just before her last exam she got an absess in her gum, so was taking a load of meds to dull the apin for the exam. Now she still topped 400, but was dissapointed in a few exams, namely those around the times of the above unforeseen problems.
Surely there should be a facility to accomadate this. Not to mention a person could just have a bad day, and have a blank. Why should a person have to repeat a very strrssful year of their life because of a bad day??
Anyway, its not the be all and end all. If a person is willing to work hard, he/she will do well in life regardless of acedemia.
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
Have to agree with Gary
There was a lad in my school who worked hard right through and then got chickenpox a couple of days before the start of the Leaving, they wouldn't let him anywhere near the school for obvious reasons but (not sure if it was down to the school or the dept. of educ.) couldn't organise a separate examiner for him in time for some reason so the only option left to him was to repeat the entire year.
In the year ahead of me a lad broke his arm, and they organised a separate exam set up where he dictated his exam papers, which turned out to be a nightmare for him, and he ended up repeating into my year too though he'd worked hartd, well at least that's what he told us.
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Politics is great, well, it was for us, you'll be doing a different syllabus obviously.Sounds great
Ma bro is doing a medical course to work in the Operating Theatres.
Goo luck to ya Brendy let us know how it goes
Going to Queen's next month so, I done class in the A Levels. I'm pure lurd with meself, did no work for them at all.
Exams are a crap way of measuring a person's intelligence. School is a joke. I've come out of it with cracker results, but I have **** all idea how to survive in the real world. Education my hole!
What did ye get Brendy?
I did good in the leaving without doing much work so it's all good!!
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