r/leavingcert

I need to get over 450 points in the leaving cert, im hoping to apply for Occupational therapy.

Required:

- HL math -OL irish -HL english

Top four chosen:

-HL Home economics -HL French (😭) -HL Biology -HL Art

Three extra chosen (incase school can’t provide top four):

-HL Agricultural science -HL Geography -I don't know yet

So like how hard are they and what other subjects are easy would you say, also advice on when to begin studying each and how is greatly appreciated!

I’m a fifth year student who is going into sixth year this August who still hasn’t a clue what she’d like to do next year - anyways i got 519 points in my summer exams and I haven’t started studying over the summer yet, is it really worth it ?? Im somebody who needs to spend hours studying basic things so i feel like i would benefit from it but I’m not too sure..

Any advice would be greatly appreciated and the level of education I’ve received in some subjects is giving me false hope too so i feel like it might be a good idea…

So I’ve a dilemma.

I can either do a Traineeship in Aircraft Maintenance starting in October, or go to uni in September to do Electrical Engineering.

I love planes and manual work, but the hours can be rough in places, and while career progression is possible, it can be difficult.

Electrical Engineering I know less about, but out of hundreds of courses I’ve looked at, it seems the most fun and interesting. Work-life balance seems better (AFAIK), and career progression is slightly better.

Traineeship:

• Move out of home into an apartment/room
• No SUSI
• Pay is €100 a week for the first 3 months (then goes up to ~€300, and ~€450 by month 11)
• 2 years long, and I come out with a Cat A licence
• I’d be doing something I know I love

Uni:

• Accommodation already guaranteed
• SUSI coverage that just about covers accommodation
• Obviously the uni experience is better than an ETB
• Engineering keeps more doors open

Everyone says “find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life”, but in this day and age, work-life balance and salary basically mean everything.

Someone I know suggested doing both, but I don’t want to waste 2/4 years doing something just to not end up using it.

Engineering keeps doors open, while the traineeship is a commitment to one career for life unless I go back into education.

what the title saysss

i thought mental health nursing was niche but apparently not i hear sm ppl have it on their cao and im starting to panic tbh cus it’s my backup option if i don’t get general nursing. SOMEONE GIVE ME SOME REASSURANCE PLS

do art teachers mark extremely harshly compared to the real lc im by far not the best in my class but they mark super low im really worried for the real lc i need h2 but aiming for h1 I got h3 at Christmas and h4 at summer my art history is relatively good so that is not dragging my grade down

does anyone have any adviced for improvement or gone up multiple grades from school exams to real leaving cert

Any other 5th years have no clue what to do for their science AACs?

Everything I look at either seems too difficult or too simple.

Anyone have any ideas?

We yes WE
Feel free to say how many points you think you got aswell (ofc you don’t need to tho)

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Okay just to start, I know this is totally my fault. I just need to vent but I feel like I overshot on the CAO and it somehow only dawned on me now that I could very likely not get any of my top choices. My “safety” choices (which aren’t even that safe tbh) are two of the humanities joint honour type courses in UCD (DN520 and DN530), but now I’m worried I won’t get a space in them. I think I might get around 480 points, and those two courses have like 400(?) spaces in total between the two, so hopefully?

My top options were mixes of various humanities in the trinity joint honours, and that’s about it. So ultimately I’m cooked. If only complaining on reddit was a course, because it seems like that’s all I’m doing rn.

This is literally eating away at me, does anyone else feel like this? I feel so dumb since 90% of my exams went poorly and now I might not even get into college. Idk why I’ve been like this, I used to be so much better at doing things.

I need 560 for my first choice and I think I got that, however I focused too much on my other exams and I think I failed ordinary maths. I underestimated it because I only needed an 06 for my course. How common is it to fail OL maths? I heard the examiners try and give you as many marks as possible

GUYS I WROTE RUBBISH ON MY BIOLOGY EXAM i got like 38% on my mock i mean i couldnt have failed but id be delighted with a h5-h4. i need atleast h7 on biology and o6 on maths for my course. its been so shitty i think maths went decent, paper 1 was acc good but paper 2 was quite ehhh average not amazing but not bad. i hope i did okay on english but im actually really scared 🤣, i got like 318ish points on the mocks or 308 i cant really remember. i wanted around 410 points but now i think i got like 370ish points ughhhhh. i stayed home from school since March to study a lot everyday and i did see an improvement for maths and history. i just hope i get offers bro ;-; im paranoid i wont get offers for some reason i just wanted to rlly rant about this and see if anyone else related 😇

it's my first choice idk if I got it, think I might just have scraped the points necessary (532). If the points go up I'm done for. anyone else have it on their Cao? also does anyone think the points will go up? I way it soooo bad.

Hi everyone, I want to make a complete collection of hear and dare reduction of points for a variety of courses and compile them into one single excel spreadsheet. I'm posting this across many different subreddits and collecting averages and lowest accepted etc... I would greatly appreciate it if you could comment on your own experiences with HEAR/DARE , and your reduction of points. Whether it be a course like medicine or radiation therapy or education etc... literally any course. Any and all information is appreciated. I wanna be able to post the excel sheet for everyone and be able to give a complete educated guess on this year's reduction and even years in the future as I've found it difficult myself to find this information. Thanks 🙏🙏🙏🙏

I've done HL since 1st year until mid 5th year but I prob need to go back up to it for the points. Anyone know any good HL maths YT channels? Please speed i need this my maths teacher kinda ass...