#leaving cert 2021

[rileyisclass]

Ireland is one of the few countries in the world where university admittance can be determined in part by the quality of your Hatsune Miku reverse isekai fanfic.

[little-irish-rabbit]

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Idc if it's seen as "pandering" because of past mistakes, (and to be clear, it's probably not. Kerri Colby was the only one who was openly transgender before filming) the fact that three trans women have gotten a platform on the world stage makes me very happy

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I think they should just give the girls in untucked a gun and see what happens

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Pictures of Raja from my phone that are just great

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[steveneveral]

Thinking about the future... (8 January 2023)

I've had some thoughts over the past few weeks.

One thing I've been seriously considering is going back to college to get a Master's degree in Education.

I was originally planning on doing this in 2021, but the whole COVID thing set my possible plans back a few years. But this is something that I want to do within the next 3-5 years or so.

I also have to figure out where I want to go to do this. I've narrowed it down to Oregon State University or the University of Washington again.

I was thinking about Oregon State because my sister and brother-in-law live less than a 15-minute drive from the OSU campus, and my sister told me that I could live at her house if needed. I was thinking about the University of Washington because not only could I live near Seattle, but I could also work on getting my Washington State teacher's cert while at the UW.

Both schools have excellent Masters in Education programs, it's just down to me deciding where I want to live.

Regardless, I still have some decisions I have to make within the next year or two. When I decide to leave this chapter of my life here in Korea I definitely am moving back to the Pacific Northwest.

But for now, I'm just living my life and mulling these decisions over for the next few weeks and months. I did a similar thing when I was doing my undergrad at the UW back in 2013/14 when I was mulling my decision to return to Korea. That worked out swimminly for me, and I know that this potential next chapter will lead to some great things as well.

As difficult as it is to do at times, I will always try to maintain positivity when it comes to big life decisions like this. Life has its ups and downs but those bad times will eventually end.

Keep positive, Steven. You're doing great!

[nascimentobea]

The importance of learning computer programming/coding in school nowadays.

It is very important for students to learn computer programming or coding in today's time. The world has been developing in a digital era and coding has risen to the top of the list of in-demand skills in recent years.

Coding is the DNA of the digital world. To function, every phone app, website, computer program, and even many kitchen appliances rely on coding. This is why coders play such an important role in shaping the modern era and the future and should be taught in school.

Another important fact in learning computer programming is the result of the market after the pandemic of Covid-19, Many new jobs are being created and a significant number of existing jobs are being re-defined. Coding is a game changer, and those who can code have a competitive advantage in their careers. It is now a required skill as well as a competitive advantage for many job profiles, not just those involving software.

According to the website Edology, It is expected that there will be a significant shortfall in the number of computer science graduates available to fill coding jobs over the next decade. This represents the spread of coding into a variety of industries. Indeed, computer sciences are becoming increasingly important in a wide range of fields, including medicine and banking, where understanding of programming and coding is becoming increasingly important.

Some schools have already adhered to the teaching of computer programming and we can see this example in Ireland, in a school called Mount Saint Michael’s Secondary School, which has been preparing the students to develop their skills and also prepare for future opportunities.

References:

Edology. Available at: https://www.edology.com/blog/computing-it/why-coding-is-so-important-for-it-jobs/

Delhi, New. India today, April of 2021. Available at: https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/featurephilia/story/why-computer-programming-or-coding-is-so-important-for-students-in-today-s-era-1789171-2021-04-09

Irish Tech News, December of 2022. Available at: https://irishtechnews.ie/mayo-girls-school-computer-science-leaving-cert/

[sierraisboring]

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[sentienttoast]

I'm frothing at the mouth I just found out hatsune miku was on the fucking leaving certificate my hands are shaking as I type this what the fuck what examiner chose to make that a question I'm losing it what is happening anymore year of our lord 2021 and hatsune miku is on the leaving certificate exam of course it is why wouldn't it be leaving certificate 2021 and 6th years are being asked to write hatsune miku fanfic because of course they are why wouldn't they be what else would be on the leaving cert what else I do ask you what did us as Ireland a country, an island in the atlantic ocean do to have nation's 6th years asked to write hatsune miku fanfiction I don't I really don't know my guy this is the exam that will literally decide what college you get into and quite possibly alter the course of your life and the thing that decides it is your ability to write hatsune miku fanfiction I just know there were at least 1 or 2 6th years in this country who had read/written fanfic with the exact plot given in the prompt and we're grinning like fucking maniacs when they read it I'm just lost why is anything anything anymore I don't know it's all fake nothing's real nothing's real because 6th years are being asked in their English leaving certificate exam to write hatsune miku fanfiction aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[rosariesandrazors]

imagine stressing over your english leaving cert only to open the paper and have to write a fucking hatsune miku fanfiction

[pulsar-1919]

Alright lads, just sat Irish paper 1.

Fuair mo chat bás (my cat died), but I won €5000 in a gcomórtas radió (radio competition). In the end, I was áthas (happy), but also brón (sad), because my cat was dead, and I couldn't buy life(???) My granny gave me a new puisín (kitten). Money isn't everything. Grá (love) is the most important thing.

I hope the examiner likes my scéal (story).

[tester2080]

The Leaving Cert is an awful system.

09/09/21

In case you are not from Ireland, the Leaving Cert(ificate) is the exam system that determines which uni we can get into. Rather than having a GPA via continual assessments or any sort of entrance exam or letter of application we simply have one set of exams. There are obviously other exams (such as the christmas and summer exams in other years), however, the Leaving Cert exam is the only one that matters.

When you take a subject you can either do ordinary or higher level. Ordinary level is easier but rewards less points, and higher level is more difficult, but rewards more points. A H1 is worth 100 points (except for HL maths which is 125) and is given if you get between 90 and 100%. A H2 is 88 points and 80-90% and so on. An O1 is 90-100% in an ordinary level subject but only 56 points. There are some weird changes to the system when it comes to medicine but I won't get into that right now. Universities award places based solely on the points you receive. This leads into the first problem.

Whilst the education experience is a multi year process (6 years in secondary school in our case), what determines your uni course is a single event, often just a single week out of many years of learning. This is insanity and leads to so many obvious problems. A person could be getting H1s throughout the year and forgot to study just one topic and end up with a H3 in the leaving cert at the end, and a H3 student could get lucky and study a topic that happens to come up and get a H1. Even a single grade can be the difference between getting into the uni you want and losing out. The leaving cert does not measure you abilities as a student, your effort, or even sometimes your ability. The leaving cert measures your memory and how well you can perform on the day. You getting 100% in every single subject for the past 6 years and a family member dies a few days before the exams and it absolutely ruins your mental state? Too bad. In the eyes of the university you are not a good enough student. You are a perfect student but got a bit nervous and stayed up a bit late the night before to get some extra study in and are tired the next day? Too bad. You've been getting 625 in every set of mock tests but on the day your mind goes blank with the incredible stress, the knowledge that one test will determine the rest of your life? Too. Bad. There are no exceptions to the hand of the points system and claw of bad luck. You cannot explain to the uni. They. Will. Not. Care. Nothing else is taken into account. Students will have bad days. That's just life, we're all human. However that must be accounted for. Nobody should miss out on their life's dream because of a single day. That is absolutely absurd.

When you ask someone what education is about t. There is a filter type system for different categories of posts and all that, so if you're interested in what I have to say, I'd recommend going there for the better experience. I also have no fucking clue how to use tumblr sof you ask them what the leaving cert is about they will say it's about getting into uni. Clearly there is a disconnect here. Where has education become so distorted that now it is nothing more than a way for universities to quickly and easily judge us? Education must be about teaching children, not for some uni test, but simply so they can become more knowledgeable, so they can get a thirst for information, so they can locate their strengths and weaknesses, so future generations can live better lives than we will. University selections must be nothing more than an afterthought. It is even worse when the leaving cert is a horrendously stressful system. We put ourselves through sometimes 6 years of stress and bad quality of mental health to make it easier for universities??? What a ridiculous idea.

The leaving cert isn't even a fair way to judge students. Here, I'll be able to determine how good you're likely to do in the leaving cert with two simple questions. Do you have a good memory? Are you good at maths? If you answered yes to both, the chances of you doing well are very high and if you answered no to both - well - the chances aren't quite as good. A huge amount of the leaving cert is simply a memory test. I know the state will talk constantly about how rote learning is discouraged and all that, but realistically that's not the case. Take for example the English paper. You get to know which poets might come and which poems you can use before the exam. This mean your teacher can simply write you a good sample answer and if you can remember it, that's at least a H2 for that part of the exam. And as for being good at maths - if you're good at maths you already have 3 subjects which you can say with reasonable certainty you will be good at - maths, physics, and applied maths. Students who aren't good at maths have nothing like this unless they are fluent in several languages. A big problem when you arises most of the non maths subjects are based on memory, and the ones not based on memory are based on maths. History? Memorising essays. Irish? Memorising poems. Biology? A lot of memorising. Physics? A lot of maths. Accounting? A lot of memorising. This continues throughout basically all the exam subjects, with only maybe one or two exceptions. I know someone who hasn't even started 5th year, and yet they already know they're screwed and have basically given up on their first choice course because they have dyscalculia and a terrible memory. They can try as hard as they want, study as hard as they can, but realistically, they aren't going to come close to someone with a good memory and are good at maths who put in the bare minimum effort. It's bizarre too, given the amount of jobs that don't require either maths or a good memory.

The subjects you can study in the leaving cert is also extremely limited. You have to study Irish, English, Maths, and a third language. In public schools you then basically have the option of History, Geography, Accounting, Business, Economics, Art, Music, Religion, Chemistry, Biology, Physics and DCG. There are no electives to try out things similar to careers you might be interested or anything like that. Now those that plan to go into business will be happy I'm sure, however, for most other people, the subjects have very little in common with the career you want to do. You're doing law? I suppose a business subject might somewhat help??? You're doing computer science? Maths is kinda related. Medicine? Biology sure, perhaps a little bit of chemistry? But at most 2 out of your 6 subjects will actually be any way relevant to your career. To make it even worse, public schools have subjects in blocks. This means there will 3 blocks of subjects and you pick one from each block. You're super good at both physics, chemistry, and business? Well too bad, there's a very high chance you won't get to study all 3, and you'll have to pick up geography or some other subject you have no interest in. In some cases all 3 of the subjects you like may be in the same block, meaning you'll have to pick up 2 subjects you have no interest in and will likely be worse at. Once again, simple luck plays a huge part in the leaving cert. Going into 5th year, the subjects you're allowed pick will likely change your eventual points by around 30 or possibly more. Furthermore, private schools provide a massive advantage, often with your chance of getting good grades being around 4 times higher. You were born with well off parents? Congrats, here's an extra 100 points have fun. Absolute insanity. The leaving cert is really just determined by luck every way you look at it. Now obviously luck plays a part in everyday life too, but the leaving cert basically caters to the lucky, and a whole lot could be done to reduce the benefit they have based on luck alone, rather than quality of character, or time studied, or effort put in, etc.

I suppose I've reached the stage where I should stop complaining and start giving actual suggestions for improvements then. Fine. Firstly, remove the idiotic one exam process. Instead have some sort of GPA system with continual testing, so it shows how good a student is on average, not just on their worst/best day. Increase the amount of uni places available so that getting into the uni and career you want becomes more of an afterthought, rather than a constant stress looming over you. Add more subjects and electives that will be relevant to the career the student is planning to go into. Make learning and discovering your strengths and weaknesses and just enjoying life in general a main focus. Give students time to relax and do sports outside of school, even in 6th year (which is something basically impossible to do under the current system). Allow the tests that determine the GPA to be open book. Make understand more important than simply memorising. Remove the subject block system so students can do all the subjects they actually enjoy and are good at. I believe that the single test system is one of the reasons that private schools perform so well, by removing that, I believe the scores wouldn't be so far apart. However additions restrictions, or even total banning, of private schools could be implemented. After all, surely everyone deserves the same quality of education. These are children and teenagers for gods sake. There shouldn't be a heirachy of education based on their parents wealth. All students should be given the same opportunities. Private schools largely do better due to having better teachers. There currently isn't a large enough supply of very good teachers to go around, and the private schools can simply buy up the majority of good ones. We should pay teachers more, a lot of people thinking about careers may be dissuaded from teaching, despite having a passion, due to the low pay. Many good teachers also go to places like Dubai thanks to the better pay. Overall in society, teachers are sort of dismissed as a profession, and if we wish to improve the lives of the next generations, this must change.

[what-goesaround-comesaround]

I forgot to post this but writing a Hatsune Miku fanfic was part of the Ordinary Leaving Cert English exam yesterday. Welcome to Ireland ig

[transfagholmes]

If any of my Irish mutuals also got their LC results today, I am here wishing you well <3 I'm proud of you ❤🌈 drink some water and don't forget your worth is not tied to a number

[headinthebookshelf]

It will never not be weird that I never sat the Leaving Cert.

[airystudy]

mid term study day 1/7 | 28.10.2019

spent my morning eating mango and studying business (having a good time i guess?)

[studyingsimple]

a much needed update:

hiiii, it’s been so long since i’ve posted anything on this blog! but i am back and ready to be active again so that’s exciting. i really want to start putting more effort into this blog so i am really going to try to be more consistent. this blog was created to help motivate me with the leaving cert but now i am going to use it to help motivate me with college as academics is such an important part of my life so...

where have i been??

when i got my leaving cert results i was quite disappointed because i knew that i did not have enough points to get into the course i wanted which was medicine and i had no plan B (which looking back i definitely would’ve changed, so if the leaving cert class of 2021 is reading this make sure you have a plan B!!!), on a whim i had put down courses that i could see myself liking as much as medicine. 

anyways, i ended up getting an offer to study children and general nursing. i had already had an offer from the university of Glasgow to study adult nursing so i had to choose between them. i was thinking of resitting some exams/ retaking the HPAT, or even taking a year out but my sister talked to me and made me realise that it may still be as competitive the following year and the courses that i have been offered are still wonderful ones, so i decided to go with one of them but which one? i ended up deciding to stick with children and general nursing because one, i would end up getting two degrees as a registered children’s nurse and a general nurse and two, i wanted to stay in the same country as my family as they are my BIGGEST support system.

so that is what i have been doing - children and general nursing, i just finished my first-year exams so now i am pretty much free. i definitely want to make a post about how it has been being a nursing student during a pandemic (it has not been easy) so that will be interesting. i also have completed various placements in the hospital and the community and have gotten the opportunity to see a lot of interesting things, ive made amazing friends who i know are going to be friends for life and i have learnt so much about myself over the past year. it has been such a pleasure to have patients say to you that you’re a “born nurse” and i find it ironic because this was not my original plan but things always seem to work out.

as for medicine, i do want to apply to medicine after i graduate maybe enter a graduate entry medicine programme but that is still so far away that i don’t even want to think about it. the amazing thing about nursing is that there are SO many career opportunities that i was not aware of, so i have no idea where i am going to end up - so many possibilities! i definately just want to keep helping people,

so yeah this post is so long and rambly but it was very needed, im back for good this time! i may also share my first year results so far they have been better than i expected so i am hoping it stays that way, anyways bye for now :)))

[deithe]

hastune miku on the ordinary level leaving cert english paper. help. what drone in the department of education thought this up. who's a miku stan in the SEC

?????? MIKU?????

[that-cheer-up-anon]

Please help keep an Ella alive

I never wanted to make this post but things are looking quite bleak for me.

Backstory

TW: domestic violence, child abuse, animal abuse, suicide mention

For those who don't know my situation right now, Monday 22 March 2021 I was forced to leave home after my dad got incredibly angry and was threatening to hurt my siblings and dog. He had already started abusing the dog while me and my sister were away the previous Thursday, so we really didn't want to take any more chances. We packed up some bags and the dog, and then went to the police station to report our dad. The police couldn't do anything. We then went to one of my friends and stayed at their place.

The next morning, Ma found out that we had contacted the police and after my little sister confirmed that, she said that we had "ruined this family", and "don't you know that's enough for Pa to kill himself?! Would you be able to handle that?" She called us immature and downplayed our concerns for our safety by saying "he wouldn't kill you." AS IF THAT'S A GOOD ENOUGH REASON TO STAY. She was more concerned about my dad having a police report than the fact that he was the REASON WHY we had reported to the police.

After that she decided to stop paying for my little sister's car, which used to be our cousin's. She called our auntie (without explaining the situation) to tell our cousin to demand full payment for the rest of the car from my little sister. Luckily my cousin and sister got in contact and explained the situation so she didn't have to pay immediately like Ma wanted.

She also said that if we were to return home "don't expect it to be permanent." So now all three of us were homeless and financially cut off from our parents.

Things have changed, and my lil sis is stable, had a job and her own place w Goofy, my big bro is living w one of my siblings as he job hunts, and I am currently living w a friend until I can get a job and save enough to move out on my own.

I had to quit my Cert 3 nail technology course, which I loved, but couldn't keep doing without my parents paying. Luckily I'm eligible for a government paid beauty services course and am doing that now.

Here is where you can help me

I need a lot of financial help until I can get onto my own feet. I am currently living off my small savings. I was just rejected for government funding support and am still trying to get it. My laptop is broken, so I can't write a resume, job hunt, or do any digital art commissions for money.

I need money for public transportation, food, meds, a decent laptop that I can do digital art on and use for study and job searching, and to help me get more frequent therapy sessions than my current once a month.

You can help me by donating to my paypal:

https://www.paypal.me/cartoonvoid

TL;DR: I am homeless and financially cut off from my parents after my dad threatened violence against me and my siblings. We left and our mum immediately started emotionally and financially manipulating us. I need help w having money for public transportation, food, meds, a laptop, and therapy. If you have any spare money you can help me stay alive by donating it to my Paypal.