Subject Clashes

sexpot

Hello there, I'm after looking at the Leaving Cert 2007 timetable and it seems I have two subjects clashing, Classics and Construction. Does anyone know what happens there? What do I do? To add to that i also have Economics before them. Anyway, anyone know what I do?

PurpleFistMixer

Talk to someone in your school about it, 6th year dean maybe or something, or just ring up the examinations people and ask them what the deal is? Presumably they'll organise for you to sit one of the exams at a different time.

Mushy

examinations.ie wrote:

Subject Clashes
The State Examinations Commission makes every effort to arrange the examination timetable in order to minimise the potential for subject clashes. Sometimes students enter for subjects that are timetabled for the same time and date. Arrangements can be made to allow time to sit both papers. Please contact Entries Section for further information. Telephone 090 6442704 / 6442702 / 6442706. E-mail: entries@examinations.ie

This is what said about it on the examinations.ie website. Maybe better off to go through them and find out

sexpot

Cheers, thanks for the help.

Donald-Duck

You sit one exam first,then you have an hour break which you must spend with the examiner so you can't talk to people who have already sat the other one,you then sit the next exam.

Thats the way they did it in my school last year anyway

marco murphy

you have an hour break which you must spend with the examiner

Sickener

Donald-Duck

Poblachtach wrote:

you have an hour break which you must spend with the examiner

Sickener

Yeah,I'd imagine it was,thank god I wasn't one of the few. But there was 4 in my year with Italian and Engineering clashing so as far as I know they were all allowed spend it together with the examienr so it wasn't as bad for them

spurious

Donald-Duck wrote:

You sit one exam first,then you have an hour break which you must spend with the examiner so you can't talk to people who have already sat the other one,you then sit the next exam.

Thats the way they did it in my school last year anyway

That's the way it's usually done everywhere.

By arrangement you can have a shorter break than an hour if you like.

I know of a case where a candidate's mother had died, but he wanted to sit his exam that was scheduled for the morning of her funeral. The school and SEC arranged for him to start his exam very early in a room on his own (with the supervisor) and he finished a half hour after the rest of his class started - so no-one else could join the exam after he left.

sexpot

The thing is about the subject clashes, I have Economics before Construction/Classics, so that means I'll be kept till like 9 o clock that night?? Are they allowed to do that? like 3 exams in one day is a bit much!

poobum

spurious wrote:

That's the way it's usually done everywhere.

By arrangement you can have a shorter break than an hour if you like.

I know of a case where a candidate's mother had died, but he wanted to sit his exam that was scheduled for the morning of her funeral. The school and SEC arranged for him to start his exam very early in a room on his own (with the supervisor) and he finished a half hour after the rest of his class started - so no-one else could join the exam after he left.

nobody is ment to be allowed to enter an exam after half an hour anyway! its in the rules thingy!

Pythia

I did Applied Maths and Greek a few years ago. They were both scheduled for the afternoon on the last day of the exams. They wanted to give me half an hour break, but I managed to get the same break as you would have between a morning and an evening exam. It wasn't too bad really. My mum brought me a dinner to eat in between them and I was able to chat to the examiner and the girl who was supervising. I actually did better in the second exam than in the first.