law society

timmywex

hi,
need help here,

does anyone know what kind of standard of irish is needed to pass to law societies irish exams to pratise as a sloicitor??

are they hard?? leaving cert equivilant maybe??

Thomas_S_Hunterson

There's full details here:
http://www.lawsociety.ie/displayCDAContent.aspx?node=284&groupID=284&code=education

as far as I know, it doesn't require a very high standard. About Leaving Cert Higher Level is what I'm led to believe

Robbo

Sat and passed the first Irish Exam there myself in January. I was rubbish at Irish at school and haven't spoken a word in the interevening 7 years.

Needless to say I passed. The standard isn't very high, Australians pass it all the time.

grumpytrousers

piece of piss; i'm pretty sure that if you didn't even turn up, you'd still be hard pushed to fail it...

timmywex

ah ser thats grand then, as long as its not too hard cause i only did ordinary level for the leaving cert but was farily good at it. All my fears about it now cleared(just tought irish would be hard)

thanks everyone

grumpytrousers

timmywex wrote:

ah ser thats grand then, as long as its not too hard cause i only did ordinary level for the leaving cert but was farily good at it. All my fears about it now cleared(just tought irish would be hard)

thanks everyone

well, you'll have to write a few paragraphs on something rather rudimentary; you'll not be asked for a dissertation on post-modernism in the modern day ireland or anythign, just a 'letter to steve staunton' or somethign like that.

there's set texts you're meant to be ableto translate, and if you, er, 'only' did pass Irish, then you might want to track some veteran of this who'd have notes and sort you out with that.

finally, 2 min oral exam where if you can, almost literally, break wind in Irish (remmber to say 'go maith leithsceal') you'll be done...c'est tout. Or Sin é...

dK1NG

Robbo wrote:

Sat and passed the first Irish Exam there myself in January. I was rubbish at Irish at school and haven't spoken a word in the interevening 7 years.

Needless to say I passed. The standard isn't very high, Australians pass it all the time.

D3 in pass Irish many moons ago - and I passed it so.....

And that was despite answering "Ta me go maith" when asked about my "uimhir" (exam number!) when I went into the oral:eek:

timmywex

dK1NG wrote:

D3 in pass Irish many moons ago - and I passed it so.....

And that was despite answering "Ta me go maith" when asked about my "uimhir" (exam number!) when I went into the oral:eek:

id say they loved that