If you dont get the points?

marco murphy

What is everyones back-up plan?

If I dont get the points Iam looking for I have a level 6 to fall back on.
If not that I'll be repeating the LC in a different school.
If not that it's well I dunno.

JC 2K3

At 355, I'm not going to fall short.


But if I were in such a situation I don't think I could repeat. I'd sooner put up with a different college course than repeat the LC.

Rozabeez

If I don't get the points, I'll do a year of Arts in Dunboyne that leads to Arts in Maynooth.

Man Down

If I dont get the points... I'd want to be shot.
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DarkJager

Just remember that the whole points thing is not the be all and end all lads. You have the option of repeating your LC or going the "back route" to your chosen career.

Example: I failed my Leaving Cert (failed Maths) and didn't get the points I needed to do my chosen course (Computer Science). So I left the whole idea of repeating behind and got stuck in at the entry level of my chosen career. I now have the title of Troubleshooting Specialist and I'm earning 40k+ per year.

Just keep that in mind and don't let in worry you too much. Best of luck.

fuinneamh

well i've filled the cao with a first choice of 500 all the way down to the same course in carlow for 200(which is impossible for me to get as i'm doing all honours) extreme scenario that i fail everything, i'll take up a trade with the father.

Steve01

If the worst comes to the worst and I somehow manage to fail every subject, I'll see if Zumo are hiring.

Nehpets

Well if I don't get a c3 in Maths I'll prob go to UCD or DIT, not sure yet. DIT is closer..

Rozabeez

Yeah, I'll be in DIT if I don't get Maynooth.

yurmothrintites

Im aiming for primary shcool teaching..........if i dont get it........:(:(:( i'll prob do arts in galway and go in that way!:)

Alanstrainor

The only thing i'm worried about is not getting a C3 in honours maths, if i dont get that...well....i'm screwed, all my degree courses require it, so i just have to work my ass off at maths i guess.:D

marco murphy

DarkJager wrote:

Just remember that the whole points thing is not the be all and end all lads. You have the option of repeating your LC or going the "back route" to your chosen career.

Example: I failed my Leaving Cert (failed Maths) and didn't get the points I needed to do my chosen course (Computer Science). So I left the whole idea of repeating behind and got stuck in at the entry level of my chosen career. I now have the title of Troubleshooting Specialist and I'm earning 40k+ per year.

Just keep that in mind and don't let in worry you too much. Best of luck.

What if you dont have a chosen career :P

Enemy Of Fate

Huh......if I don't get the points.....will I guess a life of petty crime is always an option.Seriously though I don't know what i'll do.Ah well.Even if I don't get the points needed for my first choice, as long as I get a C1 in Honours German i'm guaranteed one of my CAO choices (commerce with german in NUIG is AQA, so if you get a C1 in honours German you're gauranteed a place) which is good enough I guess.

Edit: I meant C1, not C3.My bad.

Haven't a Clue

I'm not repeating under any circumstances. If it all goes tits up, I've got courses that're 250 or so. I might look at the route through a PLC course to get into the course I want, though I'll have to investigate that option a bit more.

Selphie

If I don't get my course.... I'll do Arts in UCC, methinks.

md99

Enemy Of Fate wrote:

Huh......if I don't get the points.....will I guess a life of petty crime is always an option.

yeah, organised crime was my back up, anyone know when The Sopranos is back?

marco murphy

How difficult is it to become a priest :P

genericgoon

Simple Im sure there desperate for them at this stage Anyways while my first choice is a high points on if i get my second or third choices which are fairly low points then ill be more than happy. Tbh I amnt that bothered what I end up studying out of the 3. Maybe its destiny that shall decide my future(that or how willing I am to study)

analyse this

I'm really set on my first choice and only put in 6 choices to get the parents off my back. Tbh if i didn't get the points for my first choice (psych.-trinners-550) I would probably repeat. Even though the thought of repeating tears my soul to shreds, doing anything else other than my first choice would kill me.:o

Rozabeez

Lol....why not just do it elsewhere? I'm hoping to do psychology as part of an arts degree.

analyse this

1. No other institution does as many courses in the psychology degree (applied psych. in ucc is only 3 years and has far less courses)
2. I'm not sure about the other arts programmes but I know that the Arts programme in UCC does not qualify you for entrance into the Irish or British psychology associations, even if you take psych for the entire programme.
3.I love Trinity and Dublin.