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Options after failing in maths!

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  • 11-06-2007 5:32pm
    #1
    darraghw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 146 ✭✭


    Ok so im preety sure i failed maths, what are my options now for next year other then repeat maths?


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    #2
    Jay112
    Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭Jay112


    Depending on the career a PLC might be an option for ya mate!:)


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    MathsManiac
    Registered Users Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭MathsManiac


    All depends on what you've applied for. There are loads of courses in universities and ITs that do not require maths. For example, maths is not needed to matriculate for the following faculties in any of the NUI colleges, so it's no problem unless the specific course has a maths requirement:

    Faculty/College of:
    • Arts
    • Human Sciences
    • Philosophy
    • Celtic Studies
    • Law
    • Social Science

    Did you have any such courses on your CAO form?


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    StephenC_IRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 438 ✭✭StephenC_IRL


    can I do anything like media production etc.. or engineering with failed maths ???? also anything in DCU ??


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    darraghw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 146 ✭✭darraghw


    MathsManiac wrote:
    All depends on what you've applied for. There are loads of courses in universities and ITs that do not require maths. For example, maths is not needed to matriculate for the following faculties in any of the NUI colleges, so it's no problem unless the specific course has a maths requirement:

    Faculty/College of:
    • Arts
    • Human Sciences
    • Philosophy
    • Celtic Studies
    • Law
    • Social Science

    Did you have any such courses on your CAO form?


    Eh no, my first choice was quanity surveying in dit which requires an ordinary level d3.


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    toxick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭toxick


    you can always change the CEO... or else you can repeat maths. take a year out ect.

    StephenC_IRL : you wont be able to do engineering with failed maths. i think for most engineering you need a pass in honours. correct me if im wrong


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    cossyx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭cossyx


    Ok I hope Im wrong but we were told if you fail maths that's kind of it you'll have to repeat because with a failed maths everything is cancelled? I don't know though?


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    cson
    Registered Users Posts: 14,469 ✭✭✭✭cson


    I think that was back in the day, when if you failed maths/irish/english they'd come to your house with pitchforks and sticks ablaze ready to tie you to the stake and whip you unmercifully with a barbed wire cat o' nine tales while repeatedly kicking you up the arse with an oversized boot. I could be wrong though.

    Afaik they're a bit more lenient these days, you get a cert with the subjects you passed on it.


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    Nehpets
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,504 ✭✭✭Nehpets


    DIT offer something for failed maths don't they? might be completely wrong here


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    MathsManiac
    Registered Users Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭MathsManiac


    cossyx wrote:
    Ok I hope Im wrong but we were told if you fail maths that's kind of it you'll have to repeat because with a failed maths everything is cancelled? I don't know though?
    Not so, you'll be glad to hear.

    I'm not a guidance counsellor, so I'm loath to give any more info than I gave above in my earlier post - I don't know the ins and outs of all the DIT, DCU, and other IT courses.

    If you don't want to repeat, I suggest you talk to a guidance counsellor about your options.


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