cao points jump

pathway33

apologies for the distressing headline. just wondering whats the most any course has jumped from one year to the next. low or high points doesnt matter. could be 150 to 300 or 350 to 500. is a 150 point jump possible?

tribulus

150 is certainly possible but very very unlikely.

Is there a way to check up previous points needed for courses?

I know a physics course in TCD (can't remember the full name) jumped about 70 points in 2004.

My own course (Science in UCD) jumped I think 45 points in that year too.

Yeah I think one year one course 'jumped' around 105 points. Really the smaller the intake of students the more 'jumpy' the points will be!

tribulus I can only assume that's the (infamous) Theoretical Physics course in Trinity. Goes on cycles around 530 and then down again to 470 (was 500 in Round 1 and ended up as 495* when I started it if I recall correctly).

tribulus

That's the one!

PurpleFistMixer

Ah great, that's my first choice. And I spent 6th year thinking I was gonna be doing maths, which sits somewhere in the low 400s. So long as it's not above 550 I should be grand, assuming I go up from the mocks. >.>

tribulus

Theoretical Physics in Trinity jumped 80 points from 2003-2004!

http://www2.cao.ie/points/DEG03.HTM
http://www2.cao.ie/points/DEG04.HTM

Look for TR035

There may be bigger jumps if people are bothered to look for them, I just know that one as a friend of mine missed it due to the massive jump.

Cokehead Mother

I've got a feeling TR031 will drop by 100 points this year and they'll just say '**** the irish requirement'.

Cokehead Mother

Cokehead Mother wrote: »

I've got a feeling TR031 will drop by 100 points this year and they'll just say '**** the irish requirement'.

Irish isn't specified as being required at Trinity anyway.

Bajingo

I never thought about the points going up...I really need the points to go down for my course psychology in UCD because I doubt I got 495 but all I can do is pray.

toxick

commerce with german went from 255 points to 520 i belive

Decerto

Judging by the amount of people with TP as their first choice, me including, its looks likes gonna stay the same as last year or go up:(

pathway33

toxick wrote: »

commerce with german went from 255 points to 520 i belive

where and when was that?

1huge1

pathway33 wrote: »

where and when was that?

Not in UCD or UCC anyway

yay_for_summer

Are you positive it wasn't UCC? I remember commerce and German there going up a huge amount a few years ago - it mightn't be as much as that but I know it was >100 points.

1huge1

Maybe 100 points but certainly not 250 or so as stated, ill look into it and get back to ya.

Edit:
ya checked it, only small changes in UCC
Year Points
2007 325
2006 310
2005 350

http://www.qualifax.ie/?Mainsec=courses&Subsec=course_details&ID=361&CSH_ID=18

pathway33

you can go back further on cao website.

commerce german in UCC

year points
2001 300
2002 395

but it came from a base of 425 in 2000 so 'a bit jumpy'!!!

but what about commerce italian in UCC

year points
1998 AQA (= 140 points)
1999 430

a jump of 290 points. holy mololy!!!!!!!

im...LOST

My course went up by about 70 or 80 last year. It was like 220 and it went up but 70 or 80. I was safe enough but I was surprised at how much of a jump there was.

1huge1

pathway33 wrote: »

you can go back further on cao website.

commerce german in UCC

year points
2001 300
2002 395

but it came from a base of 425 in 2000 so 'a bit jumpy'!!!

but what about commerce italian in UCC

year points
1998 AQA (= 140 points)
1999 430

a jump of 290 points. holy mololy!!!!!!!

Well the german course seems to of leveled off in recent years thankfully, as for the italien course maybe that was the 1st year it was introduced and didnt have any numbers the 1st year and the 2nd year interest jumped.

pathway33

1huge1 wrote: »

Well the german course seems to of leveled off in recent years thankfully, as for the italien course maybe that was the 1st year it was introduced and didnt have any numbers the 1st year and the 2nd year interest jumped.

that would make sense o huge one. imagine sitting there in 1999 with 400 points in your pocket and then.....no too horrific.....life does imitate art

1huge1

on another note, it was said on rte that this year had the highest ever number of applications to the cao (68,000 I believe), At first I thought this was terrible ness but the more I tihnk about it, it isnt too bad as most of those extra applications would generally be for ''lower'' courses.

pathway33

1huge1 wrote: »

on another note, it was said on rte that this year had the highest ever number of applications to the cao (68,000 I believe), At first I thought this was terrible ness but the more I tihnk about it, it isnt too bad as most of those extra applications would generally be for ''lower'' courses.

i'm sure that will be a great comfort to all the people loooking for lower courses

68,000

holy ssmoly....but theres only 58,000 doin the leaving. where have the other 10,000 come from? they didnt just fall out of the sky

this is very serious.........i think 68,000 deserves a thread of its own and you're the man to start it o huge one....i think we all nneed to be psychologically prepared for 9 days 10 hours and 34 minnutes

PurpleFistMixer

Really, you only need to prepare for two possibilities:

1: You get what you want. Happy days!
2: You don't get what you want. What do you do now? Accept anyway? Repeat? Other route?

That's all you need to worry about really. You could spend ages trying to guess what'll happen by looking at statistics and stuff, but at the end of the day, you don't really know. It'll be a tiring exercise and will probably stress you out more.

PrivateEye

The exact news none of us wanted, right at the start of the 6:1.

Like a cow in a slaughterhouse now, god!

Anyone know roughly speaking whats the average amount of points people take from the LC? I know plenty of lads who filled it out but realistically won't walk in the doors of a college on the back of their eh......study levels.

pathway33

PrivateEye wrote: »

The exact news none of us wanted, right at the start of the 6:1.

Like a cow in a slaughterhouse now, god!

Anyone know roughly speaking whats the average amount of points people take from the LC? I know plenty of lads who filled it out but realistically won't walk in the doors of a college on the back of their eh......study levels.

Don't know about the average but www.cao.ie give statistics for how many got from 600 down to less than 100 for the past 12 years. On the left Click 'points' on cao page. Next page click dropdown list 'leaving certificate points statistics'

1huge1

pathway33 wrote: »

i'm sure that will be a great comfort to all the people loooking for lower courses

68,000

holy ssmoly....but theres only 58,000 doin the leaving. where have the other 10,000 come from? they didnt just fall out of the sky

this is very serious.........i think 68,000 deserves a thread of its own and you're the man to start it o huge one....i think we all nneed to be psychologically prepared for 9 days 10 hours and 34 minnutes

Well ya know a lot of mature students and the likes. I heard Fetac mentioned aswel though I'm not entirely sure what that is, maybe foreign students?

But I have to agree with PurpleFistMixer just be prepared for those 2 possibilities and well there's not much else you can do.

Oh and pathway why do you keep calling me ''o huge one''? Though it is better than the terrible nickname I chose... maybe it'll catch on

pathway33

1huge1 wrote: »

Well ya know a lot of mature students and the likes. I heard Fetac mentioned aswel though I'm not entirely sure what that is, maybe foreign students?

But I have to agree with PurpleFistMixer just be prepared for those 2 possibilities and well there's not much else you can do.

Oh and pathway why do you keep calling me ''o huge one''? Though it is better than the terrible nickname I chose... maybe it'll catch on

re: 'o huge one' - have you not seen the limerick full-forwards? huge
limerick for the all-irelands

re fetac.....dunnno

Foreign
Europeans
Tripping
And
Cao-ing

pathway33

PrivateEye wrote: »

The exact news none of us wanted, right at the start of the 6:1.

Like a cow in a slaughterhouse now, god!

Anyone know roughly speaking whats the average amount of points people take from the LC? I know plenty of lads who filled it out but realistically won't walk in the doors of a college on the back of their eh......study levels.

the most popular bracket based on 50 point brackets is 350 points to 399. its been the same for the last 13 years!!!!!!!

1huge1

pathway33 wrote: »

re: 'o huge one' - have you not seen the limerick full-forwards? huge
limerick for the all-irelands

Nicely put, well that settles that then.

pathway33 wrote: »

the most popular bracket based on 50 point brackets is 350 points to 399. its been the same for the last 13 years!!!!!!!

And id say that most courses are withing that bracket aswel.

Whimsical

WHY WHY can't we all just go to college..i promise I'll study..burn the midnight oil even Gosh I hope geography and sociology in trinity doesn't jump up past 450...people anyway we will all get something all this stress..up at 11 on a saturday morning its not natural

Tea-a-Maria

Well..my course is new,so I can't gauge changes in points..but it only has 5 places!

dan719

tribulus wrote: »

150 is certainly possible but very very unlikely.

Is there a way to check up previous points needed for courses?

I know a physics course in TCD (can't remember the full name) jumped about 70 points in 2004.

My own course (Science in UCD) jumped I think 45 points in that year too.

Theoretical Physics in TCD is very volatile in terms of points, and regularly varies by 100 plus points, seems to have settled down recently around 500 mark.