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Which is worse?

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  • 14-08-2008 9:40pm
    #1
    pathway33
    Registered Users Posts: 2,229 ✭✭✭


    Which is worse? Waiting for your leaving cert results or waiting for your CAO offer?


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    #2
    turgon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭turgon


    I didnt get nervous at all, and I know Ive got my course so its all the same!!!


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    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Add a poll me thinks.
    Include an atari jaguar.

    It probably depends on how set you are on one particular course in one particular college.


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    1huge1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭1huge1


    The results were way more nerve wrecking, at least ive a fair bit of an idea of what to expect on monday.


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    pathway33
    Registered Users Posts: 2,229 ✭✭✭pathway33


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    Add a poll me thinks.
    Include an atari jaguar.

    It probably depends on how set you are on one particular course in one particular college.

    You add a poll.......I don't know how :o

    If someone adds this as a poll I give the Mod permission to delete my thread :D


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    Cokehead Mother
    Closed Accounts Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Cokehead Mother


    I wasn't planning going to go to college this year because I failed Irish and English. So I was very relaxed about the whole results thing. I'm not 18 until next May so repeating wasn't a huge problem. No rush to get to university.

    Then it turned out I didn't fail either of them and my points are well above last year's. But there is still a small possibility that they could shoot up this year, and I now want to go to college this year, so there's actually stuff at stake, which makes the wait is a little worse.


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    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    It all depends.
    I was fairly nervous waiting for my Leaving Cert results because I thought I didn't do as well as I should have. Then I got them and I did better than I initially thought.
    I was excited waiting for my CAO because I knew I had my course with 100+ points to spare.
    But if you've done well and are still only in and around the minimum entry points for your particular course, then waiting for the CAO can be torturous.


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    pedanticwretch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭pedanticwretch


    The few free days you have before the Leaving Cert begins is a total nightmare, it beats the other two things by a mile!!
    If you fall 50 points short of your course then you don't care about CAO offers, do you? and vice vearsa! so just waiting to get the LC over with is arduous!


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    SRFC90
    Registered Users Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭SRFC90


    A silly question but whats all this atari jaguar thing?


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    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    SRFC90 wrote: »
    A silly question but whats all this atari jaguar thing?

    lol, n00b!!! :D:D
    http://wiki.boards.ie/wiki/Atari_Jaguar

    In a poll it means "I don't care"


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    SRFC90
    Registered Users Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭SRFC90


    square_igloo wrote: »
    lol, n00b!!! :D:D
    http://wiki.boards.ie/wiki/Atari_Jaguar

    In a poll it means "I don't care"

    No, i understood that thats what it stood for just didnt know why that was used!!:D


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    spillit67
    Registered Users Posts: 710 ✭✭✭spillit67


    I thought id failed honours maths and didnt so defo results for me. I know ill get at least BESS which isnt my 1st choice but tbh i'm delighted just to get in to college!


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    cHaTbOx
    Registered Users Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭cHaTbOx


    SRFC90 wrote: »
    No, i understood that thats what it stood for just didnt know why that was used!!:D

    Polls are fun:D


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    nycman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭nycman


    I think that waiting for the offer is worse. Got 500 points and hoping to get the BCL in NUIG. Was 490 with random selection in 2007 so I am sh1tting bricks thinking of a 15 point jump


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    cHaTbOx
    Registered Users Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭cHaTbOx


    Results was worse(thought I failed Irish ,got a C1 wtf?!?!?!?) for me but I am sure I will get my place.

    Monday for me is about ticking a box lol


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    BaRcOe
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭BaRcOe


    square_igloo wrote: »
    It all depends.
    I was fairly nervous waiting for my Leaving Cert results because I thought I didn't do as well as I should have. Then I got them and I did better than I initially thought.
    I was excited waiting for my CAO because I knew I had my course with 100+ points to spare.
    But if you've done well and are still only in and around the minimum entry points for your particular course, then waiting for the CAO can be torturous.

    yes square, that pretty much sums up this whole thread!


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    Raemie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭Raemie


    i got my results last year and i was very nervous! my results were around what the previous years points were on my prefered courses so i was equally nervous for the offers i think. I took my level 7 offer last year and hated it so dropped out, worked for the year and reapplied for the arts course id turned down. I know i got it last year but there are 3500 more leaving cert students this year so i have the same agonising wait!! The offers would only not make you nervous if you were well well above the last years points.

    Do you think the points on arts will go up this year? I have about 10 points to play with.


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    Mars Bar
    Registered Users Posts: 31,939 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    Waiting for the course is more wrecking if you repeat(imo). You just want to get the course...


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    #19
    Konata
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,164 ✭✭✭Konata


    Waiting for results was definitely worse. But I suppose I can only say that because I know I definitely have my course.

    It's the people who are within a few points of last year that I feel sorry for - lucky them get to be incredibly nervous twice. :rolleyes:
    I'm anxious enough for a few of my friends who are just praying their courses don't go up by 5 or 10 points...


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    Raemie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭Raemie


    After getting the offer last year it'd really suck for me not to get it this year! Im the only person i know waiting for offers this year too, last year i had plenty of people to moan to. :(


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    #21
    me!
    Registered Users Posts: 19 ✭me!


    waiting for the results was HELL!!!!!! waitig for offers really just doesn't even compare. granted it's still not nice as obviously you're still not sure what way your life is going but you should have a fair idea of your chances of getting your course.......hopefully!!!! best of luck to everybody btw:):)


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