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Failing Subjects

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  • 05-12-2008 8:43pm
    #1
    ChairmanCow
    Registered Users Posts: 40 ✭


    Hey! Just wondering could anyone tell me what the deal was with failing subjects for semester 1? Anyone know how many you're "allowed" fail and what would happen if one failed all one's subjects...?


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    papajimsmooth
    Registered Users Posts: 779 ✭✭✭papajimsmooth


    You can fail as many as you want in first semester as long as you only have two fails going into next year, so you will have to repeat the ones at summer.


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    rg2007
    Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭rg2007


    Thank God, i'm screwed for sociology, worst choice i made taking that up, dont think ill bother going to the two exams, least then i can study for economics.


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    Shazbot
    Registered Users Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Shazbot


    rg2007 wrote: »
    Thank God, i'm screwed for sociology, worst choice i made taking that up, dont think ill bother going to the two exams, least then i can study for economics.


    Well that would be the biggest mistake you could make. If you don't go to the exams then you will fail them and won't be able to pass by compenstation (you can only fail 1 with an E grade). No point getting an A in economic and failing 2 sociology modules. You will still fail the year.

    If you attend the exam and atleast bull**** something close to the essay topic you should pass.

    Don't be so rash to brush the exams off, unless you don't plan on completing your course.


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    rg2007
    Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭rg2007


    Shazbot wrote: »
    Well that would be the biggest mistake you could make. If you don't go to the exams then you will fail them and won't be able to pass by compenstation (you can only fail 1 with an E grade). No point getting an A in economic and failing 2 sociology modules. You will still fail the year.

    If you attend the exam and atleast bull**** something close to the essay topic you should pass.

    Don't be so rash to brush the exams off, unless you don't plan on completing your course.


    yeah i suppose i should, i can blab on for 2 hours quite well, and i went to most of the lectures, never got into it though, too boring.


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    Mikeyt086
    Registered Users Posts: 9,825 ✭✭✭Mikeyt086


    So you can get through the year with 2 fails?

    How does that work?


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    rg2007
    Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭rg2007


    i cant, ill probably have to repeat, but i wont make the same mistake twice, and ill choose something better


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    Shazbot
    Registered Users Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Shazbot


    Mikeyt086 wrote: »
    So you can get through the year with 2 fails?

    How does that work?

    Re-read what I said and what's been said on countless other threads. Do they still have meetings about this every year before exams start for 1st years? You can only fail 1 by an E grade to pass by compensation. Failing 2 or 1 with an F grade then you can't pass by compensation.


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    Mushy
    Registered Users Posts: 21,388 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    Mikeyt086 wrote: »
    So you can get through the year with 2 fails?

    How does that work?

    Ok, you're doing 60 credits over the course of the year. If you get 50, you move into 2nd year(or next year, whichever one you're in) like normal, bar you must repeat the ones you failed to make up the 60 credits from 1 st year. If you're below that(the 50 credit mark) its into Stage X, and lets not get into what that is, cos not many people know!


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