30 Subjects in the Leaving Cert... (World Record attempt -Waterford based)

Lamph · 07-08-2010 1:02am #1

Well,

Just to introduce myself. I'm Eoin Jackson and I'm expecting some interesting exam results on Wednesday week. I just sat 30 LC subjects this June. I did 20 Higher and 10 at Ordinary level. (i.e. 20+10 in 2010!)

If I manage to pass more than 20, it'll be a new record for 'most exams passed in any State exam worldwide' (If I pass fewer than 20 it'll be an embarrassment to me -AND to Waterford for spawning a fool like me! :P)

I'm putting a documentary about it on YouTube... I just uploaded an episode about the Japanese Oral exam. It's turned out gr8, so I thought I would share it here on the Waterford forum:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PqAeZKfiUw

It's the 5th episode in the series.
(Episode #1 is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vYrLTpqgpc)

Hopefully this'll be of interest to some of ye. It'll probably be on the radio and in the papers when the results come out, but remember ye heard it here first. "Boards.ie Waterford forum:- actually First For Waterford!!"

SUNGOD · 07-08-2010 10:02am

fair play to ya i didnt realise you could do so many subjects for LC
best of luck with results

holy guacamole · 07-08-2010 10:46am

I bet you were fun to sit beside in class.

Typhoon. · 07-08-2010 11:27am

Best of luck Eoin

Hoffmans · 07-08-2010 6:13pm

good luck there chief...

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Asmodean · 07-08-2010 6:34pm

Jesus what an achievement! best of luck!

Stokolan · 08-08-2010 11:11am

SUNGOD wrote: »

fair play to ya i didnt realise you could do so many subjects for LC

From what I remember you can do as many as you want but when it comes to geting points they only use 7 subjects.

Anyway Fair play sounds like it was interesting.

spurious · 08-08-2010 11:23am

"I REALLY LIKE Abba!"

Very cool. I took JC Music with some of the kids I teach this year and did my General Study on Abba. It was great. Unfortunately I think I made a bags of the rest of the paper.

Good luck with the results and more importantly with the fund-raising.

sparkling sea · 09-08-2010 7:01pm

That's amazing, best of luck to you.

Any tips on how to pass exams?

uppishhauk · 09-08-2010 10:21pm

fair play dude, hopes ya break the second record

deisedevil · 09-08-2010 11:03pm

Stokolan wrote: »

From what I remember you can do as many as you want but when it comes to geting points they only use 7 subjects.

Anyway Fair play sounds like it was interesting.

I never heard of anyone getting 700 points in the leaving, I thought the max was 600?

Sounds very interesting. All the best with the results!

Moonmad · 17-08-2010 12:35pm

From today's Irish Times

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0817/breaking30.html

Man awaits results of 30 Leaving subjects

ELAINE EDWARDS

A man from Waterford is hoping to set a record tomorrow when he receives the results of the 30 subjects he sat in this year’s Leaving Cert.

Eoin Jackson took on the massive challenge to help raise funds for the education project he helps to run for early school leavers.

He hopes to have passed a minimum of 23 subjects and a maximum of 28 – 20 of them at higher level.

Mr Jackson teaches at the XLc Project, a family-run school established by his mother Nuala Jackson in 1998.

To date, it has put about 700 early school leavers from the southeast and other parts of the country through the Leaving Cert and Junior Cert exams.

Mr Jackson claims the methods used by the project to be unique. “They are based around mutual respect. The most telling endorsement of the project lies in the outcomes.”

Each year the small semi-voluntary staff puts an average of 70 students through the State exams, and the pass rate stands at between 86 per cent and 97 per cent annually. “These figures tend to astound teachers who have dealt with the students in their former schools, and who would not have considered that student capable of passing a Leaving Cert,” Mr Jackson says.

“Under the XLc pedagogy, we operate at a level where the student is always experiencing success . . . and once they’ve succeeded, the buzz of achievement becomes addictive, and they then want to do better.

“In this way we build up confidence and ability until the student is ready to tackle the Junior or Leaving Cert.”

Mr Jackson said the project “unfortunately” falls between stools at a bureaucratic level and that it has not received mainstream funding.

His mother Nuala, a former nun, told The Irish Times in 2008 that the school’s motto was to “ignore the failures and reward success”, which was the opposite of a normal education system which always said “could do better”.

KylieWyley · 17-08-2010 12:39pm

Legend!

gscully · 18-08-2010 11:17am

Hope you achieved your goal Lamph.

By the way, I sent you a PM that may lead to some benefit to your school. Please have a read and let me know. Thanks!

Typhoon. · 18-08-2010 11:23am

well done eoin, great result

dayshah · 18-08-2010 11:43am

27 subjects passed, well done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0818/breaking24.html

JD89 · 18-08-2010 12:13pm

thats an amazing achievement

Professey Chin · 18-08-2010 12:21pm

Holy Jesus

The full list of subjects, including self-taught ancient biblical Hebrew studies, was: English, Irish (ordinary), French (o), German (o), Spanish (o), Italian (o), Russian (o), Japanese (o), Swedish (o), Maths, Applied Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Agricultural Science, Home Economics, Economics, Business Studies, Accounting, Religion, Classical Studies, History, Geography, Art, Music, Construction Studies, Engineering, Design Communication Graphics, and Technology.