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Hrmm. It's possible, yes, in the earlier years I'd say - but if you do work, I'd say work very few hours. Don't do what I did. I worked every Saturday and Sunday, about twenty hours over the two days at least. I had so little time to myself, I got really run down and was sick a lot over the course of the year. That was probably a small factor into my dropping out of medicine!
I'd say you could manage to work during first year, but beyond that I'd say no. You'll start to value your free time so much when you have so much to learn. If you could get away without working, then avoid it - but it is manageable (just about) in first med.
After first year, I'd recommend going for the scholarship exams in second year if you think you're up to it. They're special exams held in the week before semester 2 starts in January, and you need to get an average of a first (70%+) over all the papers, usually not going below 60% in any (that specific regulation may vary). The benefits are unreal if you get it:
- Free accommodation for up to five years from the following year (usually your free accommodation would then start in third year). If you live in Dublin and don't want to move out of home, you can opt for getting money instead, which works out as about half the value of the accommodation IIRC.
- Free evening meals (Commons), and they're a three-course meal served with a glass of Guinness!
- You don't have to pay the registration fee, just the 85 euro instead of 1585.
- You receive a "salary" of 253.95 each year.
So it's definitely worth your while going for them, it would make the last three years of your course a hell of a lot easier as you wouldn't have to worry about a place to live, or food!
Free fees too if they bring them back in!0 -
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almostnever wrote: »Can you do the scholarship exams for any course, or is there a list of courses you can do 'em in? It sounds absolutely fantastic (and daunting!)
As far as I know, you can do them for pretty much every undergraduate degree. And yes, you can do them for Law.
Edit: These are the specific regulations for law, from page 10 of this.Candidates taking the honor course in law are examined in papers chosen by the
candidate from any of the modules in the Junior Freshman or Senior Freshman years of
that course, to amount to nine hours of examinations in total. Candidates taking either the
honor course in law and German or the honor course in law and French must take a total
of six hours of law examinations, in addition to three hours of compulsory examinations in
foreign law and language.
2 Candidates must give notice of their choice of modules when giving notice of their
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almostnever wrote: »Can you do the scholarship exams for any course, or is there a list of courses you can do 'em in? It sounds absolutely fantastic (and daunting!)
All of them. 0 -
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Thanks^^:).
What exactly are they? What's the content of the test etc. Literally never heard of them before:o
From here again, the regulations for medicine are the following:Medicine
Candidates are examined in their course work up to the end of the Michaelmas term of the second medical year. Papers will contain material from the following disciplines: anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, molecular medicine and human development, behavioural sciences and ethics. A special topic theme will be examined in the beginning of the Hilary term which requires additional reading.
As far as I know, you can sit no more than 9 hours of exams - I'm presuming that holds for medicine as well as other courses. 0 -
From here again, the regulations for medicine are the following:
As far as I know, you can sit no more than 9 hours of exams - I'm presuming that holds for medicine as well as other courses.
Oh I think you have to get over a certain percentage in your summer exams to be allowed sit Schols in 2nd year Medicine (because so many apply).0 -
Oh I think you have to get over a certain percentage in your summer exams to be allowed sit Schols in 2nd year Medicine (because so many apply).
I was going to mention that, but I wasn't 100% sure if they still had the regulations about first year exams since the new Schols system was introduced! Before the current stystem, I believe the first year results actually counted for some of the Schol result in medicine. :eek: But I'd say you're probably right. I'm trying to find out for sure, the file I linked earlier only gives what I quoted above so I'm nosing through the medicine site now! If there's any second/third year meds around who know the regulations, let us know!
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Oh I think you have to get over a certain percentage in your summer exams to be allowed sit Schols in 2nd year Medicine (because so many apply).I was going to mention that, but I wasn't 100% sure if they still had the regulations about first year exams since the new Schols system was introduced! Before the current stystem, I believe the first year results actually counted for some of the Schol result in medicine. :eek: But I'd say you're probably right. I'm trying to find out for sure, the file I linked earlier only gives what I quoted above so I'm nosing through the medicine site now! If there's any second/third year meds around who know the regulations, let us know!
You have to average over 60 or 70% in your subjects over first and second year, or something like that. I haven't looked into Schols too much since getting 25% in my first exam
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Oh! I just remembered some more useful information. A lot of you probably know that you get the Entrance Exhibition if you get 560+ points, which is worth 150 euro of book vouchers per year for the first two years of college, so that's 300 euro in total of vouchers.
Then there's also sizarships. From here:
.Sizars are entrance exhibitioners of limited means who have their Commons free. The awards of sizarship are announced at the same time as the awards of exhibitions. The period of tenure of sizarship commences from the day on which the award is announced in Michaelmas term. Persons wishing to be considered for the award of sizarship should send to the Senior Lecturer, on or before 1 October in their year of entry, a statement on the prescribed form showing that they are qualified on the ground of limited means. Only those persons whose public examination results meet the criteria for the award of entrance exhibition will be considered. Sizarships are tenable, provided there is no significant change in a holder’s means, until the end of the year (Senior Freshman or Junior Sophister) in which the foundation scholarship examination in the
holder’s subject is designed to take place. Sizars who have to repeat a year or otherwise fail to make satisfactory progress forfeit their award and the same penalty may be inflicted for any grave violation of College discipline.
You automatically get awarded the Entrance Exhibition should your points be sufficient, but you have to apply for the sizarship (which is essentially means-tested), and the form for that is here.
Oh, and if you happen to be from Kerry, there's also the Reid Entrance Exhibition, the details of which are also in the links above, and the application form is the same as the sizarship one I believe.
Hopefully this will be useful to some of you! There are some other scholarships for specific courses (e.g. physics) as well, but they generally have application dates a bit into term, and forms would be available on the course webpage. 0 -
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A Neurotic wrote: »You have to average over 60 or 70% in your subjects over first and second year, or something like that. I haven't looked into Schols too much since getting 25% in my first exam
Hope the exam went well.0 -
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What's the story with Entrance Exhibitions? I've heard many a thing, including "you get it if you're the highest 10% in your course", "you get it if you got over 535", and "you get it if you got over 560". I spose I'll trust you Aoibheann, you seem to know what you're talking about. :P
It changed to 560 last year, I think it used to be around 540 or so. This confirms it's 560. And thank you for your faith in me! :pac: 0 -
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There are also several small prizes related to your exam results and course listed in the college calendar. They're usually €200 at most so you'll probably find them out by accident instead of actively working towards them. Granted top JF chem student got 1500 this year.
There's actually quite a lot of these prizes, the ultimate list of them seems to be this. It mentions both the entrances ones and the subject specific, exam results-based ones too. Type in your course title in the search and you'll be able to find any relevant ones. 0 -
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There's actually quite a lot of these prizes, the ultimate list of them seems to be this. It mentions both the entrances ones and the subject specific, exam results-based ones too. Type in your course title in the search and you'll be able to find any relevant ones.
Even that one isn't entirely comprehensive. It doesn't include the prizes which you can get for being in the top 10 in your class in EC1010 in term tests. Perhaps they've done away with it or something.0 -
Missed that part...such a head ache scrolling down:oThere's actually quite a lot of these prizes, the ultimate list of them seems to be this. It mentions both the entrances ones and the subject specific, exam results-based ones too. Type in your course title in the search and you'll be able to find any relevant ones.0 -
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almostnever wrote: »If I wasn't on boards I think I'd walk into Trinity on September 20th and die.
Thanks so much for all the information everyone, it really helps a lot.
Does your brother not tell you anything?? Well that's just mean! :pac:0 -
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