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What is matriculation?

  • 22-01-2011 10:57pm
    #1
    roonimirza
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    hi all

    just confused with with matriculation, as checking for entry requirements to Trinity. Do you have to do a separate exam or matriculation is = leaving cert..
    sorry if its a basic question..

    thanks


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  • #2
    Cool Mo D
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    Matriculation is meeting the entry requirements for your course. So if you need honours maths, a language, and whatever else to get in, you matriculate if you meet these requirements with your leaving cert results.


  • #3
    spurious
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    In my day there were matriculation exams for Trinity, like a second chance if you were going to make a bags of the Leaving - but that was before the Flood, when 25 or 26 points got you into medicine.


  • #4
    readystudypass
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    Trinity still have some sort of a mini matriculation exam but it's only in 2 subjects (you can sit 1 or both subjects) so you need to combine it with other subjects from the Leaving Cert

    http://www.tcd.ie/Admissions/undergraduate/requirements/matric-exam/


  • #5
    randylonghorn
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    spurious wrote: »
    In my day there were matriculation exams for Trinity, like a second chance if you were going to make a bags of the Leaving - but that was before the Flood, when 25 or 26 points got you into medicine.
    Probably worth noting that points were calculated differently then ... :D

    Was ...

    A (Hons) = 5
    B (Hons) = 4
    C (Hons) = 3
    D (Hons) = 2

    A (Pass) = 2
    B (Pass) = 1

    ... as I recall, max was 30.


    Matriculation is the minimum entry requirements for the *university* (or sometimes the faculty these days) rather than for your specific course ... you may for example need Hons Maths for your course min. requirements, but not for matric.

    See NUI Matric and TCD Matric.


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