Your favourite subject!

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Just doing this as a personal project to see what are peoples favourite subjects and why. When you choose could you leave a comment why the subject you have chosen is your favourite and feel free to expand!

Thanks

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Economics is my choice as I find it very interesting and the exam has a very good choice of questions!

brian93

Cool poll

Biology, because it's interesting, and you learn a lot about real life - like the nutrition section, reproduction section etc, stuff that's good to know outside of school. My teacher wasn't the best, but classes were never a bore, and I found it easy to learn and understand.

Hoping to become a Maths and Biology teacher

Oh and I was torn between Maths and Geography as well as Biology, but Biology just about edges it!

MegGustaa

I said French because it was the first that came to mind, but really I like all my subjects...it's difficult to choose a favourite. Sure I hated Geography and Religion for the Junior but I love everything I've chosen for the LC

UrbanSea

Business. It's interesting and easy.

partyatmygaff

I liked all of them pretty much. I'd say it would have to be a tie between English and Chemistry.

paulmclaughlin

Mathematics...

Sunny!!

has to be chemistry... bit tricky in some places but makes you think and its interesting:)

nuggetclv

Maths -
For the rest of the exams, you're tested on how much of the book you can learn off in my opinion. Maths teacher was the best. This subject asks something of you, at HL anyway.

Geo10

Geography, in my opinion, is the most interesting subject by far (not to mention most relevant). I've been fascinated with the subject since I was very young... always getting globes, atlases etc. Geography class is the only class in school I always really look forward to.
Although I also love learning about business, science and world religions.
I like to speak Irish and German but for some reason I always find language classes (no matter how much I am fascinated by the language) immensely boring.
Really I like all subjects bar English and Maths *shudder at the thought of having to spend another year learning them*

Laika_

English, without a doubt. I was delighted to have the opportunity to study Shakespeare for the LC. Wasn't too taken with the poets this year, but loved Hopkins. P I is an excellent test of raw ability under pressure (if you are not learning off a short story!)- something not always tested so thoroughly in the LC. I will really miss it!

brian93

Geo10 wrote: »

I've been fascinated with the subject since I was very young... always getting globes, atlases etc.

Thought I was the only one! I knew all the capitals, all the populations, all the land areas. I'd spend hours aimlessly flicking through atlases

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

I voted Home Ec but meant Construction. Why? Doss of a class, barley had to go, spent a good bit of time making the project and practising for the practical, in which I'm confident I'll get >45% (max = 50%) of my final grade. Add to that the paper is the easiest paper I did.

Nagikami

I voted Other for Japanese It's a pretty awesome subject, it's interesting, the exam is really easy (43.4% of students got As last year) and it's useful Also I love languages so that helps too =D And watching anime comes under studying for Japanese in my book

LilMissCiara

Physics; I loved my teacher and there were only 5 of us in the class so it was always really fun. We all grew really close over the past 2 years and called each other our physics family (all girls school :P).
Our teacher made it really hands on and if any of us didn't understand something she would explain it until we all clearly understood it. The subject itself is really nice and easy to understand as it is basically about the world around us.

I love physics!

eVeNtInE

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Superbus

English is my strongest, but my favourite is Latin, without a doubt.

coffeelover

Its gotta be music. LOVE it so much

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Nagikami wrote: »

I voted Other for Japanese It's a pretty awesome subject, it's interesting, the exam is really easy (43.4% of students got As last year) and it's useful Also I love languages so that helps too =D And watching anime comes under studying for Japanese in my book

Do you think it would be possible to take up Japanese in one year on your own and get an A/B in HL?

Nagikami

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Do you think it would be possible to take up Japanese in one year on your own and get an A/B in HL?

If you work at it then I don't see why not Especially as it is one of the easiest subjects at LC level
I'd definitely advise you to get the Nihongo Kantan textbook as it covers most of the stuff you need to learn for the LC exam
The exam itself is quite easy For the written (HL) you have to do 3 reading comprehensions and a small grammar question after each Then there's a cultural question which takes up about 6 lines, 2 essays, the 1st about 200 characters and the second about 320 characters (which is about half a page and a page respectively) The listening is incredibly easy compared to other languages ie French, German, Irish etc, and the Oral isn't that bad either with 3 sections: 1. General Conversation (incredibly easy, stuff like your family, where you live etc), 2. Short Speech-type thing (You choose a topic off a face-down card you chose Usually covers the same type of stuff as section 1 but in more detail like My Favourite Book or Sports) and 3. Photos (You choose a photo at random and you have to decribe it) And starting from this year's LC you actually get sent a list (about a month before) of what Topics come up in the speech section and the 4 photos that come up in section 3

So yeah you could do it in about a year, I think (Btw this sounds like a lot but it's not)

Neodymium

Has to be maths for me simply because I enjoy it so much. I'm one of those weird people who actually enjoys doing their maths homework because I find it so fun:D. English on the other hand sends shivers down my spine at just the thought of scribbling down some mindless iterations for an essay about some play or novel.

dambarude

French/Irish for me but I have to say I liked all of mine save Geography.

For good reason a lot of people's favourite subject= the subject they're best at it. Which is exactly why you should pick ones you like if you can at all.

Neodymium

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ryan087

probably biology because it was the only honours subject I did. God I did so bad in that leaving cert it's not even funny.

Geo10

brian93 wrote: »

Thought I was the only one! I knew all the capitals, all the populations, all the land areas. I'd spend hours aimlessly flicking through atlases

Ditto! My aunties and uncles used to always test me on all the capitals, populations of countries/ cities etc. when I was young! What's scary is I knew more capitals of the world when I was like 8/9 than I do now because I don't have time any more to be constantly reading atlases etc. with the stresses of secondary school! They should put capitals, identifying countries/ states/ counties, populations of places etc. on the LC Geography syllabus :):)

That Handsome Devil

I like most of what I'm doing but my favourite has to be applied maths... or something maths/physics related :P </nerd>

bscm

Physics woop

:cool: Irish has no votes

Just Like Heaven

Probably Chemistry.

Followed closely by Physics and Japanese though.

AnamGlas

Engineering, fierce interesting - something new always comes along.

That said; the satisfaction from HL maths is unreal, and the flow of Irish sounds amazing (if you can do it )

partyatmygaff

0 Irish - European Language 7

Says it all really.

Leaving Cert 2013

Japanese all the way:D

Iceuil

Was torn between chemistry and geography. Absolutely love both of them, but voted for chemistry, because I am thinking of studying it further.