Advice for future 6th years

jenny18

QueenOfLeon wrote: »

You have to get a HC3 in Chemistry for the 5 year courses in RCSI, UCD and UCC. You DON'T need to do chemistry for the 5 year course in Trinity or NUIG (any 2 science subjects will do), or the 6 year courses in any college (one science needed).

i actually emailed all these colleges and galway said for 5 year course only all 3 sciences are a defo yes. biology and chemistry second higest chance but without chemisty very unlikely to get 5 year course. trinity said similiar. just so any 4th years no that its ver advisable to do chemistry and at least one other science.

jenny18

coffeelover wrote: »

There's some great advice in this thread .. Going into 6th year and still don't really know what I want to do. I'm thinking maybe business or something biology related. I'm really dreading when the CAO comes out

i'm just after doing leaving started the year planning to do law, by christmas genetics, pres home ec and biology teaching, leaving medicine, if u new what u wanted to do you'd be the only one in history of 6th year. dont stress when your under pressure trust me you'll no exactly wat u want to do.

yournerd

angela is accounting hard?

Im planning on spending 1h 30min - 2hours on homework & 1 hour study a night till Xmas & 2 hours after that.

angela1711

yournerd wrote: »

angela is accounting hard?

Im planning on spending 1h 30min - 2hours on homework & 1 hour study a night till Xmas & 2 hours after that.

Well it depend on the person for me accounting is okey.
If you like logic thinking, calculations etc. than you should be grand.
There is only a bit of theory in LC exam and 95 % of the exam are calculations.
There is no way of study this subject just practice the questions over and over again.

yournerd

I did the 2 Accounting questions on paper 2 in the business exam for Jc and 1 balanced the other was out by a bit. Is it easy to do well in?

angela1711

It is easy to get an A1 in it but you have to practice. I never got less than a C in a test even if I didn't get a topic. A lot of stuff you did in JC but for the LC is just more developed.

Chuchoter

I've a lot of friends doing accounting and whereas they don't find it hard, its so much work. They have metric tonnes of homework all the time.

padocon

yournerd wrote: »

I did the 2 Accounting questions on paper 2 in the business exam for Jc and 1 balanced the other was out by a bit. Is it easy to do well in?

Their is a huge difference between accounting for JC and accounting for LC.
On the accounting topic various different people will say various different thing about different subjects, it depends what you are good at. No subject at LC level is a walk in the park. Personally I think accounting is hard and takes a lot of time but more so effort. Accounting is like if you understand it, its no bother, you cant learn anything of its all understanding and practicing.

Accounting has the highest level of A1's in the leaving cert. Why? Most people will presume "because its easy". I think its because if you get it, you get it and if you don't you dont.

yournerd

wel I am personally good at accounting. Im not bragging or anything but my teacher told me I would be able for it and I have experience of doing taxes at home. Its just I sometimes really want to do Medecine which needs Chemistry so if its on at the same time as Accounting Im picking Accounting which stops me from doing medecine.

padocon

yournerd wrote: »

wel I am personally good at accounting. Im not bragging or anything but my teacher told me I would be able for it and I have experience of doing taxes at home. Its just I sometimes really want to do Medecine which needs Chemistry so if its on at the same time as Accounting Im picking Accounting which stops me from doing medecine.

Well if your good at it then its a good break from all the theory you are going to be doing.

njd2010

OP here, with another piece of advice I wish I'd had a few months ago.

Plan a 6th year holiday. Beg, borrow and steal to afford it if you have to. And book it for the week prior to August 17th.

Because for the love of God, the suspense and nerves of the past 2 weeks have been something else... Worse than leading up to the exams, because there isn't anything to do about it. Too late to study now. Just have to sit here, wondering, waiting... a trip to one of those european places with the warm weather and cheap booze and easy women that every other person in my year went on would hit the spot right about now.

Alas, here I sit, playing Minecraft hours a day to distract myself. Good God, what a waste of a summer.

luciemc

njd2010 wrote: »

OP here, with another piece of advice I wish I'd had a few months ago.

Plan a 6th year holiday. Beg, borrow and steal to afford it if you have to. And book it for the week prior to August 17th.

Because for the love of God, the suspense and nerves of the past 2 weeks have been something else... Worse than leading up to the exams, because there isn't anything to do about it. Too late to study now. Just have to sit here, wondering, waiting... a trip to one of those european places with the warm weather and cheap booze and easy women that every other person in my year went on would hit the spot right about now.

Alas, here I sit, playing Minecraft hours a day to distract myself. Good God, what a waste of a summer.

This right here, this is the best advice I've ever heard anyone give.

yournerd

ya thats what I think everyone should do as a reward I went to russia for 2 months after my JC :L

smeal

Great piece of advice:)! I would also advice serious organisation!! Keep up to date on homework, not only to allow more time for study, but it takes stress off your shoulders! Nothing worse than letting the homework pile up and maybe having 3 english essays to do on a Sunday evening on top of everything else. And not trying to sound all OCD or anything but keep things in seperate folders that way notes are easily accessible during the year:)
Don't become too reliant on the past papers. They are great for outlining the exam and everything but definitely don't fall into the trap of "It came up last year so it cant possibly come up again this year". Some exams this year (especially Geography and History) were very suprising papers!
Oh and anyone who needs additional help for Gaeilge H.L you should head to the half term revision course in Colaiste Sheoisamh in February! It was fantastic help for the Oral especially:) I know the course is different this year but I imagine they'll still do pretty much the same thing:) It's quite expensive, 350 euro for I think it was 4 days, but the notes you get are amazing and it was well worth the money as it gave extra confidence for the Oral which is only about 4 weeks after the course:)
Hope this helped too for anyone:) And keep a clear head next year but remember not to kill yourself over the whole thing, still enjoy your weekends and everything:) X

yournerd

Yes helpful again

fearbainne

Little piece of advise for future 5th and 6th years.. Be smart with your subject choice!

I done all practicals, Construction, Music, Engineering and DCG, you will have 50% in every one of them before you sit an exam, trust me that can mean a lot of easy points!

I knew that I wanted to do primary teaching so i didnt have to worry about subject entry requirements however... Keep in mind what you want to do in college/life! I dont think they stress how subject choice can be really important when your making the choice..

AG2R

Just got my results and I done very little study, I'm sure its been mentioned many times in the thread but seriously, STUDY from day one!

ebbsy

Do a bit every night.

Learn key words not paragraphs.

yournerd

Watcha get

Mysteriouschic

Study at the beginning of the year do not leave it late try not to procrastinate.

njd2010

yournerd wrote: »

Watcha get

480 if anyone is interested over the moon, considering I only did 5 honours subjects and was expecting around 430!

yournerd

well done

njd2010

Another tip- get all the documents for the Grant application ready and sent off as soon as possible- especially if, like me, you will be needing that grant money for food and books other boring stuff!

padocon

fearbainne wrote: »

I done all practicals, Construction, Music, Engineering and DCG, you will have 50% in every one of them before you sit an exam, trust me that can mean a lot of easy points!

There is no such thing as easy points.

kpac

Honours maths requires at least 45 mins-1 hour of homework/study per night if you want to get on well.

njd2010

padocon wrote: »

There is no such thing as easy points.

Of course there is.



Anyway just wanted to add something new: When you are finished 6th year, I strongly recommend keeping any notes for subjects you might be keeping on in college- especially French and German. I gave away my big folder of German notes once I was done the LC (Didn't want to see them EVER again!) but regretted it once I started doing German in uni.

Languages are much harder in college than in secondary school (or at least that's my experience of it) so you might just regret chucking away all your carefully organised notes in a few months! I'm doing Law so none of my other notes would've been relevant anyway but I have friends doing other courses who regret burning their chemistry, biology etc notes. Keep it in mind!

Closet Monkey

Thanks a lot for the tips, especially how get rid of the computer distraction which has wasted most of my time all through 3rd year. I hope it won't happen this year.

njd2010

Just wanted to say I'm still answering messages from people about this post, feel free to keep them coming!

njd2010

njd2010 wrote: »

Just wanted to say I'm still answering messages from people about this post, feel free to keep them coming!

which kind of subjects are easiest to do for me outside school? id be getting a grind id say about once to twice a month.

id either be doing business, economics, French (most likely O.L) or geography outside school). I have a good interest in both business subjects. im ok at French; only got C in HL in jc and the French teachers aren't the best in my school so do you think id be able to manage OL outside school?

re. time- im will be doing OL Irish but HL maths. am I taking on too much by doing 8 subjects?
what I want to do in uni, I dont know but have a fair idea and it will require points in the 400's

thanks in advance; btw im in Ty now

LostBoy101

Deleted User wrote: »

which kind of subjects are easiest to do for me outside school? id be getting a grind id say about once to twice a month.

id either be doing business, economics, French (most likely O.L) or geography outside school). I have a good interest in both business subjects. im ok at French; only got C in HL in jc and the French teachers aren't the best in my school so do you think id be able to manage OL outside school?

re. time- im will be doing OL Irish but HL maths. am I taking on too much by doing 8 subjects?
what I want to do in uni, I dont know but have a fair idea and it will require points in the 400's

thanks in advance; btw im in Ty now

I wouldn't recommend 8 subjects because you are putting way too much pressure on yourself so I'd stick with 7 at the most.