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*leaving cert 2013*

  • 29-09-2012 4:46pm
    #1
    Confused93
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭


    Hey just wondering is it possible to actually repeat your leaving cert without actually enrolling in any school/college. Kinda like home schooling yourself and then completing the exams in June? :)


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  • #2
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,236 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Yes, but you need to register as an external student with the SEC by 5.pm on Thursday 31st January 2013 (aftert that a late fee applies). For some subjects you need a teacher to be able to sign off on project/practical/essay work, so you will have to have some contact with a school or centre.

    See http://www.examinations.ie under Candidates/External Candidate Information.


  • #3
    Confused93
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭Confused93


    Thanks a million spurious.. This has helped me alot! Generally do external candidates do well? :)


  • #4
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,236 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    I don't know if anyone has ever issued stats on it. The externals are a varied group containing everyone from people in their 70s who are sitting one subject, to peope in their 30s who may always have regretted not taking a particular subject and do so now, to customers of grinds businesses who sit their exams all over the place.


  • #5
    Confused93
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭Confused93


    I am curretly waiting for rechecks, out in mid october. I should get an upgrade but just incase I need a plan B... and this suits me perfectly! I was afraid that mid october would be too late to enroll in a school and repeat but now I have this option also.. ;) Thank you.. :) If I repeat as an external candidate, in biology for example would I have to do all the experiments again under the supervision of a teacher? even though I completed them all last year? :)


  • #6
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,236 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Confused93 wrote: »
    I am curretly waiting for rechecks, out in mid october. I should get an upgrade but just incase I need a plan B... and this suits me perfectly! I was afraid that mid october would be too late to enroll in a school and repeat but now I have this option also.. ;) Thank you.. :) If I repeat as an external candidate, in biology for example would I have to do all the experiments again under the supervision of a teacher? even though I completed them all last year? :)

    I don't know is the short answer, sorry.
    Your old teacher should be able to tell you. Since they were part of the course work rather than an assessment component, I suspect that having done them once would be enough, but double check that.


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  • #7
    Sunny!!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Sunny!!


    Confused93 wrote: »
    I am curretly waiting for rechecks, out in mid october. I should get an upgrade but just incase I need a plan B... and this suits me perfectly! I was afraid that mid october would be too late to enroll in a school and repeat but now I have this option also.. ;) Thank you.. :) If I repeat as an external candidate, in biology for example would I have to do all the experiments again under the supervision of a teacher? even though I completed them all last year? :)

    You dont once you have them all written up:)


  • #8
    Confused93
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭Confused93


    Thanks a million for all the replies... The advice has helped me alot thanks! :)


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