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Bonus points for Irish LC Applicants - Outright Fraud?

hjkgfjsd · 2012-10-28 13:07:36

Was reading the fact that bonus points, up to 10%, a couple of grades, are given to candidates who sit an exam in Irish. How is this not fraud? It's effing up the points system/curve with people who are starting on a plane above other people. It's nonsense to award somebody a A in maths when they deserve a B, just because…

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#32 05-11-2012 7:25pm

Peregrine

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Gumbi wrote: »

How is it fair that I have to pay to do Applied Maths outside school?

It's not, we should get 10% more
Institute? :pac:

Why make it just Irish?
But of course that would put it out of balance

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#33 05-11-2012 10:31pm

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Nimrod 7 wrote: »

It's not, we should get 10% more
Institute? :pac:

Why make it just Irish?
But of course that would put it out of balance

Well it all comes down to this. They are trying to incentivise further study of Irish (possibly for the aforementioned reason provided by spurious). They have allocated potential extra marks to it because of this, justifying it due to the increase difficulty. Essentially the same thing happens with honours maths too.

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