LC Off Topic Thread (2015/16)

kb98

coolerboy wrote: »

Yeahh hopefully ....whats gpa

Sorry, autocorrect. Was meant to be HPAT.
GPA is the American high school and uni grading system btw, like a courses requirements would be a GPA of 3.5 and if u have 3.5 or above you get in and so on, same as points kind of

coolerboy

:-) :-D

Daniel2590

Fairly sure it was because 10 or so questions weren't marked because they appeared in a certain practice course actually :pac:

kb98

Bazinga_N wrote: »

There's a lot of talk about scrapping the HPAT so you'd never know Hopefully it might be gone by the time we get there!

I think I'd rather the HPAT than the old way because the points would shoot back up to 600+

Bazinga_N

kb98 wrote: »

I think I'd rather the HPAT than the old way because the points would shoot back up to 600+

I think it should be a bit more like the UK. Like interviews and personal statements. They would tell if a student's suited for medicine or not much better than the HPAT would.

coolerboy

kb98 wrote: »

I think I'd rather the HPAT than the old way because the points would shoot back up to 600+

With the hpat you can still get in to medicine with 480 points but it would we incredibly hard to score 250+ in the hpat

FifaPlaya

coolerboy wrote: »

Lucky you im the smallest in my year even some 1st years are taller than me

Dont worry u'll grow as long as you dont lift heavy weights

coolerboy

Are youse going to start studying when we get back or only for exams.
I plan to look over work done in class at home and study 2 hrs a day after easter

Daniel2590

FifaPlaya wrote: »

Dont worry u'll grow as long as you dont lift heavy weights

That is bs sorry, I've lifted weights since like 2nd year and I'm a normal height (5'10/11)

Bazinga_N

coolerboy wrote: »

Are youse going to start studying when we get back or only for exams.
I plan to look over work done in class at home and study 2 hrs a day after easter

I'm gonna try to come up with a good way of making notes. I've been taking notes in 4th year but I think they might be too bulky for revision. I might try flashcards or something this year. I think studying for exams and tests is probably the best way to go in 5th year tbh!

kb98

coolerboy wrote: »

Are youse going to start studying when we get back or only for exams.
I plan to look over work done in class at home and study 2 hrs a day after easter

Im doing after school study, although most of that time will be spent on hw...

coolerboy

kb98 wrote: »

Im doing after school study, although most of that time will be spent on hw...

Sames

FifaPlaya

coolerboy wrote: »

Are youse going to start studying when we get back or only for exams.
I plan to look over work done in class at home and study 2 hrs a day after easter

Im goin to study every night when i go back to school

kb98

coolerboy wrote: »

Sames

Can't wait

coolerboy

kb98 wrote: »

Can't wait

Me2

coolerboy

Does anyone wish to study abroad

FifaPlaya

coolerboy wrote: »

Me2

Same

coolerboy wrote: »

Does anyone wish to study abroad

That depends

Bazinga_N

coolerboy wrote: »

Does anyone wish to study abroad

I think I'd like to

coolerboy

FifaPlaya wrote: »

That depends

What u plan to do in college

Bazinga_N wrote: »

I think I'd like to

Yeah me too scotland or uk

FifaPlaya

coolerboy wrote: »

What u plan to do in college

Probably something in computer maybe business or some science. I hear business is taught brutally here from my friend who went abroad to study

Bazinga_N

coolerboy wrote: »

Yeah me too scotland or uk

I'd love to go the America but the fees are just way too crazy!

FifaPlaya

coolerboy wrote: »

Yeah me too scotland or uk

Scotland is free and england is very expensive maybe consider sweden as it is free also

kb98

If i don't get medicine in ireland i will consider going to eastern europe

Bazinga_N

kb98 wrote: »

If i don't get medicine in ireland i will consider going to eastern europe

If I don't get it I'll probably just go for general science or something else and apply for graduate medicine afterwards!

kb98

Bazinga_N wrote: »

If I don't get it I'll probably just go for general science or something else and apply for graduate medicine afterwards!

That's my option 2 along with repeating, but grad costs like 60k or something

Bazinga_N

kb98 wrote: »

That's my option 2 along with repeating, but grad costs like 60k or something

Yeah I don't know tbh! I'm just praying I get into undergrad!

kb98

Bazinga_N wrote: »

Yeah I don't know tbh! I'm just praying I get into undergrad!

Same, I know if i work hard i can get it!

AlanS181824

Not long now...

May try on my uniform :pac:

Imaginary Friend

I'm going back on the 26th. Every other year I looked forward to it, this year ... not so much. Mainly because this has been such a fabulous summer. Before that I'm going (from Louth) to Dublin on the Saturday and Galway on Sunday and Monday. So it'll be busy. I'm doing English, Irish, Maths, Biology, Chemistry, History and French. Considering picking up an 8th but I really don't know which I'd like to do so... Used Boards a bit coming up to the Junior Cert but yeah.

Bazinga_N

AlanS181824 wrote: »

Not long now...

May try on my uniform :pac:

I just realised this morning I never bought school pants :eek: Had to get express delivery :P

Imaginary Friend wrote: »

I'm going back on the 26th. Every other year I looked forward to it, this year ... not so much. Mainly because this has been such a fabulous summer. Before that I'm going (from Louth) to Dublin on the Saturday and Galway on Sunday and Monday. So it'll be busy. I'm doing English, Irish, Maths, Biology, Chemistry, History and French. Considering picking up an 8th but I really don't know which I'd like to do so... Used Boards a bit coming up to the Junior Cert but yeah.

I'm not really looking forward to going back either if I'm honest