Dats

jono087

Anyone in 5th / 6th year do these DATs tests? they seem to be quite similar to the SAT's we did to qualify for CTYI........

Matthewthebig

Yeah i did them.

They are quite boring

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

We did them in 3rd year... heard absolutely nothing more of them until we were given the results one day in 5th year... doing them didn't change my life in any way, shape or form - well, we did miss half a day of school, but that's all.

Plunky

NOTHING like the SAT-1 tbh. Total crap if you ask me - have no bearing on anything - they're just a way to keep TYs busy in most schools...

Scarinae

Yeah, I did them in 4th year - they're super easy and super boring. The school wanted us to do them to help us choose our LC subjects, apparently, but they were no help at all since most people got roughly the same score in most of them. I mean, out of the eight tests, I got the exact same score in six of them! So it was no help at all, and they were just used as a tool by my guidance counsellor to try pushing me into medicine

Jono087, are you going to be doing them soon?

lemon_sherbert

i did them this year. Got top percent in all but two, second in clerical speed, and sixth in language. Which caused my guidance counselor to respond, you know, we've just got this leaflet from a course in DCU, you might be interested...
Of course I'd already been twice and this was already february.

Tests are easy, but a nice way to get a day off. Good luck!

Scarinae

lemon_sherbert wrote:

Got top percent in all but two

Me too! Got slightly less in Mechanical Reasoning, and less again in Clerical Speed and Accuracy (which means I'm not cut out for being a receptionist - oh dear - but that's pretty obvious from my crap typing!)

Undergod

Yeah they're a bit dull. I asked my teacher if clerical speed and accuracy meant being a very fast priest, and I think she thought it was a serious question.

Scarinae

Undergod wrote:

I asked my teacher if clerical speed and accuracy meant being a very fast priest, and I think she thought it was a serious question.

Chowburger

A ridiculous number of people in my year got told that they should be gynaecologists on their test results...

It wasn't me!

Yeah, did them this year. Load of arse if you ask me. Did nothing for nobody. (Aw yeah, the T *is* for smart! )

jono087

Fishie wrote:

Jono087, are you going to be doing them soon?

Ya did them already, got 99 in 5 of them and a 97 and a 96.

I actually thoiught the teacher was ripping the piss out of me when we were going through the results. the conversation went something like this: "ya, you're good at that, ya, you're good at that, ya, you're good at that, ya, you're good at that, ya, you're good at that, ya, you're good at that, ya, you're good at that". Which means i can't differentiate between what i'm good at and what i'm better at..... waste of time.

Scarinae

jono087 wrote:

i can't differentiate between what i'm good at and what i'm better at..... waste of time.

Nuisance, isn't it? that's what happened to most people in my year who did it

Raphael

Got the same sort of a result. Was useful for my LCVP career investigation project because I could point at it. Bugger all else though.

jono087

hey look, at least i got a half day over it!

gigglingrat

We did them but never got the results...our guidence counsellor said that we didn't need to know the results. She "interpreted" them and said to everyone either "you would make a good architect'' or " you wouldnt make a good architect"




So basically, a waste of my life.

mentalimplosion

i did them and got told that i shouldn't do any sciences for the leaving... mainly because i didn't do any for the junior cert... then got told that i have to do a science so i can become an engineer... which might be the last thing i want to be. other than doctor.
i'm not the sciencey type

we weren't told our results either, all we got was "you're strong here... not strong here..need to work hard here....". Unfortunately all the guidance counselour did for me was scan through the list and say "you don't seem to have any weaknesses". i had been hoping for her to tell me i wasn't good at certain things so as to close them off as subject choices. It was like the malcom in the middle where he cant decide what to do, does a test to tell him what he should be, and gets the results back,"You can do whatever you want"



(except i'm far more handsome)

gigglingrat

(except i'm far more handsome)

heh, I always picture people as a kinda elongated version of their pic, so a tall Calvin...

maybe cute...

TalkISCheap

*Notes that gigglingrat doesn't have a pic*

wonder what nothing stretched looks like??

i'm the image of my avatar.

It wasn't me!

It's funny because it's true...

Piste

TalkISCheap wrote:

wonder what nothing stretched looks like??

Victoria Beckham

Undergod

In that case, Cathal Malone is far scarier than I remember.

TalkISCheap

Maybe my tentacles, venomous fangs and third head were obscured by a stray hair.

Or something.

StupidLikeAFox

wow, some people do look like theyre avatar (not me)

I think thats a typical pose for you cathal

TalkISCheap

Yeah, now all ye need is the speech bubble.

gigglingrat

The lack of pic is deliberate...I am mysterious, I am aloof, I am..*trips over feet*

Piste

I look like my old avatar.......or so I like to think....

Piste

Piste wrote:

I look like my old avatar.......or so I like to think....

then change back!

on an earlier post, i'm the only member i know of who's own picture was cartoonised for their avatar. No need for a custom avatar for me!

It wasn't me!

I look a little like mine...