Results and the CAO
So it’s a few days since my Leaving Cert results came out, guess I should share something about it.
I didn’t do amazingly well, though I didn’t fail either.
Due to a D in Chemistry I’m knocked out of my Trinity courses, and although Chem was never my best subject I feel I did better than a D at least…I was pretty disappointed in myself with my results to be honest, I know I’m capable(and was expecting) far better, and am going to view and appeal some to see if I get higher grade, if my D goes to a C I can get into Trinity fine as I’ve got the required points…so here’s hoping.
For the meantime the CAO goes live with my college course options on Monday morning, and it looks like I’ll be getting Science in Maynooth, not at all a bad option I will admit, just not what I had my heart set on.
My whole opinion on my results, and the Leaving Cert in general, is that’s it’s a load of bullshit(excuse my language), too much pressure is put on the students, the mere fact that 13/14 years of formal school training is summed up into two weeks of exams is just ridiculous, and the knowledge that most of my grades were in fact based on personal opinion of the randomly assigned examiner to me is a complete load.
To be honest, Alan, the grades you got, for the most part, weren’t based on the personal opinion of the examiner. For English, certainly, which is a very subjective subject, you can get extremely different results depending on who corrects your exam, but for the languages, the sciences, for music, maths and economics, your examiner was sticking to a strict marking scheme. With most of those subjects an answer is either wrong or right. There’s not a whole lot of leeway in it, there can’t be, because a lot of the answers are factually based.
Ugh, I really should proofread more, I meant to say that it about the ones I was unhappy with and expecting better grades in, Music and English, which are subject to personal opinion…sorry
So glad you’re out of the system and into the fun and fabulous world of college – it is what you make it so just dive in there, embrace it & have a blast!