Too Many Subjects!

[Achillea]

Ugh I need to vent about the ridiculous amount of subjects we are forced to take for a final three hour exam at the end of three years. Its so ridiculous! English, Irish, Maths, French, Science, Business, History, Geography, CSPE, Art and Religion. Its so unlike America or Britain where you can whittle it down to your favourites/best ones for your dream career. You have so much pressure in these exams because unlike Britain and America, the results of these exams are the only thing that can get you into your chosen course in college. No extra points for extra curricular activities or special talents....So how many subject will you be examined on?:(

[Desuetude]

Haha what are you talking about? Britain is exactly like that.

I have GCSE exams in:
English Literature
English Language
iGCSE English Language
Mathematics - 2 exams
FSMQ
Ethics and Beliefs
Art - 10 hour exam
Graphics
Electronics
Mordern World History
Core Science - 2 exams
Additional Science - 2 exams

We only take these for 2 years and the exams are usually between 1 hour 15 minutes and 2 hours long each. Altogether I'll have 15 exams which will get me 10 GCSEs, 1 iGCSE and a certificate for FSMQ. It's not all a walk in the park for us either. This is at age 15-16 and they're the grades that will be used to get us into college and university as well seeing as we won't have our A level grades back by the time we're applying for uni. Not allowed any extra credit stuff either. Some courses are part exam based and part coursework but they're all split in different percentages with different grade boundries and yeah it's pretty stressful really.

[Emerald Dream]

TWPR :arrow: Education and Careers

[Tarannosaurus]

Ugh I need to vent about the ridiculous amount of subjects we are forced to take for a final three hour exam at the end of three years. Its so ridiculous! English, Irish, Maths, French, Science, Business, History, Geography, CSPE, Art and Religion. Its so unlike America or Britain where you can whittle it down to your favourites/best ones for your dream career. You have so much pressure in these exams because unlike Britain and America, the results of these exams are the only thing that can get you into your chosen course in college. No extra points for extra curricular activities or special talents....So how many subject will you be examined on?:(

Just wait until the Leaving Cert my friend then you'll understand pressure :P I'm just in 4th year but my school has changed it so we do 30% of the LC coursework on top of the ordinary TY stuff. So for the 1st term I was doing 10 proper LC subjects but 13 subjects that I was getting homework in (+ Mandarin, Enterprise and Religion). Since then I've dropped one subject and may possibly drop one other in 5th year so I'll have 8-9 exam subjects.

Oh and trust me when I say this don't worry about the JC it is pointless. Seriously, it gives you a general guide but that's it. The teachers make it seem like a big deal but sometimes you just have to tune out when they're heaping on the pressure (though obviously pay attention to the actual lessons :P ). Stressing won't help and next year you'll be laughing about how worried you were.

[Achillea]

Haha what are you talking about? Britain is exactly like that.

I have GCSE exams in:
English Literature
English Language
iGCSE English Language
Mathematics - 2 exams
FSMQ
Ethics and Beliefs
Art - 10 hour exam
Graphics
Electronics
Mordern World History
Core Science - 2 exams
Additional Science - 2 exams

We only take these for 2 years and the exams are usually between 1 hour 15 minutes and 2 hours long each. Altogether I'll have 15 exams which will get me 10 GCSEs, 1 iGCSE and a certificate for FSMQ. It's not all a walk in the park for us either. This is at age 15-16 and they're the grades that will be used to get us into college and university as well seeing as we won't have our A level grades back by the time we're applying for uni. Not allowed any extra credit stuff either. Some courses are part exam based and part coursework but they're all split in different percentages with different grade boundries and yeah it's pretty stressful really.Oh my god! That is so bad that you get accepted on results that you did at that age!! Hearing that makes me feel better!

Just wait until the Leaving Cert my friend then you'll understand pressure :P I'm just in 4th year but my school has changed it so we do 30% of the LC coursework on top of the ordinary TY stuff. So for the 1st term I was doing 10 proper LC subjects but 13 subjects that I was getting homework in (+ Mandarin, Enterprise and Religion). Since then I've dropped one subject and may possibly drop one other in 5th year so I'll have 8-9 exam subjects.

Oh and trust me when I say this don't worry about the JC it is pointless. Seriously, it gives you a general guide but that's it. The teachers make it seem like a big deal but sometimes you just have to tune out when they're heaping on the pressure (though obviously pay attention to the actual lessons :P ). Stressing won't help and next year you'll be laughing about how worried you were.
Haha so true. Makes it even worse studying for exams and knowing they mean nothing! Good luck with Ty!

[Tarannosaurus]

Oh my god! That is so bad that you get accepted on results that you did at that age!! Hearing that makes me feel better!


Haha so true. Makes it even worse studying for exams and knowing they mean nothing! Good luck with Ty!

Thanks and good luck with JC. May the odds be ever in your favour :P

[Caver]

I have....
English Language & Literature (a bunch of essays and 2 exams I think)
Maths - 1 Exam
Science - 3-4 Modular examinations with coursework
Health & Social care - 2 exams and 2 pieces of coursework
Tourism - 1 coursework and 1 exam
ICT - 1 Exam, 1 coursework

[Pseudogeek]

Try a 7-hour final out for size.

[drmindfreak]

I have this semester:
-German 1
-Spanish History
-ICT
-Global History
-Poetry 2
-Grammar 3
-Business Management
-English Literature 3
-Geography
-Financial Accounting 2
-Galician Literature
-Biology
-Introduction to Modern Civil Law

and then I have gym class, spanish class and music, but I don't get tests for those.

[tedheath]

Seriously, GCSEs are so bad. 10/11 subjects which goes to about 25+ exams squashed into 2.5 weeks in summer. This is in addition to the huge number of English, history, languages, business controlled assessments 3-8 hours long each and the sciences ISAs

[SecretlyKnown]

I have 10 subjects -.-
-English
-Social Studies
-Maths
-Photography
-History
-Geography
-Catholic Studies
-Science
-Pastoral Meetings
-Technology

[AlexOnToast]

Ugh I need to vent about the ridiculous amount of subjects we are forced to take for a final three hour exam at the end of three years. Its so ridiculous! English, Irish, Maths, French, Science, Business, History, Geography, CSPE, Art and Religion. Its so unlike America or Britain where you can whittle it down to your favourites/best ones for your dream career. You have so much pressure in these exams because unlike Britain and America, the results of these exams are the only thing that can get you into your chosen course in college. No extra points for extra curricular activities or special talents....So how many subject will you be examined on?:(
If it makes you feel any better, i dont think I'm going to be passing the JC XD

[LiamC]

I hated my GCSEs, I had exams in the following subjects:

English Language
English Literature
IT
Biology
Chemistry
Physics
French
Italian
Sociology
Maths
Functional Skills maths/English/IT

as well as coursework for IT and controlled assessments for Italian, French, Biology, Physics and English Literature/Language! It was just too much, and I found that I either really took to my subjects without much effort (English, Italian, French, Sociology) or, probably because I had so much in my head from the subjects, found them really difficult (maths, science and IT). In the end I got an A*, 3 As and 7 Bs, it was very hard work with so many subjects though! I now do A Levels and you only have to do three or four, but I'm just as stressed because you have so much to do for the subjects, you obviously go a lot more in depth as you don't have as many different areas to cover.

[scott757]

Standard grades were "fun" had to do 2 levels for each subject - which was kinda annoying.

Maths - 4 exams
English - 3 exams
French - 4 exams plus speaking and writing in class
Geography - 2 exams
Craft&design - 2 exams
Music - 2 exams and a practical
Physics - 2 exams
Computing - 2 exams

Last year with highers out of my 5 subjects 3 were 2 exams and two were 1 again with a practical music assesment.

This year,highers again, 4/5 are 2 exam ones.

This is all done in the space of about 3 weeks or so, with prelims being 2 weeks. Or like I have this year - 4 this week and 1 next week "fun"