FabSwingers.com forum: Leaving cert has it shaped your life ?

By *hilabout OP Man
over a year ago

kilkenny

Just curious is the leaving cert the be all n end all of ones start out on the journey of life

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I guess it did in a way yeah... the points I got meant I got offered a place in college in a city that I have loved since, and met a friend that is so so special in my life.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nope. Got on very well in it, went and done a course i didnt enjoy and worked in a job i didnt like for 2 years after.

Then I was lucky enough to get offered an apprenticeship in what I originally wanted leaving school and that has opened some fantastic doors since.

The school system here is set up completely wrong in my opinion, how are you suppose to know what you want to do for the rest of your life when leaving school? My career guidance teacher was useless too he wanted every lad to go to the army

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

It probably did as I hated exams so much that I left school in February of 6th year....I wouldn't have finished up where I am now if I didnt

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

It didn’t really. I was clueless leaving school but I ended up getting a collage coarse I hated, think I was just following the crowd and didn’t really like the student life being constantly broke. Left collage after the first year and started an apprenticeship and loved it. Still making the water flow today.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Any job interview I went for told them I got all A and B s nobody ever questioned it or asked for proof. Might be different now with college points etc but in general no employer will ask for proof unless it's a specific highly skilled professional job, but any general profession they never check....

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By *ERRIBLE TWOSUMCouple
over a year ago

Suck mammys strap-on

Nope didn't get that far...not complaining either...got a job i for the most part wouldn't change,got to travel to interesting places not on your normal travel list,some good memories and moments some bad ones too..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not at all, started an apprenticeship the day after finishing 6th year based on junior cert results. Don’t think I even collected the leaving results

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By *ack the lad777Man
over a year ago

Dublin

Lots of people posting about what decisions and life choices they made after their leaving cert. So that has nothing to do with the exam itself. The leaving cert serves a purpose and does that well.

Are there reforms needed in some subjects. Yes there are but its a standardised test and i believe it works well.

Over the last number of years new subjects and projects components have been added to it. As a result the exam is no longer worth 100%

Is it the best system in the world, no, but its far from the worst. Other countries students need to make life choices at 15/16. In ireland its 17/18 and there are lots off opportunities for mature studies after the age of 23 for people to retrain.

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of

"Lots of people posting about what decisions and life choices they made after their leaving cert. So that has nothing to do with the exam itself. The leaving cert serves a purpose and does that well.

Are there reforms needed in some subjects. Yes there are but its a standardised test and i believe it works well.

Over the last number of years new subjects and projects components have been added to it. As a result the exam is no longer worth 100%

The students at age 15/16 have to pick 4 leaving cert subjects of 'their choice' that can influence their further career. Also unfortunately a lot of schools are limited in the subjects offered.

Finally I find it astonishing that a student can go through first and secondary level and never experience one lesson of biology.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *ateniteCouple
over a year ago

Youghal

In a way yes. I needed decent Maths and Physics results to get the job I wanted. I already had the interviews and my acceptance was based on those 2 results. So thats where my focus lay. I didn't turn up for the other exams, except German which I enjoyed and have now started to learn again.

That job was some of the best years of my life and lead me to where I am in my career now.

Mr. D.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It didn’t really. I was clueless leaving school but I ended up getting a collage coarse I hated, think I was just following the crowd and didn’t really like the student life being constantly broke. Left collage after the first year and started an apprenticeship and loved it. Still making the water flow today. "

When are you getting to the bit about the hoover!!??? When did that come into the picture?

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

I obviously didn't do the leaving cert but studied to A Level where the actions of a vindictive teacher caused a number of students including myself to have to repeat an entire year before resitting them. My place at university was held for that year because of the circumstances and armed with my required results I had the next 3 years planned out. Unfortunately an admin error gave my place to someone else and I never got to go to uni. I started work the following week and haven't sat an exam since. That was 37 years ago and everything I know now has been self taught and learned through experience and very little of what I learned at school has been of use.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hasn’t shaped mine very much. It was “useful” to start but PLCs were what lead to college, and from that onto postgrads. My LC results were dismal compared to my postgrad results.

I see it as a stepping stone that some use, while others find a different route.

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By *unsigntwoCouple
over a year ago

athlone

Nope mrssun never did them as hated school and tests ..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Everything I did in life has brought me to where I am now, so from that perspective, of course the Leaving Cert shaped my life. I did it at 16, missed the course I wanted by 1 point (different points system back then, it wasn't even the same for all unis), my parents wouldn't hear of me repeating, so I went to uni and got a degree in something I had zero interest in. Afterwards emigrated and found unrelated work, eventually got a qualification in that, so I'm a bi-professional in fab speak

Realize now I should have gone for a third profession

, hindsight is amazing

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By *ilderMan
over a year ago

dublin

It shaped my life perfectly... but then my Mammy always told me I was special...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Well it's certainly not the End all.

The longer you live, the more shit there will be to devour all your time and add stress. Be it more exams, your job, kids, your health. Always yearning for some moment in the future when you can finally relax.

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

"Well it's certainly not the End all.

Its called death

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Well it's certainly not the End all.

Its called death

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

As I reside north of the border, I studied A levels, prior to going to university.

I would have much preferred a baccalaureate education, rather than specialisation in a narrow range of subjects.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I left school to take up an apprenticeship in Uk in the 70s. Never been out of work since.So I never did my leaving. Dont think it held me back.

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By *asual777Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

I d love to say no but those results have shaped everything in my life

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By *omtom1969Man
over a year ago

ashbourne

Never did it nd never needed it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The morning after Leaving Cert results celebrations, I was roofing while still tipsy and fell through a ladder onto my head, so it probz did affect the rest of my life

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By *avana_oh_na_naWoman
over a year ago

Dublin

I definitely did affect my life. The whole process stressed me out so much, I got a stomach ulcer at 18, missed aload of school and didn't get the points so ended up in a course I wasn't interested in and dropped out. I then had near decade run of trying different courses, jobs and routes to education before going back as mature student to do the course I missed out on in the first place and totally excelling at it. Long story long, standarised testing is aload of boll*x and the leaving cert needs to go.

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By *lightlySamMan
over a year ago

gorey

I'm sorry, but the leaving cert did nothing except put pressure on me, I was not a great student, had a lot of difficulties which back in the day just got me put into the "slow" class's. I have done so much better since, getting a level 9 masters. But I'll never forget being told I wasn't worth the time trying to teach in 6th year.

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By *lightlySamMan
over a year ago

gorey

"I'm sorry, but the leaving cert did nothing except put pressure on me, I was not a great student, had a lot of difficulties which back in the day just got me put into the "slow" class's. I have done so much better since, getting a level 9 masters. But I'll never forget being told I wasn't worth the time trying to teach in 6th year. "
so fuck you dicks, teachers who said I was slow, level 9 masters motherfuckers.

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By *dfabMan
over a year ago

Dunboyne

"I'm sorry, but the leaving cert did nothing except put pressure on me, I was not a great student, had a lot of difficulties which back in the day just got me put into the "slow" class's. I have done so much better since, getting a level 9 masters. But I'll never forget being told I wasn't worth the time trying to teach in 6th year. so fuck you dicks, teachers who said I was slow, level 9 masters motherfuckers. "

Nice one

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By *he English OneMan
over a year ago

west

Nah not really there was subjects that I wanted to do but wasn't allowed to for some strange reason I also wanted to do wood work which I was very good back in England but the school I went to here only introduced it when I left which was not cool

Besides all that no one from school talks to me all I get is evil stares as if I did something wrong to them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No it defo hasn't shaped my life...I haven't used one mathematic theorem since I left school... I found it quite difficult to grasp some of them tbh

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By *he English OneMan
over a year ago

west

"No it defo hasn't shaped my life...I haven't used one mathematic theorem since I left school... I found it quite difficult to grasp some of them tbh"

Math is very much like sex you add the bed subtract the clothes divide the legs and pray there's no multiplying

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By *cottybear74Man
over a year ago

kilkenny

Never did mine...

Left after my intercert to work

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By *rossflow daveMan
over a year ago

Mullingar

It was of no benefit to me at all, I wasn't bothered to study so didn't do so well in the exams.

A 6 month welding and fabrication course along with coming from a construction background has seen me working every day since I left school and has taken me into different industries and roles,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Looking back now the on the leaving cert.

A couple of things come to mind.

God I was lazy, I had no discipline and I had no self belief.

Self belief is incredibly important. It allows you to have the confidence to start.

Everything is a mind set.

That would be the one and all thing I'd say to myself. Have more self belief and just start.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was a wild child and just didn't have the self discipline I needed at that age, but don't regret not applying myself back then.

I've achieved more than I ever thought I could in my wildest dreams by proving my abilities since.

I don't believe qualifications hold the weight they once did. Employers take more into consideration these days thankfully.

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By *phrodite72Woman
over a year ago

dublin/galway

My young lad in the middle of his at the moment...I've told him it wont define him just do his best

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By *phrodite72Woman
over a year ago

dublin/galway

"I was a wild child and just didn't have the self discipline I needed at that age, but don't regret not applying myself back then.

I've achieved more than I ever thought I could in my wildest dreams by proving my abilities since.

I don't believe qualifications hold the weight they once did. Employers take more into consideration these days thankfully."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My young lad in the middle of his at the moment...I've told him it wont define him just do his best "

Awful pressure on kids, especially right now after all the disruption

They need to know it's not the end of the world if the results aren't what they or their parents hoped for

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't think there is enough pressure for students do well in exams... Perhaps if they were pushed a bit harder then we would have a more educated work force and leaders in a few years, and the country won't be in such a mess.

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By *phrodite72Woman
over a year ago

dublin/galway

"My young lad in the middle of his at the moment...I've told him it wont define him just do his best

Awful pressure on kids, especially right now after all the disruption

They need to know it's not the end of the world if the results aren't what they or their parents hoped for"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My young lad in the middle of his at the moment...I've told him it wont define him just do his best

Awful pressure on kids, especially right now after all the disruption

They need to know it's not the end of the world if the results aren't what they or their parents hoped for"

I said this to my older two at the time they did theirs and continue to say it to my youngest. Pandemic or not, the pressure is ridiculous, especially for what is now essentially a rote learning exercise.

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