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Kids like her don't get stressed at exam time!!!!Thats true. The highest points are needed for medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary. 600 is max. See the girl down in Kerry got 9 A1s, fantastic but I often wonder is it necessary to be doing all these extra subjects when you can still only get 600 points anyway. Stress on the students?
However , one wonders about some subjects, I remember being told that it is impossible to get an A in English ; that's not the case nowadays and yet third level colleges have a problem with the standard of English that many high point students have .
True, back in the seventies and eighties students did not get quarter as many A's and B's as todays students get....yet there was a lot of competition to get in to college / avoid the dole queue / emigration etc. I wonder has the leaving got easier?
IIRC, about 5% of students obtain >550 points.
This HEA report may be of interest: Discipline Choices and Trends for High Points CAO Acceptors.
I stand (well, sit) corrected.I think you read it slightly wrong. Around 5% of students who accepted CAO places got 550+ points. In 2006 52050 students did the Leaving Cert ([broken link removed]), of those 1488 (the HEA report above) got >550 points, so approx 2.9% (I think)
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