RESULTS THREAD!!!

Exams? So you're my age and you never have to take another test again?

No, of course I do! In Ireland there are two major sets of state exams, one at age 14/15, and another at age 17/18. The first is called the 'Junior Cert(ificate)' and the latter is the 'Leaving Cert(ificate)'. For the Junior you just get marks and they go on your CV, for the Leaving you get your top 6 marks added together and rounded to the nearest 5 upwards, so a mark out of 600, I believe, and this determines which college courses you are sutable for. For example, to do Medicine it's 590 points requirment, Law 550, etc. To get into 'The American College, Dublin' it's 175 points. That tells a tale!

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Ooh, you live in Ireland!

I'm taking my PSATs in October. I really want to be a National Merit Scholar. I'm too young to qualify this year, but I want to see if I can do it.

There's a college here ni Dublin that runs courses for kids during the summer, but you have to pass a test to get in. They use American school tests. For the age 9-12 courses you have to take an exam aimed at 14 year olds in the US (which I passed with flying colours!) and far 13 year olds and up you take the SATs and if you pass you're in, I got them as well. They're nothing to do with school though, my school exams are separate Irish ones as mentioned above.

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