Oh, sorry!
We do have a rounding up system similarly, though. When you're in 6th year (Senior Year) you do the 'Leaving Certificate', which are the school leaving exams, basically. You have to do English, Irish, Maths and one living European language, and at least two other subjects. You get marked, and if you fall between certain marks, you get rounded up to a certain 5 or 0, for example:
91-100= 100
86-90= 90
81-85= 85
76-80= 80
71-75= 75
66-70= 70
61-65= 65
56-60= 60
51-55= 55
46-50= 50
40-45= 45
And if you do ordinary level exams, instead of higher level, you get the above -40.
Then, when your Leaving Cert results are done, they add up your top 6 rounded scores, and you get a mark out of 600. That's your Points. That determines which courses you're allowed to apply for in University.
For example, Medicine is 590. Law is 545. And so on so forth.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
