Last years “strong” results rather than inflated results
This seems like total nonsense which will devalue the system altogether (whether it was a good system in the first place would require a whole other post)
>The results, due to issue online to 60,000 candidates at 10am on Friday, are expected to match last year’s strong results which saw a record 35 per cent of college applicants score 500 points or more, up from about 15 per cent before Covid.
An astronomical rise in the 500+ category means that a lot of people who didn’t deserve 500+ got it anyway and chances are they got into a course they shouldn’t have. Now that random selection for more courses is going to be introduced it’ll lead to much higher drop/fail out rates in college.
>“It was a populist decision that will lead to more random selection. It also means some students will struggle in high-points courses which they might not have got into in normal times. We saw the impact of that in university this year with a decline in pass rates.”
We’re going to see an awful lot of angry people in the coming weeks losing out because of random selection and inflated grades again.
>He said the higher education sector has provided an additional 1,000 college places, targeted across high-demand courses and where there are significant skills shortages, such as medicine, engineering and nursing.
There was 0 places offered to people who went the Round 0 route this year for nursing, where is the extra room for them? So doing the LC and “scoring” big there is the only way to get into nursing? Fuck your PLC and every other method of trying to get in.
Anecdotally speaking the Spanish send their idiots here as even a native Spaniard can do well in our state exams where the Spanish Leaving Cert exam is not especially favourable to Spanish people. I’ve heard our maths is a cakewalk compared to the Spanish.
Why aren’t they trying to reduce the grade inflation? It’s utter nonsense now and a cycle that we’ll be stuck in forever while devaluing the leaving cert and college courses.
The whole points system is a complete sham now.
I’m totally not biased when I say I hope they increase the English and maths grades the most…
It’s just such a self defeating exercise, points inflation, the *only* thing it does is make Irish students less competitive with European students.
I’d fucking hate to be doing the leaving now the point system has gotten totally out of hand they’ve dumbed the leaving down year on year where now getting 500 points is nearly the norm.
I’d say there were 3-4 people that got above 500 in my year of 100 odd people in 2009, and plenty went to college and went on to have decent jobs.
I wouldnt have a hope of getting into the course I ended up studying and working in now if I was doing the leaving today
My points were shite last year god bless
Jeez sounds like the Indo are trying to blame the shinners for this. Populist is the government codeword for them
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Last years “strong” results rather than inflated results
This seems like total nonsense which will devalue the system altogether (whether it was a good system in the first place would require a whole other post)
>The results, due to issue online to 60,000 candidates at 10am on Friday, are expected to match last year’s strong results which saw a record 35 per cent of college applicants score 500 points or more, up from about 15 per cent before Covid.
An astronomical rise in the 500+ category means that a lot of people who didn’t deserve 500+ got it anyway and chances are they got into a course they shouldn’t have. Now that random selection for more courses is going to be introduced it’ll lead to much higher drop/fail out rates in college.
>“It was a populist decision that will lead to more random selection. It also means some students will struggle in high-points courses which they might not have got into in normal times. We saw the impact of that in university this year with a decline in pass rates.”
We’re going to see an awful lot of angry people in the coming weeks losing out because of random selection and inflated grades again.
>He said the higher education sector has provided an additional 1,000 college places, targeted across high-demand courses and where there are significant skills shortages, such as medicine, engineering and nursing.
There was 0 places offered to people who went the Round 0 route this year for nursing, where is the extra room for them? So doing the LC and “scoring” big there is the only way to get into nursing? Fuck your PLC and every other method of trying to get in.
Anecdotally speaking the Spanish send their idiots here as even a native Spaniard can do well in our state exams where the Spanish Leaving Cert exam is not especially favourable to Spanish people. I’ve heard our maths is a cakewalk compared to the Spanish.
Why aren’t they trying to reduce the grade inflation? It’s utter nonsense now and a cycle that we’ll be stuck in forever while devaluing the leaving cert and college courses.
The whole points system is a complete sham now.
I’m totally not biased when I say I hope they increase the English and maths grades the most…
It’s just such a self defeating exercise, points inflation, the *only* thing it does is make Irish students less competitive with European students.
I’d fucking hate to be doing the leaving now the point system has gotten totally out of hand they’ve dumbed the leaving down year on year where now getting 500 points is nearly the norm.
I’d say there were 3-4 people that got above 500 in my year of 100 odd people in 2009, and plenty went to college and went on to have decent jobs.
I wouldnt have a hope of getting into the course I ended up studying and working in now if I was doing the leaving today
My points were shite last year god bless
Jeez sounds like the Indo are trying to blame the shinners for this. Populist is the government codeword for them