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On May 05 2011 07:27 paddyz wrote:Would love to be part of some sort of Irish SC2 community any Irish teams want someone, I want in  . I will probably be going to NUIG after the summer, would appreciate it if anyone in Galway could either tell me about the SC2 scene in Galway (if there is any) or help me set 1 up. Always wanted e-sport competition between Irish colleges. Suppose anything that links SC2 or DOW2 with Ireland must be a good thing. I was literally gonna start a thread like this when i stumbled upon this btw...
This is totally doable all you would need to get this started would be find teams in other colleges, I'm on my way out of college this month but if there a starcraft community in Irish colleges the frist place to look would be tipperary institute of technology or TIT, those guy are huge into gaming I think the guy to talk to would be Philip Bourke. They also hold the games fleadh design competition every year for college students.
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I play a lot, but recently school has been getting in the way (@paddyz I live in Galway btw :D)
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I recently moved to Ireland, myself, I live in Naas curently.
If possible could someone add me on MSN : Sgany@hotmail.co.uk, and help me find out how the education system works, I am currently having trouble finding out stuff about what subject choices are like etc.
my Bnet is savior.256 :D
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On May 05 2011 08:26 Sgany wrote:
and help me find out how the education system works, I am currently having trouble finding out stuff about what subject choices are like etc.
My best guess would be to find the local vec and they should be able to tell you how to get into the Irish education system, as for course choices just lookup college website or the CAO to find courses
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On May 05 2011 08:34 Elbonbunny wrote:Show nested quote +On May 05 2011 08:26 Sgany wrote:
and help me find out how the education system works, I am currently having trouble finding out stuff about what subject choices are like etc. My best guess would be to find the local vec and they should be able to tell you how to get into the Irish education system, as for course choices just lookup college website or the CAO to find courses
I Wwill be doing leaving cert I belive it is not college. I am moreless into a school I currrently belive, I just want to know how the subject picking system works so I can start studying now.
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Mandatory subjects:
English
Irish (prolly not if ur from UK originally, you can get off that)
Maths
+1 foreign language (French,Spanish, German etc)
I think you can get away with not having a foreign language but it limits your options a lot.
You can go higher or lower level (aka honours, or pass) in any of these, and any other subjects but basically nobody goes lower in anything else if you want to get into uni aka college.
Then you have stuff like
Physics/Chemistry/Biology/Geography/History/Accountancy/Buisness these are the main ones I think. Some things like Ag. Science and Applied maths are harder to find teachers for.
90-100% = A1 = 100 points
85-90% = A2 = 90 points
80-85% = B1 = 85 points
B2 = 80
B3 = 75
C1 = 70
etc down to D3 at 40%
Maximum points is 600. Generally you'll have 6 or 7 higher level subjects. Of course if you picked higher maths, english, irish ,french, you won't need to do a lot of other subjects. Lower level A1 gives you 60 points and it works down to 5 or 0 for a D3.
Basically anything over 500 is exceptional but you'd want to be around 400 for most courses. The courses that require highest points are around 560 I think. If you want to be a doctor there is a separate logic/problem solving type test and you combine points for it. It's based on supply/demand, if 10 slots are available and 10 people got 600 the cutoff would be 600, but that doesn't happen. You can usually make rough predictions based on what it was last year.
Most courses are based on textbooks which cover all of the material. Past exam papers and marking schemes are available at examinations.ie.
Not sure what you wanted to know but I hope this covers everything and isn't too confusing.
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On May 05 2011 08:43 Slayer91 wrote:
Mandatory subjects:
English
Irish (prolly not if ur from UK originally, you can get off that)
Maths
+1 foreign language (French,Spanish, German etc)
I think you can get away with not having a foreign language but it limits your options a lot.
You can go higher or lower level (aka honours, or pass) in any of these, and any other subjects but basically nobody goes lower in anything else if you want to get into uni aka college.
Then you have stuff like
Physics/Chemistry/Biology/Geography/History/Accountancy/Buisness these are the main ones I think. Some things like Ag. Science and Applied maths are harder to fight teachers for.
90-100% = A1 = 100 points
85-90% = A2 = 90 points
80-85% = B1 = 85 points
B2 = 80
B3 = 75
C1 = 70
etc down to D3 at 40%
Maximum points is 600. Generally you'll have 6 or 7 higher level subjects. Of course if you picked higher maths, english, irish ,french, you won't need to do a lot of lower level subjects. Lower level A1 gives you 60 points and it works down to 5 or 0 for a D3.
Basically anything over 500 is exceptional but you'd want to be around 400 for most courses. The courses that require highest points are around 560 I think. If you want to be a doctor there is a separate logic/problem solving type test and you combine points for it. It's based on supply/demand, if 10 slots are available and 10 people got 600 the cutoff would be 600, but that doesn't happen. You can usually make rough predictions based on what it was last year.
Most courses are based on textbooks which cover all of the material. Past exam papers and marking schemes are available at examinations.ie.
Not sure what you wanted to know but I hope this covers everything and isn't too confusing.
Exactly what I needed :D
Foreign language would be my only issue, as I am trying to learn korean currently, as I have gap year until I start back to at school, but I have never studied one at a high level, I guess if I hda to choose it would be German. Thank you very much sir, now I need to get my hands on these books :D
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On May 05 2011 08:55 Sgany wrote:Show nested quote +On May 05 2011 08:43 Slayer91 wrote:
Mandatory subjects:
English
Irish (prolly not if ur from UK originally, you can get off that)
Maths
+1 foreign language (French,Spanish, German etc)
I think you can get away with not having a foreign language but it limits your options a lot.
You can go higher or lower level (aka honours, or pass) in any of these, and any other subjects but basically nobody goes lower in anything else if you want to get into uni aka college.
Then you have stuff like
Physics/Chemistry/Biology/Geography/History/Accountancy/Buisness these are the main ones I think. Some things like Ag. Science and Applied maths are harder to fight teachers for.
90-100% = A1 = 100 points
85-90% = A2 = 90 points
80-85% = B1 = 85 points
B2 = 80
B3 = 75
C1 = 70
etc down to D3 at 40%
Maximum points is 600. Generally you'll have 6 or 7 higher level subjects. Of course if you picked higher maths, english, irish ,french, you won't need to do a lot of lower level subjects. Lower level A1 gives you 60 points and it works down to 5 or 0 for a D3.
Basically anything over 500 is exceptional but you'd want to be around 400 for most courses. The courses that require highest points are around 560 I think. If you want to be a doctor there is a separate logic/problem solving type test and you combine points for it. It's based on supply/demand, if 10 slots are available and 10 people got 600 the cutoff would be 600, but that doesn't happen. You can usually make rough predictions based on what it was last year.
Most courses are based on textbooks which cover all of the material. Past exam papers and marking schemes are available at examinations.ie.
Not sure what you wanted to know but I hope this covers everything and isn't too confusing. Exactly what I needed :D Foreign language would be my only issue, as I am trying to learn korean currently, as I have gap year until I start back to at school, but I have never studied one at a high level, I guess if I hda to choose it would be German. Thank you very much sir, now I need to get my hands on these books :D
Keep in mind language choices are fairly limited:
Arabic
French
German
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Russian
Hebrew
Spanish
Latin
Ancient Greek
There is quite a lot more, but for others it needs to be your first language, so if you're from UK you will be limited to the subjects above, Korean is out unfortunately.
Every subject has a syllabus which dictates the whole structure of the course, you can google some pdfs if you want. Also as Slayer mentioned exam papers from previous years are probably the best study tool once you're familiar with the course, as exams for most subjects have a fairly repetitive structure.
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Just to help you study for the exams, and see what they are like.
http://www.examinations.ie/
This has all the Exam papers, and also should have the marking schemes to them as well, if you want to get familiar with subjects you have to take and look at stuff you will be doing for other subejcts that you are thinking of taking
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Thanks for all the help guys :D as normal the Starcraft community is the greatest bunch of people ever. Sadly the school I am going to does not offer Japanese, so I shall be doing German, atleast then I can talk to TLO :D
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Best of luck dude in Ireland, I found studying for the leaving cert really is down to the pupil and the teachers help very little, its just how focused you are. Also when applying for colleges, really make sure you know the CAO system inside and out.
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On May 05 2011 05:18 MGHova wrote:I'll be going to Limerick, also my friend is going to cork, but he doesn't play sc2 
Make sure you get a place in O'Malley Park, many consider it the 'Riveria' of Limerick City. Also Knocknaheeny is a charming little spot down in Cork City.
BTW, take in a few Gaelic Hurling matches when you are over here, its about the only worthwhile Irish thing left in this country.
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Thats me organising the league. A lot more will come from this, this is just a starting point which will soon follow into www.starcraft.ie which will hopfully boost more Irish Starcraft 2 players.
I am always open for tips and opinions to improve so give me a shout on here/boards/IRC/bnet
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I'm Feanor 980 if you would like to add me on battle net when you come over.
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On May 05 2011 09:35 Vanyd wrote:
Best of luck dude in Ireland, I found studying for the leaving cert really is down to the pupil and the teachers help very little, its just how focused you are. Also when applying for colleges, really make sure you know the CAO system inside and out.
I plan to go to the UK for university since I am still a UK citizen, or perhaps I may try my luck at going to Korea. I plan to get the highest level in every subject, so I can go to the best possible univeristy
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I was curious about this myself, was not sure on the rules etc regarding the starcraft.ie guys and the league. i went to the boards and it seemed like it had been idle for a bit so was not sure if it was in transition.
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I'm from Dublin , would like to get into this starcraft.ie league , specially since my exams are almost over
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On May 05 2011 09:58 Sullivision wrote:
I was curious about this myself, was not sure on the rules etc regarding the starcraft.ie guys and the league. i went to the boards and it seemed like it had been idle for a bit so was not sure if it was in transition.
The boards league has turned idle for quite a while, I started up the starcraft.ie league which is certinly not idle. I try and update as much as possable and have given the players all information regarding there group/games to be played with dates.
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Will starcraft.ie allow Northern Irish players as well?
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