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The 8 realities of getting your college exam results
David Jones / PA David Jones / PA / PA
AFTER A HECTIC exam season in May, college students all over Ireland will be getting their results over the next few weeks.
Whether you’re just wrapping up second year or finishing university for good, getting your results is fraught with difficulties. Here are just a few of them.
1. It’s always anti-climactic in comparison with the Leaving Cert…
Even though the exams can be ten times harder. Advanced Calculus, anyone?
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2. The site hosting the results will almost always go down
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Yeah, didn’t want to see the results anyway.
3. Trying to figure out the marking scheme is a nightmare
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Is that a 2H1 or a 2H2 you got in History and Structure of the Media? Does it even matter? *gives up*
4. There is always one person who is CERTAIN they’ve failed
They just read the marking scheme wrong. Again.
5. The spectre of having to pay to repeat a module looms over everything
No one dares to speak of repeating the whole year.
6. You’re delighted with marks you would have spat on during the Leaving Cert
You, upon getting 52% in Chemistry:
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7. Your Facebook timeline will be a sea of relief
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“Passed the year, thank f**k!” x 100.
8. Yet absolutely no one cares
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“Dad dad, I got a 2.1 in my Shakespearean Drama class!”
“Fantastic. Call us when you’re finished your degree.”
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