• Question: What leaving cert subjects did you take and why?

    Asked by MatthewD to Erika, Peter on 11 Mar 2021. This question was also asked by Grace Baker.
    • Photo: Erika Duriakova

      Erika Duriakova answered on 11 Mar 2021:

      I did my leaving cert in Slovakia and at that time I had to do 3 compulsory subjects and one optional subject. For the compulsory subjects I had Slovak Grammar, Literature and Maths and as an optional subject I had English. I chose English, because I wanted to go study abroad and the leaving cert results were good indicator of my proficiency in English. After that I did my Undergraduate and PhD degrees in Ireland. And part of my undergraduate degree was done in California.

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  • Photo: Alessandra

    Alessandra commented on :

    I did my leaving cert in Italy. There were 3 compulsory subjects chosen for you (and you did not know about them till two days before) and one optional subject. I chose Informatics but that came out as a mandatory subject so my second choice was English like Erika and for the same reasons (although I only moved to Ireland after my PhD).