Yes, the 2016 Leaving Certificate results have been in our office for a while, but unfortunately this reporter did not benefit from being taught Maths at St. Conleth’s, so we had to go find someone else to do the ‘rithmetic.  At first we asked a few of the nine students (out of 21!)  who received As in HL Maths but they were all, unsurprisingly, packing their bags for high octane university courses (and Freshers weeks).   ‘And besides,’ said one future actuary, ‘I long ago stopped wasting time on the mere multiplication and division of mere real numbers…’  Chastened we wandered away thinking said student had chosen the perfect career for his personality and resorted to Mr. Carvill, who though himself an alumnus of Big Blue and no stranger to Game Theory and the like, agreed to lower himself, get out his calculator watch and crunch the numbers… and we can proudly say these are the best results at St. Conleth’s in the modern era!  The Maths department rightly garnered much attention on results day, but Spanish, Physics and Music had over 50% earning As and, as in nearly all our other subjects, over 90% took the Higher Level paper (in Chemistry and History, it was 100%! And English, 92%!).  We could go on and on about the numbers….so we will!  8% of our students earned over 600 (National avg.: .03%); 32% over 500 (compared to 10%); and 64% over 400 (36%)…but of course what is more important is that our students qualified for the courses which they desired, and that was overwhelmingly the case, and not just for the hi-fliers.  Below you see a few of the class of 2016 who came back to school to advise our current students, and a sample of last year’s class’s interesting university destinations:

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