Identifying Your Skills To Pick LC Subjects

It’s a good idea to identify your skills to help you pick your Leaving Cert subjects. By doing this you will be able to see what subjects make best use of your skills which will hopefully make picking your Leaving Cert subjects a bit easier.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

-John Ruskin

Practical SkillsYou enjoy making things, doing things and knowing how things work. 

Recommended Subjects:

  • Engineering
  • Home Economics
  • Construction Studies
  • Technology
  • Art
  • Design & Communication Graphics
  • Physics

Creative & Artistic SkillsYou enjoy reading, writing and storytelling. You’re gifted in the arts and enjoy expressing yourself.

Recommended Subjects:

  • Higher Level English
  • History
  • Art
  • Music
  • Design & Communication Graphics
  • Construction Studies

Language Skills You can grasp languages and enjoy learning about different cultures.



Recommended Subjects:

  • Higher Level Irish
  • French
  • German

Scientific SkillsYou enjoy collecting and analysing data and are good at memorising.

Recommended Subjects:

  • Chemistry
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Agricultural Science
  • Geography

Social SkillsYou enjoy learning about society in the past and the present and the world around you.

Recommended Subjects:

  • History
  • Classical Studies
  • Religious Education
  • Home Economics
  • Geography

Mathematical SkillsYou’re good at logical thinking, numbers and figures. You enjoy problem solving.

Recommended Subjects:

  • Higher Level Maths
  • Physics
  • Accounting
  • Applied Maths

Business SkillsYou enjoy learning about the world of business. You’re interested in current affairs.

Recommended Subjects:

  • Business
  • Economics
  • Accounting
  • Agricultural Economics

We hope this helps you with your subject choice!

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