More students take agri-science than physics

There are mixed patterns in subject uptake and performance by students in the 2012 Leaving Cert.

Physics, once more popular than chemistry, has now been overtaken by agricultural science on the ranking of subjects by student numbers.

However, despite the increased interest in agriculture-related degrees — up to the first preference of more than 700 college applicants from fewer than 400 in 2008 — the agricultural science syllabus has not been fully revised for decades.