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6th year or 5th year???

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  • 02-02-2008 11:27am
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    Iano2K8
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    Okay.. one thing that really confuses me around the country is whether or not leaving cert is officially 6th year or 5th year?


    In my school im in in 6th year but in my cousins school she is in 5th yr.. even thou we are both doin the leaving...

    so why is transition year called 4th yr - n should it - considerin a lot of ppl dont do it?

    Wonder wat the department for education say?


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    rainbowtrout
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    there is no official name on it from the Department. Some schools just call the five years 1st-5th year because they don't have Transition year. Some schools have 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th even though they don't have TY and some schools have the same as above and call 4th year TY because (and i would have thought this was obvious) for those that do it, it's their fourth year.




    There are a small number of schools in the country that do 6 years with no TY, they have 4 years to Junior Cert and 2 years to Leaving Cert and have a 4th year which is Junior Cert year.

    It makes no difference what your year is called once you have done at least 3 years to JC and 2 years to LC. there are bigger things to be worrying about


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    Fad
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    rainbowtrout wrote: »

    There are a small number of schools in the country that do 6 years with no TY, they have 4 years to Junior Cert and 2 years to Leaving Cert and have a 4th year which is Junior Cert year.


    well then they must be fairly outthere schools as AFAIK the department of education doesnt allow that at all but maybe im wrong


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    rainbowtrout
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    Fad wrote: »
    well then they must be fairly outthere schools as AFAIK the department of education doesnt allow that at all but maybe im wrong

    No one of them is a well established Gaelscoil in Limerick, my friends went there and did 4 years to JC


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    aliqueenb
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    rainbowtrout wrote: »
    No one of them is a well established Gaelscoil in Limerick, my friends went there and did 4 years to JC

    thats really odd but then its a gaelscoil what can you expect lol:p


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    Overheal
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    my school had both 1-6 years and TY as an optional. so you had 1st-3rd for the JC and then TY and then 4th-5th for the LC and then 6th for repeats.


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    sd123
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    rainbowtrout wrote: »
    there is no official name on it from the Department. Some schools just call the five years 1st-5th year because they don't have Transition year. Some schools have 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th even though they don't have TY and some schools have the same as above and call 4th year TY because (and i would have thought this was obvious) for those that do it, it's their fourth year.




    There are a small number of schools in the country that do 6 years with no TY, they have 4 years to Junior Cert and 2 years to Leaving Cert and have a 4th year which is Junior Cert year.

    It makes no difference what your year is called once you have done at least 3 years to JC and 2 years to LC. there are bigger things to be worrying about


    Would it not make more sense to do 3 JC years and 3 LC years. Imagine how helpful that extra year would be for the LC, and after all, the JC isn't important and you don't even need it to do the LC....


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    1huge1
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    aliqueenb wrote: »
    thats really odd but then its a gaelscoil what can you expect lol:p
    Ya its bad enough having to go to a Gaelscoil like but having to spend a extra year in school that sucks.

    Gaelscoil in Limerick does 6 years I should of known that.


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    Mars Bar
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    We don't say 6th year at all...
    You have 1st,2nd, and 3rd year, then the T.Y's, then 5th years and then the Leaving Certs and then Repeats(or dossers!)


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    Thomas_S_Hunterson
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    sd123 wrote: »
    Would it not make more sense to do 3 JC years and 3 LC years. Imagine how helpful that extra year would be for the LC, and after all, the JC isn't important and you don't even need it to do the LC....

    The leaving cert is a two year course and two years is perfectly adequate for most people.

    There may be slow learners for whom the extra year would be a good thing, but the vast majority would just be bored out of their skull for the extra year.


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    Chunky Monkey
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    I would have loved the extra year for the LC. Maybe then I wouldn't have burned out in sixth year. After the junior cert you're more likely to go out socialising and to get involved in organising things for the junior years. I would have preferred it if we had the extra year so we could actually enjoy our subjects and have a chance to expand into areas that weren't on the curriculum to make it more interesting. Something that frustrated me quite a lot with biology.


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    1huge1
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    Chunky Monkey wrote: »
    I would have loved the extra year for the LC. Maybe then I wouldn't have burned out in sixth year. After the junior cert you're more likely to go out socialising and to get involved in organising things for the junior years. I would have preferred it if we had the extra year so we could actually enjoy our subjects and have a chance to expand into areas that weren't on the curriculum to make it more interesting. Something that frustrated me quite a lot with biology.
    Ya agreed my social life only really took since 5th year like yet this is the time were supposed to be doing the most work...


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