Pros and cons of doing transition year?

26-10-2005 4:13pm #1

i skipped transition year when i was in school but my bro wants to do it next year!so if anybody doing it could tell me what their opinions are!is it worth it?

philologos · 26-10-2005 5:11pm

Cons: too many useless projects
Pros: trips and stuff

Diarmsquid · 26-10-2005 5:12pm

Pros:
1) You get a year to do things that you can only do in school/when you're young, like the Young Scientists Exhibition, Gaisce award etc. (you mightn't be able to do this in other years because of study).
2) You get another year to choose what subjects you'd like to do for Leaving Cert, and you get to try some of them out.
3) You get another year of education for the LC, which leads to better results.
4) You have a lot of fun and it's a memorable experience.
5) You get a break from studying and homeowrk and subjects are less acidemic based.
6) You make loads of new friends.
7) You do different subjects like Photography, Criminology which you might develop a hobbie out of.
8) You do useful courses like ECDL and First Aid.
There are probably more I missed.

Cons: 1) You might lose contact with friends who skipped TY and went straight into 5th year. (Which also applies if you skip TY and your friends did it)
2) You get out of school quicker if you skip it. (which, when you look back when you're older, could be a bad thing)
There are probably more cons too.

Halo · 26-10-2005 5:13pm

ty.........what a waste of time. totally regret doing it:rolleyes:

26-10-2005 5:26pm

you made some good points there diarm!although i think if i did ty id get bored and hate the next two years!you can do gaisce and 1st aid in 4th year!

philologos · 26-10-2005 5:28pm

yea same in my school. we can do kickboxing too

Diarmsquid · 26-10-2005 5:46pm

We're doing Judo.

Alkers · 26-10-2005 6:16pm

It really got me out of the swing of doing any work and i was enver able to get back into doing any decent study.

Diarmsquid · 26-10-2005 10:33pm

I never really did decent study so it doesn't make a difference for me.
I hear that a lot, people saying that they couldn't get into the studying mood after but our teacher told us that it only happens to about 1 in 25 people.

Alkers · 26-10-2005 10:36pm

I went from gettign the best JC in the whole year to only around 50points over the year average (which tbh is high for an average) in the LC. If you managed to disciplin yourself to doing even just a bit of work it's probably fine but I didn't do a stroke. Maybe just concentrate on maths and a language or something for the year.

Flashling · 26-10-2005 10:44pm

For some people it can be a really useful year in which they get to try new things etc. as Diarmsquid said, but for others it can be a big waste of time. Really, as we keep being told, you get as much out of TY as you put in, if you sign up for lots of things, get involved, do the work you're set, it will really benefit you. If, however, you're a lazy bum, the year will be a doss, but you'll forget everything you've learnt, be bored and forget how to study.

It's up to you!

Dinner · 26-10-2005 11:35pm

Pros: The best school year I've ever had. Everyday was spent taking the piss out of each other and the teachers. Did the ECDL and went to Carlingford for a few days.

Cons: My brain is officially made from cotton now. I'm rightly fecked for the leaving in a few months time but I dont regret it.

Royale with Cheese · 27-10-2005 12:38am

Yep, I'm the same as the above post. Best fun ever, I used to love going into school. All we did was mess and have a laugh. It completely melted my brain for the leaving cert though. It was the end of 5th year before I'd managed to get back into 'work mode'. I didn't have a choice of doing transition yeah, if somebody were to ask me now if it is a good idea to do I would definitely tell them yes. You'll have the best time ever.

cookiemonst3r · 27-10-2005 10:29pm

i totally regret doin TY. it was a complete waste of time. my brain is officially gone now. i cant study or even concentrate in class anymore.

Flashling · 27-10-2005 10:36pm

I could never concentrate in class! Unless it was my beloved science....or even more beloved maths.....okay, I couldn't concentrate in history! But I don't think I'll enjoy this year more than I'd have enjoyed fifth year with my friends. Though we were learning some oddly sexual moves in judo today, which is always fun...:)

philologos · 28-10-2005 2:32pm

Maths are you insane rofl!

PurpleFistMixer · 28-10-2005 4:38pm

Got a problem with maths?

*reflexes angles*

philologos · 28-10-2005 5:41pm

its the scurge of most of us. And history??? whats wrong with history

Diarmsquid · 28-10-2005 6:08pm

I like Maths too, getting the right answers in Maths is a great feeling. better than secks!

philologos · 28-10-2005 6:17pm

Diarmsquid wrote:

better than secks!

how would you know :eek:

Diarmsquid · 28-10-2005 9:35pm

Don't Deny It Jakkass!

EvilPixieOne · 28-10-2005 9:50pm

TY is good for me cos I'm doing loads of stuff outside school that I dont want to have to drop yet, but if I wasn't I definatly would have skipped it, for alot of people it's a waste of time, especially if you know what you want to do when you leave school (which I don't)

philologos · 29-10-2005 11:19am

Diarmsquid wrote:

Don't Deny It Jakkass!

lol maths sucks and you know it

Flashling · 29-10-2005 11:44am

I'm sorry, you're wrong!

philologos · 29-10-2005 11:54am

languages in general are my best subjects anyway

Diarmsquid · 29-10-2005 2:21pm

Jakkass wrote:

Diarmsquid wrote:

better than secks!

how would you know :eek:

I was talking about that.

philologos · 29-10-2005 2:43pm

oh were you

Riggser · 29-10-2005 3:00pm

Halo wrote:

ty.........what a waste of time. totally regret doing it:rolleyes:

100% agree. It was the first transition year in my school and what a sham it was. Depending on the school and the activities involved all transition year is doing is putting your overall education on hold. So unless you get your drivers license, learn a new language fluently, go on a trip abroad don't do it, it's a pain inducing waste of time.

philologos · 29-10-2005 3:06pm

too late

Mysteryfish · 29-10-2005 7:04pm

TY is great! I am really enjoying it! It's a great chance to make new friends and find out what you really like doing and to take up new stuff.

As Flash said before, you get back what you put in, and all that stuff about not being able to study when you go into fifth year, well I'd say that it's more that you can't be arsed, not that TY actually made it harder. I'm working in TY and learning stuff so if you aren't/didn't then maybe it was because you weren't listening in class? Just a thought....

If you get into it and are willing to do a bit of work to make it better then I think you'll get loads out of TY. I'm so glad I'm doing it.

And maths is great!

philologos · 29-10-2005 7:15pm

lol perhaps if i wasnt such a lazy student

hmm....

Flashling · 29-10-2005 7:39pm

Hmm...I think I disagree with Mysteryfish, about the fifth year students not being able to study because they didn't listen and are lazy. That's a bit harsh, tbh, and as so many people have said it it might be true? What do other 5th years (who have done transition year, sorry fobia and roe!) think?

Mysteryfish · 29-10-2005 7:43pm

It came out a bit harsher than I meant it to, but I still think that just because it's a bit harder to study for actual exams when you go back into 5th year, doesn't mean you shouldn't do TY. Some people might not have worked in 5th year even if they had skipped TY cuz they might have viewed it that "oh, well I can just rest on my Junior Cert this year", so really it's hard to know what you would have been like had you done/not done TY.

BlueRollingPin · 07-11-2005 10:38pm

As I've said many a time, I love TY. I'm getting to try so many new things which is 'broadening my horizens' so to say. It's a nice recoverey year for those who took the JC way to seriously and burnt themselves out due to stress.:D Not to mention, I get to stay with my friends, who've all opted to do TY as well.

A con would be that I no longer remember any French but I'm working on it and it's slowly coming back to me. C'est trés bien, non?

Diarmsquid · 07-11-2005 11:10pm

BlueRollingPin wrote:

horizens

That word looks funny when it's typed.

philologos · 08-11-2005 7:23pm

perhaps thats because its horizons

Diarmsquid · 08-11-2005 9:12pm

Now you wrecked it.

BlueRollingPin · 08-11-2005 9:55pm

Ah, my apologies; spelling has never been my strong point.

Steve_o · 14-11-2005 4:01pm

Pro's : Doing Sweet f*** all each and every day
Cons : Everything else

j22 · 29-11-2005 5:56pm

To be honest the only thing I learnt anyway worthwhile was the words to the National anthem.

Although it was the best year of my life so far.

Went on loads of trips. The main trip we went on was a trip to mainline Europe and participated in the European Youth Parliament. Good Experience. We also went to Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands(where we got absolutely locked and were falling about in front of the teachers, and got away with it) and Germany. It was all government subsidised so the whole trip only cost about £200 punt.

Didnt find any trouble getting back into study. and got an extra year to choose my subjects.

I would highly reccomend doing it

Kojak · 30-11-2005 12:05am

Simona1986 wrote:

It really got me out of the swing of doing any work and i was enver able to get back into doing any decent study.

That happened to someone I knew - he wanted to be a Civil Engineer in NUIG (Formely UCG) and he was well on course to get it (Going by his junior cert Results) but after TY he totally lost the plot and is now a trainee mechanic - nothing wrong with that but it does highlight a problem with TY. If you dont have a lot of self discipline then you could get lost.

By the way I skipped it as the set up for TY in my secondary school was a complete joke.

15-12-2005 2:29am

everybody shud def do it!it likr so cool and you get to work and like choose better subjects next.it reall is so cool!just do it!

there you go!i have a positive post so you dont have to ban yourself flashling.:)

Flashling · 15-12-2005 8:11pm

Postitive, yes...in text speak, yes. I'm sorry, you lose.

One more time and you get banned.

17-12-2005 10:40am

do what pet?:) im not being condescending.

Diarmsquid · 17-12-2005 10:02pm

/me subscribes to thread.

Apple Gal · 09-01-2006 3:07pm

This thread helped me so much with my english essay,thank you. It was "should transition year be made compulsary".

PurpleFistMixer · 09-01-2006 11:13pm

The internet helps all.
(TY should not be made compulsory.)

Apple Gal · 10-01-2006 10:18pm

Yeh thats what I said.

philologos · 25-04-2006 7:17am

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

The internet helps all.
(TY should not be made compulsory.)

Amen... it's been compulsory for us... I would had liked to skip to 5th

Dearv · 27-04-2006 11:39pm

I was a reluctant Transition year student to say the least. For me, along with most other teenagers across the globe, school has always been a “get in, get out and try not to get hurt along the way” kind of experience. Well I really really didn't want 2 do TY but in our skool its compulsory so just finishin it up now & I have 2 admit it was woth doin - while I still do have another 2 years left in skool :eek: It was a fantastic year - I did everything & I mean everything i.e. the school musical “Fiddler on the Roof”, the Gaisce award, the young scientist competition, the mini company experience, community service, debating, model united nations, model european parliament, etc & it was well worth it made gr8t friends from outside skool got loads of stuff 4 my cv & had a brill year in general - I dont think it should b made compulsory cause if u dont sign up 4 stuff & get involved in everything it really is a total waste of a year but for me it was definately a success ! & 4 anyone who is thinkin of doin it it is really good but ( and i no this is cliched) what you put it u do get out!:D

Dafiru · 02-08-2006 7:44pm

Where you get it???

Pros and cons of doing transition year?

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