The Junior Cycle builds on the education received at primary level and culminates with the Junior Certificate Examination. The Junior Certificate Examination is taken after three years of study and not before fourteen years of age.
The Transition Year is a one-year informal course which is taken by an increasing number of students. The content of this is left to the school to model on the local needs often focusing on work placement and related projects.
The Senior Cycle builds on the junior cycle and culminates with the Leaving Certificate Examination. The Leaving Certificate Examination is taken after at least two years of study after the Junior Certificate Examination
I started back in school in September, like basically everyone over here.
I'm in transition year now which is pretty easy (but pretty pointless, which annoys me sometimes). We're still doing our leaving cert subjects, as well as RELIGION, but it's a little bit better than an exam year
In most schools you don't have to do transition year, but in mine you do. If we were given the choice in my school I'd skip it. Any school that makes you do subjects as useless as Irish, as pointless as religion, or as DAMNIT I'M NOT LEARNING ANYTHING HERE as computers, I'll have problems with, so I'd like to get out ASAP.
for me it means more wasting time in and out of class doing meaningless pointless things that won't help me out at all later in life whatsoever ...
I totally get what you mean. I can't say all the stuff we do is pointless, but alot of it is. Either because the subject is of no interest to me, or is plain useless (usually paired together), or because the teacher can't fucking teach, or all of the above.
Computers, religion and Irish are the only sujects I have problems with, and low and behold, they're all compulsory.
I'm fine with all the subjects I chose.
