Yeats, Galway

Armani-style

Hello everybody,

I would be grateful if someone could help me. I have just done the leaving and want to repeat(not because I did bad,I just want to get around 565 ). If anyone has gone or is going to Yeats could you tell me is it as good as I have heard?

Does Yeats do either or both of ag. sc. or phys/chem?
Do you have any free time or is it all totally intensive study?

If you can give me any additional info I would be very grateful.Thanks alot.

whassupp2

Welcome to Boards.

I know alot of people who went and thought it was brilliant. I'm not sure how much it costs but you have to ask yourself is it worth it???

Armani-style

To be honest with you,I don't care how much it costs as long as I get into a good course. It will pay off in the long term. I'm good at learning things by myself,but having the added help of some top teachers,and being around others who are really interested would make a difference,don't you think?

Rob30888

It's fairly study intensive, 9 to 9 and then 9 to 10 after Easter. It's about 9 to 1 on a Saturday.

This is only a second hand account, so I'm not totally certain on that.

R0C0

I know 2 people who did their exams there this year! Its basically just a different way of learning, as opposed to learning 'how' and 'why' you are just given answers and made learn them off word for word! 1 of the people I know who got her results from there the other day did very well, but over all Yeats had fairly average results and were outdone by a lot of 'regular' schools!
Its about €5k for the year too!

Gangsta

R0C0 wrote:

I know 2 people who did their exams there this year! Its basically just a different way of learning, as opposed to learning 'how' and 'why' you are just given answers and made learn them off word for word! 1 of the people I know who got her results from there the other day did very well, but over all Yeats had fairly average results and were outdone by a lot of 'regular' schools!
Its about €5k for the year too!

Ha! I doubt they were undone by my school (The Bish). Armani-style I'm heading there in september. All the repeats I knew who went there last year did really well. If you're going gimme a shout.

TerrorFirmer

R0C0 wrote:

but over all Yeats had fairly average results and were outdone by a lot of 'regular' schools!
Its about €5k for the year too!

I've not gone there myself, but from what I hear from those who did go there, their results did not really reflect the kinda image people have of Yeats - i.e they got average results.

Armani-style

Well....I was reading the paper a few days ago and it seems that they got 6 600's...um, I'm not sure, but I call this slightly higher than average,dont'cha think? Especially considering the size of the place,it's not that big.

R0C0

Armani-style wrote:

Well....I was reading the paper a few days ago and it seems that they got 6 600's...um, I'm not sure, but I call this slightly higher than average,dont'cha think? Especially considering the size of the place,it's not that big.

I think you may be wrong.. I'm not 100% though tbh, but from the people I've spoken to about it I certainly haven't heard that!

IMO the place is only good if you really don't want to repeat in your own school.. other than that, I feel, it represents an immature attitude towards education if you have to pay somebody that kind of money to force you to do the work, tis good for people with little initiative I suppose!

nedward

'Tis meant to be good oul' craic. Terry is also meant to be a bit strange.

Stepherunie

Armani-style wrote:

Well....I was reading the paper a few days ago and it seems that they got 6 600's...um, I'm not sure, but I call this slightly higher than average,dont'cha think? Especially considering the size of the place,it's not that big.

That has more to do with the students than the school - my school is a normal school with 100 in a year and we generally get at least one person with 590 or 600 points every year. The year before I did my leaving 3 girls got 600.

I wouldn't base your decision just on how many people in the school got 600 points.

Talk to your parents - have you already spent 6 years in your current school? If so as far as I know you will have to change schools, if not I know a lot of people who've repeated in teh schools they went to, and the teachers knew them so well that they were able to tailor the teaching more to them and work on there weaker aspects.

That said I've also known people who went to Bruce Hewitt in Cork from my school adn the lads school and done far better - so really you need to think long and hard about it.

And btw you dont need 565 to get into a good course - they're are lots of great courses requiring far less points than that - you just want a course that has that has a large points requirement.

Gangsta

It's E5,700 :eek:

To be honest.Yeats does not really have any better teachers than other school.The only thing that is good about it is that it forces you to study.If you are intelligent but lazy.It would be a great help.

Oh yeah.Alll the people doing the leaving cert in Galway city.Stay out of our fcuking library and reading rooms.:mad:

Gangsta

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To be honest.Yeats does not really have any better teachers than other school.The only thing that is good about it is that it forces you to study.If you are intelligent but lazy.It would be a great help.

Oh yeah.Alll the people doing the leaving cert in Galway city.Stay out of our fcuking library and reading rooms.:mad:

no.

You really should!You do know the leaving cert is a piece of piss compared to college exams especially honours maths and physics.The sooner they put security on the reading room,the better.

Gangsta

Anyone else going to yeats?

nedward

I might. Got an interview on Wednesday.

Hmmm, i wonder who interviews who?