youngest age to do LC

thatone! · 03-03-2008 6:46pm #1

I know quite a few people who will only be 16 doing the exam is this common for people to be this young?

03-03-2008 6:48pm

Probably not common but for schools which have the option of skipping TY you'd normally get a few.

Gavin "shels" · 03-03-2008 7:58pm

Yup I know a few 16 year olds who done the leaving, and as Myth said all them were in T.Y. skipping schools. Never heard of a 15 year old doing a leaving cert mind you.

rainbowtrout · 03-03-2008 8:00pm

there's always a few, the ones who started primary school when they were barely four.

eoins2345 · 03-03-2008 8:03pm

yep my cousin did it 2 years ago and he was 15.He had to repeat though because he was too young

blue-army · 03-03-2008 9:00pm

I'm 16 doing it this year....I didn't bother with TY..

mmad · 03-03-2008 10:56pm

blue-army are you a female as I thought only the mercy in waterford have the option of skipping TY ?

Cokehead Mother · 03-03-2008 10:58pm

Compulsary TY? wtf?

blue-army · 03-03-2008 11:01pm

mmad wrote: »

blue-army are you a female as I thought only the mercy in waterford have the option of skipping TY ?

nope...De La Salle have the option as well...

jhealy74 · 03-03-2008 11:03pm

not much point in doing the leaving cert @16 if you intend going to college. getting turned away at the door while your mates get into clubs etc aint going to be much fun

MaltEagle · 03-03-2008 11:16pm

I'm not sure of other years but there will be 3 or 4 cantidates to are 19 sitting the exam in June and there will be 1 or 2 just 16, and some just turned 17. I'll be 18.

kevmy · 04-03-2008 12:01am

I was 16 doing the leaving. Not a bother if your good enough you're old enough

jhealy74 wrote: »

not much point in doing the leaving cert @16 if you intend going to college. getting turned away at the door while your mates get into clubs etc aint going to be much fun

I get turned away with the same regualrity now (22) as I did then. All my mates were older and I looked 18+

An Citeog · 04-03-2008 1:52am

I was just gone 17 doing the Leaving and didn't turn 18 until the very end of my first year in college. Got myself a fake id and not a bother getting into anywhere.

I could have done TY or taken a year out when I finished to work but decided not to. Tbh, I'm glad I didn't then but am currently taking a year out before I go back to finish my degree. Best decision I ever made and this year is benefiting me more than the other options ever could have.

Jamey · 04-03-2008 2:09am

I was 16 doing the Leaving, and start college when I had just gone 17. Dropped out within months. I wasn't mature enough, or ready for college life at all.

Went back to college when I was 18, going on 19, and absolutely love it. Would recommend taking a year out for anyone doing the LC at 16.

ChapOfDRyans · 04-03-2008 3:36pm

in waterford mount sion dont even have 4th year just have the option of doing lcvp

Cokehead Mother · 04-03-2008 3:38pm

Jamey wrote: »

I was 16 doing the Leaving, and start college when I had just gone 17. Dropped out within months. I wasn't mature enough, or ready for college life at all.

Went back to college when I was 18, going on 19, and absolutely love it. Would recommend taking a year out for anyone doing the LC at 16.

Yeah, I can see how you reached that conclusion...

Mars Bar · 04-03-2008 4:36pm

2 girls in my year were 16 doing the LC and one is repeating despite the 500 points she got, she feels too young, she only turned 17 in november. Another girl is leaving up in Dublin and is grand with it...

KeyLimePie · 04-03-2008 5:51pm

i know my friend who did the leaving 2 years ago was only 16 and he was the youngest in the country to do it, apparently, but he went onto college regardless and is now in his...3rd year?! i dont know him THAT well lol
but my friend in school just turned 17 today which kinda sucks cause he wont be able to go out in college for ages

thatone! · 04-03-2008 6:43pm

One of my friends will only turn 17 in the end of september!

johnk123 · 04-03-2008 8:52pm

Im 15 and in 5th yr, and will be 16 sitting my leaving. Will be 17 mid- August, so very young for college. Although i think i might have to repeat.

lilmissprincess · 04-03-2008 9:39pm

I did Ty so Ill be 17 starting college, wont be 18 til mid september, started school at 3....

Jay P · 13-03-2008 6:51pm

I shall be 18 thanks to TY

Worth it just for that, otherwise I'd be 17 for nearly all of 1st year in uni

aliqueenb · 13-03-2008 7:00pm

i'm only in ty now, i'm 16, i'll be 18 in lc, 19 starting college cos my birthday is the first of september ha!

13-03-2008 7:01pm

Gavin shels wrote: »

Never heard of a 15 year old doing a leaving cert mind you.

Hi, that was me

dragonfly! · 23-03-2008 7:34pm

I'll be 19 doing the LC but there are people in my class who will be just gone 17....

Jayeire · 24-03-2008 9:16pm

19 doing the LC, 20 come December :cool: thanx to TY and repeating

eoghanisonfire · 07-05-2008 7:37pm

i was 16 doing the leaving, not a bother on me doing it, but coming to college just after turning 17 was too young i think

still 17 and gonna see if i pass first year in a couple months

(in the middle of exams right now actually)

Ash_M · 23-08-2008 11:43am

would be 16 going into college, turning 17 a few days in if it wasn't for TY...

dying to go to college but to get the most out of it i reckon you have to be 18 really... even though i've been passing for 18 since i was 14, i'd prefer to be actually 18 by that stage.

Climate Expert · 23-08-2008 11:48am

I was just gone 17 doing it and 17 all throughout my first year in college.
****ers wouldn't let me do transition year. The wild sex parties in college made up for it. Not many 17 year olds were at that.

regob · 23-08-2008 11:49am

i was 16 doing the lc, 17 during my first year of uni in bfast, got in everywhere, and my id that i used was my student card

blue-army · 23-08-2008 1:32pm

I'm 17 and just did the LC......I won't be 18 until next April...

Signature · 23-08-2008 2:43pm

If you started school at the proper age and skipped TY you will be 16/17 in 6th year. You will be 17/18 in this case if you did TY.

Your age in the LC depends on what date your birthday is.

Plug-me-in · 23-08-2008 5:36pm

Yeah, i turned 18 the day of Irish paper two! And I did transition year... Few people were 16 in my year, i know one of them is repeating! (he was always immature though....) Though, my dad did his leaving cert at 16 (back in the day...) and was a qualified dctor at 22! (Don't know the relevancy of that tbh, but it sounds cool!

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K4t · 23-08-2008 6:18pm

More and more people are skipping TY. It's there decision so let them off imo.

My mam was 16 in her first year at university so it's not totally uncommon.

WaldenByThoreua · 23-08-2008 7:09pm

girl in my year who just did the leaving cert this june turned 16 this month! she was 15 doing it! Actually she had to get a letter from our principal to go to school....

Pigwidgeon · 24-08-2008 2:19pm

ill be 18, a lot of people in my year will be 19, think the oldest person was 18 in feb or march of this year (5th year) and then all the people who skipped ty will be just turned 17!

insinkerator · 24-08-2008 3:26pm

I know a guy who just did the LC ad he wont be 18 til next march..... thats the youngest i have come across

estebancambias · 24-08-2008 5:47pm

I was 16, and only turned 17 at the end of August...that was a year ago. I'm just going 18 now in a week.

cheekay · 24-08-2008 7:11pm

I did TY and repeated so i'll be 19 going into college. Sis who is 16 will be startin college also this year. Shes not 17 unitl december

Climate Expert · 24-08-2008 7:18pm

insinkerator wrote: »

I know a guy who just did the LC ad he wont be 18 til next march..... thats the youngest i have come across

Thats crazy young. Surely the youngest ever.

whassupp2 · 24-08-2008 8:48pm

blue-army wrote: »

I'm 17 and just did the LC......I won't be 18 until next April...

I did the leaving in 2006. Was 17 and not 18 until the following April aswell.
There was no way in hell i was going repeating and even less chance of me doin TY which btw i had the option of doing.

In college there was always the odd night that i was turned away from niteclubs but that is about the only diadvantage of being 17.

when the options are weighed up:

college @ 17 Vs repeat LC.....................there's only one winner.

I have no regrets

thatone! · 24-08-2008 8:55pm

A good few of my friends were 16 doing the LC

spurious · 24-08-2008 10:24pm

I think the youngest possible (not doing TY, not skipping a year and starting school at the required age) would be 16 by September of 6th year, though I have a vague recollection of some sentence in a document stating that a child on entrance to second-level must be 12 before November 1st of their first year.

The guy · 24-08-2008 11:15pm

I had turned 17 three months before I did the leaving cert and I know someone who was turning 16 while doing the leaving cert exam.

He did Architecture in DIT so could get in.

rainbow kirby · 24-08-2008 11:15pm

Before I took a year out of college there was a guy in my class (scary Russian dude who argued with a lecturer about the foundations of mathematics) who turned 17 in December of first year.

I was 17 when I did my LC, would have been 16 if I'd skipped TY, I have a summer birthday.

youngest age to do LC

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