Leaving Cert-what age are you?!

Shyster

Hey
was just reading in the other thread about counting down the days to the leaving, and it looks like people are pretty far apart in age when they're sitting the exams.....
Its news to me, cos my year are all the same age so just wondering-

what age are you?!

BraveheartGal

17 and 90 days
leap day
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still no prob gettin into over 21's tho
boo yah!

BraveheartGal

sorry that should really be 17 years and 90 days

im actually not a baby-genius

Shyster

lol, thought we had a child prodigy on our hands..
Forgot to say, Im 19 and before ye ask-Im not repeating, just an ouldie

ApeXaviour

I'm not doing the LC this year but... I was 19 the year I did it.
Damn stupid mandatory transition year, just ended up smoking wacky tobaccy for the entirety of it. Complete and utter waste of time..

Means I will quite likely be 28 leaving college if all goes well and I go on to do a PhD.

sabriel

jus turned 17 in may

Finch*

17! it sucks when so many of your friends are 18!

angeldelight

I was 17 and a half when I did it last year. It's great cause I'll be a fully qualified pharmacist when I'm only 22 (all going according to plan!). I skipped TY cause it would have done my head in, I preferred academic study and exams to projects and stuff.

Tuesday_Girl

I was 16 doing mine, 20 doing my final exams in UL.

I'm 16, and I'm one of the old ones in my class!

Shyster

very jealous of these 16yr old youngsters...if i wanted to do med id be wayyyyy too old

Shyster

Shyster wrote:

very jealous of these 16yr old youngsters...if i wanted to do med id be wayyyyy too old

Yes, since we still have the good looks AND are able to get 560 points on our mocks!

the smiley one

I'm 18 (last october..), I'm older than a lot of my friends, but pretty average for the whole year

Did TY also (compulsory in our school)

Shyster

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Yes, since we still have the good looks AND are able to get 560 points on our mocks!

oh low blow!!...could compete on the points though

Creamy Goodness

19 since april, oldest in my year, according to my profile in the year book

Tuesday_Girl

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I'm 16, and I'm one of the old ones in my class!

Don't tell me there's 15 year olds doing the Leaving?

Shyster

actually thought you weren't allowed do the leaving at 15....?

As long as you're 16 by September, you're fine.

Scarinae

I'm 18, and suddenly I feel ancient

BraveheartGal

Fishie wrote:

I'm 18, and suddenly I feel ancient

you should




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Creamy Goodness

BraveheartGal wrote:

you should




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aww jeez, thanks

Shrimp

I am 17 (currently in 5th year).. will be 18 doing my leaving..

BraveheartGal

anytime! lol


jus teasin!!!

rainbow kirby

I was 17 doing my Leaving, 18 the weekend I finished. That was 3 years ago...

Cannibal Ox

19, the joys of repeating the LC while all your mates are out getting pissed... :rolleyes:

*Angel*

I turned 18 two weeks ago

randomfella

cannibal ox what course u going for? Must be worth repeating for.

Repeating would be so hard for me because there are 2new courses : geog and history, and slight changes to irish. I've always said i'd rather get my first choice or repeat but after all the hard work another year just seems too much.

Shyster

dont think i could repeat..can you do the leaving as a mature student??thatd be me!

MicraBoy

I turned 17 the week before my Leaving. That was 10 years ago. Just look how far I've come. Oh bugger.......

MooShop

i was 16 doing my leaving cert, youngest in my class, and have always been youngest even in college, three years of college done now, and still only 19

MooShop

Shyster wrote:

actually thought you weren't allowed do the leaving at 15....?

didnt think it was actually possible to do your leaving cert at 15, is it??

Well a lot in my class are. If you don't do TY and started school a bit early then it's very possible.

MooShop

that means you would need to start primary school when you were 3 and not turn 4 until july, back when i started svhool you werent allowed to start if you were under 4, i've never heard of a 15 year old doing the leaving, anybody else know someone that did the leaving when they were 15???

I started primary school when I was 5, so that means if you're still 4 by the end of June you will do the LC at 15, that is as long as you don't do TY. Or did I skip a year without anyone telling me?

randomfella

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Well a lot in my class are. If you don't do TY and started school a bit early then it's very possible.

*sniff snifff

i smell something there.... its strong, almost overpowering...

randomfella

do the math

Assuming ur b-day is in september.

Start school at 5
Junior 15
Leaving 17

Start school at 3 - that would just be going 3 aswel the year after being 2. Doesn't sound right to me AT ALL. NEVER heard someone do it like that.
Junior 13
Leaving 15

Even if u skip years in primary, they hold u back for the leaving til' ur 16. OR so i'm told.

Yes, but you're not taking into account if your birthday is during the summer months. Mine is in July. I started school when I was 5, and I will be 16 when I do my Leaving. But I will be 17 when I start college.

You see?

randomfella

no i don't see. IF u started school at 5, same as me, u should have been 15 doing junior cert? Correct?

No. I was 14. I was 15 in that July though. What month were you born, if you don't mind me asking?

randomfella

6/9/1987 is my birthday.

I started school -/9/92

Went into secondary after 8 years

-/9/00

Junior 03
LEaving 05

U sure u didn't skip a year.

There's the problem! You did your JC when you were 15, which is right, but I wouldn't have turned 15 til the July, as I was born 17/07/88. When we both started the next year though, we both would have been the same age.

randomfella

yeah i was never great at maths.

*hides in the corner

wait. U need to explain it again. IF u were 5 starting school that was

in 93

then u entered school in 01

did ur junior in 04

and leaving in 06

where am i going wrong?

Math is my strongest subjuect actually.

But you could be right. I don't know. All of this study is wrescking my head!

randomfella

randomfella wrote:

yeah i was never great at maths.

*hides in the corner

wait. U need to explain it again. IF u were 5 starting school that was

in 93

then u entered school in 01

did ur junior in 04

and leaving in 06

where am i going wrong?

Like I said, you could be right. I can't get my head sraight at the mo.

[Edit: Also, I started school in 00. Now my head hurts. Thanks a lot! ]

Scarinae

You sure you didn't start school at 4, and turn 5 during the summer? My birthday is in August, I started school when I was 5, I was 15 doing the JC, I did TY, now I'm 18 doing the Leaving and 19 going into college - if I'd skipped TY I would have done the Leaving at 17 and been 18 going into college...

You're probably right! I can't really remember.

Thanks.

Shyster

what did i start when i asked that question?!...at least its not as bad as the north/southsiders one...

Oh yeh! I was just thinking about starting that..............

Shyster

damnit some of us dont understand...we only go up to the big smoke once a year for the all-ireland!!
northside southside its all the same to me why cant we all just get along

STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't start talking about it here! We might have 2 thread about it then.

Shyster

grrr.....its an epidemic! so ur young doing the leaving eh?!