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Pros and cons of doing transition year?
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Hey
Still havent made up my mind whether to do 4th year and we have to let the school know pretty soon so I'd appreciate any advise!! haha
all my friends are definitely doing ty and they all want me 2 do it.
My parents don't want me to do it though but they said it's up to me...
I think it'll be a great year sounds like great fun!!
if i dont do it I'll be 16 doing my leaving cert.. every1s saying its too young (besides my parents - they'd rather i went straight 2 5th year so i can hav 2 go's at the leaving..)
dont know what to do!! please help!!
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i did ty and even though it wasnt the most productive year... it was very enjoyable indeed :P
what i will say though is im in 5th now... and out of the 15 or so 'newbys' that joined our year, skipping ty, over half of them have decided to repeat next year. the teachers always said the people who do ty do better in lc and i didnt believe it until i saw it. they are not doing well academically... so for that reason alone i would recomend everyone to do it!
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Im a third year student, and in my school some people say ty is a great thing because theres a big trip eachyear, and a school musical (which you can take part in, in all years). I think im going to skip 4th year, because i hate studying, doing homeowork and teachers telling me what to do, eventhough i do try my hardest in school, and usually get on quite well, im doing all honours ( for now anyway:p). my year in school is also full of messers,people who really dont care about school and are very rude. all my friends are doing 4th year except myself and one other girl, they keep telling me to do it, cuz it'll be such a doss and they'll get involved in things, but i have a couple of friends in 4th year at the moment who tell me to skip not even because its that boring, but because they'd love to get to know me better. my friends in my own year are also starting to fight a bit (girls being girls) , and its been going on for a long time now, i just dont think id be able to put up with the same people for another full 3 years!, but ill also miss the lads in my class because they're all so funny, and so sound aswel. if i do 4th year im also afraid ill get bad teachers for cores, as my year hasnt been very lucky with teachers so far. But doing 4th year would mean an extra year of the school musical, which i did in 1st and 2nd year and i thought it was great craic!, getting settled down and finding what subjects i like and im best at, and it would mean i would be a good eighteen doing my leaving cert, which would mean id be old enough to go out in college. if i skip into 5th year, i will only be seventeen doing my leaving cert and wont be eighteen until a good few months into the college year! my sister says i should do 4th year because i wont be old enough, and it will be a break after the JC. my mam thinks this aswel, even though she says the decision is up to me. my dad and brother say i should skip. i was also talking to my english teacher who said she skipped when she was in school, ( which I wouldent say was that long ago) and she was only 17 going into college, she said it was the best decision she made. im just so confused! ill probably end up skipping, but when i think back on all the good things that have happened since 1st year, i become unsure, but there has also been alot of bad things.. i need to make my mind up in the next 2 weeks and i was just wondering could somone tell me what TY is like! ( in my school you really have to get involved in stuff, because if u dont they will do nothing with you).. THANK YOU! 0
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bluemusic97 wrote: »Im a third year student, and in my school some people say ty is a great thing because theres a big trip eachyear, and a school musical (which you can take part in, in all years). I think im going to skip 4th year, because i hate studying, doing homeowork and teachers telling me what to do, eventhough i do try my hardest in school, and usually get on quite well, im doing all honours ( for now anyway:p). my year in school is also full of messers,people who really dont care about school and are very rude. all my friends are doing 4th year except myself and one other girl, they keep telling me to do it, cuz it'll be such a doss and they'll get involved in things, but i have a couple of friends in 4th year at the moment who tell me to skip not even because its that boring, but because they'd love to get to know me better. my friends in my own year are also starting to fight a bit (girls being girls) , and its been going on for a long time now, i just dont think id be able to put up with the same people for another full 3 years!, but ill also miss the lads in my class because they're all so funny, and so sound aswel. if i do 4th year im also afraid ill get bad teachers for cores, as my year hasnt been very lucky with teachers so far. But doing 4th year would mean an extra year of the school musical, which i did in 1st and 2nd year and i thought it was great craic!, getting settled down and finding what subjects i like and im best at, and it would mean i would be a good eighteen doing my leaving cert, which would mean id be old enough to go out in college. if i skip into 5th year, i will only be seventeen doing my leaving cert and wont be eighteen until a good few months into the college year! my sister says i should do 4th year because i wont be old enough, and it will be a break after the JC. my mam thinks this aswel, even though she says the decision is up to me. my dad and brother say i should skip. i was also talking to my english teacher who said she skipped when she was in school, ( which I wouldent say was that long ago) and she was only 17 going into college, she said it was the best decision she made. im just so confused! ill probably end up skipping, but when i think back on all the good things that have happened since 1st year, i become unsure, but there has also been alot of bad things.. i need to make my mind up in the next 2 weeks and i was just wondering could somone tell me what TY is like! ( in my school you really have to get involved in stuff, because if u dont they will do nothing with you).. THANK YOU!
ok i cant help on the personal friend front... thats up to you :P what i will say is you get out of ty exactly what you put in (cliched, i know) so if you put in a little effort to organise work exp that interests you, etc. you will have an AMAZING year, also something you may not have considered is that people who skip do not do aswell as the tys come fifth year, not trying to scare you but im in fifth now, there were maybe 20 who skipped ty and are in our year now.... a good half of them are repeating fifth again next year because they just couldn't keep up. of the 10 appx staying they all achieve below average apart from one. to rephrase 1/20 (in this particular case) is doing well in fifth. i genuinely believe having the year to relax and do some non academic stuff will make you better prepared to focus in fifth, be under no allusions if you are looking for anyway high points in lc you need to be paying attention in fifth! bottom line, i reccomend ty i hope i didnt freak you out too much! 0 -
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