I don’t like the
education system here in Ireland, but then I wouldn’t would I? I’m being forced
to go through it; I don’t have a choice on the matter. I’m just at the end of my
3rd year in secondary school, which means big exams; we spent the
last three years preparing for them, apparently. They start in about two weeks
from now, June 5th, I think, but I have yet to open a book to study
for them.
I hate the way exams are treated here, they’re marked on a bell graph and treated as a competition, I mean sure only so many people can get an A, but we still shouldn’t treat exams as a competition, no matter what. Personally, I think we shouldn’t even have exams, and I know what you’re thinking, it’s not just because I have to sit them, I have valid reasons. I think that school should be compulsory but I don’t think that there should be exams. Every person has a different mind, different knowledge and a different way of learning. It’s unfair that people who aren’t good at learning off facts should be forced to ‘compete’ against those people to whom it’s like a second nature. Weronika, like me, doesn’t really study but she gets really good grades from just sitting in class and listening. Whereas if I wanted to get good grades I would have to study for hours every night and I really can’t be bothered to do that so I settle for mediocre grades. Every single person is expected to take one of two levels, I find Ordinary Level much too simplistic to even bother, but Higher Level is so much more difficult that I don’t really think it’s worth the work I need to put into it.
I’m not doing Transition Year (4th Year) so I had to pick my Leaving Certificate subjects a few months back. There are three compulsory subjects and four choices, I had picked the subjects I wanted to do and had a fifth one just in case I didn’t get one of them and I had written these in on the preliminary choice form and handed it in to the school. Everyone’s preliminary choices were entered into ‘The System’ and a selection of subjects was made from this, but it was separated into four bands and you had to choose a subject from each band. But two of my choices weren’t available because not enough people wanted to do them, which would be grand if it was possible for me to do my fifth choice, but it wasn’t. This left me with two subjects which I don’t mind and two which I can’t stand.
I could go on about various teachers and stupid rules in my school, I probably will at some stage, but for now that’s me.
I hate the way exams are treated here, they’re marked on a bell graph and treated as a competition, I mean sure only so many people can get an A, but we still shouldn’t treat exams as a competition, no matter what. Personally, I think we shouldn’t even have exams, and I know what you’re thinking, it’s not just because I have to sit them, I have valid reasons. I think that school should be compulsory but I don’t think that there should be exams. Every person has a different mind, different knowledge and a different way of learning. It’s unfair that people who aren’t good at learning off facts should be forced to ‘compete’ against those people to whom it’s like a second nature. Weronika, like me, doesn’t really study but she gets really good grades from just sitting in class and listening. Whereas if I wanted to get good grades I would have to study for hours every night and I really can’t be bothered to do that so I settle for mediocre grades. Every single person is expected to take one of two levels, I find Ordinary Level much too simplistic to even bother, but Higher Level is so much more difficult that I don’t really think it’s worth the work I need to put into it.
I’m not doing Transition Year (4th Year) so I had to pick my Leaving Certificate subjects a few months back. There are three compulsory subjects and four choices, I had picked the subjects I wanted to do and had a fifth one just in case I didn’t get one of them and I had written these in on the preliminary choice form and handed it in to the school. Everyone’s preliminary choices were entered into ‘The System’ and a selection of subjects was made from this, but it was separated into four bands and you had to choose a subject from each band. But two of my choices weren’t available because not enough people wanted to do them, which would be grand if it was possible for me to do my fifth choice, but it wasn’t. This left me with two subjects which I don’t mind and two which I can’t stand.
I could go on about various teachers and stupid rules in my school, I probably will at some stage, but for now that’s me.
Goodbye my munchkins,
Ruska
Ruska
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