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Yeah, but "school" is up to 16, and then to 18 you have to be in some form of education, but that can be more open like an apprenticeship

Although when I did it it was only up to 16 mandatory

Oh wow

Changed recently

So you graduated when you were 16/17?

Sry if my questions are dumb, I really don't know much about this subject

It's alright ? . Yeah I finished school at 16 however I chose to continue education "A levels" until 18, then I went to Uni after that

You can do A levels at the same secondary school if they have a program, or you can move to a different school or college

Or you can do a different award rather than A level like Btec

I know for us, for your last two years of high school, you can take some college classes along with your high school classes. The college class will substitute a credit you need to graduate. That is, if you happen to have a community college near your school...

Wait so you finish after GCSEs?

So do you have to go to 18?

You don't have to do A levels?

When I did it we were allowed to finish after GCSEs, we could go get a job if we want

But that's changed now

You have to do some form of education until 18

We basically have to do our equivalent here. I mean you can drop out but it's not like you are really considered finished? Like Secondary school is usually 6 years for us in which you do both JC and LC(The equivalent to the GCSEs and A levels)

Ah ok

Cause the JC and LC are something we've always kind of had to do unless there was some personal reason why you couldn't. Like money or family.

Oh, weird. Having to do LC, if it's anything like A level, sounds bad

A levels were shitty

LC is just a lot of stress that eventually becomes worthless once you have some kind of degree.

You do 6 subjects I think A levels is less

but I'm not sure

A level is 3-4

They push you to do 4, but my science teachers were all urging to only do 3

I trusted them more than the admin peeps

Do you do big projects for each one?

Not really, it was exams mostly, a couple of courseworks here and there

You have to do projects?

No I was just wondering. We are the same Exams and Coursework. Although if you do a subject like history you do have to do A history project

Maths, Irish and English are compulsory unless you are exempt from Irish and they always push you to do one Science and one other language

Ouch

Compulsory sounds dumb

We got to choose whatever

But the annoying thing is is that they never do career guidance till after you choose your subjects so pushing people to do subjects like that isn't always good because they may never need them

Yeah

However if you do transition year you get to go to some college events but it's usually one or two.

So you can sometimes get some idea

GCSE level English and Maths should be the only compulsory really

Oh at JC all our subjects are basically chosen for us except the second language

oh boy im going to go overtime