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6th year better or worse than 5th year?

Hey

i'm in 5th year right now (and absolutely hating it) and i'm gonna stay on for 6th year. I just wanted to know if 6th year is any better or actually worse.

So what's your opinion?

More work or less work? More time to yourself ? Much harder work?

Reply 1

Acaila

17

Less motivation to do work certainly :biggrin:

It depends on what subjects you take obviously. Int 1 Woodwork is probably not going to hurt your brain as much as AH Maths (no offence to Int 1 Woodwork people, most maths geeks couldn't tell a saw from a hammer I'm sure :wink:

)

Reply 2

Dhesi

2

Id say if you can leave and go to uni do it. Ive hated sixth year, lots of work if you're doing AH but little to no motivation. Essentially its like purgatory.

Reply 3

BloodBrother

Dhesi

Id say if you can leave and go to uni do it. Ive hated sixth year, lots of work if you're doing AH but little to no motivation. Essentially its like purgatory.

Your dentistry offers mean much to you Michael? :p:

I myself know that I couldn't have coped with a fourth subject, even if it was like an I2. So if you want a manageable year, don't pick more than about 3 subjects; certainly not more than 4. If you like the social side of things you will enjoy the year; I know I have :wink:

Reply 4

Cirrus

8

I found 5th year boring - Did 5 Highers: Maths, Computing, English, Chem and Physics but I love 6th year and I'm doing 1 AH, 2 highers and an int 2 [Computing - History and English - Digital Design] I love it so much because of how relaxed it is and how we get treated at my school in 6th year. In my opinion its the funiest year you can have at school and its the last time you can have that kind of fun with your year. I also love my AH xD if you enjoy the subject you shouldn't have any problem getting motivated.

Reply 5

Acaila

17

All the stuff that goes with sixth year at my school was great, so in all I really did enjoy it :smile:

Reply 6

Lucia.

16

I take AH English, History, Modern Studies and H Chem. By the end of this year I will be dead :cool:

The workload is no joy and I find it impossible to study at school because I spend too much time talking; and so here I am studying at home preparing to hand in 15,000 words at the end of the week as well as revising for a dreaded historical sources paper. Oh yes - joy

:frown:

Reply 7

lucyrobyn

6

well it depends what school you are in and what you want to do really. in my school AHs are openlearnings. im the only person in my year doing 2, and im STRESSED! also im doing H Enlgish and H history. . . .and i wish i hadnt done one of them.

if you are really motivated do loads and have a **** year. if you arent, try really hard to get your minimum uni grades this year, and then bumm about all of next yr doing fun subjects, art, home ec, technical.

Reply 8

Reverie.

14

I love 6th year. :love:

I have loads of free time (14 free periods, I think) which I use to do all my homework/coursework/revision. I really enjoy all my subjects; I like the smaller classes, and tutorial-type teaching. The work is definitely harder, mostly because of dissertations/investigations/folios, but I like that you get to use those to specialise in things you enjoy more. The teachers treat you more like adults and in my school at least, all the AHs have their own room that we can use any time. Plus the teachers all give us tea/coffee on a regular basis! :p:

The negative points are the people without motivation (but my classes haven't got many of those), and the workload (it's huge - most people in my year have dropped at least one subject).

It's better than 5th year, but I don't think most people like it as much as I do.

Lucia.

The workload is no joy and I find it impossible to study at school because I spend too much time talking; and so here I am studying at home preparing to hand in 15,000 words at the end of the week as well as revising for a dreaded historical sources paper. Oh yes - joy
:frown:

Your workload does sound absolutely hellish. Poor you. :frown:

You can do it though; I know you have the ability. :hugs:

Reply 9

Lucia.

16

the_elusive_musician

Your workload does sound absolutely hellish. Poor you. :frown:

You can do it though; I know you have the ability. :hugs:

aww thanks Sam...that means a lot to me :hugs:

I've just been given a month extension for my History project so I have some pressure off at least :smile:

as for the workload - silly me...I chose to take this on :redface:

hee hee I aim to take this through somehow :rolleyes:

Well the best things about sixth year are...

*tutorial based learning
*more self-teaching which means you can get used to the sort of work environment at university
*Staff treat you more like an adult
*It's the last year at school - oh happy days :biggrin:

*You can feel somewhat smug and superior :cool:

*People generally get along better I've found; there's not so much of a hierarchy amongst our peer group. :smile:

Not so good things...

*sometimes difficult to motivate yourself to do the work
*harder to focus on your studies when you might not need the grades for university
*new pattern of learning takes a while to get used to
*You might feel you've outgrown school and wish to get out as soon as possible!

You'll find that free periods are a double-edged sword :cool:

It's what you make of it that counts :smile:

Reply 10

kasias

the_elusive_musician

The teachers treat you more like adults and in my school at least, all the AHs have their own room that we can use any time. Plus the teachers all give us tea/coffee on a regular basis! :p:

Your own room? We're crammed into store rooms if we need to use the room out of class time. I've been doing my investigation in a two foot by half a foot space and being insulted by the maths teachers who use the lab when there isn't a biology class in. *jealous*

But 6th year is what you make of it. My 3AHs and higher have proved a litle crazy, especially now I'm doing two investigations but I don't mind it. There isn't quite enough time in the world and I haven't had a free free in yonks but it's all good.
Just don't take too many subjects and try to do/organise as much as possible.

Reply 11

Reverie.

14

kasias

Your own room? We're crammed into store rooms if we need to use the room out of class time. I've been doing my investigation in a two foot by half a foot space and being insulted by the maths teachers who use the lab when there isn't a biology class in. *jealous*

They can be more of a curse than a blessing - I got locked in my English tutorial room and had to climb out the window. :redface:

Reply 12

BloodBrother

Lucia.

aww thanks Sam...that means a lot to me :hugs:

I've just been given a month extension for my History project so I have some pressure off at least :smile:

as for the workload - silly me...I chose to take this on :redface:

hee hee I aim to take this through somehow :rolleyes:

Well the best things about sixth year are...

*tutorial based learning
*more self-teaching which means you can get used to the sort of work environment at university
*Staff treat you more like an adult
*It's the last year at school - oh happy days :biggrin:

*You can feel somewhat smug and superior :cool:

*People generally get along better I've found; there's not so much of a hierarchy amongst our peer group. :smile:

Not so good things...

*sometimes difficult to motivate yourself to do the work
*harder to focus on your studies when you might not need the grades for university
*new pattern of learning takes a while to get used to
*You might feel you've outgrown school and wish to get out as soon as possible!

You'll find that free periods are a double-edged sword :cool:

It's what you make of it that counts :smile:

You basically hit the nail on the head Lucia. I can think of a couple more things but you'd probably agree with them.

Another thing; today we had a class and not one person went. I tried to work but I couldn't with the rest playing footy, so I will compensate for it tonight at home. It was semi justifiable because the teacher was off, but we will make up for it tommorow, not much doubt about it. Moral- if you can skip class and not miss anything, do it, but make sure you get the work done later.

Reply 13

ad absurdum

2

Far worse in my opinion. I wish I could sit the exams without having to come to school. If you want to chill out for a year then you might like it, but if you're the sort of person who gets really pissed off when they waste time (this is what I'm like) then it's not recommended.

Reply 14

wombley

1

at the end of 5th year, the idea of leaving skool was something that i didnt want to think about.

about 2-3 months into 6th year, i wanted out! can't stand the majority of my year, am so fed up and ready to move on asap.

my workload isn't that bad. AH biology, chemistry and maths. even though i got 6 unconditionals, im still sticking at the working thing. hehe.

so my advice is to basically think long and hard bout whether to go back or not. it'll depend on lots of different things :tongue:

eople in your year, your results, what you're wanting to do after school, that kinda thing. i dunno how i'd have felt about leaving school not knowing my results, whether i'd get into uni, how to apply to uni and so forth, but you might be different.

hope i've helped in some roundabout way...

Reply 15

BloodBrother

If you are thinking about leaving, by all means brainstorm after, NOT BEFORE, the results come out. If you feel like you could upgrade the results and enjoy school then do it. If you are good enough for uni then leave and apply that year, while doing a gap year. That's more or less what to do.

Reply 16

Lucia.

16

ad absurdum

Far worse in my opinion. I wish I could sit the exams without having to come to school. If you want to chill out for a year then you might like it, but if you're the sort of person who gets really pissed off when they waste time (this is what I'm like) then it's not recommended.

arrghh sounds like me... :frown:

I took half of last week off just so I could get some work done...I'm not really enjoying the atmosphere of apathy :rolleyes:

Reply 17

Quds_J*

OP

Great advice guys - Thanx

It has made me think about it a lot more

Thing is i don't think i'm mentally ready yet for uni, i'm not at that place in my mind.

Reply 18

J'en ai marre

8

I hated S6. It was so boring. I didn't enjoy my 12 free periods a week at all. I just used to do nothing and gradually became so bored.

One of the worst elements for me is that teachers didn't really seem interested in advanced highers and I generally received little input/teaching. I also found that 4 advanced highers wasn't actually that much work, despite what everybody had lead me to expect and I ended wishing that I was doing something else.

I had never really liked my school and was so desperate to leave that I started counting the days after Christmas.

Also, the common room smelled and the prom sucked.

Reply 19

Acaila

17

J'en ai marre

One of the worst elements for me is that teachers didn't really seem interested in advanced highers and I generally recieved little input/teaching.

This was DEFINITELY a problem at my school. AHs weren't given the time of day. Our AH Maths teacher actually told us at the beginning of the year "We don't expect anyone to actually pass this course!"

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