We have primary school which you start when you are five, it has junior infants, senior infants, 1st class up to sixth class aged11/12 .
Then we go to secondary school in third year we do a big state exam called the junior certificate, then you either do 4th yr or go into 5 th year, in 5th year you decided what subjects to do for the other big state exam in 6th year called the leaving cert.
How well you do in your leaving cert determines what you can do in college it is based on a point s systems, the max. points you can get is 600 and if you get this you can be a doctor, but aloty of people would on avertage get 400 points, so noone really like s the points system as it is so stressfull.