Junior Cert

The junior certificate is a scam run by the Irish governments and teachers unions. For three years of your teenage life and secondary school time, your peers tell you that it is the most important thing. Then after you have completed your Kippy junior cert you go onto leaving cert where none of it actually matters.

"It's your junior cert, not mine!" might be said by your teacher.

"You will be the ones sitting this in June, not me!" is also a commonly used phrase by teachers.

Summer Tests

At the end of each school year before you leave for three holy months the bollox teachers give you tests that define your learning for the year

E.g 1:Teacher: “This is all preparation for your leaving/junior cert. The summer tests are very important for your school profile.

E.g. 2:Kid: “ Shite do we have a test today”

Teacher : “Yes we do Paddy I have mean telling you this for the past three weeks.