摘要：The purpose of this research is to determine the problems about fifth grade students, considered as in primary school who has been shifted to secondary school with the 4+4+4 education system. The sample of the research is 147 branches teacher teaching in 2013-2014 academic year in Niğde. Qualitative and quantitative research methods together were used in this study. Results obtained from open-ended questionnaire shows that the main problems stemming from students are that; the age of students is small, they feel themselves as primary, being with children in adolescence may be inconvenient for fifth grade, they are unrelated to the course; problems stemming from teachers; inability to manage the behavior of students, lack of technical lecture method excess of the weekly and daily hours, entry and exit hours; problems stemming from other factors are; excess of lesson hours, unsuitability of entry and exit times, textbooks and curriculum are not appropriate and finally inability to cope with hunger. In addition, the findings of the quantitative data are supporting these results.
关键词：4+4+4 education system; 5 th grade students and teacher opinions.
