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I have a tip for all newer players. Try and find something you like about the game other then Jedi. You will not be making jedi. Why?
Well lets do the math...
It is going to take some time to go glowy and qualify for a visit and some time to do the quests to open up a slot so you can start training. Lets say you can get all this done in a couple weeks of hard playing. A casual player, say 20 hours a week will take longer.
Now after you open a slot, like combat (ranged accuracy), you need 1,275,000 FS (force sensitive) xp to complete it. Thats 38,250,000 combat xp. (Combat xp converts at 30 to 1)
So you done your best armor, equip your best weapon, get buffed and go out to grind. Hard grinding by elite players might get you 900k combat/hour. However being new you are not an elite player and probably will garner 300K/hour. 38,250,000/300,000=127.5 hours of solid grinding. If you play 20 hours a week (about half of what most people work for a job) you can finish the skill branch you opened in about 6 1/2 weeks. However you will need to travel to and from the village on darthimor to convert the xp on a regular basis because you can't just save it up. (There are xp caps) So figure the 6 and 1/2 weeks is only the hard grind (and I mean nothing else just killing things). Add about the same amount of time for running errands, getting buffs, exchanging xp whatever and you have 13 weeks for that skill branch.
Now you have just 5 more skill branches to do. So for a casual player another 65 weeks added to you 13 weeks. About 78 weeks total. Or just over a year and a half. That gets you the qualification to try for padewan and beginner jedi. (Beginner jedi's get to use light sabers but can be killed be even novice Bounty Hunters. My TK, not a master can usually do in a beginning jedi in about 45 seconds in a duel.)
The real kicker is the average non fanatic player of online games quits a game around 9 months and goes to the next new fix.
Now if you could just play 40 hours a week (like your average full time job) you could get this down to about 9 months to beginning jedi. But then you'll still most likely be leaving for the next new game. Hey there are those who can play 80 hours a week and they might make jedi. But if you got a minimum wage job (or 2 if you want to work 80 hours) and worked like hours you could have enough money in that time to buy to buy a new car. ($15300.00 at $6/hr).
If you like Star Wars Galaxies (and I do) just play it and enjoy it and don't chase the jedi carrot. It is a marketing ploy and only a reality for uber gamers who made it before the new system or were close enough to make it that they got several if not all of the skill trees opened and filled as compensation.
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(Just be sure to include warnings about the flaming and advice to take prophylactic antidepressants so the griping and whining doesn't make them have second thoughts about what they've bought themselves into.) 
Jergon Zing 
