What should you be doing currently if you want to be successful in the June exams and also in examinations typically?
Suggestions from those that have actually existed
1 Just study, don’t put things off. #RepeatAdvice @SueBo_
2 Put away the laptop. Obtain your moms and dads to hide the battery so you will not be attracted. @paddykell
3 Draw up a sensible timetable. Short, regular study sessions. You require to be doing more than your homework.
4 Organise yourself. It’s never ever far too late. Clear notes, neat folders. Don’t anxiety on your own out. @Orlaith_Farrell
5 Do not prioritise any kind of one topic. All subjects need to obtain equal time. Enable 2 hours each weekend for each topic as well as around 30-40 minutes per night for examining what was covered on that particular day in the class.
6 Print chief supervisors’ reports for your subjects. They give sample answers which you can use as an overview for responding to design. #studytips, @NatashaLynchEF
7 Just how much time do you spend on the web? Half-an-hour in the morning, a hr in the evening? Everything adds up. Two hours a day is 14 each week, 56 each month. Think of if you were to spend just half of that revising.
8 Less late nights. The most awful point you can do at the weekends is invest the whole evening up, as well as the whole day in bed. Try to get to bed by 1am at the most up to date on weekends, and also get up early.
9 Split up collaborate with a friend, then assemble, copy each other’s notes, show each other what you learned. #studybuddy, @NatashaLynchEF
10 Checking out a book isn’t researching– it reads a publication. Set a target: “I will modify this topic for 45 minutes”. Keep in mind as you go. Put away the books. Do a test inquiry. Since’s research study.
11 Get aware of the format of the exam paper. Some documents are tricky as well as difficult directions might throw you on the day.
12 Do not reduce a lot of edges. Each year students emerge ravaged because they paid attention to rumours regarding what was turning up. The fact is anything can turn up. The papers are developed to be uncertain.
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13 Record your alteration notes on a dictaphone, download onto your phone, revise on the move. #studytips, @NatashaLynchEF
14 Understand what you’re researching– or a minimum of attempt. Rephrase in your very own words when feasible. Students who succeed in examinations don’t just vomit up facts, they show actual understanding.
15 Maintain the CAO in mind. Trainees have a tendency to forget what they take down on their CAO kinds in the thrill to examine for the Leaving Cert. It’s no injury to maintain thinking of what course you want to do, and maintain looking into different locations. @paddykell
16 Do not discuss what research study you’re doing as well as do not listen to other people about what they’re doing. Lots of individuals exist regarding what they’re doing or otherwise doing. The naturally great buddy that did nothing but in some way took care of a B1 in the mocks is most likely telling fibs about just how difficult they’re functioning.
17Eat! Porridge can be completely edible with some small modifications. Some fast ones include putting chocolate chips, bananas, peanut butter, and even molasses and also strawberries on it. It takes the concept of not fit to eat slop away as well as maintains you going all morning. @ClareReidy1
18 My friends and I started our own unpopular trend of soaking Nature Valley bars into yogurt pots, which I recognize noises nauseous to some individuals, but it got us via. @ClareReidy1
19 Have something to divert your attention: being solely concentrated on a couple of days in June at this stage will certainly fry your brain.
20 Workout. Don’t examine any later than 10pm, and if you can find the power, choose a walk. It releases endorphins in your brain that make you really feel good concerning yourself, and it removes your head after hours of examining. @paddykell
21 Peanut butter mugs as well as chocolate bars with nuts are dazzling mind food, and also addicting too. @ClareReidy1
22 Maintain the exams in viewpoint. None of the complying with points will certainly be dictated by exactly how you carry out in the Leaving Cert: where you live, that you wed, exactly how usually you marry, how many icecreams you eat in your lifetime; your overall health and wellness; the variety of rocks that function their method right into your footwear resulting in you continuously hopping about on one foot to eliminate them; the amount of love in your life.
English
23 Regarding 75 percent of Junior Cert and 55 percent of Leaving Cert English is entirely unseen up until you open up the paper. That does not imply you can’t study for the test. You are finding out skills rather than rote-learning information.
24 Read, read, read. If you don’t review extensively, you’ll never become a great writer.
25 Learn quotes from your messages. Tape-record them onto your smart device or iPod and pay attention heading right into school.
26 Don’t find out essays off by heart. If you’re creating a short story, have some instances of characterisation and also establishing ready to adapt to your title. Imaginative writing demands to be vivid as well as enjoyable. Program, don’t inform. The viewers ought to have details sights, sounds and smells in their minds-eye as they read your writing.
27 Review your exercise loud. You’ll hear errors sooner than you’ll see them.
28 Evaluating a personality is complicated: analyze what they state, what they do, just how they look, what they believe and really feel and other people’s viewpoints of them. Don’t take them at their word– characters commonly exist, to themselves and also others.
29Learn to lead to words personality. There’s only one “h” and also it goes to the beginning.
30Structure your responses. Stream-of-consciousness style solutions hardly ever accomplish a great grade, specifically if you get stuck checking out one point in excessive information.
31 Essays on studied texts should make use of a formal style. Factors have to be sustained with relevant and exact quotes.
32 Know your single message very well, completely. Whether you’re utilizing recommendation or quotation to sustain your answer, you need to know the message in detail.
33 In the relative study, you should ask yourself “what’s this text everything about?”. When you make a checklist keeping that going to all three texts, you can extra plainly see what they share. You after that require to locate crucial minutes in each to support your contrasts. And also you should be contrasting them at all times.
34 You have about a hr per area in the exam. The majority of people will create in between 7 and 10 paragraphs. Time on your own and write 3 paragraphs in 20 mins for a bit of bite-sized preparation if you’re pressed for time.
35 Do not listen to the poetry tips. Prepare your much-loved poets well as well as you will certainly be rewarded. The even more you have to claim about a poet’s job the far better, so have a sight which you can support by referencing the poet’s work.
Mathematics
36 Practicing previous test documents is a really fundamental part of creating excellent exam strategy. Begin now if you have not already.
37 You need to know the evidence and also theorems and the description of the vocabulary made use of.
38 Use the official noting plans. They often reveal more than one acceptable approach of fixing a question. The marking schemes additionally reveal you just how marks were designated by the inspectors throughout all parts of all concerns in previous exams, but there’s no genuine demand for you to analyse this. It is not feasible to predict the appropriation of marks within a question– the allowance can differ widely and in unanticipated ways.
39 Expect you decide to give five hrs a week to mathematics, a reasonable amount at this stage of the year. Break this up into five 35 mins slots each week-night offering you practically 2 hrs at weekend.
40 Maths is the only Leaving Cert subject without a choice on the paper. For that reason you need to stay on par with the material covered in class.
41 Weekend break research preferably must be made use of for trying concerns from previous documents as well as example documents. It is essential to understand the specific set up of your examination, the amount of inquiries, the phrasing utilized, etc. Time yourself to get utilized to the time restrictions.
42 The project mathematics noting system is fairly various from the marking system utilized in the past. There are 5 marking ranges, with approximately 6 groups per marking scale. It’s a whole lot a lot more challenging than the previous system.
43 Begin with your much-loved inquiry. It will certainly help settle your nerves on exam day. Naturally if you prefer a consecutive strategy, do that.
44 It sounds noticeable yet get made use of to checking out questions carefully. Ensure you’re not missing any details.
45 It is essential to practise as well as fit with the basics prior to attempting the new word problems in maths. These concerns have to be read very thoroughly. Attempt to recognize the trouble. Check out the details given. Jot down all the amounts offered as well as what is being looked for, ie, translating the English words into mathematical sentences. Frequently there is a formula that connects the data you have with the information you call for.
46 Often you think you recognize a subject, yet along comes a concern which can be phrased in a way you have actually never ever seen prior to. Do not allow this toss you. The even more method you have from dealing with various concerns, the extra certain you will end up being when you face an unusual looking inquiry.
47 If stuck, don’t look up the solution too promptly. You will certainly frequently find out more by tackling it on your own for a while, even if you need to check out the option in the end.
48 Show all functions within your response– do refrain from doing rough-work on a separate web page. Do not use Tippex, instead erase any kind of errors with a solitary line. You may get marks for the work you have crossed out, however not if it’s Tippexed. Additionally, if you solve a trouble utilizing a calculator, draw up some or all of the steps taken. Do not simply give the response. This is to ensure you get marks even if you make a slip.
49 Drawing a diagram and even a basic sketch can often be really useful to start in dealing with a question, and also might acquire marks for you.
50 Obtain aware of your solutions and tables pamphlet. It supplies a lot of helpful information. Use it.
Irish
51 Homework is actually research study. It is summarizing on what was taught on that day in the class and is more often than not, straight based upon an examination concern: ie, verse concerns or a léamhthuiscint or a character from a prós tale.
52 Pupils commonly go residence as well as discover a teacher’s answers on either filiocht or prós off by heart. You don’t require to do this. You must possibly study exactly how the inquiry is opened– the framework of the response– keeping an eye on appropriate quotes used.
53 In the filiocht areas, if you can convert the rhyme you have essentially every response required on the day as all poetry will certainly be printed on the real exam paper. The only areas that need to be found out off by heart are the grammatical terms that will be asked in question 6A in the léamhthuiscint area– terms such as aimsigh and more.
54 Previous exam papers are essential. They reveal the format of the actual examination and exactly how questions may be subdivided in different sections. It is good method to examine a specific subject and after that do out exam concerns, watching on time constraints as well as sticking rigidly to them.
55 Keep re-reading the inquiry over and over to guarantee you are in fact addressing the concern asked. No marks will certainly be granted for information that is not appropriate. In the filiocht area, if you are asked on motif, just on motif and also not sensations or feelings.
56 At this stage, you will certainly have finished your mock tests and also will certainly have endured 2 complete documents in Irish. Whatever blunders you might have made, will not be repeated in June. Bear in mind, you will certainly constantly learn by your errors. If you ran out of time in Paper 2– a very long paper– you will certainly require to change the size of time you spend on the numerous areas.
57 Do not forget the significance of the oral Irish evaluation which brings 40 per cent of the complete test mark. Know the picture series well as there are 80 marks going for this area. Practice asking inquiries. Pupils are normally much better at responding to inquiries than asking. Additionally practise reviewing the verse on a daily basis– with 35 marks for reviewing a simple 10-12 lines it is worth more that the entire verse or prose training course.
Languages
Dental examination
58Remember that this is a discussion, not a meeting. The supervisor exists to aid you reach your greatest capacity.
59Marks are awarded for structure, communication, vocabulary and also pronunciation, as well as vocabulary is actually just how you expression your actions. Don’t utilize jargon terms too much. Rich vocabulary is all about utilizing a various means to say something.
60 Pronunciation is extremely essential and also make up 20 percent of the test Pay attention to French, German or Spanish radio and also record on your own to excellent your accent.
61Try spending 10-15 minutes a day on your dental job. As soon as you have learned a topic, technique it out loud on your own. When you are a lot more confident, practise with a buddy or a family member.
Acoustic examination.
62 Ask your instructor to examine you on previous aurals from years back as far as the very early 1990s preferably. Pay attention to your own CDs as well as downloads.
63Log on Google.fr for French, Google.de for German or Google.es for Spanish and search YouTube for clips in your chosen language. Even if you do not recognize every word, your ear will end up being accustomed to it.
64 For French, log onto tf1.fr and listen to Le Journal de 13h or 20h, a preferred news network on French TV. You can additionally listen to French news on rfi.fr as well as radiofrance.fr.
General language guidance
65Do not discover off huge lengthy essays on every topic. You will certainly get bogged down and also come to be discouraged. Compose three factors on each topic and learn about 20 words of vocabulary. Ensure you have respectable sentences to start as well as finish a written item.
66 Do not use Google translate as it converts essentially as well as does not take context into consideration. Wordreference.com is an outstanding translation site. It will only convert one word each time, so it can be discouraging yet there are fascinating help discussion forums on the website.
67Familiarise yourself with the way questions are asked at the end of each analysis understanding.
68 Don’t be attracted to discover off viewpoint items by heart. It is not likely that the piece that you will certainly have learned will certainly address the concern given up the paper. You will certainly be heavily penalised if you do not address the question, even if the language that you have used is proper. Rather, build up your vocabulary for the various topics on the syllabus and exercise with past or mock examination papers.
69Check out @PetitTweetCork for tweets in French to help LC students in preparation for French exam. @NatashaLynchEF
Biology
70 It is best to spend half an hour at one time researching biology. Take a short, five-minute break after thirty minutes and after that carry on to the following subject.
71Try to invest about four half an hour sessions per week dedicated to answering past papers. These might range over the brief concerns in section A, the experimental concerns in section B as well as the long concerns in area C.
72About 25 percent of the marks are gotten from recognizing your meanings. These must be learned off by heart.
73 Between 15 as well as 30 percent of the marks are gotten from the experiments. As there are just 22 experiments, it is feasible to cover one experiment daily over the course of a month. When finding out the experiments you have to know the actions taken as well as the factor for taking each action.
74Up to Easter, your study should range over the entire course. From Easter, focus on particular topics. These are the subjects that turn up every year together with any type of topics that are most likely ahead up this year.
Geography
75Know what is entailed: time– the location paper is two hrs as well as 50 minutes long; framework– 5 complete inquiries need to be answered. All inquiries equal 80 marks.
76Plan your study. At least 80 percent of your time will certainly be spent on study so it is vital you acquire the abilities to study successfully.
77 Plan affordable targets which you can attain in each research session, eg, write out 15 substantial pertinent points (SRPs) on your selected topic.
78Focus on subjects that are checked out annually. These consist of: core device 1– landform advancement; plate tectonics; human communication; core system 2– economic tasks in an Irish region; economic tasks in a European region; financial tasks in a continental/sub-continental area; economic optional– influence of EU plans on Ireland; multinational companies.
79When you review your notes, choose the keywords or expressions which will aid you to keep in mind what the subject is about.
80 Make a topic recap by positioning the core style or subject title in the centre after that draw lines from the centre as well as create sub-themes at the end of the lines. Along each line, write the key words or phrases connected to the sub-theme.
81 Cover all the major topics. Don’t try to predict what will certainly be taken a look at. Instead, practise answering examination inquiries from previous documents. Time on your own as well as see if you can compose a solution while which the evaluation will allow you.
82Remember that the 30-mark parts of the concern must have 15 SRPs
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83 The common keywords are: “represent”– explain as well as give factors; “contrast”– point out resemblances as well as differences; “contrast”– explain the major distinctions; “define”– state the noticeable; “discuss”– write out the key points as well as compose an explanation.
Organization
84Spend at least an hour-and-a-half on business revision every second evening. So three or four one-and-a-half hours research sessions each week.
85The applied service concern (ABQ) is on a five-year cycle, so the ABQs of 2008 and also 2003 will certainly be structured identically to 2013 and these ABQs must be practiced first, prior to any other year.
86 Lengthy concern technique: 25-mark inquiries– invest 10 minutes on them; 20-mark questions– spend eight minutes on them. 20-mark questions are one of the most typical as well as students erroneously spend 10 minutes on them, which soon develops to a great deal of 2 mins’s shed during the examination; 15-mark question– spend six minutes.
87The 2 most preferred verbs are “show” and also “assess”. Yet with our above framework we automatically take care of these verbs. The example handle show and the pupil can use the benefit or negative aspect as their personal opinion by placing “in my viewpoint” ahead or their advantage or negative aspect. This is superb as it is a genuine viewpoint not rote learned from a book.
88 ABQ– you have 45 mins to answer this area. It is vital to practice it as it takes most trainees over a hr to do this concern. Yet after five or 6 ABQs the rate naturally develops. If you do not practice the ABQ, you will certainly not get it done in under a hr in the Leaving Cert– significant mistake.You needs to be doing at least one ABQ every week from now until the exam.
89 The lengthy question can usually include one sentence, but there are two components to be taken care of to appropriately address the concern. The long question may additionally have a narrative as an intro, if so trainees have to describe the short story in their answer or marks will be lost.
Background
90By now you must be finished, or nearing the completion of your special research. Look over the requirements for length, resources and also background info, and remember somebody will be reading 300 of these over a number of weeks in the summer, so make it memorable.
91 Every topic will have details that are necessary eg, terms such as fascism, sectarianism, ecumenism. Ensure you know important dates and also what order occasions occurred. It’s like telling a story. Do not neglect the vital little bits and it’s not extremely fascinating if you inform it in the wrong order.
92 Don’t consider finding out off essays. It would be terrific if you get the precise wording in your exam inquiries but it’s unlikely to happen, so think of portable info that you can make use of to answer any type of question. Practise composing a factor per paragraph; remember the solution is marked primarily paragraph by paragraph as well as if your work is organised and thoughtful, you’ll do well.
93 Keep in mind, honours background is not regarding creating all you understand about a topic. It is about learning to make web links to the concern you are addressing with the information you understand. As an example, an inquiry on the factors that brought about the growth of fascism is not write all you know about fascism: you need to separate what caused its surge such as instability after the second World War, the economic scenario, risk of communism etc 94Look at your papers: many trainees regard this inquiry as a rule but understanding the subject, as well as just how to handle written and also visual sources can be worth an added quality.
95Don’ t neglect to revise your mandatory study. There are only three, so make sure you know sufficient to compose a mini-essay of two-and-a fifty percent pages in order to respond to the contextualisation part of the inquiry.
Home Economics
96The home economics training course is substantial. Break it down. Have a schedule, and also take it someday or week at a time.
97Do three or four short inquiries every night. Every one is worth six marks– that’s 1.5 per cent of your overall mark. Use your textbook to answer them, so you build up a bank of accurate details in your head.
98 Practice concern 1 (a) in section B. You will have to evaluate a graph or a chart in this inquiry. It does not show up in any type of book. You require to be acquainted with it.
99 Read one examination question each night. Highlight key terms. What is being asked? Take a look at the marking scheme. Exactly how are marks distributed? Several students have the appropriate info yet shed marks since they don’t know their marking scheme.
100Know all the topics in your elective. Component (a) is required. If you reduced edges, you might obtain caught out.
Likewise attempt utilizing some mobile apps to help yyou stay cooncetrated.
Applications to assist concentration
The best focus apps can assist you get into the appropriate psychological zone for absorbing information. This classification takes a look at apps that maintain you from getting sidetracked (e.g. with white noise or by obstructing other apps).
- Forest
Woodland Application
Some of us need a little external motivation to stay concentrated while examining. Which’s fine.
The Forest app gives an aesthetic reward by allowing you plant a digital tree and then essentially holding that tree captive up until your research session is over.
Wish to examine your Instagram for a second? Attracted to do a fast online shop between textbook chapters? Proceed. You’ll simply have to involve tranquility with enjoying your tree wither and also pass away initially.
But if you stick to your focus time, you’ll take pleasure in watching your trees grow. Over a number of research sessions, you can develop a fascinating digital woodland– a positive suggestion of all your productive hours.
Bonus: The Forest application is a partner of Trees for the Future. This organisation plants genuine trees on behalf of the digital ones that pro individuals grow (over 1 million trees as well as checking). So, utilizing this application to obstruct various other applications while examining can help the setting in addition to your qualities. Tolerable in all.
Readily available on: iphone, Android, Chrome
Average rating: 4.8/ 5 on Application Store, 4.8/ 5 on Google Play
Cost: $2.99 on Application Shop, Free (with ads) on Google Play– in-app acquisitions available on all devices
- Flexibility
Liberty app to obstruct apps while researching
Freedom is an application that secures your phone while examining (or any other time you require to focus). Flag the apps and/or websites that distract you, and also Freedom will certainly block them– excellent if the self-motivated apps like Woodland don’t rather suffice for you. You can establish a scheduled session in advance or start some ‘Freedom time’ whenever you require it.
Freedom blocks time-wasting apps and also sites throughout all your gadgets, so your iPad will not attract you away while you’re examining on your MacBook.
Did you understand? Most mobile phones have built-in devices for tracking screen time and also setting limits. They may not be as expensive as Forest and also Freedom, but they can finish the job in a pinch. Look for ‘Screen Time’ (iOS) or ‘Digital Health And Wellbeing’ (Android) to discover your options.
Readily available on: iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Chrome
Ordinary rating: 3.2/ 5 on Application Shop, 3.9/ 5 on Google Play
Cost: Free for basic attributes, premium subscription offered ($ 30/year).
Note: Please check your college’s policy before downloading this or any app to your school computer system.
- White Noise Lite.
White Noise application to aid focus.
Silence can be deafening when you’re trying to concentrate, but your preferred songs might not help so much either. There’s nothing fairly like completing a vital note just to understand you began creating lyrics halfway through the sentence (thanks a lot, Billie).
A little bit of white noise can help you concentrate without attracting excessive attention to itself. The White Noise Lite app lets you construct custom soundscapes to fit your preferences with a wide range of sounds consisting of coastline waves, breezes, camp fires, chimes, rain, running water and even a vacuum (hi there, if that’s what obtains you in the mood for research study, you do you).
Packing up the books for the evening? Switch over from your researching mix to your snoozing mix for a peaceful sleep.
Available on: iphone, Android, Mac, Windows, Chrome.
Typical ranking: 4.7/ 5 on App Store, 4.6/ 5 on Google Play.
Cost: Free for lite variation, $1.49 for full variation (no advertisements).
Note: Please inspect your institution’s plan before downloading this or any kind of application to your institution computer system.
Performance applications for pupils.
Alright, so you have actually got disturbances out of the way as well as some background appears on loophole. Currently let’s speak about some good apps for pupils that will assist you obtain one of the most out of your study time. The following 2 study apps aid you arrange your schedule and also remain on top of tasks so you can achieve more as well as stuff less.
- Todoist.
Todoist application.
Todoist can arrange your school subjects, task due dates, research and … practically your whole life, if you want it to. This is just one of the very best applications for pupils due to the fact that it maintains your schoolwork on track while likewise holding you accountable.
The Todoist application offers convenient attributes consisting of:.
reoccuring due dates (great for weekly research).
quick include (include new projects and also jobs on the go).
favourites and concerns (flag the topics you need to focus on).
areas as well as subtasks (divide intimidating projects right into small, easy steps).
assimilations with other applications (e.g. Google Schedule and also Dropbox).
With all your tasks and also due dates maintained nicely in Todoist– as opposed to drifting about in your head– you’ll be complimentary to concentrate on your researches.
Readily available on: iOS, Android, Mac, Windows.
Typical rating: 4.7/ 5 on Application Store, 4.5/ 5 on Google Play.
Cost: Free for standard, $4.99/ year for costs (extra features, no advertisements).
Note: Please inspect your institution’s plan prior to downloading this or any kind of app to your college computer system.
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