What should you be doing now if you want to succeed in the June examinations and also in tests generally?
Recommendations from those who have actually existed
1 Simply research study, don’t hesitate. #RepeatAdvice @SueBo_
2 Do away with the laptop computer. Obtain your moms and dads to hide the battery so you won’t be tempted. @paddykell
3 Create a sensible schedule. Short, regular research study sessions. You require to be doing more than your research.
4 Organise on your own. It’s never ever too late. Clear notes, neat folders. Don’t stress and anxiety on your own out. @Orlaith_Farrell
5 Don’t prioritise any one subject. All subjects need to obtain equal time. Allow two hrs each weekend for each and every topic as well as around 30-40 mins per night for studying what was covered on that particular day in the class.
6 Publish chief supervisors’ reports for your topics. They offer sample answers which you can make use of as a guide for answering design. #studytips, @NatashaLynchEF
7 How much time do you invest in the internet? Half-an-hour in the early morning, an hour at night? All of it builds up. Two hours a day is 14 each week, 56 monthly. Think of if you were to invest just half of that revising.
8 Fewer late evenings. The worst point you can do at the weekends is invest the entire evening up, and the whole day in bed. Try to reach bed by 1am at the most recent on weekends, as well as get up early.
9 Divide up collaborate with a pal, after that meet up, photocopy each other’s notes, instruct each other what you learned. #studybuddy, @NatashaLynchEF
10 Reviewing a publication isn’t researching– it reads a book. Establish a target: “I will modify this topic for 45 mins”. Remember as you go. Put away guides. Do an exam inquiry. Now that’s research.
11 Get accustomed to the format of the exam paper. Some documents are tricky as well as complicated instructions can toss you on the day.
12 Don’t cut too many corners. Each year pupils emerge ravaged because they listened to rumours concerning what was showing up. The fact is anything can turn up. The papers are designed to be uncertain.
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13 Document your revision notes on a dictaphone, download onto your phone, revise on the move. #studytips, @NatashaLynchEF
14 Understand what you’re researching– or at the very least attempt. Rephrase in your own words when possible. Students who do well in tests do not simply vomit up truths, they demonstrate genuine understanding.
15 Keep the CAO in mind. Students often tend to forget what they take down on their CAO forms in the rush to study for the Leaving Cert. It’s no harm to keep thinking of what course you wish to do, as well as keep looking into different locations. @paddykell
16 Don’t discuss what research study you’re doing and also do not listen to other people regarding what they’re doing. Lots of people lie regarding what they’re doing or not doing. The normally dazzling close friend who not did anything however in some way took care of a B1 in the mocks is most likely telling fibs regarding exactly how tough they’re functioning.
17Eat! Gruel can be completely edible with some minor adjustments. Some fast ones consist of putting chocolate chips, bananas, peanut butter, or even molasses and also strawberries on it. It takes the idea of not fit to eat slop away and maintains you going all morning. @ClareReidy1
18 My friends and also I started our own unpopular fad of soaking Nature Valley bars right into yogurt pots, which I comprehend sounds nauseous to some individuals, but it obtained us through. @ClareReidy1
19 Have something to divert your interest: being solely concentrated on a few days in June at this stage will fry your brain.
20 Workout. Don’t study any kind of later than 10pm, as well as if you can find the power, choose a walk. It launches endorphins in your mind that make you feel great concerning yourself, and also it clears your head after hrs of studying. @paddykell
21 Peanut butter mugs and delicious chocolate bars with nuts are fantastic brain food, and habit forming as well. @ClareReidy1
22 Keep the examinations in viewpoint. None of the following points will be dictated by just how you carry out in the Leaving Cert: where you live, that you wed, how often you marry, the amount of icecreams you eat in your life time; your general wellness and also health; the variety of rocks that work their means into your footwear resulting in you consistently hopping about on one foot to remove them; the amount of love in your life.
English
23 Concerning 75 per cent of Junior Cert as well as 55 per cent of Leaving Cert English is totally hidden till you open the paper. That does not suggest you can not examine for the examination. You are finding out abilities rather than rote-learning details.
24 Read, reviewed, review. If you don’t check out commonly, you’ll never ever become an excellent writer.
25 Learn quotes from your messages. Tape-record them onto your smartphone or iPod as well as listen heading into college.
26 Do not find out essays off by heart. If you’re writing a short story, have some instances of characterisation and setting ready to adapt to your title. Innovative composing demands to be brilliant and also amusing. Show, do not tell. The reader needs to have certain sights, appears and also scents in their minds-eye as they review your writing.
27 Review your work out loud. You’ll listen to errors faster than you’ll see them.
28 Evaluating a personality is complex: analyze what they claim, what they do, how they look, what they believe and feel and also other individuals’s point of views of them. Do not take them at their word– characters commonly lie, to themselves and also others.
29Learn to lead to words personality. There’s just one “h” and also it goes to the beginning.
30Structure your responses. Stream-of-consciousness style solutions hardly ever attain a great quality, particularly if you get stuck discovering one factor in excessive detail.
31 Essays on examined texts have to use a formal style. Factors have to be sustained with appropriate and accurate quotes.
32 Know your single message very well, inside out. Whether you’re using reference or quotation to support your response, you need to recognize the text in detail.
33 In the relative study, you should ask on your own “what’s this message all about?”. When you make a listing with that going to all three messages, you can more clearly see what they have in common. You after that need to locate key minutes in each to support your comparisons. As well as you need to be contrasting them at all times.
34 You have regarding a hr per section in the examination. The majority of people will certainly create in between 7 as well as 10 paragraphs. Time yourself and also write three paragraphs in 20 minutes awhile of bite-sized prep work if you’re pressed for time.
35 Do not pay attention to the poetry ideas. Prepare your preferred poets well and you will certainly be rewarded. The even more you need to say regarding a poet’s work the better, so have a view which you can back up by referencing the poet’s work.
Mathematics
36 Practising past examination papers is a very vital part of establishing excellent exam technique. Start currently if you have not already.
37 You have to understand the evidence as well as theorems and the explanation of the vocabulary utilized.
38 Usage the official marking systems. They frequently show greater than one acceptable approach of resolving an inquiry. The noting schemes additionally show you how marks were designated by the inspectors across all parts of all inquiries in previous exams, however there’s no real demand for you to analyse this. It is not possible to forecast the allowance of marks within a question– the appropriation can vary hugely and also in unexpected methods.
39 Intend you make a decision to give five hours a week to mathematics, a sensible quantity at this phase of the year. Break this up into 5 35 mins slots each week-night offering you nearly two hrs at weekend break.
40 Maths is the only Leaving Cert subject without an option on the paper. For that reason you need to keep up with the material covered in class.
41 Weekend break study preferably need to be utilized for trying concerns from past documents and also example papers. It is important to understand the precise set up of your examination, the amount of concerns, the wording used, etc. Time on your own to obtain made use of to the moment restraints.
42 The project maths noting plan is quite different from the noting plan utilized in the past. There are 5 marking ranges, with approximately 6 groups per marking range. It’s a great deal more difficult than the previous system.
43 Begin with your much-loved inquiry. It will aid resolve your nerves on exam day. Obviously if you favor a consecutive method, do that.
44 It sounds noticeable yet obtain utilized to reading inquiries meticulously. Make sure you’re not missing out on any type of information.
45 It is vital to practise and also fit with the fundamentals prior to trying the new word issues in maths. These concerns need to read extremely meticulously. Attempt to recognize the problem. Consider the information provided. Write all the amounts given and what is being sought, ie, translating the English words right into mathematical sentences. Frequently there is an equation that links the data you have with the data you call for.
46 Sometimes you assume you understand a subject, but along comes a concern which can be phrased in a way you have never ever seen before. Do not let this toss you. The even more technique you have from taking on different inquiries, the a lot more positive you will become when you deal with a strange looking inquiry.
47 If stuck, don’t search for the service too swiftly. You will commonly learn more by tackling it on your own for some time, even if you have to check out the remedy ultimately.
48 Program all operations within your response– do not do rough-work on a separate web page. Don’t utilize Tippex, rather erase any errors with a single line. You may obtain marks for the job you have erased, but not if it’s Tippexed. Also, if you resolve a trouble using a calculator, write out some or all of the actions taken. Don’t just provide the response. This is to ensure you get marks even if you make a slip.
49 Drawing a diagram or perhaps a basic illustration can frequently be very useful to get started in taking on an inquiry, and also might acquire marks for you.
50 Get familiar with your solutions and also tables pamphlet. It gives a great deal of useful info. Utilize it.
Irish
51 Research is in fact research. It is evaluating on what was instructed on that day in the class and also is typically, straight based on an exam inquiry: ie, verse questions or a léamhthuiscint or a character from a prós story.
52 Students often go home and also discover an educator’s solutions on either filiocht or prós off by heart. You do not require to do this. You ought to possibly study just how the inquiry is opened– the framework of the solution– watching on appropriate quotations made use of.
53 In the filiocht sections, if you can translate the poem you have virtually every answer required on the day as all poetry will certainly be printed on the actual exam paper. The only areas that must be learned off by heart are the grammatical terms that will certainly be asked concerned 6A in the léamhthuiscint area– terms such as aimsigh and so forth.
54 Past exam papers are vital. They show the layout of the real examination and also exactly how concerns may be partitioned in numerous sections. It is excellent method to examine a particular subject and after that do out exam inquiries, watching promptly restraints as well as sticking strictly to them.
55 Maintain re-reading the concern over and over to ensure you are actually responding to the question asked. No marks will be granted for details that is not relevant. In the filiocht area, if you are asked on theme, only on style and not feelings or feelings.
56 At this stage, you will certainly have finished your simulated tests as well as will have endured 2 complete documents in Irish. Whatever errors you might have made, will not be duplicated in June. Keep in mind, you will certainly always discover by your blunders. If you ran out of time in Paper 2– a very long paper– you will certainly need to adjust the size of time you spend on the numerous areas.
57 Don’t neglect the importance of the oral Irish evaluation which lugs 40 percent of the complete exam mark. Know the picture sequences well as there are 80 marks opting for this area. Technique asking questions. Trainees are usually better at responding to questions than inquiring. Also practise reading the verse daily– with 35 marks for reviewing a plain 10-12 lines it deserves more that the entire verse or prose training course.
Languages
Dental test
58Remember that this is a discussion, not a meeting. The inspector exists to aid you reach your highest potential.
59Marks are awarded for framework, communication, vocabulary as well as pronunciation, and also vocabulary is truly how you expression your responses. Do not utilize vernacular terms too much. Rich vocabulary is all about making use of a different means to state something.
60 Enunciation is extremely vital as well as represent 20 per cent of the examination Listen to French, German or Spanish radio and record on your own to perfect your accent.
61Try costs 10-15 mins a day on your oral work. As soon as you have actually found out a topic, technique it aloud by yourself. When you are much more confident, practise with a buddy or a loved one.
Aural examination.
62 Ask your educator to evaluate you on previous aurals from years back as for the very early 1990s if possible. Pay attention to your very own CDs and also 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 don’t understand every word, your ear will certainly become accustomed to it.
64 For French, log onto tf1.fr and pay attention to Le Journal de 13h or 20h, a preferred news channel on French television. You can additionally listen to French news on rfi.fr as well as radiofrance.fr.
General language suggestions
65Do not learn off large long essays on every topic. You will certainly obtain bogged down as well as come to be disheartened. Compose 3 points on each topic and also discover 20 words of vocabulary. Make sure you have good sentences to start and finish a created item.
66 Don’t make use of Google convert as it translates literally and does not take context right into consideration. Wordreference.com is an exceptional translation website. It will just equate one word at a time, so it can be aggravating however there are intriguing aid online forums on the website.
67Familiarise on your own with the means inquiries are asked at the end of each analysis comprehension.
68 Don’t be attracted to find out off viewpoint pieces by heart. It is unlikely that the item that you will certainly have discovered will certainly answer the question given up the paper. You will certainly be heavily punished if you don’t address the inquiry, even if the language that you have actually made use of is proper. Instead, develop your vocabulary for the various topics on the curriculum as well as practice with past or simulated examination documents.
69Check out @PetitTweetCork for tweets in French to assist LC students in preparation for French examination. @NatashaLynchEF
Biology
70 It is best to spend thirty minutes at one time researching biology. Take a brief, five-minute break after 30 minutes and after that move on to the next subject.
71Try to invest regarding 4 30 minute sessions weekly committed to responding to previous papers. These might vary over the short concerns in section A, the experimental questions in area B and also the long inquiries in section C.
72About 25 per cent of the marks are obtained from recognizing your meanings. These must be found out off by heart.
73 In between 15 and 30 percent of the marks are gained from the experiments. As there are only 22 experiments, it is feasible to cover one experiment daily over the course of a month. When learning the experiments you have to know the actions taken and the reason for taking each step.
74Up to Easter, your research needs to range over the whole training course. From Easter, focus on certain subjects. These are the topics that show up annually together with any subjects that are more likely ahead up this year.
Geography
75Know what is included: time– the geography paper is two hours and 50 minutes long; framework– five complete inquiries need to be answered. All inquiries equal 80 marks.
76Plan your research. A minimum of 80 percent of your time will certainly be invested in research study so it is necessary you acquire the skills to study properly.
77 Plan practical targets which you can attain in each study session, eg, draw up 15 considerable appropriate factors (SRPs) on your selected subject.
78Focus on subjects that are taken a look at yearly. These consist of: core system 1– landform advancement; plate tectonics; human interaction; core system 2– economic activities in an Irish area; economic activities in a European area; financial activities in a continental/sub-continental area; economic optional– influence of EU plans on Ireland; multinational companies.
79When you read your notes, pick the key words or phrases which will help you to keep in mind what the subject has to do with.
80 Make a topic recap by putting the core style or topic title in the centre after that draw lines from the centre as well as write sub-themes at the end of the lines. Along each line, compose the key words or expressions connected to the sub-theme.
81 Cover all the major subjects. Do not attempt to anticipate what will certainly be analyzed. Instead, practise answering exam questions from previous documents. Time on your own and see if you can create a response while which the evaluation will permit you.
82Remember that the 30-mark parts of the inquiry should have 15 SRPs
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83 The common key words are: “make up”– explain and provide factors; “contrast”– mention similarities as well as distinctions; “comparison”– mention the major distinctions; “explain”– state the obvious; “describe”– write out the bottom lines and compose an explanation.
Company
84Spend a minimum of an hour-and-a-half on service revision every second evening. So 3 or 4 one-and-a-half hours research study sessions weekly.
85The applied company inquiry (ABQ) is on a five-year cycle, so the ABQs of 2008 as well as 2003 will certainly be structured identically to 2013 as well as these ABQs have to be practiced initially, prior to any other year.
86 Long question practice: 25-mark questions– spend 10 mins on them; 20-mark inquiries– invest 8 minutes on them. 20-mark inquiries are one of the most typical and also pupils wrongly invest 10 mins on them, which quickly develops to a great deal of two mins’s lost during the test; 15-mark inquiry– invest 6 mins.
87The 2 most preferred verbs are “highlight” as well as “review”. Yet with our above framework we immediately deal with these verbs. The instance take care of highlight and the student can use the advantage or negative aspect as their individual point of view by putting “in my viewpoint” ahead or their advantage or negative aspect. This is outstanding as it is a real opinion not rote learned from a textbook.
88 ABQ– you have 45 minutes to address this section. It is important to practise it as it takes most pupils over an hour to do this concern. Yet after 5 or six ABQs the speed normally creates. If you do not practise the ABQ, you will certainly not get it performed in under an hour in the Leaving Cert– major mistake.You ought to be doing at the very least one ABQ each week from now up until the test.
89 The long question can often contain one sentence, but there are two components to be dealt with to properly respond to the question. The lengthy inquiry might likewise have a short story as an intro, if so trainees have to describe the short story in their solution or marks will certainly be lost.
Background
90By now you should be finished, or nearing the completion of your unique study. Evaluate the demands for size, resources and also history information, as well as bear in mind someone will read 300 of these over a number of weeks in the summer season, so make it memorable.
91 Every subject will have information that are vital eg, terms such as fascism, sectarianism, ecumenism. Make certain you recognize important dates and also what order occasions occurred. It resembles telling a story. Do not exclude the important little bits and it’s not extremely fascinating if you inform it in the wrong order.
92 Do not think of learning off essays. It would be great if you get the precise phrasing in your exam concerns yet it’s not likely to happen, so consider moveable details that you can use to respond to any kind of concern. Practise writing a factor per paragraph; keep in mind the answer is marked mainly paragraph by paragraph as well as if your work is arranged and thoughtful, you’ll succeed.
93 Bear in mind, honours background is not regarding composing all you find out about a subject. It is about learning to make links to the concern you are responding to with the information you know. As an example, a concern on the factors that resulted in the development of fascism is not create all you understand about fascism: you must separate what produced its increase such as instability after the 2nd World War, the economic scenario, hazard of communism and so on 94Look at your documents: several students regard this concern as a formality but understanding the subject, and just how to handle written and also visual sources can be worth an extra grade.
95Don’ t fail to remember to modify your mandatory study. There are only three, so make sure you know sufficient to write a mini-essay of two-and-a half web pages in order to respond to the contextualisation part of the question.
Home Economics
96The home economics training course is massive. Break it down. Have a timetable, and take it one day or week at once.
97Do 3 or 4 brief inquiries every night. Each one deserves six marks– that’s 1.5 percent of your complete mark. Use your book to address them, so you develop a bank of precise information in your head.
98 Practice inquiry 1 (a) in area B. You will certainly have to evaluate a graph or a graph in this question. It does not appear in any type of book. You require to be accustomed to it.
99 Read one test inquiry each evening. Highlight crucial terms. What is being asked? Look at the noting plan. Just how are marks distributed? Several students have the right details however lose marks since they do not know their noting scheme.
100Know all the subjects in your elective. Part (a) is compulsory. If you reduced corners, you might get caught out.
Also try using some mobile applications to help yyou stay cooncetrated.
Apps to help concentration
The most effective focus applications can aid you get involved in the best psychological area for absorbing information. This group looks at apps that maintain you from getting sidetracked (e.g. with white noise or by blocking various other applications).
- Woodland
Forest Application
A few of us need a little outside inspiration to remain concentrated while studying. And that’s fine.
The Forest application supplies a visual reward by letting you plant an online tree and then basically holding that tree hostage till your research session mores than.
Want to examine your Instagram momentarily? Tempted to do a quick online shop in between book chapters? Proceed. You’ll just need to pertain to peace with watching your tree wither and also die initially.
However if you adhere to your emphasis time, you’ll enjoy viewing your trees flourish. Over a number of research study sessions, you can build a fascinating digital forest– a pleasant suggestion of all your effective hours.
Incentive: The Woodland application is a partner of Trees for the Future. This organisation plants real trees in behalf of the online ones that pro users expand (over 1 million trees as well as counting). So, using this application to block various other applications while studying can aid the atmosphere as well as your grades. Tolerable whatsoever.
Available on: iOS, Android, Chrome
Ordinary ranking: 4.8/ 5 on App Store, 4.8/ 5 on Google Play
Cost: $2.99 on App Shop, Free (with ads) on Google Play– in-app acquisitions available on all tools
- Liberty
Freedom application to obstruct apps while researching
Freedom is an app that locks your phone while researching (or any other time you require to focus). Flag the apps and/or internet sites that distract you, and Liberty will block them– excellent if the self-motivated apps like Woodland do not fairly cut it for you. You can set a scheduled session beforehand or begin some ‘Liberty time’ whenever you require it.
Flexibility blocks time-wasting applications and also websites throughout all your gadgets, so your iPad won’t attract you away while you’re examining on your MacBook.
Did you understand? Most smart devices have built-in devices for tracking screen time and also establishing restrictions. They could not be as fancy as Woodland and Liberty, yet they can do the job in a pinch. Seek ‘Display Time’ (iOS) or ‘Digital Wellbeing’ (Android) to explore your options.
Readily available on: iphone, Android, Mac, Windows, Chrome
Typical ranking: 3.2/ 5 on Application Shop, 3.9/ 5 on Google Play
Expense: Free for fundamental features, costs membership offered ($ 30/year).
Keep in mind: Please inspect your college’s plan before downloading this or any kind of app to your school computer.
- White Noise Lite.
White Noise app to help focus.
Silence can be deafening when you’re attempting to focus, however your favorite tunes may not aid a lot either. There’s nothing fairly like completing a vital note only to realise you began creating verses midway via the sentence (many thanks a great deal, Billie).
A little white noise can assist you focus without drawing too much interest to itself. The White Noise Lite app lets you build customized soundscapes to match your choices with a large range of sounds including beach waves, winds, camp fires, chimes, rain, running water and also even a vacuum cleaner (hey, if that’s what obtains you in the state of mind for research, you do you).
Packing up the books for the night? Switch over from your examining mix to your snoozing mix for a restful rest.
Offered on: iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Chrome.
Ordinary ranking: 4.7/ 5 on App Store, 4.6/ 5 on Google Play.
Cost: Free for lite variation, $1.49 for complete version (no advertisements).
Keep in mind: Please inspect your school’s plan before downloading this or any kind of app to your school computer system.
Productivity applications for students.
Alright, so you have actually obtained distractions off the beaten track as well as some history appears on loophole. Currently allow’s discuss some good apps for students that will certainly assist you obtain one of the most out of your research study time. The next two study applications assist you arrange your routine as well as remain on top of projects so you can accomplish even more and also pack less.
- Todoist.
Todoist application.
Todoist can arrange your school subjects, job deadlines, homework as well as … practically your entire life, if you want it to. This is among the best applications for pupils since it keeps your schoolwork on the right track while additionally holding you responsible.
The Todoist app offers helpful functions consisting of:.
persisting due dates (wonderful for once a week homework).
quick include (include new assignments and jobs on the go).
favourites as well as priorities (flag the topics you require to concentrate on).
sections and also subtasks (divide challenging jobs right into tiny, straightforward actions).
combinations with various other apps (e.g. Google Schedule and Dropbox).
With all your tasks and also due dates kept neatly in Todoist– rather than floating about in your head– you’ll be totally free to concentrate on your researches.
Available on: iphone, Android, Mac, Windows.
Average rating: 4.7/ 5 on App Store, 4.5/ 5 on Google Play.
Expense: Free for standard, $4.99/ year for costs (added features, no ads).
Note: Please examine your institution’s policy before downloading this or any type of application to your institution computer.
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