1 Just study, don’t procrastinate. #RepeatAdvice @SueBo_
2 Do away with the laptop computer. Obtain your moms and dads to hide the battery so you will not be tempted. @paddykell
3 Formulate a realistic schedule. Short, constant study sessions. You need to be doing more than your research.
4 Organise on your own. It’s never far too late. Clear notes, tidy folders. Do not tension yourself out. @Orlaith_Farrell
5 Don’t prioritise any type of one subject. All topics need to get equivalent time. Enable 2 hrs each weekend for each and every topic and around 30-40 minutes per night for studying what was covered on that day in the class.
6 Print chief supervisors’ reports for your topics. They give example solutions which you can make use of as an overview for answering style. #studytips, @NatashaLynchEF
7 How much time do you invest in the internet? Half-an-hour in the morning, an hour at night? It all adds up. 2 hrs a day is 14 per week, 56 each month. Think of if you were to spend just half of that modifying.
8 Less late evenings. The most awful thing you can do at the weekends is invest the whole evening up, and the whole day in bed. Attempt to get to bed by 1am at the most recent on weekend breaks, and rise early.
9 Separate up collaborate with a close friend, after that assemble, copy each other’s notes, teach each other what you learned. #studybuddy, @NatashaLynchEF
10 Reading a book isn’t researching– it reads a book. Set a target: “I will certainly revise this topic for 45 minutes”. Bear in mind as you go. Put away the books. Do a test inquiry. Since’s research.
11 Get aware of the layout of the exam paper. Some documents are complicated as well as challenging instructions can toss you on the day.
12 Do not cut a lot of corners. Annually pupils emerge ruined because they paid attention to rumours regarding what was coming up. The reality is anything can turn up. The documents are made to be uncertain.
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13 Record your revision notes on a dictaphone, download onto your phone, revise on the move. #studytips, @NatashaLynchEF
14 Understand what you’re studying– or a minimum of try. Rephrase in your very own words when possible. Students that succeed in exams do not simply vomit up truths, they show actual understanding.
15 Maintain the CAO in mind. Pupils often tend to forget about what they take down on their CAO kinds in the rush to study for the Leaving Cert. It’s no harm to maintain considering what program you want to do, and also keep looking into different areas. @paddykell
16 Don’t talk about what research study you’re doing as well as do not listen to other people regarding what they’re doing. Great deals of people exist about what they’re doing or not doing. The naturally brilliant buddy who not did anything but in some way handled a B1 in the mocks is probably telling fibs about exactly how tough they’re working.
17Eat! Porridge can be completely edible with some small modifications. Some fast ones consist of placing delicious chocolate chips, bananas, peanut butter, or even molasses as well as strawberries on it. It takes the concept of inedible slop away as well as keeps you going all early morning. @ClareReidy1
18 My friends and I began our very own nerdy trend of dunking Nature Valley bars into yogurt pots, which I understand noises abhorrent to some people, but it obtained us with. @ClareReidy1
19 Have something to divert your focus: being solely concentrated on a few days in June at this phase will certainly fry your brain.
20 Workout. Do not research any type of later than 10pm, and if you can locate the power, go with a stroll. It releases endorphins in your brain that make you really feel great about on your own, and it clears your head after hrs of examining. @paddykell
21 Peanut butter mugs and delicious chocolate bars with nuts are brilliant brain food, and also addicting too. @ClareReidy1
22 Keep the exams in point of view. None of the adhering to things will be dictated by exactly how you perform in the Leaving Cert: where you live, that you wed, just how commonly you marry, how many icecreams you consume in your lifetime; your overall wellness and also well-being; the number of rocks that function their method into your shoes causing you repetitively jumping about on one foot to eliminate them; the quantity of love in your life.
English
23 Concerning 75 percent of Junior Cert as well as 55 per cent of Leaving Cert English is totally unseen up until you open up the paper. That does not mean you can not examine for the test. You are finding out abilities as opposed to rote-learning information.
24 Read, checked out, check out. If you don’t check out commonly, you’ll never become an excellent writer.
25 Learn quotes from your texts. Tape them onto your mobile phone or iPod and pay attention on the way right into college.
26 Do not discover essays off by heart. If you’re composing a narrative, have some instances of characterisation and also establishing all set to adjust to your title. Creative composing needs to be vibrant as well as entertaining. Program, don’t tell. The viewers ought to have particular views, sounds as well as smells in their minds-eye as they review your writing.
27 Review your exercise loud. You’ll listen to errors faster than you’ll see them.
28 Judging a personality is complicated: examine what they state, what they do, just how they look, what they believe and feel as well as other individuals’s opinions of them. Don’t take them at their word– characters usually lie, to themselves and others.
29Learn to spell the word character. There’s only one “h” and also it goes to the start.
30Structure your solutions. Stream-of-consciousness design solutions hardly ever achieve a great quality, particularly if you obtain stuck checking out one point in excessive detail.
31 Essays on studied texts have to utilize a formal style. Factors need to be supported with pertinent and also exact quotes.
32 Know your solitary text extremely well, inside out. Whether you’re making use of referral or quote to support your solution, you require to know the message in detail.
33 In the comparative research, you should ask on your own “what’s this message all about?”. When you make a list with that said going to all 3 messages, you can much more clearly see what they share. You then require to discover vital moments in each to support your contrasts. And you should be contrasting them constantly.
34 You have about an hour per section in the examination. The majority of people will certainly compose between 7 and 10 paragraphs. Time yourself and also write 3 paragraphs in 20 minutes for a bit of bite-sized preparation if you’re pressed for time.
35 Do not pay attention to the poetry tips. Prepare your favourite poets well and also you will certainly be awarded. The even more you need to state about a poet’s work the better, so have a sight which you can support by referencing the poet’s work.
Maths
36 Practicing previous examination papers is an extremely vital part of creating excellent exam technique. Beginning currently if you haven’t already.
37 You should know the proofs as well as theorems as well as the explanation of the vocabulary made use of.
38 Usage the main marking schemes. They frequently show greater than one appropriate approach of solving a concern. The noting schemes likewise reveal you how marks were designated by the examiners throughout all parts of all concerns in previous examinations, but there’s no real requirement for you to evaluate this. It is not feasible to predict the allotment of marks within a question– the allotment can vary widely and also in unanticipated ways.
39 Mean you choose to give five hours a week to maths, an affordable quantity at this phase of the year. Break this up right into 5 35 minutes slots each week-night giving you nearly two hours at weekend break.
40 Maths is the only Leaving Cert subject without a choice on the paper. As a result you should stay up to date with the product covered in class.
41 Weekend study preferably ought to be utilized for trying inquiries from previous papers and example papers. It is essential to know the exact set-up of your test, how many inquiries, the wording used, etc. Time yourself to get used to the moment restrictions.
42 The job maths noting system is fairly different from the marking plan made use of in the past. There are 5 marking ranges, with up to six classifications per marking scale. It’s a great deal a lot more complicated than the previous system.
43 Begin with your favorite concern. It will certainly aid resolve your nerves on examination day. Of course if you choose a consecutive strategy, do that.
44 It sounds evident but get utilized to reviewing concerns meticulously. Ensure you’re not missing any type of details.
45 It is vital to practise and also fit with the essentials prior to trying the new word issues in mathematics. These concerns need to read very carefully. Try to recognize the trouble. Consider the information provided. Take down all the amounts provided and also what is being looked for, ie, equating the English words right into mathematical sentences. Usually there is a formula that connects the information you have with the data you need.
46 Sometimes you think you know a topic, but along comes a concern which can be phrased in a manner you have actually never seen before. Do not allow this toss you. The even more technique you have from tackling different questions, the extra confident you will come to be when you face a strange looking question.
47 If stuck, don’t seek out the service as well rapidly. You will certainly commonly discover more by tackling it by yourself for some time, even if you have to review the remedy in the long run.
48 Program all functions within your response– do refrain from doing rough-work on a separate page. Do not use Tippex, rather erase any mistakes with a solitary line. You may get marks for the work you have actually erased, but not if it’s Tippexed. Also, if you address a trouble using a calculator, draw up some or all of the actions taken. Don’t just offer the response. This is to ensure you get marks even if you make a slip.
49 Attracting a diagram and even a standard illustration can often be really practical to start in dealing with an inquiry, as well as may acquire marks for you.
50 Obtain aware of your solutions and tables brochure. It supplies a lot of useful info. Utilize it.
Irish
51 Homework is really research study. It is wrapping up on what was shown on that particular day in the classroom as well as is typically, directly based upon an exam question: ie, verse questions or a léamhthuiscint or a personality from a prós story.
52 Pupils frequently go house and discover an instructor’s solutions on either filiocht or prós off by heart. You do not require to do this. You ought to perhaps examine just how the concern is opened– the structure of the solution– keeping an eye on appropriate quotes utilized.
53 In the filiocht sections, if you can convert the rhyme you have basically every response needed on the day as all verse will certainly be published on the actual exam paper. The only areas that must be found out off by heart are the grammatic terms that will be asked concerned 6A in the léamhthuiscint area– terms such as aimsigh and more.
54 Past examination documents are crucial. They show the layout of the actual examination as well as how concerns may be subdivided in numerous sections. It is great technique to study a specific subject and then do out test inquiries, keeping an eye promptly restraints and sticking strictly to them.
55 Keep re-reading the inquiry over and over to ensure you are really responding to the concern asked. No marks will be granted for details that is not appropriate. In the filiocht section, if you are asked on motif, just on motif as well as not sensations or feelings.
56 At this phase, you will certainly have finished your mock exams as well as will certainly have endured 2 full papers in Irish. Whatever errors you might have made, will not be duplicated in June. Keep in mind, you will always find out by your blunders. If you lacked time in Paper 2– a long paper– you will need to change the size of time you invest in the various areas.
57 Don’t disregard the relevance of the dental Irish examination which brings 40 per cent of the complete exam mark. Know the picture sequences well as there are 80 marks choosing this section. Method asking inquiries. Trainees are usually much better at answering concerns than inquiring. Additionally practise reviewing the verse each day– with 35 marks for reading a plain 10-12 lines it is worth extra that the entire poetry or prose program.
Languages
Oral test
58Remember that this is a discussion, not an interview. The inspector is there to assist you reach your greatest capacity.
59Marks are awarded for framework, interaction, vocabulary as well as enunciation, and vocabulary is truly just how you expression your feedbacks. Don’t utilize jargon terms too much. Rich vocabulary is all about utilizing a different means to claim something.
60 Pronunciation is extremely important and also represent 20 percent of the exam Pay attention to French, German or Spanish radio and also record on your own to ideal your accent.
61Try investing 10-15 mins a day on your dental work. As soon as you have actually found out a subject, practice it aloud on your own. When you are much more positive, practise with a buddy or a family member.
Acoustic exam.
62 Ask your educator to evaluate you on previous aurals from years back as for the very early 1990s when possible. Listen to your very own CDs and also downloads.
63Log on to Google.fr for French, Google.de for German or Google.es for Spanish and also 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 also listen to Le Journal de 13h or 20h, a prominent news network on French television. You can additionally pay attention to French information on rfi.fr and radiofrance.fr.
General language recommendations
65Do not discover off large long essays on every subject. You will get bogged down and also become disheartened. Write 3 points on each topic and also discover 20 words of vocabulary. Ensure you have decent sentences to begin as well as end a created item.
66 Do not utilize Google equate as it translates literally as well as does not take context into factor to consider. Wordreference.com is a superb translation site. It will just translate one word at a time, so it can be irritating yet there are interesting assistance forums on the website.
67Familiarise on your own with the means concerns are asked at the end of each analysis understanding.
68 Don’t be attracted to discover off viewpoint pieces by heart. It is not likely that the piece that you will have discovered will answer the question given up the paper. You will certainly be heavily penalised if you do not address the concern, even if the language that you have actually made use of is correct. Instead, build up your vocabulary for the various topics on the curriculum as well as practice with past or mock assessment documents.
69Check out @PetitTweetCork for tweets in French to assist LC students in preparation for French examination. @NatashaLynchEF
Biology
70 It is best to invest half an hour at once studying biology. Take a short, five-minute break after half an hour and afterwards go on to the next subject.
71Try to invest concerning 4 30 minute sessions weekly dedicated to addressing past papers. These might range over the short concerns in section A, the experimental inquiries in section B as well as the lengthy inquiries in section C.
72About 25 per cent of the marks are acquired from knowing your interpretations. These should be discovered off by heart.
73 In between 15 and 30 per cent of the marks are acquired from the experiments. As there are only 22 experiments, it is feasible to cover one experiment per day throughout a month. When learning the experiments you have to understand the actions taken and the factor for taking each step.
74Up to Easter, your study should range over the entire course. From Easter, focus on specific topics. These are the subjects that show up yearly together with any kind of subjects that are more probable ahead up this year.
Geography
75Know what is involved: time– the geography paper is 2 hrs and also 50 minutes long; framework– 5 full inquiries have to be responded to. All inquiries equal 80 marks.
76Plan your research. At least 80 percent of your time will certainly be invested in research study so it is vital you get the abilities to study effectively.
77 Strategy reasonable targets which you can achieve in each research session, eg, write out 15 substantial appropriate factors (SRPs) on your picked topic.
78Focus on subjects that are examined yearly. These consist of: core device 1– landform development; plate tectonics; human communication; core system 2– economic activities in an Irish region; financial activities in a European region; financial tasks in a continental/sub-continental area; economic elective– impact of EU plans on Ireland; international companies.
79When you review your notes, select the keywords or expressions which will assist you to bear in mind what the topic is about.
80 Make a subject summary by placing the core motif or subject title in the centre then attract lines from the centre and write sub-themes at the end of the lines. Along each line, create the key words or expressions linked to the sub-theme.
81 Cover all the significant topics. Do not try to anticipate what will be analyzed. Rather, practise answering evaluation inquiries from previous documents. Time on your own as well as see if you can compose a response in the time which the evaluation will enable you.
82Remember that the 30-mark parts of the concern need to have 15 SRPs
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83 The typical keywords are: “account for”– explain as well as give reasons; “compare”– explain resemblances as well as distinctions; “contrast”– mention the major differences; “explain”– state the obvious; “discuss”– draw up the bottom lines and create an explanation.
Service
84Spend at the very least an hour-and-a-half on service modification every second evening. So three or four one-and-a-half hours research study sessions weekly.
85The applied company question (ABQ) is on a five-year cycle, so the ABQs of 2008 and also 2003 will be structured identically to 2013 and these ABQs should be practiced initially, prior to any other year.
86 Long question method: 25-mark inquiries– invest 10 mins on them; 20-mark concerns– spend eight mins on them. 20-mark questions are one of the most common and also pupils wrongly spend 10 minutes on them, which quickly develops to a lot of two mins’s shed during the examination; 15-mark inquiry– spend six mins.
87The two most prominent verbs are “show” and also “evaluate”. Yet with our above framework we instantly deal with these verbs. The instance manage illustrate as well as the trainee can use the benefit or negative aspect as their personal point of view by putting “in my point of view” in front or their advantage or drawback. This is outstanding as it is a genuine point of view not rote learned from a book.
88 ABQ– you have 45 mins to address this area. It is essential to practise it as it takes most students over a hr to do this inquiry. However after five or six ABQs the rate normally creates. If you do not practice the ABQ, you will certainly not get it done in under a hr in the Leaving Cert– major mistake.You needs to be doing at least one ABQ weekly from now till the test.
89 The long inquiry can typically consist of one sentence, but there are two parts to be handled to properly respond to the inquiry. The lengthy question may likewise have a narrative as an introduction, if so students must refer to the short story in their answer or marks will be shed.
Background
90By now you ought to be ended up, or nearing the completion of your special study. Look over the requirements for length, resources and also background info, and also remember someone will certainly be reading 300 of these over a number of weeks in the summertime, so make it remarkable.
91 Every topic will have information that are important eg, terms such as fascism, sectarianism, ecumenism. Make sure you recognize essential days and what order occasions happened. It resembles narrating. Do not neglect the crucial bits as well as it’s not extremely interesting if you inform it in the wrong order.
92 Don’t consider finding out off essays. It would be great if you get the exact wording in your examination questions however it’s not likely to occur, so consider moveable details that you can utilize to answer any concern. Practise creating a factor per paragraph; bear in mind the solution is significant mostly paragraph by paragraph and if your work is arranged as well as thoughtful, you’ll do well.
93 Keep in mind, honours background is not regarding writing all you know about a topic. It has to do with discovering to make web links to the concern you are answering with the info you recognize. For instance, an inquiry on the elements that caused the development of fascism is not write all you find out about fascism: you should separate what brought about its rise such as instability after the 2nd World War, the economic situation, threat of communism etc 94Look at your documents: numerous students concern this inquiry as a formality but knowing the topic, as well as just how to manage written as well as visual sources can be worth an added quality.
95Don’ t neglect to revise your compulsory case studies. There are just three, so make sure you know sufficient to write a mini-essay of two-and-a half pages in order to address the contextualisation part of the inquiry.
Home Economics
96The home economics program is substantial. Simplify. Have a schedule, and take it one day or week at once.
97Do three or 4 short concerns every evening. Every one deserves 6 marks– that’s 1.5 per cent of your total mark. Use your textbook to address them, so you develop a financial institution of exact details in your head.
98 Technique question 1 (a) in area B. You will have to evaluate a graph or a graph in this question. It doesn’t show up in any book. You need to be acquainted with it.
99 Read one exam question each night. Highlight vital terms. What is being asked? Consider the noting plan. Exactly how are marks distributed? Several trainees have the right information but lose marks since they do not know their marking scheme.
100Know all the topics in your elective. Part (a) is obligatory. If you cut corners, you may get captured out.
Likewise try making use of some mobile applications to aid yyou stay cooncetrated.
Applications to assist focus
The best focus apps can aid you enter into the appropriate psychological zone for soaking up details. This group considers applications that maintain you from obtaining sidetracked (e.g. with white noise or by blocking various other applications).
1. Forest
Forest Application
A few of us need a little external motivation to stay focused while studying. And that’s penalty.
The Woodland application supplies an aesthetic motivation by allowing you grow a digital tree and after that basically holding that tree captive till your research study session is over.
Want to inspect your Instagram momentarily? Attracted to do a quick online store between book chapters? Go on. You’ll simply need to come to tranquility with viewing your tree wither as well as pass away initially.
However if you stay with your focus time, you’ll appreciate watching your trees grow. Over numerous research study sessions, you can build a wonderful digital forest– a pleasurable suggestion of all your effective hours.
Incentive: The Forest application is a companion of Trees for the Future. This organisation plants real trees in behalf of the digital ones that pro customers grow (over 1 million trees and checking). So, utilizing this app to obstruct other apps while researching can help the environment along with your grades. Tolerable in all.
Readily available on: iOS, Android, Chrome
Ordinary ranking: 4.8/ 5 on Application Store, 4.8/ 5 on Google Play
Price: $2.99 on Application Store, Free (with ads) on Google Play– in-app purchases readily available on all tools
2. Liberty
Freedom application to obstruct apps while researching
Liberty is an application that locks your phone while researching (or any other time you need to focus). Flag the application and/or internet sites that sidetrack you, and Liberty will certainly obstruct them– wonderful if the self-motivated applications like Woodland do not fairly cut it for you. You can establish a set up session ahead of time or start some ‘Flexibility time’ whenever you require it.
Liberty blocks time-wasting apps and also websites throughout all your devices, so your iPad will not tempt you away while you’re researching on your MacBook.
Did you understand? Many smartphones have built-in devices for tracking display time and also setting restrictions. They could not be as fancy as Woodland and also Flexibility, yet they can get the job done in a pinch. Seek ‘Screen Time’ (iOS) or ‘Digital Well-being’ (Android) to explore your choices.
Available on: iphone, Android, Mac, Windows, Chrome
Ordinary ranking: 3.2/ 5 on Application Shop, 3.9/ 5 on Google Play
Expense: Free for basic functions, premium membership offered ($ 30/year).
Note: Please inspect your institution’s policy before downloading this or any type of app to your college computer.
3. White Noise Lite.
White Noise app to aid focus.
Silence can be deafening when you’re trying to concentrate, however your much-loved songs might not assist so much either. There’s nothing fairly like ending up a vital note just to realise you began writing lyrics halfway through the sentence (many thanks a lot, Billie).
A little bit of white noise can aid you focus without attracting excessive focus to itself. The White Noise Lite application lets you develop custom soundscapes to fit your preferences with a wide range of sounds including beach waves, winds, camp fires, chimes, rainfall, running water and also even a vacuum (hi there, if that’s what gets you in the mood for research study, you do you).
Evacuating the books for the night? Switch from your examining mix to your snoozing mix for a relaxed rest.
Offered on: iphone, Android, Mac, Windows, Chrome.
Average rating: 4.7/ 5 on App Store, 4.6/ 5 on Google Play.
Cost: Free for lite variation, $1.49 for full variation (no ads).
Keep in mind: Please inspect your institution’s policy prior to downloading this or any kind of application to your school computer system.
Performance applications for trainees.
Alright, so you have actually obtained diversions out of the way as well as some background sounds on loophole. Currently let’s speak about some great apps for pupils that will certainly assist you get the most out of your research time. The following 2 study apps aid you organise your timetable as well as stay on top of jobs so you can accomplish more and also stuff less.
4. Todoist.
Todoist app.
Todoist can arrange your college subjects, job target dates, research and … virtually your whole life, if you want it to. This is among the best apps for students because it keeps your schoolwork on the right track while likewise holding you responsible.
The Todoist app gives useful functions consisting of:.
persisting due days (wonderful for weekly homework).
fast add (add new projects and jobs on the move).
favourites as well as priorities (flag the subjects you require to concentrate on).
sections and also subtasks (divide daunting projects into tiny, straightforward actions).
assimilations with various other apps (e.g. Google Schedule and Dropbox).
With all your jobs and also due days maintained nicely in Todoist– rather than floating about in your head– you’ll be free to concentrate on your studies.
Available on: iphone, Android, Mac, Windows.
Average score: 4.7/ 5 on Application Shop, 4.5/ 5 on Google Play.
Expense: Free for fundamental, $4.99/ year for premium (extra features, no advertisements).
Keep in mind: Please inspect your college’s plan prior to downloading this or any application to your institution computer system.
So now you have an excaustive listing of tips and some mobile apps on what to do to do well in college entrance tests (Πανελλήνιες 2022) as well as to succeed in any kind of type of exams like for a job in the general public sector (ασεπ). Research study, work hard and do well otherwise you will rely on state allocations (Οπεκα) which are very reduced.