1 Simply research, don’t put things off. #RepeatAdvice @SueBo_
2 Put away the laptop. Get your moms and dads to hide the battery so you won’t be attracted. @paddykell
3 Draw up a practical schedule. Short, constant research study sessions. You need to be doing greater than your research.
4 Organise on your own. It’s never ever far too late. Clear notes, clean folders. Don’t stress on your own out. @Orlaith_Farrell
5 Do not prioritise any one topic. All topics need to get equivalent time. Enable two hours each weekend break for every subject as well as around 30-40 minutes per night for researching what was covered on that day in the class.
6 Publish chief supervisors’ records for your subjects. They provide sample answers which you can make use of as a guide for answering design. #studytips, @NatashaLynchEF
7 Just how much time do you spend on the internet? Half-an-hour in the morning, an hour at night? It all builds up. 2 hours a day is 14 weekly, 56 monthly. Envision if you were to invest just half of that changing.
8 Fewer late nights. The worst thing you can do at the weekends is invest the entire night up, and the whole day in bed. Try to get to bed by 1am at the most recent on weekends, as well as rise early.
9 Divide up collaborate with a pal, then assemble, photocopy each other’s notes, show each other what you learned. #studybuddy, @NatashaLynchEF
10 Reading a book isn’t researching– it reads a book. Establish a target: “I will modify this topic for 45 minutes”. Bear in mind as you go. Put away the books. Do an exam concern. Now that’s research study.
11 Obtain acquainted with the design of the exam paper. Some papers are difficult as well as complicated guidelines could toss you on the day.
12 Do not cut too many corners. Every year trainees arise ruined due to the fact that they listened to rumours about what was turning up. The reality is anything can come up. The papers are created to be uncertain.
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13 Record your alteration notes on a dictaphone, download onto your phone, modify on the move. #studytips, @NatashaLynchEF
14 Understand what you’re studying– or a minimum of attempt. Rephrase in your own words when feasible. Pupils that succeed in tests don’t simply vomit up truths, they demonstrate genuine understanding.
15 Maintain the CAO in mind. Pupils often tend to ignore what they take down on their CAO kinds in the thrill to examine for the Leaving Cert. It’s no harm to maintain considering what training course you intend to do, and keep looking into various locations. @paddykell
16 Don’t speak about what research you’re doing and also don’t listen to other people about what they’re doing. Lots of people lie concerning what they’re doing or otherwise doing. The naturally brilliant friend who did nothing but somehow handled a B1 in the mocks is possibly telling fibs about how hard they’re working.
17Eat! Porridge can be perfectly edible with some minor adjustments. Some fast ones include putting chocolate chips, bananas, peanut butter, or even molasses and strawberries on it. It takes the idea of not fit to eat slop away and also keeps you going all morning. @ClareReidy1
18 My friends as well as I began our own nerdy pattern of dunking Nature Valley bars right into yogurt pots, which I comprehend audios revolting to some individuals, yet it got us via. @ClareReidy1
19 Have something to divert your attention: being only concentrated on a couple of days in June at this stage will certainly fry your mind.
20 Workout. Do not study any kind of later than 10pm, as well as if you can discover the power, opt for a walk. It releases endorphins in your brain that make you really feel great concerning on your own, and it clears your head after hours of researching. @paddykell
21 Peanut butter mugs and also chocolate bars with nuts are brilliant brain food, and also addictive too. @ClareReidy1
22 Keep the tests in point of view. None of the following things will be dictated by how you do in the Leaving Cert: where you live, who you wed, how frequently you marry, the number of icecreams you eat in your life time; your general wellness and well-being; the number of stones that function their method into your shoes resulting in you repetitively jumping about on one foot to eliminate them; the quantity of love in your life.
English
23 About 75 percent of Junior Cert as well as 55 percent of Leaving Cert English is totally hidden until you open the paper. That does not imply you can’t study for the examination. You are learning skills instead of rote-learning information.
24 Read, checked out, review. If you don’t check out extensively, you’ll never end up being a great author.
25 Learn quotes from your texts. Tape them onto your mobile phone or iPod and pay attention heading into institution.
26 Do not discover essays off by heart. If you’re composing a narrative, have some instances of characterisation as well as establishing all set to adjust to your title. Creative composing requirements to be brilliant as well as enjoyable. Program, don’t tell. The viewers should have particular views, sounds and smells 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 Judging a character is complicated: analyze what they claim, what they do, how they look, what they believe and also feel as well as other individuals’s opinions of them. Don’t take them at their word– characters typically lie, to themselves as well as others.
29Learn to lead to words personality. There’s only one “h” and it’s at the start.
30Structure your solutions. Stream-of-consciousness design responses hardly ever accomplish a good quality, particularly if you get stuck exploring one point in extreme detail.
31 Essays on researched messages have to utilize a formal style. Points have to be supported with appropriate and exact quotes.
32 Know your single text quite possibly, inside out. Whether you’re making use of reference or quotation to support your solution, you require to understand the text thoroughly.
33 In the comparative study, you should ask on your own “what’s this message everything about?”. When you make a listing with that heading for all three messages, you can more clearly see what they share. You after that require to locate vital moments in each to support your comparisons. And also you need to be contrasting them at all times.
34 You have regarding a hr per area in the examination. Most people will certainly create between seven and 10 paragraphs. Time yourself as well as write 3 paragraphs in 20 mins awhile of bite-sized prep work if you’re pressed for time.
35 Don’t listen to the verse tips. Prepare your favorite poets well and also you will certainly be rewarded. The even more you have to state regarding a poet’s work the much better, so have a view which you can back up by referencing the poet’s job.
Maths
36 Practising past exam papers is a very vital part of developing great exam technique. Begin now if you haven’t already.
37 You need to recognize the proofs as well as theses and the description of the vocabulary utilized.
38 Usage the main noting plans. They frequently reveal greater than one acceptable method of addressing an inquiry. The marking plans additionally show you exactly how marks were assigned by the inspectors throughout all parts of all questions in previous exams, however there’s no genuine requirement for you to evaluate this. It is not possible to anticipate the allotment of marks within a question– the allowance can vary hugely as well as in unexpected ways.
39 Expect you choose to give five hrs a week to mathematics, an affordable amount at this stage of the year. Damage this up right into five 35 mins ports each week-night giving you just about two hrs at weekend.
40 Mathematics is the only Leaving Cert subject without a selection on the paper. For that reason you need to stay on par with the product covered in class.
41 Weekend research preferably ought to be used for attempting concerns from previous papers and example papers. It is crucial to know the exact set-up of your test, how many concerns, the phrasing made use of, and so on. Time yourself to obtain utilized to the time restraints.
42 The job maths noting system is fairly different from the marking system used in the past. There are 5 marking scales, with up to six categories per noting range. It’s a whole lot more complex than the previous system.
43 Begin with your favorite inquiry. It will assist settle your nerves on test day. Of course if you like a consecutive method, do that.
44 It seems noticeable yet obtain made use of to reviewing inquiries carefully. Ensure you’re not missing any information.
45 It is crucial to practise and also fit with the essentials before attempting the new word problems in maths. These questions have to be read extremely carefully. Attempt to comprehend the issue. Look at the details offered. Take down all the amounts given and what is being looked for, ie, converting the English words into mathematical sentences. Commonly there is an equation that links the information you have with the data you call for.
46 Often you believe you know a subject, however along comes a question which can be phrased in such a way you have never ever seen prior to. Don’t allow this throw you. The more technique you have from dealing with various inquiries, the a lot more positive you will certainly come to be when you face a strange looking question.
47 If stuck, do not seek out the option too rapidly. You will usually discover more by tackling it by yourself for a while, even if you need to check out the option in the long run.
48 Program all operations within your answer– do refrain rough-work on a separate page. Do not utilize Tippex, rather erase any kind of errors with a single line. You may obtain marks for the job you have actually crossed out, but not if it’s Tippexed. Likewise, if you address an issue utilizing a calculator, draw up some or every one of the actions taken. Don’t just offer the response. This is to guarantee you obtain marks even if you make a slip.
49 Attracting a representation or perhaps a fundamental illustration can frequently be extremely practical to get going in taking on a question, and also may obtain marks for you.
50 Obtain familiar with your solutions and also tables pamphlet. It offers a great deal of helpful details. Utilize it.
Irish
51 Research is in fact research. It is summarizing on what was instructed on that particular day in the classroom as well as is generally, straight based upon an exam question: ie, poetry concerns or a léamhthuiscint or a character from a prós tale.
52 Trainees typically go house and also discover a teacher’s responses on either filiocht or prós off by heart. You do not need to do this. You need to maybe research just how the concern is opened– the framework of the answer– keeping an eye on relevant quotations made use of.
53 In the filiocht sections, if you can translate the rhyme you have practically every response called for on the day as all poetry will certainly be published on the actual exam paper. The only areas that ought to be learned off by heart are the grammatical terms that will be asked concerned 6A in the léamhthuiscint section– terms such as aimsigh and so on.
54 Previous exam documents are essential. They reveal the format of the real examination as well as how inquiries might be subdivided in different sections. It is excellent technique to study a certain topic and then do out examination concerns, keeping an eye in a timely manner restraints and also sticking rigidly to them.
55 Maintain re-reading the inquiry over and over to ensure you are actually answering 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 theme as well as not feelings or emotions.
56 At this stage, you will have finished your simulated exams as well as will have sat through two complete documents in Irish. Whatever blunders you might have made, will not be duplicated in June. Remember, you will certainly constantly find out by your blunders. If you lacked time in Paper 2– a very long paper– you will require to readjust the length of time you invest in the different areas.
57 Do not neglect the value of the oral Irish examination which carries 40 per cent of the overall exam mark. Know the picture sequences well as there are 80 marks going with this section. Method asking concerns. Pupils are typically much better at addressing questions than asking. Likewise practise checking out the poetry on a daily basis– with 35 marks for checking out a simple 10-12 lines it deserves more that the entire poetry or prose course.
Languages
Dental exam
58Remember that this is a discussion, not a meeting. The inspector exists to assist you reach your highest possible possibility.
59Marks are granted for framework, communication, vocabulary as well as enunciation, and also vocabulary is really exactly how you expression your feedbacks. Don’t make use of jargon terms way too much. Rich vocabulary is all about using a different way to claim something.
60 Pronunciation is very crucial as well as represent 20 percent of the test Listen to French, German or Spanish radio as well as record yourself to excellent your accent.
61Try spending 10-15 minutes a day on your dental job. Once you have discovered a subject, method it out loud on your own. When you are more positive, practise with a buddy or a loved one.
Aural examination.
62 Ask your educator to check you on previous aurals from years back as for the early 1990s when possible. Pay attention to your very own CDs as well as downloads.
63Log on Google.fr for French, Google.de for German or Google.es for Spanish and also search YouTube for clips in your picked language. Even if you do not comprehend every word, your ear will become accustomed to it.
64 For French, log onto tf1.fr as well as pay attention to Le Journal de 13h or 20h, a preferred information network on French television. You can additionally listen to French information on rfi.fr as well as radiofrance.fr.
General language guidance
65Do not learn off big lengthy essays on every subject. You will obtain slowed down as well as become disheartened. Create 3 factors on each subject as well as discover 20 words of vocabulary. Make sure you have suitable sentences to start and also finish a created item.
66 Do not use Google convert as it equates actually and also does not take context into consideration. Wordreference.com is a superb translation site. It will only equate one word at once, so it can be irritating yet there are interesting help forums on the site.
67Familiarise yourself with the means questions are asked at the end of each reading comprehension.
68 Do not be attracted to discover off viewpoint pieces by heart. It is not likely that the item that you will certainly have learned will certainly respond to the concern given up the paper. You will certainly be heavily penalised if you don’t resolve the inquiry, even if the language that you have actually made use of is appropriate. Rather, build up your vocabulary for the different topics on the curriculum and practice with previous or simulated assessment papers.
69Check out @PetitTweetCork for tweets in French to assist LC trainees in prep for French examination. @NatashaLynchEF
Biology
70 It is best to invest thirty minutes at once studying biology. Take a brief, five-minute break after 30 minutes and after that proceed to the next subject.
71Try to spend concerning 4 30 minute sessions each week committed to responding to past documents. These might vary over the brief inquiries in section A, the speculative inquiries in section B as well as the long inquiries in section C.
72About 25 per cent of the marks are acquired from recognizing your interpretations. These must be found out off by heart.
73 In between 15 and 30 percent of the marks are obtained from the experiments. As there are only 22 experiments, it is feasible to cover one experiment per day over the course of a month. When finding out the experiments you have to know the actions taken and also the factor for taking each action.
74Up to Easter, your study should vary over the whole course. From Easter, focus on specific topics. These are the subjects that come up every year along with any subjects that are more likely to find up this year.
Location
75Know what is involved: time– the location paper is 2 hours as well as 50 minutes long; framework– five full inquiries have to be addressed. All inquiries equivalent 80 marks.
76Plan your research. A minimum of 80 percent of your time will certainly be invested in research study so it is important you acquire the skills to research properly.
77 Plan practical targets which you can achieve in each research session, eg, draw up 15 considerable relevant factors (SRPs) on your selected subject.
78Focus on topics that are checked out each year. These include: core unit 1– landform development; plate tectonics; human communication; core system 2– economic activities in an Irish region; economic activities in a European area; economic tasks in a continental/sub-continental region; financial elective– influence of EU plans on Ireland; international business.
79When you review your notes, pick the keywords or phrases which will certainly aid you to bear in mind what the topic has to do with.
80 Make a topic summary by putting the core motif or topic title in the centre after that draw lines from the centre and write sub-themes at the end of the lines. Along each line, compose the key words or phrases linked to the sub-theme.
81 Cover all the significant subjects. Don’t attempt to predict what will be analyzed. Rather, practise answering assessment inquiries from previous documents. Time on your own and see if you can write a response while which the assessment will enable you.
82Remember that the 30-mark parts of the concern should have 15 SRPs
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83 The normal keywords are: “represent”– discuss and also give factors; “compare”– point out resemblances and distinctions; “contrast”– mention the major distinctions; “explain”– state the noticeable; “describe”– write out the bottom lines and write a description.
Organization
84Spend at least an hour-and-a-half on service modification every second evening. So three or 4 one-and-a-half hrs research study sessions weekly.
85The used business concern (ABQ) gets on a five-year cycle, so the ABQs of 2008 and also 2003 will certainly be structured identically to 2013 and also these ABQs need to be practiced initially, prior to any other year.
86 Lengthy question practice: 25-mark questions– spend 10 mins on them; 20-mark questions– spend eight minutes on them. 20-mark questions are the most common and also students mistakenly invest 10 minutes on them, which quickly develops to a lot of two minutes’s lost during the test; 15-mark inquiry– spend 6 minutes.
87The 2 most prominent verbs are “show” and “examine”. Yet with our above structure we immediately deal with these verbs. The example deals with illustrate and also the trainee can use the advantage or disadvantage as their personal opinion by putting “in my opinion” in front or their advantage or disadvantage. This is outstanding as it is a real opinion not rote learned from a textbook.
88 ABQ– you have 45 mins to answer this section. It is necessary to practise it as it takes most trainees over an hour to do this inquiry. However after 5 or six ABQs the speed normally develops. If you do not practise the ABQ, you will not get it carried out in under a hr in the Leaving Cert– major mistake.You ought to be doing at least one ABQ weekly from now up until the examination.
89 The long concern can typically consist of one sentence, however there are 2 parts to be taken care of to properly respond to the concern. The long concern might likewise have a narrative as an introduction, if so students need to refer to the narrative in their solution or marks will be shed.
History
90By currently you need to be completed, or nearing the conclusion of your special research. Evaluate the requirements for size, resources and also history information, as well as bear in mind someone will certainly be reading 300 of these over a number of weeks in the summer, so make it unforgettable.
91 Every subject will have details that are important eg, terms such as fascism, sectarianism, ecumenism. Make sure you recognize important days and what order events occurred. It’s like narrating. Don’t exclude the important little bits as well as it’s not extremely fascinating if you tell it in the wrong order.
92 Do not think about discovering off essays. It would be great if you obtain the exact phrasing in your test inquiries yet it’s not likely to occur, so think of portable details that you can use to answer any concern. Practise composing a point per paragraph; keep in mind the answer is significant mostly paragraph by paragraph and also if your job is organised and thoughtful, you’ll do well.
93 Remember, honours history is not about creating all you know about a subject. It is about discovering to make web links to the inquiry you are addressing with the info you recognize. For instance, a concern on the elements that resulted in the growth of fascism is not create all you know about fascism: you should separate what caused its increase such as instability after the second World War, the financial situation, threat of communism and so on 94Look at your files: numerous pupils concern this inquiry as a procedure but recognizing the topic, as well as just how to deal with written and also visual resources can be worth an added grade.
95Don’ t neglect to change your obligatory case studies. There are just 3, so see to it you understand sufficient to create a mini-essay of two-and-a half web pages in order to answer the contextualisation part of the inquiry.
Home Economics
96The home economics program is substantial. Simplify. Have a timetable, as well as take it someday or week at once.
97Do three or four brief inquiries every evening. Each one is worth 6 marks– that’s 1.5 percent of your overall mark. Use your book to answer them, so you accumulate a financial institution of exact details in your head.
98 Method question 1 (a) in section B. You will have to evaluate a chart or a chart in this concern. It does not appear in any book. You need to be acquainted with it.
99 Read one exam concern each evening. Highlight essential terms. What is being asked? Look at the noting plan. Exactly how are marks distributed? Numerous students have the appropriate information however shed marks because they don’t know their noting system.
100Know all the topics in your elective. Part (a) is compulsory. If you cut edges, you might obtain caught out.
Also attempt utilizing some mobile applications to aid yyou remain cooncetrated.
Apps to help focus
The best focus applications can assist you enter into the ideal psychological area for absorbing details. This classification looks at apps that keep you from getting distracted (e.g. with white noise or by blocking various other apps).
1. Forest
Forest App
A few of us need a little external motivation to remain focused while researching. Which’s fine.
The Forest app supplies a visual reward by allowing you grow an online tree and then basically holding that tree captive until your research study session mores than.
Wish to inspect your Instagram momentarily? Attracted to do a quick online shop between book chapters? Go ahead. You’ll just need to concern peace with enjoying your tree wither and die initially.
Yet if you stay with your focus time, you’ll appreciate viewing your trees flourish. Over several research sessions, you can build a delightful digital forest– an enjoyable tip of all your efficient hours.
Bonus offer: The Woodland application is a partner of Trees for the Future. This organisation plants genuine trees on behalf of the virtual ones that pro users expand (over 1 million trees and also checking). So, utilizing this app to obstruct various other applications while researching can assist the setting as well as your grades. Not bad whatsoever.
Readily available on: iOS, Android, Chrome
Average score: 4.8/ 5 on Application Shop, 4.8/ 5 on Google Play
Expense: $2.99 on App Shop, Free (with ads) on Google Play– in-app purchases readily available on all tools
2. Liberty
Liberty application to obstruct apps while researching
Freedom is an app that secures your phone while examining (or any other time you need to concentrate). Flag the apps and/or sites that sidetrack you, as well as Liberty will block them– excellent if the self-motivated applications like Woodland do not fairly suffice for you. You can set a set up session ahead of time or begin some ‘Liberty time’ whenever you need it.
Freedom blocks time-wasting applications as well as internet sites throughout all your tools, so your iPad will not tempt you away while you’re examining on your MacBook.
Did you recognize? The majority of smartphones have built-in devices for tracking screen time and also setting limits. They could not be as fancy as Forest and Freedom, but they can finish the job in a pinch. Seek ‘Screen Time’ (iphone) or ‘Digital Health And Wellbeing’ (Android) to discover your options.
Offered on: iphone, Android, Mac, Windows, Chrome
Typical ranking: 3.2/ 5 on App Shop, 3.9/ 5 on Google Play
Price: Free for standard functions, costs subscription readily available ($ 30/year).
Note: Please examine your school’s plan prior to downloading this or any app to your college computer system.
3. White Noise Lite.
White Noise app to aid concentration.
Silence can be deafening when you’re attempting to concentrate, yet your preferred tunes might not help a lot either. There’s nothing rather like finishing a crucial note just to understand you began composing verses halfway with the sentence (thanks a lot, Billie).
A little white noise can aid you focus without attracting way too much focus to itself. The White Noise Lite application lets you construct personalized soundscapes to suit your preferences with a vast array of noises consisting of coastline waves, breezes, camp fires, chimes, rainfall, running water as well as also a vacuum (hello, if that’s what gets you in the mood for research, you do you).
Evacuating the books for the night? Change from your examining mix to your snoozing mix for a peaceful rest.
Offered on: iphone, Android, Mac, Windows, Chrome.
Ordinary score: 4.7/ 5 on Application Store, 4.6/ 5 on Google Play.
Cost: Free for lite variation, $1.49 for complete version (no ads).
Note: Please check your institution’s plan before downloading this or any kind of application to your college computer.
Productivity apps for trainees.
Alright, so you have actually obtained distractions out of the way as well as some background appears on loop. Currently allow’s speak about some excellent applications for pupils that will aid you obtain the most out of your research time. The following two research applications assist you organise your routine and also remain on top of projects so you can achieve even more and stuff less.
4. Todoist.
Todoist app.
Todoist can arrange your college subjects, task due dates, research as well as … practically your entire life, if you want it to. This is just one of the very best applications for trainees due to the fact that it maintains your schoolwork on track while also holding you answerable.
The Todoist application offers useful attributes including:.
repeating due dates (wonderful for once a week homework).
quick include (add brand-new assignments and jobs on the go).
favourites as well as concerns (flag the topics you require to concentrate on).
sections and also subtasks (divide daunting projects into tiny, easy steps).
combinations with other apps (e.g. Google Calendar and also Dropbox).
With all your jobs and due dates maintained nicely in Todoist– instead of floating about in your head– you’ll be complimentary to focus on your studies.
Readily available on: iOS, Android, Mac, Windows.
Ordinary rating: 4.7/ 5 on App Shop, 4.5/ 5 on Google Play.
Price: Free for basic, $4.99/ year for premium (extra functions, no ads).
Note: Please inspect your school’s policy prior to downloading this or any type of application to your school computer.
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.