You’ve now spent 5 or 6 years at secondary school and you’re old enough to make your own decisions. What’s your views on homework during your leaving cert year? Should it be optional? Should teacher’s trust you to be responsible adults and get on with your own study plan? Or, do you like the structured study/revision opportunity given by homework?
Have the mocks been of any use? Valuable learning experience or unavoidable thorn in the side?
Are you missing out on your education by not being able to take ICT as a discreet subject for the leaving cert. Obviously if you’re online checking out our site then your interested enough in technology already so why not gain a qualification in it?
Let say most school’s open between 9am and 3.30pm on average. That’s 6 and a half hours per day, 5 days a week – a total of 32.5 hours including lunch breaks and break time – taking away that time and the time you waste moving between classes and you’re probably only really supposed to be focused on tasks in the classroom for 25 hours max.
There will be over 71,000 people applying for college courses around the country in 2010/2011. There are only about 50,000 places in total in college, so you don’t need an A1 in honours maths to work out that there are more applicants than places. Almost 20,000 more.
History and stats tell us that we’re gonna get a whole lot of extra visits from you leaving cert students right around when most of you (well at least the vast majority of you) hit the panic button in June 2010.
Get out there and use those libraries. Here’s some facts you may not have known about libraries in Ireland.
Before i start, let me say that i’m simply a messenger – all of this information has been published on boards.ie leaving cert forum.
Wednesday, June 9th is D Day. That’s the day that you’re dreading. Along with 7 or 8 others. The gaps between exams might look good on paper, but really, they just prolong the agony.
Teachers can help you get results by tailoring their lessons so you learn but you’re the one who can really tailor your own study program so that you maximise your learning. Just knowing how you learn can make a major difference when you’re trying to improve your grades.
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