The Leaving Cert

I get a good kick out of people who take all of my articles to heart. In case anyone hasn’t noticed, this site is in no way connected to any school / board of education / official leaving cert resource etc..
It’s opinion based. Think of it as a tabloid version of skool.ie
The fact you guys [...]

SkoolCraic.com is a brand spanking new site set up to record all of those moments of madness we had in school.
Apparently, if they get enough stories, they’re gonna publish a book full of them and i have to admit, it would make for some excellent reading
The site itself is nice and glossy [...]

Welcome to the new theleavingcert.com
I’ve ditched the old style and everything associated with it. I now have a wordpress driven site which allows me to manage things better and give you guys a better user experience

This is the time of year when things really started to heat up..
You’re finished the pre’s, easter is coming up, it’s the last hurdle.
I never bothered with those easter revision courses myself. Why pay for something that i don’t need?
That was my attitude. I needed like 285 points to do the course i wanted, ended [...]

Gealt
* Léim gealt ar bhus a sé a déag. Bhí éadaí codlata air agus shuigh sé in aice le fear a raibh mála aige.
* Choinnigh an fear greim daingean ar a mhála agus rug an mháthair greim daingean ar a páiste.
* D’fhéach an páiste ar an ngealt agus thosaigh an ghealt ag gáire.
* Ghlaoigh an [...]

Irish for me was hit and miss. I had the vocabulary, the general tenses and I could listen…. But I just couldn’t think in Irish. I would always translate from English to Irish… always think in English first. That shows I wasn’t a fluent speaker, I couldn’t therefore ‘bluff’ Irish like I could perhaps most [...]

Geography is a fairly easy subject to do well in. You can’t really fail it, but at the same time, an A is hard work. Common sense will be enough to pass and if you’ve done geography for the JC, it’s pretty similar at LC level, just a bit more detail and more focus on [...]