Guide to English
We’re all good at english - i mean for god’s sake, we’re fluent in the language. It bewilders me as to how people can fail english.
What you have to learn…..(41%)
fair enough; Shakespeare and W B Yeats aren’t exactly teenage icons. We’re FORCED to study them in order to get points so as a result, most [...]
Macro Economic Definitons
ü Money is anything, which is generally accepted as a means of settling debt
ü Fiduciary issue (flat money) is paper money not backed by gold or silver
ü Legal tender is that which must be accepted as means of settling debt
ü [...]
Costs, Revenue & Profit
The short run and long run economic concepts regarding a firm, its profits and costs.
These are incomplete, Ill publish them now but I plan to work on them over time. Fixed costs are those that do not change as output changes. Variable costs are those that do.
The short run is a period of time [...]
The Consumer Notes
Theory and Definitions:
The Consumer: the decision making unit that buys good and services.
Consumers supply land, labour,capital and enterprise for which they get rent, wages, interest(because of the money they provide for investment needed to buy capital) and profit.
Transfer payments are payments to those individuals that do not provide any factors of production in return.
Utility is [...]
The Mole Concept
Here is what you have to know from the Chapter 9 in Chemistry Live entitled ” The Mole Concept”. You dont need to know the reasons for them. These notes will include the keys or the tools you need to solve the problems, the problems themselves are simple maths and we might deal with [...]
Glossary Of Chemistry Terms
Glossary Of Chemistry from skool.ie.
Activation energy
The minimum amount of energy which colliding molecules must have before they can react together.
Addition polymer
A polymer made by the combining together of small unsaturated molecules of the same compound.
Addition reaction
A reaction in which the double or triple bond of an unsaturated compound opens up and other atoms add on [...]
The Properties of Gases Notes
These notes deal with Gas Laws in chemistry. I state what you have to know and dont do any mathematical problems since they are all excellently covered in the text book. These notes are a help for those that already understand the topic. Im not going to go into depth explaining the concepts in these, [...]
Radioactivity Notes
Heres what you need to know about from the chapter entitled ” Radioactivity”
History: Henri Bequerel discovered radiation accidentally when he left some photographic plates in his drawer with some uranium salt. The plate changed-something was invisibly coming from the uranium. His pals Pierre and Marie Curie isolated polonium and radium. Radiation is actually all [...]
Acids and Bases C12
Acids and Bases: By Axle(Ahmad Asad)
Here is notes on the theory, neutralisation, and conjugate pairing of acids.
Arrehenius Theory requires the presence of water:
Arrehenius definition of an acid : An acid is a substance that dissociates in water to produce H+ ions.
Strong acids are those that fully dissociate in water i.e almost every molecule breaks up [...]
My Tips
Here are a few tips which I found helped me out a lot during the Leaving Cert…
Highlight - you know all of them books in your locker, bag and floating about your room? Probably about 20 including exam papers and all of that craic. Say every book averages 150 pages, that’s 3000 pages of info… [...]

