In our recent post Leaving Cert Predictions 2010 we received the following comment from Alice (thanks Alice ):

Every day i go blank. These blog posts don’t write themselves. Behind each one is an idea. Something creative.

It’s amazing the amount of people who turn up to  maths exam without a calculator, or any exam without a pen. Or maybe one pen, one colour that they’ve been using all year long or just found in the hall outside. Don’t be one of those people – have everything prepared and have backups of everything.

We recently posted about the leaving cert timetable for 2010. It would be a good idea to have a read of that post and download the full timetable for the 2010 leaving certificate, but more importantly you should create your own mini timetable.

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.

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.

How much bullying goes on at your school? Do you stand there and let other students be the victim off bullying? Are you a victim yourself?

There are plenty of successful people who have failed their leaving cert / dropped out of school at an early age. You could be another, but the odds are stacked against you