The Leaving Cert -

We’re always trying to improve the site and thought we’d put together a little poll to get YOUR views on some potential new features…

We recently published a post on the leaving cert timetable and it all kicks off on the 9th of June 2010, yeah that’ right chalk it down… the leaving cert start date is the 9th of June.

We’ve been working hard on theleavingcert.com over the past couple of months and although the results are visible on the site itself, they’re also evident from our traffic stats.

It’s a well known fact that music plays some sort of positive  role in developing our brains. How it effects us or why it effects us, we’ll probably never full understand but the simple fact we know that music can influence our brains makes music very important in our lives.

Half way through January 2010 we rolled out a whole load of changes on this site.

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.