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.

We’re 99% sure there’ll be very few of you leaving cert students on here who haven’t got at least one teacher who you think is absolutely [insert expletive word here]. There’s a few different types:

Left things to the last minute? Still think you’ve loads of time left? Don’t worry, you’re not alone…

Not long to go now. This is the time of year when pressure is applied from all angles. Media start hyping it up, exam guides start coming up in numbers, teachers start last minute cramming classes, old students like me will tell you that the only way to success is working 24/7 and revising your own personal collection of carefully constructed notes put together since 3rd year

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 other subjects. If I didn’t understand a question – I was banjaxed. The listening and oral are usually easy, solid marks. They are the things you bank on.