The Leaving Cert

You are browsing the archives of Leaving Cert.

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: 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 [...]

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… [...]

You don’t manage your time properly - you can wave goodbye to maximising your points. You MUST look at the length of exams, the number of marks per question, the number of questions required…
take art history for example:

150 marks for the paper:
50 marks question 1 (so we spend 1/3 of the time on q1)
50 marks [...]

All the great ideas, inventions, stories, buildings etc.. were designed and created using plans.
sure, things can fall into place with a bit of luck but 99 times out of 100, planning something is what makes it a success. Take this website: i didnt just happen to buy a domain and throw up a few notes, [...]

On our maths course there are two broad types of proofs that we have to be able to do in trigenometry( there are some other more niggly bits but we can cover them later). The following two example typify them. Students have trouble with these because they simply dont have a logic or method by [...]

The Oral
First of all the German Oral is no big deal. Actually it’s piss compared to Irish and French. You can learn off about 85% of it.
You get five picture stories and five role plays to learn. You do one of each on the day each worth 30 marks out of 100. That’s 60% of [...]