CAO – Your Top 10 Advice
Filling out CAO Tips It’s November, CAO has just opened and launched a floodgate for students in terms of college choice. Students are swamped with options and many are having a challenging time choosing because they are not set on a career yet. Others are luckier, as they had their heart set on a career […]
Comprehensive Guide To Approaching Gcse Poetry
GCSE English Literature: Tackling Poetry Every word matters When completing the GCSE English Literature exam, you need to pay particular attention to the words and phrases used in each question.For example, are you being asked about specific themes and does the examiner want your personal response? Are you being asked to comment on, analyse, or describe the poem? Underline each […]
Tips for Dealing with Exam Stress
How to manage exam stress Many students find exams stressful, which is understandable, as your performance in exams can determine important things including what pathways or courses are open to you next year or whether you will have to repeat the year. Your exam results can also affect how you feel about yourself and your […]
Child of Our Time Poem Summary
Child Of Our Time, Poem by Eavan Boland We who should have known how to instructWith rhymes for your waking, rhythms for your sleepNames for the animals you took to bed,Tales to distract, legends to protect,Later an idiom for you to keepAnd living, learn, must learn from you, dead. To make our broken images rebuildThemselves […]
English Literature Gcse & A Level When To Quote
GCSE and A-Level English Literature: When to quote Quotations are useful and can bring strength and support to develop a good point. But there are two dangers when it comes to using quotations: 1. Forgetting their wording and 2. Over-quoting. Forgetting quotations Forgetting the quotations you knew before the exam began is a frightening experience […]
Gafa About The Author
O’ Laighleis’ novel is graphic and hard hitting. No doubt some will object to its explicitness. However, its introduction into the secondary school curriculum was roundly welcomed on the grounds that Irish as a school subject had finally got a dose of reality and become in step with a contemporary beat.Centred on 17-year-old Alan who […]
GCSE Results Day: What’s Next
It’s GCSE Results Day: What’s next? Collecting your GCSE results will likely be your first time receiving official academic results in person. So, what can you expect (and what if things don’t go as you expect)? Beforehand Try your best to not worry too much about results day as it approaches. Eat normally and get […]
Geibheann Poem Translation and Analysis
You can find the English translation of Géibheann, plus our analysis of it, below. Prisoner I’m an animal wild animal from the tropics my beauty is renowned I tame trees of the forest time with my roar but now I am fallen considering the three eyes of that lone tree over there hundreds of people come […]
Getting Back Into A School Routine
It’s that time of the year again. The evenings are getting shorter, which only means one thing, the new school year is almost upon us. Now is the time to hit the ground running and build new routines to help you succeed throughout the year. It is important to have structures in place to help […]
How Many Hours Of Study Is Enough For Junior Cycle?
Each study slot should have pre-assigned motives and goals e.g. complete a short answer exam section or complete three diagrams of river erosion. Goals must be assessable to ensure work is being done.The Junior Certificate is a three year syllabus. The introductory two years should focus on the development of healthy habits and routines and not hours […]