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Junior Cert 2010
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27-07-2009 01:10AM#1
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Business
I found the bookeeping side of business very annoying and I was terrible at it. Luckily, in most of the exam bar some of the short questions, you can avoid them and go for theory questions. But if you do that you really need to know your stuff because if you run into a question you don't know in paper 2 you've no choice but to do an accounting one.
If you're good at that though, business will be grand. Put some effort into it, it's an easy B and if you're particularly good a handy A.
Didn't do home ec.
Science
Alot of just learning stuff off. It's a very long course. Biology is pretty much rote learning. Do your study and you'll be grand for it.
Chemistry was the hardest I thought. But by that I just mean it was the most difficult out of the 3 and it wasn't impossible. Chemicals, atoms and bonding. Pay attention in class as alot of things need to be explained in this by a teacher and make notes.
Physics was grand, abit boring though. Maths was required but nothing an Pass maths student couldn't handle I'd imagine, especially with a calculator. Learn your stuff and formulae and you'll be grand.
You also must do a project, and I'd advise you make sure to give this your 100% effort. Firstly, if you make **** of it your chance of getting an A is gone, secondly, if you do very well it'll reduce your pressure to the exam. Project assignments are picked randomly every year and there is one from biology, physics or chemistry. You must do two. Do not fear to keep asking your teacher if you're unsure about anything. Tip: Usually, at least one of the projects are from a leaving cert course. Looking in a leaving cert book will pretty much tell you exactly what to do. Like the 2009 physics project. Also, don't copy.
Finally, you must make sure you have all the mandatory experiments done and written up. This is the easiest 60 marks you can get before doing the exam and not bothering would be fairly lazy imo. Don't worry, you might not have them all done yet, you still have to finish the course in 3rd year.
Only did tech graphics in 1st year, hated it! No advice for it, sorry.
Hope I helped.
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soccymonster wrote: »Home ec is a very easy written exam as theres no pressure on you since you kind of secured a C already since you have 50% of the exam done. What are you doing as your textile project, may i ask? I made an embroidered cushion..:)
I have my textile done already. I did a cross stitch wall hanging. There was a bit of pressure to do it but did it grad.Business
I found the bookeeping side of business very annoying and I was terrible at it. Luckily, in most of the exam bar some of the short questions, you can avoid them and go for theory questions. But if you do that you really need to know your stuff because if you run into a question you don't know in paper 2 you've no choice but to do an accounting one.
If you're good at that though, business will be grand. Put some effort into it, it's an easy B and if you're particularly good a handy A.
Didn't do home ec.
Science
Alot of just learning stuff off. It's a very long course. Biology is pretty much rote learning. Do your study and you'll be grand for it.
Chemistry was the hardest I thought. But by that I just mean it was the most difficult out of the 3 and it wasn't impossible. Chemicals, atoms and bonding. Pay attention in class as alot of things need to be explained in this by a teacher and make notes.
Physics was grand, abit boring though. Maths was required but nothing an Pass maths student couldn't handle I'd imagine, especially with a calculator. Learn your stuff and formulae and you'll be grand.
You also must do a project, and I'd advise you make sure to give this your 100% effort. Firstly, if you make **** of it your chance of getting an A is gone, secondly, if you do very well it'll reduce your pressure to the exam. Project assignments are picked randomly every year and there is one from biology, physics or chemistry. You must do two. Do not fear to keep asking your teacher if you're unsure about anything. Tip: Usually, at least one of the projects are from a leaving cert course. Looking in a leaving cert book will pretty much tell you exactly what to do. Like the 2009 physics project. Also, don't copy.
Finally, you must make sure you have all the mandatory experiments done and written up. This is the easiest 60 marks you can get before doing the exam and not bothering would be fairly lazy imo. Don't worry, you might not have them all done yet, you still have to finish the course in 3rd year.
Only did tech graphics in 1st year, hated it! No advice for it, sorry.
Hope I helped.
I'm the same with the business love theory to bits! Comes natural, commen sense but that bloody book keeping bring me to a B
Trading Profit + Loss is fine but takes me 45mins, I'm slow at it! All the rest is just annoying! Sales Book, Purchases book there all the same but have annoying little bits!
Thanks for the Science tips! When do we get that project? I have the Exp book nice & neat, locked safely in my class rooms press!
Any history tips?:)
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We started our project in early February if I recall correctly. The closing date this year was 24th of April, will probably be similiar in 2010.
That's another reason I didn't bother with bookeeping in business, alot of time wasted (unless you get it perfectly right and have time to do the rest of the exam). Keep working at them because they come up alot in the short questions, and considering 2008 and 2009 got easy enough short questions, ye could get tougher ones.
History...I think it's one of those subjects that depends a LOT on how good your teacher is. Know lots who had a useless teacher. Our teacher was excellent. We didn't bother with the books and instead we got hand-out notes. He did all the hard work, all we had to do was learn.
There's no denying it, HL history is long and tough. I can't imagine how bad it'd be with a bad teacher. You need to put your head down. Have you seen exam papers in any subjects yet? Anyway, my advice for history HL is to learn your textbook pretty much off by heart. Make out essays. In the exam papers, bear in mind every point you make is work 2 marks. So a 20 mark essay requires 10 points. Not sure how much experience you have with exam papers though.
Modern history such as WW2 and early 21st century world affairs are probably the easiest. They're easy to learn, quite interesting and worth alot of marks, and is a guaranteed question. Irish political history is guaranteed but I hated it. It wasn't as interesting, and was very complicated and hard to learn. What I did (and I wouldn't advise it) is predict what'll come up in 2009 by looking at older exam papers. Wouldn't you know it, everything I predicted came up!
Not much to give with history, it's a hard one, don't be lazy, it's one of those ones you just need to learn, learn, learn, learn abit more, and learn.0 -
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