Are the institute notes worth getting?

Chuchoter

For those who have them through the courses that run at Halloween, Easter and Christmas. Are they particularly amazing or just notes? Same thing for the courses.

leesmom

they're only amazing if u learn them;)
a lot of people on here have a big thing against the institute so expect some negative responses:rolleyes:
unless you're really struggleing i wouldn't bother with their courses. id just get myself some good revision books and learn from there

unknown13

The problem with those notes is they give you are large amount of them. Personally I find the teaching is better than the notes.

I got a stack of Biology notes from them and they were pretty much stacked with useless facts that weren't on the course.

ironclaw

Its a tough question. Personally I have heard they are text books with some irrelevant material. They are also expensive.

My advice is Less Stress (Or a similar line of books) and the smaller, day long courses. Same notes for about a fourth of the price.

Pineapple123

I went to the Institute last year....to be honest, some notes are brilliant - Corinne Gavenda's French and Tara Lyons' Chemistry are excellent - but others aren't. I did pass maths and pass Irish, and I wouldn't advise getting them, although Higher Irish are seemingly great...anywho, it all boils down to which teachers notes you get (there's a few teachers per subject) and personally the notes are useless without the teachers themselves as they'd often give extra info to write onto the notes themselves...

So if you've been given the notes by a friend, by all means take them, you could get something really useful out of them, but if you're planning on spending alot of money on them, get yourself a ReviseWise book!:D

YouthNovel

I went to the easter institute courses. I thought the notes were actually brilliant. I feel I wouldn't have done as well as I could without them. They gave me a real leg up because I had very little time to study throughout the year for personal reasons.

The best notes I got were from
Geography-Regional(H) with Michael Doran
Business-Option 2(H) with William Murphy
Maths-Option 1(O) with Jean Kelly

The Ordinary Level Irish weren't great but they gave great predictions and amazing help with the oral.

irish_man

I'd advise going if you have a bad teacher in a certain subject or are slightly weak and don't think you really need grinds in that subject.

I went for physics(A+B), Irish and business(B)
all higher. the business teacher (Wille Murphy) gave me the A notes also.
I would highly recommend going. each of the ones I went to were excellent.

leesmom

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I got a stack of Biology notes from them and they were pretty much stacked with useless facts that weren't on the course.

what biology teacher was it? couldnt have been mona, her notes are the best

ihavequestions

English ones are amazing....though they are my bros from 2001....so could have changed ha!

leesmom

leesmom wrote: »

what biology teacher was it? couldnt have been mona, her notes are the best

Wasn't a woman's name anyway.

Dante

Delap's notes for history were quality.

Rossie17

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Wasn't a woman's name anyway.

I think you mean the guy who keeps pushing his gay biology dictionary? I had him too, so useless.

Victoria.

Michael Doran's geography is excellent.
I would definitely recommend it! I just went for it as a subject on its own.

wayhey

Victoria. wrote: »

Michael Doran's geography is excellent.
I would definitely recommend it! I just went for it as a subject on its own.

Same, Doran's notes are great.

theowen

DaaaaaaaaaaN wrote: »

Sweeney's notes for history were quality.

She teaches english. You may mean cashell?

Dante

theowen wrote: »

She teaches english. You may mean cashell?

Fúck, didn't realise I said Sweeney, make that Delap***