My Leaving Cert Study Log

krisfoster8

Okay so I'm sitting the leaving cert this year and I'm just setting this up to keep track of where I am. Feel free to comment your opinions!

I plan to do computer science next year in either UCD or Trinity so my goal is around 510 just to be safe

My subjects and realistic goals are currently:

English (H) B3
Maths (H) B3
Engineering (H) A2
Biology (H) B1
Geography (H) B2
German (H) B3
Agricultural Science (H) B2
Irish (O) B3

That adds up to 510 so if I get these results ill be delighted!

MRledzepo

Good luck

krisfoster8

Okay so I only took up Agricultural Science this year so I am sort of cramming everything into a year but I have most of my project finished already. Today I did my homework and then did some extra:

Ag Science: Started soil science notes (Hope to finish writing these out by the end of the week).
English: Did a General Vision and Viewpoint question.

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Okay I got a bit more done today. I will only be posting whenever I have time after homework to do some extra study!

Geography: Answered characteristics of a biome question.
Study notes on Limestone Pavement.

Biology: Revised structure of flowering plants.
Revised transport in flowering plants.

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Right I had a bit of time this evening

Ag Science: Finally finished my notes on soil! (Plan on doing notes on sheep next maybe).
German: Learned a list of idioms..

I'm going to relax for the evening because I think my head might explode if I do anything more today..

krisfoster8

I plan on not having a life this weekend and being extremely productive so lets see how that goes :P !
Today after school I got a bit done..

Biology: Revised blood and the human transport system (Blood system and Lymphatic system).

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Got quite a lot done this weekend considering what was going on here at home :P

Geography: Revised Physical, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary in the Mezzogiorno!
Ag Science: Learned Ch39 Animal Nutrition, Feeds and Body Condition and Ch43 Sheep breeds and production..

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One week closer to the end of this :P

Geography: Revised Population and Urban in Mezzogiorno (Now have flash cards on all of Mezzogiorno).
Ag Science: Learned Ch44 Lamb production, diseases and husbandry.

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Didn't think I would get anything extra done today because I had a maths class after school but...

Biology: Revised homeostasis.
Ag Science: Ch27 Introduction to Grassland

Have a geography test on the Mezzogiorno tomorrow so going to look at the flashcards in the morning!

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Biology: Revised the endocrine system
Geography: Made notes on physical and primary in the BMW region

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Biology: Revised Excretory System (The Kidneys)
Ag Science: Learned Ch45 Dairy Breeds, Milk Composition and Production, Ch46 Husbandry and Management Principles od a Dairy Herd, Ch47 Beef Production in Ireland and Ch48 Suckler Herd and Diseases in Cattle..

Did a lot of Ag Science today I know :P :L

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Biology: Did 3 leaving cert long questions (2 about the kidneys and 1 about the endocrine system)
Geography: Revised secondary and tertiary in the GDA

plmko

Hey don't wanna be rude or anything but you don't seem to be studying English or maths if I'm correct? These are your core subjects!

krisfoster8

plmko wrote: »

Hey don't wanna be rude or anything but you don't seem to be studying English or maths if I'm correct? These are your core subjects!

Hello, yeah going by this I actually am not doing much in these subjects but this log is just for topics that I study outside of my homework. In maths we get homework every night and I always do it and the whole class also stays back after school every Tuesday for an hour of extra maths. I think that this is sufficient at the minute because I'm not struggling with anything. But you are right about the English, I really should be doing extra but we get good homework like for example I just finished an essay about Seamus Heaney's poetry this evening..

krisfoster8

Biology: Human Reproduction 1
Geography: The CAP and The CFP

Heres a few predictions for Christmas tests.. I'm being conservative enough here :P

English B3
Maths B3
Engineering A2/B1
Ag Science B2
Biology B2
German B3
Geography B1/B2

Didn't put down any A's because I dont want to be disappointed :L

MRledzepo

good luck in the christmas tests ! I have my last november exam tomorrow (history) , we have novembers instead of christmas tests

krisfoster8

Oh that is actually a good idea.. Gives you a bit more time before the mocks.. Thanks and goodluck to you too!

krisfoster8

God buckets done this weekend


Biology: Finished human reproduction study and did a question on plant structure and another on plant transport..
Ag Science: Studied pigs and did a question on sheep.
Engineering: Learned welding question.. (Might look at it again soon)
Geography: Learned EU policy's question, colonialism question and conflict between economic and environmental interests question..

krisfoster8

I had my aurel today for my German christmas test.. Went okayissh :P

Biology: 2012 and 2011 exam questions from topics that will be on my christmas test..
Engineering: 2013 q5

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Christmas tests just a week away and I feel as if I have so much to do Just got a bit done over the weekend..

German: Revised conditional tense
Biology: Revised all of genetics and evolution and did some exam questions on it..
Ag science: Revised sheep.. (Just have grass left to revise for my Christmas test..
Geography: Revised characteristics of a biome and all of the environment based essays in economic geography
Engineering: Did question 1 from 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008..

I plan on revising maths for half an hour every morning before I go to school this week..

krisfoster8

Okay got a bit done this evening..

Biology: I have finished revising all of my topics for the Christmas test so now I am just doing exam paper questions.. Did a lot of questions on Genetics and Evolution today and 2 Human Reproduction Questions..

German: Revised opinion on Issue topics on 3 of the picture stories and revised the conditional tense..

Maths: My half hour of maths revision flew this morning.. Did a few questions on Differentiation.. Going to continue this in the morning..

That's me done for the night I think :P

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Maths: Half an hour this morning, did differentiation questions..
Geography: Wrote out human interference with biome essay..
English: Made notes on general vision and viewpoint in Translations, How Many Miles to Babylon and I'm Not Scared..
Biology: Finished doing exam questions on Human Reproduction.. (Did about 6 :P)

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Geography: Learned Colonialism in Brazil, Globalization in Brazil
Ag Science: Did 15 questions that are possibilities for my Christmas test!
Engineering: Did 3 Polymers Questions (Q6)

If tomorrow goes to plan then I am really happy with how I am prepared for my Christmas tests :P

krisfoster8

Okay so I made a list of things at 7 Oclock this morning of things that I wanted to get done today and I actually got them all finished Might do this again tomorrow because I think it worked well.. :P

Geography: Learned Conflict essay, The CAP essay, The CFP essay, the Dell essay, and the environmental and economic advantages of renewable energy essay.. That is nearly half of the essays for my Christmas test for Geography

English: Revised the General Vision and Viewpoint in my 3 texts.. Might do a bit of Googling tonight though just to make sure I have enough detail..

Biology: Did all of the exam questions on Blood and the human transport system..

Engineering: Revised Q3 and did Q3 on 2013 and 2012..

Im going to relax for the evening now and Snapchat is going to be hit hard :P Night!

krisfoster8

Didn't go as hard at it today but still got a bit done

Maths: Did some differentiation questions..

Geography: Learned characteristics of brown earth soils essay and human interferance essay..

Biology: Did structure of flowering plants and transport in flowering plants exam questions.. I have now finished all of the exam questions on the topics that are going to be on my christmas test.. I feel as if I am quite well prepared for this but its hard to know with Biology..

Engineering: Revised Q5

Okay so English and Engineering exam tomorrow.. Finished at 1.30 and will probably spend a while learning more geography then

krisfoster8

Okay so I had my english and my engineering exam today.. English went surprisingly well.. Still hoping for that B3 Engineering went really smoothly and answered all 5 questions even though we only needed 4.. Hopefully an A I have Geography and German tomorrow so tonight I did..

Geography: learned ERDF essay, Pollution does not recognize boundaries essay, impact of burning fossil fuels essay, characteristics of biome essay and the human interference with the biome essay! :P

German: looked over some tenses..

I am wrecked

krisfoster8

Okay so I had geography and german today.. I was blessed in geography with the questions and it was the one exam that I was absolutely dreading.. German went the other way still dont know what the reading comprehension was about.. Something about a granny and a wooden shoe Anyway I have biology and Maths tonight so I have a long night ahead

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Had Biology and Maths today.. Glad I worked as hard at biology as I did because the paper was really difficult.. I thought I did quite well though.. and maths went so much better than I thought it would.. Thats all of my exams finished until ag science on friday so I took this evening off study.. Getting back to it next week though!

MRledzepo

so how did all the exams go ?you didn't post yesterday ? did you collapse in the exam ? suicide ? mental breakdown?

krisfoster8

Hey, haha no not quite. Ill leave the mental breakdown until June I think.. :P Just had an ag science test today.. Went quite well. Just after finding out that I got an A2 in maths so I'm delighted. I'm only going to spend this weekend and up until Christmas doing ag science and engineering project stuff but after Christmas day it's back into some hardcore studying .. Ill keep yous posted on results and stuff too.. If yous have any questions don't be shy :L .. andddd Happy Christmas everyone!

MRledzepo

congrats on the maths:)

krisfoster8

Thanks, still waiting on my other results .. Got a lot done yesterday..

Ag science: Finished the sheep section in my project..
Engineering: Did my whole Engineering project portfolio..

So basically I just spent the whole day on the computer :P As I said I'm getting back to studying the day after Christmas so I'm enjoying a few days break!

krisfoster8

Okay so I decided to start to get back into things today but I didn't want to spend all day studying so just did a bit.. Thought it would be better than nothing

Biology: Learned the Scientific method chapter and the characteristics of life chapter..
Ag Science: Started to learn the animal classification section but finding it quite difficult
Engineering: Completely finished my portfolio except for a few pictures and things

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Feeling a lot more optimistic about getting back to study today after all the hype of Christmas..

Ag Science: I wrote out the last of the experiments that the class did last year.. and I learned the plant identification chapter..
Biology: Learned the chemicals of life chapter
Geography: Learned the sketch map of Ireland and the Mezzogiorno (Just drew them about 100 times each)...
English: I only now actually know how the LC English paper is laid out.. Today I made myself familiar with it

How is everyone else coping at getting back into study?

krisfoster8

Last few days have been quite busy but got a few bits done

Ag Science: Learned animal classification (Kingdoms)
Biology: Learned Principles of Ecology, Human impact, Populations and I did exam questions on these topics as well as questions on the Scientific method and food

Happy New Year everyone :P !!

krisfoster8

Okay another result from christmas tests 93% in ag science I have sort of took a break from studying over the last week but going to get back into things tomorrow hopefully

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Today I spent a lot of time at ag science.. Drew out all of my farm maps and the keys and everything so im nearly finished my project except from barley which I hope to do soon!

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Okay so I'm back to school tomorrow but today I realized the amount of work I'm going to have to put into some subjects to do well in the mocks which are less than a month away now :O ... So I did a decent amount of work today!

Ag Science: Finished barley section for project, revised plant family and animal classification chapters..
Biology: Learned cell structure chpter and did exam questions on it, I also revised all of the ecology exam questions I did last week
English: Started to revise Emily Dickinson (Revised her background and the poem "Hope is the thing with feathers".
Geography: Learned plate tectonics essay, how plate tectonics affect volcanos essay, how plate tectonics affect earthquakes essay, positive impacts of volcanos essay, measurement, prediction, effects and measurement of earthquakes essay and the formation of two volcanic landforms essay..

I also got a few more results from my christmas tests today I got 80% in English (b1) 68% in German (C1) and 90% in Engineering (A1).. Only a month left until mocks so time to knuckle down again

krisfoster8

Okay so back to school today Feels okay to be back and just want to get the next few months over with.. I had quite a lot of study planned for this evening but I ended up wasting my whole evening on my engineering project.. I have promised myself now that I am only going to tinker with it at the weekend from now on.. Going to relax for a while now and then try to get a bit of study done tonight

I have now got all of my Christmas test results and here they are compared with my predictions

Subject Predicted Result

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Actual Result

English B3

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B1
Maths B3

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A2
Engineering A2/B1

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A1
Ag Science B2

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A1
Biology B2

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A2
German B3

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C1
Geography B1/B2

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B2

I was so surprised with how well I did :O My results add up to 580 and if I get anything near that in the leaving I will be absolutely shocked :L Anyway time to watch tele for half an hour

krisfoster8

Okay so I tried to do a bit of study last night after all of my time wasting :L .. Luckily, I got a bit done

Biology: Learned movement through cell membranes chapter and did exam questions on it..
Geography: Learned the formation of igneous rocks
German: Learned relative pronouns..
English: I revised another Emily Dickinson poem (I felt a funeral in my brain)

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Another day closer to the mocks

Biology: Learned cell continuity and did exam paper questions on it!
Geography: Learned the formation of 2 sedimentary rocks
English: Revised my 3rd Emily Dickinson poem (A Narrow Fellow in the Grass).
Ag Science: Learned animal respiration and urinary system..

Might get up early tomorrow and try to do some study because that worked well this morning

krisfoster8

Okay so I'm at last nearly finished my engineering project and it's coming together really well

Geography: Learned the formation of 2 metamorphic rocks and revised sketch maps..
Biology: Learned cell diversity and did exam questions on it..
English: Revised the 3 Emily Dickinson Poems I learned this week!

Okay so I'm seriously considering getting up earlier every morning and studying before school because it is becoming more difficult to find time in the evenings to do any extra study.. Might start it tomorrow depending on how I'm feeling

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As I said earlier in the week I spent most of today woring on my Batman Tumbler Model and it couldn't be going better to be honest :O Hoping to be finished in the next week or two and have the whole portfolio finished except for the testing section.. I also did a bit extra today

Geography: Learned limestone pavement essay
English: I'm now finished revising and making notes on Emily Dickinson so might just look over it all tomorrow and then start Heaney on Monday

krisfoster8

Okay today went okay.. I spent a while just seeing where I am in relation to studying and made a few plans for some subjects.. I think that I'm going to start from tomorrow looking over 2 geography essays that I have revised in the last few weeks.. I hope this will help me to keep them in my head because I'm forgetting them very quickly ..

English: Revised all of Emily Dickinson.. Going to revise and make notes on my 1st Heaney poem tomorrow..

Biology: Finished all exam questions on cell continuity and cell diversity, learned cell metabolism and enzymes chapter and did exam questions on it.. I'm going to correct all of the exam questions tomorrow morning..

Geography: I learned the karst dripstone features essay..

Okay, so the alarm is going to be set for 6.30 tomorrow morning so I can look over 2 geography essays that I learned last week and hopefully I can get my Biology questions corrected too.. Whether Ill get up or not is another thing :P New week ahead, hoping to make it count!

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Ag Science: Digestive system, Kidneys and Urinary system, circulatory system and respiratory system
English: Started learning Seamus Heaney.. Wrote notes on the first poem (bogland)
Geography: Revised the global distribution of volcanoes..
Biology: Corrected the exam questions that I said I would..

I might get up early again tomorrow because it seems to work well but I have nothing specific planned to do yet

krisfoster8

Okay yesterday I got a few things done..

Geography: Learned human interference with the rock cycle essay and erosional landform essay and I revised the global distribution of earthquakes essay..

English: I revised the next Heaney poem (the harvest bow).

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Geography: Learned feature of deposition.. Going to learn my last physical essay tomorrow for my mocks and then moving on to regional geography but I hope to revise the physical essays again in the mornings before school if I can..

English: Learned and made notes on my 3rd Hearney poem (The Forge)..

About 3 weeks left until the mocks but have a lot of work to do before then

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Had a few busy days there so I didn't get a lot done..

Geography: learned human interaction with mass movement and read all of the other physical essays I revised..
English: Finished learning and making notes on the 6 Heaney poems and did a Dickinson exam question..
Biology: Learned the biochemical reactions chapter and did exam questions on it.. Hope to correct them in the morning..

It's getting harder and harder to keep the study up every day but trying my best

krisfoster8

Goals for the mocks now

English (H)

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C1
Irish (O)

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C3
Maths (H)

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B3
Engineering (H)--B2
Ag Science (H)--B3
Biology (H)

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B1
Geography (H)--C1
German (H)

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C1

That adds up to 470 and to be honest I would be delighted if I get anywhere near that in the mocks because that's what Computer Science in UCD is at the minute.. It would be a good base to work from!

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Worried that my mock expectations might be a bit high but we will see what happens anyway

Biology: Finished exam questions on biochemical reactions and corrected them..

Geography: Learned physical processes in India essay and Primary activities in India essays..

English: Revised Dickinson and Heaney.. Moving on to start learning some Macbeth tomorrow hopefully..

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Got quite a bit done today and feeling motivated

Geography: learned essay on secondary in India and Tertiary in India (Test on India tomorrow)..

Biology: Learned the skeleton and muscle chapter and did exam questions on it and corrected them

English: Revised Dickinson and Heaney