Advice on study i'm gonna fail

irishpisces123

I don't know how to study, especially not for like 11 subjects. The junior cert is apparently in 8 weeks and im lost. On the mocks I got 3 d's, 4 c's, 3 b's, and one a(cspe lol). I left the study for basically the night before, and I resorted to using the studyclix threads to help. I probably wouldn't have even passed irish, maths or french without it. They tell us to make a study time table but I can't understand how you can make a time table with 10 subjects( minus cspe) and fit it into a time table within 8 weeks. Can someone explain this to me, or has someone got one they made for themselves that I can see.

sryanbruen

irishpisces123 wrote: »

I don't know how to study, especially not for like 11 subjects. The junior cert is apparently in 8 weeks and im lost. On the mocks I got 3 d's, 4 c's, 3 b's, and one a(cspe lol). I left the study for basically the night before, and I resorted to using the studyclix threads to help. I probably wouldn't have even passed irish, maths or french without it. They tell us to make a study time table but I can't understand how you can make a time table with 10 subjects( minus cspe) and fit it into a time table within 8 weeks. Can someone explain this to me, or has someone got one they made for themselves that I can see.

Did you see my threads on studyclix for Irish? Just curious there since you said "passed Irish" and "studyclix". Cause you can make a time table within 8 weeks! I have manually made timetables for people on studyclix previously and they said that they have worked for them and they feel very grateful for me doing so. If you want me to do such a task, I need to know all your subjects (with levels also!).

irishpisces123

I am on studyclix but I haven't seen your posts. If you have time could you help me. I do higher level everything. I find french, maths, irish the hardest. homec, english, science are more weak ones. I don't find any subjects easy( well bar religion and cspe which barely count)
Here's a list of my subjects they are all higher level .
English, irish, maths, french, homec, history, geography, science, religion and cspe

sryanbruen

irishpisces123 wrote: »

I am on studyclix but I haven't seen your posts. If you have time could you help me. I do higher level everything. I find french, maths, irish the hardest. homec, english, science are more weak ones. I don't find any subjects easy( well bar religion and cspe which barely count)
Here's a list of my subjects they are all higher level .
English, irish, maths, french, homec, history, geography, science, religion and cspe

I will do you up a timetable tomorrow. For Irish, I have plenty of different threads here on studyclix

https://studyclix.ie/Discuss/Junior-Cert-Irish/random-vocabulary - Random Vocabulary - I post new words daily and then you learn them off by heart and test yourself - building up your vocabulary as you go along!

https://studyclix.ie/Discuss/Junior-Cert-Irish/irish-grammar-lessons - Irish Grammar Lessons - A thread designed to help you get more accurate Irish grammar - I post daily lessons and I hope this makes your Irish more accurate!

https://studyclix.ie/Discuss/Junior-Cert-Irish/irish-phrases - Irish Phrases - A thread full of Irish phrases that you can use in scéalta, aistí, litreacha etc.

https://studyclix.ie/Discuss/Junior-Cert-Irish/hl-tips-from-sryan-bruen - HL Tips - A thread filled with tips on how to get the highest mark possible in HL Irish and make each section easier for you!

https://studyclix.ie/Discuss/Junior-Cert-Irish/aist-agus-litreacha-ar-f-il - Aistí, scéalta agus litreacha ar fáil - Letters, stories and essays that are available I post the titles here and you ask me for them - if they have not been posted!

^ As you can see, I have a lot of threads on Irish!

irishpisces123

Whoa! Thanks, this and the timetable will help me so much. Are you a real teacher? Had to ask you must be

sryanbruen

irishpisces123 wrote: »

Whoa! Thanks, this and the timetable will help me so much. Are you a real teacher? Had to ask you must be

No, I'm a student haha, I just have a huge IQ - I know I would be shocked too. Like because of this huge IQ, some teachers in the past let me have some experience and teach the class - and so I did!

irishpisces123

Wow that's pretty impressive. And I think its really great that you're helping people as well.

sryanbruen

Is Religion an examination subject in your school?

irishpisces123

Yeah it is, only up to junior cert and it's one of the less important ones on the same level as cspe haha

spurious

Everyone thinks CSPE is a joke, but only one in five manage to get an A in it, only 13% manage it in Religion.

sryanbruen

spurious wrote: »

Everyone thinks CSPE is a joke, but only one in five manage to get an A in it, only 13% manage it in Religion.

It is a joke. In my mock I got 89%, imagine Junior Cert haha.

spurious

All I'm saying is there are a lot of people who count chickens before they are hatched, especially CSPE shaped chickens.

Was your project included in your mock?

sryanbruen

spurious wrote: »

All I'm saying is there are a lot of people who count chickens before they are hatched, especially CSPE shaped chickens.

Was your project included in your mock?

Yes.

sryanbruen

Saturday 9 April

English - Learn the layout of an informal letter (practice an exam question by doing so)
Maths - Learn the 4 types of Factorising (remember you have to memorise each type)

Sunday 10 April

French - Learn a vocabulary topic list (so like Numbers, Buildings, Facilities etc) and then test yourself on it!
Science - Learn Genetics (get it done and over with since it's very easy)
Geography - Learn Karst Landscapes

Monday 11 April

English - Learn the layout of a formal letter and the different types (practice an exam question by doing so)

Tuesday 12 April

Irish - Learn your studied poetry (Translate it fully into English and then translate it back into Irish (by testing yourself!!) (Practice an exam question after)

Wednesday 13 April

Geography - Learn an example of Mass Movement (you only have to know ONE for long questions but for short questions, make sure you know all)

Thursday 14 April

French - Learn another vocabulary topic list (then test yourself!)

Friday 15 April

History - Learn Ancient Ireland (by practicing exam questions!!)

Saturday 16 April

Maths - Learn Sets (practice exam questions!!! after studying things such as the types of sets)
Science - Learn Cells and the Microscope (practice exam questions... even OL will help even though you do HL)
Geography - Learn Freeze-Thaw action

Sunday 17 April

Irish - Learn your studied prose (do the exact same as the studied poetry)
Geography - Learn an example of Coastal Erosion

Monday 18 April

French - Learn another vocabulary topic list (then test yourself)

Tuesday 19 April

History - Learn an ancient civilisation you have studied (practice exam questions on it)

Wednesday 20 April

Science - Learn Ecology (practice exam questions)

Thursday 21 April

Maths - Learn Perimeter, Area and Volume (practice exam questions)

Friday 22 April

Irish - Learn phrases for your scéal / aiste by practicing an exam question
Maths - Learn Indices

Saturday 23 April

Geography - Learn an example of River Erosion
History - Learn The Middle Ages

Sunday 24 April

Maths - Learn Transformation Geometry & Constructions
Science - Learn The Circulatory System

Monday 25 April

Home Economics - Learn Consumer Studies (so like what makes a good consumer etc)

Tuesday 26 April

French - Learn another vocabulary topic list (then test yourself)

Wednesday 27 April

Irish - Learn phrases for the litir

Thursday 28 April

English - Learn the layout of a Speech and an Essay

Friday 29 April

Geography - Learn an example of River Deposition

Saturday 30 April

History - Learn The Renaissance

Sunday 1 May

Science - Learn Photosynthesis & Plant Responses

Monday 2 May

Have a break since it's a bank holiday

Tuesday 3 May

French - Learn another vocabulary topic list (then test yourself!!)

Wednesday 4 May

Home Economics - Learn advertising

Thursday 5 May

Geography - Learn an example of Coastal Deposition

Friday 6 May

History - Learn The Reformation
Science - Learn Excretion

Saturday 7 May

French - Learn another vocabulary topic list (then test yourself!!)
Irish - Learn all the tenses (inc. the Conditional Mood!!)
Geography - Learn how a Cold and Warm Front form and the Demographic Transitional Model

Sunday 8 May

English - Learn your studied novel / short story
History - Learn the Age of Exploration & Discovery
Science - Learn The Sensory System

Monday 9 May

Home Economics - Learn Household Technology & Appliances
Geography - Learn how Volcanoes form and their types as well as features of a volcano

Tuesday 10 May

French - Learn another vocabulary topic list (then test yourself!!)
History - Learn Plantations in Ireland

Wednesday 11 May

Science - Learn The Reproductive System
English - Learn your studied poetry

Thursday 12 May

Geography - Learn how Earthquakes take place, features of them and how they're measured
Irish - Learn Prepositions

Friday 13 May

Home Economics - Learn Health & Diet
History - Learn The American Revolution

Saturday 14 May

Science - Learn Plant Reproduction & the Structure of a Plant
English - Learn methods the media use (like colour, slogans etc)
Geography - Learn how Fold Mountains form and examples of some

Sunday 15 May

Geography - Learn two weather instruments in detail (like how they're used, how they record their weather element etc)
History - Learn the French Revolution & a person who took part in a revolution (Wolfe Tone or George Washington)
Science - Learn The Breathing System (Respiration) & The Digestive System (Enzymes etc)

Monday 16 May

Home Economics - Learn Home Hygiene
History - Learn the Irish Rebellion of 1798
French - Learn another vocabulary topic list (then test yourself!!!)

Tuesday 17 May

Irish - Learn The Genitive Case
Science - Learn Food & The Atom
Geography - Learn each type of rainfall (Relief, Convectional and Cyclonic)

Wednesday 18 May

French - Learn another vocabulary topic list (then test yourself!!!)
History - Learn the Industrial Revolution & inventions from the Agricultural Revolution
Home Economics - Learn Human Reproduction

Thursday 19 May

Science - Learn Microbiology & Biotechnology and Acids & Bases
Geography - Learn one of each type of climate (so one cold climate, one warm climate, one temperate climate) in detail
History - Learn The Great Famine & Life in Urban Britain
Maths - Learn Algebra (excluding Factorising)

Friday 20 May

Home Economics - Learn Family Planning
French - Learn another vocabulary topic list (then test yourself!!!)
Irish - Learn the Possessive Adjective
Science - Learn Electronics

Saturday 21 May

Science - Learn The Atmosphere
Geography - Learn Global Warming & Desertification (so like results, solutions, causes etc)
History - Learn the Home Rule Crisis & 1916 Easter Rising
French - Learn another vocabulary topic list (then test yourself!!!)

Sunday 22 May

Home Economics - Learn Textiles, Fabric, Needlework
Irish - Learn Numbers
History - Learn the Irish War of Independence & Civil War
Geography - Learn two types of Irish soils (Podzol, Brown Earth, Peaty or Gley)

Monday 23 May

Geography - Learn the Water Cycle (useful in Science and CSPE also)
History - Learn Cumann na nGaedhael and Fianna Fáil in Power
Science - Learn Chemical Bonding & Metals and Non-Metals
Maths - Learn Geometry (excluding Coordinate Geometry & Transformation Geometry)

Tuesday 24 May

Home Economics - Learn Money & Finances
History - Learn Northern Ireland (1920-2000)
Science - Learn Solutions & Crystallisations
Maths - Learn Trigonometry

Wednesday 25 May

Science - Learn Separating Mixtures
Geography - Learn Isolines on a weather map and weather in general (not including two weather instruments in detail)
French - Learn another vocabulary topic list (then test yourself!!!)
Maths - Learn number systems

Thursday 26 May

History - Learn Fascist Italy
Geography - Learn how Soils form (climate, vegetation, micro-organisms etc)
Irish - Learn scéal / aiste phrases
Maths - Learn the Cylinder, Sphere & Cone

Friday 27 May

History - Learn Social Change in the Twentieth Century
Science - Learn Elements, Compounds and Mixtures
French - Learn another vocabulary topic list (then test yourself!!!)

Saturday 28 May

Geography - Learn Maps & Photographs
Science - Learn Water & Water Hardness

Sunday 29 May

Science - Learn Plastics & Measurement
History - Learn World War 2

Monday 30 May

French - Learn another vocabulary topic list
Geography - Learn factors that influence a population density
History - Learn The Cold War / European Unity / India The Birth of a Nation (whichever one you chose for your JC, it's your choice)
Science - Learn Magnetism

Tuesday 31 May

Geography - Learn two problems Hong Kong & Calcutta / Kolkata suffer because of their high population density
French - Learn your postcard phrases
Irish - Learn your letter phrases

Wednesday 1 June

Science - Learn Density & Flotation
Maths - Learn Applied Arithmetic
Geography - Learn Leaching of soils

Thursday 2 June

French - Learn your note phrases & another vocabulary topic list
Geography - Learn an Irrigation scheme & a new town you have studied
Maths - Learn Functions

Friday 3 June

Science - Learn Motion & Force
French - Learn your letter phrases
Geography - Learn Population Pyramids

Saturday 4 June

Geography - Learn Tourism (Maps & Photographs, Population AND Tertiary Economics)
Maths - Learn Coordinate Geometry
Science - Learn Moments, Levers & Centre of Gravity and Pressure

Sunday 5 June

Maths - Learn Probability
Science - Learn Heat & Energy
Geography - Learn a low population density you have studied

Monday 6 June

Science - Learn Light & Sound
Geography - Learn Settlement (like types, the Polders, the River Rhine and an Irish settlement with three functions)
Maths - Learn Statistics

Tuesday 7 June

Revise for English

I didn't include Religion because you said it's less important. I follow much longer timetables but I tried to keep it as short as possible here as in, keeping it fair! Some things I haven't said here but with all these things anyways, you will be able to do them (the ones I didn't say are choices). If you cannot make your own exams / exam questions using studyclix, then tell me what you want to do and I will create an exam paper for you of that topic.

irishpisces123

Oh my god thank you so much, this will help me so much with studying

Shannon757

spurious wrote: »

Everyone thinks CSPE is a joke, but only one in five manage to get an A in it, only 13% manage it in Religion.

*cough* 100% *cough*

Caoimhgh1n

My school regularly gets in the top 3 C.S.P.E. results in the country.

emersyn

No need to start getting all high and mighty, all that was said was that some people (about 80% of JC candidates) are certainly going to be disappointed with their CSPE results come September if they expect an automatic A just for showing up

spurious

emersyn wrote: »

No need to start getting all high and mighty, all that was said was that some people (about 80% of JC candidates) are certainly going to be disappointed with their CSPE results come September if they expect an automatic A just for showing up

Exactly.
Could be a fair few scarlet faces here in September if people are already crowing about how well they will do. Of course most of the 'Sure CSPE is a guaranteed A' people tend not to post their actual grades when they get them.

spurious

Caoimhgh1n wrote: »

My school regularly gets in the top 3 C.S.P.E. results in the country.

How does your school know this?

I know the top result in the country is publicly available for some subjects, where there is a medal awarded, but was not aware CSPE was one. Is it just your teacher says this?

Caoimhgh1n

spurious wrote: »

How does your school know this?

I know the top result in the country is publicly available for some subjects, where there is a medal awarded, but was not aware CSPE was one. Is it just your teacher says this?

My vice principal has said this.

spurious

I see.

**edit That got away from me - got to love mobiles.
I used to tell my lot all sorts.

Many students get 100% in JC exams, it's strange anyone would talk of a top three. Three of the best ones yes, but top three unlikely.

Caoimhgh1n

spurious wrote: »

I see.

Why, is it possible he is lying? I am just going off what he said.

spurious

Of course it's possible he's lying. Please don't believe everything teachers say.

The SEC does not issue league tables of results to schools. Schools get their own results, nobody else's.

There are certain subjects in which there are sponsored medals (or prizes) and correctors of those subjects will be asked to send on the exam numbers of candidates scoring 'perfect scores', for example 180/180 in History, to their Advising Examiner, but those medals are all done in house in the SEC. Schools get sent the final winners, not those eligible for them.

nermal15

Religion gets just as much time-tabled class time as Geography, History, etc. so it is a different kettle of fish to CSPE (which is a common level subject, RE is not). It is in no way a guaranteed A. It also has a journal component that counts for 20% of the final grade, and can often make a big difference. My mock papers for RE were marked far too generously this year, and there were an awful lot of 90% grades that won't be replicated in June.

I know plenty of people who have received Bs or lower in CSPE and Religion. In fact, I know one person who received 10 As and 1 B in CSPE. Don't take anything for granted, or belittle the work done by teachers of these subjects.

emersyn

I see people belittling CSPE all the time but I think this board is the first time I've seen people belittling the Religion exam - I thought it was difficult enough myself!

sryanbruen

emersyn wrote: »

I see people belittling CSPE all the time but I think this board is the first time I've seen people belittling the Religion exam - I thought it was difficult enough myself!

My school does Religion but not as an examination subject! In 1st year I did it and it was so boring and easy the exams we got. My results

Xmas: 97%
Summer: 99%

^ She couldn't care to give me 100%? :pac:. Most of the answers were right in front of us? Since 1st year, I have dropped it (I am allowed) and I do extra classes on subjects I find difficult instead. Do I count as "belittling"?

spurious

Standard Religion classes are very different to the exam subject.

It's quite an interesting subject, though statistically, it is one of the more difficult ones to get an A in.

Pete123456

I always tell anyone I come across to take CSPE seriously. It's not a guaranteed A. I got a C in CSPE and any time I mention that to somebody who's doing their junior certain or recently did it they burst out laughing.

Two of my mates were gutted the day of the results. They both got 9 As and one got a B in CSPE and the other a C. Another guy got a D. My year in particular had poor enough results in CSPE

sryanbruen

Pete123456 wrote: »

I always tell anyone I come across to take CSPE seriously. It's not a guaranteed A. I got a C in CSPE and any time I mention that to somebody who's doing their junior certain or recently did it they burst out laughing.

Two of my mates were gutted the day of the results. They both got 9 As and one got a B in CSPE and the other a C. Another guy got a D. My year in particular had poor enough results in CSPE

I guess it depends on if you spent good time on your project as well as watch current affairs & politics.

Pete123456

sryanbruen wrote: »

I guess it depends on if you spent good time on your project as well as watch current affairs & politics.

Well surprisingly enough our teacher didn't give a sh1te about CSPE. she was from Connemara and taught Irish and history so she put tons of emphasis on those.

when it came to the CSPE class she would crack jokes about it and tell us to make sure we could stay within the lines in colouring. We were told we could fly through the exam if we opened the book the week coming up to the exam.

Im not blaming her, but the class was mostly making fun of things and general messing.

nermal15

Pete123456 wrote: »

Well surprisingly enough our teacher didn't give a sh1te about CSPE. she was from Connemara and taught Irish and history so she put tons of emphasis on those.

when it came to the CSPE class she would crack jokes about it and tell us to make sure we could stay within the lines in colouring. We were told we could fly through the exam if we opened the book the week coming up to the exam.

Im not blaming her, but the class was mostly making fun of things and general messing.

Unfortunately a lot of teachers get landed with CSPE without having any training or interest in it, and with a full timetable of other classes it can get left by the wayside.

With the project, it's worth 60% so a whole lot of the grade rests with it. If you don't put the work in to make sure your answers are relevant and specific, it can definitely drag you down a few grades no matter how many ministers you can name!

sryanbruen

nermal15 wrote: »

Unfortunately a lot of teachers get landed with CSPE without having any training or interest in it, and with a full timetable of other classes it can get left by the wayside.

With the project, it's worth 60% so a whole lot of the grade rests with it. If you don't put the work in to make sure your answers are relevant and specific, it can definitely drag you down a few grades no matter how many ministers you can name!

Yeah my only problem with the project was Section 5: Reflections.

sryanbruen

Why is CSPE even a subject for god sake?

Caoimhgh1n

sryanbruen wrote: »

Why is CSPE even a subject for god sake?

Everything C.S.P.E. should deal with is very important, from the environment to politics ect..

2012paddy2012

Can you help with junior cert maths .ordinary for my child ...struggling ...maybe practice questions / answers that come up fairly regular that come up repeatedly?! Paper 2 his weakest ....thinking he might just keep practising over and over ....hoping for a pass for him ....thks. ..paddy

Shannon757

2012paddy2012 wrote: »

Can you help with junior cert maths .ordinary for my child ...struggling ...maybe practice questions / answers that come up fairly regular that come up repeatedly?! Paper 2 his weakest ....thinking he might just keep practising over and over ....hoping for a pass for him ....thks. ..paddy

Does he have exam papers?

2012paddy2012

Hi yes got him revise wise paper 2_other day ...ideally if there was some idea of say ....4/5 chapters he could concentrate on ...or more examples ...with simple explanation ...time running out ..he getting stressed ... If he could ...say keep practising ...simultaneous equations ...if one cones up fairly regular ..then another ...that also comes up regular ....that's what I'm hoping he could do .....thks ...

spurious

2012paddy2012 wrote: »

Hi yes got him revise wise paper 2_other day ...ideally if there was some idea of say ....4/5 chapters he could concentrate on ...or more examples ...with simple explanation ...time running out ..he getting stressed ... If he could ...say keep practising ...simultaneous equations ...if one cones up fairly regular ..then another ...that also comes up regular ....that's what I'm hoping he could do .....thks ...

Try and get him confident about the questions he 'can' do.

The ones like area, co-ordinate geometry, volume (where you just put numbers into a formula for the answer)- most students find them straightforward enough.

Get him confident about the ones that he understands and ready to do them first once he goes into the exam.

Shannon757

You should look at previous exams on examinations.ie and get him to try them. You will have the marking schemes as well.

sryanbruen

Shannon757 wrote: »

You should look at previous exams on examinations.ie and get him to try them. You will have the marking schemes as well.

Studyclix is better!

Shannon757

sryanbruen wrote: »

Studyclix is better!

Of course you'd say that:rolleyes:

sryanbruen

Shannon757 wrote: »

Of course you'd say that:rolleyes:

Why? What's that supposed to mean?

Shannon757

sryanbruen wrote: »

Why? What's that supposed to mean?

You're a big contributor on Studyclix is all i'm saying. That wasn't meant as a dig at you, hence the :rolleyes:

sryanbruen

Shannon757 wrote: »

You're a big contributor on Studyclix is all i'm saying. That wasn't meant as a dig at you, hence the :rolleyes:

That is not why I said studyclix is better, not at all actually.

sryanbruen

Here's your timetable Account Number

Friday 22nd April

Maths - Coordinate Geometry
Science - Living Things
Business - Know how to do the Household Budget

Saturday 23rd April

Irish - Your scéal / aiste phrases
Music - The Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list

Sunday 24th April

History - An ancient civilisation you have studied (yours might be different that mine: mine is Ancient Rome)
Geography - Formation of Earthquakes and their features
Science - Cells and the Microscope

Monday 25th April

Maths - Factorising
Business - Money & Personal Banking / Making Payments

Tuesday 26th April

English - Studied poetry
Irish - All tenses (inc. Conditional Mood) (excluding Saorbhriathra)

Wednesday 27th April

Science - Food
Geography - Formation of Volcanoes and their features
History - Investigating the Past (like methods of dating artefacts)

Thursday 28th April

History - Fascist Italy
Business - The Household Consumer
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list

Friday 29th April

Geography - Formation of Fold Mountains
English - Studied novel
Irish - Studied prose / short story

Saturday 30th April

Science - Digestion & Enzymes
History - The American Revolution
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list

Sunday 1st May

Maths - Sets
Music - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
English - Studied short story

Monday 2nd May

Bank holiday, take the day off!

Tuesday 3rd May

Science - Respiration & Breathing System
Music - Hoedown From Rodeo
Irish - Studied poetry

Wednesday 4th May

Maths - Perimeter, Area & Volume
History - Ancient Ireland
Business - The National Budget

Thursday 5th May

Music - Evening Prayer
Geography - An example of Coastal Erosion
Science - The Circulatory System

Friday 6th May

History - The Middle Ages
Maths - Indices

Saturday 7th May

Maths - Probability
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Geography - Rocks (two of each type! and make sure you know an example of each where they are located like The Burren)

Sunday 8th May

Music - Wanderer's Night Song
History - The Renaissance
Irish - The Possessive Adjective

Monday 9th May

Business - Foreign Trade
Geography - An example of River Erosion
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list

Tuesday 10th May

Science - Excretion & The Atom
History - The Reformation
Maths - The Cylinder, Sphere & Cone

Wednesday 11th May

CSPE - Practice all Section 1 past questions (using Studyclix)
Geography - An example of Coastal Deposition
Irish - The Genitive Case

Thursday 12th May

Science - The Sensory System & Fuels
Maths - Transformation Geometry
Business - Club Accounts

Friday 13th May

Geography - An example of River Deposition and Mass Movement
History - The Age of Exploration & Discovery
Maths - Constructions

Saturday 14th May

Science - The Reproductive System
Music - Click Go the Shears
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list & your postcard phrases
Geography - Two weather instruments in detail and two high population densities

Sunday 15th May

History - Plantations in Ireland
Music - Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
Maths - Simultaneous Equations
Business - Marketing

Monday 16th May

Music - Yesterday
Geography - Relief Rainfall & a new town you have studied
History - The French Revolution
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list & your note phrases

Tuesday 17th May

Irish - Your letter phrases
Business - Chain of Production & Channels of Distribution
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Geography - Convectional Rainfall & features of a river (like Source, Tributary etc)

Wednesday 18th May

History - The 1798 Irish Rebellion
Maths - Geometry (excluding Coordinate Geometry & Transformation Geometry)
Music - The Verdant Braes of Screen
Spanish - Your letter phrases

Thursday 19th May

Science - Plant Reproduction & Genetics
Business - People At Work
Geography - Cyclonic Rainfall & how a Warm and a Cold Front form
Music - Your choice song for the category "Irish Traditional Songs"

Friday 20th May

Music - Your choice song for the category "Folk Songs from Other Countries"
Maths - Applied Arithmetic
Geography - The Water Cycle & a manufacturing industry you have studied
Science - Microbiology and Biotechnology & The Atmosphere

Saturday 21st May

History - The Agricultural Revolution
Science - Water & Water Hardness
Business - Forms of Business
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list

Sunday 22nd May

Music - Your choice song for the category "Art Songs"
Geography - Karst Landscapes
Science - Plastics
Business - Business Finance

Monday 23rd May

Music - Your choice song for the category "Historical and Modern Ballads"
History - The Industrial Revolution
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Irish - Saorbhriathar in all tenses

Tuesday 24th May

Irish - Abair, Bí, Feic and Faigh in all tenses
History - The Great Famine
Geography - Freeze-Thaw action & an irrigation scheme you have studied
Science - Chemical Bonding

Wednesday 25th May

Music - Your choice song for the category "Popular Songs, Negro Spirituals and Blues Songs"
Irish - Déan, Téigh, Clois and Tar in all tenses
History - Life in Urban Britain
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list

Thursday 26th May

Music - Your choice song for the category "Church Music and Carols"
Irish - Ith, Tabhair and Beir in all tenses
Geography - Fishing (Primary Economic Activities)
History - Northern Ireland (1920-2000)
Maths - Statistics

Friday 27th May

Science - Metals & Non-Metals and Measurement
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Geography - An example of Economic Inequality in the developing & developed world
Maths - Patterns & Sequences

Saturday 28th May

Maths - Functions
History - World War 2

Sunday 29th May

Science - The Skeletal & Muscular System and Density
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Geography - Factors that influence population change / growth
Music - Your choice song for the category "Songs from Operas, Operettas, Oratorios, Cantatas and Stage Musicals"

Monday 30th May

Science - Solutions & Crystallisation and Motion
Music - Your choice song for the category "Songs with Descants, Two-Part Songs, Rounds and Canons"
Geography - Maps & Photographs

Tuesday 31st May

Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Music - Your choice work for the category "Dance Movements"
Science - Separating Mixtures and Force

Wednesday 1st June

History - The Cold War
Music - Your choice work for the category "Theme and Variations"
Science - Pressure and Static Electricity
Geography - Two types of Irish soils

Thursday 2nd June

Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Music - Your choice work for the category "Illustrative and Film Music"
History - Social Change in the Twentieth Century
Science - Heat

Friday 3rd June

English - Studied film
Maths - Trigonometry
Geography - An example of a Warm climate
Science - Light and Elements, Compounds & Mixtures
Music - Your choice work for the category "A movement involving an instrumental or vocal soloist or a group of soloists or choir interacting with an accompanying ensemble"

Saturday 4th June

Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Business - Final Accounts
Science - Magnetism and Current Electricity
Geography - An example of a Temperate Climate and Global Warming (i.e. solutions to it, causes of it, effects of it etc)
Maths - Number Systems
Music - Your choice work for the category "Orchestral piece with traditional instrument"

Sunday 5th June

Music - General Study
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Business - Delivery Systems
Science - Sound and Electronics
History - The 1916 Easter Rising
Geography - An example of a Cold Climate

Monday 6th June

Music - Irish Music
History - The Irish War of Independence & Civil War
Geography - An example of an Irish settlement with three of its functions
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Business - Information Technology and Industrial Relations
Maths - Speed, Distance, Time
Science - Acids & Bases and Ecology

Tuesday 7th June

Revise for English

^ the 6th June might be a bit too much, if you want to push any of the stuff to study on that day to another that hasn't got much, feel free to! Due to this being a bit later than the previous one I made for irishpisces, this was quite tricky to fit in everything. Unfortunately, I did not get to fit everything in. BUT, there isn't much that I missed. Why not fit those little topics that I missed onto the day before the respective exam?

If you want to do this then you have to create a chapter / section list and then tick off which ones you have studied. Here's the said list I did for you.

Maths

• Functions
• Statistics
• Geometry
• Coordinate Geometry
• The Cylinder, Sphere & Cone
• Algebra
• Factorising
• Number Systems
• Sets
• Perimeter, Area & Volume
• Applied Arithmetic
• Indices
• Patterns & Sequences
• Speed, Distance and Time
• Constructions
• Simultaneous Equations
• Trigonometry
• Transformation Geometry
• Probability

English

• Informal Letter
• Formal Letter
• Speech
• Article
• Review
• Report
• Studied play
• Studied poetry
• Studied short story
• Studied novel
• Methods the media use

Irish

• Aimsir Chaite
• Aimsir Láithreach
• Aimsir Fháistineach
• Modh Coinníollach
• An Tuiseal Ginideach
• Saorbhriathar
• An Aidiacht Shealbhach
• Na hUimreacha
• Briathra Neamhrialta
• Aidiachtaí
• Filíochta staidéar
• Prós staidéar
• Frásaí an scéil nó aiste
• Na Forainmeacha Réamhfhochlacha

Business

• Household Budget
• The Household Consumer
• Money
• Commercial Banks
• Making Payments
• Borrowing
• Saving & Investing
• Insurance
• Economics
• The National Budget
• Foreign Trade
• Forms of Business
• Business Finance
• Communications
• Letter & Report Writing
• Chain of Production
• Channels of Distribution
• People At Work
• The Employer
• Industrial Relations
• Marketing
• Delivery Systems
• Business Documents
• Final Accounts
• Club Accounts
• Information Technology

I will continue this check list soon.

sirboby

sryanbruen wrote: »

Why is CSPE even a subject for god sake?

Caoimhgh1n wrote: »

Everything C.S.P.E. should deal with is very important, from the environment to politics ect..

I feel CSPE gets alot of bad opinions as there is no follow up for leaving cert.
My only complaint about CSPE (Im a current third year) is alot of it is learning things from a textbook and not from real life, this is a shame as things we are meant to learn in CSPE would be really beneficial. We did not even mention our current government(or lack of) in our recent CSPE classes.

I personally got 96% in my mocks, but the whole paper apart from the first two pages could never of been studied for, even then the first two pages were mostly common sense.

I think the CSPE course needs to be completely rethought but not abolished.

C.S.P.E = Common Sense & Poster Education

Starlet98

sryanbruen wrote: »

It is a joke. In my mock I got 89%, imagine Junior Cert haha.

Every year there are people who go on about how CSPE is such an easy subject. I did the junior cert two years ago and in the mocks 23 people got A's, but only 3 got A's in the actual junior cert. I got a B after getting 90 in the mocks. 89 is actually fairly average for the mocks in CSPE so I wouldn't be getting too cocky before you do the actual exam

sryanbruen

Starlet98 wrote: »

Every year there are people who go on about how CSPE is such an easy subject. I did the junior cert two years ago and in the mocks 23 people got A's, but only 3 got A's in the actual junior cert. I got a B after getting 90 in the mocks. 89 is actually fairly average for the mocks in CSPE so I wouldn't be getting too cocky before you do the actual exam

I'm not being cocky or anything . It's just that CSPE is the only subject I don't have to study for.

curiouschippy

Is it too soon to ask for advice on a study timetable for next summer's Junior Cert?

sryanbruen

emersyn wrote: »

No need to start getting all high and mighty, all that was said was that some people (about 80% of JC candidates) are certainly going to be disappointed with their CSPE results come September if they expect an automatic A just for showing up

Well I'll be son of a gun, you were unfortunately right.