The Leaving Cert Is A Form Of Slavery

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

Higher Irish is annoyingly difficult since it's taught the same way as English which means "lots of short stories, poems and a book to learn about!". :pac:

Accounting would take a while, though. I remember doing the accounting part of business studies for the juniour cert and it was so damn long.

I suppose if you're just taking homework into account... then yeah two hours would be fine but you have to also consider that some students are stuck with bad teachers and either have to take up grinds or hope to learn themselves at home.

I can see how Higher Irish would take a long time, it looks impossible to me but then again I was never good at Irish, or any languages for that matter (except English).

I don't think many students get grinds until 6th year though. i know some do, mainly in the likes of Maths, but as a rule it's 6th year when they do. If you're going for 500 + points you may have to study throughout 5th year, but for less than that I'd say just doing homework would be okay. I did fuck all anyway and didn't do too bad.

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

Look at it this way: you're good at English, so you more than likely did higher level English. You could (in this example), easily get an A1 but you don't want to put in that much effort, compare to the kid who pushes themselves to get that A1 but is clearly struggling.

While it's a cakewalk for you compared to the poorer student, the teacher will more than likely try to push you to do the best of your ability, even though you're just too lazy to bother which is wasting time for the poorer students in the class, which means they lose out and have to spend more time at home making up for it. That's the studying can take so long because it's not by choice but essentially a necessity if you want to do well.

Well I was by no means one of the smartest in my class. I'd probably be around the middle in most of my classes.

However, in my experience, most the teachers used to concentrate more on the poorer students. In things like Maths they could spend an extra 10 minutes each class going through some of the questions very slowly for the few who did not understand. I know it might not be like this in every class or every school, but there are a lot of teachers who concentrate on helping the poorer students as long as they are genuinely struggling and not just messing while they explain it the first time.

Then again, there are those who would just leave a poor student fall behind and never bother trying to helo them, but in my experience these are in the minority.