by admin | Jun 17, 2015 | 2015 Exam Blog, Education, LC Blog (2015), Leaving Cert, Uncategorised
Joanna – Higher Level Polish was making me nervous. It’s one thing being fluent when chatting with friends, its another writing essays and stuff. I practiced essays with a friend until late last night and then again this morning, so going into the exam I...
by admin | Jun 17, 2015 | 2015 Exam Blog, Education, LC Blog (2015), Leaving Cert, Uncategorised
Rob – Higher Level And so my final exam came. I’ve always liked DCG but skewed lines and dihedral angles can give me trouble sometimes, and these were all over the paper today! I only managed to get three of the short questions done and I know I...
by admin | Jun 16, 2015 | 2015 Exam Blog, Education, LC Blog (2015), Leaving Cert, Uncategorised
Joanna – Higher Level I don’t want to say cram, but I definitely did some intense revision this morning. It felt good, got a lot of higher level experiments refreshed and definitions that I knew but just needed to go over. I always get this good feeling...
by admin | Jun 15, 2015 | 2015 Exam Blog, Education, LC Blog (2015), Leaving Cert, Uncategorised
Rob – Higher Level If there is a way to NOT do a Leaving Certificate exam, I did it today. I was revising theory up until twenty minutes before my exam and on reaching my exam centre I saw a big group of third years clutching T-squares. Presuming they were now...
by admin | Jun 12, 2015 | 2015 Exam Blog, Education, LC Blog (2015), Leaving Cert, Uncategorised
Rob – Higher Level My final language exam! I had prepared what I could going into the exam, revising some vocabulary for each topic. German has a habit of being notoriously difficult to predict, and this year was no different by any means. The first...
by admin | Jun 11, 2015 | 2015 Exam Blog, Education, LC Blog (2015), Leaving Cert, Uncategorised
Joanna – Higher Level When I opened the art paper, I panicked. No Raphael and an Iron Age artefact that I didn’t like. To top it off, an art gallery question about a local gallery, so basically the two visits to the national gallery and knowing the...