2 pieces of advice.

Sheepy99

1. - dont worry too much about junior cert. as long as you do a bit of study every night for te month before you'll be fine.

2. - DO NOT DO T.Y. ITS TERRIBLE...THEY SAY YOU'LL DO THIS AND THAT , IT SOUNDS UNREAL AND.....ITS A LOAD OF POOP

Johnny Giles

That is true. It is only the JC. A small bit of study is all that is needed.

Closed ac

My brother did TY and he says it was the best year of his life..

spurious

All the research shows those who do TY get on better than those who don't.
Its success for a student depends on what the student puts into it themselves, so it varies person to person.

Condoms

TY is good for some but I think better to avoid for most.

Fad

It depends on where you go to school tbh, some schools have a fantastic TY program, some do not.

jumpguy

I'll add a 3rd piece of advice - get the new log tables. They have all the formula you need for maths (co-ordinate geometry mainly, some trig), aswell as all the area and volume formulae for circles and things. It's best you get them now and get used to them, because there is LOTS of Leaving Cert material in them which you don't need, lots of pages and if it's your first time looking at them on the day of the exam you're gonna be in trouble.

Last year I went into the exam without ever looking at the log tables - thank goodness all you needed then was just the area and volume formulae. Now, you have it easier. But to take full advantage of it, you NEED TO FAMILIAR WITH THE LOG TABLES BEFORE THE EXAM.

It's not like buying them is only useful for the JC, you'll need them in the LC anyway.

suitcasepink

Ty is whats getting me through 3rd year!
It's good our school though, once you get in. You have to be interviewed first
Yeah the log books are handy they also have the -b squared formula, which is good.

jumpguy

Xx_emma_xX wrote: »

Is that the formulae and tables books? I'm only in 2nd year now but our new teacher [we were streamed this year] already told us to get them although we haven't used it. Can't make much sense of mine yet except for a few pages...half in english, half in irish and there's some science stuff in there too, right?

Yeah, that's the one. If you're in second year I wouldn't worry about it yet, I can't really remember, but I don't think we got to co-ordinate geometry until 3rd year.

deise_girl wrote: »

Ty is whats getting me through 3rd year!
It's good our school though, once you get in. You have to be interviewed first
Yeah the log books are handy they also have the -b squared formula, which is good.

The the -b one is on the cover! The unit circle is in the trigonometry section too, which will be useful, whenever you do trig, along with the triangle formulae (sine rule, area, etc).
The slope formula, lenght, etc for co-ordinate geometry is all there.

I can't quite remember, but in JC science, I don't think you get the tables during the exam. You don't really need them anyway, you'll just have to learn the physics formulae.

Evan93

Log tables will be handy for Technology as well, All the Logic Gates,switches and symbols are in them,so assuming they will be given out in the technology exam? I do not know this. Anyway if they are given out,there will be no need for the learning off of all the gates etc.. I think this would be useful for metalwork as well ?


The biggest piece of advice I would give anyone doing the JC would to be know the exam paper format and what questions will be asked inside-out. If you spend time at this, it can be easy to see patterns,predict and what not.

partyatmygaff

jumpguy wrote: »

Yeah, that's the one. If you're in second year I wouldn't worry about it yet, I can't really remember, but I don't think we got to co-ordinate geometry until 3rd year.

The the -b one is on the cover! The unit circle is in the trigonometry section too, which will be useful, whenever you do trig, along with the triangle formulae (sine rule, area, etc).
The slope formula, lenght, etc for co-ordinate geometry is all there.

I can't quite remember, but in JC science, I don't think you get the tables during the exam. You don't really need them anyway, you'll just have to learn the physics formulae.

If you think any of the science formulae in the JC is hard good luck in LC Physics or Chemistry

suitcasepink

partyatmygaff wrote: »

If you think any of the science formulae in the JC is hard good luck in LC Physics or Chemistry

*mental note, do not do science subjects after J.C*

Evan93

partyatmygaff wrote: »

If you think any of the science formulae in the JC is hard good luck in LC Physics or Chemistry

Well we are basically given all the formulae in the log tables, so all it is, is throwing numbers in for letters really?

Gaeilge-go-deo

jumpguy wrote: »

The the -b one is on the cover!

It is haha

suitcasepink

Yeh I saw

Have it and all. Theres like only a small amount thats need for J.C isnt there?? Co-ordinate geometry, triangle stuff, area & volume and the algebra that they have.. Okay that sounds alot but compared to the amount in it :P

dodgystuff

Wow...I really miss Junior Cert reading this..
Milk it while you can you guys. Once you hit 5th year its a different world, you cant imagine how easy JC is compared to it.

To address the whole TY thing.. personally, I thought it was a beneficial year to grow more confidence and all that kinda thing, you build a good rapport with your year and some of the activities are great but overall I do feel like I wasted a year of my life, even if it was fun at the time.

I did find getting back into the working frame of mind pretty hard as I didnt do a tap of homework for most of the year, especially near the end.

I'm in 6th year now and still finding it hard to motivate myself fully into study whereas before TY I was really good at getting down to it without a bother.

Evan93

Xx_emma_xX wrote: »

The only subject I find to be genuinely hard in the Junior Cert is Science...and I suppose that gets a lot more difficult...I'm thinking I'll probably do Biology or Chemistry, or just one of them...we haven't done much physics yet so who knows...I might actually enjoy it.

Do not take Junior Cert Science science as an indication to LC science. Im doing Physics and JC Physics is completely irrelevant. Also with History, if you like History at JC, do not take it for granted that you will like LC history. 2 completely different subjects.

dodgystuff

Xx_emma_xX wrote: »

The only subject I find to be genuinely hard in the Junior Cert is Science...and I suppose that gets a lot more difficult...I'm thinking I'll probably do Biology or Chemistry, or just one of them...we haven't done much physics yet so who knows...I might actually enjoy it.

I'm not doing any science subject for leaving cert but my friends seem to like biology anyway, they say its really easy to get a grasp of so I'd say that'd be a good subject to do.

I'm doing history for LC, there is an awful lot to remember but I do love the subject.

CookieMonster.x

I'd hate to do history for the LC. I find it worse now becvause I had such a boring teacher last year
I've decided what subjects I'm going to do for the LC though:
Maths, English, Irish, French, Business, Biology, Chemistry and maybe music outside of school