Leaving Cert Classical Studies.

whitneymufc2010

Hey, just wondering if anyone has any predictions or general tips on studying? i'm doing alexader the great, plato's the republic, the three greek plays and augustan literature!

chillian17

Im doing Alexander and The Three Greek plays too. Not looads of tips I can give you though to be honest =/ But if you find the other thread here called something like Excellent Leaving Cert Predictions the guy will be doing Classics as well, so hopefully he'll have something for us there

RyanK

Sup Whitney

Just learn everything

whitneymufc2010

the failure rate is 37% in pass:O i cant believe that! in honours its just under ten, why the hell is that??

amlcig

ok i don't have exactly what you want, but i want to this classics thing in the independent academy and this is what's tipped in what i'm doing, i'm not one for predictions after what happened to all the exams this eyar, but it's actually impossible to do all of classics i think...ye average higher is a c! loads of people fail..
ok so,

alexander- mutinies, conspiracies, malli, gedrosia, gaugamela, tyre, greek campaigns, persepolis, orientalism

roman a&a- trajan's column, the pantheon, painting, and ara pacis

greek plays- medea- creon and aegeus, prometheus- lack of human interest,
oedipus- jocasta

ancient epic- the suitors, the gradual clarification of aenaes' mission, penelope, disguise and recognition in the odyssey, nisus and euryalas in aeneid

that's all i know...hope it helps

bootsx

whitneymufc2010 wrote: »

the failure rate is 37% in pass:O i cant believe that! in honours its just under ten, why the hell is that??

My teacher says that the reason the pass fail rate is so high is cos they ask way more precise questions and except far more precise answers. honours isnt exactly easy haah but you can get away with waffle easier so more people pass.