Junior Cert '13

Classical Kid

Seeing all the Leaving Cert results coming out kinda got me to make this thread.
September is looming now and 3rd year is getting closer.


I'm Just wondering how are people are preparing for next year. What are you studying if anything, and how are you studying.
I want to do well next year so I wont be relying TOO much on grinds when it comes to 5th year and Leaving cert.

So are people doing any studying are you just leaving till christmas?:o

Edit: Oh yeah, I guess i better add on the subjects I'm studying:

English (HL)
Irish(HL)
Project Maths(HL)
Geography(HL)
History(HL)
C.S.P.E(CL)
Music(HL)
T.G(HL)
Art(HL)
French(HL)

Bazinga_N

Hey, I'm doing my JC this year too For September and October I'm just going to revise over some of the 1st Year and 2nd Year stuff lightly and make sure I know them ok enough. I'll also be keeping up with my 3rd year stuff as I go along. From November foward, I think I'll start to study properly

I mostly just type out notes when I study and do exam questions after. I already bought my exam papers the other day. (Educate.ie have the 2012 ones already ) They're so handy and probably the best idea for revision. I'm also making out a timetable for when I go back and that way I'll have a structure of what subjects I'll study and at what times!

Best of Luck! I'm sure we'll be chatting a lot more when throughout the year! :cool:

Leinsterr

Classical Kid wrote: »

Seeing all the Leaving Cert results coming out kinda got me to make this thread.
September is looming now and 3rd year is getting closer.


I'm Just wondering how are people are preparing for next year. What are you studying if anything, and how are you studying.
I want to do well next year so I wont be relying TOO much on grinds when it comes to 5th year and Leaving cert.

So are people doing any studying are you just leaving till christmas?:o

Edit: Oh yeah, I guess i better add on the subjects I'm studying:

English (HL)
Irish(HL)
Project Maths(HL)
Geography(HL)
History(HL)
C.S.P.E(CL)
Music(HL)
T.G(HL)
Art(HL)

In theory, all you need is to work your a** off for the 4 core subjects. If you get honours (C or better) in all of them, which is so easy to do, you'll be sorted. This is impractical so just work for every subject as much as you can and just do your best. I done the JC this year and it doesnt count for anything but the way i see it is that it is a good practice for the LC so dont throw this year away. dont go overboard with studying btw. work until the mocks then relax

spurious

OP, are you not doing a European language?

For the Junior Cert., listen properly in class, do your homework to the absolute best of your ability and never leave a classroom not understanding something.

You will do better than you think.

Classical Kid

spurious wrote: »

OP, are you not doing a European language?

For the Junior Cert., listen properly in class, do your homework to the absolute best of your ability and never leave a classroom not understanding something.

You will do better than you think.

Oh yeah I am, must've forgot, I'll edit it in, it's French higher

Are the 2012 exam papers on sale already, just wondering cause I thought they don't come in till about end of September.

If there are any JC '12 students, how did higher project Maths go, was the paper different that much to regular Maths?

Also I'd be interested to know what subjects everybody's doing next year

Thanks

Troxck

spurious wrote: »

OP, are you not doing a European language?

For the Junior Cert., listen properly in class, do your homework to the absolute best of your ability and never leave a classroom not understanding something.

You will do better than you think.

After doing my Junior Cert, this is honestly the best advice. I know it's cliché but it's true. You'd be surprised how much listening in class can help you with shorter questions.

Bazinga_N

Classical Kid wrote: »

Oh yeah I am, must've forgot, I'll edit it in, it's French higher

Are the 2012 exam papers on sale already, just wondering cause I thought they don't come in till about end of September.

If there are any JC '12 students, how did higher project Maths go, was the paper different that much to regular Maths?

Also I'd be interested to know what subjects everybody's doing next year

Thanks

Educate.ie, have their 2012 exam papers availible now. Honestly, they have the cheapest exam papers. All language's are €3.50 and every other subject is only €2.50 per exam paper! Whereas Folens is €4.00 per exam paper and EDCO are generally dearer.

Paper One's the same for us 2013 students. It's just Paper Two that's changed and it's not even that different tbh! I think these two exam papers are from the pilot schools that did Project Maths 2012 http://examinations.ie/archive/exampapers/2012/JC003ALP130EV.pdf
http://examinations.ie/archive/exampapers/2012/JC003ALP230EV.pdf
and I think they're going to be similar to what we're doing but I could be wrong!

I'm doing 12 subjects this year!

• English (H)
• Irish (H)
• Maths (H)
• French (H)
• Religion (H)
• CSPE (C)
• Science (H)
• Geography (H)
• History (H)
• TG (H)
• Woodwork (H)
• Business (H)

Troxck

Bazinga_N wrote: »

Classical Kid wrote: »

Oh yeah I am, must've forgot, I'll edit it in, it's French higher

Are the 2012 exam papers on sale already, just wondering cause I thought they don't come in till about end of September.

If there are any JC '12 students, how did higher project Maths go, was the paper different that much to regular Maths?

Also I'd be interested to know what subjects everybody's doing next year

Thanks

Educate.ie, have their 2012 exam papers availible now. Honestly, they have the cheapest exam papers. All language's are €3.50 and every other subject is only €2.50 per exam paper! Whereas Folens is €4.00 per exam paper and EDCO are generally dearer.

Paper One's the same for us 2013 students. It's just Paper Two that's changed and it's not even that different tbh! I think these two exam papers are from the pilot schools that did Project Maths 2012 http://examinations.ie/archive/exampapers/2012/JC003ALP130EV.pdf
http://examinations.ie/archive/exampapers/2012/JC003ALP230EV.pdf
and I think they're going to be similar to what we're doing but I could be wrong!

I'm doing 12 subjects this year!

• English (H)
• Irish (H)
• Maths (H)
• French (H)
• Religion (H)
• CSPE (C)
• Science (H)
• Geography (H)
• History (H)
• TG (H)
• Woodwork (H)
• Business (H)

Not to be annoying bit don't buy exam papers until your teachers tell you. They may want you to get certain ones, buy in bulk for a cheaper price, add to the weight in your bag going back and could also be stolen, unfortunately.

II 2FAST2C II

Hi i have studied so far History 1st and 2nd year
Business 1st 2nd and 3rd year i studied everything apart from club accounts and final accounts which i plan to learn with the teacher
And then September i plan to do Science and Geography 1st and 2nd year and keep revising over history and business and some 3rd year history as my teacher and class goes and then on november and december i plan to to have all 1st 2nd 3rd year history,business,science,geography and half of maths course done
And then in some days of december and january 1 month b4 our pres i planned to study maths and italian and some of english
And just keep revising over all the subjects and enjoy the rest of the months in ease
The only 2 subjects i am not going to study is cspe and german untill june 1 week b4 the jc


English H
Maths H
Science H
Geography H
Business H
Wood H
Metal H
Italian H
German H
Cspe H

II 2FAST2C II

Bazinga_N wrote: »

Educate.ie, have their 2012 exam papers availible now. Honestly, they have the cheapest exam papers. All language's are €3.50 and every other subject is only €2.50 per exam paper! Whereas Folens is €4.00 per exam paper and EDCO are generally dearer.

Paper One's the same for us 2013 students. It's just Paper Two that's changed and it's not even that different tbh! I think these two exam papers are from the pilot schools that did Project Maths 2012 http://examinations.ie/archive/exampapers/2012/JC003ALP130EV.pdf
http://examinations.ie/archive/exampapers/2012/JC003ALP230EV.pdf
and I think they're going to be similar to what we're doing but I could be wrong!

I'm doing 12 subjects this year!

• English (H)
• Irish (H)
• Maths (H)
• French (H)
• Religion (H)
• CSPE (C)
• Science (H)
• Geography (H)
• History (H)
• TG (H)
• Woodwork (H)
• Business (H)

Hi i went on edco and saw no exam papers for sale it just says coming soon

Bazinga_N

II 2FAST2C II wrote: »

Hi i went on edco and saw no exam papers for sale it just says coming soon

Yeah, EDCO are the only ones that don't have them out yet. Educate.ie and Folens do though

ButtonBox

I've just done the Junior, but just a tiny bit of advice.
Don't be too concerned with studying very hard from the beginning of the year. Obviously you have to revise for the little weekly tests that your teachers give you, and you need to definitely keep up your homework, but if you get completely wrapped up in full-on studying now, come May/June you'll be exhausted.
Study, yes, but don't get really wrapped up in it yet.

Classical Kid

Bazinga_N wrote: »

Yeah, EDCO are the only ones that don't have them out yet. Educate.ie and Folens do though

Are they selling the actual book of exam papers already, because you can download the seperate years for free from examinations.ie

P.S on another note, Yesterday, i had an idea for a desktop wallpaper for next year, might keep me sane after christmas :L

You guys might like to use it

Bazinga_N

Classical Kid wrote: »

Are they selling the actual book of exam papers already, because you can download the seperate years for free from examinations.ie

P.S on another note, Yesterday, i had an idea for a desktop wallpaper for next year, might keep me sane after christmas :L

You guys might like to use it

They're the actual books of exam papers :L

That's a brilliant wallpaper :P

WhitlockLover

Classical Kid wrote: »

spurious wrote: »

OP, are you not doing a European language?

For the Junior Cert., listen properly in class, do your homework to the absolute best of your ability and never leave a classroom not understanding something.

You will do better than you think.

Oh yeah I am, must've forgot, I'll edit it in, it's French higher

Are the 2012 exam papers on sale already, just wondering cause I thought they don't come in till about end of September.

If there are any JC '12 students, how did higher project Maths go, was the paper different that much to regular Maths?

Also I'd be interested to know what subjects everybody's doing next year

Thanks

Hi,
We didnt do project maths, it was just normal! The project maths exams start this year!
Oh! And im doing ty so i dont have to decide for another year!!

spurious

For Junior Cert.,

• LISTEN PROPERLY in class
• Do your homework to your best standard
• Don't miss days
• Ask questions if you do not understand something.

Bazinga_N

Our school's after stepping up a game this year. They taliored our journals so that we need to write in the learning objective of every class (so we're not sitting there, not having a clue what's happening), and the literacy and numeracy skills we learned in that class too. Have to say, I'm quite pleasantly surprised!

benko2012

I really need Edco exam paper codes for 2012 any help

MickFleetwood

as a former JC student I'd just like to add that I didn't start studying until after I had completed my mocks. my advice would be to start studying before then, preferably after your christmas exams.

good luck!

MickFleetwood

Bazinga_N wrote: »

Our school's after stepping up a game this year. They taliored our journals so that we need to write in the learning objective of every class (so we're not sitting there, not having a clue what's happening), and the literacy and numeracy skills we learned in that class too. Have to say, I'm quite pleasantly surprised!

that sounds brilliant, in all honesty. also, for those who are wondering about maths (I did OL myself, got an A) I advise doing plenty of past-exam papers. this is quite obvious, I feel, but I'd just like to be helpful.

DrCool

Ah lads I haven't even started yet!