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nermal15

Pete123456 wrote: »

Well surprisingly enough our teacher didn't give a sh1te about CSPE. she was from Connemara and taught Irish and history so she put tons of emphasis on those.

when it came to the CSPE class she would crack jokes about it and tell us to make sure we could stay within the lines in colouring. We were told we could fly through the exam if we opened the book the week coming up to the exam.

Im not blaming her, but the class was mostly making fun of things and general messing.

Unfortunately a lot of teachers get landed with CSPE without having any training or interest in it, and with a full timetable of other classes it can get left by the wayside.

With the project, it's worth 60% so a whole lot of the grade rests with it. If you don't put the work in to make sure your answers are relevant and specific, it can definitely drag you down a few grades no matter how many ministers you can name!

sryanbruen

nermal15 wrote: »

Unfortunately a lot of teachers get landed with CSPE without having any training or interest in it, and with a full timetable of other classes it can get left by the wayside.

With the project, it's worth 60% so a whole lot of the grade rests with it. If you don't put the work in to make sure your answers are relevant and specific, it can definitely drag you down a few grades no matter how many ministers you can name!

Yeah my only problem with the project was Section 5: Reflections.

sryanbruen

Why is CSPE even a subject for god sake?

Caoimhgh1n

sryanbruen wrote: »

Why is CSPE even a subject for god sake?

Everything C.S.P.E. should deal with is very important, from the environment to politics ect..

2012paddy2012

Can you help with junior cert maths .ordinary for my child ...struggling ...maybe practice questions / answers that come up fairly regular that come up repeatedly?! Paper 2 his weakest ....thinking he might just keep practising over and over ....hoping for a pass for him ....thks. ..paddy

Shannon757

2012paddy2012 wrote: »

Can you help with junior cert maths .ordinary for my child ...struggling ...maybe practice questions / answers that come up fairly regular that come up repeatedly?! Paper 2 his weakest ....thinking he might just keep practising over and over ....hoping for a pass for him ....thks. ..paddy

Does he have exam papers?

2012paddy2012

Hi yes got him revise wise paper 2_other day ...ideally if there was some idea of say ....4/5 chapters he could concentrate on ...or more examples ...with simple explanation ...time running out ..he getting stressed ... If he could ...say keep practising ...simultaneous equations ...if one cones up fairly regular ..then another ...that also comes up regular ....that's what I'm hoping he could do .....thks ...

spurious

2012paddy2012 wrote: »

Hi yes got him revise wise paper 2_other day ...ideally if there was some idea of say ....4/5 chapters he could concentrate on ...or more examples ...with simple explanation ...time running out ..he getting stressed ... If he could ...say keep practising ...simultaneous equations ...if one cones up fairly regular ..then another ...that also comes up regular ....that's what I'm hoping he could do .....thks ...

Try and get him confident about the questions he 'can' do.

The ones like area, co-ordinate geometry, volume (where you just put numbers into a formula for the answer)- most students find them straightforward enough.

Get him confident about the ones that he understands and ready to do them first once he goes into the exam.

Shannon757

You should look at previous exams on examinations.ie and get him to try them. You will have the marking schemes as well.

sryanbruen

Shannon757 wrote: »

You should look at previous exams on examinations.ie and get him to try them. You will have the marking schemes as well.

Studyclix is better!

Shannon757

sryanbruen wrote: »

Studyclix is better!

Of course you'd say that:rolleyes:

sryanbruen

Shannon757 wrote: »

Of course you'd say that:rolleyes:

Why? What's that supposed to mean?

Shannon757

sryanbruen wrote: »

Why? What's that supposed to mean?

You're a big contributor on Studyclix is all i'm saying. That wasn't meant as a dig at you, hence the :rolleyes:

sryanbruen

Shannon757 wrote: »

You're a big contributor on Studyclix is all i'm saying. That wasn't meant as a dig at you, hence the :rolleyes:

That is not why I said studyclix is better, not at all actually.

sryanbruen

Here's your timetable Account Number

Friday 22nd April

Maths - Coordinate Geometry
Science - Living Things
Business - Know how to do the Household Budget

Saturday 23rd April

Irish - Your scéal / aiste phrases
Music - The Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list

Sunday 24th April

History - An ancient civilisation you have studied (yours might be different that mine: mine is Ancient Rome)
Geography - Formation of Earthquakes and their features
Science - Cells and the Microscope

Monday 25th April

Maths - Factorising
Business - Money & Personal Banking / Making Payments

Tuesday 26th April

English - Studied poetry
Irish - All tenses (inc. Conditional Mood) (excluding Saorbhriathra)

Wednesday 27th April

Science - Food
Geography - Formation of Volcanoes and their features
History - Investigating the Past (like methods of dating artefacts)

Thursday 28th April

History - Fascist Italy
Business - The Household Consumer
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list

Friday 29th April

Geography - Formation of Fold Mountains
English - Studied novel
Irish - Studied prose / short story

Saturday 30th April

Science - Digestion & Enzymes
History - The American Revolution
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list

Sunday 1st May

Maths - Sets
Music - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
English - Studied short story

Monday 2nd May

Bank holiday, take the day off!

Tuesday 3rd May

Science - Respiration & Breathing System
Music - Hoedown From Rodeo
Irish - Studied poetry

Wednesday 4th May

Maths - Perimeter, Area & Volume
History - Ancient Ireland
Business - The National Budget

Thursday 5th May

Music - Evening Prayer
Geography - An example of Coastal Erosion
Science - The Circulatory System

Friday 6th May

History - The Middle Ages
Maths - Indices

Saturday 7th May

Maths - Probability
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Geography - Rocks (two of each type! and make sure you know an example of each where they are located like The Burren)

Sunday 8th May

Music - Wanderer's Night Song
History - The Renaissance
Irish - The Possessive Adjective

Monday 9th May

Business - Foreign Trade
Geography - An example of River Erosion
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list

Tuesday 10th May

Science - Excretion & The Atom
History - The Reformation
Maths - The Cylinder, Sphere & Cone

Wednesday 11th May

CSPE - Practice all Section 1 past questions (using Studyclix)
Geography - An example of Coastal Deposition
Irish - The Genitive Case

Thursday 12th May

Science - The Sensory System & Fuels
Maths - Transformation Geometry
Business - Club Accounts

Friday 13th May

Geography - An example of River Deposition and Mass Movement
History - The Age of Exploration & Discovery
Maths - Constructions

Saturday 14th May

Science - The Reproductive System
Music - Click Go the Shears
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list & your postcard phrases
Geography - Two weather instruments in detail and two high population densities

Sunday 15th May

History - Plantations in Ireland
Music - Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
Maths - Simultaneous Equations
Business - Marketing

Monday 16th May

Music - Yesterday
Geography - Relief Rainfall & a new town you have studied
History - The French Revolution
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list & your note phrases

Tuesday 17th May

Irish - Your letter phrases
Business - Chain of Production & Channels of Distribution
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Geography - Convectional Rainfall & features of a river (like Source, Tributary etc)

Wednesday 18th May

History - The 1798 Irish Rebellion
Maths - Geometry (excluding Coordinate Geometry & Transformation Geometry)
Music - The Verdant Braes of Screen
Spanish - Your letter phrases

Thursday 19th May

Science - Plant Reproduction & Genetics
Business - People At Work
Geography - Cyclonic Rainfall & how a Warm and a Cold Front form
Music - Your choice song for the category "Irish Traditional Songs"

Friday 20th May

Music - Your choice song for the category "Folk Songs from Other Countries"
Maths - Applied Arithmetic
Geography - The Water Cycle & a manufacturing industry you have studied
Science - Microbiology and Biotechnology & The Atmosphere

Saturday 21st May

History - The Agricultural Revolution
Science - Water & Water Hardness
Business - Forms of Business
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list

Sunday 22nd May

Music - Your choice song for the category "Art Songs"
Geography - Karst Landscapes
Science - Plastics
Business - Business Finance

Monday 23rd May

Music - Your choice song for the category "Historical and Modern Ballads"
History - The Industrial Revolution
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Irish - Saorbhriathar in all tenses

Tuesday 24th May

Irish - Abair, Bí, Feic and Faigh in all tenses
History - The Great Famine
Geography - Freeze-Thaw action & an irrigation scheme you have studied
Science - Chemical Bonding

Wednesday 25th May

Music - Your choice song for the category "Popular Songs, Negro Spirituals and Blues Songs"
Irish - Déan, Téigh, Clois and Tar in all tenses
History - Life in Urban Britain
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list

Thursday 26th May

Music - Your choice song for the category "Church Music and Carols"
Irish - Ith, Tabhair and Beir in all tenses
Geography - Fishing (Primary Economic Activities)
History - Northern Ireland (1920-2000)
Maths - Statistics

Friday 27th May

Science - Metals & Non-Metals and Measurement
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Geography - An example of Economic Inequality in the developing & developed world
Maths - Patterns & Sequences

Saturday 28th May

Maths - Functions
History - World War 2

Sunday 29th May

Science - The Skeletal & Muscular System and Density
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Geography - Factors that influence population change / growth
Music - Your choice song for the category "Songs from Operas, Operettas, Oratorios, Cantatas and Stage Musicals"

Monday 30th May

Science - Solutions & Crystallisation and Motion
Music - Your choice song for the category "Songs with Descants, Two-Part Songs, Rounds and Canons"
Geography - Maps & Photographs

Tuesday 31st May

Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Music - Your choice work for the category "Dance Movements"
Science - Separating Mixtures and Force

Wednesday 1st June

History - The Cold War
Music - Your choice work for the category "Theme and Variations"
Science - Pressure and Static Electricity
Geography - Two types of Irish soils

Thursday 2nd June

Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Music - Your choice work for the category "Illustrative and Film Music"
History - Social Change in the Twentieth Century
Science - Heat

Friday 3rd June

English - Studied film
Maths - Trigonometry
Geography - An example of a Warm climate
Science - Light and Elements, Compounds & Mixtures
Music - Your choice work for the category "A movement involving an instrumental or vocal soloist or a group of soloists or choir interacting with an accompanying ensemble"

Saturday 4th June

Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Business - Final Accounts
Science - Magnetism and Current Electricity
Geography - An example of a Temperate Climate and Global Warming (i.e. solutions to it, causes of it, effects of it etc)
Maths - Number Systems
Music - Your choice work for the category "Orchestral piece with traditional instrument"

Sunday 5th June

Music - General Study
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Business - Delivery Systems
Science - Sound and Electronics
History - The 1916 Easter Rising
Geography - An example of a Cold Climate

Monday 6th June

Music - Irish Music
History - The Irish War of Independence & Civil War
Geography - An example of an Irish settlement with three of its functions
Spanish - A vocabulary topic list
Business - Information Technology and Industrial Relations
Maths - Speed, Distance, Time
Science - Acids & Bases and Ecology

Tuesday 7th June

Revise for English

^ the 6th June might be a bit too much, if you want to push any of the stuff to study on that day to another that hasn't got much, feel free to! Due to this being a bit later than the previous one I made for irishpisces, this was quite tricky to fit in everything. Unfortunately, I did not get to fit everything in. BUT, there isn't much that I missed. Why not fit those little topics that I missed onto the day before the respective exam?

If you want to do this then you have to create a chapter / section list and then tick off which ones you have studied. Here's the said list I did for you.

Maths

• Functions
• Statistics
• Geometry
• Coordinate Geometry
• The Cylinder, Sphere & Cone
• Algebra
• Factorising
• Number Systems
• Sets
• Perimeter, Area & Volume
• Applied Arithmetic
• Indices
• Patterns & Sequences
• Speed, Distance and Time
• Constructions
• Simultaneous Equations
• Trigonometry
• Transformation Geometry
• Probability

English

• Informal Letter
• Formal Letter
• Speech
• Article
• Review
• Report
• Studied play
• Studied poetry
• Studied short story
• Studied novel
• Methods the media use

Irish

• Aimsir Chaite
• Aimsir Láithreach
• Aimsir Fháistineach
• Modh Coinníollach
• An Tuiseal Ginideach
• Saorbhriathar
• An Aidiacht Shealbhach
• Na hUimreacha
• Briathra Neamhrialta
• Aidiachtaí
• Filíochta staidéar
• Prós staidéar
• Frásaí an scéil nó aiste
• Na Forainmeacha Réamhfhochlacha

Business

• Household Budget
• The Household Consumer
• Money
• Commercial Banks
• Making Payments
• Borrowing
• Saving & Investing
• Insurance
• Economics
• The National Budget
• Foreign Trade
• Forms of Business
• Business Finance
• Communications
• Letter & Report Writing
• Chain of Production
• Channels of Distribution
• People At Work
• The Employer
• Industrial Relations
• Marketing
• Delivery Systems
• Business Documents
• Final Accounts
• Club Accounts
• Information Technology

I will continue this check list soon.

sirboby

sryanbruen wrote: »

Why is CSPE even a subject for god sake?

Caoimhgh1n wrote: »

Everything C.S.P.E. should deal with is very important, from the environment to politics ect..

I feel CSPE gets alot of bad opinions as there is no follow up for leaving cert.
My only complaint about CSPE (Im a current third year) is alot of it is learning things from a textbook and not from real life, this is a shame as things we are meant to learn in CSPE would be really beneficial. We did not even mention our current government(or lack of) in our recent CSPE classes.

I personally got 96% in my mocks, but the whole paper apart from the first two pages could never of been studied for, even then the first two pages were mostly common sense.

I think the CSPE course needs to be completely rethought but not abolished.

C.S.P.E = Common Sense & Poster Education

Starlet98

sryanbruen wrote: »

It is a joke. In my mock I got 89%, imagine Junior Cert haha.

Every year there are people who go on about how CSPE is such an easy subject. I did the junior cert two years ago and in the mocks 23 people got A's, but only 3 got A's in the actual junior cert. I got a B after getting 90 in the mocks. 89 is actually fairly average for the mocks in CSPE so I wouldn't be getting too cocky before you do the actual exam

sryanbruen

Starlet98 wrote: »

Every year there are people who go on about how CSPE is such an easy subject. I did the junior cert two years ago and in the mocks 23 people got A's, but only 3 got A's in the actual junior cert. I got a B after getting 90 in the mocks. 89 is actually fairly average for the mocks in CSPE so I wouldn't be getting too cocky before you do the actual exam

I'm not being cocky or anything . It's just that CSPE is the only subject I don't have to study for.

curiouschippy

Is it too soon to ask for advice on a study timetable for next summer's Junior Cert?

sryanbruen

emersyn wrote: »

No need to start getting all high and mighty, all that was said was that some people (about 80% of JC candidates) are certainly going to be disappointed with their CSPE results come September if they expect an automatic A just for showing up

Well I'll be son of a gun, you were unfortunately right.

Shannon757

sryanbruen wrote: »

Well I'll be son of a gun, you were unfortunately right.

I know right? I got 100% in the pre and a B in the JC:(

sryanbruen

Shannon757 wrote: »

I know right? I got 100% in the pre and a B in the JC:(

I got 89% in the mock and a B in the JC also.

Shannon757

sryanbruen wrote: »

I got 89% in the mock and a B in the JC also.

I got 100% in the mock

charolais0153

Got 86℅in mock. A in jc

Shannon757

charolais0153 wrote: »

Got 86℅in mock. A in jc

Good job

lea33

I think you should learn how to manage your time - that's the key to coping with loads of school work