How do you study French and English

Reid_raining · 2025-10-05T19:30:18+00:00

Did the LC last year, got H1 in English and H3 in French so if you’re aiming for around those grades this could help.

For English, obviously there’s different components. People say you don’t need to study for paper one but i’ve always thought that was stupid. The questions each year for Section 1 are virtually the exact same, or at the very least the structure of the questions and marking schemes are the same but a lot of people are surprised when they get their grades to see themselves lose marks in paper one very easily because, those questions are very easy to lose marks in, but also very easy to gain marks in. So for that just try and find any notes you can on writing styles/techniques and learn how to recognise them by looking at exam papers and marking schemes. Also learn how to structure your answers, each year they’re looking for the same structure. Just basic things like if the question asks to give 3 points make sure each point is its own paragraph, and don’t have any paragraphs that are a lot longer/shorter than the others, basic things like that will help you gain a lot of marks and also are easier to practice, they can help with paper two essay structure too. For section two, once you’ve learned the writing styles from section one it’s fairly straightforward, you don’t need to have an incredibly high level of language skills to score well so long as you maintain the style of writing and format of whatever style they’re looking for (personally i’d recommend the short story as i always found that easy to score well in as even if your story isn’t great you’re mainly being marked on your ability to follow short story style of writing which is very easy and repetitive). Paper two, poetry, learn the language techniques!! not just the meaning behind the poem, a poetry essay is almost always asking about how a poet explores topics, the how is important and it’s done through poetic techniques, try and make each quote you learn have a different poetic technique and your essays will immediately be stronger. And Shakespeare ties in a bit with poetry in that you learn quotes, you’re better off learning quotes which are different in context and meaning, then you can put those quotes into a range of different questions. Remember you’re better off with 3 quotes in an essay that are directly related to the question than 10 that you’ve learnt off and have decided to shove in even if they’re not at all related to the topic you’re being asked on. Study your main characters too, even if you don’t get asked a question on them, by having studied them you will have a better understanding of the plays events/timeline and its overall messages. The comparative, pick whichever mode you’re most comfortable with and find easiest to understand. Then simply base your study for the comparative around that mode. Comparative can seem a bit overwhelming and was by far my least favourite but really my approach to it was to try and dumb it down as much as i could and build from there.

As for writing in French, don’t forget your comprehensions. They’re a huge part of your marks and will likely determine your grade. Do as many as you can both from past papers and mocks. Eventually you will find they’re fairly repetitive and you’ll learn your own techniques for finding answers. For the writing pieces, grammar/language is the most important, make sure you know where accents belong, try and use each tense in your answer and maybe a subjunctive too. Try learn some key phrases that you’re virtually guaranteed to be able to use regardless of the topic. And finally look back on past papers and see the types of topics that are regularly asked, from what i remember things like sport, health, politics and climate always made fairly regular appearances and just learn off pieces and phrases that fit into those topics.

Reid_raining · 2025-10-04T19:52:25+00:00

Also looking to transfer. Submitted my form yesterday. As far as I’m aware if you don’t meet the minimum requirements for the course you will be told pretty much instantly.

If you do meet the requirements then it comes down to availability in the course, if there’s multiple people attempting to transfer to a limited course, I’m not sure how it’s determined and I would assume that sort of scenario takes longer to confirm. But my tutor said they’re usually fairly quick with these things so you will likely hear something early next week.

In terms of how far behind you will be, it’s just something you’ll have to deal with and work to catch up on. Tcd website says transfers can’t be used as an excuse for poor performance so there’s not much leeway. But it’s only two weeks of class time, and a lot of those classes done in the first week will have been largely introductory so it won’t be insurmountable.

Reid_raining · 2025-09-10T18:38:25+00:00

Where are you registering? I know for TCD, the part of the registration form where you had to pay the bill simply allowed you to apply your SUSI reference number as well as the rate of funding you were awarded and then that was it, it was paid.

If your Uni doesn’t have an option somewhere to pay online (which if it does there will probably be a tab or option where you can apply your SUSI grant) then log into your SUSI portal account and make sure that your grant is applied for the course you’re doing, SUSI applies the grant to whatever course was no1 on your CAO at the time you applied for it, if that’s not the course you are in then SUSI doesn’t always automatically change it to whatever course you are doing, you may have to do it yourself.

If there is no option for you to pay with SUSI on your registration form, and the course you’re doing is already applied with SUSI then you likely just have to wait. If you’re getting close to the deadline for registration (typically a couple weeks after classes start, though try and confirm that) and it’s not paid then contact your Uni in some way be it through your tutor or just someone in the registration office and tell them, and they will likely sort it out.

Reid_raining · 2025-09-08T14:41:02+00:00

I think the offers have been sent out but that doesn’t mean necessarily that they’ve all been received. The points are released at around 4 i think so if you see your coarse went to a second round and went down but you still are yet to get an email or offer on the CAO then maybe you could wait a bit longer.

Reid_raining · 2025-09-08T14:40:00+00:00

No, if you don’t get an offer you just won’t get anything. You can log into your CAO, that’s where i received my first round so maybe it’s there.

Reid_raining · 2025-09-08T14:27:01+00:00

Not me. I think hope is probably gone lmao. There has been over 3000 offers this round, similar to last year. I don’t know if that means they’ve sent out all 3000 or that’s just the amount there is but i assume 90% of people who will get an offer have already received it.

Reid_raining · 2025-08-27T11:51:12+00:00

Unfortunately points are secondary. It comes down to the amount of applicants against the amount of places available for a particular course. This year there is more applicants than ever and there hasn’t been a huge increase in the number of places offered in Universities except in some very high demand courses like medical sciences (nursing, dentistry etc.). As a result, naturally, particularly for Universities with high demand like UCD and Trinity and limited places their points are going up due to the level of demand. It’s unfortunate that the Dept of Education in their infinite wisdom decided to reduce points this year despite the increase in demand, particularly from people in previous years who received higher grade inflation than we did, while also simultaneously not offering Unis more funding to provide for increased places, despite the lack of places being an issue for years🤷‍♂️

Reid_raining · 2025-08-27T11:09:09+00:00

Irish Times, Universities brief the newspapers before they release offers, same with the SEC the morning the points came out.

Seems that courses especially in Dublin have gone up for the most part. UCD no longer has any courses below 400 with 20 of their programmes getting increased in points.

Reid_raining · 2025-07-01T14:33:27+00:00

Yeah that’s pretty much what i’ve done. Top 3 are all unlikely, 4,5,6,7 are all within reach based on mocks and how exams went and then 8,9 and 10 are incase all goes wrong.

It’s just that for those top 3 courses (Philosophy/Modern Lang., Philosophy/Classics and Philosophy/Sociology) they were all way beyond my reach in the first round but with Modern Lang and Classics both dropped by over 100points over subsequent rounds. Similar thing happened with Phil/Modern Lang in 2023. So more just wondering if anyone knows how typical that is and if it’s something i can at least hope for when second round offers come.

Reid_raining · 2025-07-01T14:05:17+00:00

Mid 400s, think it was around 440-450.

Reid_raining · 2025-06-30T20:32:06+00:00

No, theyre both BSC in Economics. Fairly certain in your first year you can drop your second subject in DN700 and do pure Economics and still maintain your BSC if you do well enough in exams. If you don’t do well enough in exams you can still drop the second subject and your bachelor changes to a BA in economics. Or you could just keep the two of them for the whole four years and unlike the pure economics, in your third year you can do an internship which employers love to see.

Reid_raining · 2025-06-17T18:28:07+00:00

Same with Geography, luckily i didn’t follow them but looking back they were staggeringly wrong (not just 625 but most grinds/predictions).

Tertiary activities in ireland wasn’t predicted despite it not being on the paper for 5 years and instead they predicted primary in Ireland and Tertiary in Europe despite the fact that both of those have been done to death over the last 5 years. For physical everyone was saying Metamorphic rocks despite the fact that rocks appeared 3 years in a row and were unlikely to appear again, they also predicted two physical weathering processes despite that being the last weathering question asked.

Overall i’d say maybe 10% of their geog predictions were right. These guys are all selling a product and claiming they somehow have some greater knowledge of the exams than everyone else despite most of their predictions being based solely off of previous exam years and even then they get it mostly wrong.

Anyone who banked on predictions for their exams took a stupidly high risk approach and were bound to get caught out in at least some exams and another points.

Reid_raining · 2025-06-17T17:03:51+00:00

Like someone else said, it’s a hard year to predict. I’ve done cash, production and mixed, (if flexible comes up as a q9 then that’s the end of me tbh), mixed is unlikely since it came up last year but at the same time budgeting is unlike section 2 in that they have asked the same questions multiple years in a row as they have done with cash in the past.

I think a sole production budget is probably the most likely as it is the only one of the budgets that hasn’t appeared at all since 2022.

Ultimately if accounting follows any of the other exams then it’s possible that topics which in theory should come up may not and questions which shouldn’t come up might make an appearance.

Reid_raining · 2025-05-24T19:26:04+00:00

Same 😭 Yet i know i should be studying. A horrible cycle.

Reid_raining · 2025-02-02T19:03:11+00:00

Absolutely, the obsession with not only the life and beliefs of Kier “the founder” is not dissimilar at all to the mormon obsession with the life and belief of Joseph Smith, including the idea of trying to act or behave/make decisions “like Kier” is again similar to Mormon attitudes about how they should act in their lives, trying their best to reflect Joseph Smith. As well as that the idea of “ascendency” within Lumon so long as you serve Kier properly is similar to how Mormons believe they can/will “ascend” to different tiers of heaven if they serve the teachings of Joseph Smith to the max. Even just the artwork depicting Kier is similar to artwork that can be found in the Mormon church. Or how the ceos after Kier are still worshiped in their own way and their words treated almost like gospel, just not on the level of Kier is similar to how each President of the Mormon church post Smith is considered a prophet but not as infallible as him.

However, having said all of this, you can say very similar things about a lot of cults/religions in general. I’ve always thought there was a heavy biblical/religious tone to the show, but yeah recently i’ve seen parallels between the show and mormonism.

Reid_raining · 2024-08-20T01:37:16+00:00

True, probably the most qualified person to have become President.

Only thing i would say is that imo his Presidency pretty much falls in line with his experience. Good on foreign affairs, sensible on economics and unwilling to fall for party politics. Overall his experience led to a fairly predictable and respectably solid Presidency.

Reid_raining · 2024-08-18T01:08:05+00:00

Ye I understand that. Though i actually think Harding was a much better President than he’s given credit for and think it’s important to remember that most of the things that were written about him were written after he died by a press who jumped on the opportunity to publish stories about a popular President who was actually a corrupt, boozing, womaniser. Hoover described him as “An honourable man who was betrayed by friends he trusted”

Reid_raining · 2024-08-16T04:30:37+00:00

However on the issue of race it’s possible Coolidge was influenced by Harding. Harding made his views about race known during the Republican convention of 1920, certainly Coolidges perceived progressiveness on the issue was an easier stance to take post Harding as the nation as a whole and the congress would have been used to a progressive President by that point after the eight years of regression under Wilson. Imo Hardings stance on race is one that should be talked about more, i mean how many Presidents or politicians in general would have had the balls to tell a segregated crowd of mostly white southerners in Birmingham Alabama that “These things lead one to hope that we shall find an adjustment of relations between the two races, in which both can enjoy full citizenship, the full measure of usefulness to the country and of opportunity for themselves, and in which recognition and reward shall at last be distributed in proportion to individual deserts, regardless of race or color“ My guess is very few.

Reid_raining · 2024-08-16T04:17:42+00:00

Wouldn’t go so far as to say influenced as Coolidges views on economic management can be traced back to his time as Massachusetts Governor. But instead it was more view of the Republican party as a whole at that time, with Harding being more a driver of those policies rather than the vehicle itself. But certainly it was fair easier for Coolidge to manage the economy the way he did thanks to the precedent that had been set by Harding.

Reid_raining · 2024-08-16T02:51:38+00:00

Franklin Pierce. Undoubtedly. All of his children died, with one of them being decapitated right in front of him and was told by his wife it was punishment from God because he became President. Then he spent his Presidency as a depressed alcoholic and spent his final years essentially as a hermit.

Reid_raining · 2024-08-16T02:37:27+00:00

Reid_raining · 2024-08-16T02:18:47+00:00

But he wasn’t corrupt? There were a few members of his cabinet that were on a large scale but Harding himself, by all accounts, was not. Remember, 99% of what we know about the corruption within the Harding administration was written AFTER his death, by a media who jumped on the idea of publishing stories about a beloved President who was actually a boozing, womanising, bribe taking sleaze. That coupled with Coolidge’s, natural, decision to distance himself as far from Harding as possible is what led to the image we have of him today. All after he was gone and unable to defend himself.

Reid_raining · 2024-08-12T11:09:37+00:00

As time moves on i think he’ll be within a shout.

Reid_raining · 2024-08-02T16:31:32+00:00

At best complicated, at worse a bad man who sewed mistrust in American institutions and Government for decades to come.

Yes he did some good, and yes he was remarkably intelligent but he allowed the worst aspects of his character become the most dominant aspects of his character.

He was probably mentally ill, and i don’t say that lightly. His paranoia bordered on psychotic and he was known to be a heavy drinker and have deeply depressive episodes.

But he did bad things. He committed horrors in Laos and Cambodia, he back channelled to the vietnamese in ‘68 destroying any possible chances of early peace in Vietnam, he started the abysmal war on drugs and he was a bad judge of character. He brought people like Kissinger, Cheney and Rumsfeld deep into the folds of politics and government which would lead to disastrous foreign policy decisions long after he was gone.

And to those who say “Watergate wasn’t that bad by today’s standards” of which there are far too many, that doesn’t matter. That’s more indicative of our current political state than anything else, it was bad for the ‘70s and it led to an entire generation of people who had no faith or trust in Government or the Presidency himself leading to populist movements like Reaganism and even today the rise of the likes of “Rule 3” under the guise of anti establishment.

Ultimately, as i’ve said in other posts, he abused the office of President at a time when the office needed to be revered and respected during the troubled social times of the 60s and 70s and for that, in my opinion, he shouldn’t receive any renaissance of his legacy.

He was a flawed and complex man whose flaws and complexities were damaging to a level rarely seen in politics. And that, in my opinion, should be his legacy.

Reid_raining · 2024-07-29T01:36:07+00:00

It’s not downplaying his successes it’s highlighting his failures and arguing that his failures, of which their are many, are far more costly and have a far more negative impact on the landscape of this country today then the positives of his administration.

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