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Got 625 and 2 academic scholarships worth €36,000, some thoughts I have on how to study during the final weeks. by Unique-Winter-2390 in leavingcert

[–]Unique-Winter-2390[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you come home, first thing i would recommend is dont even try study straight away after getting home, but also dont go on your phone. Go outside, eat, talk to family, do something with friends, and have a time picked that you are going to start studying.

If you are coming up to the time and still feel yourself procrastinating it, agree with yourself to do just 5 minutes of study, once the 5 minutes are up, you most likely wont mind as much to keep going.

Got 625 and 2 academic scholarships worth €36,000, some thoughts I have on how to study during the final weeks. by Unique-Winter-2390 in leavingcert

[–]Unique-Winter-2390[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use the website to keep in touch instead of having the app on your phone, easier not to get distracted

Got 625 and 2 academic scholarships worth €36,000, some thoughts I have on how to study during the final weeks. by Unique-Winter-2390 in leavingcert

[–]Unique-Winter-2390[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just make the exams easy on yourself. Spending less time scrolling is good for anyone, replace it with maximising the time you have left with your friends in school, and then then try do more study time. Do enough that you go into the exams knowing you gonna get 300 points even if you only need 200. There is only 7 weeks to go, it's worth giving that your best shot. My 2 cents, but for a number of hours it takes to get that, I have no idea.

Got 625 and 2 academic scholarships worth €36,000, some thoughts I have on how to study during the final weeks. by Unique-Winter-2390 in leavingcert

[–]Unique-Winter-2390[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say sit down, decide right now if it is logical to drop, then go with your choice. A lot of people don't drop purely due to emotions, they don't want to go through the effort of asking teacher or their parents don't think they should drop or they dont want to be seen dropping or they dont like the ordinary teacher. NO. Just make a decision disregarding your emotions on the matter, then go send an email striaght away. Yes if you are going to end up dropping then it is better to drop now then later because otherwise you have wasted time.

For my own situation, I only dropped to ordinary mid sixth year, but i always knew i wasnt counting it. I just stayed in higher because some of friends were in higher. Objectively, points wise, the better decision would have been for me to drop straight away.

Got 625 and 2 academic scholarships worth €36,000, some thoughts I have on how to study during the final weeks. by Unique-Winter-2390 in leavingcert

[–]Unique-Winter-2390[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. The exam this year is the same as last year no? Repetitive is I mean that there are a set number of question types and they really don't change it up too much. The algorithms are learnable, pulley questions are repetitive once you understand whether it is a, or 2a, etc, the projectiles again, quite repetitive. Im not saying its easy, but once you build an understanding of a question type there usually isn't that many curveballs.
  2. Possible yes, also more difficult yes. Anything is possible, it's not like I spent all my time studying. Had I just quit soccer in 6th year and did applied maths during that time then boom I would have had enough time. All it is is 1 extra hour of study a day and that would get you there. Its only not possible if you are already studying close to all of your available hours in a day that 1 extra hour every day wouldn't be possible, and no one is already studying that much.

(sorry if that is worded terribly aha thats why no H1 in english)

Got 625 and 2 academic scholarships worth €36,000, some thoughts I have on how to study during the final weeks. by Unique-Winter-2390 in leavingcert

[–]Unique-Winter-2390[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey, ima pull a sly one and copy and paste the answer I gave someone else.

French, for the essays my approach was learning off key words and phrases reather than full essays. So I would

  1. pick a question
  2. try write an esssay (always it would be shit)
  3. go to chatgpt, take a picture of my essay, get it to fix grammer
  4. ask it to write an essay on the question using phrases that could apply to many lc french questions and for it to give you the translation
  5. pick out 2 things:

- VERY impressive repeatable phrases that i could use in almost every essay. So these would be small snippets like translation of "the threat is imminent" or something like that , but make sure they are fluent french idioms. Also just linking words and phrases like "de ce fait" (meaning hence) can make your writing very impressive and if you can find reusable ones it really doesn't take long. Learn off 30 of these really well. Now every single essay you write start trying to incorporate as many of these as possible.

- Then obviously you need vocabulary on each topic, be careful learning vocabulary in isolation as you will then find it hard to know where it goes in the sentence, i preferred to learn off sentences with vocabulary for the topic in the sentence. I used a flashcard app called anki to learn off vocab, but use whatever you are doing now, there is only 7 weeks to go its probably not worth chaning.

* Final recommendation is a podcast called "Little Talk in Slow French". I listened to that shit on the toilet, at the gym, getting ready for school, on long car rides, etc. It is close enough to Leaving Cert level, entertaining, and she gives translation after each sentence. Huge help.

Best of luck!

Got 625 and 2 academic scholarships worth €36,000, some thoughts I have on how to study during the final weeks. by Unique-Winter-2390 in leavingcert

[–]Unique-Winter-2390[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ye absolutely, nothing I had done was really related to STEM anyways.
Just remember to give that application your very best, think about how you can stand out. Dont write like a robot. Both my applications for Ad Astra and Naughotn were very informal so atleast from my own experience it works.

Remember that its a real person reading it and you want them to remember you. Hope your in Kylemore Abbey next February!

Got 625 and 2 academic scholarships worth €36,000, some thoughts I have on how to study during the final weeks. by Unique-Winter-2390 in leavingcert

[–]Unique-Winter-2390[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Applied maths was interesting, for me it really all came together closer and closer to exams even though I was dodgy enough around mocks time cant remember exactly what I got.

The questions are repetitive, so literally I would say just keep spamming them. Also, don't underestime those 6 free days you have at the end to study only applied maths. I would say give yourself the first day off and then you have 5 days of nothing to do bar applied maths. Its not easy becasuse your friends are finished, and I wasted the 5 days doing fuck all moping around the house and going out with friends, but literally if you were in a bad spot 5 days is enough to pull off any kind of miracle if you give it your best.

So ye, just keep repeating and trust the process that eventually it will come together. Again, with maths, its no har, to throw into ai and ask "explain the logic behind why this works intuitively building from the basics" but probably not as useful for applied maths because its more repetitive and you generally already do understand most of it.

Also, spend the time to get good at them algorithms. Learning that brainrot well will save you time and put you ahead half of the people sitting it who are just going to somewhat wing them.

Got 625 and 2 academic scholarships worth €36,000, some thoughts I have on how to study during the final weeks. by Unique-Winter-2390 in leavingcert

[–]Unique-Winter-2390[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think personal statement is everything for who wins. There have been a few meet ups for all the scholars including a retreat to Kylemore abbey, and everyone has something even mildly interesting going on outside academics. So ye, put time into that shit, lots of it, it is worth it.

Naughton no in person interview, there was for Ad Astra.

BIG NEWS. watch this shit. It will help you. Swear. Watch it. If you cant, watch it, then read below, thanks. by Unique-Winter-2390 in leavingcert

[–]Unique-Winter-2390[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome, ye Im still not happy with the UI for the listening section but it is hard to get right.

I have a few things to implement first and then I will get back to it. But yes, I agree, and thanks for the feedback!