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Written for our own students, over nineteen years of watching what works in a supervised study hall — and what only looks like it's working.

Leaving Cert
Leaving Cert study tips

How many hours are actually worth doing, using the exam papers properly, and choosing subjects you can do well in rather than subjects that sound impressive.

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Junior & Leaving Cert
Study skills

Setting up before you open a book, working in 15–20 minute blocks, scanning and skimming, active reading, the SQ3R method and mind maps.

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Planning
A study plan that works

Most plans fail in the first fortnight, for the same few reasons. Five rules for building one you'll still be using at Christmas.

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Exam technique
The Chief Examiner's Reports

The people who correct your paper publish what students keep getting wrong and how marks are awarded. Almost nobody reads it. Here's what they say, in every subject, year after year.

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Leaving Cert · CAO
The grading system, explained

Every grade, what percentage it takes and what it's worth in points — plus how the +25 Higher Maths bonus really works, and why H6 to H7 costs you 34 points rather than 9.

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Junior Cycle
Junior Cycle grades

Distinction through to Not Graded, with the bands as they were redrawn in 2025 — which makes a lot of the advice still online out of date.

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Maths
Higher Level Maths, honestly

Is it hard, should you stay at Higher, and what actually moves the grade. Four kinds of student after Fifth Year, and what each of them should do.

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Maths
How the maths exam is built

Two papers, two sections each, and exactly which topics fall on Paper 1 and Paper 2 — plus where the marks actually are.

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