Leaving Cert - Easter Revision

LC Course content Easter 2020-2021

Geography

Physical Geography

• Rivers – Parts, processes & features. How humans interact with the river processes.
• The Sea – Parts, processes & features. How humans interact with the coastal processes.
• Isostacy – Parts, processes & features and impact on the landscape.
• Short Question topics – Satellite images, Weather & more.
• Basic map skills for short questions and sketching of maps and photos

Regional Geography

• Dublin region – Ireland’s core region will be looked at under the headings of physical, primary, secondary, tertiary & human factors.
• Brazil-Subcontinental region will be looked at under the headings of physical, primary, secondary, tertiary & human factors.
• EU – Impacts on Ireland and challenges going forward.

Option

• Geoecology – Rainforest Biome: Characteristics, adaptions & location of the rainforest biome. Human interaction with the rainforest biome.

Biology

• Day 1 – Ecology
• Day 2 – DNA & RNA
• Day 3 – Cellular Respiration
• Day 4 – Photosynthesis
• Day 5 – Viruses & Human Defence System

*Each day will have a specific focus on exam answering technique.

Home Economics

• Vitamin B6 – Pyridoxine
• Vitamin B12 – Cobalamin
• Folic Acid
• Milk
• Yoghurt
• Meat
• Trace Elements
• Lipids
• Iron
• Vitamin C
• HACCP
• Cooking Methods
• Textiles
• Marriage
• Social Studies Elective: Social Change & the Family
• Social Studies Elective: Poverty
• Bacteria & Food Contaminants
• Answering last part of B1
• Physical & Chemical changes that occur in food during cooking

Business

Overview of all Units

• Short Question – Preparation
• ABQ – Overview
• Long Question – Overview

Maths Higher Level A

• Easter A is probability and statistics
• Maths Higher Level B
• B is functions and differentiation

Irish

• Páipear I: An Cheapadóireacht
• Páipéar II: An Léamhthuiscint
• Litríocht na hArdteiste

Maths OL

• Probability
• Statistics,
• Functions
• Differentiation.

Physics

•  Electricity section A
• Electricity section B
• Nuclear and particle physics
• Derivations
• Exam techniques definitions and changes to the exam

Chemistry

•  History of chemistry
• Periodic table and trends
• Chemical bonding
• Radioactivity
• Organic 2
• Rates of reaction
• Acids and bases
• Water
• Gas laws
•  Exam techniques definitions and changes to the exam

English

•  Day 1 Comprehending fiction: Analysing novels and short stories.
• Day 2 Fiction writing: making it up – Leaving Cert. Short Story option.
• Day 3 ‘King Lear’ – Visions of Chaos and Order
• Day 4 Comparative Mode: General Vision & Viewpoint
• Day 5 The Poetry of Keats and Frost.

Economics

• 1. Demand/Supply and price controls, HDI, IHDI, Gini Coefficient
• 2. Costs of Production, MR and MC relationship,
• 2. Imperfect (monopolistic) competition – short run, long run, evaluation
• 4. Herfindahl-Hirshman Index and the 4-firm market concentration ratio
• 5. Price Elasticity of Demand

Accounting

• Question 1 (Company, Sole Trader and Manufacturing)
• Interpretation of accounts
• Published Accounts
• Incomplete Records
• Tabular Statements
• Budgeting (Cash, Production and Flexible)
• Theory
• Cash Flow Statements

History

• Dictatorship and Democracy.
• Documents course